keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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People who like books (or audiobooks, or comics...) should check out @bookwyrm 's project https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/.
It is federated, and has some nice features compared to just using masto to blab about books.
The flagship instance was a bit overloaded when I tried it, so now I am mostly active as @bremner on https://book.dansmonorage.blue
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@rysiek and then the dumbnuts harp on about how "GDPR is bad, it forces sites to have these banners". 😡
I think there should be a mandatory message on these banners that reads: "the operator of this site either wants to sell your data, or is too dumb to design their system around minimal data use". Plus a shocking picture like on a box or cigarettes.
@amolith @mansr
> Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
@dthompson so it will have to just be fun for the sake of fun?
Though really if people like to compare, that could be handled by including a link to which instance generated it.
@mike @feld @muppeth relative to what? Unlike previous variants this one hit very young people (ineligible for vaccination) far worse. It is destroying the ability of the health care system to manage due to massive amount of hospitalization. Be cautious around "it doesn't affect people I know" rhetoric. Significantly reducing health care capacity means it has far further affects than what you might think at first.
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suicide, tech, new biz lows
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Stop calling crypto a Ponzi.
A Ponzi scheme is a specific thing and MOST of the major coins aren't it.
It's like saying "property is theft". Even if you hate both property and theft, they're not the same. Calling them the same is voluntarily becoming less intelligent. So stop.
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Don't get me wrong, computers can absolutely help us regain our environmental efficiency. They just *aren't*.
Not as long as we're:
* constantly syncing everything to the cloud,
* expecting same-hour delivery,
* funding our clickbait via surveillance advertising,
* buying a new phone every year,
* using AIs because they're cool rather than useful,
* running bloated software & webpages,
* buying into "big data"
* etc
Computing is environmentally cheap, but it rapidly adds up!
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This weekend my daughter went to continue reading an ebook she has available to her from her public elementary school on the Epic Reading Platform https://www.getepic.com/sign-in
She got an error message saying that the book was only available on school days and to read on the weekend she would need to subscribe for $9.99/month.
Geothermal heating co-op shares warmth among Montreal neighbours
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-geothermal-heating-montreal-1.6321878
@internetofshit@botsin.space "smart" means the opposite these days
Aaron Espe - Back to the Beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTlz8GGqASw
@mhoye she's not wrong!
@attilakinali @stux if we were in a tornado alley, the structures would be different. Though it can be less expensive to rebuild (and build better) after initial problems. Iterating can surprisingly be much less expensive than creatimg stronger structures that are inflexible and need extensive repair after disaster
@attilakinali @stux it depends on the type of structure. Single family homes are mainly wood framed where I am (on top of concrete foundations, typically with full height basements). Inexpensive, strong enough to last 50-100 years+, and easy to alter as needs change. Multifamily dwellings tend to be more levels and reinforced concrete for internal and most external cladding (though glass is strangely common for "floor-to-ceiling" views at cost of efficiency
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Everything we see online is decided by platforms' algorithms.
These algorithms promote extreme and fringe views (antivax, conspiracy, hate) in a quest for clicks.
We want to #FixTheDSA & give users a right to a timeline without #AlgorithmicManipulation.
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Amber (@amber@toot.site)
@meena Vigilante https://f-droid.org/packages/com.crazylegend.vigilante notifies you when something accesses a camera or mic
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Okay there's something really cool I've just learned. If you are continuously recording air pressure e.g. as part of your home automation setup or a weather station then you should really check the data of the last 24h.
You should be able to spot the pressure wave from the volcanic explosion in Tonga earlier today.
It reached my setup in Kaiserslautern at about 20:30.
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Sun Microsystems: Write once, run everywhere!
Log4j: hello
Programmers: No, not like that
Joined Jun 2019
