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
Some 52 years ago, when I was in 4th grade of primary school, I found a book "who put glasses on the kid's eyes" in a small book shop in open bazaar of my hometown Ahvaz in khuzestan province of Iran.
A few days later, we had to bring a book to school and read it in front of the class. Happy as I was to have found a great book, I took it to school and read it in front of the class.
I couldn't understand why my teacher was acting so scared and stopped me before I had finished the book and sent me to the principals office.
I was nervous, didn't know what I had done wrong and our principal, who was a really nice man, and went to the same university as my oldest sister took the book and asked me where I had bought it. I knew something was wrong, so I said I bought it at the book store of our local mosque, to protect the guy who was my source of cheap and lovely books and would buy back my old ones to help me afford buying new ones.
In the evening my father came home, agitated and clearly upset. Asked me what I have done and I explained the situation, including the fact that I lied about wher I had bought the book. Told him the highlight of the book about a happy child who was living in a town with happy people who were all wearing glasses.
He was seeing flowers, colorful houses. Nice people and happy children all around him, birds flying in the sky and everyone were so friendly to him.
Until one day he fell of and his glasses broke. He couldn't believe his eyes, the flowers, colorful houses and happy people were all gone. All he could see was a run down city, with piles of garbage everywhere, people wearing worn out clothes, looking hungry and sick.
He was nece happy after that, he couldn't believe that everyone were walking around with glasses and we're happy all the time. But he was sad and miserable, because he had seen his town without those glasses.
Anyway. My father took me to a building close to the main police station on the other side of the Karun river, he spent almost entire day in a room where I could people screaming at him and a few times someone his the table very hard. But couldn't hear what they were saying.
My dad came out. Pulled my hand without saying a word, we walked for an hour to get home, didn't take taxi as we used to do.
He didn't say a word during the whole day and told me to go over my books and bring all the books I had bought from that shop, he through them in a metal bucket and poured some fuel over it, set them on fire and waited until they were completely burned, mixed the ashes to turn them into dust, filled the bucket with water and through it in the toilet.
He told me to never go back to that shop and be careful to take any books to school from now on.
That' was my first interaction with the notorious Savak police of Shah of Iran. In the next days, all the 4 book stores in our town were raided. Books confiscated and doors locked. Never heard about any of them again.
Reading the comments of pro Israeli accounts on mastodon reminded me of that book and that experience that changed my life when I was only 8 years old.
This post specially triggered those memories. Unlike the kid in my book and the people living in the town, these people know very well tat what they are posting is not true, they have seen the horror of the past 76 years of occupation, they have seen the 66 times they were subject to UNSC charges, and 45 that were vetoed by the US..
But they don't care, they see themselves as victims. They don't see the millions of starving palestinians, or the millions living in refuge camps around the world as worthy of their empathy or cause of why Palestinians and some of the world is fed up with their out of control criminal behavior
They don't have glasses on their eyes, they have chosen to be selective and above the laws of the world.
My daughter, T, rang to vent the other day. Her 5-year-old, C, had come home from public school pre-Easter and proceeded to tell T all about Jesus being persecuted and crucified, dying, and then being alive again.
Now, T takes after us; thoroughly atheist; to say that she was taken aback would be an understatement. In essence, C now believed in the resurrection and thought that anybody who died could come back to life. It took a weekq to convince her of the truth (dead is dead and the bible is a storybook), but as we know, that shit sticks.
The same afternoon as the revelation, before the steam had dissipated, T rang the school to enquire, mostly politely, 𝙒𝙏𝘼𝙁?? C had not been to any religion-based classes and should not have been exposed to this rubbish/nonsense/garbage. The school apologised and said they would look into it. Apparently, other parents had complained, too...
The teacher, in all innocence (apparently) had been telling the story of Easter from the Christian point of view without realising (apparently) that children are sponges, especially at that age and in a situation where they have been told repeatedly that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩.
Now, to my mind, any teacher who doesn't understand that shouldn't be a teacher. Or it was quite deliberate, in which case they shouldn't be a teacher in a government school.
The teacher apologised and the school closed the case but T is still dealing with the fallout, with C occasionally coming out with comments about people dying and coming back to life. Like I said, this shit sticks, often for life.
We're all born atheist; the real indoctrination is religion.
The new #redis website has broken so many links. Some redirect to their new corresponding urls, but not all of them, and it's very hard to find anything in their new marketing-focused website 😩