Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

"For 18 months, residents of a village in Wales have been mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed every morning.

Now engineers have finally identified the reason: A second-hand television that emitted a signal that interfered with the connection."

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ixlwdv/an_entire_village_lost_its_broadband_at_the_same/

Facebook threatens us Euros with a good time.

The XY problem is fairly well-known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

I think I sometimes encounter what I want to call "the XY solution": I am writing software to solve a problem and am using approach X to solve it, but other people know that Y is at least tangentially a solution to the problem so they suggest (or insist) that I use Y instead.

For example, rsync is good for copying files, therefore when I wrote backup software, I should've based it on rsync.

Anyone else find that familiar?

Hills seem bad.
People complain about the struggle of going up hill.
It is also considered bad when things "go down hill"
And hills are places on which people choose to die.

Avoid hills, just go around.

Gilbert cites experts who say that FB will not leave the EU irrespective of whether the judgment is upheld. GB's longstanding project to replace the federated internet with a corporate total surveillance walled garden is not compatible with abandoning a 500m person market.

And the EU clearly has the political will to push Big Tech around, in part because of Europeans' resentment of US hegemony and in part because of the tech giants' disgusting conduct - tax cheating, spying, monopolizing.

eof/

#vim tip of the day: You can literally travel back in time. To jump to the state a file had 10 minutes ago, use the following command:

:earlier 10m

To then go forward in time 1 minute, use this command:

:later 1m

@poiseunderchaos

@luka @cadadr @jk

art ever since becoming a commodity (and arguibly before) required somebody to be entrepreneurial. either the artist (finding a patron, finding customers) or someone else it is delegated to (an agent, etc) sometimes both or a mixture. all of this serious issues. (even when monopolies are not involved making everything worse)

Do I agree that artists shouldn't need to become an entrepreneur to eat. yes! That is why I support universal income. :)

@eylul @luka @cadadr @jk that's still falling back on entrepreneurship (or a sort of patronage charity) in order to survive, which is not a great model, sorry. just better than spotify, except when it isn't (like someone uses it to clout-build in a negative way, which does happen -- and is an additional issue of its own). that's not most artists on patreon, though

my view overall is that artists shouldn't have to be entrepreneurs just to eat. which i think you agree with, yes?

@poiseunderchaos

@luka @cadadr @jk

The idea of commons is not libertarian. its actually the opposite. its the idea that art and knowledge is not a commodity and shouldn't be treated as such. There was historic need to artificially commodify idea creation to protect innovators and culture creators which was a good thing but if we can find another way to support them (e.g. universal income) that problem goes away.

@luka

@cadadr @jk

oh that might be a temporary solution but I am on opposite end of this. :) abolish copyright+universal income to everyone. make all sort of idea and culture creation into commons and decouple work from income. *ducks the incoming object*