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tokyo_0

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tokyo_0, to random
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*closes several incompletely read tabs.... reflects on the "people were disagreeing about something contentious so I wrote 2,000 words and posted it" school of driving engagement.... *

tokyo_0, to Meditation
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"Let us ... try to find out not how to meditate, but the quality of a mind that is awake, aware, intense, that has no trauma, no suppression, nor indulgence, that is not controlling itself all the time or at any time, that is free and therefore never lives in the shadow of yesterday." — J. Krishnamurti, Switzerland, Aug. 8, 1965

tek, to random
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How I got scammed by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/

tokyo_0,
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@andrewfeeney @rysiek @tek @pluralistic It totally reads that way 😅

tokyo_0, to random
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@trumpet Hi there. Are you aware of this? https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111921365604965429

tokyo_0, to random
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Starting to wonder if I need a quiet, real name Mastodon account to finally move and consolidate contacts from other places (like Facebook, for example) that I don't use any more but still keep alive to retain those contacts 🤔 The recent Meta "oh yeah we'll just use everything you ever wrote to train AI" thing may be the final push I need.

Would probably need to use another client on my phone, though... not logging in and out all the time with 2FA.

tokyo_0,
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Maybe the sweet spot of social media existence is one super quiet real name account for relatives, old friends and infrequent contacts, one everyday noisy anonymous account for lively debate, hot takes, tech and projects, news and being real, and another anonymous account for peaceful, quiet creativity, art, photography, beauty, inspiration, spirituality — a sacred respite that nourishes and replenished the soul, insulated from all the noise.

tokyo_0, to browsers
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More "Are you absolutely sure you want to do that thing you chose to do, that I think you shouldn't be doing?" bullshit.

So now anything we choose to download is scanned and shared and compared against an index somewhere of downloads that are considered "safe" and "acceptable"? And anything not "acceptable" to the machine must be characterised with suspicion, as a dangerous threat?

Another pointless extra two clicks.

tokyo_0,
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Fucking , again. Man alive.

"When using Malware Protection to protect downloaded files, Firefox may communicate with Mozilla's partners to verify the safety of certain executable files. In these cases, Firefox will submit some information about the file, including the name, origin, size and a cryptographic hash of the contents, to the Google Safe Browsing service which helps Firefox determine whether or not the file should be blocked."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work

tokyo_0,
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People use so they're not using . So why is Firefox sending the details of what I download to Google?

Why was this change added and defaulted to sending personally sensitive data to Google without or

smh

tokyo_0, to random
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The ability to remain mindful that what other people do is about them, irrespective of what it means for you, is a superpower 🪷

tychotithonus, to random

Tell me you've never helped seniors with tech, without telling me you've never helped seniors with tech.

And I don't just mean the person answering this question. I also mean whoever decided to remove this option.

tokyo_0,
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@tychotithonus @swelljoe "The users will have to change what they want to fit our poor interface choices" is never going to be a strong position, either.

LisaKalayji, to Medicine
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Abolish capitalism, exhibit eleventy-million:

"Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose...

What will Moderna do with the billions it reaps through price-gouging? It won't be research. To date, the company has spent >20% of its covid windfall profits on stock buybacks and dividends, manipulating its stock price, with more to come...

It's not an outlier. Big Pharma is a machine for commercializing publicly funded research and then laundering the profits with financial engineering. The largest pharma companies each spend more on stock buybacks than research."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

tokyo_0,
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@LisaKalayji @rysiek How long will it take them to recoup the costs of development?

tokyo_0,
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@rysiek @LisaKalayji Yes, that should be factored in, too. I think they have the right to recoup their costs (so long as that's done in a reasonable way). As long as that information isn't public, though, it means they can offer that ad a pretext for moves like this, which are clearly wrong. The information should be public, especially if they've received public money in funding and when it's in the public interest the way covid vaccination is.

tokyo_0, to random
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Have sent five e-mails this week now in a back and forth about items ordered and whether they are fit for dispatch.

Last week I sent six to follow up on payment being acknowledged, shipping and the delivery address.

I feel guilty for digging my heels in over details, for wanting to know the order status and that items will be shipped in good condition and as advertised.

But it's not wrong to want what you've paid for.

I've almost abandoned all hope of this order not just getting cancelled 🙃

tokyo_0,
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Which reminds me, I think some reasons I've felt so defeated through my life with household tasks and administration is not recognising how long some things really take to make happen, and also not counting time I spend towards them (especially when tasks become more complex than expected).

tokyo_0,
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Many household tasks take longer than you think.

If you don't count time you spend on them because you thought you'd only spent minutes when it was hours, or you didn't know how long it would take, or the process ballooned into five times as many steps as you'd thought would be involved, all you see is that they're still not done yet, and that your time has somehow vanished but you don't know where, and that your to-do list has nothing crossed off of it. It feels like the problem is you.

tokyo_0,
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@ArtBear Right? I'm pretty sure a lot of people must experience this and just end up overwhelmed but never really understand why.

tokyo_0,
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@ArtBear Yup, those unexpected sudden extra tasks are the worst for it, and especially when they have that complexity that isn't immediately obvious, as you say.

Hope everything can be repaired quickly and that it turns out to be less complex than it seems right now — it must be so disheartening to have to deal with damage like that.

tokyo_0, to meta
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"WhatsApp user data, ProPublica has learned, helped prosecutors build a high-profile case against a Treasury Department employee who leaked confidential documents to BuzzFeed News that exposed how dirty money flows through U.S. banks."
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

Just being Meta again. But hey, they might behave with integrity in their dealings with the , right? 🤪

seachanger, to random
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Amed Khan is an American humanitarian worker who has delivered relief to Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Congo etc.

When asked why he withdrew campaign support for Biden, Khan says it's simple: "ethnic cleansing is where I get off the bus, right?"

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/deconstructed-podcast-gaza-humanitarian-aid/

tokyo_0,
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@jhall251 Anyone who has turned their TV on in the past three months knows that. Try harder. @seachanger

tokyo_0, to random
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thinks: "why am I so hungry?"

...

"oh yeah, I never finished making lunch"

(It's 6:15pm)

🫣🙃🤪

tokyo_0, to random
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Everyone might know this, but you can set up wire transfers direct into a recipient's bank account (using the same details they'll give you if they ask you to do a conventional wire transfer) using #Wise. They'll guarantee the exchange rate for a couple of days while you pay the money in on your side (can be done after setting up the transfer) and even give you a nice tracking page you can share with your recipient. They send you the transaction reference afterwards, too. It's very smooth.

kushal, to webdev
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Is there any good book/articles/workshops/videos to teach how to write (only) the in a proper accessible way? I am specifically trying to figure out the HTML part first.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal Presuming you must've seen this one 👉 https://www.w3schools.com/html/ ... it's a while since I looked at it, so it may have some CSS mentioned as you go along. Or do you mean specifically the accessibility part? (ie how to make the code most suited for screen readers etc)

tokyo_0, to random
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@kushal I ended up writing a toot or two about my to-do list setup in Trello and remembered you'd been asking about tools, so figured it might be of interest: https://mas.to/

I wouldn't have thought of using Trello for to-dos to begin with but the automation lets you do some interesting things.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal Any reason? (I wasn't aware of them getting up to no good, but if they have it'd be useful to know)

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