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"How he’s developed and wielded this influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and underappreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Entering year two, this response has been defined by a zero-sum vaccination battle that has left much of the world on the losing side."

Via @alshafei
newrepublic.com/article/162000…


How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
The New Republic
@Esra'a

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#174 Choosing Formats
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

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#174 Choosing Formats · This Week in GNOME

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#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

“I don’t really care about pronouns any more. I want people to tell me their adjectives.”

- my brilliant 15yo

Request Tracker, an open-source issue tracker we use at work, has had almost completely inaccessible dropdowns ever since 5.0. In the last couple days, I've been poking around, trying to work out why. They use Bootstrap 4.6, which is way behind, and even Bootstrap 5.x seems to have accessibility problems. They take an unordered list, a text input, and a hidden input, and try to simulate a select element. You know what's fully accessible? A SELECT ELEMENT! Just use what's already there, people!
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Sean Randall
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we had an issue today where they wanted ticked checkboxes that didn't do anything when clicked. Disabling them wasn't on the table. Crazy.

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Being Master

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild #comic

It is the night of the full Moon. Mage and Fosschild are being stalked by were-machines. Mage looks into the distance and asks Fosschild: "How fast can you run?"
#comic #unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild

noo dobre povedané, dobrý rozhovor

youtube.com/watch?v=jL655u2yBy…


Terapia slovom s vedkyňou Vladimírou Kurincovou Čavojovou: Intuícia môže byť racionálna

Intuícia sa v minulosti považovala za spirituálnu vlastnosť. Vedkyňa a psychologička Vladimíra Kurincová Čavojová v podcaste Terapia slovom vysvetľuje, že je...
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No really, I want to boil the oceans more.
Screenshot of a Google search for “how to turn off ai google search” Result shows “AI Overview: Google doesn't provide a way to turn off AI overviews in its settings”

Vacuum robots.... It can't get into the bathroom over the doorstep, but it tries to go over the laundry hanger and gets stuck there every time. 🙄
Second version of possible solution:
printables.com/model/1074623-v…
#VacuumRobot #3DPrint #Laundry

Vacuum robot stopper by stopka | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Makes bottom bar of laundry hanger higher to stop vacuum robot to try to overcome it. | Download free 3D printable STL models
www.printables.com
#3dprint #vacuumrobot #laundry

Huge thanks to everyone on the @matrix Governing Board and to @shauna for helping us get organized and run an efficient and productive first meeting!

Further thanks and *congrats* to @gwmngilfen and @HarHarLinks on being elected as the first Chair and Vice Chair of our first Governing Board 👏🏻

More to come! Brief meeting recap in this week's edition of TWIM: matrix.org/blog/2024/11/15/thi…

#Matrix #TWIM


This Week in Matrix 2024-11-15

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
MTRNord (matrix.org)
#matrix #twim @The Matrix.org Foundation @Gwmngilfen @Shauna GM @Har-Har Links
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The first Governing Board meeting, sunset of the Sliding Sync Proxy, and a new TARDIS! ✨

This and much more happened This Week in Matrix: matrix.org/blog/2024/11/15/thi…

#Matrix #TWIM


This Week in Matrix 2024-11-15

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
MTRNord (matrix.org)
#matrix #twim

I salute our eepy heroes 🫡
Photo of someone sitting in a blue chair facining away from the viewer while working on a laptop at a lunch table. Caption says: People who take naps are the real heroes. It takes courage to wake up twice in one day.

The people who told you that "suppressing" the Hunter Biden laptop story was a national scandal are the same people who want to bury the House Ethics Committee's report about Matt Gaetz's raping and sex trafficking.

🫠 Há 10 anos, #NaData de hoje mas em 2014, o Groupon desistiu de registrar a marca Gnome para uso em um futuro sistema de terminais de ponto de venda.

Após ser contatada pelo projeto GNOME (do ambiente desktop open source) sobre a duplicidade, a empresa continuou tentando o registro, mas desistiu após o fato ser noticiado.

Imagem-conceito de um terminal de ponto de venda do Groupon com a marca Gnome
#nadata

I want to recommend my friend for a job at the Internet Archive as a video archivist. If anyone has any tips on how I can best support their application, I would love to hear it. I think they'd be fricking awesome at it.

