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Two big problems in #IT that I don't see anyone trying to solve, and very few people even thinking about, let alone talking about:

1. a comprehensive set of #professional #standards regarding the #ethical operation, administration, moderation, and #oversight of public discussion forums.

2. a comprehensive set of professional standards regarding the ethical storage and transmission of personal #data and #information.

I don't think people even understand why these are #problems.

The Microsoft-Dilemma - #Europe as a #Software Colony (43min)
kolektiva.media/w/cbb9f78a-970 (or
youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQv if you don't mind YT using/stealing your data)

This is how the #EU is paying a secret number of Millions to #Microsoft in order to stay less secure, more dependend, less self-empowered, and more corrupt.

And this was known even before the US went totally crazy, risking our future big time.

So let's change and take back control using #FOSS software and open standards for true competition and actually according to our own rules for a change.

#Windows#Word#Excel

🆕 blog! “How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud”

There's a new Web Standard in town! Meet WebMonetization - it aims to be a low effort way to help users passively pay website owners.

The pitch is simple. A website owner places a single new line in their HTML's <head> - something like this:

<link rel="monetization"…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/how-t

#CyberSecurity #dns #HTML #standards #WebMonitization

Web Monetization The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.
Terence Eden’s Blog · How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud
More from Terence Eden

Looking at the class action lawsuit by academic peer reviewers claiming publishers constitute an illegal cartel that is misappropriating funding to their research, I am wondering whether #standards professionals could mount a similar action against ISO et al for diverting payment for their work exclusively to standards publishing.

reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/