I am home from EMF. My feet are bruised and blistered, my ankle is still bleeding, I twisted my knee, my hips hurt, I'm sunburned, my lip is split, my hands are covered in bruises and scratches, and it was 100% worth it.
Anybody at @mcfly Run Your Own Infrastructure talk at @emf running their own photo/media storage that's got value add extra like facial recognition, timelines, etc. looking for recommendations.
Inspiring talk by @tante at Re:publica 24. A quote from the Q&A session at the very end is really summing up how all the empty promises of current “innovation” feel like: “The removal of purpose is the removal of meaning”. Many startups are working towards an exit and to offload their stuff to a big company for a lot of money not to solve a problem and build something meaningful.
@Kensan@tante Just starting to watch this now, and it's interesting because I don't disagree with the first 2 minutes, but it stood out as the most literal sense of performative slacktivism. Interested in the rest of it, but that front part really stood out to me as extremely online 2020 behaviour.
@Kensan@tante The talk had some great points (although I think it should've been a blog post). The speaker was the perfect parody of the embodiment of every counterculture stereotype. Him saying "Inspiring is what I'm known for" in the Q&A is chef's kiss indistinguishable from satire. Somebody that man a TEDx talk!
(But on a more serious note, thanks for sharing the vid, it was defo worth a watch)
Hi @mollyim i recently switched from signal to molly amd noticed the same donation request with the "not now" dark pattern. Could you change this to a no or integrate the option to stop it coming back? I dont mind a donation request and i dont mind donating. I just dont like it ignoring my decision nor to donate while i'm trying to use the app.
@mollyim@abroad_octopus ah ok. Given "not now" is associated with repeat activity, I assumed Molly had just replaced the Signal element with it's own and that it would come back. Given it's a dark pattern, there are probably better ways to do this. I'd be happy to look into it and submit a patch if that's helpful?
So bought a used ThinkPad T61 (core 2 duo 4GB ram) for about 111$ + 30$ for a new battery *
I know I could get a faster CPU for that price but that’s not the point. I am a pervert and want a laptop that is slow (but of quality) to fiddle with lightweight operating systems.
@gsuberland I can see the attraction, but I lack the spoons. But also remember a large portion of those enraged fanbois are 3 fucked-over youtubers in a trenchcoat.
my understanding is that american's do not empty 1-2 kilogrammes of dishwasher salt into a special salt compartment of their dishwashers? as a european i take pride in emptying a 1-2 kilogramme box of dishwasher salt into a special salt compartment of my dishwasher to contribute to the effective washing of my dishes
@hazel I have and you shouldn't. Table salt is too fine grained and contains anti caking agents that can clog up the dishwasher. Sea salt might be coarse and pure enough.
Every time a techbro tells me I need to change to some boneheaded security solution like DoH or shit like that it ends up with shitty consequences. Today it's Passkeys being used to lock customers into platforms. Other than anyone who looked at who was involved, who could've possibly predicted this might happen?
My favourite bit from TFA: "So do yourself a favour. Get something like bitwarden or if you like self hosting get vaultwarden. Let it generate your passwords and manage them. If you really want passkeys, put them in a password manager you control. But don't use a platform controlled passkey store, and be very careful with security keys."
Join me next week when I have inevitably to point out storing authentication on a device people watch porn on the toilet on with is obviously also a bad move.
This "speech synthesis" tech is vital, there's people who rely on it! And it enriches many lives to build more natural sounding ones!
But don't advertise them as "audiobooks", a good narrator brings more than a speech synthesizer can (Eleven Labs is awfully good though). Any ebook can be speech-synthesized, so just call these ebooks! They don't deserve a separate marketplace, or to compete directly with audiobooks!
@alcinnz the bit I struggle with is why the speech isnt bundled with the regular ebooks. Having readers be able to flip between the two would be an accessibility boon. The cost is far lower than human narrators, so the only reason to sell separately is dedication to the profit motive. That aside yours is the best take on this i've heard so far.