aral

aral, 6 hours 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, 7 hours 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, 1 hour ago (edited 44 minutes 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, 1 day 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

aral, 4 hours ago to SmallWeb

So! Many! Kittens!

(Going to record a demo of the new interactive shell – REPL to some – and multi-page Settings this afternoon, just planning it out now.)

Oh and is that me creating and calling web routes interactively in the REPL on a live server? Why yes, yes it is.

:kitten:💕

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

aral, 7 hours ago to random

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

aral, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 1 day ago to Israel

“We cannot apply international law only when it’s convenient.”

– Senator Bernie Sanders, US Senate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDoCaYSwVw

#ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #Netanyahu #arrestWarrant #TheHague #Israel #Palestine #gaza #warCrimes

aral, 1 day 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, 1 day ago to Israel

“Israel has said it is recalling its ambassadors to Ireland and Norway following the news that, along with Spain, the two countries would recognise Palestinian statehood.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24336991.israel-recalls-ambassadors-palestinian-state-recognition/

Good, off you fuck.

#israel #pariahState #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #ireland #norway

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

It’s not enshittification, it’s crapitalism.

(Updated by popular request) :)

#crapitalism

aral, 1 day 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, 1 day ago to random

No good ever comes out of VC.

aral, 2 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] } ] 🐱 💬

aral, 3 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, 3 days ago to random

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

aral, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

To those Americans getting offended that their president and country are being criticised for arming a genocide may I just remind you that there is something a tad more offensive than being criticised for arming a genocide which is arming a goddamn genocide. Get some fucking perspective.

aral, 4 days ago to Israel

Joe Biden could still turn this around and not lose to Trump by defunding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. If he doesn’t, there will be only person to blame for Joe Biden losing to Trump in six months and that’s Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden.

#USPol #JoeBiden #GenocideJoe #Israel #Palestine #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #zionism

aral, 3 days ago to Israel

“The soldiers at several points fired bullets next to their feet in an effort to terrorize them, perhaps to make them amenable to following orders.

“Every time they shot at us, I instantly poked my back to check if I was still alive,” said Ahmad, recalling the soldiers’ giggles at how scared he and his family were.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/what-its-like-to-be-used-as-a-human-shield-by-the-israeli-army/

#israel #palestine #gaza #IDF #mostMoralArmyInTheWorld #humanShields #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

aral, 5 days ago to random

Elon Musk was a mistake.

aral, 5 days ago to random

Hint: Microsoft doesn’t have climate ambitions, it has profit ambitions. Ditto any other corporation. https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112460447324706332

aral, 5 days ago to random

Colonialism is alive and well and living in white people’s minds.

aral, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to fedora

This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?

This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/112450335722898487

aral, 6 days ago to ireland

So tonight might have ended in karaoke 🙊

The amazing singer I’m with is Holly and any screw ups are courtesy of me – have loved the song forever, but my first time singing it :)

(Video by Sandy, the lovely bartender who introduced us; apologies for the quality.)

#LittleShopOfHorrors #SuddenlySeymour #bray #ireland #musical #karaoke

A slightly blurry video of two people singing Suddenly Seymour at karaoke in a pub.