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Canadian political cartoonist, Michael deAdder has requested that his Washington Post cartoons be widely circulated after his recent dismissal.

This is what I see in the Tesla logo, and cannot unsee:

Hace unos días fue @ClaraGrima la que nos contaba que la habían estafado. Hoy es @pluralistic —¡DOCTOROW, NENOS!— el que nos cuenta cómo le han robado a él. No os creáis tan listos como para que no os pueda pasar. Estad siempre atentos.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111879255100026834

Don't believe the doomers claiming RSS is dead.

RSS lives.

@jrconlin Why would you do that to Mexico?

Good!
Fewer satellites to make astronomers work difficult!

SpaceX scrubs launch of Starlink satellites from California

#Satellite #space #Astronomy #SpaceX #News

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-7-11

March 6th is an important date for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). By that time Big Tech has to comply with the regulation.

One part of the regulation is the choice screen. The choice screen shows user a choice of browsers when setting up the device and allows them to select which one they want to use.

We attended a meeting where we gave feedback on how the choice screen should work for it to be effective. We said it was important that the order of choice screen browsers would be random and that there should be a full visible description. Google´s mockups gave priority to Big Tech, by always having them in the top 5 positions and only shows logo and name, meaning brand recognition is everything.

We also made the point that the default browser should have its icon on the front screen in the prime position, so it is easily found.

My question to you is this: Do you think Google will implement an effective or ineffective choice screen?

#DMA #browser #Android #Regulation
@EU_Commission

From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism

I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and it was remarkably painless for something absolutely critical that I need to work reliably, with zero additional friction, every single day.
I cannot stress how low-hassle it is to switch from Chrome to a browser with a business model that doesn't rely on tracking you.
Do it.

@Argyle13 @teknomagic Que sea gratis o no depende de cada CA. En Castilla-La Mancha no cuestan dinero. Lo que deberían hacer también cada temporada de gripe es enviar cartas diciéndote cuándo empieza la campaña y cómo se pide cita para vacunar, y SMS y correos con el enlace a la página para pedirla.

@Argyle13 si estás enfermo te quedas en casa y no trabajas y punto. Cierto es que habrá gente con curros en los que si se ponen enfermos van a la calle, pero ahí es donde entra la lucha obrera, estar sindicado y esas cosas, para que si se despide a alguien por estar enfermo les quemen la empresa.

Thank you TODAY for covering the current COVID surge. I really appreciate that so many are sharing the COVID wastewater charts! It shows that, contrary to the cynical narrative of "pandemic fatigue," many still care and want to know the data so they can protect their communities.

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1743412080894513247

Luckily we already got most of it👌🏻 🚄

say NO to 2024! no more years! #EndDates

• every year is worse than the last
• "being on time" is neuronormative and ableist
• date/time math is inconsistent and annoying
• "number goes up" is unsustainable
• "see you in a bit" is just fine
• nobody ever knows what day it is so let's just stop pretending
• buses don't run on "time", they show up when you light a cigarette
• deadlines were invented by capitalists
• global south forced to winter during summer
• time is an illusion and calendar isn't real - we made it up!

we can do better!

A few folks who recently joined as FSF associate members have cited, of their reason for joining, "A post on Mastodon." Well, well, well, that's a great reason, indeed. If you're reading this and you'd like to join our cause for spreading free software philosophy, you can use the following link: http://www.fsf.org/join #LearnLibre #FreeSoftware #Mastodon #ActivityPub

In this month’s Activity & Contract report: VPN support, networking refactors, a much less crash-prone version of QtWebEngine (Chromium), and more! https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2023-12-12_haiku_activity_contract_report_november_2023/