I just attended a @pluralistic talk hosted by the @internetarchive , in which he shared that thanks to #enshittification, printer ink now costs over $10K/gallon, more expensive than semen from a prize-winning racehorse.
I searched and found this is also mentioned in his Feb 2025 essay: pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink…
Mozilla's new strategy document makes it clear: it's an AI company, and the organization you trusted to protect the open web is dead.
taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle…
Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.taggart-tech.com
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Give Accessibility a Seat at the Notepad Table Please – The Idea Place
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Unreal, I read today that Microsoft has started rolling out table support for Notepad. But guess what, if you are using a screen reader, the fact that you are in a table when editing is not communi…The Idea Place
@midzi @pitermach @DavidGoldfield "Notepad is an app that updates through the Windows store..."
For 2016 me, "all cars produced nowadays can fly" would have been a more believable sentence.
while I did cleared this up in replies regarding the post I forgot to clear it up in the main post itself, so Lemmy clarify. I remember me posting that due to the #exploitation of tweesecake, I was going to, after either we got it completely migrated or updated to the latest mastodon, @ChrisDuffley's domain.
the reason I believe exploitation is because tweesecake is now requiring users to pay to use the application.
while this mayn ot effect the instance itself (yet) I don't exactly like to support companies who do this.
you're paying them to let you use a network that's already free.
it's like iff I made an operating system and said "sorry, we know you own the computer and our OS is open source but....uh...you have to pay to use your computer...".
reminds me heavily of jaws, though granted they are more exploitative and, arguably, moren needed.
still, point still stands
Now, start stocking the shelves w/ better edibles!
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#SQDC #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #stopsellinginferioredibles #everyotherprovincehasbetteredibles #cdnpoli #polcan
> President Trump shakes hands with New York Mayor-elect Mamdani as they meet in the Oval Office
Ok but why? Why is this a thing? Why does the mayor of a city need to meet with the President? What is the point?
@coolboymew sure and they will get some Federal grants but the first line of support should be to the Governor not the Pres
It's all weird man, I think he should have just said "no thanks I'm busy prepping for my work in NYC"
also weird is like how Adams went to Israel to tell them "I served you as Mayor of NYC" -- ok what? Served another country? What? What does that mean? They aren't your citizens, you should be serving your citizens (yes, many are Jewish, but... they're Americans)
soon: Mayor of Boston goes to the Vatican to remind them that he "Served them as Mayor of Boston"
For all the KDE Kate enthusiasts and GTK developers (which I am sure there except for just me haha), invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/… and invent.kde.org/frameworks/synt… have both been merged into Kate, meaning Kate now supports Blueprint, the next-gen markdown language for GTK/Libadwaita applications!
Add syntax highlighting for https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/blueprint-compiler.GitLab
Anyone have a recommendation for a macos local kanban board style todo list manager? I checked the app store and there are quite a few.
Single user, non-shared data is fine/preferred.
One thing I would like to have is auto archiving of old tasks. Like the last week or two of completed tasks stays, but older ones are archived where they can still be viewed if needed.
why not the one built into Reminders?
lifehacker.com/tech/apple-remi…
Column view comes to the Apple Reminders app.Khamosh Pathak (Lifehacker)
My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
strict torture, 3,000, Hackerone, Known risks, QUERY, Daniel uses, AI tooling
Lots of folks speculating about AirDrop working on the Pixel, if it was reverse engineering or asking if Apple might break the compatibility. The reality might be a bit more mundane. Seems Apple is just being forced to play by regulators' rules...
youtu.be/t2I9FyZdhbs
#tech #technology #technews #google #business #geek #gadgets #eu #dma #apple #android #ios
TEAM SGG PATREON https://www.patreon.com/SomeGadgetGuy AirDrop now works on Pixel phones! Did Google reverse engineer Apple's popular file sharing protocol? ...YouTube
🇪🇺 "This is the biggest attack on European's digital rights in years," said Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems "When the Commission states that it 'maintains the highest standards', it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards."
cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…
Critics warned that proposed changes will weaken the GDPR in a way that amounts to an attack on digital rights.Katie Collins (CNET)
Setting the domain name / domain search list through DHCP is so cool.
It makes it so that any device that connects to the network can use short hostnames to reach local services, without requiring any configuration.
You can just tell someone to connect to the wifi and go to `http://grafana`, or configure a "smart power outlet" connect to `mqtt` without specifying the FQDN.
As long as you don't use TLS :/
Nothing I love more than spending a whole day screaming WHAT HAPPENED WHAT CHANGED WHY IS THIS BROKEN NOW and wasting hours banging my head wondering how this could be happening so suddenly
Well I guess docker got updated on my test server and I didn't notice
That's some next level Bond villain shite!
Imagine having an ego that requires that kind of virtual massaging... by what amounts to a pre-programmed bot.
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#prayforhumanity #itisnotAI #LLM #LLMFAIL #LLMprogrammingFAIL #internet
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, keeps declaring that he's a peak physical specimen and one of the most brilliant minds in history.Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
I wasn’t following @thunderbird’s blog and that was clearly a mistake.
They give good insights about how they will solve some gripes I’ve had (namely the conversation view), and why things are like they are right now.
Also pretty nice to follow the advancement of Thunderbird Pro. The offering is a unique mix of Fastmail and Cal.com, I can see a market for it!
