Zap Crunch

aka Steve Ramos Web apps, consulting, secure serverless/no-database CMS, real estate tech, e-commerce; also this stuff: 🐈🐕🦕🤖🍻🥃🏀🏌️‍♂️✈️🎼🎬📝🇨🇴🇵🇪🇵🇹

[Zap Crunch @ZapCrunch]

Long-term consistency is more important than short-term perfection #attemptingquotability #keepontruckin

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@Lauramaywendel @goth600 Master and Commander tho

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@troyerju @alexeheath Thanks for the reminder

[@chimeracoder.bsky.social 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder]

The only way to make Twitter DMs end-to-end encrypted would require one of the following:

- redefine E2E to mean something that isn't actually end-to-end

- make DMs a usability disaster for 99% of the population

- block users from reading DMs in web browsers

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This is absolutely shocking!

[Kat Rey @Glitterbeauties]

@SethAbramson He’s a hot mess

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This is quite a thread, but especially this part. Sadly, not surprising :-/

@EFF @jack #twitter #privacy #telcos #datamining #ethics

[Steve Krenzel @stevekrenzel]

I wound up meeting with a Director who came in huffing and puffing.

The Director said “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

[Zap Crunch @ZapCrunch]

Noteworthy initial firing at Twitter of @vijaya, who worked hard to prevent governments from piercing user anonymity :-/

[EFF @EFF]

It ’s not enough for government to pass laws that protect consumers from corporations that harvest and monetize their personal data. It is also necessary for these laws to have bite. https://t.co/Zl74MFWw0B

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@amiyoshimura_ My family 😇

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@austinlparker @stephenaugustus Came here to say this. Also, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

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@bhorowitz I don’t like bots either, but isn’t someone’s use of a bot an expression of free speech?

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@JessTheVC https://t.co/eYRvmNWzDw
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@tElizaRose I’ve avoided PayPal for many years now, and unfortunately @Square hit us with some tomfoolery recently so we’re switching payment processors away from them. It’s frustrating especially when it seems that you’re punished by these companies for growing

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@tElizaRose For what it’s worth, I find a lot of people I’ve mentioned this to, even people in tech, hadn’t known. Similar to the lack of knowledge that IG is owned by Facebook (Meta 🙄)

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@holametaverso @thalia Mari-Mar herself! 😱

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@AnandSheth2 @Pulse360 Keep it going, king! 🙌

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@brovsky @Ford @Rivian @Tesla @DougDeMuro @Toyota I find it really ironic that Texas legislation is still preventing Tesla from selling direct-to-consumer because of dealership org lobbying. Dealers have their place but not with all the friction they’re empowered to create

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@Tam3ron There are some great films screening at the Los Feliz or New Beverly theaters. Rare opportunities to see some classic 35mm cinema

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@ritzy_p @Tam3ron @EscalaKtown Y esa vaina?? :-) Always good to know about Colombian spots outside of Glendale / Burbank!