🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

Neat little tool for web notifications
https://tests.peter.sh/notification-generator/

I was about to say something about
how Amazon's analytics and inference has a ways to go before they've got anything on me, but damn it, they've got my number with this one:
https://www.amazon.com/xchg-rax-xorpd/dp/1502958082

I had forgotten about #somafm . I think I first found it back in high school (a charmed time for me). Looking at the site now, I think I even copied their CSS for my own silly #icecast music radio's tracklist back then.

@JulianRott besides that, there's virtually nothing of value which the author adds to the Vox excerpt. You might as well have linked the quoted article

@JulianRott author has a warped notion of which of their ideas are controversial. that or they're feigning controversality to suggest that their thoughts are more profound or important.

@debian what are we congratulating them for, exactly?

Really neat #blender video. It's too bad the conference could not be held in person this year, but I think exactly the right tone was struck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjmbsiflMU

@coldwave shards? since they're pieces of a whole

Finally got round to reading the [Wayland architecture] page. Don't fully grok the implications, but, in principle, #Wayland definitely sounds more straightforward than X.

[Wayland architecture]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html

Side note: the last 2-3 paragraphs get pretty jargon-y. Also, is KMS that big a deal that it's put in the foreground when talking about #wayland ? Seems like a more peripheral implementation detail

@thibaultamartin I wouldn't be interested in paying into a pool. I would only be interested in paying for specific features (or a specific feature area + general direction), maintenance, and bug fixes, either as a "bounty" or a patreon-like thing through the course of development. in the latter case, would only be interested in paying in if I know who the developers are so I have some confidence that the work will get done

@colby
I doubt that just reporting the size would create the pressure you anticipate. It needs for developers to actually care, and it's not clear that all of us do.
@cwebber @civodul @mikegerwitz @ArneBab @codeberg@mastodon.technology

I was thinking about the controversy over the recent presidential election about alleged voter fraud. It seems pretty unlikely that people, in numbers large enough to sway the election, double-voted: consider maintaining residency in multiple states, somehow avoiding active voter list maintenance, and, at the end of the day, possibly committing a felony all for the nebulous benefit of adding one vote among thousands for your preferred candidate. The value proposition just doesn't work out (Besides it's hard enough to get people to vote *once* in this country).

That said, it's not clear to me that there aren't gaps that could allow for voting twice in a federal election (see links below). It would be good for states to plug those holes if they haven't and make it very clear how they're doing it. Though it wouldn't shut-up people who are willfully ignorant from claiming widespread voter fraud, it might at least lessen the noise from the intellectually lazy.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/double-voting.aspx
https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/verify-voting-in-two-states-illegal/293-463f11bb-7ec9-4344-b2c0-cd7bcfe1561b

#uspol #election2020 #voting

@Orakel @jrc03c

@jrc03c You may get away with reducing copyright terms or abolishing copyright. If there's value in the creation, someone will fund it in one way or another. I'd be concerned about your transition plan though: for those that depend on the current model, how do you make sure they can still make a living on the other side?

@Orakel @jrc03c It's important to remember that if you can't reach your readers/fans, they can't support you anyway. Advertising by word-of-mouth works for some, but not all.