#ThreeGoodThings
1. Today was my last day of work before holiday break so I don’t have to get up to an alarm clock for a full nine days!
2. Therefore, I will have lots of time to really dig into creative projects, andcatch up with friends, IRL.
3. I have the beginnings of a song written, just need to write a second verse. (1/2)

A societal attitude we desperately need to end is that unpartnered people aren't as valid or socially acceptable. Single people aren't broken. Single people aren't lesser. Single people can and do have valid and meaningful roles in the world. The attitude that you need a partner to be whole is so unbelievably toxic and I hate it for many reasons. We need to let people choose their own paths for partnerships and quit making it a public social issue surrounding them. Who someone chooses to date or not date should not be as big of a thing as it is. Nobody should ever feel pressure to do something they don't want to do, and that includes finding a partner. Just let single people live their lives, there are all kinds of reasons someone could be single and pushing them around to conform to your societal standards is likely not helping them. If they want a partner and don't have one, your pushing and rushing it is likely just causing unnecessary stress. If they don't want one, you're basically shaming them for their life choices and pushing them into a box they don't belong in. Just let people do their own thing as long as it's not harmful. Okay? Okay. Thank you

What is a WebExtension, and how is it different from a Chrome extension?

howtogeek.com/what-is-a-webext…

Remember the claim to support the standard from Chrome is only when they make the standard. The fact they'd deprecate a large part of the API usefull for content blocking but not realign API to match the standard...

It's the new IE.

I just attended a @pluralistic talk hosted by the @internetarchive , in which he shared that thanks to #enshittification, printer ink now costs over $10K/gallon, more expensive than semen from a prize-winning racehorse.

I searched and found this is also mentioned in his Feb 2025 essay: pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink…

in reply to Pax Ahimsa Gethen

After Epson bricked my last printer a couple of years ago, I decided not to buy another personal ink jet printer. There have been some slight inconveniences, but not as many as I worried there would be.

A trip to the neighborhood print shop when something absolutely has to be printed is less stressful than owning a printer that can be bricked whenever the corporation feels like it.

The ink jet cartel needs to be broken.

#Enshittification

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in reply to kellylford

@DavidGoldfield Maybe they should start by making sure all the basic navigation concepts they established decades ago still function right. If I open notepad, press alt to focus the menu bar and move around, most of the time I can't get out. Escape, alt, f10, nothing works if it gets into this state. Maybe this is fixed in 25h2, my Windows install has 24h2 in which case disregard all of the above, but most modern Microsoft UI's have these little papercuts everywhere. Though I guess this one's a little bigger than a papercut.
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in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach @DavidGoldfield That's true for pretty much any Windows/Microsoft UI these days, I feel. Task manager, Notepad, Settings, there's all these tiny little issues that really don't need to be there but are, and let's be real: if you can screw up something as simple as Notepad ... you are snoozing behind the round thing that makes the car go in different directions, that is the expression, no? :P

I'm celebrating because I just accepted an offer to fill an Assistive Technology Specialist position with KHAN Academy! Although this is a part-time temporary role, it will give me the ability to support my family along with some much-needed stability! I'm not sitting down or stopping though, so if anyone out here has any other contract or part-time leads, please send them my way!

while I did cleared this up in replies regarding the post I forgot to clear it up in the main post itself, so Lemmy clarify. I remember me posting that due to the #exploitation of tweesecake, I was going to, after either we got it completely migrated or updated to the latest mastodon, @ChrisDuffley's domain.
the reason I believe exploitation is because tweesecake is now requiring users to pay to use the application.
while this mayn ot effect the instance itself (yet) I don't exactly like to support companies who do this.

you're paying them to let you use a network that's already free.
it's like iff I made an operating system and said "sorry, we know you own the computer and our OS is open source but....uh...you have to pay to use your computer...".
reminds me heavily of jaws, though granted they are more exploitative and, arguably, moren needed.

still, point still stands

in reply to feld

also weird is like how Adams went to Israel to tell them "I served you as Mayor of NYC" -- ok what? Served another country? What? What does that mean? They aren't your citizens, you should be serving your citizens (yes, many are Jewish, but... they're Americans)

soon: Mayor of Boston goes to the Vatican to remind them that he "Served them as Mayor of Boston"

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For all the KDE Kate enthusiasts and GTK developers (which I am sure there except for just me haha), invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/… and invent.kde.org/frameworks/synt… have both been merged into Kate, meaning Kate now supports Blueprint, the next-gen markdown language for GTK/Libadwaita applications!

