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Wikipedia provides a starting point!

I don’t drink it because it’s trash, but I had no idea about any of this. The word needs to be spread.

The archive link should work?

I’ve been seeing Mike McCue and his projects around a lot, and listening to him quite a bit in !dot_social@flipboard.video, but I never really understood how he had the resources to do all his stuff.

He started Paper Software to make it possible to visually display 3-D information in web browsers and then sold the company to Netscape for $20 million in 1996.

In 1999 he co-founded Tellme Networks, a pioneering effort to create what had been described as a “voice browser” and make it possible to receive internet information via the phone. That company was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for a rumored $800 million.

Gosh.

I can’t wait for GitLab with activitypub support. Probably doesn’t solve all problems, but it certainly solves some of them.

Yeah. There’s really no need to blame Microsoft at this point - even if they did everything right, there would still be good reason to avoid them.

Don’t blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law.

Om first reading, I read “please be nice to Microsoft”.

On second reading, I realize it actually says “fuck the US and its idiocracy - blame them”.

Subtle, but nice. :)

This is a piece of alleged technology that is based on basic physics that has not been established.

That does sound like a problem.

I never managed to touch type on qwerty, so I guess I had nothing to lose in that sense.

I made the change in my late 20s, just before I started writing my PhD thesis. I figured if I was going to do a lot of writing, I might as well make it as efficient as possible.

I taught myself Dvorak. Didn’t buy a new keyboard or anything, just practised a little every day in some app I installed on my computer.

Took me maybe a week before I switched to Dvorak full time, and maybe a week more before my writing was as fast as it had ever been on Qwerty. It’s absolutely worth making the change.

Yeah, Funkwhale is more of a defederated music/audio publishing platform. It’s good, but I find it somewhat challenging to discover music there.

For those who remember Grooveshark, Funkwhale is a bit of a spiritual successor.

Under the “coming soon” section, they state the following:

We’re deep into building the Bandwagon Roadmap, including even better music discovery and publishing tools And online album sales are close behind.

So it seems the idea is to provide a way for artists to sell their albums. I’m curious what it’ll look like in practice - I guess they’re still trying to work that out themselves as well. :)

Bandwagon is an attempt to make a federated social media for artists. Who knows if it’ll succeed, but checking out the artists on the platform would be a first step. :)

The artists link whatever services they like, which in a way I think is nice. Personally I don’t like paying for digital files, so my music expenses are mostly spent on vinyl records. The artists are probably not left with much after all the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining, the high gloss, the tape, and the gear, but at least I end up with something that’s mine.

As others have mentioned, Qobuz is a French company running a DRM-free music store.

They just need to capitalize the surveillance capabilities. Find a way to convince users they need access to everything on their phones in order to sell them first class convenience. Once you’ve done that there’s plenty of money to be made.

You can do that all by yourself, no AI needed!

The Linux Foundation might be based in California, but I still very much consider it to be Finnish. And Torvalds is, thankfully, very much on the anti-fascist side of the spectrum.

Fucking market analysts still don’t get it.

For all their models of consumer behaviour they simply can’t wrap their head around something as simple as the fact that being associated with a fascist coup d’etat is bad PR. Sure, it might not be the only thing going on, but when people all over the world are embarrassed to be seen driving their Teslas, it’s probably an element to consider.