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GhostOnTheHalfShell, to writing
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    faberfedor,

    @metaphase @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    But if you do use their sync, it's pretty reliable, hasn't failed me in two years, and best of all let's me set-it-and-forget-it.

    GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to Economics
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    faberfedor,

    @GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe

    And that "joke" cost him at least one viewer.

    GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Economics
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    faberfedor,

    @GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe JFC that host sucks!

    Anyone know how Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism” compares to “Adults In the Room”?

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    In re copyright & AI, I've been thinking about authors. This essay says "'author' in its modern sense is a relative recent invention." A lovely quote on the book: "It does not contain thoughts; these must arise in the mind of the comprehending reader." 1/

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/2738129?origin=crossref

    faberfedor,

    @jeffjarvis
    > until the [authors] were seen as the creative originator,

    Why would that have any bearing on who owns copyright. Why is it the employers who come out on top??

    baldur, to random
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    “The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity | Slack”

    Surprising? This is literally literally what almost every post-WW2 productivity study has told us and has been the consensus in work and organisational psychology since the seventies https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/the-surprising-connection-between-after-hours-work-and-decreased-productivity

    faberfedor,

    @baldur The same can be said of most people I've met over the years.

    How many working programmers have read Knuth or SICP?

    How many PMs have read Brooks or Fowler?

    Instead of management Goop picked up at airport kiosks, these tech ppl get their info from the slashdot's, Stack Overflows, and Hackers Newses on the Web.

    I daresay this applies to any human activity.

    faberfedor, to random

    And this is healing, right?

    Right?

    faberfedor,

    @SimonLandmine That sounds like an excellent idea! starts looking around the flat

    donmoyn, to random
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    If you are worried about Trump's plan to politicize the executive branch, here is a specific thing you can do: write a public comment supporting a proposed rule that would block Schedule F, Trump's executive order to turn career staff into at-will appointees. Deadline Nov 17
    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/18/2023-19806/upholding-civil-service-protections-and-merit-system-principles

    faberfedor,

    @donmoyn Is there a reason you waited until the evening of the 15th to tell us about a deadline on the 17th? And tell us how to use the public comment process? I'm not going to be able to do it in time.

    nixCraft, to random
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    I don't know who wants to hear, but please test your backup. Restore files. How much time did it take? Did you succeed in getting back your data? You are welcome 🤗

    faberfedor,

    @nixCraft As I tell all my clients "You don't need a backup system. You need a RESTORE system."

    (Yes, I know it's grammatically incorrect. My Poetic License is up-to-date so it's fine.)

    themarkup, to random
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    What we learned in our quest toward an anonymous iPhone:
    ✅ Cash is king
    ✅ Public Wi-Fi can be safer than private
    ✅ Setting up an anonymous phone is easier than using it
    https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/10/25/without-a-trace-how-to-take-your-phone-off-the-grid

    faberfedor,

    @themarkup LOVE how you make it so easy to republish the article! Makes me want to set up my own blogsite just to republish it!

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    The bullshit comes from the humans, not the machines. This is hallucination.
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8jyJSPe/

    faberfedor,

    @jeffjarvis Just another expert talking about something he's not an expert in. "In five years...", yeah, right.

    rjbs, to random
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    I think I want to listen to a lot less Spotify and a lot more internet radio stations. What software (for macOS) will make this delightful?

    It's important to me that I see the artist and song name.

    faberfedor,

    @rjbs VLC doesn’t do it for you? Granted I haven’t streamed anything on there in, like, forever since I never found a radio station I liked save for SOMA-FM. (I’m open to suggestion, tho’).

    I use it for all my non-DRMed stuff.

    faberfedor,

    @mjgardner @rjbs @videolan Good point. I spent quite a bit of time this weekend cussing out the Android version while listening to a DRM-free audiobook.

    faberfedor, to random

    Checking out https://bookwyrm.social .

    If anyone wants to discuss Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) "The Internet Con, I can be found over there (I think...still figuring it out...)

    hmu here or over there (https://bookwyrm.social/book/994748/comment#reviews)

    SwiftOnSecurity, (edited ) to random

    Holy crap Microsoft figured out how their signing key was leaked. Must read:
    https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

    faberfedor,

    @SwiftOnSecurity Damn! Perfect example of the Swiss Cheese model!

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Jeezus. Maybe the "struggle" is because of coverage like this from The New York Times. Appalling.

    faberfedor,

    @jeffjarvis This is your bailiwick. What needs to happen? How does it happen? We, the unwashed masses, can't do shit.

    mastodonmigration, to random
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    These robot cars are starting to kill people.

    SFGate: Injured person reportedly dies after Cruise cars block first responders >>> https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/cruise-cars-reportedly-block-first-responders-18343475.php

    "Two autonomous Cruise vehicles and an empty San Francisco police vehicle were blocking the only exits from the scene... forcing the ambulance to wait while first responders attempted to manually move the Cruise vehicles..."

    "The pedestrian later died of their injuries... linked to the delay in getting them to the hospital."

    faberfedor,

    @mastodonmigration Was the "empty [SF] police vehicle" also autonomous? Why is it not implicated in the pedestrian's death? Does it have a lighter paint job than the Cruise vehicles? Or is it because it is under the colour of law?

    faberfedor, to random

    I think I just found a new favorite podcast! It's from the subreddit of @AskHistorians called, oddly enough AskHistorians. Not too long, not too short, quite interesting so far.

    JamesGleick, to random
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    This is a strange take by the NYT. Do they really mean to say that if Pence testifies as a fact witness at Trump’s trial, that would be an effort to “prevent a second Trump turn in the White House”?

    Will Pence even have a choice? He’s a key witness. He will have to testify.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/mike-pence-trump-indictment.html?unlocked_article_code=m7d7EHlpC5p4gxmm7p2xzhAYa5Rdm2SltN_T9xurx2sfTqSNTUdd25cD8kHpfzPjXfab_bIS9EudaCRyUKsdf7lq6PYQK994G6m3YTEIsvg5p_OPwNhJz52K2bUQN0LWbKmsXch_TR03ir3jOUJiCb5FvECJSVKCsN0dx2RsPiFQUO26VlFghZwANPccKCwYWgPNj3wGYQt7e4_CtGXQaDzrq5eYVIuNObtw4467xBHiHOxOhes195jnJmVZA1G1VvPmfRj4rxGEJ-mwrwGzvR1Eg7cjRy8t8l8tKwV_uWSZZ7UcHWRbjU1QEv32_ewgYWsbmlQ6Y42tgBhKQldSUk4tRa8J&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

    faberfedor,

    @JamesGleick Eff the NYT.

    I don't take my news from them (or the Washington Post) just like I don't take my morality from the Catholic Church. They are part of the problem.

    timbray, to random
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    I switched over from Gmail-in-the-browser to Mimestream, a good but non-free Gmail-as-native-MacOS-app. Here’s why: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/07/18/Mimestream

    faberfedor,

    @timbray That reminds me, I need to configure mutt to read my gmail.

    liroyleshed, to random
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    faberfedor,

    @JenWojcik @liroyleshed Looks sus to me. Feels like an email harvesting site.

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