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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anneapplebaum@journa.host ("Anne Applebaum") wrote:
Give Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine. Now. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/ukraine-russia-frozen-assets/676390/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Looks like the rate at which mastodon.online users follow others has increased by 56% after the algorithm change (from 1.2K per day to 1.9K per day), so that's pretty good considering follow recommendations are kind of buried in the interface.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
helped another #AmateurRadio operator get his configuration together just now to do JS8 on 20 meters… fun to help a success happen
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
deirdreassenza@universeodon.com ("Deirdre Assenza") wrote:
The word for a thing that’s clearly fake but also so hyper-realistic it’s gross
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Good to see @owa cover Apple tucking tail about its categorical loss at the UK Court of Appeals last month.
A reminder on timeline: Apple got CMA's investigation of browser shenanigans suspended in April on a technicality, arguing not that the eviscerating findings of the CMA's report were wrong, but it hadn't moved to regulate *fast* enough 🙄
The Court of Appeals overturned this, and the deadline for Apple to appeal that (unanimous) finding has now passed. Huzzah!
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/cma-reopens-investigation-into-apple/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Read more about it here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/cma-reopens-investigation-into-apple/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
UK browser investigation to restart Jan 24 after Apple failed to appeal to the supreme court!
Perhaps Apple realised that the negative news generated by a supreme court case would harm their brand and further thrust their anti-competitive behaviour into the global spotlight
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~ Oscar Wilde
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Biggest surprise on my end of year summary on Steam was that I played more games released this year than the average player, (18% vs 9%) and fewer "classic" games (16% vs 38%).
With the exception of the pokemon games, it usually takes me a few years to get around to the big titles like BG3 or Zelda
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:
"Bard’s ability to process and generate natural language makes it a valuable tool for enhancing the productivity of Gmail and Google Docs users."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from my instance's admins:
"Announcement
Hello masto.deoan.org folks, due to an ongoing wave of spam accounts and messages we have silenced/limited mastodon[.]social, mastodon[.]world, and mastodon[.]online. Accounts you already follow from those instances should not be affected - but you may see gaps in conversations due to accounts you do not follow.Once the wave has receded, we'll undo it."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
andrwcnln@mastodon.scot ("andrew! :Limmy_WakingUp:") wrote:
Just posted Weeklinks 003 on my blog:
This week features:
- A wonderful talk from @bcantrill
- Some great recent posts from @pluralistic
- And the greatest blog post I've ever read (sorry Cory!)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
The British Government has made a tourism ad ahead of the 2024 election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRoYvFTE3c
Mastodon FeedWe're doing ad-blocking wrong.
Instead of blocking ads, we need to ensure they register being shown as often as possible.
Drain these ad budgets with useless traffic 😈
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from SMBC Comics
https://mcusercontent.com/c196cb2377d2d5462fdfa5dbf/images/90516ac3-ad07-d00d-21b2-a59af63e843c.png
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
eaton@phire.place ("Eaton") wrote:
The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wow, GTA is leaking into real life
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
IFTF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("IFTechFoundation") wrote:
Announcing NarraScope 2024! https://narrascope.org
June 21-23
The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester, NYNow accepting talk proposals: https://narrascope.org/pages/call.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bhawthorne@infosec.exchange ("Brian Hawthorne") wrote:
@1dalm @GottaLaff The 3-judge panel of the court of appeals for the 11th federal district ruled 3-0 that the law Meadows was using to get his trial moved from state court to federal court only applies to current federal officers, not former officers.
And even if it did, what Meadows did wasn’t part of his official duties so the law would not apply anyway.The result is that Meadows’s trial will remain in Georgia State Court.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:
#CoSocialCa there's a spam DM problem right now on the fediverse. If you get spammy DMs, please report them and Trust and Safety will block them for everybody. It's probably too early to block the originating servers (which are pretty big), but we might have to do that if the volume gets too high.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:
“The signal is repeating! We’ve got the whole thing.”
“How many bits?”
“Almost 500k. 454,957 bits”
“I got a hunch, factorize that number”
“Bingo, seven fifty seven times six oh one. Think it could be a rectangular bitmap?”.
“It’s what we used to do back before those assholes let Arecibo fall down. Try bm2png.pl in my bin dir.”
“That worked. Holy shit I know that image. It’s the Pioneer plaque. That diagram from Pioneer 11 of human figures, and a map to Earth.”
“What, thats impossible, it’s only been, what, 70 odd years. That probe would still be in our own Kuiper Belt.”
“Outside it, actually, it’d be about one sixty AU out. They lost contact in the mid 90s. Still basically in our backyard but.”
“It’s too soon! If someone’s found it now, that would mean. Shit. They’re. Already. Here. Inside the Solar system.”
“And all they’ve got to say, is ‘Hi, we liked ur meme’.?”
“Maybe not, can you bring up an image of the original plaque? Are the images identical?”
“I’ll do a layer subtraction. Hey, there /is/ a difference. In the map of the planets. They’ve omitted Pluto from their copy.”
“Fucking hell. Little green reply guys.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:
Pair of shoes I painted for myself
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The Beeper/iMessage thing is breaking into US legislative consciousness because it's a visible effect of anti-competitive behaviour. Mobile browser makers should also make Apple's nonsense visible by changing the names of their apps -- e.g. "Firefox Lite", "Chrome Lite", etc. -- to signify that Apple prevents them from bringing the real thing to iOS.
There's been a lot of cowardice in these teams, but I hope that examples like this can instill a bit of backbone:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006037/apple-beeper-doj-investigation-imessage-letter-android
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
VSCode the moment I install rust-analyzer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
gka@vis.social ("Gregor Aisch") wrote:
It's getting late, but I just finished a new monster blog post on some ways we can shoot ourselves in the foot when analyzing spatiotemporal datasets. Curious to hear what you think 🙏 !
https://www.vis4.net/blog/2023/12/spatiotemporal-data-analysis-pitfalls/ #ddj #datajournalism #gis
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Maybe the UK bringing the DMU law forward, plus a spate of failed amendments from Apple allies there, gave them a sense for how much they've already pissed off the *conservative* govt?
Or maybe this was too high-profile and it risked @verge et. al. finally covering their anti-web shenanigans?
Or maybe it was just too close to the Epic ruling?
It's a risk that the (true) narrative could take hold that App Store predation has been defended by keeping Mozilla and other browsers down.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:
This is the lowest price I’ve seen on SAF’s Aranet4 CO2 monitor (for measuring indoor air quality for Covid safety): $149 — that’s 40% off the regular price. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07YY7BH2W/ref=nosim/0sil8
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
StrangelySamara@todon.eu wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Recall that Apple tried to argue -- in filings that they *knew* would become public -- that Safari was faster than other browsers *because Apple's hardware was faster[1]*.
Presumably some over-paid, over-worked white-shoe associate proffered that argument (not in-house counsel), but at no point has Apple displayed even the mildest concern for its reputation when it could win delay and deflect attention from how hurts the web's competitiveness.
[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62277271d3bf7f158779fe39/Apple_11.3.22.pdf
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
valkyrie@wandering.shop wrote:
