Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me

After a lot of deliberation, I have decided to launch a #Patreon with a modest goal, in order to support #fediQuest development, since two hours of me tired after work, every couple of days doesn't really cut it.

#fediQuest is a #federated question/answer platform akin to #StackOverflow / #Quora, powered by #ActivityPub.

If that sounds interesting to you, please take a look at https://www.patreon.com/fediquest - you'd get early access to the source code and your own space on https://shapegoal.org

The thing with gatekeepers like #Google is that when you tell people these things, they usually don't listen, because until the very second something like this happens to them, it seems improbable. And that's the problem; your emails, documents etc. could be wiped at any second - yet people still build businesses that rely entirely on the #AppStore / #GooglePlay to survive, something they have absolutely no control over - or is built on top of 3rd parties like #Twitter & 100% at their mercy.

@kde Actually, that's not quite right - they do have a pretty solid customer sales & services team, staffed with real people, for their actual customers - advertisers.

Everything comes down to money and nothing else; another example; they're willing to demonetize #YouTube channels without explanation & hold them accountable for user generated comments, just so advertisers stay on the platform, even if it hurts creators massively & of course there's no human to interact with there either.

'@kde Connect has been removed from #GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS [1]. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to #Google*'

https://twitter.com/albertvaka/status/1107924633750253568

Just another example of how corps are willing to throw their weight around when it comes to avoiding taxes etc. yet are unwilling to put their weight behind any sort of customer service that would actually help people.

So I have a bunch of different IEMs with the MMCX connector and the left earpiece on one of them broke, so I took an earpiece from a completely different IEM and the results are bizarre...not bad, which is perhaps even stranger, but definitely super weird. 🎧

It's interesting, the discussion around the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and how many Americans are willing to protect "their" company Boeing, even at the cost of sounding pretty racist and dismissing the concerns as "inexperienced 3rd world pilots", rather than entertaining the possibility that perhaps Boeing might be at fault here, in some capacity.

I even saw suggestions that China grounding the planes was 'political', rather than trying to prevent further fatalities. Ugh.