@joel@donno
Post link if you're serious. Not that I hate roundness, I just like when it's subtle 😜
This indeed looks more modern, but I think that is the problem with modern UI design: they overdo it.
@Komnene@kaia
The question in the subtitle is stupid on so many levels 🤦
Like yeah, when your money is losing value and you can't save, that's a very reasonable thing to do — convert that money, which is losing value, into something that might be losing its value less. And as most people can't really "diversify their investments", that's what they do — they start buying things.
Can't believe that this is The Atlantic 😩
@Komnene
Yeah, consumerism is also a problem — most would spend their money not on something that would enable them to earn more and not even on something that would increase their quality of life, but on something completely useless.
But it's a different problem — same as perceived inflation that they often refer to in these articles.
And yet high inflation is usually a quite clear message from central banks: it's time to spend, not to save.
@Komnene
If you ask me, what they are attempting to do with articles like that is to send mixed messages, so some (businesses) get the message right and start investing, and others (consumers and people who work day to day jobs) don't: "Just trust your monetary and financial institutions, are you stupid?!"
Nothing good will come out of this IMO.
I might be wrong and this article could be about something else — but I won't hold my hopes high, not with a subtitle like that.
@r000t
Fair point, but where do they grasp that idea from? I grew up using email and for me it always made sense, for younger people — even if they aren't particularly dumb, the concept that they might use different software on the same device to access their stuff and keep their address — using an alternative client, might already be pretty novel.
This should basically be a legal requirement:
If you sell a piece of hardware that requires a cloud service to run you need to also provide a replacement that users can use when your company fails/shuts down/pivots whatever. It doesn't need all the fancy features but should keep the object in question's basic functionality working https://eupolicy.social/@mattis/112478169421125235
@larsmb@tante
Most smartphones would have to ba labelled then, because almost all of them rely on Google or Apple infrastructure at least for notifications — when and if those go offline, their users would be in serious trouble.
Of course, there is UnifiedPush, but I'm not even sure installing something like ntfy is possible on Android that comes preinstalled on most phones.
Outcome of #Putin visit to #China in terms of economic agreements signed:
✅ Agreement on supplies of Russian topinambour and beef by-products, particularly beef cartilage and stomachs to China
✅ Creation of a new nature reserve “Land of big cats”
✅ Cooperation between TASS and Xinhua news agencies
❌ Construction of Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline was not agreed
To me, these indicate an extremely close and strategic partnership between China and Russia, especially the beef cartilages are going to change the course of the world 😂
@kravietz
Of course they are strategic, but you're wrong about beef part — it's the cats!
The cats are the key and in this field an important agreement was reached 😹
Soviet actor Georgi Burkov in his memoirs first released in 1998 (found by Maxim Mirovich):
The Bolsheviks need the atomic bomb to stay in power, i.e. against their own people. It won’t be long before they start blackmailing the whole world, so that the whole world begs us, the people, not to make a revolution and to tolerate these ghouls and support them
@kravietz
So true! And it was always the case: "We need nuclear weapons to protect our sovereignty!"— and by sovereignty they always understand the ability to keep torturing own people indefinitely.
@kravietz
Impressive!
And now head of the region claims that people keep working there despite the fire — no wonder people empoyed at refineries are resigning.
Did Biden's administration indeed want Ukraine to stop doing one of the few things that work? 🤔
why is it that there are a million chromium-based browsers but none (afaik) based on firefox? have they not built a reusable core for it or is there some other reason
@clarity
Librewolf, Waterfox, Icecat — all of these are based on FF, not sure if they are still maintained. But there is little point in it as they are basically Firefox with different defaults.
And it used to have a reusable core, but I don't think it's still maintained. Sadly, they have abandoned it and webapp/site-specific-browser mode too 😩
@clarity
Servo — their experimental engine in Rust (which modern Firefox is partially based on) is no longer maintained by Mozilla either, but Igalia took over it and now it passes the Acid2 test: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Passing-Acid2
Maybe one day it reaches the level of maturity enough for us to have browsers based on it.
And in further cat news: Woke up this morning at six because drinking water is a scam, walked past the cat tree, did a double take, and then went to get my phone for some bad photos of this dual nap situation.
@aetataureate@sinituulia
Dual? Mine look like I only have one cat, at some point a part of it chipped off and became a cat of its own, but sometimes it gets reassembled back together 😹😹
@PawelK
Never was a huge fan TBH 😏
I've been tentatively planning to escape it well since 2011 probably. No idea why is it taking me so long… Maybe the fact that I'm a lazy ass has something to do with it 😂 @kravietz
@PawelK
Was I ever? I know a guy here who is from Norway, but lives in Spain, but no one who would even fit that description. If I did, I must've been very drunk 🤪
The closest I ever was to the Nordic countries is my own instance's language being detected as Norsk and I have no idea why either.
I don't think I'd even qualify to pass as one — I barely know the language — a few words maybe 🤣 @kravietz