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

@collinsworth @phae [ visions of my future self ]

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

@slightlyoff @phae We got a Samsung Smart TV last year and it is without competition my absolute most regretted tech purchase. Even if it wasn't spyware and adware thinly disguised as a TV, the UI is atrocious, and the controls are unpredictable. It's a UX failure on every level.

I'm seriously considering just factory resetting it, never connecting it to the internet, and doing absolutely all streaming through a third-party device. Wish I'd just done that in the first place.

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

@phae @Samsung Today in "websites that work better than the Samsung CCPA opt-out flow": California's Secretary of State page for filing a compaint:

https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company

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

@phae Hey @Samsung; y'all know this is unacceptable and likely illegal, right?

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

Setting up a new Samsung TV that @phae liked, and the horror show that is the privacy UI cannot be overstated. There's no on-device way to opt-out of collection. None.

Instead, you get told to visit a URL (but not taken to it in the built-in Samsung Internet browser) for CCPA requests. That website is here:

https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy/rights/

And as a CA resident, it makes me apoplectic that it simply *fails *at a required login step. This cannot be spirit, or letter, of the law compliant:

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a_smeriglia@mastodon.uno ("Astutillo Smeriglia :verified:") wrote:

Passa una meteora: 200 mila video di tutti i tipi.
Passa un’astronave aliena: un video sgranato a bassa risoluzione.

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w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

At our recent AC meeting Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke on his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.

He spoke about the potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars 🌎 🌖 ✨

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8

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

they rode hard in an ugly war, and died far too young to really enjoy the peaceful fruits of victory

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Little #Kitty Big City has all the classics, like the Shiba in a bush.
https://www.littlekittybigcity.com/

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• Shiba dog happily stuck in a hedge

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tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

We are trained to make excuses for the inexcusable.

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• This is Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit. Smaug family stole a mountain full of gold. So full that he sleeps buried under gold. We're talking literally tons of gold by weight. Forbes ranks Smaug as the second wealthiest fictional character. He had been first, but the price of gold took a tumble, and now his vast, overwhelming fortune is only worth an estimated $51,400,000,000.00, or $51.4 billion. That means that EVEN THOUGH he has an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN full of almost nothing but solid gold, Smaug would rank as the FIFTEENTH wealthiest American. Fourteen Americans have more money than a gold-hoarding dragon. Please consider that the next time you say deca-billionaires deserve their wealth and shouldn't pay their employees living wages. (Picture of the fictional dragon)

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robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

8 x 6 inches, Oil on Panel
A new tiny painting coming to EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow (5/20)

An average human cell is estimated to contain 100 trillion atoms and the average human body is estimated to contain 32 trillion cells. We truly are, as Richard Feynman wrote, "a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe."

#starstuff

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poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club ("Poise Under Chaos") wrote:

Mark Knopfler - All Comers (Official Video)

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

#nowplaying

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

Long drive, short visit, but I'm getting my great-grandfather's old pocket watch repaired!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/19/good-morning-from-the-big-city/

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

Sunday morning tunes selection from the kiddo (with some assistance from me). New track from Posy: "Tones and Bubbles".

https://posy.bandcamp.com/track/tones-and-bubbles

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

victory did not come soon enough

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

Justices of the Supreme Court need someone to throw under the bus too

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

Brandalism on point.

Shell Oil ad sponsoring British Cycling, defaced meticulously to look as if it authentically reads: "WE'VE TEAMED UP WITH BRITISH CYCLING TO HELP US FAST TRACK THE APOCALYPSE."

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• Defaced shell advert of a cyclist drinking Shell oil from a can. (remote)

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leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:

We’ve always told devs that browsers prioritize what to implement based on dev demand.

There is one exception: #SVG.

SVG is used on >65% of websites. Yet, browsers have been *refusing* to work on SVG, ignoring pressure and pain points from web devs.

#StateOfHTML showed SVG as the top content pain point: https://2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/content/#content_pain_points

Tons of work (SVG 2, fill & stroke, and more) has sat unimplemented for years. At this point, in standards circles, we know not to touch SVG with a barge pole.

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I'll write much more about this later, but... this happened:

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• Me wearing a black hoodie and grey pants, standing next to a farmer wearing an orange reflective jacket and jeans. We're both looking at the camera and smiling. Behind both of us is an enormous piece of space junk - it's 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide, with frayed, burned up edges. It's leaning on a white metal wall.

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LaQuadrature@mamot.fr ("La Quadrature du Net") wrote:

The aim of our legal challenge is not to defend TikTok - whose toxic business model is beyond any discussion at this point - but to cut short to the French government's disturbing authoritarian momentum in the name of freedom of expression and communication. To support us, go to: Un recours en référé vient d'être déposé. https://www.laquadrature.net/en/support/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...

#BelieveInFilm

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

Look I get that this is a One Direction song that came out 13 years ago but I still think y'all are sleeping on this one.

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bgzimmer ("Ben Zimmer") wrote:

On this day 100 years ago: the first-ever crossword convention! @xor has all the details on Crossword Craze. https://crosswordcraze.today/may-18-1924-convention/

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loren@flipping.rocks ("Loren") wrote:

okay but why ~do~ they make those radios out of ham?

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

if one tunes into the background radiation of the fediverse and filters out the noise one is left with a 64kbps ogg of stuck in the middle with you by stealers wheel.

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("Honihan Snawl") wrote:

If you download the raw jp2 files of books on archive.org sometimes you get little pieces of accidental art

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• Someone's hand in front of a page of andre gide's "the counterfeiters" on a scanning bed (remote)

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koko@yiff.life ("ko 🦊🌸") wrote:

this is literally me when I'm being overtaken by Head Clog

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• snippet of a manual for a DV camcorder, warning about dirty heads. it shows two illustrations of a girl behind some blocky artifacting (remote)

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

Out with the old, in with the new. Couldn't believe how seamless the Home Assistant OS transition was from a backup. Flawless, including HACS integrations!

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• Raspberry PIs, old and new, that serve as our Home Assistant hubs (remote)

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

difficult to pull back after this point:

“Russian court orders asset seizures for 2 major German banks” – DW – 05/18/2024

https://www.dw.com/en/russian-court-orders-asset-seizures-for-2-major-german-banks/a-69121815

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Boeing shareholders approved a $33M pay package for CEO Dave Calhoun, despite overseeing huge losses and safety problems.

It's the biggest package ever given to a Boeing CEO.

Calhoun is resigning by year's end. Guess what he gets then?

A $45 million golden parachute.

Unreal.