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@cwicseolfor @hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol There was also the politics of it.

For a long time, Silicon Valley positioned itself as being the enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative disrupting established cartels and vested interests.

Instead of believing what the old media barons tell you about the War in Iraq and Saddam's WMDs, our platforms let anyone be a publisher!

Instead of the RIAA's boy bands and lip syncing pop idols, we allow talented independent artists to be heard!

Instead of IBM, and later Microsoft, having a monopoly, buy our products instead! Think different! Don't be evil! It just works!

And then once everyone was locked into the walled gardens, the enshittification began.

Now.

What we really should have collectively been insisting on was a genuinely enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative.

Member-owned, community-run non-profits. Creating open source software, based on open standards and protocols.

Where you own, and are free to repair, and are free to tweak or upgrade, your hardware. Which comes pre-installed with open source software from member-owned non-profits.

The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation model works for encyclopaedias. So let's do that for search too.

And let's not leave the design of tech to just the computer science majors and MBAs. Let's get some social science and humanities folks in that design process too.

We can still do it.

But we need to start by recognising that tech, and who owns it, and who designs it, and who makes decisions about it, is a political issue.

We, the people, need to make those decisions. Not just the billionaire VCs and CEOs.

#OpenSource #FOSS #enshittification #Fediverse #OpenStandards #Linux #Wikimedia #deGoogle #Google #Meta #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft

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Mobiles Mini-#Tonstudio.

Das #MacBook von 2017 ist bei weitem nicht überfordert mit der Aufgabe, fängt aber bereits bei 5 bis 10% Systemauslastung unglaublich an zu pusten, sodass man eigentlich in einen anderen Raum damit muss. #Apple, so gefeiert, ich kann's immer noch nicht nachvollziehen.

Einsatzgrund: #RME #TotalMix für das #Fireface400 ist einfach so viel besser als #ffadomixer unter #UbuntuStudio #Linux. Letzterer wäre auf meinem #Thinkpad verfügbar und würde auch mit diesem Interface funktionieren.

#Ardour bleibt Ardour, auch auf #OSX.

副艦長としては蜷川は見逃せませんです

蜷川実花が「天国」のような花園を撮るとこうなる。毎年日帰りでも駆けつける「夢の中にいるような光景」 huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_

ハフポスト · 蜷川実花が「天国」のような花園を撮るとこうなる。毎年日帰りでも駆けつける「夢の中にいるような光景」By Kinuka Goto
#Apple#LLM#news

フェイさんは中についてエリィさんとゆっくり話したらいいんですよ

[ITmedia Mobile] iPhoneとAndroidでLINEのデータ移行が可能に、100GBのバックアップも LYPプレミアムの会員特典にて itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/

ITmedia Mobile · iPhoneとAndroidでLINEのデータ移行が可能に、100GBのバックアップも LYPプレミアムの会員特典にてBy エースラッシュ
#Apple#LLM#news

Von der Leyen warns Big Tech to play by the rules in Europe.

"The rules voted by our co-legislators must be enforced," European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said.

"That's why we've opened cases against TikTok, X, Apple, Meta just to name a few. We apply the rules fairly, proportionally, and without bias. We don't care where a company's from and who's running it. We care about protecting people," she added.

mediafaro.org/article/20250421

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaking at the European Parliament. | Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images
Politico.eu · Von der Leyen warns Big Tech to play by the rules in Europe.By Nicholas Vinocur
#EU#BigTech#X

macOS Sequoia tip:

- Click on a window's drag area
- Start dragging it
- With your mouse button still held down, press the option key.

An outline of the window will appear, tiled to part of the screen. Let go, and the window will jump to that new, tiled, position.

- Click the drag area again and the window jumps back to the original shape.

Good to know!