Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

I was talking about this elsewhere for other reasons but let me skip all that and just say that “Elements of Surprise” is absolute gem of a book, and if you are at all interested in novels, films, plot twists, puzzles, cognition, or surprise endings, you absolutely should read it. https://veratobin.org/publications/elements-of-surprise/

Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273820/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax-irs-quickbooks-ai-software-decoder-interview

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."
Biographia Literaria (1817)

English poet, philosopher, & critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born #OTD in 1772.

He was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England & a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

Books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/95

#books #literature

Check out our new inventory of refurbished laptops pre-installed with Vanilla OS @vanillaos. #Linux #opensource #gnome
Free shipping within the USA
https://senderolinux.com/shop/

We blogged about the importance of federation for digital sovereignty https://nextcloud.com/blog/federation-a-foundational-concept-for-digital-sovereignty/ What do you think? #Nextcloud

F-Droid is the first third-party app store to support Android 15's app archiving feature!

The popular repository for FOSS apps is preparing to add support for app archiving in its next release, using new APIs Google added in Android 15.

🔗Details👇

https://androidauthority.com/f-droid-app-archiving-3491158/

the age of Move Fast and Break Things is over, and we now enter an age of Move Slow Around Broken Things

The myth that social media harms kids drives me bonkers. So I tried to frame my thinking of risks vs. harms in today's rant: https://zephoria.substack.com/p/risks-vs-harms-youth-and-social-media

A few days ago I wrote an uncharacteristically angry blog post about Mozilla and the state of the browser market.

I was going to just sit on it, but given the recent "news", I figure I might as well put it out there.

"Rallying behind an undeserving browser will not save the open web."

https://nathandyer.me/2024/10/04/firefox.html

#Firefox #Mozilla #GNOMEWeb

@trwnh contributes a tremendous amount to fediverse development. But like a lot of us, is not giving paid for most of it. Please consider chucking some coins their way;

https://trwnh.com/#support

If you can help with funding some of their work, please contact them

I simply adore this photo of James Earl Jones & Big Bird.

Yes, he played a lot of memorable dads from Darth Vader to Mufasa to King Jaffe Joffer + countless other incredible roles on & offscreen.

And Mr. Jones also happened to be the very first celebrity guest on Sesame Street. #history #media #art

Ditch Credit Monitoring: The Ultimate Guide to Data Breaches https://neat.tube/videos/watch/6b64bb6b-dc42-43cc-be21-e4b1a5da7808

Lito, a self-taught Japanese artist who began creating intricate, hand-carved art on fallen leaves as a way to manage his ADHD. He carefully selects each leaf & carves whimsical patterns that often depict animals, objects & landscapes - transforming delicate leaves into complex scenes.
Art that captures the fleeting beauty of nature.

#art #MastoArt #artist #creativity #beauty

Helpful and thorough review of Kagi from @matt 📺

It covers domain ranking, lenses, viewing web archives with the @internetarchive's Wayback Machine, keyboard shortcuts, bang shortcuts, sorting search results, and an overview of the iOS app:

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

#AdFree #Search #Kagi

Apple: “Our flagship model, we call it the MacBook”

Dell: “Our flagship model, we call it the Laptitude 35053-G Detachable 3-in-1”

Ninio's extinction illusion. There are twelve black dots but they cannot all be seen at once

The brain is an amazing thing

[I don't love the job I did with the #alttext and am open to suggestions]

Francesca Gino’s grotesque effort to sue the Data Colada people for defamation and interfering with her career has been dismissed. Good! Her defamation claim against Harvard has also been dismissed. She can continue against Harvard for breach of contract. Because they seem to have messed up procedural aspects of their review of her work, like which policy they followed and why, I'd bet the most likely outcome now is that Harvard settles—i.e. pays her off—and she leaves.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.259933/gov.uscourts.mad.259933.74.0.pdf

We are proud to announce that we have USA bands enabled!

t-mobile, mint and AT&T are confirmed to work with all the normal usages of calling, sms, mms, data, 3G, 4G and 5G. Verizon and others are in progress and will be released soon also.

https://furilabs.com/usa-bands/

“I am a stutterer. And the fact that I could do the voice of Darth Vader was a crowning glory.”

Farewell to James Earl Jones (1931-2024)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-earl-jones-dead-darth-vader-1235996060/

#JamesEarlJones