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murb

@murb@todon.nl

Freelance #pragmatic & #user-focussed #webdeveloper. Relatively full stack with #Ruby. Blogs occasionally: http://murb.nl/blog he/him / hij/hem

#climate #environment #socialist #greenleft

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murb, to random Dutch
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Mensen stem 6 juni ook daadwerkelijk. Op dit moment staat bovenaan de peilingen en dit kan en mag niet werkelijkheid worden.

Klimaatverandering, verlies van biodiversiteit, wit superioriteitsdenken, het moet sterk geadresseerd worden!

Er zijn 5 zetels meer te verdelen (nu 31, was 26), gelijkblijvend aantal zetels voor is een procentueel verlies, en momenteel is zelfs sprake van zetelverlies. Geef het populisme niet nog meer wind in de zeilen. Ik ga aanstaande zaterdag weer Huis-Aan-Huizen voor GL/PvdA, maar stem je iets anders links, even goede vrienden!

murb, to Banking Dutch
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A Dutch bank supporting an alternative OS (/e/OS), quite neat! https://tweakers.net/nieuws/221136/triodos-maakt-qr-codescanner-beschikbaar-voor-gebruikers-met-e-os-smartphone.html

murb, to random Dutch
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Mocht iemand zich afvragen, op ontbreken momenteel inderdaad afleveringen door een technische storing. Dit schreef PubliekeOmroep 11:50 · 7 feb. 2024: "Er zijn momenteel inderdaad issues met willekeurige afleveringen/seizoenen van bepaalde series die niet beschikbaar zijn. Dit probleem wordt z.s.m. opgelost door onze technici. Onze excuses voor het ongemak."

murb,
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NPO Start is overigens wel de streamingdienst met de beste value for money als je het mij vraagt, al zou je kunnen beargumenteren dat het eigenlijk gewoon gratis zou moeten zijn.

murb,
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@janneke valt toch mee, of houd ik met Firefox, uBlock en privacy badger nog een hele trein calls tegen? (Of meer het idee dat je gewoon publieke omroep afleveringen zou moeten kunnen kijken zonder account, is ook een punt. Maar in het geval van de NPO zou daar toezicht op plaats kunnen vinden.

aral, to random
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Folks promoting Bluesky on the fediverse is like the three little pigs doing public relations for the big bad wolf.

But, hey, clearly some folks still haven’t gotten the message that VC and billionaires are bad and that non-corporate spaces have to be protected from corporate ones.

I guess something has to keep the folks who write “what went wrong/if only we’d known” articles in business.

🤷‍♂️

murb,
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@davew @aral but does bluesky even federate at this moment? It seems mostly a Twitter clone with currently an open api? But that’s how Twitter started?

aral, to Bulgaria
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🚨 Another EU mass surveillance attempt. Will kill privacy on web. Must not pass. 🚨

“[A]ll web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.

These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.”

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

murb,
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@aral so in the future a DigiNotar would be able to continue to service EU citizens with crap certificates, because it would be a pain to Dutch government? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar

Free_Press, to random
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Egypt opens Rafah border crossing for foreigners from Gaza

In addition, several ambulances went to Gaza from the Egyptian side to transport the seriously wounded from hospitals to Egypt.

But what about the ordinary Palestinians? Does Egypt cares about their lives?

P.S. Israel now works with Egypt to open the border for millions of Palestinian refugees.
Also there are talks that peacekeepers from many of the countries will be deployed to Gaza after the Hamas regime fall.

video/mp4

murb,
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@Free_Press hopefully they extend deploying of peacekeepers to the West Bank as well, enforcing international law onto both parties.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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Just so proud of Mastodon today.

These times are very challenging. Rather than descend into an abyss of fake news and stident acrimony, somehow Mastodon seems to be largely maintaining a civil tone and self regulating misinformation.

It is pretty amazing to see an open social media community functioning this well given the meltdown across other platforms.

Let's continue to demand accuracy and civility while we debate these seminal issues. Let Mastodon be the beacon in the darkness.

murb, (edited )
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@SebastienK @mastodonmigration also the replies you see are only the replies from users that are on your instance or followed by someone on the instance you’re on (if I’m not mistaken), or posts that ended up because the sender tagged users on your instance. So even if there is a troll responding the OP, if nobody follows that troll on your instance (and why would they) you as a lurker probably won’t see it, making it much harder to have troll material amplified. So it is a two layer filtering/curation :) perhaps even a third layer, as the admin can decide to actively ban the troll’s instance messaging even when someone wanted to follow this troll.

Sidenote: I’m afraid that is also why white people (like me) hardly see racism here, since they aren’t tagged in replies to PoC posts and if you’re part of a sensible mastodon community the racists themselves aren’t followed by anyone, only if you'd share the instance with the person attacked you'd see the reply in your environment.

BM_Visser, to random Dutch
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Last week, 50% of the total Dutch electricity demand came from renewable sources.
Nowadays, a normal score. In 2017, it would have been just 10%.

murb,
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@BM_Visser klein verzoek: zou het mogelijk zijn om de afbeeldingen te voorzien van alt-tekst; bv copy paste van de tabel en bijschriften? Dat maakt de informatie breder toegankelijk.

murb, (edited ) to Marathon Dutch
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Zoekt er hier nog iemand een startnummer voor de van ? Ik heb scheenklachten en vandaag de knoop door gehakt dat het dan niet verstandig is om 42km te lopen 🫣 (update: iemand heeft het nummer overgenomen)

fulelo, to Israel
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A recap of main events today (while i was working on a completely different story so details to come later):
-emergency government and war cabinet formed in

  • 's only power station stopped working, leaving the territory without main electricity

