keverets @keverets@librem.one

GNOME's default Image Viewer (Loupe) no longer accepts AI generated contributions. You can read more about the reasons for my decisions in my discourse post.

I'm planning to adopt the same policy for the rest of the projects I maintain. And I think others should as well.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/loupe-no-longer-allows-generative-ai-contributions/27327

USA's #Maxar isn't just cutting off classified satellite imagery to #Ukraine, but commercial unclassified services. How long until Starlink follows?

I'm not sure if the White House has thought thru the signal this is sending the world:

If you use American tech, cloud or telecoms, it can be turned off on a whim *while you're being invaded & bombed* to strongarm your country to sign a deal you don't want.

Imagine how many govts are currently frantically trying to migrate away from US services.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

"[The American-owned] Postmedia owns over a hundred Canadian newspapers and most of our major dailies – from the National Post to the Edmonton Journal to the Pembroke Observer and News. Their channels are the primary source of news for millions of Canadians. If Postmedia needed to choose between what’s good for its American owners and what’s good for Canada, what would they choose?" https://www.coreyhogan.ca/p/nationalize-postmedia #cdnpoli #Postmedia

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1065/how-my-firefox-became-a-librewolf

#firefox #librewolf #tos #webcomic

@ianb TIL about siren suits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_suit

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the @EUCommission and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.

Follow-up points, to answer frequently asked questions:

"Are you saying I should switch to Chrome?" No. I hate Chrome. I'm just saying no current Firefox fork is the silver bullet many people seem to think it is.

"Are Firefox forks inherently doomed?" No. I could imagine a Firefox fork that was a credible alternative. It would just require a lot more resources than any existing fork has.

"What's your suggestion then?" I don't have one. The options all come with a long train of drawbacks. You have to choose which drawbacks you can live with.

"That sucks!" Yeah man. Everything sucks these days. I don't know what to tell you

Roman concrete's 2,000-year durability secret finally decoded
The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties - when cracks form, water reacts with these clasts to form calcium carbonate that naturally repairs damage. Science Alert https://buff.ly/3EQOcxi
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Trumpism and Muskism are similar in that both rely on a shitposting ethos: just spout stuff and keep spouting stuff, don’t think about whether it’s true, the point is to keep spouting stuff. It’s a nihilistic worldview that treats truth with contempt.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvsk4ty7ecwigbjpxah6yb/post/3lj7glfuhwc2k

Hello browser users, please don't use ungoogled-chromium instead of Firefox unless you absolutely have to! The recent ToS changes are enraging but please don't think using anything Chromium would be better in that regard. Besides, Chromium is also horrible for web engine diversity

I like to think of ungoogled-chromium as a hack to get privacy and other aspects to a point that can match what can be done with config options in Firefox

What would happen if we stopped asking, “How can this grow?” and started asking, “What is this thing’s natural size?” What if we evaluated projects not by their potential for expansion but their depth of impact within their chosen bounds?

Choosing to stay small, focused, and finite can be a radical act. It’s a declaration that some things are valuable precisely because they resist the illogic of endless growth.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/

- i cannot overemphasize this: dont be the motherfucking mastodon hoa. the entire reason bsky has been as successful as it was, is because too many people here told people "how to behave" on their first day, or shamed them because "they werent doing it right"

if you want mastodon to thrive, you have to make it "worth it to come here". nobody likes being shamed by rando strangers.

I have Kiwix and an offline copy of wikipedia on my phone, and my local Gen Z was so surprised and excited by the concept that I thought we should have a dedicated thing for it. Cheap e-reader plus 128GB SD card plus no wifi.

Just to be clear, because a bunch of assholes have hijacked public perception and lifted up some of the worst people on Earth as exemplars of what the “tech world” is supposed to be:

I’ve been in the software world for decades, surrounded by thoughftul, creative, and humane people with whom I’ve formed many wonderful friendships and done meaningful work. That’s possible. It’s normal, even.

You don’t have to become a sociopath to make it in the tech world. Or a malignant narcissist. Or a Nazi.

Your instincts to be a decent person are good instincts. Don’t let anyone talk you into being an antisocial monster. You don’t have to be.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-the-wayback-machine-is-preserving-outdated-government-websites/

I for one am thrilled that journalism has been saved by everyone moving to substack. cant wait to find out what happens when a single company controls the publish button for every opinion worth reading. history has no lessons here

Just signed up to @ente photos, migrating everything from #Google #photos. Google unnecessarily jumbles up its data export into 2GB zip files , so it's a nightmare to put together manually for the #ente upload. I wrote this very simple bash script to do it automatically - maybe useful to somebody: https://github.com/mszell/googletoente