It is simple: nowadays security awareness is drilled in for most of the online population. If presented with a choice people can’t oversee, the default safest option is not to chose. I mean, how many new Mastodon users know any of these servers?

So, as couter-intuitive or even ironic it may seem, the “problem” is choice. People need to learn that social media is no longer a single entity, but more like email or choosing a bank.

Off-topic, but…

it occurred to me the other day that Tesla (the actual person) has been exploited by Edison in real life. A century later his name is exploited yet again by another “genius inventor”. I just feel bad for the guy.

Man, this photo sure looks like some weird ai shit… or the burn victim filter?

With respect to Mr. Bunny, this is not saying much. Think about it, how many random picks would it take to find someone who better embodies those values than the orange baboon?

Sadly, besides the bottom line, the only universally relaible motivator for an organization is legislation.

So I keep hearing… Yet, I’m having a hard time believing that most people are even aware of those fancy features, let alone use any of them.

I accept that there are important models implemented as excel sheets. Reimplementing or even attempting to migrate away is viewed as risk. But this is a different argument.

Convincing CEOs is not our job. In general they have neither the obligation nor the habbit to take anything else other than their KPIs into consideration. Convincing elected polititians to legistlate is our job.

Some know already, some will bow to reason, many will do whatever keeps them elected. People will need to re-learn to play the long game.

Nah, I like the Carney idea better.

EU has serious problems with their current internal arrangements, but there is nothing to help people focus than a proper emergency. EU has a fair chance here to develop a working model of how to organize large numbers of small to medium states. Or fall apart and descend into chaos if they don’t.

Never worked with any note taking apps except for Vim with customized snippets and rudamentary helper scripts.

While such an app seems very appealing, I haven’t seen any of them featuring the useful stuff, such as pluggable editor (in my case Vim or NeoVim), template support (day journal, meeting, README etc…), rendered fields (e.g.: today, author, or arbitrary values), support for pandoc rendering, doc metadata management (tags, keywords, related docs, links) or markers in text eg. @TODO etc… (idea being to aut. create lists of paragraps with such markers)

What’s the point of a note taking app that provides help with editing single docs and maybe with rendering to HTML, but doesn’t help organizing and remembering stuff?

Relevant bit illustrating this relation: disaster capitalism is more lucrative than 0% interest rates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3Y2erkmlY

Which doesn’t mean very much. Like an addict saying I can ditch XYZ “if needed”

Another Fediverse newbie here… recognize the issues and wish the xp would be better. But, I do realize that the PeerTube/Fediverse model is different. YT has 15+ yrs head start and a spectacular cashflow. How could the level of maturity any different? In fact, I was very much impressed by the current features.

So yes, PeerTube is not on the level of YT. But, I’m glad it exists. Something to switch to, when the time comes that ads will become unavoidable, even with apps like NewPipe.

There isn’t one, I’m afraid. I have been using separate calendars/contacts for years. It is very minimalistic. On the other hand, have a better life/work balance.

You sound not yet ready to unplug 😃

But to provide another perspective, havent used a Samsung phone for 10yrs. I generally buy a cheap phone with as little as possible preinstalled spyware. Except for browsing and messaging, every app I use daily comes from fdroid.

It is important to realize that what is happening in the US is not because of any single person.

The orange baboon is but a sympthom, not the disease. I like how some YT video put it: the disassembly of the rule of law is being done by a rare and fragile coalition of multiple small but powerful private groupings on the one hand and the clueless masses on the other.