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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
> You probably know that tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google run the brains of the internet. They're called "hyperscalers" for operating hundreds of data centers packed with millions of servers. You might not know that they also increasingly run the internet's nervous system, too.
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
> Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet, may have cut thousands of jobs in the past year to reduce operational costs, but all will be increasing capital expenditure (capex) on computing further still in the coming 12 months.
https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/news/2023/05/09/how-cloud-computing-became-a-global-monopoly/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
@jlsksr @benjojo Any thoughts on how the breakdown in #fediverse cloud providers shift when all this regulation passes in the US and EU?
Small service providers go out of business or get eaten up by one of the big four. #Mastodon instances then have to migrate to compliant-based servers.
It's starting to look like cable tv in the late nineties. 🙃
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I really liked `omzsh` already, but a friend introduced me to the `z` command, which is a way, *way* better `cd` that can just teleport you to any folder by name (even by partial name), and which ships as a plugin in `omzsh`. I don't know how I ever did without it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
stshank@mstdn.social ("Stephen Shankland") wrote:
I'd missed this: Apple, faced with the prospect of web apps using non-Safari browser engines, is killing web apps altogether in the EU. This is politico-techno-legal hardball. https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/ #Browsers #WebApps #Apple
Mastodon FeedReblogged by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈"):
somcak@cutie.city ("somcak 🐌") wrote:
I have had skin cancer surgeries in 2 countries: the U.S., with "hope you can afford the deductible" insurance, and Portugal with single-payer/universal/socialized medicine.
In the U.S. (in 2001): Notice growth on ear. Call to see primary care. Get into appointment 2 days later. Get a referral to a dermatologist. Wait 2 weeks for the insurance company to approve referral. Get into dermatologist 1 week later and have a biopsy. The biopsy showed it was squamous cell carcinoma, a type of cancer usually found in folks over 60 (I was 23 or 24). Dermatologist puts in for an approval for surgery which is denied twice over 3 weeks because “the biopsy was wrong.” Get in 2 days later for another biopsy, which, surprise!, shows it really is squamous cell carcinoma. After another week of wrangling with the insurance company, we finally get approval for surgery. Surgery is scheduled for 1 week later. So, from noticing the growth to surgery about 8 weeks.
In Portugal (5 years later): Notice growth on ear. I call primary care and am transferred to the dermatologist. Get same day appointment. Dermatologist looks at it, picks up the phone and calls the plastic surgeon. We walk down the hall to the plastic surgeon. Both doctors consult their schedules, and I’m scheduled for surgery 2 days later. So, from noticing the growth on the ear to surgery about 2 days.
Again, to show you the difference: In the U.S. without universal healthcare, about $1000 out-of-pocket and 8 weeks until surgery. In Portugal with universal healthcare, about $60 out-of-pocket and 2 days until surgery.
When Congress says we can’t afford universal healthcare, they are saying, “We can’t afford to not make the insurance companies money because they fund our campaigns.” It isn’t about the best interest of Americans, it’s about their own best interest.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Ok now that you've read this and gotten the most important thing going on in the world today out of your way, I return you to your list of much more minor issues.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There are two things here: first off, It's absolutely unacceptable that a setting should be disabled with no reason to begin with, let alone *revert* your choices. Like the absolute bare minimum UI thing you should nail is: the settings work.
But the other is me, screaming into the void for the thousandth time: HOW IS THIS COMPANY THE ONE WITH THE REPUTATION FOR GOOD UX AND UI DESIGN
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Every time my AirPods case is touched or moved in the slightest, it makes a loud chirping noise for 10 seconds. It's supposed to help you find it but it's annoying as hell.
I managed to turn it off once but that preference got wiped out in an update.
Spent literally a half hour yesterday trying to turn it back off again. The setting is completely disabled in MacOS until you do a hard reset.
