George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

I’m hearing from teachers every day about how students struggle to read assignments more than a few paragraphs long, due to inability to sustain attention and because we taught them how to read wrong (yes, really…let’s just say they are NOT hooked on phonics). How can the browser help?

After laying off yet another 60 people working on half ass attempts to chase trends, the technorati has already rejected the idea of Mozilla next seeing if “trustworthy ai” will stick. This is not what people want! My proposal on how they can become relevant again? Become the “executive dysfunction” browser.

christ the Discourse this week is insufferable

personally i only left twitter because the muskrat made it unusable and not because i care about decentralization particularly

i just want to read and write little text posts

it’s naive to think things that are posted publicly on the internet aren’t already getting scraped by corporations and yes they might federate to other places. that’s how federation works

i have friends on bsky and it would be nice to be able to read their little posts too

It's been almost a year since I bought a used Tesla Model 3. Here's a quick video with everything that's wrong with it now.
Thanks for watching and feel free to share far and wide. 😀 https://youtu.be/-1SEnBlR890

Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.

If you're tired of Alexa and Google listening, local voice is a real thing now.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/can-you-manage-your-house-with-a-local-no-cloud-voice-assistant-mostly-yes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Why ProPublica Focuses on Issues You May Not See on Cable #News
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ProPublica’s mission statement encourages “using the moral force of investigative #journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”

Recently, that impact has been significant — and a bright spot in a dark #media landscape.

https://www.propublica.org/article/investigative-journalism-impact-democracy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

🤔

#election #politics #age #democracy #fascism #USpol #StarWars

INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC REQUEST: do you have a real, normal Pokemon Emerald cartridge and a way to boot it? Please power it on, wait several seconds for the player character to appear on a bike, and note their gender. Power the device off and back on and do this several times, at least 5. Please tell me: how many boys, how many girls, what language your cartridge is in, and what platform you booted it on (original gameboy advance, gba sp, nintendo ds, whatever)

I am asking this because I am observing the behavior in emulator that Ruby/Sapphire correctly randomize the player gender but Emerald always picks girl (which is what I expected because its rng seeding is buggy). However, there are recordings of the Emerald opening on youtube that show a boy. Presumably this is caused by emulator differences, but I really want to know which reflects the game on real hardware.

#pokemon

I swear to god, I've had more significant interactions in 6 months of Mastodon than 6 years of Twitter. That is the absolute objective truth.

I did not sit through two hours of Red Dawn (1984) in a mall cineplex to have republicans today try and say “Russian aggression is good, actually”
#wolverines

FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071226/fcc-commissioner-brendan-carr-apple-beeper-mini

Marathon World Record-Holder Kelvin Kiptum Killed in Kenya Car Crash

https://www.voanews.com/a/marathon-world-record-holder-kelvin-kiptum-killed-in-kenya-car-crash/7483611.html

I don’t usually post screen grabs from the hellsite, but this was too long to simply quote.

Via Lawrence Tribe.

#Trump #NATO

#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit #search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.

You can test Stract over here:
https://stract.com

And check out the repo on #GitHub:
https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

There's also an interesting article on Stract by @404mediaco:
https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time

Daily Telescope: A solar eclipse from the surface of Mars

From Mars, with love.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/daily-telescope-a-solar-eclipse-from-the-surface-of-mars/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Hi everyone, I’m looking for work! I have ~7.5 years experience working on iOS apps, both Objective-C and modern Swift.

I’m based in the Netherlands and would be looking for a fully-remote position.

Boosts appreciated!

Hey, people. Foone Turing (the "I go way too deep into computer investigations of vintage tech" person) has indicated they're officially laid off, and running out of money while trying to find a new job. If you have a job, hit them up. Otherwise, please throw some dollars:

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

I piloted a starship, and I can’t figure this out either.