Google’s “AI overview”, pointlessly appended to their usual weather forecast for my suburb:
“The weather in XXX is currently sunny with a temperature of about 17° C ... ”
The forecast already states the current temperature, but no, it is not “currently sunny” as it’s 10:23 pm.
The forecast by itself is perfectly understandable. It does not need a summary, an overview, an interpretation, a Reader’s Digest Condensed Version.
FFS, Google, is this what you’re building new data centres and buying billions of dollars worth of GPUs to do?
Helena Steinhaus (@helenasteinhaus@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image "Menschen mit psychsichen Erkrankungen sollen künftig persönlich beim Jobcenter vorsprechen. So soll geprüft werden, ob die Betroffenen wirklich krank sind.kolektiva.social
I feel you, Hank!
public.monster wont do editing; edit on your own computer, the one in front of you!
Use your favorite text editor! Mine is LunarVim! Want to get fancy? Use a static site generator (like 11ty). Build on your machine, upload. Simple. #learnhtml
I had problems a while back with cloud storage. A lot of my files got corrupted. I tried another service but it also didn't work as expected.
So I moved to local storage again. I'm using a pen drive to work with files that I need to take with me. Everything else is on my desktop SSD.
My public.monster site was all written from scratch. I didn't use a static website generator.
I didn't know about LunarVim. I have to give it a try. :)
What are the benefits for Geany of porting it to GTK4?
The editor/IDE #Geany is still #GTK3 and the hampering factor was that the editing engine #scintilla wasn't ported to GTK4 but it exists now.
However, one of the main developers questions, if there are any benefits at all in porting Geany to GTK4:
"I wonder if anyone would find motivation for this. As said in #3675, in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4."
github.com/geany/geany/issues/…
@GTK @ebassi @gnome #GTK #Gnome
Port Geany to GTK4
Port Geany to GTK4. As Scintilla is now ported to GTK4 (see https://mastodon.social/@bugaevc@floss.social/115507432930694449), it would be great if Geany would be ported to GTK4 as well bringing al...GerryT11 (GitHub)
integration on Linux
probably means "integration in Gnome". Using other DMs feels rather less integrated. You might say that's the responsibility of the other DMs. Fine.
Users might judge differently.
if the current maintainer doesn’t want to spend their time
Just for clarification, we are not talking about "the maintainer" here, just my personal opinion about GTK4. Geany is maintained by a team of developers and I do not represent the team as a whole here.
@GerryT
I'd like to keep the discussion in github.com/geany/geany/discuss… as it is way more visible to Geany related developers and users than here. Thanks.
Geany 4.0, the GTK4 edition (and more) · geany geany · Discussion #3675
There are a number of probably big changes being examined or coming in the future. The point of this discussion is to record and discuss them. Blue sky thinking is encouraged, but implementability ...GitHub
@eht16 To given an overview of the current state of #GTK4 adoption. Out of the active GTK open source projects 71% use GTK4, and 29% still use #GTK3 as of today (#GTK2 not counted). This is an increase of 9 percentage points since Nov 2024. This means that GTK4 will likely crack 90% of active #GTK projects in 2028 (and probably plateaus at such share).
Additionally, 90% of GTK4 projects use #libadwaita (#Gnome), and 6% of GTK3/GTK4 projects use #libgranite.
Ich denke, wir brauchen dringend eine positive Erzählung, was nach dem Kapitalismus kommen könnte.
Aber so, dass sie sich konkret an der Lebenswirklichkeit und dem Sprachgebrauch ganz durchschnittlicher Menschen orientiert.
Und nein, "Anarchosyndikalismus", "klassenlose Kollektivordnung" oder "Rätekommunismus" sind da eher ungeeignet als Einstieg ins Gespräch.😏
Ich muss das überschlafen.🥱
Sie ernähren keine Kinder, heizen die Wohnung nicht und schneiden unseren Kranken und Alten nicht die Fuß- und Fingernägel, während im Nebenzimmer das Baby aufgewacht ist, die Katze auf den Teppich kotzt und der Partner/die Partnerin anruft um Bescheid zu geben, dass sie/er Überstunden machen wird, um die Zusatzkosten für die neue Waschmaschine aufzufangen und es darüber hinaus sowieso später wird, weil einige Zugverbindungen ausfallen, oder es Probleme mit dem Auto/dem Fahrrad gibt.