Finally got it; first thing that happened today when I went to put my AirPods in:
They chirped at me.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Talk.origins has finally rid itself of that persistent nuisance, Peter Nyikos. It's the end of an era.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/21/peter-nyikos-is-dead/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
They call this a child in Alabama.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/21/alabama-doesnt-hate-all-science/
Mastodon FeedHow about some Laibach for today?
Laibach - Life is Life
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQGreat video. :blobcat_tihihi:
I prefer their translated German version, though. https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=WVB-pye8OXc
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:
Guess what % of plastics have ever been #recycled? No prizes :(
And guess who knew about it all the time?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@pluralistic @eff If you care about this, @owa has opened a BRAND NEW survey and needs your help in the next two days to fill the channel with signal, rather than Apple's noise:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PaDs_7stzLKUdOKJalxXljESb8nrVkJRO3w9TkxeYbY/viewform
Learn more and get involved here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
@owa needs your 🫵 help to fight #Apple's upcoming breakage of #PWA in the EU.
Please follow the link below and fill out the survey!
https://forms.gle/oD8chWN1oQzN6s5aA🙏
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
A huge thank you to everyone who filled in the previous survey. We apologise for the need for a second survey but it is critical that we collect the right data for the best chance of preventing Apple from making this change.
Let us be clear, Apple is choosing to harm significant numbers of EU business and consumers as a means of circumventing their obligations under the Digital Markets Act. Their security arguments do not hold up and they have not attempted to justify them.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Apple will break Web Apps (PWAs) in the EU within the next week ‼️
In order to stop them, we need evidence from you that the harm they are choosing to inflict on EU businesses and consumers is real and significant.
👇👇 Please fill in our NEW more detailed survey: https://forms.gle/oD8chWN1oQzN6s5aA
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sebastix@drupal.community ("Sebastix") wrote:
@slightlyoff It’s so frustrating
https://sebastix.nl/blog/apple-is-killing-webapps-pwas-power-play-against-the-eu/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
hitman, screenshot, zx spectrum (1984) https://www.mobygames.com/game/145309/hitman/screenshots/zx-spectrum/1011024/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
I keep opening masto to complain about how entirely stressful this month has been. I hope it's not a leap year. I'm not checking. Don't tell me.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I dunno about you, but if iti find out I was a pawn in a Russian disinformation operation, I'd like to think I'd probably, ya know, stop doing whatever it was I was doing.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
How can we have decentralized social media if only three companies control the cloud?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hi_mayank@hachyderm.io ("Mayank") wrote:
today is the day! shadow dom is here. now.
to celebrate the release of firefox 123, i've published a new blog post:
📝 "a practical guide to using shadow dom" https://www.mayank.co/blog/declarative-shadow-dom-guide
(if shadow dom has yet to click with you, i really hope this post changes that)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:
The big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:
Introducing usernames and phone number privacy on Signal!
We’re making it possible for people to connect with each other without having to share phone numbers. Now launching to beta users, available for everyone soon.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
io@merveilles.town ("isaac io schankler") wrote:
Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
ChrisPirillo ("Chris Pirillo") wrote:
i have good news and bad news
Mastodon FeedThe Vantabus is coming
Anish Kapoor is slumming
Milwaukee to Toledo
With minimal albedo
We roll up at the station
Absorbing radiation
So if you hate reflection
Get on and meet perfectionWe like blackbody
We like, we like blackbody
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net wrote:
Two things are true at the same time:
- Calling the FBI over someone posting about the concept of hammer-covered car exploding near you (not the actual threat to do so) is…wow. I have no words.2. Making such a post on a site owned by the target of the post, in the middle of getting your account reviewed, is not going to end well for your account.
I’ve seen a lot of people counter the first point by bringing up the second. But despite the fact that the second point is true, such a bizarre level of public punching-down is unwarranted. This wasn’t an actual threat of violence. Drawing attention to the latter point to eclipse the former point isn’t a well-balanced response, even before taking into account the context leading up to the incident.
RE: https://aus.social/users/burgerdrome/statuses/111962682513830720
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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