Apex predator or prehistoric delicacy? The truth about dinosaur meat
It turns out that certain dinosaur meat likely either tasted like modern-day poultry or edible reptiles like crocodiles or iguanas. Here's why.Christopher McFadden (Interesting Engineering)
CrowdStrike has a new guidance hub for dealing with the Windows outage
CrowdStrike offers a single page with information on dealing with Friday’s global Windows outage. Separately, the company warns of an outage-related malware threat.Wes Davis (The Verge)
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GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 1
GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a w...YouTube
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Kladno vibes
I Don't Know Where I'm Bound (San Quentin Full Concert)
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Closing Medley at San Quentin (The Whole Band Sings)
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Retrospective as GNOME director
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Retrospective as GNOME director
I am no longer a member of the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation since May 2024. The process and decision shocked me. I know peo...Sonny's
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Missing Link: Wie Millionen Bundesbürger kommerziell auspioniert werden
Wie ist es trotz rigider Datenschutzgesetze möglich, mit brisanten Standortdaten von Millionen von Menschen viel Geld zu verdienen? Eine Spurensuche.heise online
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For those not at GUADEC (or not in Berlin), I've posted a recording of my talk about gobject-introspection on my YT channel:
Moving Past Quiet Introspection | GUADEC 2024
My presentation for the 2024 edition of the GNOME conference, about GObject Introspection.YouTube
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Het aantal gebruikers van het openbaar vervoer in de regio Amsterdam, waar Amstelveen en Uithoorn toe behoren, is de afgelopen jaren toegenomen.uithoornlijn.nl
😱 Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds #climatechange #Canada
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Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds
Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levelsMatthew Taylor (The Guardian)
Today at 13:55 MDT (19:55 UTC), my colleague Georges Stavracas will talk about bringing accessibility back to WebKitGTK:
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Draconis Entertainment - Delivering the best in Accessible Games for the blind and Visually Impaired.dracoent.com
Updated my search engine article to add information on Ghostery Private Search’s reliance on Brave Search. In my tests, all Ghostery results seem to come straight from Brave. Excerpt from my article (linked):
Ghostery’s own documentation at the time of writing is extremely misleading, using clever language that seems to heavily imply the use of an independent index and crawler while not saying so outright: Ghostery says it “gets you objective results from a unique search index” and that it will “crawl it’s [sic] search index.” Privacy claims require trust, and word games do little to build it.
A look at search engines with their own indexes
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.Seirdy’s Home
This is even more misleading than DDG saying it has “over 400 sources” (one source for organic link results, at least 399 for infoboxes) and its CEO claiming that it downranked Russian propaganda (Bing downranked it, and DDG doesn’t have permission to modify Bing results. DDG just took credit for it).
Oh, and there’s no such thing as an “unbiased” engine. If an engine tells you it’s unbiased, it’s straight-up lying.
The closest thing to an “unbiased” search engine is one with no result quality standards that ranks results randomly. Full of spam without any criteria, let alone bias, for “better” results. If you thought Google results were full of slop and SEO bait, you haven’t seen anything yet.
Hell, even that hypothetical “unbiased” engine would have emergent bias towards whoever has the most pages. Own your bias, both intentional and emergent.
They are all trying to run a "search service" on the cheap. They don't want to do the hard work of building their own index. Some claim they are but it's not a serious spidering.
Anyway, you know far more about this than I do. And it all seems like a dark pattern in the end.
@bradenslen They don’t have to build their own index if they can’t afford to (it costs tons of money, talent, and not-very-public knowledge on how to deal with spam and whatnot). They can just be honest and say where their results come from and what they offer that their sources/competitors don’t.
I honestly like DDG’s predictable infoboxes more than Bing/Google ones; if they leaned into that they could have a lot more users.
