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aral, 3 days ago to DuckDuckGo

“Choice.”

#alternatives #choice #DuckDuckGo #DDG #Qwant #ecosia #bing

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

aral, 4 days ago to random

“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/blinken-suggests-the-world-food-program

aral, 3 days ago to DuckDuckGo

Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.

(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)

Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).

#DuckDuckGo #bing #microsoft #ventureCapital #DDG

aral, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

It’s not enshittification, it’s crapitalism.

(Updated by popular request) :)

#crapitalism

aral, 4 days ago to windows

Folks who might be looking to move from Windows to Linux: another option, if it’s financially feasible for you and you don’t want to mess with installing Linux, is to sell your Windows machine and buy a Linux one.

Yep, they exist.

Folks like @starlabs in the UK, @tuxedocomputers in the EU, and @system76 in the US sell Linux machines that just work out of the box.

#windows #linux #recall

maxleibman, 10 hours ago to random

AI didn’t ruin Google. Cynical content farmers ruined Google. SEO ruined Google. GOOGLE ruined Google.

skinnylatte, 1 day ago to random

When we first moved here, 45 made it impossible for foreign spouses to work. So my wife went back to school and today, she’s graduating with her Bachelors in Psychology. Next stop: grad school! (Thankful for California’s excellent public universities system, and resident tuition!)

Sabrena felt she got an excellent education at SF State, and is looking forward to start the clinical psychology masters program to be your friendly multilingual culturally relevant therapist in a few years

aral, 4 days ago to Israel

Love someone the way Biden loves genocide.

https://www.ft.com/content/6700a246-e0cd-49d8-b5ef-d2379e86290f

#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #internationalLaw #Biden #USA #UnitedStates #sanctions

aral, 14 hours ago to Israel

Last day to vote for #Fedivision2024

You can listen to my own little entry, hastily recorded and imperfect, at:

https://fedivision.party/#UFOP

To vote for it, message the Fedivision bot:

@vote VOTE UFOP

(You can vote for up to 3 songs. Full instructions at https://fedivision.party/vote/)

There are lots of excellent entries this year so try and give them all a listen if you can.

#aNumberOnAPage #israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #genocide #warCrimes #ceasefireNow

aral, 3 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to ireland

How long before you can get your Covid booster in Ireland?

https://about.hse.ie/news/hse-launches-covid-19-spring-booster-vaccination-campaign/

#covid #vaccine #ireland #muppets

aral, 5 days ago to SmallWeb

Code drunk, debug sober. Bah! Just fixed three bugs after a pint of Tundra.

(This is in no way meant to be role model behaviour. There just happens to be a lovely pub by the seashore in Bray where you can sit outside and it’s a nice distraction in the evenings when the weather is good and I don’t feel I’ve done enough in the day* and need a change of scene.)

• It doesn’t help that I never think I’ve done enough in the day. 🤷‍♂️

#coding #kitten #SmallWeb #oneBeerNeverKilledAnyone #famousLastWords

aral, 2 days ago to ai

Google: you should trust us because we’re the most intelligent people on earth.

Also Google: Eat rocks! Put glue on your pizza! Fight a snake for your PhD!

🤪

#SiliconValley #BigTech #AI #billionaires #trillionDollarCompanies #WeSoSmart #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming

aral, 2 days ago to SmallWeb

Kitten bugfix release:

Please upgrade to the latest release that fixes a regression introduced into sessions object with the latest JSDB¹/JSDF² upgrade:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/177

Persisting arbitrary objects to sessions is a supported workflow and this regression broke that.

e.g., See the Kitten Count Sessions example: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/kitten-count-sessions/index.page.js

:kitten:💕

¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#javascript-database-jsdb
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#javascript-data-format-jsdf

#Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #sessions #JSDB #JavaScript #database #regression

aral, 6 days ago to ireland

Capitalism: a social system where the rich live and the poor die.

