All of this "Democrats should worry about tit for tat" is beyond hypocritical. Democrats did not do tit-for-tat against GWB after the ginned up Clinton Impeachment. Democrats didn't do it to Trump after GOP tried the same thing with Obama nor when they refused to support legislation they normally would under Obama. Trump already tried to make the US AG and DOJ his personal law firm. He directly interfered with investigations against cronies and his family. Meanwhile Democratic congressional members and the Biden's own son are under active investigation and criminal cases for stuff that was shady as fuck, in the case of Menedez, or wouldn't normally have gone this far in the case of some of Hunter's charges. Republicans were already going to use these things without the pretense they are presenting here because one of their own was finally held to account. #uspoli#rant
Oficjalna apka PKP top dno. Ulepszone graficznie, ale nadal dno.
WIN: Udało mi się przez nią kupić bilet. Dotychczas, ostatnie 4 razy dowiadywałem się, że miejscówek nie ma. Potem uruchamiałem koleo i na ten sam pociąg miejscówka się znalazła. Tym razem się udało.
FAIL: jadąc ciapągiem po Polsce komórka gubi zasięg. Normalne no.
W trakcie wczytywanie trasy ten zasięg zgubiła. Zdarza się.
Apka wysrała błąd - ballontip. Ok klik - usunięcie z zamiarem sprawdzenia później jak zasięg wróci. Też się zdarza.
I teraz gwódź. Apka uznała najwyraźniej, że to stracenie sieci to jakieś super - hiper - ważne zdarzenie i trzeba użytkownika całkowicie wylogować. A skoro wylogować, to i nie wolno (pewnie SECURITY a co!) użytkownikowi dać dostępu do biletu. Mało tego, jestem w stanie się założyć że lekką ręką z 70% użytkowników apki nie będzie nawet pamiętało tajemnego hasła użytego pewnie rok czy pół roku temu.
Tak więc 70% podroży spędziłem bez dostępu do biletów, bo w XXI wieku pisanie apki mobilnej (w sensie funkcjonalności) to taka wiedza tajemna, że nie można przewidzieć takiej sytuacji.
Nie wiem kto to pisał ale mam nadzieję, że przez najbliższą dekadę będzie kopal rowy.
Efekt: Powrotny mam w tej nieszczęsnej apce więc dla pewności pewnie wydrukuję bilet. A potem z powrotem wrócę do korzystania z Koleo, gdzie najwyraźniej może nie mają full-stack-kiddies na każde zawołanie ale przynajmniej poprawnie potrafią przewidzieć, że mobilna apka w poruszającym się przez pół kraju środku transportu może nie mieć czasami albo i nawet często dostępu do internetu a mimo to użytkownik w każdym momencie dostęp do biletu MUSI mieć.
I'm so damn sick of Discord being the platform where so many projects (FOSS and otherwise) do their community, collaboration, and support. That app is a confusing hot mess and gives me anxiety every time I open it.
My crappy wifi swallowed my late night rage post about how hard BloodBowl is, even with a Tier 1 team (Norse). I'm really struggling to improve past just getting the mechanics right, to getting the strategy right. I've got 3 more incredibly hard games left in the league (Norse, Khorne, Wood Elves). I can't get the team to attack decisively, and can only defend through attrition (so I end up losing players). I'm worried the game's not fun any more because I'm not improving. #bloodbowl#rant
Oh fantastic. Someone assigned a CVE to an invalid bug report. Of course it's rated "critical".
Now I have to file for a rejection again, while thousands of "vulnerability report sites" copy each others bad summary of the CVE text making it worse with every copy.
The whole CVE system and the "security research industry" at large is a steaming pile of 💩
Male-defaultism in #archaeology is bloody annoying.
Just because someone draws a #hunting scene in a #cave, doesn't mean it was a man doing so or depicting one.
Every #archer grave from the Bell Beaker Era MUST be #male because even when they find #female additions, that just means she is related to a great man or the male lost status (of course).
Archaeologist Randy Haas just assumed he found a male big game hunter in Peru in 2013. Except he didn't.
