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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Before you give Apple credit for "supporting" right-to-repair[1], check out Louis Rossmann's YT[2], then read up on the years and years of delays that Apple was able to extract[3][4][5][6][7] until folks got so fed up that R2R became inevitable.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/apple-lends-support-to-california-state-right-to-repair-bill/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
[3]: https://www.404media.co/apple-endorses-california-right-to-repair-bill/
[4]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/1/18525542/apple-right-to-repair-bill-california-lobbyist-comptia
[5]: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-right-repair-20181116-story.html
[6]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/evmeya/apple-iphone-right-to-repair-california
[7]: https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-apple-answers-congress/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33981/page/n307/mode/2up

Found via a reference in Bill Hammack's "The Things we Make".

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"Railroads may be quicker than canalboats, and a gas-lamp may be brighter than a candle: but it is only in terms of human purpose and in relation to a human and social scheme of values that speed or brightness have any meaning."

-- Lewis Mumford in "Technics and Civilization"

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Apple has come out in support of California’s Right to Repair bill. This is less of a pivot and more of just accepting reality.

Apple pushing aesthetics such as no seams in their phones over consumer benefits like being able to replace your phone’s batteries has been deemed unacceptable by a number of governments including the EU.

Regulation is coming whether they like it or not, so they might as well get some positive PR for “supporting” the regulations.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/apple-lends-support-to-california-state-right-to-repair-bill/

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

rendering web components on the backend today

"SSR" if you will 🧐

#webcomponents #webstandards

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Chandrayaan-3 budget: India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/chandrayaan-3-budget-moon-landing-interstellar-b2398483.html

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@fribbledom @gpollara @jc0b That's my go-to dish!

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

@Gargron @gpollara @jc0b

Their Katsu Curry, so good 😋

Cool photo!

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

@Gargron

Wagamama vibes.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Canon AE-1 Program, Kodak UltraMax 400. Bristol.

#AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography

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Pandamoanimum@mstdn.social ("Amanda") wrote:

4 years ago today since I added Run DMC ft. Aerosmith to a video of the shadow of a millipede walking.
[sound on]

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Every time my M2 MacBook sleeps, I have to reconfigure all the displays.

On my iPad, FaceTime calls just fail instantly with no given reason.

Apple Music just stops playing after one song in the morning and needs to be restarted.

AppleTV+ constantly loses track of where I am.

My AirPods constantly fall out of my right ear, no matter the size of the rubber thingy.

Safari's the only browser with a whole slew of rendering bugs.

The state of UX is dismal if *this* company is the best there is.

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Even if it was genuinely accidental (hah), consider the message delivered.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/24/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-flaming-hot-with-lots-of-collateral-damage/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

AI isn't doing this:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/24/the-state-of-ai/

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Is anybody porting polymur hash to #Rustlang?

https://github.com/orlp/polymur-hash

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IamHappyToast wrote:

Here we are now, all the lads

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EdS@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ed S") wrote:

Oh look, a (small) community for Malleable Computing

https://forum.malleable.systems/t/freewheeling-apps/52/1

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The Republican debate was a childish demonstration of the decline of democracy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/24/the-children-were-bickering-at-the-kiddie-table-last-night/

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Welp that's quite the fad diet, isn't it? (Via bluesky)

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dshinkle@esq.social ("Danl") wrote:

@Teri_Kanefield I can't figure out the ethics of dual representation. If clients stay in perfect alignment, no problem. But if Client A decides to testify against Clients B and C, obviously A needs new counsel, but if I have discussed the merits with A, and I have secrets from A, I'm going to have trouble continuing with B and C, especially when they, inevitably, start giving me dirt about A. How does this ever work out?

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

local reporters are central to American democracy:

‘Recounting the tableau at a coffee shop in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday morning, only hours after the indictment was made public at the Fulton County courthouse, Mr. Chidi said he wanted to dispel any notion that his achievement had been a fluke, like a journalistic equivalent of scratching a winning lottery ticket.

“It’s not like I just wandered into the Capitol that day,” Mr. Chidi said. “This was years of reporting.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/chidi-trump-indictment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

After almost a month in the countryside I'm desperate for more electic vechicles in Tallinn to cut the noise pollution from petrol engines…

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud 🚗

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Spirit Hunter NG seems to unexpectedly have a lot of theming related to Japanese national myths, and not really the ones that are supposed to be creepy/ghostly. Non-spoilery details: early on you find a weird postcard that references Princess Kaguya and one of the first areas is a park with a bunch of things in it that use names from the tale of Urashima Taro. So it doesn't seem to be like, "Here's the ghastly truth behind the legends!!" or anything

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I wish I could know how many gay boys in 50s Japan saw Toshiro Mifune tied up in Rashomon and had something awaken in them

The number was definitely more than zero

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

frankly I don't think i'll be voting for any of them

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

OK, but are you actually debating if you aren't having your fingerprints taken?

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jenn@pixel.kitchen ("jenn schiffer") wrote:

a *very* merry rudy giuliani mugshot day to everyone who celebrates

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A good 35+% of the internal volume of this tiny, dense box is heatpipe, fin, or fan

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Built a new gaming box 🤩

It's 1/8th the volume of the boxes it arrived in, ~silent, and loooordy is it quick.

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  • [New machine!
 NUC 13 Extreme i9, plus:
 
  - 64 GB of 5600MT DDR5 (2x 32GB SO-DIMMS)
  - fast and capacious NVME storage
  - Noctua replacement case fans for extra quiet
  - Windows 11, because games][3] ([remote][4])
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SteveThompson ("Steve Thompson") wrote:

"The goal of Death Star is simple. The deeply conservative Texas Legislature wants to effectively deny cities—the state’s large Democratic-leaning cities, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin in particular—the ability to pass local laws and regulations in eight major policy areas: agriculture, business and commerce, finance, insurance, labor, natural resource law, occupational law, and property law. And it does all this in a bill that is 10 single-spaced pages long..."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/greg-abbott-texas-attacks-austin-with-death-star.html #GOP