DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option (Gael Cooper/CNET)
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Don't expect to pay for a taco in installments -- a Klarna rep says the credit options can only be used on purchases of $35 and up.Gael Cooper (CNET)
This week we released GNOME 48! 🎉
A new major release with exciting changes including notification stacking, performance improvements, an improved image viewer, a new interface font, new digital wellbeing settings, a new audio player, HDR support and much more!
To find out more, and to see what else happened this week, check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!
👉 thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 14 to March 21.thisweek.gnome.org
Like the more famous Pompei, Herculaneum was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
In 1752, workmen discovered charred papyri and excavations of them started later. Over the years, attempts have been made to open and read them, but they have disintegrated.
Now, using volumetric scanning, the scrolls are beginning to be "unrolled."
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A local ordinance has banned grass burning because it poisons the air and kills insects, and there are organic waste bins on every corner. Unfortunately, the effect is just the opposite. People who aren't selfish idiots didn't burn grass even before, and the rest burn even more now to show that they aren't obedient sheep and that no one is going to take away their freedom to poison the air for their neighbors.
This graph shows what it does to the #airquality. It immediately jumps from OK to unhealthy.
The Republican appeal to “common sense” is about getting you to stop thinking, ignore facts, ignore evidence, ignore science, and make laws purely on vibes.
By the way the vibes are racism, misogyny, sexism, queerphobia, xenophobia, ableism, etc
The ESA and industry partners announced the Accessible Games Initiative, providing unified accessibility tags for websites and storefronts.Marijn / ActiveB1t (Can I Play That?)
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie?
Easy:
mastodon.wurzelmann.at/@wurzel…
Attached: 1 image Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie.mastodon.wurzelmann.at
Today, in dystopia. This looks like it's directly lifted from a Cory Doctorow novel.
CBS News: DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer an eat now, pay later plan
"...DoorDash customers will have the option either to pay in full, to pay in four equal installments or to postpone payment to "a more convenient time, such as a date that aligns with their paycheck," DoorDash said Thursday in a news release...."
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Sweden's Klarna already offers deferred payment options to Walmart shoppers and J.P. Morgan customers.Kate Gibson (CBS News)
Coca-Cola is installing what the company claims to be the world’s first hydrogen-powered vending machines at the World Expo 2025, which will open to the public in Osaka, Japan, on April 13th, 2025. Co-developed by Fuji Electric, the machines don’t need access to a power outlet and instead rely on replaceable hydrogen cartridges to fuel a chemical reaction that generates electricity, @theverge reports:
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#CocaCola #Hydrogen #Energy #WorldExpo2025 #Japan
Coca-Cola’s new vending machine uses replaceable hydrogen cartridges and chemical reactions to generate its own power.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Zoom is about to release the H5studio Recorder. It talks like the essential stuff does, but it has the superior F-series microphone preamps and 192 kHz recording, as well as the H6 Essential's mic capsule system.
This basically looks like a Zoom F3 that talks, plus the replaceable X/Y microphones of the H6 Essential.
Hmm... I might have a hardly used H6 Essential for sale soon.
Wanted to run your own builder for #reproducibleBuilds and were disappointed our RBuilder Setup was only available for Debian-based systems? Then we have good news for you: a few min ago, 2 PRs have been merged. The setup scripts now also support RPM & Arch based systems 🥳
RPM/Arch lack packages for apksigner & dexdiff (which are needed for debugging). We're on it, those will follow hopefully soon™.
Thanks to @Iamlooker and Patrick (from FlorisBoard) for your help!
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Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependenciesForgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
With our rbuilder_setup scripts now ready, the wiki page on Verification Builders has been updated, too:
gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
The F-Droid compatible repo at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/GitLab
Oh, and the Readme of the rbuilder_setup repo needed a few updates as well 🙈 Done now: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil…
If you've set up a builder, we'd love to hear from your experiences – concerning the setup (was it easy enough and straight-forward?) as well as from operation 
Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependenciesForgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
"Anvil" continues—Ysabel tells the story of Erymathos:
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#FantasyLit #IndieAuthors #PDX #TheBoarErymathos
the Blue umbrella – the Three Acorns – Roly-poly Gang Bang – “Just let it ring” – Her promiseCity of Roses
With today's installment, we're halfway through the sixth novelette, which means we're halfway through the first volume:
Нейронные центры, обрабатывающие русский и английский языки, схожим образом реагируют и на клингонский с валирийским – но при этом игнорируют языки программирования.nkj.ru
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This is the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. It's not something you would imagine in a democratic nation. But this is the reality of life in Trump's America.
And this is why I went to Canada's Parliament to issue a travel warning to Canadian citizens: avoid all unnecessary travel to the USA. #cdnpoli
A Chilling New Reality at the BorderCharlie Angus / The Resistance
I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯
Nobody saw that coming! 
Discord looks for more ways to make money ahead of expected IPO.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.
Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
Web Component version of FitVids from the creator of FitVids
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Web Component version of FitVids from the creator of FitVids - davatron5000/fit-vidsGitHub
🚀 Discover amazing apps in the GNOME ecosystem! Check out the GNOME Circle Initiative and explore the awesome projects that make GNOME even better.
🔗 Visit now: circle.gnome.org
CLI tool allowing you to download the NVDA screen reader using the nvda.zip API. - trypsynth/nvdlGitHub
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A Trust & Safety working group, a major change in Element Call, and updates to matrix-ansible-deploy. That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2025/03/21/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
A lot of opinions, a lot of academic studies, some lab testing, too little feedback from people with disabilities and too much hype - I need to add.Bogdan Cerovac (Bogdan on Digital Accessibility (A11y))
The language you use in job postings has some influence on whether you attract narcissists. A recently reported study adds some quantitative weight to this: arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
I've found this transparently self-evident since I worked at (Google)X, which had a curious knack for attracting manipulative and problematic people into positions of authority. (Not all of them! But enough.) My "how to write job descriptions to get the people you want to work with" manual has helped discourage this at Oxide, though time will tell how well it sticks.
Looking to hire someone? Check your wording very carefully.The Conversation (Ars Technica)
The best thing I have read today scratch this week scratch this year scratch in ever???
This comic is about a lot of things, but mostly it is about butts.The Oatmeal
32-bit/192kHz Handheld Recorder with X/Y Stereo Mic Capsule, 4-track Simultaneous Recording, XLR/TRS Combo Inputs, and Color LCD ScreenSweetwater
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CloudPanel is a free and modern server control panel designed for ease of use and high performance in managing web applications and servers.sk (OSTechNix)
Every time I read about or use ISO8601, I get sad that it's not the standard for everyone everywhere. Dates are unambiguous. Dates sort from oldest to newest automatically, even if they're strings, like in file names. Times use 24-hour format, which is obviously superior to the 12-hour format my country clings to. Decades and centuries can be represented easily. The week stuff is confusing, but everything else just makes sense.
I cannot stress enough: starting my day twice a week with fixthenews.com/ is great for me. I strongly recommend it for you.
We can’t hide from the challenges of the world, but it’s also deeply unhealthy to only consume bad news. Read FTN to be reminded good things can and do happen.
Super contento de que @tutanota@mastodon.social destaque a Veenk en su blog y explique por que hemos elegido aprovechar sus servicios:
tuta.com/blog/veenk-open-sourc…
Feliz de como ha quedado el artículo y obviamente en lo personal os recomiendo echarle un ojo a lo que ofrecen.
Primera vez que Veenk aparece en un artículo 
Veenk chose Tuta Mail not just for security, but also because of its focus on open source and its responsiveness on the Fediverse.Tuta
![Timnit Gebru claimed that effective altruism has acted to overrule any other concerns regarding AI ethics (e.g. deepfake porn, algorithmic bias), in the name of either preventing or controlling artificial general intelligence.[127] She and Émile P. Torres further assert that the movement belongs to a network of interconnected movements they've termed TESCREAL, which they contend serves as intellectual justification for wealthy donors to shape humanity's future.[128]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/651912 "Timnit Gebru claimed that effective altruism has acted to overrule any other concerns regarding AI ethics (e.g. deepfake porn, algorithmic bias), in the name of either preventing or controlling artificial general intelligence.[127] She and Émile P. Torres further assert that the movement belongs to a network of interconnected movements they've termed TESCREAL, which they contend serves as intellectual justification for wealthy donors to shape humanity's future.[128]")
Urban Hermit
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •maple
in reply to Urban Hermit • • •@Urban_Hermit The problem with that is, some things cannot practically be enforced. Remember prohibition? Remember the "War on Drugs?" You might catch a few offenders but if the punishment is a slap on the wrist they won't care, and if it's more severe you risk filling prisons with non-violent individuals (or at least they were not violent before going to prison).
The correct answer (and maybe this is what you were going for) is "Don't ban a thing unless it really matters and a very significant majority of the people agree with the ban". And, I might add, don't make bans for political reasons or so that some bureaucrat or politician can feel like he accomplished something, people will always oppose those bans.
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to maple • • •In early 90s my father built a summer house on his old family property in countryside. When he was applying for a waste bin, his neighbors told him that it was waste of money, "you have a stream behind the house, just dump it there, and the next big water will take it away", it was normal there back then. My sister lives there now and no one would even think of it any more. The stream is clean, even trout and cancers are back. And no ordinance was needed.
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