seen near my house..

@prologic@twtxt.net why am I getting this on your git?

Oudéa-Castéra, polémiques et éducation
Charmant début pour la nouvelle ministre de l’Éducation nationale : à peine nommée, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra se retrouve dans une de ces polémiques typiquement franco-française qui permet de bien illustrer l’état de délitement complet des institutions, des médias et des politiciens. En répondant à la presse sur la scolarisation de ses trois garçons à Stanislas, un établissement […] ⌘ Read more

Vysoká delegácia HKV navštívila DEM Kulpín
Predseda Hospodárskej komory Vojvodiny (HKV) Boško Vučurević so sekretármi pre hospodárstvo a Poľnohospodárstvo Zoranom Trpovskim a Mladenom Petkovićom a tajomníčkou pre médiá Kristinou Đogo navštívili spoločnosť DEM doo z Kulpína. Tento vzorný rodinný podnik sa zaoberá výrobou múky a mlynárskych výrobkov, tiež nudlí a zamestnáva vyše 100 robotníkov. Pri príležitosti 105 rokov Hospodárskej komory Vojvodiny na slávnosti 1. februára … ⌘ Read more

Spent some time getting my air sensors tied together into a dashboard. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de you are probably right.. there seems to be a final 10 trend found over on Reddit.

With the global ordering for our private leader board we are all 1st place winners!!

How did so many get the first star within the first 3 mins?

@prologic@twtxt.net you must not have any friends with plex shares. I got one.

How to Turn Off SharePlay on iPhone
The latest versions of iOS for iPhone default to enabling a feature called SharePlay, which allows you to easily share Spotify, Apple Music, Podcasts, and many other media experiences, easily with whoever you’re having a FaceTime audio or FaceTime video call with. While this feature can be convenient for the intended purposes, it can also … Read More ⌘ Read more

Neat.. Gitea cloud for a hosted alternative to github and gitlab. https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-cloud/

Interesting thing happening over on Xitter. Apparently some of the women in tech accounts are being exposed as being run by men that hire women to pose for images/videos. They would be invited to tech conferences but would always drop out last minute.

Makes me wonder if maybe there is need for a sort of verifiable web of trust is needed where influencers can be proven as authentic by others. This will only get worse as AI generative content gets pushed into our feeds.

Okokok, I added my twtxt link on my sites social media icon section

Got a great idea for an web app: a flashlight app which uses media-queries to detect if the light, aka the body of the page, should be on (white) or off.

Watch the Apple Holiday Ad for 2023: “Fuzzy Feelings”
Apple has debuted their annual holiday ad for the 2023 season, or “Holiday Film” as they refer to it on YouTube, perhaps because it’s nearly four minutes long. The 2023 Apple Holiday Film, titled “Fuzzy Feelings”, follows some of the typical modern media tropes, focusing on a younger woman who seems to strongly dislike her … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/21/watch-the-apple-holiday-ad-for-2023-fuzzy-feelings … ⌘ Read more

Calibre & Handbrake have big new releases
Open source, DRM-Free media management continues to improve ⌘ Read more

The Australian Media’s High Horse ⌘ Read more

The AI bubble is now upon us!

First snowfall of the season.

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How to change media sync options on iPhone & iPad to make more storage available
If you’re trying to use a Mac to update iOS on iPhone or iPadOS on iPad, you may see an error message that says something along the lines of “Updating to iOS 17.1 requires at least 975.2 MB of free space on your iPad. Please change your media sync options to make more storage available.” … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/28/how-to-change-media-sync-options-on-ip … ⌘ Read more

La propagande ukrainienne patine
Ah décidément, la propagande occidentale a bien du mal à passer au-delà des médias de grand chemin. Petit-à-petit, s’effrite un peu partout le récit romantique d’un effondrement prochain de la Russie, les certitudes affirmées sur l’inévitable victoire de l’Ukraine et l’histoire fabuleuse de cette guerre qui serait celle d’une démocratie naissante contre une dictature veule… […] ⌘ Read more

