#WenkoffRetro No. 273 🎶❤️
#retromusic

Dnes na nás číhá trojitá dávka pohody. Já bych se pondělí nebál. 😉

A teď zpět v čase:
Je 8.12.1976 a 🇺🇸 kapela *Eagles* vydává své páté studiové album *Hotel California*. Deska se s prodejem přes 32 milionů stala jednou z nejprodávanějších desek všech dob a v letech 1976-78 dosáhla vrcholu hitparád napříč kontinenty.

Kapela *Eagles* byla založena v Los Angeles v r. 1971 a od samého začátku byla velmi úspěšná, o čemž svědčí už v r. 1972 úspěch debutového eponymního alba. Do rozchodu kapely (1980) Eagles vydali 6 alb a s celosvětovým prodejem na 200 milionů desek se stali jednou z nejúspěšnějších US kapel 70s.

Dva zakládající členy Eagles už retro kalendář připomněl. Dejme si je jako pondělní bonus. 😉👇

*Randy Meisner (No. 97):*
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*Don Henley (No. 136):*
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It's actually pretty easy to check previous blog posts or old version of websites from all these companies with sentences like:

"We strongly believe the future of the web is through ***"

And see through the years how those asterisks have been cycling through crypto, blockchain, VR and metaverse, and now AI.

Fascinating...still dystopically sad, but fascinating nonetheless

Time, on average, runs 477 μs/day faster on Mars relative to Earth, according to physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), thanks to Einstein's theory of general relativity and the gravitational effects from its celestial neighbors.

This value varies by as much as 226 μs/day over the course of a Martian year.

Over 25 years, Mars inhabitants would age an extra 4.4 seconds compared to those on Earth. We can live with that!

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Mám dnes náhodou narozky a tohle náhodou sjížděli na Rádiu 1... vtipný je, že od toho roku 1992 dnes uplynulo víc let, než bylo tehdy těm bigbeatům, co jsem zamlada poslouchal (tohle bych si tehdy nepustil...). Shamen vlastně definovali žánr, jako první se pokusili atmosféru rave scény přetransformovat do popmusic (což bylo následně megazkomercionalizováno, ale už bez nich) a taky byli jednou z prvních kapel aktivních na Internetu.

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#radiochao #shamen #radio1

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Sacrament le Québec... Ça fait dur

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Les profs non binaires devront être appelés « monsieur » ou « madame »

Au Collège Jean-Eudes, Constance Bourguignon, qui s’identifie comme non binaire et qui emploie le pronom iel, s’interroge, justement : « Ici, le vouvoiement est déjà en place, alors les élèves m’appellent prof Bourguignon. Mais il y a un problème… »

Le souci, c’est que « prof » ne figure pas sur la liste du vocabulaire ministériel : les élèves doivent « utiliser le titre de “madame” ou de “monsieur” pour s’adresser au personnel de l’école » en vue « d’adopter un comportement empreint de civisme ».

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Very interesting! PSG Global Solutions ran an experiment on AI interview with 70,000 participants, and "when given a choice, 78% of candidates choose to be interviewed by an AI voice agent." "Women were also more likely than men to choose the AI over the human interview." "People who went through the AI interview process were 12% more likely to get a job offer and about 18% more likely to start and stay in the job for at least a month." #AI npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-56001…
#AI

Am I finally done with these horrible, no good, verry bad #lemmy performance issues? I think I might be. Lemmy federation requires a lot more...everything...than does Mastodon style microblogging. People vote constantly. Posts and comments are longer. Everything has multiple images. And by default lemmy wants to cache everything all the time forever.

Has anyone been keeping a list of tech that has milkshake ducked this calendar year? If not, let’s build one together.

• Framework: welcomed racists into its “big tent”
• calibre: added LLMs to software that doesn’t need it

Just to be clear: we're listing the projects and corporations who were our darlings earlier this year, until they lurched dramatically into unacceptability. The ones who've been on a downward spiral for years, they're for a different list.

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Regarding @MonaApp and all the upgrade stuff: I have no idea what's going on anymore. I don't remember what I paid for Mona a few years ago, I don't know which tier I'm on, and I don't know what my upgrade path to Mona 7 is. While I have no problem at all financially supporting the apps, services, and entertainment I like, I find myself confused about my own options and concerned that this developer is not being up-front with all Mona users. I may just stay on 6 for now.
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@vick21 Agreed. It has amazing accessibility customization settings, it uses actions well, it lets you control the magic tap, and on and on. I love it, and would support the developer except for what seem like questionable pricing decisions. It's worse that there's been no clarifying post, not that I've seen anyway, even after all the posts mentioning the developer and asking for explanations.
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@vick21 there were previously two tears of Mona. There was a base pro purchase which granted you a license to use it on iPhone and iPad, and a Pro Max which you could upgrade to that also adds the Mac version. That's the version which gives you an upgrade path to Mona 7 lifetime, that's how I understand it. So anyone who bought the iPhone/iPad only versions of Mona Classic has to go to Pro Max first or take the Mona 7 subscription.

Fantastic comment on Metafilter, on masking, that it is a constant burden of translation to be understood by a neurotypical audience.

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