Imagine you’re the most valuable company on Earth. Billions of dollars of cash on hand. Best engineers in the world. You could legitimately leave an impact on anything you work on. And one of the primary things you choose to focus on is stubbornly policing fucking game emulators. Like forget about whether it’s good or bad, it is just so unbelievably small minded. An Apple running on all 8 cylinders wouldn’t have time to give a shit about stuff like this.
Take a moment to wrap your head around the fact that Apple fought a multi-year court battle to try to prevent you from putting links in your app. I get that that may have significant revenue effects — but the point is that a company with Apple’s resources should have way more interesting and impactful ways of generating revenue. There is something deeply broken from a *creativity perspective* if “don’t let app devs talk to users” represents the state of the art in business strategy at Apple.
> Bluesky zatím nedosahuje popularity své zavedenější konkurence. Zatím má asi 22 milionů uživatelů. Konkurenční X přitom měsíčně aspoň jednou navštíví přes 600 milionů lidí.
December 1st! You know what that means. Show off your advent calendars! Or other non-denominational calendars full of stuff. I wanna see them!
Here is mine. Hubby filled it with #HazbinHotel cards. Also, one of my best friends made a personlized selection of 24 small surprise items. Can't wait 😊
(Hubby's getting #MtG cards. Kiddo is getting #Pokemon cards. We are a nerd family.)
Dopo il recente abbandono di Twitter da parte di NGI, ben sedici progetti Next Generation Internet (NGI) sono lieti di annunciare la transizione a @Mastodon e @PeerTube (sul nuovo canale @Next Generation Internet che raccoglierà i rispettivi materiali video), due piattaforme open source europee, per le loro esigenze di comunicazione e condivisione di contenuti. Questa mossa strategica è in linea con l'impegno di NGI nel promuovere un Internet che incarni i valori europei di fiducia, sicurezza e inclusione.
L'utilizzo di piattaforme sviluppate in Europa come Mastodon e PeerTube rafforza la sovranità digitale, assicurando che l'infrastruttura digitale europea sia basata su valori di apertura, collaborazione e rispetto dei diritti fondamentali. Questa transizione segna un passo significativo verso un Internet più incentrato sull'uomo, riflettendo la visione di NGI per un futuro digitale affidabile, aperto e inclusivo.
The NGI Evangelists Programme proudly introduces its third batch of inspiring individuals, following the impactful paths set by our previous evangelists.
It seems like our joint stand with @forgejo at #FOSDEM2025 has been accepted, thank you @fosdem!
For those of you that don't know, #FOSDEM is an annual conference for free and open source software taking place in Brussels. We'll be there throughout the event to exchange words and/or stickers with some of you.
Za mě naprostá pecka 👍 Mimo pár scén, dle mě poněkud přitažených za vlasy to bylo nabušené od první minuty do poslední. Bylo to silné, odvážné, smutné a lidské. #tipnaserial
As I just joined social.coop, it may be a good time to re-introduce myself.
I studied architecture and organization development, and work now at tangente.coop supporting community-led and non-speculative #cooperative #cohousing projects in #Spain.
Also experienced in sustainable and people-centered urban develoment, and urban #cycling #mobility.
I love and support #FLOSS #freesoftware, digital autonomy and libre culture in general.
in the next #ArcaneChat release: new option to control behavior of notifications of reactions and replies to your messages as well as the new mini-apps notifications in muted chats
don't lose important replies or reactions to your messages while keeping all the uninteresting chat flood/noise away 😌
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 is now available for testing! It's a mid-development snapshot, leading up to the final release planned for February 2025: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
To reduce having to search the web each time, I added a bunch of frequently asked questions about #systemd such as using journalctl and systemctl in a more efficient way.
I don't know what possessed me to do this, but I did it, so there.
I was just thinking of all the things that used to bring me joy that no longer do, for one reason or another. I then thought about scenarios where good things turn into nightmare fuel. As a result of all that, I loaded sound files of my grandmother's clock, which she gave me in 2015, striking the hours of 1 to 12, into my DAW, and lined them all up at exactly the point of the first chime. As each instance of the clock chiming moves away from the start position in the imperfect way that anything mechanical like this will never produce exactly the same result twice, it created some interesting effects, so I screwed this up more by panning each track out, then manipulated the rate of each instance over time at a different point, then I washed the whole thing in far too much reverb and some LFO-based effects. Gave myself the creaps, honestly. So now you can experience it, too.