La République d’Enmarchistan refuse de voir l’effondrement
En République d’Enmarchistan, il est impératif de régulièrement se tenir au courant de ce que disent les ministres et de ce que racontent les médias à leurs sujets. Il est tout aussi impératif de ne pas trop faire attention au petit bruit de fond créé par la réalité, aux événements du réel qui – tout […] ⌘ Read more

Bruno Le Maire Contre La Shrinkflation Des Kiris
La France est au bord du gouffre, c’est évident ! Et les raisons en sont évidentes et se résument en deux mots : sifflets et abayas. Oui, pas de doute : tout le pays ne semble plus occupé qu’à évaluer ces deux sujets d’une importance ultime. D’un côté, si l’on s’en tient aux médias de grand chemin, l’interdiction […] ⌘ Read more

friendlyjordies CANCELS THE MEDIA ⌘ Read more

L’horizon de confiance se réduit franchement
C’était pourtant assuré, promis juré craché : l’été 2023 devait être le plus chaud bouillant jamais enregistré. Cependant, malgré l’utilisation de couleurs cramoisies pour les cartes météos dans tous les médias européens, les autorités ont eu bien du mal à faire oublier la canicule humide et la violente sécheresse asymptomatique qui a frappé l’essentiel de l’Europe […] ⌘ Read more

How Cameron Wilson is growing vines in a district better known for grazing and spuds
During a stint as a rural reporter for the ABC, Cameron Wilson became interested in grape growing. Fast-forward 15 years, he’s now a winemaker tending vines in two states. ⌘ Read more

Found another example of Google stealing something I’ve written and putting it in a “featured snippet”.

What’s super annoying about this one is that the source is a course page at Tufts University, not the official page of the publication they’re taking this text from. I know the professor who taught that course and I’ve guest lectured for them before on this topic. They put this publication in their course readings, and I guess that’s where Google picked it up.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de

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@prologic@twtxt.net laughs.. I’m in danger.

https://www.stremio.com/ media center

Whelp. The suckification of social media is continuing to expand. Twitter only allows 600 tweets per day unless you pay and then its 6k per day.

Les impôts s’envolent et la France s’écrase.
Pas de doute : la France est un paradis fiscal. C’est-à-dire que pour le fisc et les taxopathes compulsifs, la France est un vrai paradis. Ceci n’est pas une exagération. À ce sujet, l’actualité offre souvent d’intéressantes collisions d’informations que nos médias s’empressent généralement de ne pas rassembler, ces derniers n’aimant ni les coïncidences, ni les […] ⌘ Read more

An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association “Property of People” through the Freedom of Information Act.

This document summarizes the possibilities for legal access to data from nine instant messaging services: iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp and Wickr. For each software, different judicial methods are explored, such as subpoena, search warrant, active collection of communications metadata (“Pen Register”) or connection data retention law (“18 USC§2703”). Here, in essence, is the information the FBI says it can retrieve:

• Apple iMessage: basic subscriber data; in the case of an iPhone user, investigators may be able to get their hands on message content if the user uses iCloud to synchronize iMessage messages or to back up data on their phone.

• Line: account data (image, username, e-mail address, phone number, Line ID, creation date, usage data, etc.); if the user has not activated end-to-end encryption, investigators can retrieve the texts of exchanges over a seven-day period, but not other data (audio, video, images, location).

• Signal: date and time of account creation and date of last connection.

• Telegram: IP address and phone number for investigations into confirmed terrorists, otherwise nothing.

• Threema: cryptographic fingerprint of phone number and e-mail address, push service tokens if used, public key, account creation date, last connection date.

• Viber: account data and IP address used to create the account; investigators can also access message history (date, time, source, destination).

• WeChat: basic data such as name, phone number, e-mail and IP address, but only for non-Chinese users.

• WhatsApp: the targeted person’s basic data, address book and contacts who have the targeted person in their address book; it is possible to collect message metadata in real time (“Pen Register”); message content can be retrieved via iCloud backups.

• Wickr: Date and time of account creation, types of terminal on which the application is installed, date of last connection, number of messages exchanged, external identifiers associated with the account (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers), avatar image, data linked to adding or deleting.

TL;DR Signal is the messaging system that provides the least information to investigators.

