I recently joined a gym. That's given me about an hour a day of Fox News exposure. As bad as I thought it was, it is far worse. The biggest news events coverage were about how illegal immigrants are behind the unprecedented crime waves afflicting all cities. Meanwhile crime is now back to pre-pandemic levels and even at its pandemic height was still at multi-decade lows. Also, Democrats are giving illegal immigrants free housing, food, phones, and laptops. Why? "Oh you know why..." Readers get to fill in the blanks with that sort of lede. Then we had the completely political hack attack on Trump even though he's never done anything wrong, a major scandal around Hunter Biden's congressional testimony and Fauci's assistant's testimony around something else. That's the big news. The right has a profitable multi-billion dollar industry, far beyond Fox News, to propagandize. There is no counter-balance. And don't say the supposedly liberal MSM. AT best they are led around by the nose by the right wing media and politicians. At worst they have similarly sympathetic coverage when it comes to things like properly addressing wealth inequality, monopolies/trusts, and holding rich powerful people to account. #rant#uspoli#msm#foxnews
My crappy wifi swallowed my late night rage post about how hard BloodBowl is, even with a Tier 1 team (Norse). I'm really struggling to improve past just getting the mechanics right, to getting the strategy right. I've got 3 more incredibly hard games left in the league (Norse, Khorne, Wood Elves). I can't get the team to attack decisively, and can only defend through attrition (so I end up losing players). I'm worried the game's not fun any more because I'm not improving. #bloodbowl#rant
#devRant has vanished from app stores. Now I wonder how new people will ever make it to the community of funny and loud nerds like this one. The way I discovered it is by searching #DevHumor in Google Images and clicking on the one joke I liked. Despite being website second and mobile first, devRant has found its way to my desktop bookmarks, I quickly became a user just to throw a few snarky jokes back and take part in some interesting discussions. There are lots of #TIL moments to have, too.
Few telling signs show that dR does not feel well: subscriptions stopped functioning and now app is nowhere to be found on Play Store. There are simply periods when servers refuse to accept some LTE connections, which is strange for mobile first platform. Now users will have to resort to third-party app, like #skyRant, to access the platform at finger tips.
This situation got me musing again about an app that could interact with devRant and Fediverse, optionally archiving stuff on the latter.
To make yourself at home on fediverse, you are encouraged to subscribe to a lot of people and interesting hashtags. Once a week, challenge yourself to some new hashtag you were roundabout and unsubscribe if the flow is too much. Explore, research, boost what you want followers to see in their home feed. Write your own posts, toot!
During this journey, you might have already picked all that you like, such as: nixCraft, #opensource, #devhumor, #rant, etc. But how do you go about filtering and even finding old folks?
#devrant hashtag is open for use, so why not include it in your posts and subscribe? You can hide posts that include certain words. But I don't know magic app that would allow something more sophisticated yet.
"Group" can be made: it's a bot account that boosts anything seen with certain hashtags. Everyone can subscribe to it and receive posts made by devRant community fast.
I'm starting to find ads even more irritating lately.
What's up with sites that take work funded by the public and putting ads over it? One site I looked at wouldn't even load a NASA video with an ad-blocker on, because of the pre-roll ad.
Or, what about when you watch a trailer for a movie, which itself is an ad, really, but first you have to watch another ad. What's up with that?
My hot take on one of my biggest #bookish pet peeves - YA should be labeled 'Teen', not 'Young Adult'. It's extremely confusing, it's the reason why YA ends up mixed in with NA smut in stores, by definition it's unclear; Young adult means late teens to early-mid 20s, and by that definition non-readers assume 'young ADULT' means someone of age. There really needs to be a clear differentiation between NA and YA.
I believe anyone who posts complex and complicated solutions for people who ask for help on logging to a console are sociopaths and most likely evil. #programming#code#stackoverflow#rant
Oh fantastic. Someone assigned a CVE to an invalid bug report. Of course it's rated "critical".
Now I have to file for a rejection again, while thousands of "vulnerability report sites" copy each others bad summary of the CVE text making it worse with every copy.
The whole CVE system and the "security research industry" at large is a steaming pile of 💩
Male-defaultism in #archaeology is bloody annoying.
Just because someone draws a #hunting scene in a #cave, doesn't mean it was a man doing so or depicting one.
Every #archer grave from the Bell Beaker Era MUST be #male because even when they find #female additions, that just means she is related to a great man or the male lost status (of course).
Archaeologist Randy Haas just assumed he found a male big game hunter in Peru in 2013. Except he didn't.
