thm

@thm@witter.cz

ton of heavy metal

I like to connect things and work together with computers. Dabbling A/V artist, aspiring nexialist. ⅓ of https://mastodon.social/@kunsaxan

Also an ex-student of #psychology

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janellecshane, to random
@janellecshane@wandering.shop avatar

can anyone recommend a good book about relativity/math/astrophysics for an 8 year old? Or as the kid put it, “Einstein math”

thm,

@janellecshane 8 y/o me got a lot of mileage out of the book on relativity in the Horrible Science series, I still vividly recall some insights from there

flancian, to random
@flancian@social.coop avatar

@github :D

thm,

@flancian @github

🗡️ :D

ricci, to firefox
@ricci@discuss.systems avatar

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

thm,

@Sh4d0w_H34rt @ricci I can't speak for your Android, but on my Android Firefox is lovely :)

Performance is on par with Chrome, and I couldn't use the web without ublock honestly

I don't notice any issues and I've been using it as my daily driver for years

erikKroes, to accessibility
@erikKroes@mastodon.social avatar

🌈 What are your favorite color (contrast) tools?

Now I already have a ton of tools, but there are so many!

I'd like to share an overview and I must be missing some. Tell me about yours!

thm,

@erikKroes I really like https://www.whocanuse.com/ it seems quite comprehensive and also includes situational impairments :)

hackaday, to random
@hackaday@hackaday.social avatar

There's an Earthly lesson here, folks -- when dealing with important commands, always double-check that you haven't made any errors before hitting Enter.

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/voyager-command-glitch-causes-unplanned-pause-in-communications/

thm,

@hackaday Damn. With the self correcting routine to run in October, this is pretty much a nightmare version of "reboot a remote server and hope it comes back on"

EU_Commission, to random
@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu avatar

1 size 🔌to fit them all 📱 💻 📷 🎧

By 2024, the USB-C port will be mandatory for all portable electronic devices in the EU.

This means that you will soon be able to recharge most of your devices with the same charger, making piling up bundles of cables a thing of the past.

Not only will this make your life easier, but it will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and e-waste.

Learn more about the common charger here: https://europa.eu/!hwjj3G

thm,

@stooovie @EU_Commission I'm pretty sure there's virtually no USB-C cables made only for one of the two.

There are "special" high capacity USB-C cables for high power draws, but there's not much one can do, it wouldn't really make sense to mandate all USB cables to be rated for 60W+
(Though I did pretty much replace all the cables I carry with those, and it's not really a hassle either)

thm,

@stooovie That can happen, but is just due to wear and cheap materials (AFAIK)
Ever since I've started buying quality cables, I haven't needed to replace them nearly as often.

thm,

@stooovie @ixo @signaleleven
You very much can get power and data (Ethernet) over HDMI and there are at least three different HDMI cable types based on max speeds, which is what I think they're referring to

rodhilton, to random
@rodhilton@mastodon.social avatar

"Name anything Meta has ever played nice with."

Word, let's do it.

  • React
  • PyTorch
  • rocksdb
  • GraphQL
  • Hack / hhvm
  • watchman
  • buck
  • Hermes
  • FBOSS
  • phabricator
  • Cassandra
  • docusaurus
  • flow
  • jest
  • Thrift
  • Hadoop
  • zstd

I understand not trusting Meta but the level of disconnection from reality I'm seeing sometimes is staggering.

Hell, Mastodon's entire web UI is built on React, a framework developed entirely in-house at Facebook and open sourced.

thm,

@rodhilton This is such a blatant strawman, nobody's saying Meta is some kind of monster that lives to destroy any sign of FOSS on sight.

