Good article. The most important points imo are these:

Despite the recent momentum, advocates like Marthews worry that too much of the pushback is limited to Flock itself. Even now, competitors like Axon smell blood in the water, and they’re moving in to capitalize on the widespread public scrutiny of the company. It highlights what privacy advocates see as a critical vulnerability in the current tech backlash movement — the tendency to focus on one or two highly villainized companies instead of the technologies and systems themselves.

“… I think it’s an important moment because reformers are talking more and more about ‘guardrails,’ when the proper solution is abolition.”

Hardware: either

1. use whatever you have lying around, e.g. an old laptop, or
2. get a used thin client like e.g. a Dell Wyse. (passive cooling = no noise)

A Raspberry Pi is needlessly expensive for self-hosting, since it comes with GPIO pins etc. for controlling custom electronics.

Fuck every Axel Springer Publication, which includes Politico

The Mastodon founder, Eugen Rochko, has just announced that “We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon”.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116041405748460511

Zulip is probably more focused toward work than TTRPGs, but it can’t hurt to try it. (I haven’t tried it personally, yet.) It is self-hostable.

https://zulip.com/

Never forget Aaron Swartz.

It’s almost as if Elmo wishes people to talk about something else.

Yeah I’m not sure about that so I deleted the comment. But just try it out: install it and see what it shows you, and then work from that.

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Licensing terms only govern the legal aspects, not moral and social aspects.

And not to forget: FUTO is evil.

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Keep organizing and slowly things will get better

Not to forget: FUTO is evil.

The video he apparently got sued for.

And here a follow-up video where he repeats the trick on a freshly delivered lock (cause the company was whining about allegedly foul play).

Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

That looks very interesting, thank you!

Thanks, I got it done. :)

Got it, so in babysteps it was:

1. As root, open /etc/nixox/configuration.nix using kate or nano.
2. Uncomment or add the line vim or helix within the block environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [... ...];.
3. In a Terminal, run nixos-rebuild switch.

Alright, first steps taken. Thanks! :)

I think the general term for this is “domain sniping” or “catching”. From this, I also found this paid service, catches.io; can’t tell if it or dropcatch is better. They both only charge you when they are successful in catching the domain for you, which is good.

In general, I second the notion that one probably can’t get around paying for a professional, paid service, since one is up against professionalized scoopers (godaddy and the like), who have put a lot of optimization (down to the placing of their servers) into trying to get an edge over legitimate buyers and competing scoopers.

Like I said: it can be gamed to some degree, but what system can’t?