As there seems to have been another uptick in participation here, a quick summary #introduction (fuller one is pinned). I'm a UK-based (Londoner now living on #isleofwight) folklorist. Started off interested in #folksong, spread to wider interest in #folk #folklore.
Currently on the Council of the Folklore Society, Associate Editor of its journal Folklore, & on the editorial board of #FolkMusic Journal. Until end of year I'm Research Fellow on #FolkloreWithoutBorders research network on EDI in British folkloristics.
I've written on #ghostlore, folklore about #rats, #cannibalism at sea, tongue twisters, popular representation of folkloristics. Increasingly working on folklore's history. Shiny research profile here: researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/e…
Hi Mastodon. I'm Mick, a wildlife guide based in Granada region of #Spain. I'm looking forward to connect with fellow birders, botanists & entomologists throughout the Fediverse.
Regularly out in the countryside of Andalucia & further afield posting info & images about my adventures & encounters with the natural world.
Here's a photo of a close encounter with Iberian Lynx I took a few years ago.
I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.
Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
one downside of the persistent myth that programmers are inherently smart and thus immune to soft issues like feelings and marketing is that there's basically no industry-wide defense against completely meaningless terminology like "modern" being used as a substitute for figuring out whether something is fit for purpose.
On the one hand, our pocket computers with their relentless stream of distressing news destroy our attention spans and fill us with doom. On the other hand, before we had mobile phones with cameras, I would have had to spend the rest of the day doing the labour of going up to people and telling them myself: "I saw a duck take off."
This is making the rounds on Finnish social media.
A large association for Finnish construction companies, #Rakennusteollisuus, decided that they needed an English version of their website but apparently they didn't want to pay an actual #translator so just used some free #LLM with hilarious results.
They've fixed it now, but for a short while there was some comedy gold to be found.
Los Centros Especiales de Empleo, al tener convenio propio como CEE, legalizan en nombre de la #inclusión peores condiciones frente a compas del sector: Trabajadores con #discapacidad del centro de #Amazon en El Prat de Llobregat se rebelan contra la sobrecarga de trabajo. El 40% están de baja por las duras condiciones laborales. La Inspección de Trabajo ha abierto procedimiento sancionador contra #Ilunion (perteneciente a la #ONCE) lee.eldiario.es/euq #derechoslaborales #explotacionlaboral
El sindicato CCOO denuncia que un 40% de los empleados de Ilunion dentro de la planta de El Prat, la mayor de la compañía en España, están de baja por las duras condiciones laborales
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P. #Blanár najprv na ministerstvo nabral 146 novych ludi a hned na to¹ ide inych 40 prepustit. Zdovodnuje to potrebou setrit, o ktorej v zasade tusili/vedeli uz aj pred volbami a urcite vedeli pocas naberania tych novych.
Minister zahraničných vecí Juraj Blanár (Smer) rozbehol jedno z najväčších hromadných prepúšťaní v porevolučných dejinách tohto rezortu. O prácu prišli diplomati s veľkými skúsenosťami, ktorí mali dvadsať- a viacročnú prax v pozíciách veľvyslancov.
V ZSSR postavili niekde na Sibiri zeleznicne priecestie. K nemu mal byt zamestnanec na obsluhu rampy. Len ten nemoze robit vkuse, prip. moze ochoriet. Tak tam pridali druheho obsluhovaca. Lenze to uz su dvaja a tych treba riadit. Tak pridali veduceho. Lenze to uz su traja a tych treba strazit. Pridali teda aj politickeho dostojnika. Lenze na financiach zhodnotili 4 ludi na jednu rampu ako privela a nariadili skresat na ½. A tak zrusili tych dvoch obsluhovacov rampy.
Il nucleare è talmente conveniente, economico e redditizio che l’unico modo per farlo è trovare un governo amico che ti fa un prestito da cinquanta miliardi a tasso zero, rischiando una procedura di infrazione europea per aiuti di stato illegali che ostacolano e distorcono il libero mercato dell’energia.
L’ultimo aggiornamento di Bluesky ha portato in dote l’evidenziazione di default delle risposte ai post che hanno avuto più interazioni. Per tornare alla vecchia modalità dal vostro profilo: Impostazioni → Contenuti e media → Preferenze delle discussioni → Mostrare prima le risposte più vecchie
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