What would they stand to gain from closing down any of the projects on this grandiose list? They already have effectively total control over most of them, it doesn't even make sense to talk about EEE. These are not counterexamples.

thm,

@rodhilton Yes, and I'm fairly certain that person didn't have a bunch of random "opensource" projects in mind, seeing as they're not really relevant to the discussion for reasons I outlined above.

rodhilton, (edited ) to random
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The thing that saddens me the most about the whole fedi/meta drama is a thing I can't prove, but that I think is likely because I've worked in these kinds of tech companies.

The notion that Meta is looking to embrace/extend/extinguish the fediverse is laughable. The entire fedi userbase is a rounding error for Meta. They arent looking to take down the fediverse, they're trying to take down TWITTER.

They want the celebs and journalists back. Take advantage of Twitter's tarnished reputation.

thm,

@accretionist Yes, it's happened before with XMPP.

If Big Bad Corp can just buy an app, they might as well just shut it down entirely, no EEE needed. EEE is a tactic precisely to attack decentralised/open solutions, exploiting the "additive" aspect you mention.

I don't want to just end with linking a Wikipedia article, but it genuinely should dispel your confusion about how EEE works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish

thm,

@accretionist That's exactly what a lot of people are pledging [not] to do, but it's already clear they'd be in the minority, since a) look how nice Meta is (as per @rodhilton 's next toot), surely they have nothing bad in mind, and b) nobody really cares about what server someone is on, they just want to talk with people.

thm,

@accretionist

The option to defederate is still there and is critically important, but as long as the majority decides not to, Meta still can exert considerable influence just due to its size.

It's a similar problem as other huge servers like mastodon.social (which by the way, is likely going to federate with Meta) - you can defederate, but most ordinary folk would just move servers in that case, for completely understandable reasons.

thm,

@accretionist You're right in saying that Meta can't simply take away what we've built so far, and Fediverse is built in such a way to survive even a ""takeover"" (to an extent), but that's not to say the network won't come out of it unscathed, because inertia is a very real force - especially concerning social networks - and it's important to be wary of that.

msprout, to random

i dont think the minecraft soundtrack gets enough credit for being as excellent as it is

thm,

@msprout For real, and the triggers for it too (or is it all just in my head?)

Discovering a huge cave, the sea, barely making it through a tough night to see the sun rise - while hearing C418's tunes were some of the most magical moments in gaming for me

aral, to SmallWeb
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Just added Water.css¹ support to Kitten².

Water is a CSS stylesheet for semantic HTML that’s responsive, has good typographical defaults, and light/dark mode support.

Useful for demos, teaching, and also as a good base stylesheet for your Small Web places.

Just add WATER (see what I did there?) to your libraries array in your pages.

¹ https://watercss.kognise.dev/
² https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #WaterCSS #CSS #web #dev #stylesheet #html #semanticHTML

thm,

@aral Wow, didn't know about Water, thanks, I like it! It's already drastically improved this one microsite I didn't have time/energy to style properly :)

thm,

@aral Wow, didn't know about Water, thanks, I like it! It's already drastically improved this one microsite I didn't have time/energy to style properly :)

And thanks for Kitten! ❤️

wikipedia, (edited ) to random
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Annie here! My favorite site to show new Wikimedia contributors is https://wikishootme.toolforge.org which shows nearby landmarks that need photos. Gonna snap a pic of this park in Brooklyn next time I'm nearby! Created by the incredible @magnusmanske (whose many, many Wikimedia achievements include creating the first article on German Wikipedia)

thm,

@wikipedia This is way cool! I only have two issues:

  1. "Authorize" silently fails unless you're already signed in in Commons (which I wasn't in this browser session) - had to look up https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikishootme/issues/48/upload-problem-cant-get-past-authorize

  2. By default, it shows every single road around me, which I don't think is particularly useful - but there's a link to "everything but roads and embassies" on its wiki page, I think it ought to be more up front! https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/#lat=50.820075569967265&lng=4.356293678283692&zoom=16&layers=wikidata_no_image&sparql_filter=MINUS%20%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ34442.%7D.%0AMINUS%20%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ3917681.%7D.

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