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Matrix at the Luxchat Hackathon, an update from the Governing Board and various software updates. This and more happened This Week in Matrix!
Come check it out at matrix.org/blog/2025/11/21/thi… before we have even fresher news next week!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
RHEL 10.1 introduces Soft Reboot Capability [1] in 2025.
Nice playing a catch up game to FreeBSD that has this feature [2]/[3] since 2015 - a whole DECADE ago.
[1] thenewstack.io/rhel-10-1-soft-…
[2] cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?i…
[3] cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?i…
RHEL 10.1 brings a new era of disconnected intelligence, debuting an offline, locally available AI assistant that empowers administrators to troubleshoot even air-gapped serversSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The New Stack)
I don't know why it's so hard to get the messaging right.
How about we just point at the giant bubbles and crashes of the economy and say to the TV camera: "How about instead of giving money to the corporations that cause these problems we invest directly in the American people by putting their health and education first, so they can be setup for success and grow the economy"?
And so it begins... :(
Winter bike-lane rollback in Outremont: montrealgazette.com/news/local… #polMTL #MTLpoli #veloMTL
The new Outremont borough council voted Tuesday to remove the protected bike lane over winter on Lajoie Ave. to restore curbside parking.Harry North (Montreal Gazette)
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reshared this
1. Fast food isn't inexpensive anymore (tho it is still, very "cheap"). Low income people can't afford it anymore.
2. Higher wage earners, Can't Fucking Afford Groceries (real food) anymore, so they're suplimenting with ,,, shitty assed McDonald's.
* Fun fact: McD's makes me throw up, I literally can't eat it.
* Bonus: Taco Trucks tend to be less inexpensive (& healthy food).
Fast food is losing its low-income customers. Economists are full of shit wankers.
[FTFY]latimes.com/business/story/202…
These customers are feeling the pressures of higher prices on groceries and apparel and the growing costs of rent and child care, the company's chief executive said in a recent earnings call.Suhauna Hussain (Los Angeles Times)
well I'm not in Cali but I'm on the WC now and there are taco trucks here, unlike in Miami
but now I miss that Venezuelan comfort food 😢
@feld Ooooooo. Nnnngh. *Twitch*
Please don't call it "Cali". That's painful to us. "Cal" or "California" or "That state that's from another planet" is fine.
LL Cool J wrote that damned song and needs to be dropped off Pier 39 chained to something heavy.
Bonus Round: Also, don't call it "Frisco", ESPECIALLY if you happen to be in San Francisco/San Fran/The City, you'll get rolled in an alley.
This is a PSA.
don't blame LL Cool J, everyone else is still doing it too
youtube.com/watch?v=02GXMnVlPK…
Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Kendrick Lamar - This Is Cali (Music / Remix Video) ft. 50 Cent & Eminem | 2024=========Welcome to Golden School of Hip Hop=========Fol...YouTube
CIDRAP Minnesota: For nearly 80 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was respected around the world for its authoritative, evidence-based leadership in public health.
But the CDC’s stunning reversal Wednesday—stating on its website that “studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”—shows the agency can no longer be trusted, multiple doctors and public health advocates told CIDRAP News.
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"New US rules suggest countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights."
The absurdity of this statement is palpable, but the threat is real. Dear U.K., it is time to dissolve the 'Special Relationship' with the United States.
At the next election, unless you have a taste for complicity, the minimum requirement is the total rejection of the Conservative, Labour, and Reform parties. These entities will align with American caprice for their own venal desires.
We should draw a line: reject those who would import this culture war, and elect only those committed to defending the Human Rights Act 1998.
In Scotland, this necessitates returning the SNP or, preferably, The Scottish Greens. Crucially, it requires that the Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) regarding Donald Trump—long advocated for by The Greens—is finally progressed by the Scottish Government. Nothing would deflate Trump’s ego faster than his golf courses at Turnberry and Menie being subject to seizure under the Criminal Finances Act, resulting in nationalisation and his designation as persona non grata.
Be under no illusion: the erosion of rights is contagious. Religious groups in Scotland are already pushing against the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act, seeking to roll back reproductive rights. But here is the paradox: if we are to adopt the Trumpian approach to dismantling 'identity politics,' the first casualty must be the Equality Act 2010.
If the protections for 'Protected Characteristics' are removed to satisfy the anti-woke brigade, the legal shield for religion and belief falls with them.
Sauce for the goose.
If you demand the repeal of legislation that prevents you from harassing women outside clinics under the guise of 'sanctity of life,' you effectively dismantle the protections that stop atheists from standing outside your church on a Sunday, mocking your belief in 'space fairies.' You cannot strip rights from women and minorities without exposing yourself to the same open season.
Are you actually that game?
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US officials say the rules will stop "destructive ideologies" but others argue it is redefining human rights principles for Trump's goals.Tom Bateman (BBC News)
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in reply to Pax Ahimsa Gethen • • •After Epson bricked my last printer a couple of years ago, I decided not to buy another personal ink jet printer. There have been some slight inconveniences, but not as many as I worried there would be.
A trip to the neighborhood print shop when something absolutely has to be printed is less stressful than owning a printer that can be bricked whenever the corporation feels like it.
The ink jet cartel needs to be broken.
#Enshittification