"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

Inside the airline industry's meltdown: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/inside-the-airline-industry-meltdown-coronavirus-pandemic

A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 - a FOSS OS for phones https://share.tube/videos/watch/ef3e5eec-27aa-45c8-b87b-64a57fc6e176

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Totally slow, unoptimized and ugly but well that's a start

I don't think it can have been more than about a year since I discovered Firefox's "Reader" mode, and in that relatively short time I have gotten to the point that, when I'm on my phone at least, I instinctively check for whether the icon is available on every single site and hit it the moment I see it, even if the page in question hasn't yet loaded/rendered to the point where I can even assess it's readability. I just do it, because I have literally never once seen a single case where switching to Reader mode made the site *less* usable on a mobile. Not even once. I guess this shouldn't surprise me - nobody would have gone through the trouble of writing the feature if it didn't work well. But what does it say that we have gotten to the point where its of real practical value to automate the process of routinely throwing away the entire product of the web design industry?

@rysiek @alcinnz Oh I think I remember the same ones. Was it this one (wealth) https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ and this one (solar system) https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html ?

Data is not information; information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth.

Fun fact, my parody is pure HTML+CSS, not a line in JS.

It was pretty tricky to get it to work as intended, so of course I am sharing the code:
https://git.rys.io/rysiek/you-are-donald-trump/blob/master/index.html

The Architecture of Open Source Applications
https://aosabook.org/en/index.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332485

@nanook @hypolite History will play out however it does. I would prefer a peaceful resolution but all the censorship of mainstream media makes a peaceful dialog impossible which leaves only violence as a recourse. This is one of the main reasons I decided to put up a friendica node. To the degree I can contribute to a peaceful dialog I want to do so.

Repost of something I put on Twitter, in response to a post about "Shuttering Google Reader Killed Blogging" https://twitter.com/dustyweb/status/1299506666640211973

a repeat mistake: being excited about a decentralized system's success because a big player moves in, becoming reliant on it, not providing a better alternative, big player leaves, decentralized system dies from shock

see also xmpp and gtalk

hoping to do better...

Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.

i think the biggest tech coup of this century is that MBA techbros trained and conditioned people to accept and adopt the conecpt of “microtransactions” as a valid concept,

which in turn,

opened the door to things like “apps” and opt-out-with-microtransaction-adware and the entire Play/App Store ecosystem which has turned operating systems into network-dependent devices which will cease to operate correctly without a constant network connection to the OS’s manufacturer (yes, things which don’t get made in a factory are still “manufactured” and “shipped”, even if only online)

these last 15 years of those MBAs who moved to Silicon Valley in lieu of Wall Street, and their “discovering” they could make brutal fistfuls of money off even the poorest of us, along with transmogrifying all end-users into a “product”, has trained an entire generation of folks who now think, largely unconsciusly, how any/all of this is a steady-state of “normal” in any way whatsoever

@Gargron @tateisu We can't trust Big N to support a free and open Internet if it isn't in their financial interests. We have to do it ourselves.

lmaooo i think this is the one that claimed to "compile" its javascript sources so users couldn't read them, but actually encrypted them so lazily i was able to decrypt the sources by abusing jdb. fuckers never even sent me the swag i was promised for giving them the details of my "exploit"

also its user base are some of the most confused people on earth
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At 5,600 MW, delivering ~45 TWh of electricity per year, Barakah is the largest single power project in development anywhere in the world. It is on time, on budget, and low-carbon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53619916

@solderpunk @neauoire "IC fabrication requires large amounts of energy, highly refined machinery and poisonous substances. Because of this sacrifice, the resulting microchips should be treasured like gems or rare exotic spices. Their active lifespans would be maximized, and they would never be reduced to their raw materials until they are thoroughly unusable."

Yes! Yes! One thousand times, yes! This person gets it.

The LHCb experiment at CERN found a new kind of composite particle at the Large Hadron Collider and I got to write about it for home.cern:

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-discovers-first-open-charm-tetraquark

@dredmorbius I think one of the biggest problems is "money". It doesn't do what most people understand it to do, and it forces us to consume more every day (so that we can create more money, so that we can pay off debt). I don't think we can build "a sustainable society" until we fix what money is / how it's created.