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Ireland’s two-tier cancer drug system: ‘I can give one drug to one lot of patients, not to another’

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/05/20/irelands-two-tier-cancer-drug-system-i-can-give-one-drug-to-one-lot-of-patients-not-to-another/

#capitalism #ireland #cancer #healthcare

aral, 2 days ago to random

International law is whatever the Unites States says it is, you fucking communists. Don’t make us nuke you again!

aral, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Israel

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to halt its Rafah military offensive.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/24/israel-gaza-war-live-icj-rafah-benjamin-netanyahu-latest-live-news-updates

#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #rafah #ICJ #InternationalCourtOfJustice #UN

Sevslv, 8 hours ago to random Dutch

Here is a threat/risk of armed mutiny against Israeli MoD #Gallant should Hamas or PA be in charge of Gaza.

Gallant is between the ICC's potential warrant and the Netanyahus' to-the-bitter-endists. Remarkable that the video is shared by #Netanyahu junior. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-25/ty-article/.premium/pm-netanyahus-son-shares-clip-of-apparent-idf-reservist-threatening-military-coup-in-gaza/0000018f-af39-d24f-a5df-ffffd6180000?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

aral, 6 days ago to random

Thank fuck for helicopters and orcas is all I have to say.

aral, 2 days ago to ai

You mistake ruthless for smart and this is what you get.

#BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #VC

aral, 5 days ago to random

No good ever comes out of VC.

lapcatsoftware, 8 hours ago to random

Cloudflare is evil. Do not use them.

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

aral, 3 days ago to random

Hey @EUCommission – thoughts? Not looking great, is it? https://spore.social/@ayoub/112489234296990765

aral, 4 days ago to Israel

America on the brink of imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court for holding war criminals to account…

(Just kidding, that would require the ability for introspection.)

#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #warCrimes #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #USA #UnitedStates #sanctions #Biden #areWeTheBaddies

Nazi soldiers (from TV comedy sketch). One asks the other “are we the baddies?” as the other slowly turns away with a look of dawning comprehension.

aral, 2 days ago to random

Users: the people used by Big Tech.

aral, 6 days ago to SmallWeb

:kitten: 🎉

Kitten now has a lovely new multi-page Settings screen and… drumroll… a new 🐢 interactive shell (REPL) for you to play with the running state of your Small Web site/app/place and debug your app, inspect/manipulate its database, etc.

I plan on recording demos of each of them tomorrow but you can play with them now.

And here’s a little tutorial to get you started with the shell:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#kitten-s-interactive-shell

💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #NodeJS #REPL #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #web #dev

Screenshot of Kitten running in terminal: 🌍 Domain https://localhost 📂 Source /var/home/aral/Projects/kitten/app/examples/file-uploads 💾 Databases /var/home/aral/.local/share/small-tech.org/kitten/databases 🐢 To launch an interactive shell, press the [s] key. Server is running and listening for connections… s 🐢 Launching interactive shell ctrl-d to exit; .help for assistance A good place to start is to run the .ls command to see the keys of the global kitten object: » 💡.ls is an alias for Object.keys(kitten) [ 'version', 'domain', 'port', 'app', 'databaseDirectory', 'projectIdentifier', 'deploy', 'WebSocket', 'html', 'libraries', 'page', 'events', 'css', 'js', 'markdown', 'md', 'safelyAddHtml', 'sanitise', 'uploadsDirectory', '_db', 'uploads', 'package', 'db' ] 🐱 💬 kitten.db.images[0] Proxy [ { path: '/uploads/1a6c2612-057d-435b-83c7-7157b4add982/', altText: 'Screenshot of Draw Together sketch that reads Free Gaza!' }, { get: [Function: bound getHandler], set: [Function: bound setHandler], defineProperty: [Function: bound definePropertyHandler], deleteProperty: [Function: bound deletePropertyHandler] } ] 🐱 💬