Notices by 501 of 500 (501@fosstodon.org)

Check out @pluralistic 's latest blog post. Specifically,
1. Amazon's refusal to sell audiobooks unless the author agrees to DRM them so you don't *really* own them. Amazon wants to own *you* instead.

2. A new Martin Hench book via kickstarter.

I had to whitelist the domain because my DNS provider blocked it for being too new, but... WORTH it.

Anyway, read it all at https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/07/weird-pcs/

Continuing with my liberation from Microsoft and Google, I'm now a @libreoffice user.

And you're darn tootin' I'm going to support them financially.

@skinnylatte I don't know if I have face blindness, but I don't remember faces. It's always stressful picking my mother up from the airport, because I'm always afraid I won't be able to pick her out from the other old ladies.

😬

@pluralistic Anyhow, here's his latest bit on having "fire exits" in social media sites.

I did NOT know about Facebook using the MySpace API to facilitate defectors.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes

What an annoying national treasure is @pluralistic

Aside from his Mastodon presence, I've been devouring his books. They're always enlightening and a little frightening. But it's got me and those I love on Signal instead of... anything else, and scrubbing the meta data from my phone pix.

Currently reading "Radicalized". The American Eagle detour threw me for a bit, but I got into that groove. Now on to the exciting conclusion.