Thank you, McSweeney's, for perfectly capturing the CoinDesk endorsement of Donald Trump I wrote about last night
McSweeney's: mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-…
Newsletter: citationneeded.news/issue-68/
![Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/600221 "Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”")
Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites.Molly White (Citation Needed)
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Google's NotebookLM Now Broadly Available with Audio Overview Customizations - Thurrott.com
Two weeks ago, I posted a video showing off the insanely capable Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI service. Today, the online giant added two interesting new features to Audio Overview that make it even more compelling.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Got two blocklist updates today, and a non-update with private visibility. First, a FediNuke/tier0.csv transparency update:
I override-added an instance to FediNuke using my documented override process: caekis.love.
Was already near consensus, and the admin was already in receipts for the gleasonator.com FediNuke entry.
See the many receipts for caekis.love in my receipt archive. The severity was enough to warrant inclusion.
My Fediverse blocklists
Documentation on which Fediverse blocklists I offer, how they are made, their differences, their caveats, and their intended use.Seirdy’s Home
I also retired my tier-1 blocklist. It’s the least-used blocklist I have, and I’m managing several; it’s not worth the effort. Every new severity level demands more instances to carefully consider.
Without willingness to spend that effort, its existence encourages me to treat it like a dumping ground for other entries that don’t qualify for other lists instead of evaluating entries’ severity properly.
I will maintain it in private to shine a light on the latter phenomenon, but I won’t share it.
Before you protest, know that I’m maintaining six other blocklists:
- FediNuke.txt
- My tier0 list (might re-name)
- BirdSiteLive, bird.makeup
- Other bridges
- Corporate social media (Threads, Medium, Minds, etc)
- Spammy subdomains
They will be unaffected. If anything, they’ll improve.
I think we reached an important milestone today about my work on modernizing notifications in GNOME and for the FreeDesktop.
Most of the improvements I proposed for version 2 of the xdg-desktop-portal got merged today. This has been a long journey and many thanks go to everybody involved, especially to those who reviewed the my changes 🎉
If you haven’t followed the journey: github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop…
Implement v2 notification spec by jsparber · Pull Request #1298 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
After lot of consideration I started implementing parts of the proposed and discussed notification API For now this includes: Set icon additionally via file descriptor Set sound via bytes, file ...GitHub
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> WARNING: The convert command is deprecated in IMv7, use "magick" instead of "convert" or "magick convert"
🤟 OH NICE. Are the "import" days gone too?
But #ImageMagick wasn't the worst offender there... I should crunch some stats on packages providing many /usr/bin/{?,??,???} files...
MacChat: “Exploring Parallels, ChatGPT, and CleanMyMac: Mac Adventures and Beyond” - Unmute
In this episode of MacChat, Chris and Marty dive into exciting Mac-related adventures, sharing insights on using Parallels to run Windows 11 on a Mac Mini, optimizing storage with CleanMyMac X, and exploring the benefits of ChatGPT for translating do…pgnpt (Unmute)
Wrote a new thing! sarahmhigley.com/writing/activ…
About what to do if two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.
Aria-activedescendant is not focus | Sarah Higley
Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.Sarah Higley
Menschen mit Behinderung: Objekte für neues Sammlungsprojekt gesucht
Mit dem „Disability History Project“ will das Haus der Geschichte Österreich (hdgö) die Erfahrungen von Menschen mit Behinderungen sichtbarer machen.ORF.at
2024 Marathon Sponsorship Application
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appleinsider.com/articles/24/1…
"I can't believe its not butter, but the name gets more and more sinister as time goes on."
"Its probably butter"
"Some places consider this butter"
"Legally, its butter"
"Ants won't eat this butter"
"Butter that has been known to contain cancer-causing agents"
"the butter is not an object of remembrance or value, but rather a warning sign to future civilizations about dangerous synthetic butter material contained within"
The Society of Authors is helping to collect signatures opposing the use of generative AI across the creative industries — from actors, artists, authors, illustrators, musicians, performers, translators, and more.
I've just added my name. If you're a member, check for the SoA's email.
www2.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=4…
#democracy #AI #SocialMedia #constitutionalism
What AI is doing to America's democracy
In this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American election, and the implications that this will have for democracy in the future.London School of Economics and Political Science
If you read anything today, read this from @pluralistic - "You Should be Using an RSS Reader".
Cause you really should. Really.
Speaking of which, anyone knows of a tool somewhere that can analyze sites that don't have RSS feeds in search for changes and puts those changes on a RSS feed of its own?
'Cause that'd be really useful, you know?
@pluralistic
Contribution experience report: Thunderbird
My ramblings about open source development and related topicsantonin.delpeuch.eu
Wealthy tech guys are working so hard to relegitimize eugenics with a tech rebrand.
theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
#tech
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings revealJason Wilson (The Guardian)
We asked and you answered! Here's Tuta's updated list of best WhatsApp alternatives in 2024 👏
Which one is your favorite? 🤔 Do comment below - or check out our detailed review first!
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…
#WhatsAppalternatives #Messenger #Privacy #Encryption
Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.Tuta
With its true incognito mode - that differs a lot from Google’s incognito mode that was used for “privacy washing”
@lascapi
Hmm, where's that poll @Seirdy made about TLS again..? 
theregister.com/2024/10/15/app…
Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts
Max validity down from 398 days to proposed 45 by 2027Jessica Lyons (The Register)
Welcome to the RB family, IconRequest 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/de.ka…
With this app you can share the data for adding the icons missing in your icon pack.
Thanks to Bastian for helping us establishing #reproducibleBuilds for this app here at #IzzyOnDroid 
„IconRequest“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Retrieve app icons from your installed applicationsIzzyOnDroid App Repo
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