Climate Change Demonstration Criticised for Blocking Traffic in Spain — The Shovel
“I’m all for action on climate change, but all this demonstration does is inconvenience people. It's selfish".The Shovel
For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.
Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.
It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.
That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.
It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.
It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.
When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.
Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!
Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.
Unbedingt lesen!
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#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus
Warum verhindern Werkstätten gleiche Teilhabe? - andererseits.org
Diese Recherche ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung entstanden: Fast 300 Tausend Menschen mit Behinderungen in Deutschland arbeiten in Werkstätten.Christian Cito (andererseits)
My website turned four today! 
Found out via the ooh.directory homepage.
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Anybody know anything about the following User Agent strings?
ReplicantReaderBot: “Replicant” isn’t an entirely unique brand name. I hope this is unrelated to the Replicant LLM chatbots. If it is, is it used to train or is it just a client of the chatbots?ArenaBot/1.0 (+<https://arena.im/bot/;> contact@arena.im)(page is a 404; is this used to train LLMs or does an LLM use this as a client to fetch data?)SocialBeeAgent: again, used to train LLMs or a client of an LLM?Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5 Tencent/BrandProtection. Does this obey robots.txt or am I gonna have to add another Nginx rule? I normally block brand-protection bots.
‼️ A partir de esta mañana Izquierda Unida y el Partido Comunista de Andalucia hemos abierto nuestra sede en #ElPuerto como punto solidario para las personas afectadas por la tragedia climática en Valencia.
En estos momentos difíciles para tantas personas cualquier aportación, por pequeña que sea, puede ser de gran ayuda.
Can this been fixed in the way to split the listening times to the respective months?
Just updating everyone on the advocacy I’ve been doing with Flexibits regarding Fantastical for Windows.
Flexibits have been seeking advice direct from Microsoft about improving accessibility. There is no doubt that as a company they are committed to making the experience as accessible as their products on Apple platforms. They set an aggressive schedule for getting things improved substantially, but they say they ran into a couple of issues directly with Microsoft and were not able to get all of the fixes in that they were hoping to include by the end of this week.
Flexibits tell me they are getting ready to issue a public release, version 4.0.3, that includes some fixes that should help a bit, however it is not close to being everything they are trying to improve.
So in the next release, they say we should notice some fixes to accessibility, but this is definitely not the finished product.
We can obviously lament the fact that it was released without accessibility included in the first public build, and this is regrettable, but we are where we are, and I have developed a good sense over the years of when we’re being given the run-around and when a company is genuine. I am sure they are now trying to put this right. If it gets done successfully, having Fantastical working accessibly on Windows will be a huge deal for those of us who use this app extensively on Apple platforms. I’ll keep everyone posted.
Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.
And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.
I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere
Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r
And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.
the worst is that you can block "Shorts" with an uBlock Origin rules. No need of a new extension.
Oh wait...
Oh, neat! A new open source app for Fuji cameras.
Currently Android and WiFi only, just supporting transfers so far. Bluetooth is planned, as is location support. Desktop and iOS versions are listed on the roadmap.
#Fuji #camera #OpenSource #FOSS #Android
GitHub - petabyt/fudge: Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras
Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras. Contribute to petabyt/fudge development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Option<T> and Result<T>, and I wish more programming languages would adopt something like it.
US folks: If you've not voted early, and don't yet have plans to vote, please make plans over the weekend! If early voting is still available in your area, take some time out of your day and get it done.
For those who have already voted via mail or in-person early voting, here are resources to check the status of your ballot: vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/
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The Majestic Monolith
Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a …Signal v. Noise
Hi, humans.
If you like me (and we like, at least sometimes talk) and would be interested in joining a potential discord server I create, feel free to give me a shout.
Can't promise anything, as these thing usually go, but I'd like to have people I like around and stuff.
@cachondo @menelion Discord really starts to shine when you have people that are on the server while moving about. Their noise cancelation is beyond amazing, meaning that you can e.g. do stuff in the kitchen, speak when you have something to say, and not be annoying when you don't. It also handles network conditions, like when getting into an elevator for example, a lot better than tt.
With that said, I think it needs a lot more shepherding from admins, as each new member needs to actually be invited, you can't just give credentials to people you trust.
