Notices by Don Marti (dmarti@federate.social)

No connection, just sharing the listing

"...the Information Technology Specialist I serves as the Product Engineer for the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP). DROP is California's first-of-its-kind privacy platform helping Californians exercise deletion and opt-out rights at scale."

https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=527873

#privacy #job #california #stateJob #CalPrivacy #privacyJob #sql #webDev #backend

Sometimes I read an interview and my only possible reaction is "is you taking NOTES on a criminal fuckin' conspiracy?" https://blog.zgp.org/oops-all-oligopoly/

Linus Torvalds came up with two big inventions—Linux and Git—and of course a variety of smaller but still very useful stuff. But an underrated decision he made was to treat kernel developers working as part of "kernel teams" at random companies as first-class contributors, and not to allow the old OSDL (remember that) to become some kind of gatekeeper organization. So we ended up with the much smaller and more responsive Linux Foundation.

Too bad that didn't happen with open-source web browsers

bots that were crawling my site for secrets dot json may have a little secret as a treat

https://blog.zgp.org/secrets.json

this Strait of Hormuz story makes IT decision-makers who get locked in to one SaaS vendor look remarkably responsible and forward-thinking

@jefmes Is the problem that donations don't cover the cost of maintaining Firefox, or is it that potential donors see Mozilla living high on the hog with plenty of Google funding, and direct their donations where they're needed more?

(fwiw, Mozilla's advertising plans are less well thought out than most proposals in this area. The fraud-promoting qualities of what they're working on now tend to create more, not fewer, privacy risks https://blog.zgp.org/why-turn-off-firefox-ad-tracking/ )

Wow, "open to brand messages" that's why I'm running #firefox, they sure got me figured out!

#mozilla #enshittification

Yes, I checked Google Search Console. Top queries that resulted in clicks to my site (all browsers)

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1/2

Seems like a good idea to try a "how to turn off ai" on something page, it will probably do numbers 2/2

Happy #WikipediaDay to all who celebrate!

If you're putting off getting started because of the maze of complicated official docs and rules, there is a good one-page intro (video and text) at https://blog.mollywhite.net/become-a-wikipedian-transcript/

@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon YouTube just told my YouTube account that it's a child—which excuses you from the "personalized" ads, so I guess that account will never grow up

"The American right, especially the emerging MAGA ecosystem, was simply a dream customer: highly engaged, highly inflamed, and extremely willing to click through to garbage sites that paid out ad revenue." https://www.reneediresta.com/on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-a-maga-patriot-in-lagos/

(if there is a the funny part about all this, it's that the real #WinRed is losing traffic and probably donations to international rage-bait operations)

@mcpinson @evan in the long run, the point of view of a publisher is going to align with the interests of the advertisers. You can't show favoritism to any one advertiser, but Road and Track is going to agree with "buying and driving fast cars is a good thing to do" and Linux Journal was all about buying hardware because you can run Linux on it. Look at the ads in the New York Times and the big picture is: living in an expensive apartment and buying expensive bling is what New York City is for

@spacehobo @evan "Burn All GIFs Day may be the first time in human history that anyone has ever thought it worthwhile to stage an organized political protest, even a small one, over a mathematical algorithm."

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/citation/wc991103.htm

(we didn't know how good we had it—algorithms are doing all kinds of protest-worthy harms to all kinds of people these days)

@babe for some reason being in French makes this one sillier

HP is putting #ads on their (Microsoft Windows) laptops. Isn't that special?

(why, yes, we are having a Linux installfest next month, see my pinned toot for details)

https://www.adweek.com/commerce/hp-is-launching-an-ad-business-with-laptop-targeted-ads-and-a-streaming-service/

Question for #Linux #beginners and educators: What are some good intro to Linux books?

(Background: I'm organizing an #installfest at the public library and the Linux books on the shelf are from 2009-2012. I'd like to be able to recommend some up-to-date intro reading. The installfest isn't until Aug. 30 so we have time to get some books ordered and/or into the library purchase request system)

@evan it's not that simple -- surveillance advertising is also part of a political movement that goes back to direct mail ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/08/04/conservatives-pioneered-direct-mail-stoke-discontent-it-has-worked/ )

@masukomi @aral yes, that's a huge issue (and one that on its own should rule out having events here—conference organizers need to pay attention and not just assume that no attendee is affected)

@aral I am in the USA and I agree. I'm not inviting anyone from outside the country for the foreseeable future unfortunately.

(I have a rough idea what to do if a visitor has trouble with local law enforcement here, but you could be sent to a Federal or private location out of state where it would be hard for any host or their lawyer to communicate with you)