3/x
Darüber hinaus wird „Normalsterblichen“ von gesellschaftspolitischen Vordenker*innen unermüdlich das Gefühl vermittelt, ungebildet und unterentwickelt zu sein, weil die Inhalte, die sich hinter den wohlfeilen Ausführungen der "intellektuellen Elite" verbergen, ganz selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, aber so gut wie nie entschlüsselt und konkret mit Leben gefüllt werden, weil ... das könnte mensch doch alles längst wissen, wenn mensch sich doch nur mal interessieren und schlau machen würde.
4/x
Saying No and refusing to use unethical tools and platforms can be a powerful way to protest.
Do not minimize the power you have by refusing to participate.
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I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.
We have technical forks like librewolf, that's not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they'd become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.
Mozilla is a product of it's surroundings. It's surroundings was silicon valley and well 🤷♀️
I urge people to not give their DNA to corporations. Once the corporation goes into receivership, the Nazis will buy your DNA data. Your entire family, including people you've never met, will become fodder for their racial animus, and will be targeted.
Please stop. Use your heads. Fascism isn't a fun game.
RE: floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/1155…
If we may ask once more for your help here: there are still 15 "niche apps" left at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… – and 50+ other dormant apps at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… needing a "quick check".
If only 1 out of 10 of our followers would each pick a single app (we've highlighted each app's purpose in the lists, to make selection easier), each app would be covered 10 times over 😉 (unless all pick exactly the same app, that is 🤪)
Thanks in advance! 🙏 
metadata reorg subtask: deciding about dormant apps which might be considered niche
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche: * [x] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.Codeberg.org
Hello there...every day that I use Mastodon, I like to list three things that I like as a contribution towards a positive online space, as well as my own headspace. If you did this today, what would feature on your list?
01. Learnt how to play Father Kelly's Reel
02. Learnt how to p[lay The Reconciliation
03. Learnt how to play The Mountain Road
Hope whoever reads this can have a nice day.
@ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings #3GoodThingsToday #ReasonsToBeCheerful
⚠️ WARNING: If anyone tells you your account has been suspended and you need to "verify" it, they are trying to scam you.
DO NOT respond to them or click their link.
DO report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam post and then "Report" and if possible select the option to forward the report to its origin server.
The scammers may have
Mastodon logos as their profile pictures and are posing as technical support.
Urgh, someone posted a Reform flyer through the letterbox this morning. Straight in the bin.
Missed the local elections by a year though, muppets.
Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, composer famous for Switched On Bach, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron. She also did a brilliant collaboration with Weird Al and many other albums worth checking out.
thepinknews.com/2025/11/14/kim…
#trans #transgender #WendyCarlos
Trans Awareness Week 2025: Meet music pioneer Wendy Carlos – the first trans woman to win a Grammy
Kim Petras made history as the first openly trans woman to win a Grammy in 2023, but we cannot forget Wendy Carlos, whose 86th birthday is today.Asyia Iftikhar (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
I should come up with a list of things that Japan is better at than "The West".
Things like cans. They are easier to open. More ergonomic. Why don't all cans work like they do in Japan?
Is that not a beverage can? US beverage cans have pull tabs like that. Well, most do. The braille label is good. I've noticed some European medicine boxes I've gotten have a bare amount of braille like that on them.
Do they have pull tab tops on canned foods? The US doesn't have that as much although it exists for some mixed nuts and fried onions cans...
The trouble with trending bots—automated accounts which boost posts that trend on a selection of other servers—is that they are a surefire way for your post to end up on poast and shitposter club. Even if your own server admin keeps a tight ship and a comprehensive blocklist.
Trending bots are popular on small instances, even down to single-user instances, as a way to help populate the federated timeline. They endow a post with further reach than vanilla federation.
Unfortunately, small and single-user instances tend to be run by privileged hobbyists that don't feel the need to install even the most basic of blocklists. Those instances are seldom the target of harassment, so why bother?
The problem is that with the default Mastodon configuration, server blocks aren't transitive. Your post goes to your followers, it gets boosted by a human or a trending bot, and it goes to _their_ followers, and so on. And at no point do those subsequent servers check with yours to see if you've suspended the destination instance.
Boosting launders suspensions.
That's why I block trending bots on sight.
