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oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

#israel #palestine spot the difference in reporting in USA and British media … The real story is not what Israel said it was doing when bombing #Gaza, again, but what had actually happened. Even if you condone extrajudicial killings and believe Israel has the ability to target suspects precisely, killing nine civilians in the process shows it can’t. That’s sounds a lot like a #warcrime https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/02/israel-collective-punishment-against-palestinians

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

#copilot #ai #techfeudalism This is a call to open source developers to not upload the work of others on #GitHub due to the abuse of license terms and copyright https://nogithub.codeberg.page via @nixCraft

louis, 1 year ago to random

That‘s the one I wanted to do for a long time. Today felt just right to take on the 18K challenge.

Have a good Sunday evening!

#running

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

#emacs kill all modifier keys ... "This experiment was partly motivated by Macbook keyboards which do not have a right ctrl key. Being a touch-typist myself, I found it inconvenient to type key combinations like C-x, C-a, C-w, C-s, etc. where both the modifier key and the modified key need to be pressed with the left hand fingers. I am not particularly fond of remapping caps lock to behave like ctrl because that still suffers from the problem that key combinations like C-x, C-a require pressing both the modifier key and the modified key with the left hand fingers. I know many people remap both their caps lock and enter to behave like ctrl modifier key. While I think that is a fine solution, I was not willing to put up with the work required to make that work seamlessly across all the various operating systems I work on."

https://github.com/susam/devil

louis, 1 year ago to random

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oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

#chatgpt #openai #technofeudalism #emacs “technofeudalism” is probably the best term to describe proprietary code feeding of “reinforcement learning”, while there are free, non-proprietary alternatives like #BigScience #bloom multilingual language model https://dindi.garjola.net/ai-assistants.html via @wolfjb

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

I don’t know if Sohrab Behdani’s screencast is the first #emacs related in #farsi or just the first one I’ve come across, but what a lovely surprise … I speak a little bit of Farsi but not enough to be able to understand everything. Regardless, thanks @sachac for showing how universal the Emacs ecosystem is https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h0oWdOrjjHQ

oatmeal, 1 year ago to fediverse

Interesting post about social media in general, but also appreciated the take on the landing or onboarding experience into #mastodon … which is very different to what tech journalists will have you believe is the “biggest problem” with Mastodon … “My experience using Mastodon got off to a good start. Before registering, users are shown a list of ’servers’ they can join. I am usually reluctant to commit to signing up to then be able to explore a service. I prefer assurance, almost a promise of a worthwhile experience before I cede any personal information. This opportunity to browse the various servers available encourages me to commit by piquing my interest. I select defcon.social, a network for people interested in the intersection of technology and society.” https://codesign.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/04/can-the-fediverse-reconcile-me-with-social-media/

oatmeal, 1 year ago to histodons

@histodons #palestine #israel came across something called the "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis", yet another pro-Israel organization engaging in propaganda online, using the same tactics deployed on the Hebrew @wikipedia (training editors who join the site and then recruited to vote to kill or promote articles according to their agenda).

Of some interest is this new hit-piece on the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini (head of the Palestinian national movement in during the British occupation of Palestine, who, obviously, objected the Zionist movement take over of his homeland). He's been the Jewish right's favorite target for years, and as of late also the main reason for the #Holocaust happening. Following the spread of this nonsense, Dan Michman (#yadvashem) published this: https://www.yadvashem.org/blog/adhering-to-the-historical-truth-about-the-mufti-during-the-holocaust.html.

As for the so-called "CAMERA", which accuses everyone and everything of anti-Semitism but fails to notice its own #Islamophobia, see this https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/opinion/06iht-edbeam.1.12610693.html

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

Giving pano (clipboard manager for #gnome) a 2nd chance. It might be an over-kill, but I like it for now. On Gnome 33 it "reliably" blocked the desktop on copy... but hopefully problems have been sorted out.

oatmeal, 1 year ago to histodons

@histodons “Official documents show that #Israel systematically bribed top officials of the murderous dictatorship in #Liberia in order to obtain their diplomatic support” … the pressure on Liberia actually dates all the way back to the period before the United Nations vote on the Partition Plan for Palestine (resolution 181 II) on 29 November 1947, which required a super majority. Jewish agency representatives also bribed/threatened Nicaraguan officials, and if I remember correctly couple of other countries as well https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-28/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/weapons-training-and-cash-israel-bribed-liberian-officials-for-years-cables-reveal/00000187-c368-d554-a5b7-df6c62ae0000

asahi95, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

This looks like an interesting article.. :blobfoxthinking: (although rather suspicious)
https://felipec.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/one-decade-later-gnome-still-sucks/

#GNOME

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

Projection is a “#Projectile like project management library built atop #Emacs built-in project.el.” https://github.com/mohkale/projection

anildash, 1 year ago to random

It’s not dangerous, it’s a good thing to simplify onboarding for more users. Other major instances should do the same, and of course keep the option for these client apps to support other instances as well. It is appropriate and good for the internet to prioritize onboarding less experienced users over teaching federation theory up front. https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110233282251253677

rodhilton, 1 year ago to random

I'm sorry but this is just the funniest shit ever.

These losers were mad that celebs had checkmarks and they didn't. Now they can buy the same checkmark and they're mad that the celebs won't.

juliancday, 1 year ago to random

Looking to get off Twitter. The one thing really keeping me there is the larger community of poets, who are inventive and fascinating but also incredibly resistant to change. So if you're on Mastodon, and a poet, and I don't follow you, hit me up so I can change that.