I was trash talking advertising and while searching for a reference to something I vaguely remembered I found this discussion of a result showing the more advertising a society is exposed to the unhappier people are.
hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-ma…
"The University of Warwick’s Andrew Oswald and his team compared survey data on the life satisfaction of more than 900,000 citizens of 27 European countries from 1980 to 2011 with data on annual advertising spending in those nations over the same period. The researchers found an inverse connection between the two. The higher a country’s ad spend was in one year, the less satisfied its citizens were a year or two later. Their conclusion: Advertising makes us unhappy."
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Svět bez pravdy podle Andreje Babiše
Pouhé nastavování mikrofonu a rozdělování prostoru je popřením veřejnoprávnosti
[Respekt]respekt.cz/tydenik/2024/41/sve…
In other news: The #music industry continues its heroic quest to truly and thoroughly fuck everyone.
What OS are you using on a daily basis?
#Windows #macos #Linux #Android #iOS #Chromeos #Computer #mobile #Vivaldi
- Windows (36%, 2436 votes)
- MacOS (34%, 2273 votes)
- Linux (56%, 3790 votes)
- ChromeOS (1%, 127 votes)
- Android (40%, 2726 votes)
- iOS (29%, 1964 votes)
- Other (2%, 182 votes)
"In seinem Neujahrswort 1990 spricht der Thüringer Landesbischof Werner Leich davon, dass der lange "Weg in die Freiheit nur in Versöhnung und Gewaltlosigkeit" gelingen könne. Dafür hatten viele keine Geduld. Der schnellen deutschen Einheit folgte die sehr feste geschwisterliche Umarmung. Der gerade erst so hoffnungsvoll begonnene breite Dialog, die Kernforderung des Neuen Forums, war zu Ende, bevor er begonnen hatte. Damals mahnten Stimmen die Aufarbeitung der gemeinsamen Geschichte an, vor allem der vor 1945. Doch das Gespräch zwischen Ost und West gestaltete sich schwierig. Gesellschaft und Kirchenvolk im Osten hatten das Gefühl, bei der Gestaltung der Einheit von Staat und Kirche nicht auf Augenhöhe mitreden zu können."
Das kommentiert Dietlind Steinhöfel treffend in der aktuellen
meine-kirchenzeitung.de/
#DDR #BRD #Kirche #Osten #Dialog #Augenhöhe #Wende #deutscheEinheit #FediKirche
'Fietsers nemen weinig ruimte in beslag, ze vervuilen niet en fietsen is gezond. Wat is er dan mooier voor een stad, dan het aantal fietsers te zien groeien? Maar daar moet je de stad wel op inrichten. Want -vooral in de ochtendspits – is het héél druk op de fietspaden.
Welke straat kan een fietsstraat worden?'
#DeDag #1708 - File op het fietspad
open.spotify.com/episode/3i6XL…
Dr. Emily Zarka just made a brilliant video on the entire history of Jiang Shi, Chinese hopping vampires.
It's concise and comprehensive. Check it out!
I decided not to risk it and take the bus. Said bus took a wrong route, forcing me to run 500m in two minutes to catch my train. And *that* train is full due to reduced service, meaning I'll stand for the next 40 minutes next to a lady playing loud Schlager for all of us whether we want it or not.
Public transport is the *true* Köln Marathon.
When the accessible description of the focused control changes, browsers are supposed to send a description changed event, with the expectation that a screen reader will convey the new description to the user. If I remember correctly, Chrome does but Firefox does not (or did) not.
Regardless, that's what you're hearing, so turning off ARIA alerts wouldn't help. NVDA should probably consider the modification of a description to be a dynamic content change, though. @pitermach @NVAccess
Um video curioso.
O icónico avião do filme TopGun de 1986, o F-14 Tomcat é ainda utilizado por um país no Mundo. Por ironia do destino é um dos principais inimigos do EUA: o Irão.😄
Tudo bem explicado abaixo.
i'm on the fence about nuclear power.
on the one hand, it is a clean (relatively speaking) source of power, and all historical catastrophes were results of bureaucratic incompetence rather than technical limitations
on the other hand, nuclear technology goes hand-in-hand with nuclear weapons; bureaucratic incompetence is all but inevitable; and renewables exist
i'm looking to harvest opinions and discussion to help figure out where i stand... please boost and leave your thoughts!
As a person who often struggles with accessibility issues, it would be incredibly useful to me if I could find direct email addresses of software developers at various companies, as first-line support is often less than helpful.
This information is generally a matter of public record, as many people choose to reveal their email address in the commits they publish to GitHub and other similar services. However, those addresses are often somewhat hard to find.
Is there a service that can help with this, and that would let me query all public GitHub commits by email host?
I could probably do this myself, there are Github datasets on Bigquery after all, but I hoped something like this would be available somewhere?
Die FDP hat das „Bett, Brot & Seife für abgelehnte Asylbewerber“
eisenhart von der AfD geklaut - es stammt aus einem Antrag der Faschisten vom 24.9.
The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.
Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.
What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.
Public systems should not require use of private services.
#NS #Netherlands #FOSS #privacy
Not everything needs to be an app
Not everything needs to be a subscription
Not everything needs to be connected to WiFi
Not everything needs AI
Not everything needs to require an account
Not everything needs to be hosted on the cloud
Not everything needs to use a touch screen
Not everything needs to be “smart”
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Senior security officer.
0% X - deleted account about the time Melon renamed it.
100% infosec.exchange - thank you @jerry
Nicely curated cybersec news + some shitposting to relieve the frustration 😂
It seems time again to remind everyone not to use ARIA `menu` roles for web site navigation:
adrianroselli.com/2017/10/dont…
From a technical perspective, there is no such thing as “dropdowns”:
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/stop…
That imprecise terminology leads to more miscommunication between sales folks, designers, and devs than is necessary. Then weird stuff gets built from scratch instead of leaning on existing patterns.
You should dismiss articles that conflate the two.
I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features.
Off the top of my head, Safari and Firefox use the following Chromium libraries: libwebrtc, libbrotli, libvpx, libwebp, some color management libraries, libjxl (Chromium may eventually contribute a Rust JPEG-XL implementation to Firefox; it’s a hard image format to implement!), much of Safari’s cryptography (from BoringSSL), Firefox’s 2D renderer (Skia)…the list goes on. Much of Firefox’s security overhaul in recent years (process isolation, site isolation, user namespace sandboxes, effort on building with ControlFlowIntegrity) is directly inspired by Chromium’s architecture.
Interdependence for independent components can be mutually beneficial. For something to be part of Chromium, it needs to build and test with a battery of sanitizers and receive continuous fuzzing. Mozilla and Safari do something similar. All benefit from libraries getting patched to meet each others’ security requirements. Without Google, Mozilla and Apple must assume responsibility to maintain these libraries to a browser-grade standard.
I see many advocates for Chromium alternatives say the Web would be better without Chromium. That may be true, but Chromium alternatives may also be worse.
For completeness: Firefox and Safari’s influence on Chromium in recent years includes the addition of memory-safe languages, partitioned site storage, declarative content blocking (from Safari), and a vague multi-year repeatedly-delayed intent to phase out third-party cookies. Chromium would be no better off without other browser projects.
Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE).
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