I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
Also Männer. Ich habe beschossen, mal aus dem Nähkästchen zu plaudern. Hier also die ultimativen Anmach-Lifehacks. Tricks, bei denen jede Frau sofort einknickt und die Beine breit macht:
- sehr ausgiebig erzählen, wie großartig man ist, insbesondere, dass man vor 30 Jahren mal ein geiler Hecht war (Leidtungssportler). Da stehen Frauen total drauf.
- einen inflationären broadcast raus schicken. Frauen finden es super, beliebig zu sein.
- eine Frau angraben, wenn die eigene Ehefrau daneben sitzt.
Taking money is often tricky. In the UK, it counts as self-employment income. If you receive under about a thousand pounds a year, that!s fine, so a small tip-jar thing is fine but once you cross the threshold you need to file a tax return every year and become liable for an exciting new category of national insurance contributions. If you want to pay someone else to do some work, you’re paying them out of money that!s already taxed (and then they need to pay tax)l or you need some other legal entity to distribute the money (I think GitHub’s donations thing can do this?).
When I was freelancing, I would do paid consulting for F/OSS projects I worked on and I already had the tax liabilities from other work so it was a tiny incremental overhead. Since I started working as an employee, I’ve mostly just asked people who like F/OSS project I work on to donate to Murray Edwards: it works as well to motivate me to do more on the project, is tax deductible in several countries, and means I don’t have to do any paperwork.
For tiny projects, small donations are easy. For big donations, it’s worth setting up a charitable foundation that can handle the money and pay people. There’s a big gap in the middle. Being under an umbrella organisation can sometimes help. If the Linux Foundation were not the absolute worst, they could fill this need. The FSF tried: they’re a lot better intentioned than the LF, but barely more competent.
#Spotted at a Vintage Christmas Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (50s?) in a floral dress wraps her arm around her friend's waist, grinning cheekily: "Shall we go in the shop over there and gasp at the prices?"
Her friend laughs: "Yes!"
They wander off, heads bowed together.
A dapper young human (11?) is promenading along in a bowler hat, waistcoat, tie, suit jacket, ironed jeans and shiny black shoes.
He's got a walking stick in one hand and his other is looped through Nan's arm.
Her pretty polka dot dress fluttering in the breeze.
Charm personified.
A small human (4?) is perusing bouquets of flowers with a critical eye.
Finally she chooses one, pays from an embroidered change purse, then kisses it with great ceremony before handing it to her farm gear and gumboot wearing Dad.
Dad taken off guard, eyes watering, picks her up for a big hug.
A small human (3?) is walking across a paddock carpark towards the market, holding Mum's hand.
Speaking in careful, optimistic tones he says: "Mum, when we get there do you want an ice cream or a pancake? I think you should have the ice cream."
A woman (70s?) reaches over a fence to pat a very hairy black yak. In return she gets a generous lick on the hand and laughs, saying to her friend. "Look at all that snot! Oh well, it'll wash off." She gives the yak an affectionate look and they wander off. (Continued Below)
I've wanted one of those these for a while.
youtu.be/iQv7zL91JgY?si=3DRX2a…
Smart luggage: New rideable electric suitcase (luggage) in 2021 - Airwheel SE3S
The Airwheel SE3S smart riding electric suitcase can travel up on a single charge, at 8 miles an hour. It is lightweight, and can easily convert from motor t...YouTube
@djohngo I think i would get in trouble with that. Plus the battery would be heavy to put in the above luggage hold.
Fun though.
🇩🇪✅ GESCHAFFT: Verpflichtende #Chatkontrolle durch die Hintertür verhindert!🎉 Ein Riesenerfolg & DANKE an alle! 🙏
Aber ⚠️: Geplant sind weiter anonymitätszerstörende Alterskontrollen & freiwillige Massenscans. Der Kampf geht nächstes Jahr weiter!
Chatkontrolle
🇫🇷 Französisch: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Schwedisch: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Niederländisch: Chatcontrole Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen…Patrick Breyer
🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #ChatControl through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏
But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.Patrick Breyer
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Claudius Link
in reply to Fanny Bui • • •Um zu prüfen, ob sie wirklich krank sind 😱
Dazu sind die JC doch gar nicht zu ausgebildet !!!
Und das ist doch ein Catch-22
Wenn du zu JC kommst, dann bist du ja gar nicht so psychisch krank, dass du nicht auch eine Arbeit machen könntest. Antrag abgelehnt.
Wenn du es aufgrund deiner Krankheit nicht schaffst zu JC zu gehen, wird der Antrag wegen fehlender Mitwirkung abgelehnt
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