My favourite feature of Mona 7 is how it spuriously says "scrolled to top" each time I navigate back from a post to a timeline. This has made it worth the $50* admission price worth it alone.
*Approximate price as I have no idea how much I've spent on this app by now.
Сегодня папу внезапно заинтересовало, насколько мне выгоднее печь хлеб в хлебопечке в сравнении с покупным.
При очень округляемых подсчетах расходников и электричества получилось, что булка белого 0,75 гр мне обходится в примерно 20,5 рублей. Я бы сказал, вполне, вполне. Это без учета того, что хлеб точно свежий, на него никто не чихал, и я точно знаю, что внутри.
It was all smiles and good-cheer at the Collective's annual Holiday Festival again this year. With gentle snow falling, and the scent of hot apple cider hanging thick in the air, friends in Toronto's vast and diverse disability community gathered ...Buzzsprout
Maybe someone should tell senior management in some services that DO use performance metrics (translators are not the only ones).
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The first two recommendations in the report call on Statistics Canada to explore and report on the development of a “productivity measurement program” for the public service, and for agencies to develop productivity metrics for departments and agencies that provide direct services to Canadians.
“Without reliable data, it is difficult to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of government services or identify areas for improvement,” the report said.
The president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada said productivity cannot be improved by productivity measurement alone.
“We don’t build productivity through distrust and surveillance. I think that it’s two things that productivity depends on is having trust and faith in the work everyone does,” Sean O’Reilly said on Tuesday.
He says public servants are already dealing with understaffing, outdated technology and paperwork, and those problems won’t be solved by performance tracking.
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The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says it is not considering four of the recommendations from the task force, including measuring productivity across the public sector.
ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/fede…
The federal government should measure productivity in the public service and publish annual reports on “underperforming” public servants, according to a new report on public service productivity.Josh Pringle (CTVNews)
@driusan Like those that get promoted for shipping shitty product vs those that get fired because they spent all their time fixing the above mentionned crap and kept things running.
Checks out.
@bougiewonderland @driusan I don't really talk much about what I do but one of my metrics is, slop, and how much slop I use, but it's only ever measured by how much I put into the slop machine.
And boy do I put prodigious amounts of everything into the slop machine.
I don't use a drop of the output, but my job is now feeding it reports and pretending it's not making shit up.
I am burning a forest down for this, basically.
But my metrics? Doing so good.
I really regret contributing to this situation. I didn’t anticipate how completely it would dominate the narrative.
"On the first night of #Hanukkah, #Jewish families gathered in #Sydney to celebrate. Instead of #candlelightings and #latkes, they were met with #gunfire from two armed #terrorists. At least a dozen Jewish #Australians, including a #Holocaust survivor, were murdered, and the first candle of Hanukkah was lit in grief.
Almost immediately, however, the focus of the public conversation began to drift.
Rather than centering the #victims or grappling with what it means for #Jews to be targeted at a Jewish #celebration, much of the discourse has fixated on a different element of the attack, one that, while important, should not be the story itself."
jpost.com/opinion/article-8804…
When antisemitic incidents occur, the world prefers to talk about the feel-good narrative rather than Jewish victims of terror.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
At my childhood home we had a Panasonic microwave that could automatically cook potatoes to perfection and you could program sequences with different power levels, two features that I really loved.
After 30 years of service it stopped working, but turns out you can still get basically the same thing from Panasonic, only slightly modernised on the outside, inverter on the inside.
It wasn’t made “smart” with IoT, it’s not different for the sake of it. It worked then, it works now. More of this.
The new Mozilla CEO says he could block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that it would bring in another $150 million, but he doesn't want to do that. Lmao. This guy has really lost the plot. Is he issuing threats to the users of an open-source project? Boy, what a disaster.
infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-m…
reshared this
reshared this
Any apt experts out there? I'm trying to add MSSQL to a Debian-based image. I can do it, but the instructions use apt-key, which is deprecated. The articles I've read about the new way, using [signed-by=/path/keyfile.gpg] in my .list or .sources file, all talk about GPG keys. The problem is that Microsoft supplies a .asc file that contains a PGP key, not a GPG key. What do I do?
Also, the genius that decided the two key types should be GPG and PGP deserves to never sleep on a dry pillow again.
Comparing the early internet with the Sloponet that we are sliding into currently is mind boggling to me.
The early internet gave more people more tools to easier publish and learn and collaborate.
The slopfest centralizes knowledge so that you can only exist when you’re in a symbiotic relationship with an LLM that you pay a lot of money for when the bubble pops.
The internet distributed knowledge, the sloponet centralizes it and gives you only the bits you explicitly ask for.
Danish head of government IT (left) hands over the first "microsoft-free" computer to the head of Danish Traffic control, December 2025. They are testing Linux as the primary OS, with open source alternatives for stuff like office, on peoples work computers in government agencies. Traffic control gets to be our first test subject. This is gonna be put in the hands of somewhat tech-illiterate people.
reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1p…
The EU is slowly becoming tech independent from *big tech* :)
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Initially misread "Commons Caretakers" as "Common Scaretakers" in this URL and now I cannot unlearn that:
Commons Caretakers delivers intermediary services related to the creation and maintenance of digital commons efforts.www.commonscaretakers.com
People are strange.