#Kate #KDE #GTK

#gtk #KDE #kate
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Anyone have a recommendation for a macos local kanban board style todo list manager? I checked the app store and there are quite a few.

Single user, non-shared data is fine/preferred.

One thing I would like to have is auto archiving of old tasks. Like the last week or two of completed tasks stays, but older ones are archived where they can still be viewed if needed.

#MacOS #Kanban

Lots of folks speculating about AirDrop working on the Pixel, if it was reverse engineering or asking if Apple might break the compatibility. The reality might be a bit more mundane. Seems Apple is just being forced to play by regulators' rules...
youtu.be/t2I9FyZdhbs

#tech #technology #technews #google #business #geek #gadgets #eu #dma #apple #android #ios

🇪🇺 "This is the biggest attack on European's digital rights in years," said Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems "When the Commission states that it 'maintains the highest standards', it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards."

cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

Setting the domain name / domain search list through DHCP is so cool.

It makes it so that any device that connects to the network can use short hostnames to reach local services, without requiring any configuration.

You can just tell someone to connect to the wifi and go to `http://grafana`, or configure a "smart power outlet" connect to `mqtt` without specifying the FQDN.

As long as you don't use TLS :/

Nothing I love more than spending a whole day screaming WHAT HAPPENED WHAT CHANGED WHY IS THIS BROKEN NOW and wasting hours banging my head wondering how this could be happening so suddenly

Well I guess docker got updated on my test server and I didn't notice

github.com/test-kitchen/kitche…

That's some next level Bond villain shite!

Imagine having an ego that requires that kind of virtual massaging... by what amounts to a pre-programmed bot.

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

#prayforhumanity #itisnotAI #LLM #LLMFAIL #LLMprogrammingFAIL #internet

I wasn’t following @thunderbird’s blog and that was clearly a mistake.

They give good insights about how they will solve some gripes I’ve had (namely the conversation view), and why things are like they are right now.

Also pretty nice to follow the advancement of Thunderbird Pro. The offering is a unique mix of Fastmail and Cal.com, I can see a market for it!

blog.thunderbird.net

RHEL 10.1 introduces Soft Reboot Capability [1] in 2025.

Nice playing a catch up game to FreeBSD that has this feature [2]/[3] since 2015 - a whole DECADE ago.

[1] thenewstack.io/rhel-10-1-soft-…

[2] cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?i…

[3] cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?i…

Everybody talks about how #singlePayer would eliminate the wasted money sucked out of #healthcare by insurance companies. That misses a more important point.
If the government is going to be paying for your healthcare no matter what, then they want to keep you healthy, because healthcare costs are lower for healthy people.
An insurance company, on the other hand, can just bet on you losing your insurance because you're sick and can't work or afford it, and then you're no longer their problem.
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I don't know why it's so hard to get the messaging right.

How about we just point at the giant bubbles and crashes of the economy and say to the TV camera: "How about instead of giving money to the corporations that cause these problems we invest directly in the American people by putting their health and education first, so they can be setup for success and grow the economy"?

And so it begins... :(

Winter bike-lane rollback in Outremont: montrealgazette.com/news/local… #polMTL #MTLpoli #veloMTL

Valve’s announcements last week about their upcoming gaming devices were particularly welcome here at Igalia: a lot of our work will be in the Frame, as it has been in the Deck. From translation layers to frame rates and preventing rendering glitches, we’ve been helping Valve push gaming forward. igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalv…
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1. Fast food isn't inexpensive anymore (tho it is still, very "cheap"). Low income people can't afford it anymore.

2. Higher wage earners, Can't Fucking Afford Groceries (real food) anymore, so they're suplimenting with ,,, shitty assed McDonald's.

* Fun fact: McD's makes me throw up, I literally can't eat it.

* Bonus: Taco Trucks tend to be less inexpensive (& healthy food).

Fast food is losing its low-income customers. Economists are full of shit wankers.

[FTFY]latimes.com/business/story/202…

in reply to feld

@feld Ooooooo. Nnnngh. *Twitch*

Please don't call it "Cali". That's painful to us. "Cal" or "California" or "That state that's from another planet" is fine.

LL Cool J wrote that damned song and needs to be dropped off Pier 39 chained to something heavy.

Bonus Round: Also, don't call it "Frisco", ESPECIALLY if you happen to be in San Francisco/San Fran/The City, you'll get rolled in an alley.

This is a PSA.

@feld