I’ve not really done anything today but scroll through social media because it’s too hot to be active, and I’m in a funk on things I could inactively do. This has been a terrible choice and yet here I am.
I’d love to see someone attempt to use behaviour like this to bust through Meta and co’s argument that they’re neutral platforms and so shouldn’t be held responsible for material published on those platforms as they don’t make editorial choices.
https://mastodon.social/users/pixelfed/statuses/113849098386232034
@Andres4NY possibly the answer is that all devices should allow installation of any software you choose by default but also every family must nominate someone to be the family MDM administrator. They get to decide who’s authorised to just install software and who has to ask for approval first.
@Andres4NY I’m endlessly divided on this because I’d love to be able to do whatever I choose with my (iOS) phone, and yet at the same time I wouldn’t trust my Dad with the power to install arbitrary software on his phone for a minute, it would be riddled with malware harvesting his every move, word, and keystroke while he complains about how Apple have messed up battery management almost immediately.
Last night we had to go in the back door to the central library in Dundee instead of through the shopping centre. Standing outside, I happened to look at the bike rack, and wtf, why oh why are there feet?
@JustFi I think the real question is why don’t all bike racks have little prehensile feet?
@farah back when he was younger any time my son and I played Minecraft together I’d end up assigned to digging a giant hole. These days he’s hard into the PvP side of things and I simply refuse because being repeatedly killed by someone swooping by on an elytra just isn’t fun.
Spent this evening writing a hacky little server to consume telemetry that has been added to my favourite game of the last 12 months specifically for EMF and feeding it into my flat’s lights. God I love the mad things this event allows to me get up to!
@Techaltar man, I have no great words of wisdom here, just want to express sympathy at being in that situation. I used to go with something along the lines of “have you seen these clowns, they could conspire to have a piss up in a brewery, never mind take over the world”. Given recent revelations that yes, they did in fact have a secret child trafficking ring kept covered up for decades, it’s gotten harder to do that with a straight face.
@dramypsyd there should be sites you can publish unsolicited embargoed press releases to on principle.
[touches ear] ahh, I’m being told this is in fact a cookie consent dialog. As you were.
“We and our 226 partners”… damn, these polycules are getting out of hand.
@fesshole fair. It would be awful if your neighbours knew you found joy in anything.
That time at Wimbledon Women's Doubles in 2017 when a spectator ran his mouth a little too much from the stands... then this happened:
#tennis #wimbledon #humor
@thomasfuchs @pikesley yes, but the social media companies would rather not pay people to do moderation, and the magical thinking machines aren’t very good at it, so really we’re all better off banning children from having interests other than football and drinking on park benches, and everyone else just being exposed to constant hate speech.
People: “The big social media networks could simply properly moderate their content and remove hate speech, disinformation and trolls.”
Politicians: “We heard you, we will require ID checks to use computers.”
@fesshole you’ll be fine. He’ll be in his 40s and put some tomato ketchup and mozzarella on toast when he’s had a bad day.