Yrjan 🇳🇴 @rzr.no

There seriously needs to be some kind of stipend or grant for people who create technologies that are useful, but won't be as useful if they are products. TCP/IP is extremely useful, but the Internet would've flopped if it was a commercial product. Yes, it technically was funded by DARPA, but where's the civilian equivalent? Where's the funding for things that are useful (and therefore valuable) but only if they are free, and thus of no economical value to its creator?

Kom til snabeltann.no. Vi har ikke mange aktive brukere (jeg er den mest aktive), men vi er koblet til 1.895 andre instanser og har norske nettaviser: @abc @Aftenposten @Avvir @BT @Budstikka @Digi @Groruddalen @iFinnmark @Nettavisen @Nordlys @NRK @NRKBeta @RK @Sagat @TB @VG
#norge #norsk #norway #norwegian

We need startups to disrupt the accounting profession. It's way too hard to do your own accounts. Also, let's revolt against the tax authorities while we're at it, because filing taxes is way too hard too.

The madness that is accounting and taxes only exists because government bureaucrats and business bureaucrats (accountants) have been in an insane arms race ever since taxes were invented.

It's sunny outside. I should be out there. Fuck knows what I'm meant to be doing outside, though. Kick stones around? If the outside was an intellectually stimulating environment, I'd be there all the time.

Hey, fediverse! Listen up. You'll like this, I promise.

Yesterday I was on Norwegian national radio, talking about how the "monopoly" of Facebook over the public discourse is dangerous and that politicians need to step in.

My sollution? Enforce federation!

That way the free market of social networks can work and the network effect will no longer be a "social DRM" locking people in.

Based on this text (norwegian): https://nrkbeta.no/2016/12/19/samfunnet-trenger-alternativer-til-facebook/

It's available in Norway here: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/her-og-naa-hovedsending/DMTN01007218/11-04-2018#t=42m15s

If these senators want to prevent another Cambridge Analytica, they need to ask Facebook to close off developers' access to social graphs and user content. Most apps don't need that data. Of course, if Facebook does that, developers are going to leave the platform in droves, since many of them are only there to collect data, or to use aggressive viral marketing tactics to push freemium games on people. The illegitimate uses of Facebook apps vastly outnumber the legitimate ones.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/bAhRg1Cg0Zk0rYJ5ciE

OMG! Winamp 2 reimplemented in HTML5! Oh, the memories! https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/

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https://snabeltann.no/media/-TvDWJDJlnSG_0LH6YA

The biggest casualty to AI won't be jobs, but the final and complete eradication of trust in anything you see or hear. http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-12_Unsupervised-Image-to-Image-Translation

Not to discount the value of an open, decentralized network -- that's really really important -- but I think one underappreciated positive feature of Mastodon is its open API, which allows anyone to write Mastodon apps.

I began losing interest FAST when Birdsite stopped allowing third-party clients to access all its features (eg polls). That won't be a problem with Mastodon.