Hi! Here's a 🧵 of my favorite comics I made this year. If you like them, visit kevincomics.com for more. Or sign up for my free email newsletter at kevincomics.com/newsletter/ . Or just keep scrolling. Whatever. I'm not your boss. --- #comics #comicstrip #funnycomics #kevincomics #funny #lol
I found some more traveling libraries! These are from the Finnish Seafarers' Union from the 1920s and are, I believe, to be brought aboard boats. From (yes I am at work today) Flickr Commons. #libraries #books #finland
Images of urbanisation, industrialisation and the emergence of consumer culture and the welfare state – the familiar 20th century story of the upheavals of Finnish society.
This time, however, the vantage point is that of the working class.
If like me, you were a child of the '90s, you might remember "ReBoot" – a pioneering 3D animated kids series created by Vancouver's own Mainframe Entertainment.
These documentarians have gotten a hold of the original, uncompressed digital masters. The problem is, they're in the D-1 format.
If anyone in the #retrotech community has access to a Bosch BTS D1, or a comparable D1 player/decoder, I urge you to reach out to @ReBootReWind (on Twitter) to help preserve #ReBoot!
A pioneering work for its time, Vancouver-produced 'ReBoot' was the first full-length 3D animated TV series. A pair of documentarians have now secured the show's digital masters.
The arXiv project now supports dissemination of papers in HTML format (alongside PDF) to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, including users of screen readers and other assistive technologies. The LaTeXML converter is being used to generate HTML output from the LaTeX sources. Guidance for authors has been published to facilitate creation of accessible HTML versions of submissions. info.arxiv.org/help/submit_lat… #accessibility #TeXLaTeX #arXiv
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V posledním díle minisérie o pražském hlavním nádraží se dostáváme k jeho budoucnosti. Zhodnotíme si nejen vítězný návrh, ale také zbylé dva, které se do sou...
This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important. “Red Panda” by Mathias Appel is marked with CC0 1.0.
1. Privacy
Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There’s been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don’t even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.
2. Browser engine monopoly
Wikipedia lists four browser engines as being “active”. Browser engines are the bits that take a web page’s code and display it on your screen. Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards, and display all elements as it describes. If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers. No proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense, just glorious open standards at work.
It’s happened before
In the early 2000’s, Internet Explorer had a massive 95% market share. This meant that many sites were only developed for use with IE. They’d use experimental features that IE supported, in favor of things from the official HTML standard. This was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.
Currenty, Chrome, Safari and Edge all use variations of the closely related Webkit and Blink engines. If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox, and its “Gecko” engine.
Firefox is actually really good
If Firefox would be a bad browser, I would not recommend you to switch. It’s fast, has a nice user interface, and feels every bit as modern and elegant as its competition. I’ve been using it as my main browser for a couple of years now, on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. As a web developer, I usually have at least three browsers open, but when I go look something up on the web, I pick Firefox.
Donating to my employer for #firefox development. Repeat post.
I often see people wishing that they could donate money to #Firefox Development directly.
One way to do this is to purchase a subscription to Relay, VPN or Pocket! Feel free to think of those subscriptions as donations, but instead of a tax receipt, you get access to a useful service that you can choose to use or not.
Firefox Relay makes it easy to create email masks that forward your messages to your true inbox. Use them to protect your online accounts from hackers and unwanted messages.
Even before you start using your shiny new phone, it might be interesting for you to know that Android organizes specific files and folders within your device’s storage, creating essential directories accessible from day one. Understanding the content and purpose of these folders can simplify file navigation and clarify their role in your device’s internal storage. Check out this beginner's guide to get to know more accessibleandroid.com/navigati… #Android #System
I just want to say how AMAZING I think the strike is, at the Eiffel Tower. Biggest week for the building in YEARS. Huge events planned. Workers said their conditions were unacceptable, and went on strike at the LEAST convenient time for anyone (including them), but that's when a strike gets the most attention! Got it on the BBC newscast!
* Micro Timer: microwave-inspired timer * Android LUKS: LUKS unlocking using usb accessory * Fossify Gallery: the FOSS fork of the adtech-sold SimpleTools Gallery
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
thanks for mentioning the Fossify movement on this post. It made me aware of what's going on with Simple Mobile Tools. @kuketzblog maybe worth spreading based on your blog if not done already. See also androidauthority.com/simple-mo…
In the latest edition of This week in F-Droid (TWIF), we talk about
- Jami's donation campaign - A major update of the malware scanner Hypatia - Silence is now available on newer devices - Deku SMS as another app for secure SMS messages - Mercurygram as new Telegram client
Also, we added another 17 apps last week and updated 128 apps.
