I got so sick of not being able to find good driving routes that I'm working on https://shuto.app but also because Waze wants but to cut through London for my current contract gigs rather than take the M25 sensibly I'm also working on having the algo handle that for default. Testers would be appreciated if you ping me below though at anosh@ below link.
What's with the strangely transphobic jab at the end of the post? Perhaps "linuxreviews" also needs to look at improving their image. It comes off as very petty.
I'm not a fan of the opalgate woman but we still should show some modicum of respect. All I see is a rant.
>What's with the strangely transphobic jab at the end of the post?
Unfortuntely, more than a few free software advocates would rather believe RMS was crucified by a conspiracy of "satanic transgender SJWs" who just wanted to destroy the life of an awkward, neuroatypical man out of cruel spite and kill the free software movement with their fascistic gender equality initiatives and codes of conduct, than accept that his own well-documented and at times legitimately reprehensible views and behavior inevitably became his undoing.
Not entirely surprising that a movement whose mantra is "Stallman was right" might have a problem admitting Stallman did a lot of things wrong.
FSF lost RMS because of a spat where he was falsely accused by SJWs. I'm not going to get into history of all the upsides and downsides of RMS, or whether there were valid reasons for him to leave, but the point is that that the particular incident he left over was intentionally false reporting and misinformation. Everyone knew that. He was still gone.
The article is correct that FSF has had fewer people than Linux Foundation, but it has had much more impact. If FSF continues down that path, it's dead for impact.
I've seen the exact same thing as a small-mediumish (100-200 now) start-up I used to work for, there'd be an email sent around to encourage employees to leave a good review, seeing as you can't change your review after it's a scary way to waste your shot.
But I guess that shots wasted anyways if the system is rigged to begin with.
I generally don't bad-mouth previous employers, as it risks limiting your career. However, the only review I ever left on Glassdoor was of the most toxic software job I ever had. The company basically had nothing but dozens of 1 and 2 star reviews. A few months later I checked again and there were about 10 brand new vague 5-star reviews that were all submitted within a day of each other. One of them even said right in the review something like "boss told us all to write 5 star reviews, so here's mine: This place is horrible."
Just checked the company again, and my review has since been removed (but some other 1 star reviews are still there).
> GDPR threatens website owners with fines of 4% of turnover or €20 million (whichever is higher) if they do not jump through a number of ambiguously-defined hoops.
...No. GDPR certainly doesn't. The often quoted "4% of revenue" fines are upper bound of fines for the serious intentional and continuous violations.[1] Spreading information like this is almost certainly the textbook definition of FUD.
GDPR is, largely, 'common sense' regulation. At the gist of it is "be responsible with users data". If you want to store personally identifiable information, that comes with it a set of responsibilities that you have to keep on top of. Delete data when users ask for it. Inform users about what you do with their data. I really think that's the minimum you could ask for.
Edited fines to align closer to the language used in the actual regulation
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Was it really a war? I don't believe anyone thought Google Plus would've actually stood a chance, and now it looks like G+ is splitting to many little micro-services such as spaces, Allo and Duo.
Not the mention the whole YouTube users being constantly harassed to input their real name which gave G+ an even worse taste in their mouths.
Yes, it was a war. There were plenty of earlier social networks, like Friendster and Myspace, who probably looked down at upstarts like Facebook, shortly before getting killed by them. Facebook was in a good position, but it certainly wasn't invincible.
And Google isn't just any competitor. This was back in the days when Google could do no wrong. They conquered the world in search. They conquered the world in email. They were starting to conquer the world in mobile. They had some of the best engineering talent in the world. And they were now pointing all their guns at Facebook. I can certainly imagine why Zuck was shitting bricks. Kudos to him for pulling out a win.
I'm not sure, but my instinct is that Google's decline had started by then. Sure, they bought their way into email by giving away storage when everyone else was charging for it. But the usability had steadily gotten worse over time. When did the new compose experience launch compared to G+, for example?
Google's slide toward doing wrong started earlier, and you can argue over when, but I'd attribute it to Gmail.
It's one thing to have my search history. It's another to have my search history, identity, and email.
I resisted the pull of Gmail for a long time. Yes, I created an account (to forstall others from doing so, and, oddly, a highly distinctive name proved taken in multiple iterations, or at least unavailable, when I tried registering it). I've simply moved to using email very little.
G+ put the stink in though. I really wanted to like the service. I used it early on, and still do. I wanted it to be the anti- Facebook (which I do not use, or trust).
But multiple from the top decisions made, and still make it, exceptionally difficult to like. Sadly, there's little better (and I've looked).
> Was it really a war? I don't believe anyone thought Google Plus would've actually stood a chance
It absolutely was, but Facebook didn't so much as win the war, whereas it was Google who shot themselves in the foot and lost. All they had to do was not be Facebook and they would have won, but they had a lot of missteps. Real name, and google-wide single sign-on caused immediate hesitation and started the fall.
> I don't believe anyone thought Google Plus would've actually stood a chance
I know that I certainly did, and in fact for awhile my Facebook image was something along the lines of, 'I've left for G+!' Sadly, not many folks made the transition, and I'm back.
Funny timing on this story — I've recently been reading some of the Indie Web Camp stuff, and discovered that diaspora came out in 2010. It seems like just yesterday! Even back then we were worried about a Facebook monoculture, and hopeful in competitors.
Google's main assault couldn't break Facebook; diaspora couldn't either. I don't know what will, and that worries me.
At this point, nothing will. I still see people come up with arguments that myspace was in a similar situation,but FB is nothing like MySpace. Users have spent more than 10 years sharing things, sticking to them and there's no way to step them from it. But what other companies can do is to try create services which helps certain kinds of people. Like people typically use FB for news, friend's know how, photos, random viral videos and if a company can take off users from FB by creating a better way to read news or share pics, there might stand a chance.
The way to unseat an established network is to build a network no one controls, which makes it the obvious alternative for anyone dissatisfied with the monopolist. Decentralization yields powerful network effects, and we're all about to watch it unfold. If you want to be a part of it, dive into the decentralized application communities that are forming around Ethereum and IPFS.
> which makes it the obvious alternative for anyone dissatisfied with the monopolist
All twelve of you?
I mean, I respect the effort, but people by and large aren't dissatisfied, while those who are dissatisfied aren't dissatisfied in such a way that makes them receptive to "nobody else is here, but you should be" services.
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Also working on youtube vids to teach people to code for personal branding and another channel for POV driving vlogs but editing eats time :(
Just whatever time can allow really!