skry

ricmac, 1 hour ago to random

Jason Fried from 37Signals announces a “web-based books” product, which I must admit does sound intriguing, even though I already made my own custom book serialization site with Eleventy + Buttondown. Sounds like business books is their main use case, but still, good idea. -> “Workbook […] They have covers, they can have title pages, they can have picture pages, and they can have text pages. Each book gets its own URL, and navigating and keeping track of your progress is all built right in.”

skry, 2 hours ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo is down likely because #Bing is down. Both are flatlined. https://downdetector.com/

evacide, 1 day ago to random

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

whitequark, 1 day ago to random

i want something like Microsoft's Recall thing and will probably eventually build it for myself, using different tech

skry, 1 day ago to random

I hope this hubristic power play is the beginning of the end for Elon and Tesla. https://electrek.co/2024/05/20/elon-musk-confirms-threat-give-me-25-of-tesla-or-no-ai-robotics/

skry, 4 days ago to webdev

“hello! i am currently seeking new employment opportunities in art, design and/or web development, ux & marketing consultation
resume :: ‪https://encipherdesign.com‬”

—> @brentpruitt

#getfedihired #webdev #webdesign #ux #a11y #frontend #wordpress #remote

ottaross, 4 days ago to fun

Picked up a #fun thing! A kids' instant camera that prints on thermal paper.

Had seen them around and was intrigued. With some community emerging on the #Fedi I figured it was worth jumping in!

#cameras #thermalpaper #instantCamera

skry, 8 days ago to random

Good news everyone, "AI" wants to listen to your Google phone calls: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-wants-ai-to-listen-to-your-phone-calls-detect-scam-callers/

Even better "AI" wants to read all your Google email. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/

#DoNotWant

skry, 8 days ago to H5N1

“Cats suffer #H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk” https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/

“Anything that the FDA tells our customers to do, they do the opposite” says a man making money: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu

We have vaccines against various diseases precisely because exposing yourself to live virus is just too risky.

What kind of foolishness would cause a parent to risk their kids, knowing that so many different animals had already died of #birdflu recently?

stroughtonsmith, 8 days ago to random

I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone

msquebanh, 8 days ago to Plants

Two new #BeardedIris #plants bloomed this morning. These are my 1st 2024 tiger #iris blooms. 😍
I love this time of year. There's new flowers appearing, daily ❤️

#Wsanec #Zone8 #Saanich #FrugalGardening #VictoriaBC #YYJgardens #nature #Bloomscrolling #florespondance #Spring #perennials #Flowers #BCblooms #VancouverIsland #PNW #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #WhatsInMyGarden #plants #botanical #PollinatorGarden #floral #YellowFlowers

A bearded tiger iris flower. Yellow with brown stripes.

skry, 10 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#BloomScrolling

Poppy flower after petals fall. Blue and black stamens surround a purple-topped seedpod, faintly reminiscent of a carnival tent.
Pink poppy blossom open, showing the white and yellow center.

lovelylovely, 11 days ago to random

#Hamas #FreePalestine

#Hamas #FreePalestine

elaterite, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to astrophotography

So this is the place in Doyle, Calif, that I first stopped to photograph the aurora. I could easily see the vertical column structures while driving down the highway! I didn't stay long because some residents turned on a bunch of lights & came out with barking dogs &c. I moved to a spot further away. Wish I could have stayed because the railroad people were assembling the train & I may have captured some interesting lights of moving trains.

#Aurora #AstroPhotography #Photography #Darktable

skry, 11 days ago to random

No-fault divorce saves lives, lots of them. In the US, women’s suicide rates went way down after it became possible to leave their abusers.

"states that adopted no-fault divorce experienced a decrease of 8 to 16 percent in wives' suicide rates and a 30 percent decline in domestic violence."

In the bad old days, you had to prove infidelity or sometimes lack of sexual ability in order to get a divorce. Being abused wasn’t sufficient unless some judge decided it was. (1/2)

skry, 13 days ago to random

I’m mad too, but vote for the environment if you want to live. https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112412298827046469

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

mathowie, 13 days ago to random

In 2003, a friend ran her first 5k and raised money for a great cause, Guide Dogs for the Blind and I gave $20 happily. To this day, Guide Dogs mails me postcards every few months, no matter how many times my address changes. Today I got this text from the nonprofit 21 years after my sole donation.

My point is Customer Relations Management (CRM) software like Salesforce is too good at what it does and must be stopped.

simon, 15 days ago to random

Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet

> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418

skry, 16 days ago to tesla

It makes you wonder if there’s anyone left at #Tesla who knows how to make cars or who wants to work for Elon at this point. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150274/tesla-layoffs-employee-fourth-week-elon-musk-ev-demand

Meanwhile GOP tries to hurt EV industry https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150041/ev-epa-clean-air-emissions-lawsuit-republicans-tax-credit

If Tesla and Twitter both fail, investors will have to eat SpaceX I guess.

NunavutBirder, 16 days ago to worldwithoutus

So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin. #Nunavut #Arctic #Stamps #philately #CanadaPost

donni, 16 days ago to random

How do I monetize this creeping sense of despair

maxleibman, 16 days ago to random

Blocking somebody? Baller move. You’re in charge of your account. You decide who has access to you.

Telling someone, “I’m blocking you for that!” immediately before blocking them? Baby move. Your dysfunctional obsession with getting the last word in is showing.

mekkaokereke, 17 days ago to random

This paper is trash. We do this every few years.

The conclusion is correct (graduate degree holding white men believe the most 'taboo' conspiracy theories), but the reasons it suggests why, are sociology-babble garbage. The real reason is:

• Racism is a lie. To believe in racism, you must believe a set of easily debunkable lies.
• Richer, whiter, maler, more educated populations are not less racist, despite attempts to twist stats to say this. They're more racist.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/05/believes-the-most-taboo-conspiracy-theories-it-might-not-be-you-think/

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