Yes please! Do it Mellon!

Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.

Recently I've created a private forum and so far I'm very happy with it. It's nice that our discussions are private, keeping data gobblers, programmatic advertisers, grifters and other schmucks like this out in the cold.

https://tad-lispy.com/club/

To be clear, I'm advertising the idea, not membership.

It's not about advertising. It's about spying on our online lives. Not the same thing.

If we are talking about American adults, I guess they might be right.

Blocking is good option to improve individual experience, but a flood of low effort, spammy content from bots makes a very bad first impression on newcomers.

In the USA there are almost 650 thousands patent applications being filled (of which almost 400 thousands are getting grants) each year. So while technically what you wrote is correct, in practical terms finding an interesting patent is certainly not a trivial task for a journalist.

I'm with you, but as Noam Chomsky said, power already knows the truth. They are busy hiding it. Better speak the truth about power.

Don't listen to the person. Listen to the argument.

Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, told us in March, "The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else."

I don't know. To start a co-op business we will certainly need diverse skills. At this stage we are just talking, so please stay in the loop if you want to.

That's grossly exaggerated. I live in western Europe and never once used WhatsApp. There are very occasional frictions, like people being surprised I don't have it. Then when I explain that it's operated by Facebook, they are also surprised and sometimes are willing to quit themselves.

Thank you so much for all the great work you've done so far. Take care!

Another interesting quote from the article. Microsoft President Brad Smith adds:

In the unlikely event we are ever ordered by any government anywhere in the world to suspend or cease cloud operations in Europe, we are committing that Microsoft will promptly and vigorously contest such a measure using all legal avenues available [...]

So they are seriously considering a possibility of an export ban for digital services 😯

So Google have strong leverage over them, and the more of other revenue Mozilla have, the lesser is Google's leverage.

After reading the post I don't see how it gives any indication that Mozilla is trying to censor anyone. Mostly it argues for more transparency. It's certainly worth reading.

Thank you very much! Now I'm tempted to pretend that I made those errors on purpose to find out who has the initiative and attention to detail required to correct me 🤣 But seriously, well done! That's the spirit. I'll send you a link to schedule the call in a PM.

From the land of the brave and the home of the free? Sorry, I wish I could. Stay strong!

Fediverse?

Looks cute! Let me upload it for you so others can also chime in.

Personally I like it a lot, but it might be a bit too cute. We might have to do business with "serious corporate types", so we might need to project a bit of seriousness too. But I'm open to hear from others.