17 Brits, including children are dead or missing after attack in Israel

murb, (edited )
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@fulelo I wished UN had started intervening long ago … but never is too late. To keep both parties under control… the UN (as in the post 2nd world war international community) is also partly responsible for the mess there…

bensheldon, to random
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I wrote a blog post about writing Object Shape friendly Ruby code.

tl;dr: declare all your @ivars in , and stop doing the return @ivar if defined?(@ivar) memoization pattern.

https://island94.org/2023/10/writing-object-shape-friendly-code-in-ruby

murb,
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@bensheldon @tenderlove while interesting to learn more about object shapes, is this really good advise? As in, this sounds like something that needs to be fixed on the Ruby interpreter side? while perhaps people working on it might be scratching their heads on how to do that properly, it seems to me like a bad practice in general to write more lines of code / reinventing null, because the interpreter isn’t smart enough? Especially with a language like Ruby which is meant to give developer happiness, pushing rigid structures of code kinda breaks that Ruby promise… I’ve seen articles like these in JS-land and they’ve not aged very well.

zachleat, to random
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rather than upgrade google analytics to a new major version—why not instead write my own analytics library on a sunday afternoon

why not

murb,
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@zachleat you knew https://www.awstats.org/ still exists?

murb, to firefox
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1853701 :has() seems to be landing in Mozilla soon!

ricci, to firefox
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Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to as Google ramps up the enshitification of , let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

murb,
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@Sh4d0w_H34rt @ricci I mostly use safari on iOS. But by having the Firefox browser installed on mobile as well I can access all passwords that are synced in all apps. It functions as any other password manager. Maybe you care about more than just password syncing, then this is no solution, but for me this was all I needed.

murb, to random Dutch
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Kan iemand mij het nut van uitleggen? Voorbeeld van ASR: Je betaald €14,50/m, en dan krijg je een maximale vergoeding per jaar van €250... M.a.w. je betaald sowieso €174, en pas als je meer dan €174 aan kosten per jaar hebt (had dit jaar een hoge rekening en zat op €111) heb je er baat bij. Maar ho als je iets ingrijpends hebt van zeg €700; dan betaal je nog steeds die extra €450 zelf... dit is toch een complete non-verzekering dan?

timkmak, to Ukraine
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Good morning to readers; remains in Ukrainian hands.

Today we retrace Anthony Bourdain's visit to Kyiv only to find the food scene has evolved.

As takes back its cultural identity through food, Ukrainian armed forces make significant inroads in the south.

There’s no name that signals culinary adventure more than Anthony Bourdain.

When we watch him, we expect him not only to explore the food of a locality but also to help us understand the culture and history of a place.

murb,
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@timkmak @vosje62 some of my colleagues are Ukrainian (and working remote from there), as a Dutch I revealed myself quickly by asking if they ever ate ready made food from the supermarket 😅

ppk, (edited ) to random
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Did you use an image map in the last five years? You know, <map> and <area> and such?

(Background: I want to call image maps "old-fashioned" and I'd like to know if I can do so.)

murb,
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@ppk KNMI (Dutch Weather institute) still has a good use for it: https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/weer/waarschuwingen/utrecht

ppk, to random
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Stuck.

Where do I place the specificity chapter?

My original idea was to treat it with the rest of the cascade ...

... but it mostly applies to, and gets its examples from, the selector part I'm currently writing ...

... sigh ...

murb,
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@ppk at the end? It only matters when you’re targeting the same element using different selectors? Which you will only get to when getting a bit more advanced?

Cdespinosa, to random
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The interior angle of the pizza slice emoji in the Apple emoji set 🍕is 48.5556º, implying that the pizza was cut into a very awkward 7.4 slices. (Or that somewhere there exists another 48º slice and two corresponding 41.4444º slices)

murb,
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@thomasfuchs @Cdespinosa perhaps due to disabling trackers or external resources not loading because of privacy settings I can’t find even see an image of the icons discussed in the article. What has the web become…

tchambers, to Futurology

With the upcoming #meta #Project92 Fediverse service, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.

➡️ To avoid data mining ...which Defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the fedi public social graph today - Want proof?
see: https://is.gd/q8U2pv

The next argument is about poorly moderated P92 user posts and ad spam.
Which I'll discuss next.

🧵 1 of N

murb,
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@oceaniceternity @tchambers @emc2 @davew maybe the core web technologies are story. HTML/CSS were dominated by Internet Explorer. Even setting new standards. But enough people fought back, the standards were better drafted and we still have this largely open web based on these core technologies. ActiveX never won. Java applets neither. Flash, gone. XMLhttprequests were standardised, and now we have fetch, ES6, wasm. Chromium (Google & Microsoft) are def in a position of power, but the industry is still catering to other rendering engines.

murb,
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@jakeosx @oceaniceternity @tchambers @emc2 @davew Typescript is just a wordier Coffeescript to me ;) It is still always transpiled, right?

murb,
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@emc2 @jakeosx yeah, was kinda trolling, I kind a like simpler programming languages ... ;) (but main point was that, TypeScript is not running directly in any Browser iirc, which was the case with JScript (not sure about J++)

murb, to random Dutch
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Ik leer nu pas dat @SennaMaatoug op Mastodon zit. En niet met een mirror van haar (niet meer bestaande Twitter), maar om de juiste redenen (aldus haar website):

> En ik deel dat heel erg weinig op sociale media. Want ik merk dat ik het best moeilijk vind om via grote platforms die weinig tot geen belasting betalen te communiceren met jullie. Als iemand een idee heeft hoe ik dat beter kan doen, let me know?

(volgens mij blijft ze ook op Mastodon relatief stil, en geeft ze de voorkeur voor tragere communicatie, wat ook helemaal goed is :), maar toch)

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