can everybody please do me the hardest of solids and #boost this post so that this #firefish #instance gets #federation easier? i'm just testing stuff out on my local server uwu
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remember folks: tech is politics. you cannot keep one out of the other. they are inseparable.
the technical problems you choose to solve, and the way you choose to solve them, are an expression of politics.
building open source software indicates that you think information should be free, which is a political stance. building closed source software indicates that you think information should be controlled, which is a political stance.
building software that discriminates against people of color is a racist action and reflects upon you as such, regardless of your intent in building that software (hint: that's how racism works everywhere else, too)
building software which can be used to remove control from the masses and give it to corporations and rich people, indicates that you think that corporations and rich people should amass power, and regular folks should not have freedom.
it does not matter if a company for whom you work paid you to do that thing, or if your intentions were good, or if you were only trying to see if a particular technical challenge could be solved. technical problems are political problems. business needs and decisions are political ones.
if there is a mismatch between the politics you express via your actions, and those you express via your words, the actions are the ones people will care about, not the words. you cannot fix bad actions by saying good words.
do good actions.
So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:
"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."
And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.
eyoo . an announcement ..
SDEM - VORTICES
Out July 28th 2023 on Skam Records
2xVinyl // CD // Cassette // Digital
Mastering by Miles Whitaker
Artwork by SODA
Super chuffed to finally announce this , mega cheers to skam and everyone who contributed.
you can pre order it in all the usual spots, hardwax, bleep , normans, boomkat etc , distributed worldwide so check your local shops if ur not in UK / EU.
on.soundcloud.com/Gr7RR
Maximum Linux - October 1999
https://archive.org/details/maximum-linux-magazine-1999-10/page/n69/mode/2up
While on the subject of making Windows executables do unspeakable things on non-Windows platforms, see https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary
This repository contains a library that allows native Linux programs to load and call functions from a Windows DLL.
As a demonstration, I've ported Windows Defender to Linux.
@iconolog netscape
Maximum PC - March 2002
https://books.google.com/books?id=0gEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA2-IA1&pg=PA24#v=twopage&q&f=false
the impostors & tim reaper - infinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiijsX2tGk
a couple of new tim reaper collab EPs dropped the other day, great retro jungle
Some cool images I found today
These were made on Amiga computers back in the day by various artists.
nb, composer, hobbyist, tech enthusiast