I love Nestle Crunch style candy. I hate the sound of people chewing, even myself. That now incessant on YouTube Nestle Crunch commercial with the guy in airport security line not being able to hear because of his chewing is driving me so up the wall I'm actually starting to hate the product. #rant
If Apple starts sending all my fucking search, messages, photos, files, etc. data to Google or OpenAI I'm done with them. They are my compromise platform because I hate adding to the Google/Facebook style data reseller big tech data lakes. I honestly don't know what the alternative will be at that point besides having to hobble my experience with /e/os, LineageOS, whatever, self hosting services, etc. and try to figure out a work around for banking apps. Motherfuckers! This is so enraging. I have a feeling I better start getting my ducks in a row to depart their ecosystem sooner rather than later. #rant#apple#ai#enshitification#BigTechShouldNotExistmacrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple…
It is unsurprising to see so many so-called progressives gushing over Naomi Klein’s hate-filled, trope-laden screed. It is unsurprising that her gross distortions of Judaism and of reality resonate so strongly with an audience eager for a Jewish seal-of-approval for their antisemitism. Of course they think it isn’t antisemitic to accuse the majority of Jews of being “deeply immoral,” betrayers of “every Jewish value,” of being, to summarize a good chunk of her speech, cruel blood-thirsty baby-killers, so reprehensible, so depraved as to deserve every ounce of their contempt.
It is unsurprising but deeply depressing to see people with large followings amplifying the vitriol, hate, distortions, and misinformation which was already spreading like wildfire.
The people who hate us will always outnumber us. This speech is a tool they will gladly use. #Antisemitism#Jewish#Rant
Blöd genug, dass #congstar Rechnungen (wegen Datenschutz - hahaha) nicht mehr per Mail versendet. Muss mich also auf der Webseite anmelden, das Dokument öffnen und ins CMS "drucken". Nicht schön, aber einfach und flott genug.
Jetzt stellen sie alles um. Rechnungen nur noch in der App. D.h. Ich öffne die App, lade das pdf herunter, verschicke das über den Acrobat Reader an mich per Mail und drucke es dann ins CMS.
#This is my #introduction post, Sharkey edition (it's basically the same one as I posted when I joined mastodon.me.uk).
I am, like many others here, a refugee from other social media sites. In my case, it all started way back in 1990 when I did the #OU DT200 information technology course. This gave me access to their CoSy based conferencing system. From there I explored various #BBSs before joining #CIX. From there I migrated to #Facebook and #Twitter via #Usenet and alt newsgroups.
My posts are likely to cover a variety of areas such as: #Cats, #Photography, #Cooking and #Running. Now that I've got a few more characters to play with I may also post the occasional #rant.
In der Kieler Kommunalpolitik wird gerade über den Neubau eines Fussballstadions gestritten. Dabei hat der CDU Ratsherr Sebastian Thiede dieses Argument vorgebracht:
kn-online.de hat geschrieben:
„Wenig hilfreich sind die geäußerten kostspieligen Wünsche der grün-roten Kooperation hinsichtlich Klimaneutralität und nachhaltiger Bauweise, die die monetäre kommunale Finanzlage wie so oft ignorieren und eine schnelle Bauumsetzung erschweren“, so Thiede.
Das Teil ist ein Fussballstadion und somit ganz und gar nicht Lebensnotwendig, es dient nur der Unterhaltung. Und da hat man gefälligst auf Klimaneutralität und Nachhaltigkeit zu achten! Die Stadt Kiel hat immerhin schon vor ein paar Jahren den #Klimanotstand ausgerufen (Quelle: Klimanotstand Kiel). Wenn dadurch der Neubau teurer wird, muss man halt mehr Eintritt zahlen.Und davon mal ganz abgesehen frage ich mich sowieso was die Stadt damit zu tun hat, sie muss es nur genehmigen oder halt nicht. Um die Finanzierung eines größeren Stadions sollte sich der Verein selber kümmern. Das regelmäßige Polizei-Großaufgebot um die "Fans" in Schach zu halten kostet die Stadt und das Land ja sowieso schon genug.
Okay, so I get that news is mostly for non-technical people. I get it. But my goodness, can we not get a little better than "6 rumored iPhone 16 camera upgrades?" The camera? Again, and again, and again! Like is that all people think about? #rant
Some 52 years ago, when I was in 4th grade of primary school, I found a book "who put glasses on the kid's eyes" in a small book shop in open bazaar of my hometown Ahvaz in khuzestan province of Iran.
A few days later, we had to bring a book to school and read it in front of the class. Happy as I was to have found a great book, I took it to school and read it in front of the class.