Decades after the first images from Mars rovers, I still can’t get over the fact that we have actual photos of landscapes, sunrises, skies, and formations from the surface of another fucking planet. Sci-fi creators have imagined the extraterrestrial landscapes for centuries, but NASA went out to see the real Martian surface (holy fucking shit) and it was gorgeous. I’m reminded of the “Holy Shit: Man walks on fucking moon” headline from The Onion.
Quote posting to add alt-text: various photos of a Martian landscape. It resembles a desert with large sand dunes. Soil colors range from brown dunes to reflective cracked orange flats below. The sky is a pale yellow-orange. In some images, parts of the Perseverance rover are visible.
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Attached: 4 images Check out these views with amazing levels of details! #Mars #Perseverance #rover #Sol1178 #BrightAngel #outcrop #RedPlanet #Mastcam #MastcamZ #camera #image #gallery #mosaic #NeretvaVallis #MastcamZForAll #space #Astrodon #scienc…Mastodon
Microsoft-CrowdStrike Memes Celebrate 'Happy International Blue Screen Day'
Social media mocks the global outage, looks for a scapegoat, creates a holiday and wonders why our work computers are still up and running.Gael Cooper (CNET)
Why are Japanese developers not undergoing mass layoffs?
On 14th June, Tango Gameworks employees had a pizza party. It was the studio's final day following the announcement of …Alicia Haddick (GamesIndustry.biz)
🎶 “Once again I fall into my feminine ways” 🎶
Full of gratitude that this immersive exhibit was extended at the SFMoMA. I cannot recommend it enough. A beautiful reflection on community, friendship, and music.
This was my third time experiencing it, and I still cried and sang. So moving.
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Lol what... Doordash really should have had someone proofread their accessibility statement. "We take customer obsession and accessibility of our websites very seriously and are committed to meeting the needs of our Consumers," Somehow I doubt "ob…disabled.social
Look, I've had numerous (well documented) complaints about the Biden administration and the fact that I don't think its liberal, incrementalist policies go nearly far enough in the face of a fascist project to control every aspect of our society, backed by corporate power. With that having been said however, I dunno how *anyone* can still be arguing that there are political, institutionalist answers to the fascist takeover we're experiencing in America when even straightforward incrementalist policies by an elected Democrat President are being struck down or otherwise blocked by Calvin Ball rulings from federal courts stacked full of fascists:
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Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s temporary ruling against the administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan comes just over a year after the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s sweeping student debt cancellation proposal."
This case isn't even about using political power to stop fascism, it's a clear cut situation of providing debt relief for folks being ground up by the student loan industry. If fascist judges are prepared to interfere with regular policy issues and block milquetoast presidential initiatives, you can sure as shit bet they're going to do the same thing about any political efforts to stop the fascist takeover of our society. Whether you're for taking to the streets, or you believe in stopping fascism at the ballot box, it's 100% clear to me that we're not going anywhere good as a country so long as these corrupt, be-robed nazis are running Bartertown.
There's more than one way to reform the American federal court system, and I don't have all the answers for you. It's entirely possible the Biden administration can keep working around these rulings for a little while to continue offering student loan debt relief to millions of Americans victimized by the student loan industry. What I do know however is that sooner or later the political issues raised by the fascist takeover of our courts will come to a head, and by hook, or by crook, we need to find a way to shatter the power of corrupt judges who're now running the country for their reactionary corporate donors; rich donors and corpos who clearly support the larger fascist project, might I add. Ignoring this reality is a nonstarter - both politically, and in our greater society.
#StudentLoans #USPolitics #CourtReform #Biden
Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan
More than half of the more than 8 million borrowers who have enrolled in the program have a $0 monthly payment.Jessica Corbett (Truthout)
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in reply to GNOME • • •Maybe I'm a bit picky, but with Snowden and the latest databroker files (in Germany) in mind, I do not want to use YouTube / Google any more.
I know there are anonymizing Youtube proxys around, but google doesn't like them and sabotages them. ...
Is is possible that Gnome foundation / GUADEC uses an alternative streaming platform.
IIRC for example PeerTube also can handle live streams (with recording), too.