TWIF generated on Thursday, 28 Dec 2023, Week 52Community News@Licaon_Kter celebrates:Jami was updated to 20231221-01 and its developer team is running an en...
"What we will be left is teachers who cannot do instructional design, students who cannot learn, and an inescapable dependency on whatever was published on the internet circa 2022, when humans used to write."
I remember getting my first personal calculator in 3rd grade. It wasn’t the first time I’d used one — that was with my mom’s calculator, which she used to balance her checkbook and had the most…
Ich bewundere wirklich Ihr Durchhaltevermögen (B&B – Beruf und Bahn) und Ihre Leidensfähigkeit (besonders bzgl. der Bahn). Ernstgemeinte Hochachtung (kein Sarkasmus) – und Danke (genau so ernsthaft)!
Ich hoffe, Sie sind mittlerweile gut angekommen. Wäre schlimm, würde der Datenschutz auf der Strecke bleiben 🙈
Alright, getting #SFFBookClub back on track. Two new options this month:
Light From Uncommon Stars is from a private toot, so if the recommender wants to make themselves known it's up to them to reply. More info: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
As always, the list of previously read titles is at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… . And as always, replies to either advocate for one of the options or suggest titles for future months are very welcome.
books read
Jan 2018,Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin,SEE ALSO!
Feb 2018,Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer,Bookwyrm version of this list at
Mar 2018,Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor,
Having done two sequels months in the past half year, I'd like to actually pick a book for #SFFBookClub January. Two new selections this time, suggested by @picklish & @DejahEntendu . Their links:
As always, replies to advocate for a favoured book and/or suggest more titles for the future are very welcome. The current queue and list of past reads are at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
books read
Jan 2018,Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin,SEE ALSO!
Feb 2018,Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer,Bookwyrm version of this list at
Mar 2018,Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor,
For February: both new options are titles that have been rumoured to have been censored out of the Hugos. I haven't been following that controversy closely enough to know how solid the evidence is, but they both sound interesting anyway so I figured I'd include them: harpercollins.com/products/bab… & xiranjayzhao.com/index.php/boo…
As usual, please vote, and replies to advocate for one of the choices or suggest future picks are always very welcome.
Advance notice for March: that will be the next Sequels Month purely because I have some travel coming up that will make keeping up with a poll more hassle than usual.
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one…
We seem to end up doing about one YA title a year, and they're usually a mixture of good and bad lightness. Often a nice break after something very heavy (e.g. this month's pick outside.ofa.dog/book/2743/s/ho… ), but also usually a bit "thin" in character development and/or resolving tensions too easily. Does that sound like your impression of Iron Widow?
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, includin…
Yeah, I wouldn't say resolves tensions too easily, maybe, but character motivations are a little thin, a bit stereotyped. Almost like evil archetypes that can't change sometimes. That said, there's also pretty violent stuff, so it's not YA-ish in that regard. Also some of the world-building feels a bit inspired by cartoon conventions, which makes it seem that way to me but that may be a personal bias.
Agreed about this being a good lineup. I was planning to read Babel when it was first released, but it always got bumped for something I was more interested in. Then it was late enough I decided to wait until the Hugo noms were released since I figured it would be included. When it wasn't, I pushed it even further down the list. I have a renewed interest now because it does appear to have been wrongfully disqualified. Siren Queen has also been on my list for a while. I'm just learning about Iron Window, and I've already read Light from Uncommon Stars. (Note to Eldang: Stars is very heavy on the violins.)
March is #SFFBookClub sequels month, so I'm putting up the poll for April now. Both of this month's new additions are from this thread about realistic depictions of science in fiction: wandering.shop/@janellecshane/…
As usual, replies to advocate for a fave or suggest more titles for future months are always welcome.
I was one of the scientists Maddie Stone interviewed about realistic and not so realistic depictions of science in movies and books.
My pick for realistic AI: Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Any others you can suggest?
https://www.nationalgeographic.
