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

Here, I used the word "aesthetics" twice for two days in a raw. Time to relax and be simpler.

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

Fantasy produce. Looking so damn realistic and cartoonish at the same time. Love this aesthetics!

#darktable

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We can't keep looking back with the gift of hindsight to call out the lack of preparedness, then Chicken Little people when they bring up future concerns.

#fediversemeta #fedimeta #fediverse

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techhelpkb ("TechHelpKB.com 📚") wrote:

Meta has been spotted testing a cross-posting feature that would allow Facebook users to post to both Facebook and Threads at the same time.

#meta #facebook #threads #features
https://tchlp.com/3UOU8N8

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killyourfm@layer8.space ("Jason is iPoding.") wrote:

As of today, I am no longer subscribed to any streaming music platforms. I dropped Spotify last year, and today I dropped Tidal.

I have an awesome and growing vinyl collection. I ripped all my CDs and have my entire digital music library on both my iPod and Plex.

I'm content with this decision. In fact I'm EXCITED about it, because I'll be spending more time enjoying and loving the heaps of music I already own.

As for discovery? Recommendations, Bandcamp, and good old fashioned music blogs.

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

I think the funniest angry reply I've ever got on this website was a woman telling me that making a joke about guillotines was racism against billionaires.

Edit: This wasn't sarcasm. She was entirely serious.

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

PSA: Covid wastewater testing levels are not only higher than they've ever been at this point in the year; it's not even close.

Levels are 50% higher than last year, and 400–500% higher than any other previous year.

This is *by far* the worst February we've had since the very beginning.

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

Bit weird that using @Tusky I cannot copy a link keeping it pressed. I can only open it

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studiofox@tooters.org ("leif") wrote:

One must learn to fediblock the fedimeta within themselves

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RedtheBean ("Red (Rachel Smith Loesche)") wrote:

@Daojoan @vulgalour in finance capitalism... in any place where there is resistance to finance capitalism, creation is painless and invigorating. I know you know.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

> The name “cloud” is a linguistic trick – a way of hiding who controls the underlying technology of the internet – and the huge power they wield.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-google-subsea-cables

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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/

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fromjason ("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/

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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. 🙃

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collinsworth@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.

https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z

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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

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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.

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collinsworth@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.

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collinsworth@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

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collinsworth@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.

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pzmyers@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/

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

They call this a child in Alabama.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/21/alabama-doesnt-hate-all-science/

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Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

How about some Laibach for today?

Laibach - Life is Life
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQ

Great video. :blobcat_tihihi:
I prefer their translated German version, though. https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=WVB-pye8OXc

#music #NowPlaying #laibach

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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

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slightlyoff@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/

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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

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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.

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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

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sebastix@drupal.community ("Sebastix") wrote:

@slightlyoff It’s so frustrating

https://sebastix.nl/blog/apple-is-killing-webapps-pwas-power-play-against-the-eu/

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moshboy wrote:

hitman, screenshot, zx spectrum (1984) https://www.mobygames.com/game/145309/hitman/screenshots/zx-spectrum/1011024/

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