@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-01-27 17:59:52
Once upon a time when work was using its own email servers, I had to periodically archive my email accounts. I would create a new gmail account and just throw it up on there so the emails were still searchable in my mail client if the account was included…
Now I have a bunch of gmail accounts that have tens of thousands of emails form twenty years ago.
This is dumb... especially with storage the way it is these days.
So now I'm logging into those accounts, downloading the emails and any other Google data, and deleting the accounts from Google.
Fun Times, this long-time-digital-life life.
#Google #Data #KeepItOnYourDevice
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2026-01-25 19:24:49
"There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.
The first, and perhaps most limited, is nostalgia. Nostalgia is the least inclusive interaction with a museum of historical artefacts because you cannot teach anyone nostalgia: they either were there and remember the thing on display, or they do not."
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 15:57:01
A panel on bitcoin treasury companies.
Because investment law makes it hard for institutions to buy bitcoin in their funds. You can't own BTC in you tax free ISA. So some companies that do hold bitcoin, notably microstrategy, became proxy investments. If you can't hold BTC you could maybe own a company that owns BTC instead.
Microstrategy started because it's ceo realized it's dollar treasury was being debased by dollar printing. So tried buying BTC instead, with fantastic success.
Copycat companies proliferated. They boomed and then busted. One panelist calls that a grift. A way to memeticly pump share price.
A line can be drawn between profitable companies just storing their profit in bitcoin Vs those raising debt to buy without having a profitable business.
Imagine a world transiting from using seashells for money to using gold coins. A company gathers seashells from investors to buy gold coins, which will do better than sea shells. Trouble is the next step where the company pays back it's investors with... More seashells.
If you own shares in the company, you do not own bitcoin. You'll just get more old fashioned bank money.
Still. It's worked as marketing, more people being convinced BTC has value.
If you do buy a treasury company, check it's bitcoin not "digital assets" including shitcoins.
#bitfest #bitcoin #bitcoinTreasuryCompanies
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 16:35:58
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans
it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress "American viewpoints".
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations,
fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. …
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-11 17:31:46
Yes, digital sovereignty for all things in Canada is a good idea.
That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
https://bsky.app/profile/nicktser…
@mlncn@social.coop2025-12-19 01:30:28
https://defend612.com has been blocked at the domain name level for me and at least two other people over T-Mobile networks (which includes GoogleFi, MetroPCS, and… wait for it… Trump Mobile). For at least all day today.
Seems unlikely to be a technical problem but instead to be Actual Censorship (unless its not …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-20 09:21:03
Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-14 08:57:11
“EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps … Officials insist they do not intend to compromise encryption or read private messages. What they want is the so-called metadata: who contacted whom, from where, at what time, and through which service.” – https://
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-08 20:30:47
Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…
