aral

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, 3 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

aral, 4 days 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, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

It’s not enshittification, it’s crapitalism.

(Updated by popular request) :)

#crapitalism

aral, 6 days ago (edited 6 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 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, 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

david, 3 days ago to tech

I am amused. One the one hand, Microsoft is introducing Recall, which literally takes screenshots of everything you do on windows, but on the other hand, they are taking users ability to take screenshots of their browser away if their company configures it as such.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2336462/microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job.html

#amusing #tech #windows

aral, 3 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, 1 day ago (edited 1 day 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

aral, 2 days ago to random

Users: the people used by Big Tech.

aral, 2 days 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, 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 random

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

Saltssaltgirl, 3 days ago to random

Asking for some good juju. You all came through for me the last time I needed it.

I have my first surgery scheduled for tomorrow and another on Friday.

Please send good vibes and calm. I’m worried about my students who will be without the stability of my classroom for an entire week.

aral, 4 days 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 to SmallWeb

New Video – Kitten features introduced this week:

• Interactive Shell (REPL)
• Multi-page Settings
• Backup and restore (data portability)

With examples that cover components and Kitten’s built-in JavaScript database (JSDB).

https://ar.al/2024/05/23/new-kitten-features-interactive-shell-repl-multi-page-settings-and-backup-and-restore-data-portability/

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #JavaScript #HTML #database #JSDB #components #settings #dataPortability #REPL

aral, 2 days ago to ai

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

#BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #VC

aral, 4 days ago to random

No good ever comes out of VC.

aral, 5 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, 1 day ago to Israel

Given the developments this week it has become clear that:

• The International Criminal Court,
• The International Court of Justice,
• Ireland,
• Spain,
• and Norway…

…are all Hamas.

Yes, there is no other explanation and Israel is by no means an apartheid state engaged in genocide (how could you even think such a thing, you raging antisemite, you?!)

#israel #palestine #gaza #rafah #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #ICC #ICJ #ireland #spain #norway #internationalLaw #hamas

aral, 2 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