On my blog: Why Care about Free Culture? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/25/free-culture.html #rant #freeculture #media

I never paid a lot of attention to Ben Shapiro before, but what he says is so transparently asinine it boggles the senses. You really have to have a Fox-addled mind to believe that the search for the submersible was completely faked and that the powers-that-be knew the entire time that it had imploded. To believe that a vast conspiracy among hundreds, thousands (?) of people from several countries and spanning several days was orchestrated to lie to the public in order to…..uh, achieve what exactly? “Undermine institutional credibility”? What does that even mean?

This is “the moon landing was faked” levels of conspiracy theory.

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These billionaires are profoundly without intelligence or depth. It’s astonishing to see so many shallow, empty fools parading their bad opinions publicly without shame. Let no one ever again fall under the illusion that tech oligarchs are anything more than your racist uncle at Thanksgiving but with more money.

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Speaking of men getting owned, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism who wrote the book Strongmen, regularly calls out and degrades wannabe dictators like Elon Musk and it’s cathartic to witness.

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Also, what a douchebag using the title “Dr.” in his twitter handle. As a general rule, a white dude who isn’t a medical doctor putting “Dr.” in their social media title is a gigantic flashing red flag.

Jordan Peterson likes to mansplain at women when he knows nothing about the subject. Probably because he thinks women should be property of men instead of free individuals.

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Let’s be clear here. Daniel Penny allegedly choked a black man, Jordan Neely, to death on a subway car. Neely was being loud, but he was not physically threatening anybody and did not have a weapon. In any other context, this would be called “murder”, at the very least, “manslaughter” if one were being gracious. Because of the US’s history, a white man murdering a black man in sight of the public is oftentimes, and rightfully, called a “lynching”. It has a public, political purpose amounting to terrorism.

Daniel Penny was allowed to go free for awhile after this event. He is only now facing accountability, having been recently indicted (arrested and charged with a crime) as he should have been day of. And here is racist right-wing toadie Ben Shapiro saying that Daniel Penny–the white alleged killer–is the one being lynched. Not the black man who was allegedly murdered by Penny in view of the public, and who is now dead. Penny himself, who is still very much alive.

@prologic@twtxt.net, I don’t know how you go on defending Ben Shapiro, but in the context of US society, what Shapiro is saying is reprehensible and unacceptable. He’s a right-wing troll with disgusting, not to mention flat out stupid, opinions.

Interesting thoughts about multi thread vs single thread performance.

Social media trap
reddit going dark (a protest action by many subreddit moderators over some planned API changes) reminds me that I should probably stop scrolling through Reddit so much. Reddit is a social network, and as such it attracts you with new content almost every time you visit. Which can be addictive. I once had a profile that I deleted because I wanted to leave all social media. But I fell into the same trap again. ⌘ Read more

Looks like they edited the headline, but here’s a receipt from twitter (well, nitter):

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I found this to be a good thread on the subject of how the media is covering the dam explosion. The author, Timothy Snyder, is a history professor at Yale and has consistently good commentary on the war in Ukraine.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net you think we could get media cards to show youtube previews?

**RT by @mind_booster: This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media. https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

#DigitalRightsForLibraries**
This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media. battleforlibraries.com/

#DigitalRightsForLibraries

nitter.net/mitzifabelmans/status/1660766020276043777#m

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This guy is just such an idiot lol.

• There’s no such mass migration to “the south”. Tons of people are leaving Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, and New Mexico for instance. I don’t know enough about the states with net influxes like Texas and Florida but I suspect they have policies that make it attractive for people to move there
  
• Not everybody is able to take account of long-term trends when they make housing decisions. There are financial reasons, family reasons, educational reasons, etc that impact such decisions
  
• But of course, most laughably, cheap energy is fast becoming a thing of the past, and so the problem isn’t “solved” by cheap energy, it’s just kicked down the road. And ffs, cheap energy is literally causing the very heating that he pretends air conditioning will “solve”–like “solving” your drinking problem by staying drunk all the time
  

This oversimplification to drive some kind of political point is so embarrassing coming from someone who pretends to be a university professor. It sounds like a teenage doofus from a 1980s movie talking. He well knows all these things, but he decides to present these views anyway.