OnceAnArtifact (E) @OnceAnArtifact@mastodon.technology
Lover of life and to be alive. Husband; father; infp, 9w1. I dream of a transcendentalist revival.🌱
@trevdev There's an anecdotal story about Amazon or some big data corp knowing a couple was expecting a baby before they did, based on changes in their shopping patterns. It may be apocryphal, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. The problem with thinking "What could x possibly do with y data?" always seems to come 5 years down the line, when it turns out that that data can be used to predict z thing that no one could have envisioned.
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Barges, New York Harbor
Presque Isle River
No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.
You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.
It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.
What are your stories? What brought you to Mastadon?
Little River <3
Inventor, Jarek Duda, says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
asymmetric numeral systems (ANS)
As a corporation, Microsoft will out-live all of us. Same for Google and Apple. Free software is an inter-generational effort. We don't know what proprietary software companies will do beyond our lifetimes, so we need to do our best to care for free software in our lifetime. Same goes for a lot of other, similar efforts.
international house of
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/titus-tools-house
The woodworker who's building our coffee cart recently lost his house, his woodworking tools, and everything inside his house, when their neighbour left their stove on and caused a fire. Titus is from Zim and moved here with his family a while back, working as a general handyman. I set up a crowdfund for him to try to replace his tools and help rebuild his home.
Please share! <3
Deep in the bowels of Microsoft, two schemers are scheming...
A: Hmm. This Free Software thing is really getting out of hand. We have to play nice to keep devs happy, but it's still a huge threat.
B: I know! Let's buy Github!
A: And shut it down? Isn't that a bit obvious?
B: No, we'll just buy it and change nothing. All the idealists will jump ship and use something less effective...
A: Ah! Same end result, but we look like good guys and they look like irrational fanatics! Brilliant.
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After a long weekend out of town, it sure is nice to be 127.0.0.1 🏠
Red Alert for Net Neutrality!
https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/red-alert-net-neutrality