I love Nestle Crunch style candy. I hate the sound of people chewing, even myself. That now incessant on YouTube Nestle Crunch commercial with the guy in airport security line not being able to hear because of his chewing is driving me so up the wall I'm actually starting to hate the product. #rant
...with my luck I'll go through all the brain damage of switching back to Garmin, since there is no decent FOSS fitness tracking hardware, get everything wired up in a de-Googled Android OS (assuming Health services work at all there), and a week later Garmin will get bought by Apple or Google and I'll be equally fucked with all my data going to the same goddamn place. #rant#BigTechShouldNotExist#foss
If Apple starts sending all my fucking search, messages, photos, files, etc. data to Google or OpenAI I'm done with them. They are my compromise platform because I hate adding to the Google/Facebook style data reseller big tech data lakes. I honestly don't know what the alternative will be at that point besides having to hobble my experience with /e/os, LineageOS, whatever, self hosting services, etc. and try to figure out a work around for banking apps. Motherfuckers! This is so enraging. I have a feeling I better start getting my ducks in a row to depart their ecosystem sooner rather than later. #rant#apple#ai#enshitification#BigTechShouldNotExistmacrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple…
It is unsurprising to see so many so-called progressives gushing over Naomi Klein’s hate-filled, trope-laden screed. It is unsurprising that her gross distortions of Judaism and of reality resonate so strongly with an audience eager for a Jewish seal-of-approval for their antisemitism. Of course they think it isn’t antisemitic to accuse the majority of Jews of being “deeply immoral,” betrayers of “every Jewish value,” of being, to summarize a good chunk of her speech, cruel blood-thirsty baby-killers, so reprehensible, so depraved as to deserve every ounce of their contempt.
It is unsurprising but deeply depressing to see people with large followings amplifying the vitriol, hate, distortions, and misinformation which was already spreading like wildfire.
The people who hate us will always outnumber us. This speech is a tool they will gladly use. #Antisemitism#Jewish#Rant
Between Windows 11 "reportedly display[ing] a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements" [1] and cramming ads into the Start menu [2], I'm really not looking forward to having to update next year [3].
Blöd genug, dass #congstar Rechnungen (wegen Datenschutz - hahaha) nicht mehr per Mail versendet. Muss mich also auf der Webseite anmelden, das Dokument öffnen und ins CMS "drucken". Nicht schön, aber einfach und flott genug.
Jetzt stellen sie alles um. Rechnungen nur noch in der App. D.h. Ich öffne die App, lade das pdf herunter, verschicke das über den Acrobat Reader an mich per Mail und drucke es dann ins CMS.
#rant There’s nothing more irritating in the #gym#weightroom than some jackass parking his ass in the equipment next to you and reeking of #CheapPerfume .
All y’all gots to stop ruining the nice dank environment.
#This is my #introduction post, Sharkey edition (it's basically the same one as I posted when I joined mastodon.me.uk).
I am, like many others here, a refugee from other social media sites. In my case, it all started way back in 1990 when I did the #OU DT200 information technology course. This gave me access to their CoSy based conferencing system. From there I explored various #BBSs before joining #CIX. From there I migrated to #Facebook and #Twitter via #Usenet and alt newsgroups.
My posts are likely to cover a variety of areas such as: #Cats, #Photography, #Cooking and #Running. Now that I've got a few more characters to play with I may also post the occasional #rant.
In der Kieler Kommunalpolitik wird gerade über den Neubau eines Fussballstadions gestritten. Dabei hat der CDU Ratsherr Sebastian Thiede dieses Argument vorgebracht:
kn-online.de hat geschrieben:
„Wenig hilfreich sind die geäußerten kostspieligen Wünsche der grün-roten Kooperation hinsichtlich Klimaneutralität und nachhaltiger Bauweise, die die monetäre kommunale Finanzlage wie so oft ignorieren und eine schnelle Bauumsetzung erschweren“, so Thiede.
Das Teil ist ein Fussballstadion und somit ganz und gar nicht Lebensnotwendig, es dient nur der Unterhaltung. Und da hat man gefälligst auf Klimaneutralität und Nachhaltigkeit zu achten! Die Stadt Kiel hat immerhin schon vor ein paar Jahren den #Klimanotstand ausgerufen (Quelle: Klimanotstand Kiel). Wenn dadurch der Neubau teurer wird, muss man halt mehr Eintritt zahlen.Und davon mal ganz abgesehen frage ich mich sowieso was die Stadt damit zu tun hat, sie muss es nur genehmigen oder halt nicht. Um die Finanzierung eines größeren Stadions sollte sich der Verein selber kümmern. Das regelmäßige Polizei-Großaufgebot um die "Fans" in Schach zu halten kostet die Stadt und das Land ja sowieso schon genug.
Okay, so I get that news is mostly for non-technical people. I get it. But my goodness, can we not get a little better than "6 rumored iPhone 16 camera upgrades?" The camera? Again, and again, and again! Like is that all people think about? #rant