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

FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

#Netherlands government official accounts (continued):

(All accounts are in Dutch)

➡️ @dji - Custodial Institutions Agency

➡️ @Inspectieraad - Inspection Council of the Netherlands

➡️ @forumstandaardisatie - Standardisation Forum, advising Dutch government on open standards

➡️ @rdi - State Inspectorate of Digital Infrastructure

➡️ @radio - National Academy for Digitalisation

➡️ @rijkswaterstaat - Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management

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

Are there no workhouses? No prisons? They were good at isolating the riff-raff.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/26/the-illusion-of-the-good-old-days/

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• Woman remembers NOTHING about the reality of the 1970s. (remote)

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

zoeblade ("Zoë Blade") wrote:

I've been accidentally obsessed this week with the Atari ST's operating system. Choice details include the project being started by a "loose cannon", porting it across while it was still being written, and of course not using version control.

Details are at http://notebook.zoeblade.com/TOS.html and http://notebook.zoeblade.com/GEM.html if you'd like to see the fruits of my obsessive research. #AtariST

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

Had my young son watch The Matrix with me and he said "what if that 'real world' that keanu's group is fighting in is actually just another level of the matrix they built to keep rebels busy and preoccupied" and these children are maybe not ok after all but my god are they sharp

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

Victory is not determined by the body count. By all the measures that matter, Israel has lost.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/26/israel-is-lost/

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

"Good work is the art of giving a fuck about the living. And all of us, every day, are faced with good work that needs doing, and good work that we can do."

A wonderful read.

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unified-theory-of------

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

Republicans offer a surprising perspective on gender. There are three!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/26/its-a-start-3/

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• Whatis your gender? •Male •Female homemaker •Female working woman (remote)

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

futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

There's been some amazing stuff announced at NAMM this year but the reissue of the Suzuki Omnichord has got to be the most exciting of all.

https://synthanatomy.com/2024/01/suzuki-omnichord-om-108-the-instrument-with-the-gorillaz-pattern-is-returning.html

Worth watching the video of Mr Yu demonstrating the device with such eagerness. He's in exactly the right job.

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

It's cheesy, cheap, and badly acted, a perfect match for Ken Ham's Ark Park. I'm not going to watch it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/26/ken-ham-is-probably-thrilled/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g0qQZ6oJxo

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

emma@social.emmajuettner.com ("Emma") wrote:

hard-boiled detective voice the rain was cold and the case was colder. The police had told me to drop the investigation, but the only fuzz I trusted was the pom pom on my little hat

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Whenever Apple does things like this I can’t help but think of the Apple employees whose sense of identity and self righteousness is closely tied to the company itself, and the mental gymnastics they must be doing to justify yet another hypercapitalist, clearly abusive move

(Those same Apple employees spend half of their free time making fun of Elon, which of course is fair game, but maybe look in the mirror a little bit)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Apple designed a new, intentionally prohibitive fee structure for those wishing to publish outside of Apple’s App Store in Europe, designed specifically to make them stick to Apple’s App Store instead.

50 cents per app install over a million installs, including for free apps 😐 https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/25/apple-eu-fees-could-bankrupt-app-developers/

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

evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Congratulations to @ProPublica for hiring @ben ! What a coup.

https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-hires-first-senior-director-for-technology

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

accretionist@techhub.social ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

@Teri_Kanefield

anyone watching media/ social media in october 2018 in the usa could see the regular drumbeat of hysteria about invading "caravans", especially as broadcast by trump

and then in in november 2018: *poof*, the entire problem magically disappeared post elections

i wish GOP allegiants could admit to themselves how easily they are manipulated. problem is enough of them are in on it: they know it's all a lie, they don't care, and they play along. they're happy about the manipulation. this is the modern GOP

finally, remember also "jade helm"

an idiotic alex jones conspiracy theory, and abbott played into it for political reasons, having the texas state guard "monitor" what was a regular military exercise (rick perry even came out to say it was a regular exercise)

i sense abbot is doing the same here: playing at the game of manufactured outrage for dim wits, and already aware he will back down if any real consequences present themselves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories

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

playing around with ChatGPT, putting some of the text-focused ideas from the Coursera class on AI I'm taking to practice

https://chat.openai.com/share/aab57229-291e-4b67-8b8e-3244c6702e77

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

For those using the mastodon.social web app, there's been an update to one of #Mastodon's core features, the compose form! Been working on it since end of November last year, so really excited to finally bring it to light. More is to come. Let me know how you like it!

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

@theverge The "is allowing" frame also insinuates that the key actor here is Apple, rather than the EC, who actually deserve the credit for making a better web future possible within its borders. That mis-framing also removes agency from advocates like @owa who have been working tirelessly towards this moment for years.

Centering Apple, and giving them a positive frame, is not-even-wrong. This is a victory for users *because of good regulation*.

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

@theverge "is allowing" insinuates that:

- Apple had any choice
- They are actually collaborating on the process instead of waiting to the very last possible moment to outline a minimal conformance plan that has huge holes in it
- That this will be available to most users, when in fact Apple is trying to extinguish user and developer choice by ring-fencing to the EU where this is being required by law

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

Hey @theverge; fixed your headline:

"Apple is finally forced to allow full versions of Chrome and Firefox on EU iPhones":

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu

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

Instead of "Quiet public" I'm thinking we should go with "Soft launch". :thonking:

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

adrian@holovaty.com ("Adrian Holovaty") wrote:

I'm so excited that iOS will finally allow alternate browser engines!

But, man, Apple's press release is just dripping with spite and utter lack of grace. Not a good look.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

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

jk ("josef") wrote:

whether it’s true or not that “90% of everything is crap”, the tech giants are investing heavily in a hot new technology that promises to boost that figure up to an impressively reliable “five-nines” percentage

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

ianbetteridge@writing.exchange ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

I mean, basically it sounds like Apple has just looked through its entire catalogue of features and broken as many of them as possible for any app that dares to use an alternate app store.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/25/features-unavailable-with-alternative-app-stores/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

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

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

oh my goodness: an interactive U.S. map dedicated to “uncovering, documenting and mapping thousands of New Deal public works and artworks around the country”:

https://livingnewdeal.org/map/

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

glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

The amazing helicopter on #Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more - https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/nasas-mars-helicopter-has-made-its-last-flight-above-the-red-planet/ "has flown a staggering 72 flights. It has spent more than two hours—128.3 minutes, to be precise—flying through the thin Martian air."

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

KevinMarks@xoxo.zone ("Kevin Marks") wrote:

Another reason to regret Brexit? https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/

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

davidbrin ("David Brin") wrote:

Andrew Fraknoi has compiled a pretty good list of sci fi stories and novels that relate good astronomy. My short story "Reality Check" appeared in Nature with an odd solution to the Fermi Paradox. https://www.nature.com/articles/35005182 Andy’s list is available at https://www.fraknoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Science-Fiction-with-Good-Astronomy.pdf

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

thomasapowell@fosstodon.org ("ThomasAPowell") wrote:

@slightlyoff Indeed, and given how they “complied" with the EPIC judgment, what tricks will be implemented to preserve their boot position? For example, I wonder if they will assume the phone was initially set up in the US, so if VPNed to Europe, is there no non-webkit browser for you? It will be interesting to see if there are holes in their plan.

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

Just had a slight moment of panic when I noticed the word "butt" in production code and thought I'd forgotten to remove something I used for debugging.

Thanks for that, `stroke-linecap` SVG attribute.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

We're at an Airbnb at the moment and Alex has an online talk to give today so I guess we're a hype house now or whatever.

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• Alex fiddling with a living room DIY live steam setup. (remote)