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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Man, no company on Earth has worked harder to hurt general purpose computing than Apple.
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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
Whoa this new Romare track! Such heat. Amazing house/disco.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Honestly, some folks in Legal and Marketing need to switch to decaf. This level of hopped-up contempt has got to be hell on their blood pressure.
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ondra@unextro.net ("Ondřej Pokorný") wrote:
@slightlyoff I've argued for years that every damn gracefully degrading/progressively enhanced webapp should make it visibly clear why some features are missing on iOS. Users need to know what they are missing out on.
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erinbee@gorgon.city ("Erin Bee") wrote:
Good news for people with moderate sleep apnea, just a fantastic title for a medical paper for everyone else: "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Or, you know, maybe a banner on your NTP saying "We can't bring you the full version of , but we'd love to. Tap here to learn more.", with a link to a blog post outlining the (entirely unfair restrictions) and ways folks can get involved to help overturn them in their jurisdictions.
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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
This one part weights more than all of my machine tools combined. "Machinist" can mean so many things!
https://youtu.be/8sghJRYVHh4
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just try to imagine the meetings where these terms were cooked up; the dripping contempt for developers...the sneering, snarling woundedness towards regulators.
Apple seem to think everyone else is *incredibly* stupid.
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
“How symbolic that precisely on International Holocaust Remembrance Day it was proven what we have been claiming for years: that UNRWA employees are collaborators of the terrorist organization Hamas and that the UN has become not only a place where the existence of the State of Israel is delegitimized, but that its employees physically participated in the attempted extermination of Israel and the murder of its citizens.” - Israeli Amb. to the UN Gilad Erdan.
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dsilverman ("Dwight Silverman") wrote:
I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol’ Nginx | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/i-abandoned-openlitespeed-and-went-back-to-good-ol-nginx/
This is about the guts of the @spacecityweather blog. It’s intensely detailed geekery.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Now that real browser choice has broken cover in the EU, now would be a *great* time to rebadge their WebKit knockoff-browsers; e.g. "Edge Lite", "Chrome Lite", "Firefox Lite", etc.
Make the contrast clear in every geo: there's no real version available because Apple doesn't want you to have choice.
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markmetz@sfba.social ("Ⓜ️Mr.MarkⓂ️") wrote:
Oh jeez, here we go again.
“The organizers of the “Take Our Border Back” convoy have called themselves “God’s army” and say they’re on a mission to stand up against the “globalists” who they claim are conspiring to keep U.S. borders open and destroy the country.
“This is a biblical, monumental moment that’s been put together by God,” one convoy organizer said on a recent planning call. “We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil,” said another. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. It is time for the remnant to rise.” (The remnant, from the Book of Revelation, are the ones who remain faithful to Jesus Christ in times of crisis).”
Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reading about "Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:
If you accidentally cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war you can calm them down with a casus belli rub.
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@serge @Bam as to the overlap between antisemitism and antizionism, where, at least on the fediverse, the intersection is the union, I see precious little discussion of the rights of indigenous people.
Yes, this was pretty clearly a strategic win for Hamas, and that's no accident. To imagine that the way this has unfolded is coincidental would be the height of naivete.
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serge@babka.social ("Serge from Babka") wrote:
It has in most ways worked out just as Hamas wants indeed, not only in Gaza but also activating other partners such as Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
It didn't activate the PLO as they wanted. The PLO is rationally staying out of this.
Now we just need to hope that the next Israeli election can happen and that they get a left wing government soon so there's a chance for peace.
This won't stop the antisemitism or the "anti-Israel" people. They'll hate us no matter what, but it will possibly be a peace for Palestinians, and maybe also eventually for Israelis.
For the Jews in the diaspora, we know that the hate against us has nothing to do with Israel. Israel is just an excuse.
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Mabande ("L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ") wrote:
Re. that "bike helmets doesn't protect against concussion" argument against helmet laws:
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WmShakesp3are ("Doc Holliday") wrote:
BTW, if you were thinking of becoming a sociology major and you are being educated in Florida, your course of study was just abolished. I can understand why FL doesn’t want any sociologists there, because it’s a perfect society.
Dictionary definition of sociology
so·ci·ol·o·gy
noun
the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
the study of social problems.
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Latest on the week long cyber incident at three UK councils in Kent, where the IT supplier has gone completely missing (they don't even have a website still and no point of contact) and Civicia have apparently washed their hands of it after being paid £7m.
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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
2/3
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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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
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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
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@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.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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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.
Worth watching the video of Mr Yu demonstrating the device with such eagerness. He's in exactly the right job.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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/
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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
Mastodon Feednadim@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)