Hier gibt es meinen ausführlichen Bericht zur Antwort der🚦auf meine schriftliche Frage zum Ausmaß der Förderung von #Blockchain ⛓️ durch den Bund u ob die Reg. überhaupt mal guckt, was aus den letzten 215 mio € #Fördergeld für Gedöns seit 2017 geworden ist: mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/202…
PICs: Screenshots aus dem verlinkten Text, u.a. ein #tl;dr u eine Gegenüberstellung von #hypetech Förderung u #Opensource Förderung
Millionen für Blockchain in 2024 – Wirkung egal - Anke Domscheit-Berg
Mit wie viel Geld fördert der Bund immer noch Blockchain Vorhaben? Das fragte ich mich, als mir auffiel, dass laut Haushaltstitel „Innovative Anwendungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz“ auch Blockchain gefördert werden kann - das stand im Kleingedruckte…Anke Domscheit-Berg
No consideraré aquest un país seriós i com cal fins que no es faci fora l'actual govern del País Valencià: o dimiteixen o se'ls fa un 155...
...tot i que després de veure Madrid durant la pandèmia em queden poques esperances.
Watch #OpenAlt live
@keddie : Digitalni stavebni rizeni.
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Konference OpenAlt 2024 – sobota – D105
Vítejte na konferenci OpenAlt 2024.🗓️ 👍 Program a hodnocení: https://www.openalt.cz/2024/program/YouTube
#kraftwerk’s mighty Autobahn is 50 years old today!
Imagine listening to it back then, this amazing 22 minute electronic track that captures the joy (and boredom) of a long drive on the autobahn.
It remains stunning and fresh now, let alone how mindblowing it must’ve been in ‘74
youtu.be/vkOZNJYAZ7c?si=FomUnY…
Autobahn (2009 Remaster)
Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKAutobahn (2009 Remaster) · KraftwerkAutobahn℗ 2009 Ralf Hütter/Kraftwerk under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Lt...YouTube
Claro, por ahí fuera flipan con que los responsables siguieran con sus agendas y haciéndose fotos mientras ya caían las lluvias torrenciales.
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Valencia's governor posed for photos amid flash flood red alerts
Carlos Mazón and his regional government failed to send out emergency warnings 12 hours after the country’s meteorological agencyJames Crisp (The Telegraph)
![Nintendo 3DS XL on a wodden table showing the specifications screen of the internet browser.
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Copyright (c) 1996 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>. [...]"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/604718 "Nintendo 3DS XL on a wodden table showing the specifications screen of the internet browser.
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If you have more or better screenshots, please share! This shot is taken from the ending sequence of the PC version of the game Grand Theft Auto V. 44 minutes in! See the youtube version. Sky HD is a satellite TV box. This is a Philips TV.daniel.haxx.se
It's a tragedy, and the handling is absolutely awful so far. A few more details:
Right after winning the election, the regional government abolished the regional emergency unit as a cost-cutting measure.
Urban planning failed in allowing to build in what are essentially dry riverbeds and became wet once again.
The state agency for meteorology had been giving warnings for days. Civil protection didn't issue warnings to citizens through their phones until flooding had already begun.
A far right pseudo-trade union has sued the director of the agency for reckless homicide.
The president of the region incorrectly stated that the phenomenon was remiting and heading elsewhere.
The region didn't ask the state to raise the emergency level to 3, in which case the state would take over the single command and deploy its own means to support. But now the region accuses the state of innaction. The region also didn't declare "situation of catastrophic emergency" which would have vested single command on the regional president, probably to elude legal responsibility.
Volunteers were rejected at first, then belatedly organised, and the region instead of sending them to help people in villages with cleaning, food and water delivery and so on, have at times sent them to clean shopping centres.
With that amount of rain it was always going to be bad. But the civil protection plan failed and the political conflict in the country is keeping administrations pointing the finger at each other. Very upsetting.
everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/…
TELNET - everything curl
everything there is to know about curl, libcurl and the cURL projecteverything.curl.dev
It's #FediBookFair weekend! All weekend, authors will be posting about books and related topics. Follow the hashtag to find new authors to follow, and books to read or buy as Christmas presents.
If this doesn't sound like fun, filter the hashtag. But if it does, please boost so that more people can join us.
We will boost as many posts as we can, and we encourage others to do the same.
Pero resulta que este señor, periodista para La Vanguardia y A Punt, dice que hay lío en "varios" buses porque les han llevado A LIMPIAR UN CENTRO COMERCIAL.
Al parecer la gente se niega a bajar de los buses porque quieren ayudar a la gente en sus casas u calles.
Cuando crees que no pueden dar más vergüenza y asco, lo consiguen.
Mastodon #Science people, I come to you, hat in hand, searching for a paper.
It was about using Corsi-Rosenthal boxes in schools, but it was fairly short, because the teachers in the study school kept turning off the C-R boxes. I do not know if they used the phrase "Corsi-Rosenthal" or if they just called it a DIY air cleaner/purifier.
Does anyone know this paper?
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