I just agreed to speak at a big festival. They invited me by contacting my publicist. I told him I'd do it.
They then sent him (not me) an email with an attached PDF, and asked him to forward it to me, and to instruct me to check page two of the PDF for a link to a Microsoft Form to complete my RSVP.
Surely there is a better way.
The number of times I've asked for something like a key that needs to go into a DNS record and received a screenshot in a word document in response is ludicrous. This is the sort of stuff that's error prone when manually transcribed (especially in the case where I receive a 6MB *photograph* of the web page.)
If only there was a way to select, copy and paste text information directly into an email...
FediVerseExplorer likes this.
So @sovtechfund published the report on their experiment with Fellowships program.
And I love it. I love it because the results are so frigging good and align with the model of open source maintainers I keep pushing forward.
And it gives me a bit of hope. At least we have some support for the model of the problem. And possible solutions.
Let's make it better for everyone!
Thanks you @soverin
Eloquence is the Android version of the popular ETI-Eloquence voice synthesizer.play.google.com
I know that all words are made up, but why do some words sound more made up than is acceptable? Take "lanyard" for example. What the fuck is a lanyard? Why not go all the way and call it a bippityboop? Lan-bloody-yard.
</rant>
hmmm.... the UK is expected to announce tomorrow that it has rejoined the Erasmus student exchange scheme.
the Q. will be how much the UK will be contributing to the scheme to have closed the deal - anyone thinking that the UK has beaten the EU down much from their original request has not been following the various negotiations with the EU since Brexit.
But no doubt Keir Starmer will trumpet this as part of reset that Britain has 'won'!
So, the cost of rejoining the Erasmus scheme is £570m for 2027; almost double the scheme contribution when we were members of the EU.
While its good to see the scheme back for university students, its difficult to see how this can be anything other than (another) aspect of the costs of Brexit.
What we once had is now nearly twice as expensive after five years. Keir Starmer may say its a win for the 'reset', but once again we're worse of than we were!
#Brexit #Erasmus #universities
h/t FT
Weird thing about the kids in this part of the world is that when they're upset or whining, they have a unique thing they do to add emphasis to whatever they're saying.
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The more upset, the harder they cough that vowel out, and the longer the micropause between the word and the vowel.
"It's not fair'a!"
"They won't let me play with my toys'a!"
"She said I smell like a dog'a!"
I'm sure the @Vivaldi folks are sick of hearing this feedback, but I'll say it anyway (sorry): the only thing that holds me back from adopting and enthusiastically recommending Vivaldi is that it's not 100% open source.
With Mozilla chasing the AI dragon, now would be a really great time for Vivaldi to take the plunge and go fully FOSS. I don't know that it gains much, if anything, by being just mostly FOSS.
People involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t fully open-source. In this post, we’ll explore and explain our position.Julien Picalausa (Vivaldi Technologies)
@thibaultmol I'm quite familiar with that post.
But it's been four years since it was published. They've had four years to assess whether being closed is accomplishing their goals, and a lot has changed with Mozilla in that time as well.
If I were at Vivaldi, I'd be arguing that the benefit of going fully open and welcoming Firefox users who are unhappy outweighs the benefits of being closed. Yes, people could fork the UI bits - but I've seen some pretty snazzy Firefox forks since that post that have really done wonders with the UI. I don't think the value of preventing forks is as high as they seem to believe. (Of course they don't have to provide their branding/trademarks in any source.)
Especially since AIUI Vivaldi has already struck a stance that is less AI-happy than Mozilla, I think they have an opportunity to win over some hearts and minds, as it were. They could also become the default browser and ship with distributions like Fedora and Debian, which won't ship it now as closed-source...
But, that's just, like, my opinion.
Apparently Amazon's entire DMCA/copyright division is now bot-run, without a single human to correct any bungling.
It's almost as if they get a cut off every copyright violation, and want to keep it that way.
For anyone using Parallels Desktop on Mac OS:
What's the secret for disabling all these annoying and unnecessary shortcut keys, like command+q=alt+f4, command+b=CTRL+B, etc? I found them in a nice list in preferences > keyboard > Windows 11, I think, but every single one of these checkboxes is permanently checked, and can't be unchecked. I want all these stupid things to get out of my life.
Edit: Figured it out, I think. I changed the keyboard profile from "Windows" to "Generic". That seems to have done it.
Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Link: infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-m…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Možná jste to nevěděli, ale reader mode ve Firefoxu umí číst články. Jakože nahlas. Přečte text jako audio. Ale zní to prehistoricky a čeština je to vtipná. Kdyby zrovna do tohodle vrazili AI a vylepšili to, neuráželo by mně to.
Myslím, že jsou věci, které jsou AI a jsou pro lidi užitečné, ale je otázka, jestli to jsou zrovna ty, které si produkťáci vycucali z prstu, a jestli jich je tolik, kolik se nám snaží aktuální trh naznačit.
