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Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Archer, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her

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parismarx, to tech
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Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.

billyjoebowers, to random
@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online avatar

"I'm looking for a thing..."

Mastodon: "Have you tried building your own out of a cargo bike, a rasberry pi running linux, and Lego?"

jon, to random
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And everyone internationally has given Macron too much credit for too long

Ok, he’s more charismatic than Hollande, appears more reputable than Sarkozy, and has more vigour than Chirac

But at heart he’s just as much of a top down thinks he knows best elitist as his predecessors

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

This Macron calling an election is such a “I think I know best” manoeuvre.

If you’ve just suffered a defeat in the EP elections, going “oooh I’ll make you go vote again, to back me or not” comes across (to me anyway) as aloof and stupid.

Maybe pause and ask yourself why what happened did happen? Just an idea…

jwz, (edited ) to random
@jwz@mastodon.social avatar

Before they will let me publish a new release of XScreenSaver on the "Play" [sic] store, Google, the most rapacious privacy violator ever, insists that a screensaver have a privacy policy.

This is where you come in!

I'd like this policy to be a series of bullet points: "Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will not [Thing.] An endless, concise catalog of their sins.

I need both your snark AND a link supporting your snark. It's critical for the joke to land. Include both.

GO!!

https://jwz.org/b/ykUc

majorlinux, to FIRE
@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com avatar

Might be time to check those batteries.

Popular Anker power bank and Soundcore speaker recalled over potential fire risk

https://www.engadget.com/popular-anker-power-bank-and-soundcore-speaker-recalled-over-potential-fire-risk-200637850.html?src=rss

#Anker #Soundcore #Battery #Speaker #Fire #Tech #Hardware

jensorensen, to random
@jensorensen@mastodon.social avatar

This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

mcnees, (edited ) to random
@mcnees@mastodon.social avatar

William Anders, astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission, passed away earlier today.

Anders took the iconic Earthrise photo while orbiting the Moon with Borman and Lovell. No human had ever seen an Earthrise before.

On the transmission he says "Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

🌕

Image: NASA

Alice, (edited ) to random
@Alice@beige.party avatar

Most call it sexual tension, but physicists know it's actually sexual weight plus mass times acceleration.

davidho, to random
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Environmental protection is actually a good thing.

LukaszOlejnik, to random
@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social avatar

87-year-old writes to Financial Times. This is a real technological problem also for people with disabilities. Including me. Banking systems (and others) may make people's life miserable. And you know what? In case of an issue, I couldn't even make a phone call (when mandatory).

GottaLaff, to random
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Omg.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

rysiek, to CrystalsHashtags
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

While is doing an absolute stupid with their new licensing terms, and (now Canva-owned) slashes prices by half in a "flash sale", I am once again asking people to consider supporting tools instead.

Yes, they are far from perfect.

But with a small fraction of what these closed source vendors are raking in, these tools could be made immeasurably better.

And they won't end up bought up and enshittified, as experience with past attempts at doing that to FLOSS tools shows.

JamesGleick, to random
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Trump is testing the mainstream press. He’s saying in every way possible: Yes, I really am going to be a dictator. Yes, I really am going to dismantle the democratic institutions that have defined this country for 250 years. Yes, this really will be the last election, if I win it. And by the way, of course that means the end of a free press.

Now, how are you going to cover this political season? https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/112576597337880208

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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So, here's a fun fact: have you ever wondered how exactly U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt convinced Americans that Hitler was bad, considering he ran a country that was itself deeply racist and heavily antisemitic, had a sizeable fascist movement, and used much similar economic policies as Germany in the late stages of the Great Depression?

He framed it as supporting religious freedom, which the Nazis were encroaching on.

I didn't know that, until I read this bio.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3301907-traitor-to-his-class

twipped, to random
@twipped@twipped.social avatar

I’ve received a complaint that the german translation of the Gender Dysphoria Bible has outdated and potentially problematic language. Would there happen to be a german speaking trans person available to proofread and update the translation?

I can pay for your time.

foone, to random
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Oh come on, America! It's not THAT bad of a programming language!

foone, to random
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It's funny how I've seen multiple people talking about how Microsoft Recall doesn't take pictures of DRM media, as if this was a conscious decision the Recall team made, and not just a natural consequence of how screenshots already work on modern windows.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Me: I didn’t go for a jog today.

Them: I’ve never seen you go jogging.

Me: It’s a running joke.

augieray, (edited ) to random
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

“We are completely under-investigating this virus. The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking.”

Doctors are growing concerned can increase risks of cancer. Of course, if you've been following my posts, you'd already know dozens of studies show COVID-19 can cause changes that COULD decrease our body's defenses against cancer. (1/2)

Https://wapo.st/3Kvhb9d

gvwilson, to random
@gvwilson@mastodon.social avatar

Just posted on LinkedIn - the timing is chef's kiss

noellemitchell, to movies
@noellemitchell@mstdn.social avatar

Sony Will Use AI to Cut Film Costs, Says CEO Tony Vinciquerra

"“We are very focused on AI. The biggest problem with making films today is the expense,” Vinciquerra said at Sony’s Thursday (Friday in Japan) investor event. “We will be looking at ways to…produce both films for theaters and television in a more efficient way, using AI primarily.”"

Wow. So I expect the quality will go way down.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sony-pictures-will-cut-film-costs-using-ai-1235010605/

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

I could go down the long rabbithole of figuring out how to call g*mp's image manipulation tools from a commandline or API, or getting imagemagick installed on this PC and figuring out how to port it over there...

or I could be silly and take advantage of the fact that I'm applying gamma ramps to an 8-bit greyscale image. What's the difference between the "before" and "after" images? a different palette.

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

two of the best feelings when programming are:

  1. figuring out a really clever way to solve a problem
  2. figuring out a really stupid way to solve a problem
foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

Based on this idea:
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/112572811010797144

How about an email client that uses Glide, the 3DFX 3d rendering library?
Specifically targeting the voodoo 2. (I know it's PCI, but there are PCI->PCIe adapters).

The OS can't screenshot it because the OS has no idea what pixels are there!

TheConversationUS, to random
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With Donald Trump’s long record of racist and xenophobic comments, why is support for him among voters of color increasing?

Two political scientists went to America Fest to look at how Republicans are appealing to voters of color by invoking law and order, conservative social values and mistrust of government.
https://theconversation.com/what-early-2024-polls-are-revealing-about-voters-of-color-and-the-gop-and-its-not-all-about-donald-trump-227534

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