Mario Zechner
We have an extreme right wing media outlet in Austria called Exxpress. They have a website and a "TV channel" that (used to) broadcasts on a local cable network, as well as on YouTube.
They recite Russian propaganda verbatim sprinkled with the same old extreme right wing narratives.
They also got €1,000,000 in state funding.
I decided to have some fun and did a thing.
You see, they embed the YT Livestream on their website. It autoplays, withiut consent. The views there are counted by YT.
Mario Zechner
Well, Mastodon is even more fucked than I thought when I built my own client.
Turns out an instance may eventually evict posts from accounts from other instances.
Say you are on instance A, and a friend is on instance B. You two have a convo. After some time, all of B's replies are gone from your instance. If you view your thread, you are missing all their replies. If you are lucky, instance B still has all replies. Or not. Poof.
What a terrible, terrible platform.
Mario Zechner
The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.
Oh boy. The protocol is absolutely insane. RPC galore, responses are only partially typed. The docs are pretty much useless.
But the "funniest" part is this: there's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.
All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.
The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.
Here are my last 100 posts.
Mario Zechner
the responsible minister claimed it's an immense task and will take til autumn. It will only include 16 product categories (think flour, milk,etc.). And it will only be updated once a week.
Given how Austria works, some corp close to the minister would have gotten the contract for a million on two to create a POS just enough so the minister can say "look, I did something!"
Well. I heard that and build a prototype for all products of the two biggest chains in 2 hours. The media picked it up...
Mario Zechner
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.
In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.
Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
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