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#RustCataStructures #rust #RustLang #cat #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

Catodon (@cat@tea.codes)

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#cat #caturday #rust #RustLang #catsofmastodon #rustcatastructures @Catodon

They're pulling strictly out earlier than ever. Children In Need isn't what it used to be. I Miss Sir Terry

What To Use Instead of PGP

It's been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be doing. It isn't. The part of the free and open source software community that thinks PGP is just dandy are the same kind of people that happily use…

soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to…


What To Use Instead of PGP - Dhole Moments

It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they s…
Dhole Moments

important context for the whole "The Onion bought InfoWars" thing. unlimited respect to the Sandy Hook families
post by Prokopetz on tumblr, 1819 UK time, 2024-11-14: While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies. Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly own subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen. reblog addition by xeansicemane: The families have been saying the whole time it isn't about the money - it was about stopping Jones. And this is the most effective way to stop Jones.

I want this to be a shorthand, like "sealioning" or "spoons". I'm gonna try again calling the thing I want to talk about "my cymbals".

Hey, can I cymbal you with something?

I've got some cymbals I want to bang.

Omg, Jordi, can you please stop banging those cymbals? We're talking about something else here.

Sarah Andersen wants to talk about her latest obsession

Doing a screenshare with someone who has so many tabs open that they can't even read tab titles and they are constantly getting lost and having to open even more tabs is excruciating for me.

Sotheby's is currently selling two paintings that have been declared to be heritage of the Mexican nation and therefore cannot be exported

eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/sot…


Sotheby’s subastará obras de Siqueiros e Izquierdo protegidas por la ley mexicana

Dos pinturas con declaratoria de monumento artístico serán vendidas en NY. Las piezas forman parte de la colección Gelman y por ley no pueden ser exportadas permanentemente. INBAL afirma que investiga el caso
Frida Juárez Bautista (El Universal)
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Been out for a walk first time by myself. It was nerve wracking but I was determined to grasp the nettle. Was so glad to have met a lady on crutches who had broken her ankle she was flying along what are the chances?! We chatted exchanged ankle break stories she gave me some good tips and she had built up to walking three times a day with longer walks she is just brilliant. I went “around the block” not too far and sat on a bench to take in the Autumn night air.
Me sweating but determined taking a break from the walk sitting on the bench
Sight of the moon in the sky upon opening the door!
View from the top of the hill over west London
in reply to AAA365

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Keep it up! :) I wish you to get well soon and walk again like you used to. Also awesome you met someone who gave you tips. I wish you all the best. :)

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now theverge.com/21302051/best-app…

The best AirPods deals for November 2024

If you’re looking for an AirPods deal — be it on the AirPods 4, the second-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C, or the high-end AirPods Max — we’ve pulled together the best.
Sheena Vasani (The Verge)

The new Mac Mini is great — now do the iPhone SE theverge.com/2024/11/15/242965…

The next iPhone SE could be a great midrange phone

Apple’s budget phone is overdue for an overhaul. Rumors of a fourth-generation iPhone SE point to a big update, with a modern design and upgraded internals.
Allison Johnson (The Verge)

Linux app developers, we want your feedback!

If you have an app on Flathub (or are planning to), please share your thoughts on the optional quality guidelines—especially if your app doesn't currently meet the guidelines.

discourse.flathub.org/t/app-de…

#Flathub #Flatpak #LinuxApps #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux


App developer feedback about quality guidelines

Hey app developers! I’m a volunteer working with Flathub, and I’d like to open up a discussion to better understand some things around the Flathub Quality Guidelines.
Flathub Discourse
#linux #foss #opensource #Flatpak #flathub #linuxapps
in reply to Flathub

Flathub
Flathub
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It’s been just over a week and we’ve gotten lots of great feedback so far.

If you’re an app developer and haven’t had a chance to chime in, check out @cassidy’s summary of the current points, and leave a comment on the forum if you have anything important that hasn’t been mentioned:

discourse.flathub.org/t/app-de…

We look forward to continued feedback, and are excited to get more apps featured on Flathub!

#Flathub #Linux #LinuxApps #OpenSource #Flatpak #FOSS


App developer feedback about quality guidelines

Hey everyone, checking back in after a bit over a week of feedback and discussion. Thank you so much to everyone who has chimed in so far! This sort of conversation is enlightening and healthy.
Flathub Discourse
#linux #foss #opensource #Flatpak #flathub #linuxapps @Cassidy James Blaede

Who else can relate? 🙄
Cartoon. Pic 1: Elderly couple sitting in front of the TV. Woman says, “If we’re gonna watch the news, I’ll need my glasses.” Pic 2: The woman’s armchair is empty. Pic 3: “That’s better.” The woman is in her armchair again, holding a big glass of red wine in each hand.

For about 2 years I've been cursing that one of my two monitor arms didn't rise high enough. Today I finally engaged my brain and swapped the two arms around, so the monitor is on the one with tallest reach and laptop tray is on the less capable one. Problem sorted. 🤦

Oh, look. the Mozilla Foundation is asking for community feedback about what folk want them to focus on.