#ai #firefox #mozilla #readermode #tts
#NS Fanshop: "Trademark Rights:
The products in the NS Fan Shop are licensed products and may not be resold."
They should probably learn something about the principle of "exhaustion of rights," for instance here: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten…
Waterfox: No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-r…
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.Alex Kontos (Waterfox)
LibreWolf is another option. It is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom with all bad bits (like LLM/AI, No trackers/telemetry, enhanced privacy etc) removed.
* Repo codeberg.org/librewolf
* Home page librewolf.net
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Please report issues to https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues.Codeberg.org
Silly idea that has probably been done before:
In the United States, amateur radio operators can apply for special event 1x1 callsigns, which are good for 15 days. They start with K, N or W, with a number (0-9) and a letter (A-Z, excluding X).
So, I dare someone to do a personal special event, called Naps on the Air, reserving the call N4P, using FT8 in fully automated mode, and working as many stations as possible while sleeping... or not.
#Wedos (tedy dnes Vedos 🤦 - pitomý rebranding) jde úplně do kopru.
Už 9 měsíců mám u jednoho webu připravený upgrade na aktuální #Drupal 11. Ten už tu s námi je rok a 4 měsíce. Ale nasadit ho nemůžu.
Vedos totiž nabízel max PHP 8.2. Verze 8.3 kterou potřebuju vyšla už před dvěma roky, a než ji nasadili přechází do režimu security maintenance.
OK, nasadili i PHP 8.4 - tak web upravuju a testuju, aby fungoval i na PHP 8.4.
Jenže teď jsem zjistil, že mají jen MariaDB 10.4. Ta dostala poslední update v květnu 2024, už není supportovaná a i Drupal vyžaduje minimálně 10.6.
Co je to za hosting, kde nelze nasadit aktuální verzi CMS? A podpora mlčí. Na opakovanou otázku, jaký mají plán upgradu, a kdy se ho dočkáme, odpoví: Ano máme outdated verze, nevíme.
Wedos si pamatuju jako progresivní firmu pyšnící se serverama v oleji, aktuálními verzemi, super supportem a skvělou cenou. Dnes? 👎️
Asi to prostě naházím na nějaké levné VPS v Dockeru a bude pokoj.
Tak můžeš to zkusit u nás na @rosti. Kromě toho, že se snažíme držet nabízené technologie aktuální, tak máme i Docker compose hosting, kam si můžeš strčit prakticky cokoli.
Dostałem linka phishingowego od... Instagrama (naprawdę!) 🤔
Nawet z ciekawości sprawdziłem, gdzie on prowadzi.
Typowa próba przejęcia konta.
Jak to możliwe, że platforma rozsyła phishing do swoich użytkowników?
Czytaj dalej 🧵 ↓
Ja kiedyś dostałem na bardzo podobnej zasadzie maila z Githuba, tam (jeśli dobrze pamiętam) wykorzystany został mechanizm powiadamiania mailem o issues, w których użytkownik jest wspomniany. W ten sposób w mailu można zawrzeć dosłownie wszystko, bo treść issue staje się częścią maila. Tam zabawa była dość prosta, chodziło o odebranie nagrody od Githuba za kontrybucje do open source, coś w stylu phishingowej wersji hacktoberfest. Oczywiście odebranie wymagało potwierdzenia autentyczności konta, "w celu ochrony przed robotami", potwierdzenie miało postać "depozytu" w kryptowalutach.
Co jak co, ale scam dość kreatywny.
The effect of putting the #postmarketOS wiki behind #Anubis 😞
I really hope whatever entities are doing this will run out of money soon...
Uh-oh (for you). Just came across an old post and have there-fore realised it is your BIRTHDAY coming up soon! Please can everyone remember it's Tays birthday at the end of this month and see who can send the most unhinged psychotic birthday card. I realise as I type this I mean like an alligator in a tutu on a skateboard juggling, not like a crazed photo of her front door while she's sleeping. Get the vibe right, peeps. X
beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/11…
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT, POWERFUL, INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE, IRREPRESSIBLE UNASSAILABLE, EMPRESARIO.....beige.party
Sean Randall
in reply to James Scholes • • •help a beleaguered sleepless new father out here.
DO I need to do something? I paid *something* for mona 6 last year.
I'm not a heavy user but ...
I'm also still running drafts 4.
Simon Jaeger
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Back when you upgraded to the full version of Mona 6, you either bought a single-device upgrade or the "pro max" upgrade. If it was the pro max, you've unlocked a lifetime upgrade option in Mona 7 that isn't available to other people. If you haven't bought the pro max upgrade in Mona 6, it's $10 and you might want to check whether it's still available as an in-app purchase in Mona 6, because otherwise you're locked into a subscription. The grandfathered lifetime upgrade from Mona 6 to Mona 7 is $20 USD. So you end up spending the equivalent of $30 US total, if I'm not mistaken.
Hope fatherhood 2.0 has lots of good parts to balance out the sleeplessness.