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@breiter@hachyderm.io

Co-founder and co-owner of WolfeReiter software engineering and technology consulting.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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I'd like to know if these messages actually do anything positive for the sites using them or they'll piss off people that would maybe share their content with people who don't have ad blockers and so have a negative net result for them

https://tech.lgbt/@CaptMikeYates/112486983833897861

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs @CaptMikeYates in most cases the most viable solution (other than close the tab) is to also turn on StopTheScript to kill JavaScript which removes these popovers.

jeffjarvis, to random
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"Both Israelis and Palestinians are owed it." by David Kaye
Gift link:
With I.C.C. Arrest Warrants, Let Justice Take Its Course
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/palestinians-israel-international-criminal-court-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.tuoX.uMiqwzqthNtg&smid=tw-share

breiter,
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@jeffjarvis I’m don’t think that a trial in the ICC is how wars between nation and quasi-nation are resolved.

jeffjarvis, to random
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"In a large part of American political discourse, overt cynicism is the currency of sophistication....The disturbing truth is that there’s probably more sincerity than not in American politics. We may not want to believe it, but most of the people in charge say what they mean and mean what they say." - @jbouie
Justice Alito Is a True Believer https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/opinion/alito-flag-stop-the-steal.html?smid=tw-share

breiter,
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@jeffjarvis @jbouie Alito can be a true believer and also render himself unqualified to render impartial judgement. His true believer ferver has blinded him to reason in interpretation of the law. It has driven him to risible contortions of argumentation obviously developed to justify preordained conclusions.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Update: they have “temporarily” suspended my account for editing my own content.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112459550866031618

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs technically I think it is a tort because it is breach of contract. The risk of a lawsuit to persue damages for the tort is low for each individual so they are making a power move to ignore the license terms because it’s too expensive for each user to enforce. It’s unethical and shitty.

thomasfuchs, to random
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And this is why people use Macs
https://journa.host/@mathewi/112322859973165069

breiter,
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@molly0xfff @thomasfuchs

For future reference: “Globe key” or ctrl+cmd+space opens character viewer. Select Math Symbols and there it is.

mattblaze, to random
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Saw Civil War today. It was a well executed gut punch that I'm still processing. So while I can't really talk about the plot or the acting or the directing yet, I'll focus instead on the cameras and lenses used by the two photojournalist characters, all of which I've personally used and have opinions about.

Short thread.

breiter,
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@mattblaze the problem with an alpha (and mirrorless in general) in this scenario is the battery life isn’t very good.

breiter,
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@mattblaze The 1960s, 70s and 80s Nikkor lenses are really a joy to use a physical objects. A bad knock is going to ruin the thread ring but I’m not sure what it would take to shatter a nikkor-s pre-AI 50mm f/1.4. It’s a deeply recessed front element in a machined aluminum barrel.

breiter,
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@mattblaze An actual Leica M11 P?

FWIW, I think using M lenses on Sony alpha is a thing in general for travel photography because the lenses are so good and portable.

jeffjarvis, to random
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No respect for our institutions as he helps tear them down.
Leo rejects Senate subpoena from panel probing gifts to Supreme Court justices https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/11/leonard-leo-subpoena-senate-supreme-court-gifts/

breiter,
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@jeffjarvis ordinary citizens can just reject subpoenas now?

Apparently they really do need to revert to the sergeant-at-arms going out to arrest people like 100 years ago.

rbreich, to random
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Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

Trump wants to double down on his tax cuts, which have already fueled billionaire wealth.

This isn’t complicated.

Billionaires are funneling cash to Trump’s campaign for a tax break.

Anyone else supporting him is being duped.

breiter,
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@rbreich only 25%? The top marginal rate in the 1950s was 91% over $200,000 (~$2m today).

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!

Here are my 8 reasons for this:

  1. POSSIBILITIES
    At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
breiter,
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@pvonhellermannn as someone who did a minor in anthropology, I agree with you.

And furthermore there is a crisis in higher education that apparently everyone thinks a bachelor’s degree is supposed to be a trade school certification. And further that nobody should have to be exposed to any uncomfortable ideas along the way. When did this happen?

GottaLaff, to random
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Done.

's Truth [sic] Social is going public after winning DWAC merger vote

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/trump-truth-social-dwac-merger-public

breiter,
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@GottaLaff “TMTG reported a $49 million net loss on $3.38 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2023.”

This is a company that spends more than $10 to make $1. The fundamentals are terrible. Twitter is a much better proposition but also makes no money and has never made money.