Anyone have opinions?

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…

Quick Update:
This is for the Mozilla.org Foundation, that does outreach and education. (like the 0din project).

Mozilla.com are the folk that support and maintain Firefox and the like.

(Thunderbird is maintained by MZLA Tech, a sibling of Mozilla corp)

What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net
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Baltimore reaches $44 million settlement in suit over pedestrian accessibility
thebaltimorebanner.com/politic…

The Baltimore Banner: Baltimore News, Politics, Business, Food, Events

Baltimore Banner: Baltimore news coverage, including politics, business, entertainment, food, and events. In-depth investigation and thoughtful opinion on the Baltimore Region
Baltimore Banner

Data colonialism: A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town

After decades fighting against water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete against Big Tech for water.

Development in the Global North has long come at the expense of the Global South as well as Black and indigenous frontline communities in places like Cancer Alley and Flint, Michigan.

inthesetimes.com/article/micro…


A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town

Gridwork

Well, that is a very consequential-feeling milestone all right. We’ve purchased our one-way tickets to the US.
Today’s exciting episode of the moving mayhem involves a deep clean.
The real estate agents have set up a WhatsApp group so we and the agents can all keep in touch. Slick. #MosenMove
#mosenmove
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Jason J.G. White
Jason J.G. White
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@JonathanMosen@caneandable.socialI hope it proceeds smoothly. In my case (moving from Australia to the US to take up a nonprofit research job offer), there was a professional relocation consultant on the US side who assisted with many logistical issues - not a privilege for me specifically, but standard practice by my US-based employer at the time. This support helped immeasurably.
@Jonathan Mosen

Next week, I need to travel to Denmark to visit a client. Their office is in some small town, and I wanted to book accommodation nearby, but there was nothing available. The Key Account Manager told me to go ahead and book a place in Legoland.

After much grumbling, I finally managed to pick a room!

boop the snoot and you shall pass
my phone's lock screen, the fingerprint reader is placed above the nose of a fox

Eché una siesta justo sobre esas almohadas, y supongo que alguien decidió que ahora huelen rico.
Mi perrita Gaia, dormida sobre un montón de almohadas de colores.

Apple Pay ‘Plates’ ad shows how easy it is to spend money on the internet 9to5mac.com/2024/11/15/apple-p…

Apple Pay 'Plates' ad shows how easy it is to spend money on the internet - 9to5Mac

Apple Pay is celebrating 10 years since launching, and a new video ad highlights something about Apple Pay that has...
Zac Hall (9to5Mac)

The World Unwinds

in reply to Steve

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Nice did you make that? Also, what kind of genre is that supposed to be? :D
in reply to Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

Steve
Steve
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@tardis I did with help from Suno, because I'm neither female nor have such chops to play drums. Words are my own, though, as is the arrangement. Genre is heavy/symphonic metal.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
in reply to Steve

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Ah, interesting. Yeah I wondered about the female haha and then I was like, okay, this looks a bit like AI. But it's pretty cool soo.
in reply to Steve

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I used to be able to play drums and I still sing, but I don't play drums so I wouldn't have been a lot of help to you I guess.

my dream for mozilla involves them working strictly on the damn browser again and not trying to do all this other stuff

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iPhone XS Max and more join Apple’s vintage and obsolete product lists 9to5mac.com/2024/11/15/iphone-…

iPhone XS Max and more join Apple’s vintage and obsolete product lists - 9to5Mac

Apple has updated its lists of vintage and obsolete products with new additions like the iPhone XS Max, iPhone 6s Plus, and more.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

Clearing out my ancient phone, I also came across Round Bird once again. Here it is, being very round. I used to draw birds all the time! Ink on mixed media sketchbook.

#TraditionalArt #Ink

A rather orb-like bird sketched in black, grey and white onto a vibrantly earth tones background, like autumn leaves in red, purplish red, orange, yellow and brown. There are, however, willow catkins on the branches the bird is sat upon. Everything is drawn out in fairly precise black outline, with variations in the line weight, and then coloured in with dreamlike, hazy, flowing together wet ink that bleeds from one colour to the next. Crisp highlights have been added in white ink. The painting is quite cute and pleasantly simple. On the left bottom corner there is the number 298, denoting it's almost the 300th in a series, the date 17th of April 2019, and the signature Sini Tuulia in cursive, all in white ink on a calligraphy nib. The page is still on the spiral bound sketchbook, which is on the same desk as Sini always has her in her photos.
#ink #TraditionalArt
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