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fascinating reddit phenomenon 

- r/anarchychess leaks onto a bunch of neighboring subreddits by replying to things with a string of replies: "Google [x]" "holy hell" etc.
- one of which is r/mathmemes, specifically with minimal square packing memes: "Google square packing" etc. sub is flooded with square packing memes.
- r/mathmemes bans square packing memes. users flock to r/anarchychess
- result: hybrid chess/math memes that sort of defy description

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#introductions

I got into programming for idealistic reasons, try hard to hold on to that feeling. In spite of everything, I still believe computers can be empowering. But you can't delegate their care to a mechanic, certainly not a mechanic with millions of customers. These days I try to create programs that run anywhere, show off their inner workings, are trivial to modify, let you make mistakes and help you understand what went wrong. I call these freewheeling apps.

akkartik.name/post/roundup22

My ADHD meds are like glasses but for my brain.

They help with my focus ba dum tss.

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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren der Tagesschau-Redaktion! @tagesschau

Was ist denn nun eigentlich mit dem "Klima vor 8" Programm?

Haben Sie zumindest mal darüber nachgedacht, dies einzuführen?

Oder steht es bereits in den Startlöchern und wird das öde Programm "Börse vor 8" bald mangels Relevanz ablösen? (Auf einem toten Planeten gibts auch keine Börse mehr)

Die Fediverse Community würde sich bestimmt dafür interessieren!

Herzlichst,
ein Mastodon User

#klima #klimakrise #wirtschaft

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once more for the peanut gallery

nvidia _choose_ to not support the wayland stack. or well more generally, the new linux kms+egl gpu stack, since there's a lot other cool things you can built on top of it that aren't wayland

nvidia _choose_ to implement crypto locked down fw in a way that blocks open drivers (even apple got this right!). and no one else can fix it, because it's actual real crypto

nvidia _choose_ to not fix any of this

don't buy nvidia if you don't like this

#kernel

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Guten Morgen meine Damen und Herren, wir begrüßen Sie zur tagesschau!

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me replacing Twitter’s url query string tracking beacon with base64 of “[Object object]” to drive some poor developer insane

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Last year we announced we would be joining Mastodon to explore an alternative to today's social media. 



We’re excited to announce we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta, with hopes to open to the public soon.

This is just the beginning. Read more about the launch of our instance, including how to join the public waitlist. blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo

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In Germany it is a long weekend coming up.

It is your chance to rewrite an OSS project. Don't let doubters distract you. We'll talk again on Tuesday!😍

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So it’s up to you whether you want to give away licenses to your content. You have been led to believe that the necessary cost of using internet services is to give away a broad license. It’s not, you have options.

Twitter Terms of Service: twitter.com/en/tos
Bluesky Terms of Service: staging.bsky.app/support/tos
Mastodon Privacy Policy (mastodon.social): mastodon.social/privacy-policy

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#twittermigration #ContentLicense

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continuing ZigBee talk from mastodon.social/@whitequark/11, i've realized two important things about wireless home automation:
- it's an assistive technology,
- that's accessible to renters.

earlier today, i watched my disabled girlfriend use her laptop to adjust the dimmer in this room, and that's when the realization hit. i originally wanted zigbee stuff as a nice to have, but it's much more than that in practice

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"But why are you still on Twitter?"

Listen. I am an internet ancient. I stood amidst LiveJournal as it crumbled while I watched the fall of Flickr. I was there both times Tumblr burned down, toasting marshmallows over its smouldering ruin, laughing at the folly of Verizon. The death of Twitter was foretold by the dark prophecies of the forgotten internets. I am there to witness its passing as the old internet is dying and the new internet struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

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So... With all respect @nitrokey, I'd advise you (mostly your PR department) to fact check your article about Qualcomm's A-GPS data... First because it's a load of trash, but it's also a lie in some many levels that only makes you look bad.

First: The qualcomm chipset doesn't send any data. There's a service running in every qualcomm phone's userspace which downloads the A-GPS provisioning data.

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#TaggegenLärm
Durch ständigen #Verkehrslärm kann sich das Risiko für Depressionen erhöhen. Durch eine Zunahme des Straßen-, Schienen- oder Fluglärms um 10 Dezibel kann das Erkrankungsrisiko um bis zu vier, fünf und elf Prozent ansteigen.

UBA-Präsident Dirk Messner: „Lärm ist nach wie vor ein viel zu stark unterschätztes Gesundheitsrisiko in DE. Viele Menschen sind hohen Lärmbelastungen ausgesetzt, die ihre Gesundheit beeinträchtigen und die Lebensqualität mindern.

umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pres

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With all that in mind, here's a suggestion:

➡️ *IF* mastodon.social becomes more than 50% of the Fediverse, either by total users or monthly active users, the rest of us should defederate it.

Sticking with mastodon.social because "that's where the people are" is pointless. Centralised growth will simply cause the governance problems we've seen on Twitter and Facebook to be replicated on here.

Growth has to be decentralised in order to protect the independence of all Fedi servers.

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