I wonder why people get so fixated on "meme" solutions to company problems, e.g, with tumblr, people inevitably bring up how banning (some) porn doomed tumblr even though this doesn't appear to match what happened.

And the idea that you could just add porn back to tumblr to restore its former glory. It was acquired for $1B in 2013 and then reportedly for $3M in 2019.

Why would someone think that filling tumblr with porn will turn this $0 property that's losing $30M/yr into a $1B property?

Ted mam v planu pracovat vic s Webflow, tak jsem se vrhnul na vzdelavaci vikend™ a otevrel Webflow University.

Musim rict, ze me ohromilo, jak je komplexni. Prosel jsem si novinky a best practices a dal si uvodni expert kurz. Potunim trosku best practices, zahraju si poznavaci designove hry a vrhnu se na kodeni novych webu.

👀 Delate nekdo profesionalne ve Webflow? Mate nejake jine zdroje nez oficialni?

#webflow #web

Happy to share my new article, "Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic," published by Slavic Review. doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.164

For years, I have been searching for Muslim refugees' letters exchanged between the #Ottoman and Russian empires in the 1850s–1914. I was lucky to find quite a few: in archives in Tbilisi, Baku, Moscow, Vladikavkaz, and Makhachkala and private collections in #Jordan and Dagestan. The article explores the secret transborder #letter exchange of Caucasus Muslims and reactions by #Russia.

I argue that Muslims' letters from the Ottoman Empire fueled the Russian government's paranoia about Pan-Islamism that purportedly threatened Russia's colonial project in the #Caucasus. The Pan-Islamic panic shaped Russia's migration policies and colonial governance, including bans on Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, emigration, and return migration.

#histodon #histodons #history #MiddleEast #Turkey

Just saw this on the X site... hard to believe people like this exist, but now apparently simple arithmetic is subject to opinion...

#ElectricVehicles #Math

The EU is moving forward with #eIDAS despite warnings from over 500 scientists & privacy advocates.

With no requirement that server-side code be released open source, we cannot be sure that our personal data is secure.😱

Thankfully, the #Pirates 🏴‍☠️ in the EU Parliament did manage to push for an #opensource release of the client-app & the eID will be voluntary.

This isn't over. EU citizens please contact your representatives and demand they respect our #privacy !🥊

patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-digita…

Constitucionalistas de ignorar que el artículo 28 limita el derecho de sindicación a los cuerpos sometidos a disciplina militar, lo que implica que se les puede caer el pelo cosa mala.

elpais.com/espana/2023-11-10/i…

Interior investiga a una asociación de guardias civiles por un comunicado contra la amnistía: “Estamos dispuestos a derramar nuestra sangre”

Aprogc, minoritaria pero con implantación en las escalas de mando, asegura que el pacto PSOE-Junts le ha causado una “profunda preocupación”

^{Óscar López-Fonseca (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

Lo de las cartas al director de los diarios es como para hacérselo mirar. Lean si no el odio que emana en sus letras esta indocumentada!

Un día triste para España

diariodenavarra.es/contenidos/…

Un día triste para España

Se rubricó lo que estaba pactado desde hace tiempo, la infamia de entregar España y a los españoles. Para Sánchez todo vale con tal de seguir gobernando aunque

^{Gisela González Cruz (Diario de Navarra)}

@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.

Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards _public code_ that belongs to all of us.

That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.

foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/0…

Today I'll probably be posting a bit more from the #OpenAlt conference. If you're not interested in it, use that great feature of Mastodon and mute me for the weekend.
I'll be giving two talks at OpenAlt:
Fedora Asahi Remix: Linux on Apple Silicon
Fediverse: Mastodon and Others

I'll be happy to meet you at the #Fedora booth or at my talks. If you cannot come, you can watch the talks online (they're in Czech though): openalt.cz/2023/program/

cargo-mommy 0.2.0 is here for you~

cargo install --force cargo-mommy

CHANGELOG:

* mommy now works with flags like +nightly~

* rand replaced with fastrand, because mommy must go fast~

* mommy now respects flags like -q~

* mommy now has a build.rs so she can be EFFECIENT and parse her templates at compile time~

* mommy fixed some typos~

* mommy's emotes can be customized~ 💞

* mommy can be kinky~ github.com/Gankra/cargo-mommy#…

GitHub - Gankra/cargo-mommy: Mommy's here to support you when running cargo~

Mommy's here to support you when running cargo~. Contribute to Gankra/cargo-mommy development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Design systém 4.0 pro státní weby je tu!

