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

jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Yes, #Apple will demote WebApps to bookmarks on iOS 17.4 in the EU. Yes, they claim the EU is to blame. And no, that is not true IMHO. What is right is that under the DMA (Digital Market Access) rules WebApps could become a real escape route for Apps to avoid the Apple App Store tax. So better to close that possible loophole and blame the evil EU. IMHO. Reminds me a lot of the Cookie Banner stuff. Same story. Same blame game.

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

mralancooper@hachyderm.io ("MrAlanCooper") wrote:

The best way to sanction Russia is to send aid to Ukraine.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I wouldn't normally be this annoying but ...

IF YOU ARE A WEB DEVELOPER and you live/work in the EU or a web-first business:

Fill this out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNgzepH4lwmWf2kaKC4EpKPdfi69jUHFM8kf4-TBsAyWU1BA/viewform

OR share it with others.

Because:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:

How do people against the #BlueSky bridge feel about https://rss-parrot.net/? I saw nothing but praise for that when it was announced a little while back, but it’s the same thing. It’s a bridge translating one protocol to another, meaning someone’s public posts could end up on a platform they didn’t opt-in to.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Очень грустно про #Навальный. Хотя сейчас ясно, что уже давно должно было быть понятно, что этим кончится. Но надежда — штука нерациональная.

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

br00t4c wrote:

Tucker Carlson criticised for praising Putin before Navalny death: 'Leadership requires killing people'

#fox #tuckercarlson

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-putin-navalny-dead-b2497560.html

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

samloonie@mstdn.ca ("Sam Oldman 🐀") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 My mother-in-law was grocery shopping on the Saturday after my father-in-law died. At the cash register she found out that the bank had locked the joint bank account and her access card.

Yes, that's not how joint accounts work, but imagine trying to get this fixed with a cart full of groceries.

Everyone should have a bank account and credit cards in their own name.
#banking

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

neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

Konilo is a small, pragmatic personal computing system written in Forth and running on a tiny virtual computer. A complete system consists of an ilo vm, an image file ("rom") with the Konilo system, and a set of blocks for storage of code and data.
http://konilo.org/

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

Dear tech companies:

You don't always have to include a rocket. Not everything is about rockets.

(You should maybe unpack that with a therapist tho.)

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

I have no idea why that silly thought occurred to me. Brains. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

DNS over notes passed in class.

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

forgejo@floss.social ("Forgejo") wrote:

Forgejo forks its own path forward 🚀

Forgejo started as a soft fork of Gitea. Over time, it developed its own identity, adopted both development and governance practices - to ensure the stability, quality, and openness of the project - that made it more challenging to remain a soft fork. In early 2024, a decision was made to become a hard fork, and for Forgejo to forge its own path going forward. This post explains the consequences this decision will have.

https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/

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

I know who the "abnormal humans" are -- they're the ones tormenting poor people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/16/lets-all-get-disappointed-in-humanity/

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• Logo for a video channel dedicated to tormenting unhoused people with drones (remote)

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

Somehow, it's so satisfying to see Taibbi/Musk get into a petty catfight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/16/fight/

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• grizzled Musk (remote)

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

bubbline@tech.lgbt ("Liana :v_trans: :v_kirb:") wrote:

also side note: A lot of UI-based desktop apps suffer from being made with Electron, which ships all of chromium into one app, meaning it's heavy and has to spin up an entire chromium.

But there are alternatives, if you look at tools like Tauri https://tauri.app which instead let you plug into the native webview of the OS your app runs on, and all the optimisations that come with it.

There's a reason Windows now uses HTML5 as the way to build desktop UI

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

snarfed.org@snarfed.org ("Ryan Barrett") wrote:

For the Bluesky bridge, discoverable opt in instead of opt out is definitely something I could have (should have) figured out before the announcement. Sorry. Lesson learned.

Another thing I should have had ready beforehand was user-facing docs. The introduction post has some information, but not enough. People reasonably have lots of questions! I’ve tried to answer some, here and elsewhere, but that obviously doesn’t scale.

Docs would have avoided a lot of misapprehensions – for example, will it immediately bridge everyone and everything? (No, only when someone follows you, and only going forward.) What about blocks and reports? (They’ll work, and be bridged, as much as possible.) Etc.

The bridge is still a month or more away, so I haven’t written complete user docs yet, but they obviously would have helped. The current docs for bridging personal web sites and blogs are pretty substantial, but they don’t cover Bluesky. I’ll work on that.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Questa sera alle 17 sarò live su YouTube, ospite di Navigando Parole, dove parlerò del mio #romanzo di #fantascienza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFpLCAwNA4

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

janeadams@vis.social ("Jane Adams") wrote:

My last employer UVM is hiring a FT lecturer in communication design! I absolutely loved working for this university, the employer benefits matching and healthcare are excellent, and you can take courses for free :) Plus, Burlington #VT is the perfect mix of lil city surrounded by heavenly nature. Was really hard for me to leave here to go do my PhD, and I still visit often 🏞️ Worth checking out if you're looking to #GetFediHired in #design #communications #academia

https://www.uvmjobs.com/postings/70383

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

I love having a good Mastodon admin who works to keep the spambots down

h/t @neurovagrant

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

benoitmandelbot@botsin.space ("Benoit Mandelbot") wrote:

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

def going to turn this on:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/ios-17-3-stolen-device-protection/

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

"... does not want to risk being Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a heroic, brilliant public servant who caused the outcome she feared most because she didn’t retire early enough."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/ezra-klein-biden-audio-essay.html

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

"The former president, who faces 91 felony counts in four trials, is admitting, out loud, that he has one overriding goal: to slow the administration of justice until he can get back to the White House and shut down or evade all criminal charges against him.

No longer. The New York trial [...] is nonetheless important as a demonstration that regardless of what the former president has argued, no one is above the law."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/13/opinion/thepoint#trump-criminal-trials

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

"For the last two years of elections — from the 2022 midterms to the 2023 elections in Virginia and Kentucky to this week’s special elections in New York and Pennsylvania — voters have held Republicans responsible for unpopular Republican policies. What Democrats have to do is hold Trump responsible for unpopular Republican policies.

It may sound simple, even obvious, but..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/trump-dobbs-abortion.html

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

the Republican Party is binding their fate to a repeated loser

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/us/politics/trump-republican-party-establishment.html

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

Android has allowed other browsers *and* PWAs for years.

Just saying, it can be done.

[Stares directly at Apple]

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

jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

"The Kremlin said it had no information on the cause of death."
The Kremlin is the cause of death.
Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/russian-activist-and-putin-critic-alexei-navalny-dies-in-prison?CMP=share_btn_tw

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

gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

I've worked with Web content since the mid 1990s. (In 2001, I co-wrote two books: Content Critical; The Web Content Style Guide.) The tech industry has always--always--viewed content as disposable, automatable crap, so it's no surprise that a core purpose of AI is to rapidly churn out vast quantities of crap content. The art of writing and editing are valueless in the eyes of the tech bros. But the art of good writing and good editing have great value, and the AI crap will teach us that lesson.

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

civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

Excited to announce the sixth Guix-HPC Activity Report! 👇
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2024/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2023/

Read it to learn about what we’ve been doing use #Guix in support of #HPC, #ReproducibleResearch, and #OpenScience.

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• Cover of the Guix-HPC Activity Report. (remote)