wenn der @morethanevil in einer halben Stunde vorbei schaut, sollte er sie da finden. Hatte sie gestern nach dem Sync gerade hinzugefügt (der aktuelle Sync läuft gerade)
die Leute erwarten das einfach von mir, scheint es. Inklusive Omnipräsenz. Diesen Link bekam ich vor wenigen Minuten zugeschickt: reddit.com/comments/18t3szr/co… 🤣 @morethanevil
The #OpenStreetMap booth at #37c3 has a big printer. A good test for the #MapComplete PDF-export function! In this case, it shows #surveillance cameras in #hamburg . Want your own map? Come over to the Bits-and-Baume area
Estonian is currently the most requested language by upvotes on my language requests Github poll: Toolkit for training/converting LibreTranslate compatible language models 🚂
music, singing, female voice, lyrics about female attraction
I was reflecting this morning on the lie #music #streaming told those of us who love listening to music, but aren't musicians ourselves. We were told that it would give us access to more varieties of music, and spontaneously introduce us to stuff we might love. Yet, I found more #indie music by mistake on file sharing back in the day than I ever find on Apple Music or Spotify. This is a good example: as a silly teenager, I searched for "pretty girls", and found this song amongst the porn. It says it's buy "The Capricorns". It's not on any of the music streaming services. There is a compressed copy on YouTube, but it only has 200 views. None of the streaming sites would ever have recommended this to me. I don't know who's singing, or anything about the band or song. Odds are I never will. And I kind of treasure that. #AltText was over 1500 characters. It is in this thread. I did my best, but I don't know how to describe music!
Llega tarde, pero resultados del seguimiento de 2022 del observatorio de accesibilidad sobre sitios web y aplicaciones de las AAPP: administracionelectronica.gob.…
I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.
first of all: never, ever read what drivel Lunduke vomits. He's scum, and if you're getting your information from him you're basically falling for a huckster.
Second: your donation goes to the Mozilla Foundation, but the CEO is paid by the Mozilla Corporation, and that money comes from the business deals that are, among other things, made by the CEO.
CEO are overpaid? Yes, that's absolutely true all across the industry; is the MoCo CEO paid by donations to the MoFo? No.
@ebassi I was not aware of Lunduke until today. Several people have pointed out his bad behavior in the past. I will not link to him in the future. I believe his points in this post are valid and have not found similar reporting to update my post with.
My objection is to the allocation of capital. $1M less to the CEO could fund several folks making Firefox better. My years of donations to the foundation never getting directed towards Firefox’s development stings doubly.
the points Lunduke makes are generally informed by his perspective, which is alt-right drivel, so always be careful about the target of his next attack.
As I said: I agree with the sentiment that CEOs are overpaid for what they contribute. I don't believe in singling out one of them just because there's a non-profit foundation involved in it.
@ebassi there's a great deal of misogyny baked into the claims of "excessive compensation". She's earning at the low side of compensation for a corporation with $3/4B in revenues, most from deals brokered by the CEO rather than direct product revenue.
@nojhan that's for the board of MoCo/MoFo to decide, but if they keep her employed I think they are satisfied with her performance.
I am all for expressing dismay at the performance of Moz, and their lack of direction; I don't want to single out the MoCo CEO, when clearly the MoFo is behind her; and I don't really want to single out her pay, because adding 10 more engineers isn't going to make Firefox any better if there isn't anyone bringing in cash at year's end.
@nojhan disclaimer: I worked at Mozilla (for a little bit, 10 years ago), and Mozilla grew far too fast, and far too much, so I don't agree with any assessment that says: "the CEO should get a pay cut and they should hire more people", because that's precisely what broke Mozilla. The issue is lack of direction, and a market that has been monopolised by Google, and that isn't going to be fixed by a bunch more people hacking on Firefox on Linux.
@ebassi You're making an irrelevant distinction. Mozilla Corporation pays other Firefox contributors, so if Mitchell Baker had to suffer in unspeakable torment with a $500k income, that would free up 6 million dollars for other contributors and then fewer of us would need to donate.
And it's classic Wall Street logic to keep raising the compensation of a CEO while their flagship product lost 80% market share under their leadership. Any non-exec would be fired for the same outcome.
For the record, I donate monthly to Thunderbird and the Software Freedom Conservancy.
@firebreathingduck sure, I’m totally on board with a drop the compensation package for every CEO; if you only drop her salary/bonus, though, she’ll move elsewhere (like she did before), and you won’t be able to replace her (nobody is going to get that massive shave) and you’ll be out of a CEO. Who is going to do the job of getting the money? Donations are not going to sustain a company the size of Moz without letting go a ton of people…
@firebreathingduck restructuring Mozilla to be leaner, smaller and do less may work for something that fewer people use, and has a smaller appeal, like Thunderbird; it’s not going to send a good message for an increase in investment in Firefox… you know, the thing that still attracts enough users that you can bargain for 400 million USD in search provider deals
@firebreathingduck once again: Mozilla is not in a good place, and its management has committed multiple blunders; paying their CEO a fraction of the average salary for a tech company of their size and reach isn’t really one of them
@ebassi We're armchair pontificators beating a dead horse here. But it's fun.
Mozilla's flagship is Firefox, and to continue the flagship metaphor, the rest of their navy is composed of kayaks.
