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dangillmor, to random
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Almost five years ago, a prominent tech journalist told his readers to ditch Google Chrome for Firefox. Why? Because Chrome was turning into spyware.

This year, Chrome IS spyware, pure and simple.

The advice is more sound than ever.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/

gi124, (edited )
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@dangillmor Firefox on Android allows you to install extensions. Including top notch ad blockers (I use ublock origin). Fantastic. 10/10.

Gargron, to random
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Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐

gi124,
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@Gargron thank you for your work and time. free, decentralized social media is the way to go.

gutenberg_org, to science
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German mathematician Emmy Noether was born in 1882.

One of her most significant contributions is Noether's Theorem, which establishes a fundamental connection between symmetries & conservation laws in physics. This theorem has had profound implications in fields such as quantum mechanics, particle physics & field theory. Despite facing discrimination as a woman in academia during her time, Noether persevered & made enduring contributions to mathematics and physics.

Noether sometimes used postcards to discuss abstract algebra with her colleague, Ernst Fischer. This card is postmarked 10 April 1915. Emmy Noether - Auguste Dick's Emmy Noether: 1882-1935, just after p. 58

gi124,
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@gutenberg_org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether?wprov=sfla1

The philosophical faculty objected to Northers appointment and she spent four years lecturing under Hilbert's name. She wasn't paid by the University for a number of years. After Nazi Germany rescended her position, she joined Moscow state.

QasimRashid, to random
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GOP: We demand small government!

So…abortion is legal?
GOP: No

Contraceptives?
GOP: No

Mifepristone?
GOP: No

IVF?
GOP: No

Teaching about Sex Ed?
GOP: No

So what exactly does “small government” mean???
GOP: Billionaire tax cuts, EPA regulation cuts, & unlimited gun access

gi124,
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@QasimRashid it's only small government for big people 😀

bagder, to random
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What's (open source) maintaining?

gi124,
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@bagder question: how do u support yourself? do u have a day job? or do u raise enough through donations from curl and other projects.

also thanks for your work on curl. I stubbornly used wget for the longest time ... until I realized that sometimes u just need curl

gamingonlinux, to random
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I see there's some sort of "how's Linux now" discourse going around Mastodon and so I'll give my brief summary:

To be blunt, Linux is just the least-shit option to run on your PC nowadays lol.

If you want a good start, try Kubuntu https://kubuntu.org/, I get along great with it. Familiar interface, without all the shovelled shit Microsoft constantly try to force on you. Same KDE Plasma interface Valve use for Steam Deck's Desktop Mode.

gi124,
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@gamingonlinux is actually a good option for your PC. not just the "least shit" one ...

arstechnica, to random
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HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly

Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-sued-again-for-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-accused-of-monopoly/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

gi124,
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@arstechnica ditto. I have an old brother printer as well. do the new brother printers do the same bs hp is doing?

dgar, (edited ) to newmusic
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My treasured, most excellent followers, amazing fedizens, mischief-makers, music-lovers, and creatures of multiverse. I’m excited!

Today, under the light of a full moon, I present to you, a brand new Dgar song! Airlock is out now!!

Also, I have bonus shenanigans.

I’d like to give some algorithms a good punch in the face, and shock them into noticing this, my first new release of the year. If you would be generous enough to give my new track a play (or three) on your favourite streaming service (and your second and third favourite streaming service if you’re up for it), I would very much appreciate it.

This experiment will need a lot of people, so please don’t scroll by. I really do need your help to do this. It’s a short song, a bit over two and a half minutes, and I’m really excited for you to hear it!

It’s my dream that I can spend my days making music and sharing bad jokes for all you beautiful beings. I’m working hard right now to release at least one new song per month for 2024. The goal is to supplement the income from my part-time job, at least enough that I don’t need to get a second job.

Additionally, if we can make a meaningful impact on a song release with this kind of action, I’d love if we were able to help other musicians and songwriters of Mastodon with their song launches in the future. Perhaps we can come up with a hashtag for this kind of mission? Please leave your thoughts, suggestions, and expert knowledge in the comments.

I’ll pin this toot, and share the insights, stats, and relevant results for this experiment in the comments as they become available.

Thank you for your help in my attempt at breaking the interwebs. Hopefully we can give some algorithms something to think about!

Boosts are very much welcome and appreciated! I adore those favourites and likes too!

Big love, hugs, and belly raspberries!!

