We made it home from the beach. Sadly my windshield was a casualty. I already my wife’s cracked windshield replaced by insurance this year, so likely have to pay this one out of pocket.
If only some group of people had been warning about the risks of massive government data collection, loudly, for decades and decades
imagine then getting freaked out when the government, which holds all that data in thousands of isolated silos just decides to...be efficient. talk to other parts of government. coalesce and aggregate its data.
imagine your entire defense for doing nothing about this is that you just assumed the government would never get its shit together and use the data you let it collect
it's so WEIRD because the Republicans were staunchly against this kind of thing for so long. It's literally why the ATC only has access to paper records for gun purchases! The Repubs were terrified about this being a searchable database for the government to have control over
Just what I always wanted. A 24/7 stream of Dugga Doo from the Interstellar Song Contest. This is truly the Baby Shark of the 30th century. #DoctorWho youtube.com/watch?v=uR30rwqtib…
You asked for it! Here’s the FULL version of the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest finalist from the planet Grimbald: DUGGA DOO! 🗣️🎶LYRICS:Dugga doo dugga do...
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out an update to Notepad to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11.
Notepad (version 11.2504.50.0)
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Thanks to @captianbubble, I just uploaded a rare Window Eyes tutorial from 1998. There are 2 versions, a more or less raw recording, and a version with some restoration applied. datajake.braillescreen.net/man…
this is close to the creative nonsense of the late 2000s, so at least it has that going for it. Creativity took a dive when the centralized social media took off
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care. A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Are any other @thunderbird users seeing the issues that @winterschon wrote about in this post? I've been seeing the high resource usage, just not quite as high (but almost as high). This is one of the reasons that I'm moving back to Emacs for my email or looking for a client that is a bit "lighter" on the resource usage.
Ugh, we're sorry you've been seeing this, and thanks for tagging us. Can you try any of the steps in our Testing Memory Usage article on the wiki to see if you can pinpoint the cause? wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:T… - thanks!
Thank you for sharing this. It's strange, but the issue persists on my Fedora desktop but the issue is not present on my Debian Stable laptop. I will keep digging in to see if I can find the issue with Fedora.
A bit more info. The install on Debian is a Flatpak, and it seems to be fine. The resource issue is on Fedora, installed from the Fedora rpm repo. I am going to remove the rpm and install a Flatpak to see if that resolves the issue.
Sorry for not updating! I actually removed the rpm from Fedora and installed the Flatpak. The issue is no longer there. I'm not sure if the issue was the rpm or not. Definitely a strange issue. Thanks for following up.
On my Fedora laptop, when I launch Thunderbird and filter for it in htop, I see dozens of PIDs each showing around 3640 MB virt, 570 MB res, and a varying amount shr.
That is with 5 IMAP accounts, 1 CardDAV, 1 CalDAV and several (manually refreshing) RSS feeds.
@qlp Ugh, this is definitely not what we want. If you haven't done so already, we definitely suggest going through the steps in this wiki article to help narrow down what might be causing this! wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:T…
No flack, but I have to wonder who paid for those results, and what benefit the pay for the research gives the company or companies who sponsored it. These days, research is code for "we want to prove this, how much will it cost?" I'm sure with enough cash pumped into research, ciggarettes could be a health suppliment. ☺️
@storm it really does make you wonder that is for sure. I still remember many years ago when they would say eggs were good for you, then later eggs were bad for you, then later still eggs were good for you. same with coffee.
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
So I just got my new Mac and, of course, I have Mac OS 15 now (I hadn't bothered updating my old Mac). And the Music app is...an unmitigated disaster with Voice Over.
The latest invite-spam-blocking technologies, Matrix Community Summit 2025 announced, and the custom emotes MSC has been proposed for final comment period – this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05/30/thi…
Rocketman - Rocket Man: Elton (Taron Egerton) goes from overdose to performing "Rocket Man" at Dodgers Stadium.BUY THE MOVIE: https://www.fandangonow.com/det...
🚀 Thanks for all the feedback on my German post about AI & critical thinking! I’ve just published the English version: »AI makes us humans unlearn how to think — and we mistake it for progress.«
If you care about culture, education, and how convenience can quietly erode our judgement, give it a read and let me know what you think. 👇
In this AppleVis Extra episode, David Nason and Thomas Domville (AnonyMouse) interview Sarah Herrlinger, senior director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives at Apple.
The goal During my 25 years working as a web accessibility specialist I noticed the biggest hurdle to create an accessible web, is the lack of knowledge.
Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed The glitch lasted a few hours but caused traffic jams on alternate routes. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
A neat project: from Brazil, a tool to print a star map that folds into a dome! Written by a physics professor. Teachers use it to introduce children to the night sky.
It had _never_ occurred to me that, instead of simply reciting to students _yet again_ the old speech about how flat maps and flat star charts distort the sphere, you could just _fix the map_ instead and make it dome-shaped. Brilliant!
They hope to open-source soon. Uses my Skyfield library.
Many consider #Bluesky a success, but in fact its activity has steadily declined since Trump's inauguration. The #Fediverse has had similar trends. Rapid growth caused by an external event is always followed by a slow decline back to a small base of loyal users. In a world full of dopamine addiction, it's hard to be a social network without dark patterns.
agreed but I think we look at social media all wrong. it's treated as entertainment instead of a civic tool. I think that misunderstanding is widespread because of how it evolved with those dark patterns. people know of it as providing dopamine, instead of a better way to distribute the most relevant news and spread the best culture, while incorporating a public conversation about all that.
This is indeed very similar to the fediverse if I see the MAU on fedidb (they don't show daily). In fact, the active participation longterm might be far lower on BS?
This pattern correlates with news intake from past elections with a lead up during high profile events. Adoption is tough. My friends aren’t on Mastodon and beyond news or science it seems like a struggle to get information on other fun social topics like sports. Where it isn’t a mirror bot no one interacts with.
The removal of the dark patterns is wonderful tho. It feels like you can really time out because you don’t see anything interesting sometimes and that’s okay.
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