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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Microsoft, predictably enough, focused on a "lock everything to our platform" strategy. CEO Steve Ballmer calied every Ipod owner a "thief" and arguing that every record company should wrap music in Microsoft's Zune DRM, which would allow them to restrict anything they didn't like, even if copyright allowed it (and would also give Microsoft the same abusive leverage over labels that they famously exercised over Windows software companies):

https://web.archive.org/web/20050113051129/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39124642,00.htm

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MaggieFero@hachyderm.io ("Margaret Fero") wrote:

Burnout isn't about working too much, it's about moral injury: watching or participating in betrayals of your ethics or values. Larger gaps between stated and practiced values create more burnout. - @phire at #Monktoberfest

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zwol@hackers.town ("Zack Weinberg") wrote:

https://thesecretknots.com/comic/remind-me-later/

my god, what have we done

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

hot rain, @CARROT ? whyyyyyyyy?

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• 1f302020ace70af5.mp4 (remote)

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ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:

I uploaded "My best thing today" in #sketchnotes from August 2024 to September 2024:

https://www.draketo.de/kreatives/best-thing-today#2024-09

Please boost! I’m publishing these with some hope that others may start #bestthingtoday sketchnotes: it’s a great way to build and strengthen positive memories.

#ink #art #inktober #inktober2024

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• rough, small sketches in ink with the best experience for almost every day in the timeframe. The base is lineart in black and gray, often colored with sky blue, grass green, sun orange, or earth yellow as highlight-colors. On the right there is a streak of colors where I clean the pens after they take up black ink. It starts with travelling during family holidays while singing together and writing a poem. Many days the best thing was swimming or going to the village celebration. Other days it was listening to audiobooks, especially qualityland. One was an uncle saying thank you for coming, two are kisses, three times it was dancing. Two others were work projects: improving diagrams and optimizing algorithms. Many are with the dog. It ends with playing the dark ending of Baldurs Gate 3 after patch 7 and turning the bg3 sketches into a video. If the days feel dark or gray to you right now — as mine felt when I started this — maybe sketching like this could be part of self-care that helps you get out. I remember more joy now. What ever may be a good path for you: if you feel like you’re drowning in gray, you should take *some* path to remember more of the best moments of your days. Please take care of yourself. You are worthy of experiencing joy. (remote)

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miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:

Oooh The Designed by, and Powered by OpenWRT router is now out!

https://liliputing.com/openwrt-one-wifi-6-router-is-now-available-for-89/

$89 and $10 of every order goes directly to the OpenWRT project!

Hope to see some folks get these and post reviews soon! (I'll order one as soon as I can afford to)

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

what's your favorite videogame that wraps its challenge in having the player build consensus and cooperation instead of competition and domination?

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griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com ("tj usiyan") wrote:

Them: “This is not a paywall.”
Me: “whew”

Them: Provide your Email address”

Me: “that’s a payment, though. Personal information is a payment”

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tech4palestine@infosec.exchange ("Tech For Palestine") wrote:

Google Was Set to Host an Israeli Military Conference. When We Asked About It, the Event Disappeared.

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/27/google-israel-defense-tech-conference/

#google #notechforapartheid

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

Doting grandfathers everywhere are getting a gleam in their eyes…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/important-facts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9JSkSpRlM

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The goal? Make out there unbearable so that you're willing to pay to stay in here.

Where, "out there" is just the world, and "in here" are the little sanctuary malls, fantasy parks, and virtual realities designed by the same people who made "out there" so bad in the first place.

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Daniel_Grosse@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Grosse") wrote:

🎉 Just published in the October issue of IEEE #TCAD: "WAVING Goodbye to Manual Waveform Analysis in HDL Design with WAL".

📄 PDF (open access): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10496480
👉 WAL: https://wal-lang.org
📂 GitHub: https://github.com/ics-jku/wal

#WAL #VCD #HDL #analysis #debugging #surfer

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stevelord@bladerunner.social ("Steve Lord") wrote:

Who called it "social media" and not "clout computing"?

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

Here’s a poem called ‘In Search of Poetry’. It’s constructed entirely from popular Google searches about poetry.

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• In Search of Poetry   why is poetry so boring why is poetry hard to understand why is poetry considered non-fiction is poetry a good clothing brand   poetry is an act of hope poetry is a waste of time poetry is a way of taking life by the throat poetry is not supposed to rhyme   why is poetry important why does poetry exist why is poetry pretentious who is the better poet shakespeare or taylor swift   poetry is a political act poetry is an egg with a horse inside poetry is the best words in the best order poetry is the mother of lies   why do poets repeat lines do poems have to follow rules why do poets repeat lines why is poetry taught in school   poetry helps mental health poetry is not real poetry is the music of the soul poetry makes you feel Brian Bilston (remote)

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

I wish someone had explained to me the purpose of my Flesh Crayolas years ago.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/we-were-using-our-crayons-wrong/

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• Flesh crayons (remote)

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

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

I was feelin' okay early this morning so I thought I got off light this time, but the Covid and Flu combo vaccine I got yesterday afternoon is catching up with me now. 🤒 But at lest I know this will be short duration discomfort.

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

greenhouses are wunnerful

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

ahhhh

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Website League looks interesting. And it made me realize, the best way to fight back against Meta's definition of the social web is to simply make things that stand opposed to it.

https://websiteleague.org/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

"Threads posts with a 15 minute delay are now mixed with fediverse posts without a delay and presented as happening during the same time. This was already noticeable during yesterday’s U.S. VP debate, an event where people use microblogging for the real-time reaction. But part of the real-time reactions was actually 15 minutes delayed, while another part was not, which creates even more confusing experience."

#fediverse #DefinitelyNotSabotage

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:

"A 15 minute delay is a long time in microblogging, and significantly impacts things like breaking news, and live-posting sports events. It also meaningfully impacts the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with people in a comment section."

The fact that this was first reported by #TechCrunch but you wouldn’t know it because they burried the lede under rosy coverage. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/

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

ahhh, to be in a real city again (Toronto)

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

Oh no! I robbed Jason Allen!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/in-which-i-commit-a-crime/

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• Digital painting created by MidJourney (remote)

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

Joe Gow was railroaded.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/its-wisconsin-im-surprised-they-didnt-fire-him-for-veganism/

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:

Going on now: the Craig Maloney Memorial Auction, benefiting Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Win a #ryoms sponsor gift purchased for a sadly deceased friend, and help those less fortunate. Runs through Tuesday evening, for reasons.

https://mwl.io/archives/23810

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

Collinsworth's Razor: the person demanding to be debated is almost always the one in the wrong.

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

a repeating life pattern for Trump:

“Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than it raised for the second month in a row as the Republican nominee struggles to keep pace with Democrat Kamala Harris’ robust fundraising operation” - Bloomberg Report

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/02/trump-spent-more-than-he-raised-again/

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climatebrad ("Brad Johnson") wrote:

Don't you hate it when climate activists block highways
#Helene #climate

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• The Laurel Fork Road bridge sits destroyed from flood waters raging in the Upper Laurel Fork creek in Vilas, N.C., on Sept. 27.Jonathan Drake—Reuters
• Workers survey a large section of Highway 105 that washed away because of flood waters, on the outskirts of Boone, N.C., on Sept. 27.Jonathan Drake—Reuters
• NCDOT
• Rescue workers from the Pamlico County rescue team are shown working in the aftermath of Helene the area of Chimney Rock, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Pamlico County Special Operations

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jalcine@todon.eu ("jack(y) or treat!") wrote:

In tandem, tech freelancers need to organize. With more than 300,000 tech workers let go, folks need to stop playing around.