Federation isn't in their roadmap. It's going to stay a bunch of islands.
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Also it's a private company, an Ltd. At least the Matrix Foundation (which already has a viable financial future) is a Community Interest Company (non-profit) and has never had any shares for relevant control. Seems like first thing Revolt did was divvy up shares.
Matrix Foundation founding document as Limited Company, and then updated resolutions describing itself as a Community Interest Company Non-profit.
Matrix already exists and has a viable long-term financial plan thanks to the Matrix foundation.
I can't find any relevant funding for Revolt.
Initial filing of the Revolt Platforms Ltd. company.
Unlike the Matrix Foundation, this is a private company with some sort of profit-motive in mind and 100 shares with 75% of them belonging to Pawel Makle.
Matrix Foundation is a non-profit organization. Matrix is already federated. Matrix can already be self-hosted. Matrix already has a Discord-like UI. Matrix already has video calls. Matrix already has screen sharing. Matrix already has a viable financial future.
What's with this viral marketing for this private company ~~based in the UK, a place that similar to the US, doesn't have the best privacy laws?~~ (Scratch that, I thought Matrix was based in Germany, the Matrix Foundation is also in the UK as a Community Interest Company)
“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.
“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.
He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
On Tuesday, Schmidt was transported to the regional headquarters for ICE in Burlington, Massachusetts, and then transferred to the Wyatt facility. The family, including his partner, who is a cardiologist in Nashua, have acquired attorneys and been working with the German consulate in hopes to have him released on bail.
Schmidt and his mother moved to the U.S. in 2007, and received green cards in 2008. He moved from California to New Hampshire in 2022.
Senior described her son as a hardworking electrical engineer with a partner and 8-year-old daughter who are both U.S. citizens.
Yeah, he seems to have a bad habit of bailing on his pet projects once they become "difficult" partially because he never seems to have an actual plan to get them to financial stability. It's why I'm so hesitant to have any hopes for this reboot of Pebble after he bailed on it the first time around.
I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say they're ignoring whatever court precedent actually exists at this point anyway.
Also, a phrase I've heard a lot "you can beat the charge but you can't beat the ride." Meaning, like Luigi Mangione, you can argue in court about illegal seizures after it has already happened. I'm guessing most border patrol agents just plan on losing court cases like this, because they know, in the moment, they can get away with it.
I mean they fucking tortured a white European green card holder recently.
Since the PATRIOT Act at least, but possibly since Reagan's Executive Order 12333.
Looks like there is also a court case from 1977 that is related.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
Every border patrol agent within 100 miles of any US border has this authority and has for a looooong fucking time.
It's honestly a little shocking this isn't more well known.
I was very excited when Beeper was first announced and I got on the wait list.
I finally got onboarded, and this was when you still had be walked through the setup by one of the Beeper employees.
I got into the Zoom meeting, and got a warning that it was going to be recorded. I had not, up to that point, had ever been disclosed that it was going to be recorded. I declined to join the meeting and sent a follow-up email with some pertinent privacy related questions, especially since in the case of some of the Bridges that were being used for this service essentially meant Beeper would have access to my credentials. They would later create a more secure system, but it was not very secure early on.
My main question regarded Micigovsky's past in selling Pebble and I asked what gaurantees of the privacy policy were being made in regard to a potential sale of the company (considering it eventually got sold, I guess a good question to ask), and what, if any, promises were being made for the privacy policy to stay unchanged through a sale.
I never got a response to my questions. Not being told I was going to be recorded, and not ever getting an answer to reasonable privacy policy questions led me to never signing up for the service.
I paid for a lifetime Plex Pass years and years ago now, I've definitely gotten my money's worth.
That being said, I fully expect more bullshit like this, up to and including ending my "lifetime" pass.
When that comes to pass, I'm so glad Jellyfin will be available for me to use.
Yes, that is indeed the goal, it seems!
Ghost itself is Open Source, but the Ghost Pro tier is actually about purchasing web hosting from Ghost, the company.
So you're not paying access to the open source license, it's just that they're restricting you to using their own hosting services instead of deciding which hosting service you want or even self-hosting in your own environment.
Hopefully this changes with time.
Man, people are so willing to jump to companies that literally have plans to monetize the shit out of everything in the future just because it's "simple to use." It's literally the same shit with Bluesky a company that owes a shitload to Blockchain Capital and will be needing to pay that money back somehow. It will have to be monetized at some point. (and whose promises of Federation are clearly hokum)
And we complain about how the Trumpers can't read. Everyone's way way way too ready to jump to some new shitbag company as long as it's "simple to understand."
I'll be real, I think that's as pathetic as not reading.
wE'lL jUsT gO tO A nEw CoMpAnY... after they've monetized the living shit out of us and our data and the network effects make us stay supporting the company for far longer than it deserves. I guess most people don't learn from bad experiences and really are fucking stupid.