And Baker and Mozilla leadership spent fifteen years trying to pivot to new projects instead of focusing enough on the core product. Now to be fair, Google shamelessly used its search monopoly to promote Chrome and Mozilla could do nothing. So maybe if Mozilla had done everything right, it wouldn't matter.
But when you install Firefox, your start page should have a blank search bar. On the right side you should have five simple links: personalize this page, set as default browser, see what's new, get add-ons, donate.
No start page full of ads and images. *Never* modal dialogs about features, default browser, "What's New", etc...
Fast, lean, get out of my way and let me get things done. Give users what they want and what they know, with their option to explore more. i.e. a product that puts me first, not Mozilla.
@dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis the sins of Mozilla run a lot deeper than acquiring a bookmark service, and in general have nothing to do with how they spent money on acquisitions or even hiring practices. Ironically, it's the ironclad conviction that Firefox should be a product that messed them up; if they focused on making it embeddable, we would not have Chrome at the heart of everything… or, at least, not as much (can't fight Google on money and resources)
@dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis first: making Gecko (the web rendering engine) usable as a library, which would have reduced the ubiquity of WebKit; then, making Firefox a generic, embeddable framework, to avoid CEF as the core of Electron. By focusing on centralising everything around the web browser, Mozilla missed the train in making the web as an app development platform, and now we have Chrome everywhere, which means Google.
@kzimmermann this is the compensation for the CEO of the Mozilla *Corporation* (who is also the chairman of the Foundation, but doesn't get compensation for that). You should not compare the CEO of MoCo with other no profit foundations, or small donation-driven software projects. Framasoft isn't getting 400mil USD per year out of deals with other companies.
That's why I said that the FSF doesn't do anything, compared to Mozilla.
That seems a great idea for the future: electron apps are shit, but there is a high demand (from developers) to write "desktop apps" with web technology. If Mozilla can answer this demand better than Electron (and I'm sure there is room for improvement) it will be a massive success.
This train hasn't passed yet, still time to hop in
@freci @vincevlo @dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis xulrunner died long before 2015; we had an embeddable Gecko running in offscreen mode in 2009-2010 on Moblin for netbooks, at Intel, but every time we asked Mozilla for a proper embedding API, they dithered or simply refused because “Firefox is the product”. That’s how you get WebKit everywhere, which leads to Chrome everywhere once Google decides to put their money printer behind a proper effort
@ebassi @vincevlo @dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis XULRunner never really lived, tbh (I just picked the last release date as the "death" date in the post above).
I remember being psyched when ephy was ported from gtkmozembed to gtk-webkit, the code became sooo much simpler. But it was before Chrome became the problem it is today (I got my memory backwards, Chrome was released in 2008 while the first Epiphany version using Webkit is from 2009)
@ebassi @freci @vincevlo @dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis The dumbest part about this is that lots of things were killed internally because, depending on context, the renderer was the product. Just not enough the product to make it widely useful.
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Ale aby té pohody nebylo příliš - za porci kapřích hranolků chtějí v Třeboni už 250 Kč. Vzhledem k tomu, z čeho se dělají a kolik to dá práce (je to frk-frk, dělal jsem je naposledy v sobotu), mi to přijde cena zlodějská. 🤷🏻♂️ Jo, je to jako se vším - nechceš, nekoupíš. Ale spousta turistů si tohle ještě pořád nechá líbit a tak nenažranost takových podniků vesele roste. #Trebon #JizniCechy
Ad 2: Mám to už z filetu bez kůže. A protože to dělám jen z bříšek (prostě uříznu všechno "pod hrudním košem") a ty vysoký části nechávám na řízky, kostiček je minimálně. Prakticky tam nebylo nic, ale s rybou si dáváš pozor pořád. ;-)
@chick_enheart Ad 1: to se mi tentokrát vypátrat nepodařilo, na obou místech, kde bylo inzerováno jen na pouliční ceduli, bylo zavřeno (jako skoro všude). Podle toho, co jsem tam viděl v sezóně (na zahrádce i v misce "kapr-to-go") toho bylo, jak když utrousí, odhaduju tak 150 g. Ale i kdyby 200, ta cena je šílená (1200-1600 Kč/kg výrobku). Když to srovnám např. s řízkem z krkovice, jen cena surovin a pracnost je řádově jinde a ty kapří zbytky prostě prostě platíš zlatem (jen Poláci zlotem).
Ad 2: Mám to už z filetu bez kůže. A protože to dělám jen z bříšek (prostě uříznu všechno "pod hrudním košem") a ty vysoký části nechávám na řízky, kostiček je minimálně. Prakticky tam nebylo nic, ale s rybou si dáváš pozor pořád.
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