Why would anyone invest in this trash or make a paper valuation in the billions of dollars? It should have a negative valuation.

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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“But your mom will get scammed” isn’t the great argument for keeping walled garden platforms that you think it is.

It’s not only misogynistic and ageist, it’s also simply not true.

Guess what, people are getting successfully scammed, right now, every day, on the walled garden platforms you say prevent scams.

Why is this? Because technology can’t solve social problems (in this case, crime).

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs Apple is supposed to have sandboxing and safety technologies beyond just app review to prevent abuse of the platform.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Good. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107659/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust-documents-suing

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs I would like to see our anti trust enforcement de-Borked.

thomasfuchs, to ai
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Copilot is really useful

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs @mkranz

Thanks, though. You cannot run an N or a LTS build of Windows on ARM so I have to deal with more of this now that I have Apple Silicon.

robpike, to random
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OK this is a surprise. I have a new Mac laptop with a notch and I CAN'T SEE ALL MY MENUBAR ITEMS I MEAN WHAT? WHAT????

How is this even an idea for a UI?

breiter,
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@robpike I agree that macOS should intelligently reduce the spacing between menu bar items if they would be under the notch and then eventually scroll them or have an overflow area of some kind.

I’m not even close but if I used “larger text” I would be.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Gotta love how right wingers pivot faster on climate change than a Silicon Valley company on video

“Climate change is a hoax”
“Well climate change isn’t caused by humans”
“Fine, it’s caused by humans but it won’t do much”
“Ok, it’s very serious but you know what, warmer is better actually!”

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs in my experience it’s a ring buffer and they then return to the climate change is a hoax arguments. “CO2 is a trace gas” etc.

breiter,
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@thomasfuchs closely correlated with being convinced that Covid is a hoax. The mRNA vaccines are causing the excess deaths. University education is worthless but simultaneously schools are inadequate and why is literacy terrible. Guns don’t kill people. Gays are all deviant and equivalent to pedophiles. Colonialism was good actually as was the slave trade on balance. I could go on.

It’s an entire snarl of shibboleths incongruent with any reality that existed.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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FINAL ROUND, BEST OF THE BEST:

Now is the real test!

breiter,
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@RickiTarr black licorice. But not the Scandinavian kind salted with the ammonium chloride.

robpike, to random
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Current peeve: Writing 'us' for 'µs'. It's lazy and implicitly insulting to those whose first language is not English or its relatives.

breiter,
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@robpike it doesn’t make any sense in English. ‘u’ is cognate with upsilon, not mu. ‘μ’ is cognate with ‘m’ which makes sense for micro anyway.

I assume we only use mu because ‘m’ is already the abbreviation for the more commonly used milli- prefix.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Remember when Github tried to sell us on a text editor written in a web browser

breiter,
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@raven667 @konnorrogers @thomasfuchs

I don’t think VSCode is really a fork of Atom. Atom forked off Electron as a separate thing which became popular. Microsoft combined a separate project called Monaco (https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor) and Electron to create VSCode.

VSCodium is a direct 3rd party fork build. Eclipse Theia is a clean room clone.

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

1/

breiter,
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@pluralistic a related shitty practice is pulling programming from a streaming service even when it was native and original programming for that service. In the case of Paramount+ for example one of the main selling points is that you get all of Star Trek ever made always. Except they decided to remove Prodigy and sell distribution rights to Netflix.

I’m sure there are many other examples.

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: An adversarial iMessage client for Android; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/

1/

breiter,
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@pluralistic I used to use Trilian and Pidgin. I used Messages with Jabber/XMPP before it was killed on all sides. Imagine if one client could manage iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, and Google Voice SMS.

That would really remove a lot of annoyance from my life.

breiter,
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@pluralistic beeper mini didn’t last long. Apple has pulled the plug on them.

Remains to be seen if Beeper can bring it back up and sustain a cat-and-mouse game with Apple to keep it up.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-minis-access-after-launch-of-service-that-brought-imessage-to-android/

jeffjarvis, to random
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Excellent by @davekarpf.bsky.social "The story Altman had been telling was too good, too compelling." W/good bits from Henry Farrell.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-openai-let-them-fight?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=387131&post_id=139018727

breiter,
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@jeffjarvis I’m convinced there is a crisis in engineering higher education that completely neglects philosophy, history, ethics, epistemology (eg Humanities curriculum) to the point that these Silicon Valley people are apparently all ludicrously ignorant and naive children funded with absurd amounts of money and infinite hubris.

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