The majority of the tech industry has no valid vision how to contribute to a liveable future for humanity on this planet. Their dystopian fantasies don’t match with human needs. That’s why we will keep sliding from one bubble to the next. Everything has to be artificially inflated to hide the massive abyss of meaninglessness behind it all.
Reading the shocked reactions that Apple and Google removed ICE warning apps from their stores, I think that more should probably read about the role of IBM during the holocaust. Can we please finally get rid of the fairytale of social corporate responsibility in big tech?
The absurdity of billionaires explained in a brillant post by @npub17yk4...u0mw
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Moritz (@preya@mastodon.social)
#Bezos hat angeblich ein VermΓΆgen von 237 Mrd. Dollar und seine Hochzeit kostete rund 50 Mio. Dollar. Wenn man das auf eine "normale" Person mit e...
 "Jeff Bezos is supposed to be worth $237 billion. His wedding cost 50 million dollars. Applying this to someone with an average net worth of $200,000, their wedding would have cost $42. Well, the man didn't actually want to hit the shit out of the place, he was celebrating a small, humble wedding." (freely translated from German)
German politician Nico Semsrott has suggested that we give billionaires one year to solve the climate crisis. If they fail to do so, we should dispossess them. I think that’s a wonderful idea! It's never going to happen, but it's nice to dream.
I'm mostly hiding under a cosy rock at the moment, but this has to be shared to support Carole's bravery: "This is What a Digital Coupl Looks Like":
Note to myself: Focus on good news. Focus on good people. Focus on things that can be changed by us directly.
Searching for the umpteenth time how to kill the process, which uses port 3000 is so 2024. 2025: New Apple Shortcut … and yes: That's a perfect representation of my command line skills image
PSA: With the new free Copilot plan, GitHub is also handing out another "present". They use your code snippets as training data by default. You have to opt-out from that in your Copilot settings. /via @npub1qe7m...gqle image
God, I'm so disgusted by this country sometimes. There's already an open political discussion about sending refugees back to Syria. WTF. I had a long conversation with a mother from Ukraine after German politicans discussed sending people back to Ukraine earlier this year. Her child is in my son's class. You have to be an absolute monster to not see what those discussions do to people who try to build a new life here after the entire family has been brutally traumatized.
TIL that Mastodon enforces "noreferrer" on all external links. It never appears in your stats and maybe that's one of the reasons why it didn't catch on with people & orgs who actually rely on such stats. I agree with @Terence Eden here. I have mixed feelings about it:
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Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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