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

I boosted this a while back, but I hit it again in my playlist today, and it's a lot of fun. "Ring My Tubular Bell":

https://soundcloud.com/fromabasement/ring-my-tubular-bell

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

Imagine four more years of Trump, and what a hellhole this place would be.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/18/theres-really-no-ambiguity-in-musks-politics/

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• Musk wants a "red wave" this november (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We've updated the rules of our flagship server mastodon.social today. Most are the same with some clarifications, but one rule is new: Content created by others must be attributed, and use of AI must be disclosed. Profiles that only post AI-generated content will not be tolerated.

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emf@emfcamp.org ("Electromagnetic Field") wrote:

Introducing Tildagon: the badge for EMF 2024 and beyond

https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/03/18/tildagon/

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• A colour x-ray image of a hexagonal circuit board with two hexagonal modules plugged into it (remote)

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

It's hard to know if this belongs in Circle Eight or Circle Nine, but Apple's misdeeds against the web and competition are inferno-worthy either way.

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

There's *just* enough wiggle room in the language of Apple here to qualify as "prevarication" or "dissembling" rather than "lie", but it's a knowing falsehood either way:

https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/112115752629659794

It only allowed other browsers to be default *after* Congress came asking questions, they only did it *in late 2020*. Timeline here:

https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/#apple's-long-standing-policies-are-anti-diversity

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abraxas3d@defcon.social ("Abraxas3d") wrote:

Day 1 FCC TAC

Attachments:

• Cherry blossoms in Washington DC at night with moon shining through branches. (remote)

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

Apple: ""iOS Customers have come to trust the App Store as a way to find applications". Yeah. Nothing to do with there being absolutely no other option. Also "The effort to be able to delete Safari from iOS isn't an easy one" - and here we are back at Microsoft claiming IE is an integral part of Windows …

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Digital Markets Act Workshop: A less than informative response from Apple to our simple questions. 🤷‍♂️

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• OWA to Apple: There is no way for browsers to detect if they are the default browser nor a one click system prompt to allow users to set the default browser. This is standard on all other major operating systems except iOS. The friction Apple has added to this process undermines users switching to a new default browser needs to be fixed in order for them to be in compliance with 6(3) and 13(4). Currently Apple does not have a centralized location to change the default browser. Searching "default" or "default browser" yields no results in settings. Instead they have inappropriately placed it in each individual browser's settings page. Astonishingly Apple has added custom code to hide the option to change default browser in the Safari settings if Safari is the default browser, and prominently show it if a different browser is default. We had thought that Apple would have fixed such an outrageous dark pattern prior to the DMA coming into force but in the latest version of iOS it is still present. Apple’s Response: In terms of the last question around the default browser, I think we’ve covered that at length. I don’t have much more to add on that point

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

The unmitigated gall. The straight-faced gaslighting. It would be unbelievable except that Apple *keep* lying, over and over, and show no remorse when they're caught.

Pathological.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/112116583902750934

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

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/76_big_tech_entrenches_us_power_w_michael_kwet

Here's a link to Kwet's "People’s Tech for People’s Power: A Guide To Digital Self-Defense & Empowerment" that he mentions at the end of the interview but is not in the show notes.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3748901

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

This new Apple love for web apps is somewhat surprising so soon after some naughty boys from, er, Apple tried to sneak out and drown Home Screen Apps in a bucket without telling anyone, then bawled "The EU made me do it!" when they were caught. https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/happy-dma-day-to-all/

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

Some more stuff about how WebKit is deeply integrated into iOS and the hard, hard work that Apple is doing to decouple them. (There has, apparently, never been a major security problem with WebKit and iOS. Ahem, xCode Ghost apps)

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

We asked Apple why their compliance report is only 12 pages (Microsoft was 421pp, Google's was 221pp). They replied that it's very clear and everyone understands what they're doing to comply with DMA.

