Mark Hughes / is on Nostr

Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.

Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork

Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

Techy blog: https://dweb.happybeing.com

#nobridge

Last Notes

2024-07-08 08:52:23

Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/08/largest-uk-public-sector-trial-four-day-week-sees-huge-benefits-research-finds-
Naturally the Tory MP opposed this and commanded the Council to stop its "ideological crusade". Its the Tories who oppose proven policies such as UBI and workers rights, socialised healthcare all of which are cheaper and better than privatisation.
The Tories have damaged Britain and let many literally die because of ideology, incompetence and corruption.
#UniversalBasicIncome #ukpol

2024-05-22 11:41:08

I've just appended '_nomap' to the name of my WiFi (SSID) because apparently that's the only way to stop every passing #iPhone from capturing the SSID and sending it with its location back to Apple, who use it to create a global database which tracks devices that offer WiFi or have a WiFi hotspot.
Every person with an iPhone is a roaming #surveillance mule and #Apple doesn't give a shit about anyone's #privacy or the potential harms creating such a database enables. Remember that.

2024-05-22 11:41:08

2024-04-07 14:30:25

We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.
#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.
#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.
I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.