Your Digital Busker,

Jon “Dgar” O’Hare

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dgarmusic/airlock/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LKqsNHyeQ

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/au/album/airlock-single/1725622588

Tidal: https://tidal.com/track/339881620

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/QBFLmPCNfMx2xM249

Qobuz: https://open.qobuz.com/track/247740812?sw=1

Songwhip: https://songwhip.com/dgar/airlock

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com.au/albums/B0CS9TMD3C

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5ThhKPZPArGkU2shGLb4Ul?si=a0e5f233eda74708

gi124,
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@dgar nice track, enjoyed it.

gutenberg_org, to books
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British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell died in 1970. He was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica. via @wikipedia

Bertrand Russell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355

Title page of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

gi124,
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@gutenberg_org @wikipedia
Russel got put in prison for voicing his political views, and said

"I found prison in many ways quite agreeable. I had no engagements, no difficult decisions to make, no fear of callers, no interruptions to my work.
... I was rather interested in my fellow-prisoners, who seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence as was shown by their having been caught."

gi124,
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@gutenberg_org @wikipedia Russell is probably best known for his "Barber paradox": If a barber shaves those (and olny those) that do not shave themselves, then does the barber shave himself?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox?wprov=sfla1

gutenberg_org, to books
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1616. Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

In 1610, he published his Sidereus Nuncius, describing the observations that he had made with his new, much stronger telescope, amongst them, the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations and additional observations that followed, he promoted the heliocentric theory of Copernicus published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

Frontispiece (by Stefan Della Bella) and title page of Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published by Giovanni Battista Landini in 1632 in Florence.

gi124,
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@gutenberg_org From Wikipedia:

He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

He wrote two book while under house arrest!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei?wprov=sfla1

gi124, to privacy
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Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September

It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇

https://x.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1700416242564169993

Radical_EgoCom, to random
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The exploitation that the working class suffers by the hand of the capitalist class radicalizes the working class. Anarcho-Communism is a direct response to the precieved injustices and structural violence inherent in the capitalist system.

gi124,
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@Radical_EgoCom the name anarcho communism may stop it from catching on. if people referred to it as equalism or something less chaos sounding it may have broader appeal

nixCraft, to random
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Norton Commander 5: Do you remember it?

gi124,
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@nixCraft now I have midnight commander on my phone...

gi124, to privacy
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gi124, to climate
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When we cut down the last tree, poison the last river, and catch the last fish, only then will we realise that GDP cannot be eaten.

jeffowski, to random
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gi124,
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@jeffowski ha. this is really funny.

but please don't give that twat more publicity. he's robbed from thousands already

gutenberg_org, to books
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French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes died in 1650.

He is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy. He was the founder of the system of sciences on the knowing subject facing the world he represents to himself. In physics, he made a contribution to optics and is considered one of the founders of mechanism. In mathematics, he was at the origin of analytic geometry. via @wikipedia

Books by René Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44

Title page in a 1656 copy of René Descartes' "Principia philosophiae." Copy located in the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, in College Park, Maryland.

gi124,
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@gutenberg_org English translation:

And noticing that this truth: I think, therefore I am, was so firm and so assured that all the most extravagant suppositions of the skeptics were not capable of shaking it, I judged that I could accept it, without scruple, for the first principle of philosophy, which I was looking for

Daojoan, to random
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I don’t need an “AI PC”

I need a laptop with a word processor and an internet connection.

gi124,
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@Daojoan Linux 😀 Its really simple to install and use now, and can def do word processor and internet.

it actually powers most of the internet...

dansup, to random
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Some people complain, some people ship change.

If a high school drop-out like me can learn how to code, what is stopping you?

Seriously though, I'm living proof that a gay, indigenous, high school dropout from redneck Alberta can defy all odds and practice to become the developer he always dreamed of.

Never stop believing in yourself ❤️

gi124,
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@dansup very impressive. what motivated u? and what did you learn first.

all the information needed is freely available online. but knowing exactly what is needed takes experience or guidance

gi124,
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@dansup that's amazing. congratulations on doing so well! can u share more about dropping out

  1. why did u drop out?

  2. did u go back to school/college later? or are u entirely self taught?

nixCraft, to random
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Seriously, is it just me or is software quality getting worse? It is now, buggier and slower. What is going on? 🤔

gi124,
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@nixCraft I've been using for 20 years (now using ). It's still lean and mean when used "vanilla". However, if I enable the autocomplete, autocompile, auto spellcheck, treesitter, folding, etc. then it noticeably takes up CPU as I type. I don't mind paying some CPU for this...

But for eyecandy I really couldn't care less. Loved my keyboard only setup. When I switched to I finally gave up fvwm for . Happily, kde is lean and fast even with eye candy...

nixCraft, to random
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Happy New Year! Wishing everyone their best year yet. I hope everyone gets healthy and happy in 2024.

gi124,
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@nixCraft what? full sentence greetings? something like

sed s/2023/2024/g < happy-new-year. txt

not good enough?

MissingThePt, to random
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I’m looking for my keys, has anyone seen them?

gi124,
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@MissingThePt look in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

gutenberg_org, to science
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Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn was born in 1851.

Kapteyn spent much of his life counting stars and measuring their magnitudes and proper motions, with a goal of determining the shape and size of the Galaxy. He concluded after decades of work that the Galaxy was about 30,000 light-years across and perhaps 10,000 light-years thick, with the Sun not too far from the center. His model of the universe came to be called the Kapteyn universe. via @LindaHall_org

gi124,
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@gutenberg_org The Milky Way is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 km (about 100,000 light years or about 30 kpc) across. The Sun does not lie near the center of our Galaxy. It lies about 8 kpc from the center on what is known as the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/milkyway_info.html

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