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RT @nytimes
Two Friends in Texas Were Tested for Coronavirus. One Bill Was $199. The Other? $6,408. written by Sarah Kliff in The Upshot on https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/upshot/coronavirus-tests-unpredictable-prices.html?partner=IFTTT #NYTimes #news #popular #rss
https://mstdn.social/@nytimes/104430982920192579

Today in Gothic Horror:

"Romsey man is 'absolutely relieved' after escaping flat infested with moths."

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18546840.romsey-man-absolutely-relieved-escaping-flat-infested-moths/

I'm going to try and move away from Spotify in the next few weeks. My current plan is to use NewPipe and playlists for streaming music on my phone and DVD/youtube-dl (https://github.com/yausername/dvd/) in order to save music. And I can continue to use invidious/yewtu.be along with FreeTube for music on my desktop.

Though I enjoy the ease of use and features with Spotify, along with the ability to support creators, I still feel the level of tracking and coupling with Facebook to be concerning. On top of this the money that creators get is considerably less than buying their music directly. This way I can use the money that I'd have spent on premium to buy albums direct from the creators (most are independent so even labels won't get a cut).

#opensource #music #privacy #spotify

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." -- Buddha

For those who celebrate (or demand) a political stand from companies, media channels, celebrities, a poet once said:

"Your friendship is a fog
That disappears when the wind redirects"

China is committing genocide in Xinjiang Province:

https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

@mathlover Spreadsheets were the first big success story of the nascent software industry, way back in the late 1970's.

Visicalc was the first one, and made lots of money. Later a new upstart came in, and also was very successful -- Lotus 1-2-3.

Sometime down the road, Quatro Pro joined the fray, and seems to have been named in pure jest to Lotus's very successful program.

Excel came many years later, and it was a Windows application from the very beginning I think.

My first spreadsheets were in Lotus 123, and it was quite interesting. 😋

“Riches are not from an abundance of worldly good but from a contented mind.”

— Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)

#quote #humanity #ProphetMuhammad

look at the absolute size of this aloe

If you use Youtube, or Invidious often on desktop then I'd definitely recommend FreeTube (https://freetubeapp.io/) as an alternative client. Using invidious or a local API as an implementation it doesn't connect to Google APIs, so less risk of corporate data mining!

Spent some time today working on the toast feature for the Vue rewrite (https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube-Vue). The current client is pretty great but the new version is shaping up to be better visually and functionally from the ground up.

Having decided, for a laugh, to infiltrate Glinner's shit fedi, I am happy to confirm the timeline is being inundated with trans furry anime pornography, and people demanding that all terfs fuck off immediately.

Good ideas for why & how to share plane tilings to K-6 #math students.
https://youtu.be/4gdfs89hSxg

According to an investigation by earthsight, #IKEA is buying illegal wood supplies from Ukrainian mountains. The interesting part is that this wood is certified as sustainable by FSC and IKEA promotes it as eco-friendly.
Sadly, #FSC is not that trustworthy after all.

https://www.earthsight.org.uk/investigations/flatpacked-forests