Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)

@dansup This is neat, but I managed to get recommended Bridgey Fed as the best instance to sign up on when playing around... and that seems like a problem.

@WarnerCrocker This app is probably so web-based they just had to delete an "if iOS then" to make this happen.

But the best thing everyone can do is embrace the change as quick as possible. Make reversing course brutal for Apple. And demonstrate to the court how much better the injunction has made things for everyone.

@bkuhn @richardfontana Are signatures not on this list going to matter? https://opensource.org/sponsors

In other words, do you think if OSI members decline to stay members it will make an impact compared to corporate sponsors who presumably are vested in the status quo?

@bkuhn @richardfontana Just checking in here... is the OSI still pretending they ran an election instead of just picking who they wanted?

@bkuhn This sounds exactly what I'd expect from an organization which is funded mostly by Big Tech to protect their method of extracting free labor from the public.

Happy to sign but also not sure my signature helps, at least a few OSI folks know what I think of their Amazon-based decisionmaking.

@cwebber Arguably if they aren't concerned about business interests in Turkey, and at the worst case... don't plan to have any staff ever visit Turkey where they could be arrested... they certainly don't *have* to.

But it certainly feels like they got a very eager head start into obeying authoritarians way earlier than they likely would be truly compelled to in any meaningful way.

@Viss Every time I get flack for keeping all my stuff on-prem, this stuff keeps proving me right.

@lispi314 @dalias @VeilidNetwork I was going to say... if you made pronouns a required field, you could guarantee every toxic person who registered would tell on themselves in it.

@br00t4c I mean, that'd be great and all, but when like 77 million voted for him to have the job (and 75 million voted for him not to have the job), 100,000 people asking for him not to have the job anymore is a rounding error.

It's going to get much, much worse, before anyone seriously has leverage to do this.

Maybe the reason Trump won is because we got betrayed by all those "progressive" tech platforms whom were all under investigation both here and abroad... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-23/trump-blasts-eu-regulators-for-targeting-apple-google-meta

@cwebber @eloquence Isn't there like... already this whole network free from billionaire control that half this list of people has already been on?

So Google and Facebook's "Jedi Blue" collusion contract is finally public, and they actually explicitly included a termination clause for "the law found out about the contract".

When you create a contract that you explicitly know is illegal and has to have such a clause, everyone involved needs to go to prison. #Google #Facebook #JediBlue #Antitrust

@Gargron I appreciate that Blu-rays can't be taken away from me, and their DRM is pretty suitably broken generally. so it preserves ownership at reasonable quality. But yeah playing on a PC is incredibly annoying, paid software is the most reliable way to do it, and 4K Blu-rays are no longer supported at all because the DRM relied on a deprecated processor feature.

The other day I was at an overstock/cheap discount stuff store... and I figured, hey, this is a good time to grab some nearly-worthless earbuds to replace the ones I got for free on an airplane flight ten years ago that finally just straight up broke. I prefer the ones I use at work to be as dumb as possible for hardware supply chain reasons.

All of the ones they had on sale were Bluetooth wireless AirPod knock-offs. All of them. It's that hard to get a dang headphone plug set now.

@GossiTheDog It's secure because it doesn't work.

@QasimRashid I can't wait to see how the Supreme Court contorts the law to somehow allow this.

@zens "macrame skittle" is an underrated descriptor more people should use.

In case any non-Americans want to know how it's going, our next President has selected a pedophile for attorney general.

#MattGaetz #NotKidding

@Gargron It baffles us here too. We're sorry.

@VeryBadLlama This is horrifying.