Novinkou je usnadnění integrace Design systému jako takového. Ve verzi 4.0 najdete zcela předělané webové komponenty, které nyní bude mnohem lehčí začlenit do nejpoužívanějších frontenďáckých frameworků jako Angular, Vue nebo React.

První ochutnávku jsme připravili na webu edoklady.gov.cz

designsystem.gov.cz

Design systém gov.cz | Design systém gov.cz

Design systém gov.cz obsahuje UI knihovnu komponent k použití pro projekty ve veřejné správě.

^{designsystem.gov.cz}

New Outlook app for Windows, macOS and, apparently, also iOS/Android, is collecting user IMAP/Gmail/... credentials for storing user emails in the cloud. Along with contacts and calendar.

I could not confirm that the Outlook for Android is doing this (can anyone else?) but the Windows bit was tested by me, and is true. And the consent screen presented is quite inadequate, to my taste.

This really could be violating privacy laws or regulations, and could be considered an ISMS incident in various companies.

heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-h…

Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.

^{Dirk Knop (heise online)}

Mailbox.org warnt:

„es gibt aktuell eine sehr deutliche Warnung davor, das neue kostenlose Outlook-Programm von Microsoft zu installieren. Hierbei riskieren Sie die Übertragung sowohl Ihrer Zugangsdaten zu Ihrem E-Mail-Postfach als auch Ihrer E-Mails an Microsoft-Server.

Wir haben das Wichtigste dazu in unserem aktuellen Blogartikel zusammengefasst:
mailbox.org/de/post/warnung-ne… "

Warnung: Neues Outlook sendet Passwörter, Mails und andere Daten an Microsoft | mailbox.org

Heise Online warnt vor der Nutzung des neuen kostenlosen Microsoft Outlook. Es droht der Verlust von Zugangsdaten zu E-Mail-Konten.

^mailbox.org

What's for (late) breakfast you ask? These Cheela - Savoury Indian Pancakes. These are made with coarse semolina (cheela can be made with a variety of lentil/grain flours). Plus onion, chilli, ginger, and spices mixed into the batter.

From #SpiceAtHome by #VivekSingh. Pic from the same book.

#IndianFood #Cheela #WhatIAmCooking #FromTheKitchen #Vegetarian #EggFree #WhatIAmEating

I have a mixed feeling about this.

I mean, of course the burn-big-tech side of me is happy whenever a company like Amazon is force to redistribute some of its immoral wealth.

But software patents are always evil, even when litigations turn against Big Tech.

I've already written in the past of how the industry of voice assistants has been ruined by patent trolls. Open-source solutions like Mycroft have gone out of business because of lawsuits initiated by some of those trolls. Folks who have submitted patents that simply include the drawing of a cylinder with a speaker and have taken anybody they liked to court are the reason why the only actors left in this industry are those that can afford expensive and lengthy patent litigations (Google and Amazon).

Sure, in theory VoiceBox has a stronger argument than the ridicolous ones proposed by the trolls that took down Mycroft. At least VoiceBox showed some working prototypes. And of course it's a bit unsettling that they demoed a voice assistant called "Alexus" just 6 months before Alexa was released - even though in this case the name similarity may just be a coincidence, as apparently VoiceBox had designed the device for Lexus cars.

But I also wrote a primitive (and actually working) voice assistant back in 2007-2008: github.com/BlackLight/Voxifera. Of course it's extremely primitive when compared to today's tech (it only used Markov chains over frequency samples, no neural networks involved), and it's closer to what today we'd call a hotword model (which actually only worked with max 9-10 phrases before frequency boundaries got fuzzier to detect) rather than a speech model. But hey, it's much more than what some of the patent litigants over voice assistants could show.

I've never claimed any rights over my idea because I believe that, in technology, rights can be claimed only over working and replicable implementations, not over ideas. I wrote my voice assistant back in the day because I was inspired by HAL-9000 - like many in the AI field at the time. If we were to share the royalties of all the products that benefit from conversational interfaces with those who originally had the idea of a cylinder that speaks with a synthesized voice, then most of the revenue that Google and Amazon collect through their voice assistants should probably go to the heirs of Clarke and Kubrick. I stand to this principle even if it means saying that Amazon shouldn't pay in this case.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/1…

Alexa just cost Amazon another $46.7 million

"Alexus" voice assistant demoed 6 months before Alexa reveal, patent lawsuit said.

^{Ars Technica}