I couldn't understand why my teacher was acting so scared and stopped me before I had finished the book and sent me to the principals office.
I was nervous, didn't know what I had done wrong and our principal, who was a really nice man, and went to the same university as my oldest sister took the book and asked me where I had bought it. I knew something was wrong, so I said I bought it at the book store of our local mosque, to protect the guy who was my source of cheap and lovely books and would buy back my old ones to help me afford buying new ones.
In the evening my father came home, agitated and clearly upset. Asked me what I have done and I explained the situation, including the fact that I lied about wher I had bought the book. Told him the highlight of the book about a happy child who was living in a town with happy people who were all wearing glasses.
He was seeing flowers, colorful houses. Nice people and happy children all around him, birds flying in the sky and everyone were so friendly to him.
Until one day he fell of and his glasses broke. He couldn't believe his eyes, the flowers, colorful houses and happy people were all gone. All he could see was a run down city, with piles of garbage everywhere, people wearing worn out clothes, looking hungry and sick.
He was nece happy after that, he couldn't believe that everyone were walking around with glasses and we're happy all the time. But he was sad and miserable, because he had seen his town without those glasses.
Anyway. My father took me to a building close to the main police station on the other side of the Karun river, he spent almost entire day in a room where I could people screaming at him and a few times someone his the table very hard. But couldn't hear what they were saying.
My dad came out. Pulled my hand without saying a word, we walked for an hour to get home, didn't take taxi as we used to do.
He didn't say a word during the whole day and told me to go over my books and bring all the books I had bought from that shop, he through them in a metal bucket and poured some fuel over it, set them on fire and waited until they were completely burned, mixed the ashes to turn them into dust, filled the bucket with water and through it in the toilet.
He told me to never go back to that shop and be careful to take any books to school from now on.
That' was my first interaction with the notorious Savak police of Shah of Iran. In the next days, all the 4 book stores in our town were raided. Books confiscated and doors locked. Never heard about any of them again.
Reading the comments of pro Israeli accounts on mastodon reminded me of that book and that experience that changed my life when I was only 8 years old.
This post specially triggered those memories. Unlike the kid in my book and the people living in the town, these people know very well tat what they are posting is not true, they have seen the horror of the past 76 years of occupation, they have seen the 66 times they were subject to UNSC charges, and 45 that were vetoed by the US..
But they don't care, they see themselves as victims. They don't see the millions of starving palestinians, or the millions living in refuge camps around the world as worthy of their empathy or cause of why Palestinians and some of the world is fed up with their out of control criminal behavior
They don't have glasses on their eyes, they have chosen to be selective and above the laws of the world.
My daughter, T, rang to vent the other day. Her 5-year-old, C, had come home from public school pre-Easter and proceeded to tell T all about Jesus being persecuted and crucified, dying, and then being alive again.
Now, T takes after us; thoroughly atheist; to say that she was taken aback would be an understatement. In essence, C now believed in the resurrection and thought that anybody who died could come back to life. It took a weekq to convince her of the truth (dead is dead and the bible is a storybook), but as we know, that shit sticks.
The same afternoon as the revelation, before the steam had dissipated, T rang the school to enquire, mostly politely, 𝙒𝙏𝘼𝙁?? C had not been to any religion-based classes and should not have been exposed to this rubbish/nonsense/garbage. The school apologised and said they would look into it. Apparently, other parents had complained, too...
The new #redis website has broken so many links. Some redirect to their new corresponding urls, but not all of them, and it's very hard to find anything in their new marketing-focused website 😩
I’m so tired of people dismissing me when I try to put up some kinda boundary. “I cannot do both things” doesn’t mean I don’t want to do either of them; it’s your invitation to take responsibility of one task so I can concentrate on the other. If you want me to do both, I’ll need considerable time. Why do people get so angry with this setup is beyond me. #rant
Erster Schultag nach den Ferien - und falls ihr euch fragt, wieso wir einen Lehrermangel haben, könnte ich euch allein aus den sechs Schulstunden heute so viele Gründe präsentieren, dass ihr danach schreiend weglauft. War nicht geplant. Ich mag nicht mehr. Ein toller Kollege hat heute dann tatsächlich überraschend die Reißleine gezogen und steigt jetzt komplett aus Schule aus - und ich zieh mich jetzt erstmal erschöpft mit brüllenden Kopfschmerzen zurück und brauche ein paar Stunden Ruhe. #rant