I’ve been a fan of Stevie Wonder for as long as I can remember. That’s why I’m proud to share The Wonder of Stevie podcast from Higher Ground and @Questlove, which explores the five-year period starting from 1972 where Stevie released some of the most groundbreaking albums that transformed music.
I hope you'll take some time to listen on Audible or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Israel's attacks on Lebanon have killed 2000 and displaced over a million now.
Here's another aspect of the story you're not likely to have heard of: Lebanon's African migrant community, which numbers around half a million, are among the displaced, the fleeing, the injured.
Unfortunately, and this is incredibly heartbreaking to say it, African migrants are being denied space at shelters that are being declared "Lebanese only."
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Advertising literally adds zero value to the world, and does quite a of harm. It's not even just about the privacy issue; we already know what that looks like and we don't want it. The core premise of Mark Surman, Mozilla's President, is that "We can’t just ignore online advertising — it’s a major driver of how the internet works and is funded."
We can actually. We need to explore other models. And people are, but it sure would help if they had access to the resources of an organization as large as Mozilla. An organization large enough to be a driver of how the internet works and is funded. Really wish they would show some vision, instead of following down a path when we *know* where it leads.
Look at the costs and benefits described here: github.com/mozilla/explainers/…
Costs: people lose their privacy
Benefits: data is valuable to advertisers
Therefore the benefits outweigh the costs.
Like if you do cost benefit analysis that way then you get to do anything
Me stealing your lunch
Costs: you dont have a sandwich
Benefits: I have a sandwich and dont have to pay for it
estoy totalmente de acuerdo, y más porque Barrio Antiguo cada vez enfrenta mayor tráfico en horas donde la gente pretende ir a pasear, es ilógico mantener esa zona abierta a los autos. Y tienes razón con lo de las avenidas, apoyo lo que dices, pero falta que los alcaldes se muevan.
Supuestamente el gobernador busca mayor movilidad peatonal, y ya no tiene excusa porque su partido ganó en varios municipios, 2 muy importantes y conectados 
Our closed beta testers have finally gotten their hands on Thunderbird Appointment, and it seems like they like us! Check out this review from @ZDNet - and kudos to them for trying the self-hosted install as well!
I hope a better notification system for the event calender etc. Comes to.
Something like a dialog in the center of thunderbird screen would work.
Don't use the incoming e -mail notification bubble. Turned that off long ago.
Nice write-up over on @ZDNet for @thunderbird Appointment. We're so glad to see appreciation for this open source scheduling tool - and we're just getting started.
My daughter was exposed to COVID via a coworker so I've been trying to find a test for her. The free ones are gone everywhere and the ones you pay for are so back-ordered none of the pharmacies can even guess at an ETA - I've been told to "maybe check back in a month?"
So the beauty of this is if my daughter gets sick it'll be a 'mysterious flu-like illness.'
Genius! This same public health approach will work for cancer, measles... freaking everything right up to climate change!
Right, forgot about the census too.
And they call themselves business people!
When a corporation plans a move, first thing they do is define the parameters for marking success. If the wingers ran Apple they'd have no clue how many iPhones they sold, who to aim marketing at, reception of their image... nothing.
Maybe that's how Trump does business, running them all into bankruptcy.
The current Mozilla seems to believe that there is "good" advertising and "bad" advertising, and that furthermore there is "good" ad tracking/ad surveillance and "bad" ad tracking/ad surveillance, and all they have to do is do a lot of the "good" advertising and "good" surveillance and somehow this will cause there to be less of the "bad" advertising and surveillance. As if there is a limit on how much advertising it is possible to fit in the world.
good point. I am mainly disappointed that management didn't read their own list archives—did Internet freedom people compromise with any of the other possible dystopia timelines?
Clipper Chip (US government) no, we have e2e encryption now
Codec patent cartel (huge IT companies) no, we have free media formats
DRM mandate "Fritz Chip" (US government + big media) no, we dodged this one too
Can't beat this stuff with compromises that leave supporters feeling creeped out
@dmarti About "free media formats" there a few things they botched, self inflicted.
1. EME to allow DRM. Not an uptick into the market share.
2. some initiative didn't work with Firefox without proprietary codec because one part of the company had to clue (won't give the name of the initiative)
There's a web UI that uses the (chromium-only) Bluetooth API @ github.com/linssenste/instax-l…
And a Python library @ github.com/javl/InstaxBLE
I’ve been sober for a few years, but I miss bars. Bars were a big part of my life for a long time. Maybe I just miss third places. Anyway, there aren’t many third places here that aren’t bars.
It’s different for every sober person, but I am personally ok being in bars and around real booze. I’m not at risk of going back. So I have a few bars that I like going to where I know they have enough NA options for me. It fills some kind of social hole for me.
I genuinely believe Mozilla thinks it's acting in the public interest by moving further into the ad-tech ecosystem, claiming that it's doing so in a privacy-protecting way.
But the history of ad-tech is that it swallows everything it touches.
Mozilla + ad-tech = ad-tech.
how to write low-power software, it would seem
previously
- write fast software, so the CPU can finish quickly and sleep more
- minimize wakeups and heartbeats, so the CPU can stay asleep more
- don't touch the AVX-512 unit unless you really need it, so it can sleep more
- etc.
now:
- don't use AI. everything else is noise.
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World Wide Web Foundation to close, as Berners-Lee shifts focus to Solid Protocol zdnet.com/home-and-office/netw… by
@sjvn
Can Sir Tim transform the Web to its golden age where individuals and not mega-corps set the tone with Solid Protocol? He certainly hopes so.
It's funny how things go. Lots of people report being unable to focus for long or constantly jumping from topit to topic. Someone posted a gutenberg link on Mastodon and I just caught myself 15% through a book. I sometimes feel like I have attention surplus, rather than deficit.
This is not necessarily a good thing. I can become really focused to the point of neglecting things like eating, sleeping, or urgent tasks that I don't want to be interrupted by.
A few parts on my Framework laptop crapped out and it finally needed to go into a repair shop for fixes and upgrades. Neatly, all the parts I needed were around $100, and the repair bill was ~$120, taking less than an hour to diagnose and fix.
Not that $220 is something everyone can afford, but I love that I got those repairs made quickly on a laptop, not exactly a form factor known for its fixability. I thought I'd regret abandoning the repairability of a desktop, but the fact that my Framework can be pulled apart, cleaned, and fixed makes it a much better option for me.
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Now that they are using hCaptcha I find myself locked out of both of my paypal accounts. Since their accessibility cooky doesn't want to work in any browser I'm going to probably have to use aira.
Or, has anyone had any luck using AI to beat this?
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