I'm sure PWA owners, devs and users in the EU are enormously grateful for Apple's clarity over the last few weeks on what they're doing to comply with the DMA.

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

It's gray areas and fine lines all over. But when you scrutinize closely, you'll start to see the unstated agendas and motivations along those lines, and you might want to add that to your analysis when adopting a piece of tech.

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

A thing to keep in mind when evaluating the latest fashions in tech is that two of the problems the aforementioned groups have is "how do we get people to pay for this thing?" and "how do we hire people already trained in our tech stack?" So a lot of tech, including open source (especially open source), is released in a way to entice you to sign up to add to revenue or released to get you to use it and train yourself and others.

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

"The insatiable hunger of (Open)AI"

On the climate impact of the production of the computer chips needed for AI.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/the-insatiable-hunger-of-openai/

#FrugalComputing

bendingoutward wrote:

Based solely on the noises my body made when I shifted around a few minutes ago, I may very well be a 1976 Buick with a bad u-joint.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Fun tidbit: I was going to name that post "... or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the cloud" and there is no less than 25 posts with that exact title so I changed it lol

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We've rolled out a new feature on mastodon.social. You now have access to notification settings and can decide who you want to get notifications from. Everyone else will be put into notification requests you can peruse separately. There's a fresh coat of paint as well!

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mhoye wrote:

I threw this in a repository over the weekend:

https://github.com/mhoye/shared-but-unsupported/blob/main/README.md

but ran into this, this morning:

https://unmaintained.tech/

You can draw a line through two points, so I guess this seems like an idea that's due?

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

For people looking to run and maintain moderate sized businesses or community services that happen to rely on computers in some way, most of the things didn't help much, but we often get caught and swept up in all the activity anyway.

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

I think my biggest lesson in the recent decade of professional work as a software/embedded developer is how much all the hyped languages, frameworks, operating systems, etc. that have popped up recently mostly solved the problems of existing tech giants with thousands of employees hoovering up all competitors, VC funded potential unicorns with lifetimes best measured in months, and the occasional techbro looking to get acquihired.

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drachenmagier@mastodon.art wrote:

Finished work. :D
Have some dragon and unicorn~.

"Who is the dreamer, who is the dream? At some point it became impossible to tell, as neither could exist without the other, and they both had forgotten how it had started..."

#mastoArt #dragon #unicorn #fantasy #drachenmagier #fantasyArt #traditionalArt #traditionalMedia #acrylics #forest #blue

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• a dragon and a unicorn standing in a dark gray forest (remote)

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

Spring break is over! Let the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments commence!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/18/the-end-is-here-again/

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• Entering the middle in a journey across nowhere (remote)

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liamvhogan@aus.social ("Liam :fnord:") wrote:

Ad Rock: Look upon my works, ye mighty and
All : DESPAIR
Mike D: nothing remains but a wreck, boundless and
All: BARE
MCA: there’s nothing left here but round
All: DECAY
Ad Rock: the lone and level sands stretch far
All: AWAY

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woozong@post.lurk.org wrote:

"A world which increasingly consists of destinations without journeys between them, a world which values only "getting somewhere" as fast as possible, becomes a world without substance."
-- Alan Watts, The way of zen

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Today it’s been one year since we got married! I’m a very lucky guy 🙂

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• Me and my wife at ArcTanGent 2023

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APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma

Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Erik Vallestad

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240318.html #APOD

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• A comet is pictured with a really long and wavy ion tail. The front of the comet -- its coma -- appears to be a spiral. The coma is green, the tail is faint blue, and part of the swirl is red. (remote)

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Let's say you have an untrained puppy which has to release some smelly gifts.

The #Python way would be running after the puppy and picking up the poop, #C would explain the puppy where it should go poop in a first training session but wouldn't check on it which could lead into some piles on your neighbours favourite flowers and #Rust would train the puppy where exactly he should poop and would also make sure that he poops into the right place.