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unlucio

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Human from Planet Earth

#nobridge

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sdw, to random
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Personally, I am just hoping for a titanium iPad today to match my entire house decor which I have carefully coordinated to go with my natural titanium iPhone

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unlucio,
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@sdw Years ago, I read a paper discussing how trends were constricting the dynamic ranges of both music and colors.

Seeing a guy living in grayscale because of Apple's fashion trends is a nice illustration of how prophetic that paper was.

Daojoan, to random
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I don’t particularly care what celebrities are wearing to the met gala.

But some people do.

Some people are passionate about fashion. Some people have had a shit week and just want to talk about something fun and not think about hard things for a few minutes. All of which is ok.

You can just let folks enjoy things.

unlucio,
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@Daojoan I find things to be more enjoyable when they're not the product of the slavery the fashion industry is well known for 😅

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
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unlucio,
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@Edent whenever you receive and
unsolicited call from whatever company simply hang up and call customer care:
if the problem is real the call center will take care of it, if it's just a scam you'll find out before they can scam you.

ErikJonker, to Bulgaria
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Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

unlucio,
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@ErikJonker funds for independent European Fediverse servers should come from sanctions on digital monopolies.

Make the techbors pay.
It's called "You break it, you pay for it

vicgrinberg, to animals
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It's a good morning that starts with petting a friendly dog.

unlucio,
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@vicgrinberg
I've 3 Italian ones and all they bring me are problems 🤔 I need a Spanish PhD student too.

taylorlorenz, to random
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“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

unlucio,
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@taylorlorenz and yet again I wonder why people are still surprised by these fundamentally inevitable consequences of capitalism.
Until the priority is growth and investor's dividends stuff like this will keep happening over and over.
If we wanna fix it we need to fix the system at its base and change the core rules that drive the game, starting with all the toxicity that Reagan and Thatcher dropped on all the world.

dangillmor, to random
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Media companies are pleading for presidential "debates" -- knowing perfectly well that these events would mostly be platforms for Trump's relentless lying and bluster on LIVE TV.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-trump-major-news-outlets-joint-statement-presidential-debates/

What media orgs want above all else is money, and they are certain that they'll make money by putting on these programs and "covering" them.

unlucio,
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@dangillmor Conservatives don't have logic, integrity, and rationality.
They have beliefs, loyalty, and stubbornness.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Exercising my EU-given right to run an alternative app store (AltStore) 😜

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unlucio,
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@stroughtonsmith @rileytestut @altstore
Oh wow, I thought Apple put in place a bunch of evil policies aiming to make alternate stores impossible.

How did you guys work around that?

Best wishes for your endeavor 🙌

protonmail, to random
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If you think big fines work on , think again.

Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft generated enough revenue in the past 7 days to pay off their fines for 2023.

Taking advantage of your privacy is so lucrative, that these fines are nothing more than the cost of doing business.

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unlucio,
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@protonmail seems like a big absolute number, but they don't seem to have learned any lessons tho. Perhaps they need bigger fines.

Sheril, to history
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Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on.

unlucio,
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@Sheril some untalented greedy twat getting rich over someone's ideas and talents, and not giving credit.
The history of capitalism in a nutshell

Sheril, to science
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Over 100M years ago, titanosaur ‘Patagotitan mayorum‘ wandered around what is now Argentina. It grew >120 feet long, 28 feet tall & weighed ~ 70 tons. (That’s longer than a blue whale!)

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/meet-patagotitan-mayorum

unlucio,
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@Sheril are those human or dinosaur's feet?

micchiato, to politics
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The gist: people are worse off than they were 3 years ago because is doing less under than it did under , and voters expected more than they got from , more than the shoulder shrugs they ended up getting from and his groupies.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/consumer-sentiment-safety-net_n_656e053be4b07b937ff58143

unlucio,
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@micchiato and hilariously enough they'll get dictatorship: what trump always craved
😂😂😂

I'm not sure how will be the world once the US of A will be turned into a crazy dictatorship, but I hope it'll be a major lesson for the rest of the world.

unlucio,
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@micchiato well you know, being form the other side of the pond gave me 4000+ years of history to study at school, so you'll excuse me if I didn't go so much in depth on the USA's 246 years 😅

That said I wrote dictatorship not fascism.

