Looking back, the 1990s-2000s were a weird anomaly in capitalism, where it felt like the old familiar 1980s cyberpunk fiction scenario of "a few billionaires will literally control the entire planet's Data Network" couldn't possibly happen because we'd managed to decentralise it all, only just in the nick of time, because first IBM and then Microsoft had been trying to slam the door shut. But the hackers had finally won and for good, with TCP/IP, HTTP and Open Source.
Those were good years.
The digital detox narrative posits there there is no problem with BigTech companies, and they do not need to change. Instead the problem is how much time you spend engaging with their sites. "Screen time" or "online time" versus "offline time", as if it was still the 1990s with a clear division between those things.
This is really individualization. Pushing systemic problems made by organizations onto individuals who did not create those problems and did not ask to be subjected to dark patterns or harassment or manipulative advertising.
Itch.io also reaffirms their commitment to not get into cryptoshit. It's a viable alternative to Gumroad.
(It's most famous for games but you can sell all kinds of digital content on there like books and artworks and such)
https://twitter.com/itchio/status/1490141815294414856?s=20&t=q1vG-ZORNeImh9RzOA_2Zw
help, money, sponsoring
Heya, if you have a coin or two, I am ending my year with about 1300€ in credit card debt since I have not been doing so well lately.
I person with a chronic fatigue condition and this has sucked a lot the past 2 months and I got kicked out of a gig that would have gotten that money for being too broken.
Kofi (one time or recurring):
https://www.ko-fi.com/jglauche
or in GH sponsors:
https://github.com/sponsors/jglauche/
Other ways to help: I sell my physical art on
https://www.etsy.com/shop/PurringJenn and I can always need free advertisement for it (but please don't spam) as well as exhibition spaces (that can also get a commission on sales)
Of course somebody did this...
https://nitter.eu/mlsec/status/1469374394808123401
"""
Did you know that a normal LED can also receive light? 🚨
It can! In this paper, we point a laser at build-in LEDs of offices devices and transmit data to their firmware. This covert communication can bridge 25m with a throughput of 128 kbps.
"""
Full paper:
https://intellisec.de/pubs/2021-acsac.pdf
@JennyFluff capitalism is the failure
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... (...) I watched warez floppy disks glitter on the tables near the Grzybowska gate...