ace36 @aaronco36@fosstodon.org

Then and Now.
B) And Now, from https://tinyurl.com/yyvbudha
"The EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, announced the results of the long-running probe of Google’s AdSense advertising business at a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday.
“Today’s decision is about how Google abused its dominance to stop websites using brokers other than the AdSense platform,” Vestager said."

Then and Now.
A) Back then, from http://tinyurl.com/ya2ou59j
"Antitrust efforts have become too fixated on the idea that the only real harm consists of raising of prices for consumers. Yet in the Microsoft case, Internet Explorer was “free,” even though Microsoft was bent on destroying competition with it. Today, both Google and Facebook offer products that are free. Society has grown to rely on them, but because they have no dollar price, antitrust regulators have been hesitant to take action."

On today's Pi Day, the next 8 rounded decimal digits after 3.14 of the value of #pi are 15926535. This means as a rough calculation that exact pi-time already happened at ~03:49:21 UTC.

2day's #Pi Day ! Last I knew, the vast majority of #RPi images at 2017's 'Raspberry Pi Disk Images – Definitive List' are still viable https://www.tech-knowhow.com/2017/01/raspberry-pi-disk-images-definitive-list/

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/technology/facebook-data-deals-investigation.html
"The sharing deals empowered Microsoft’s Bing search engine to map out the friends of virtually all Facebook users without their explicit consent, and allowed Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends. Apple was able to hide from Facebook users all indicators that its devices were even asking for data."

another hard-hitting toot, this 1 *very* FB-revealing 😬 , from https://chaos.social/@rixx :
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How the facebook mods are broken by their work: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
(Article contains graphic descriptions of violence, trauma, anxiety, depression, drug use.)
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https://chaos.social/@rixx/101655498086739086

from https://chaos.social/@rixx on #systemd
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The Tragedy of Systemd is a wonderful talk by Benno Rice, which I highly recommend to anybody with opinions on systemd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo