Interesting how when Roe v Wade got overturned men were like "ladies just keep your legs closed" and now for some reason there's a "male loneliness epidemic" and they can't seem to imagine why.
There's no correlation between loneliness epidemic and access to abortion.
It'd be great if you could do a cursory check whether a problem exists in other countries, many of which have very different laws from yours, before trying to turn everything under the sun into an argument about US politics.
When you step away from a meeting and set your Airpods down on your desk, and then return and put them back in your ears, they unmute themselves automatically so that the whole meeting can hear your next amazing thought. Ask me how I know this!
Dulon Von Paradis Project: blog post 3, Now that Iโve started writing about music I canโt stop. My Canada Counsel grant is allowing me to dive into one of my very favourite pools, and the waterโs fine! In reading the first half of Friedrich Dulonโs autobiography Iโve been most moved by his accounts of playing music with others, not for performance or money, but for the joy of it. Busking is primarily about money itโs true, but itโs not stage performance, and itโs definitely not glamorous, two of the many reasons I love it so. Hereโs what happened to me while playing at my favourite station, Queenโs Park, this week. patreon.com/posts/dulon-von-blโฆ
A lost recording of a Pavarotti concert in a Welsh village is released.
The Decca label celebrates the late tenorโs 90th birthday with the out-of-print archives of the Llangollen Competition, which he won in 1955 as a member of an amateur choir.
โThe Lost Concertโ also includes the first two recordings of Pavarottiโs career.
The Decca label celebrates the late tenorโs 90th birthday with the out-of-print archives of the Llangollen Competition, which he won in 1955 as a member of an amateur choir. โThe โฆ
Several episodes into Earth Sound, thanks to deborahh@cosocial.ca for the brilliant recommendations, a decades old mystery was solved for me. Back when I used to camp, and spend a lot more time in nature, there was this intermittent sound, a beat that started slow, and got faster. It was of such resonance that you could feel it in your chest and in the ground. Itโs a ruffed Grouse, and you have to be exactly in its line of sound, and if youโre a female ruffed grouse I guess you get pretty horney. For so many years I wonderd, a bever, some huge mutant scunk about to spoil my year? Now I know. This audio rendering isnโt great, but if youโve ever heard it and wondered, now youโll know too โ youtube.com/watch?v=q0obByQW23โฆ
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/lifeoflukeI stalked this Ruffed Grouse with my camera to capture his "drumming" display. The low WHUP-WHUP-WHUP sound of its wings b...
For those who used all three of Whatsapp, Signal and Delta Chat in multi-device mode:
Which messenger provides the best multi-device setup and handling for users (UX)?
(question spans setting up a second/linked device, as well as migrating to new device, as well as quality of multi-device synchronizing/bugfree-ness -- all subjectively weighted by each voter according to their subjective experiences)
Delta Chat is pretty close to Signal, but I find it easier on Signal to see which devices I have paired. Not sure if that is a thing on Delta Chat, as I'm sort of new to it.
ah -- we should have said that we were only looking at end-to-end encrypted messengers. Telegram is a fancy and fast clear-text central database viewer, not a private messenger. It has good messenger UX, and provides messaging, and naturally has a lot less problems with showing everything with just a login to their central database. so pretty easy for multi-device.
honestamente, se me hizo fรกcil con Whatsapp usar la versiรณn de escritorio, incluso web. Con DeltaChat tuve un inconveniente, pero me pareciรณ mejor y baatante mรกs seguro, la opciรณn de cargar el cรณdigo QR desde una imagen.
The multidevice. Delta experience is great except for the moments when you turn on your computer, and if delta notifs are on, past messages will all come streaming in one after the other as the device syncs, creating a stream of unnecessary notifs. I have not experienced this on the other apps
@tekknovator Do you mean transfer from one phone to another? The question is mostly about "linked devices" feature, not the primary device phone-to-phone transfer (which we also heard does not to work for many users).
Deltachatโs QR code is hard to scan with non-premium laptop cameras from a modern premium phone. It took me ages โฆ One aspect might be that the screen size isnโt fully utilized on the phone?
@goetz large display maybe, but also there are better qr-code scanning libraries/activities. It's possible to improve but low prio because setup-second device is a relatively rare event, and a bit of a first-world problem. (>90% of onboarders are single-device according to some rough statistics)
โฆregarding UX: i really hope you will improve iOS support. Some missing basic features in Delta like โmark as read" on Apple Watch and Focus Mode support, made me return to Signal for nowโฆ
Darkness WithinBy: whimsical musings 1 On the fateful night when Ron and Hermione were abducted, the wheels of destiny began to turn. For Harry, the kidnapping of his friends shattered the illusion that the light side could protect those he loved. An ultimatum was presented, and a decision was made. Now, Harry stands at a crossroads: Can he protect those he loves without losing himself in the process? fanfiction.net/s/14368837/1/Daโฆ
The Darkness WithinBy: Kurinoone What if Wormtail hadn't told Lord Voldemort the Potters hideout. What if he took Harry straight to him instead? A Dark Harry fanfic. AU Mild HG fanfiction.net/s/2913149/1/Theโฆ
Visto lo visto, creo que conviene, para quien no lo haya hecho, recalibrar un poco el tema de independencia judicial, separaciรณn de poderes, y estado de derecho.
Los jueces son el poder del Estado que tiene menos legitimidad democrรกtica (prรกcticamente ninguna), menos control, menos transparencia, etc.
A lo mejor hay que plantearse que la funciรณn de resoluciรณn de conflictos de la judicatura no puede o deber convertirse en un obstรกculo para la democracia.
La Fiscalรญa de #Portugal๐ต๐น reconoce que, como indicaba esta maรฑana el 'Diรกrio de Notรญcias', hay escuchas al exprimer ministro Antรณnio Costa relacionadas con el caso que acabรณ con su dimisiรณn que no fueron incorporadas a la causa judicial. El 'DN' hablaba de 22, la Fiscalรญa admite siete #justicia #polรญtica #noticias rtp.pt/noticias/pais/pgr-admitโฆ
A Procuradoria-Geral da Repรบblica (PGR) reconhece que foram identificadas sete escutas em que o ex-primeiro-ministro era interveniente e que nรฃo foram comunicadas ao Supremo Tribunal de Justiรงa (STJ) "por razรตes tรฉcnicas diversas".
TFW your publisher sends you an email encouraging you to opt-in to licensing your work to AI developers, and when the book in question is titled 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Itโs Friday, which obviously means today is the day to push all your untested vibecode to prod before the weekend, but remember that (at least for those of us in the US), next week is a short week presenting one of the best opportunities for code pushes. ๐ฆ๐๐๐
This text would make an excellent made-up computer screen for some "cyberhacking" scene in a cheap CSI-style crimi-series. Lots of serious and technical sounding nonsense. :)
What I donโt understand is why they bother to do this. Is there some bug bounty theyโre trying to get? I mean why submit AI slop unless itโs going to profit the submitter in some way?
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
I can't state any more strongly of how much I love Libre Office. You helped me get my MSC you clever piece of open source software. Thank you all at @libreoffice
I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines
lest we feel superior in *our* ability to clock LLM garbage, this disaster among elites is a microcosm of something even worse that LLMs and their sister technologies of shitcoins and spambots are harbingers of: we *all* have heuristics that we need to use to make sense of the world, and heuristics work because of an implicit presumption of good faith in many interactions. most presumptions can be hacked if some significant plurality of actors in a system are always seeking maximum advantage
Huh what? So now it's no longer one time purchase for features, I have to subscribe? IIRC I have Mona pro, I got the features, no idea how much it was back then but it was fine. But no way I'm subscribing just to use features of such an app. One time purchase, or even pay for big upgrades, fine. But USD per month to, browse Mastodon? Thanks that I'm on Android at this point and Pachli is free and OSS.
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Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:
I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being maintained next century: Fedora.
I want a carefully hand crafted desktop experience curated for me by people who know what they're doing: KaOS.
I want to carefully hand craft my own desktop experience from scratch, I don't care how many wikis I have to read: Arch.
I think I'm somewhere in between those two extremes: Manjaro.
I'm a gamer: Bazzite.
I'm a Mac: Elementary.
I'm a Haskell weenie: NixOS.
I think rms made some good points: Debian.
I think Tommy Robinson made some good points: Omarchy.
FX Radio is back online. Still have no idea why this thing hard crashes about once a month. Hardware failure? Reading the kernel log didn't tell me anything interesting.
Some criticism of people using AI is just mean. Just saw a post that said:
> Instead of using AI images to illustrate your blogpost or presentation, why not go deep into the forest, lie down in a pile of autumn leaves and allow the earth to consume your body
Seriously? You know, not everyone is as immersed in all of the things that are wrong with AI as we are. Some people are just trying to get by in the system of incentives that they didn't create.
People just hate because something that took them 15 years to figure out is now doable by the press of a button in mere minutes. I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it? As long as you fact check your research and test things that you're having it code, why not?
@threlm4280 Yes, there are probably people who hate AI for the reason you described. I want to push back on this point though:
> I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it?
There are in fact better criticisms of current AI products. They're trained on basically all of the work of all humanity (or as much as the AI companies could get their hands on), without the consent of the people who did the work, for the explicit purpose of replacing labor. Worth thinking about.
I suppose there is validity in that. I don't think about it too much though because stealing the work of others has been a thing for ages even before AI came along to the stage. So to me, that's just finding a reason to criticise for the sake of it. Using the work of others in a modified fassion is not even remotely new.
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Googleโs AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
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in reply to ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ "not yet begun to fight" • • •There's no correlation between loneliness epidemic and access to abortion.
It'd be great if you could do a cursory check whether a problem exists in other countries, many of which have very different laws from yours, before trying to turn everything under the sun into an argument about US politics.