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

A few people managed to tarnish the Hugo awards this year…and I thought the Rabid Puppies had been bad. This time the poison came from inside.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/17/no-wonder-i-didnt-get-a-hugo-nomination-this-year/

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• These Hugo dossiers are disgusting. “Author openly describes themselves as queer, nonbibary, trans… I don’t know how that will play in China (I suspect less than well)” They wrote that in writing. … The gaslighting the Hugos organizers did, telling everyone they were stupid for not getting that the works were i eligible due to “the rules” and it turns out the authors criticized a human right violation once, or ate Tibetan food, or said a Taiwanese Batman hotel looked cool. (remote)

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Manually Migrate ZITADEL with PostgreSQL https://blog.m5e.de/post/manually-migrate-zitadel-with-postgresql/

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

The phrase doesn't even make sense. I guess it's just name calling, so it doesn't have to make sense. Punching down as fast and furiously as possible to make a profit. What a bunch of gross human beings.

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

I just heard that the CEO of StabilityAI called aritsts "skill segregationists", and for a moment I felt like I got a glimpse into a hellish dimension with howling, screeching demons that can drive people insane with their sounds, and I assume that must be what it's like inside that person's head.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2507740-ai-art

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

It me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/17/i-dont-know-about-you-but-i-found-these-amusing/

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• Young woman shows off her spider photos (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

edo@continuousdelivery.social ("Edoardo Dusi") wrote:

Quello che sta facendo Apple con le PWA su iOS in Europa è vergognoso

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

Remember, Apple says we can't have real web apps because something something privacy and security something something. Because a megacorp might target ads with data about what you click on. Got it?

https://youtu.be/39ZN-PQmDWM?si=dSd9VESnIlXQ-efg

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

skiles@carhenge.club ("John Skiles Skinner") wrote:

"Enshittification as Overproduction" expanded my thinking about why the internet feels worse now than it used to.

https://medium.com/@ElizAyer/enshittification-as-overproduction-in-software-part-1-seeing-overproduction-7f175bca7724

Many tech companies have left the (apparent) exponential growth phase and are failing to see it, failing to adjust to the maintenance phase. My emotional posture has also changed, because I depend on the internet now in a way I didn't during the exciting growth phase.

Credit:
* blog posts by my coworker @elizayer
* based upon @pluralistic

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

Bad things happening to bad people just never gets old. (Not even after 355 million times.)

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

dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Apple's raised-middle-finger "compliance" with European pro-competition laws moves to new depths, as it deliberately breaks users' web apps. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breaking-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-on-purpose/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Contemptible and arrogant, but that's Apple these days.

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

intenttoship@botsin.space ("Intent to Ship") wrote:

Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS functions https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/20240213101333.ovzmevgpq2dliivb%40sesse.net

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:

Apple trying to break the Open Web by removing PWA functionality from iphone https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/ #openweb #apple

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

phone calls are all spam. emails are all spam. text messages are all spam. if you want to reach me, pin a note to my door with a jeweled dagger or don't waste my time.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Any sufficiently advanced C++ is indistinguishable from tragic."

-- @c_nich

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irenes ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

it's only cyberpunk if it's punk

otherwise it's just sparkling dystopia

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

mysk ("Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪") wrote:

🎬 The App Store will continue to be the only place to install apps on the iPhone, even in the EU. Users should be aware that the App Store collects exhaustive usage data and sends it to #Apple. This can't be turned off. We made this video to show how tapping an app link gets recorded in details.

After tapping a link posted on X, we requested a copy of the Apple ID data and we found this: (76,779 records in 734 days 🤯)
#iOS #AppStore #Privacy #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #DMA

https://youtu.be/39ZN-PQmDWM

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The #bridgy situation reminded me of this weird quirk where Mastodon accounts can basically just lie and inflate their follower count.

Could you imagine if the army of twitter bots had that ability? 😅

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• Profile interface displaying "Sports Business Journal" with a logo, post, following, and follower counts, a description stating it's an unofficial bot mirroring Sports Business Journal's Twitter feed, and links to a Twitter account and website. The follower count is incorrect.

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

Apple's attempt to knife PWAs in the EU will have worldwide implications if allowed to stand. Not knowing if Push Notifications will be available or data will be lost will drive developers back to native, pushishing investments in the web worldwide, even if the change is only "real" in the EU.

This is as bad as it sounds. If you want to fight back, join @owa in supplying information to regulators about what it will mean for users and developers:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

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

Ask yourself. If it really was EU regulations, why is this action from Apple limited to iOS? Why is it not announced nor implemented on MacOS and IpadOS at the same time?

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.

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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)_/¯