Imho conservatism and nationalism breed fascism, and that's been all over the places in human history even before Mussolini labelled it.

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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Early preparations. Bury.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak UltraMax 400
Canon FD 50mm/1.8

unlucio,
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@Gargron nice picture
but isn't it like a month and a half early for xmas stuff? 😶

nixCraft, to random
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still thinking about this one

unlucio,
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@nixCraft this is stoooopid, it misses the root question:
what problem are your trying to solve?

I can easily send a whole directory to a friend over the internet using tar and netcat, but do I want to make a scalable global file serving facility only with bash scripts? HELL NO! that'd be insane.

The right tool for the right problem.

While there are the occasional "wheel reinventions", usually new technologies come about because the prevues hit a limit.

homeassistant, to random
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To quote Ars Technica on the MyQ decision to block third parties:
"The company recently issued a statement decrying "unauthorized usage" of its smart garage door openers. That's "unauthorized usage" by the people who bought the garage door opener, by the way."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/

unlucio,
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@homeassistant "You will own nothing"

All hail capitalism, knee to the investors, and happily pay into their dividends.

Don't even think about doing anything not sanctioned by them with whatever you dared think you owned.

ryanc, to random

Here we go!

I assume the comments will quickly become a cesspool, so maybe for your mental health don't read them.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/30/i-dont-want-choose-whether-im-a-man-or-woman-on-my-id-im-neither-19741582/

unlucio,
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@ryanc I will never understand why for so many simply respecting other's identity is so hard.

RustyBertrand, to random

"Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life."

Simone de Beauvoir

unlucio,
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@RustyBertrand the same stark difference between the ~790s and now can be found in Iran, Lebanon, and many other places in the middle east.
This is what conservatism brews.
it plummets humanity hundreds of years backwards, on the broken memory of the "good old days" forgetting the weren't all that good for everybody.
it's happening in the "western part of the world" too, were more and more conservatives are getting power.

unlucio,
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@lin11c @largess @axnxcamr @RustyBertrand fear of whatever is different. One of the conservatives' signature propaganda themes.

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unlucio,
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@classy_aardvark @palestine
Indeed harbouring a grudge is one of humanity's worst features and primary generator oh tons of silly conflicts on our planet.
It's years I wonder every September 11th: "guys it's being more than 10 years, isn't it time to finally move on?"

w7voa, to twitter
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The platform formerly known as will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create list, reports Fortune.
https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

unlucio,
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@w7voa "freedom of speech absolutist" but only if you can afford it.

MrLovenstein, to random
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Secret Panel HERE 🦥 https://tapas.io/episode/1558603

unlucio,
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@MrLovenstein of course: because working 16h+ a day and not being able to afford to live is laziness, while kicking back scheming and ripping other off while being billionaires is effort.
Perhaps you might want to put down your indoctrination manual and look at reality.
Humanity is not made by 99% laziness and 1% effort.

arstechnica, to random
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One-click remote code exploit in CD cue files affects most GNOME-based Linux distros

Yet another tiny, crucial piece of volunteer software begets a big problem.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/one-click-remote-code-exploit-in-cd-cue-files-affects-most-gnome-based-linux-distros/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

unlucio,
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@arstechnica CDs? IN 2023?

This will impact museums at most.

timkmak, to Bulgaria
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Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

#NATO allies must “step up” support to #Ukraine, especially air defense ahead of the winter, says the NATO Secretary-General during a surprise visit by Zelenskyy to their headquarters today.

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arrives-at-nato-headquarters-in-brussels/

unlucio,
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@timkmak the man well knows how media works, and he knows with another war public opinion might quickly forget about Ukraine.
No attention of the masses = no money

_inside, to random
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If you're a developer, then I highly recommend getting the iPhone 15 Pro/Max and using a good USB 3 cable for Xcode. I've never seen an iPhone finish preparing for development and downloading debug symbols so quickly 🤯

Screen recording of Xcode’s Devices & Simulators window with an iPhone 15 Pro Max selected and the message “Copying shared cache symbols from iPhone 15 Pro Max”. The operation completes in about 20 seconds.

unlucio,
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@_inside pro max?
I already carry a mbp16 around, I don't have space for a phone the size of a TV 😂

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