lilo @lilo@mastodonten.de

Nur als Erinnerung : Der neue Neal Stephenson ist erschienen :)

"Der Aufstieg und der Fall des D.o.d.o."

#lesetipp

I released a new version of my Firefox extension that will forcefully redirect you away from privacy erosive services to better alternatives. It started as a joke, but I end up actually using it.

When I want to look up a place, I instinctively and mechanically start typing "maps.googl...". This extension will instead take me to OpenStreetMaps. It will also functionally translate Google Search links to DuckDuckGo and Google Translate links to Deepl.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resist-the-internet/

#FuckOffGoogle

Ihr könnt mit dem Üben für den #35C3 anfangen, denn die Noten sind raus: https://cloud.indie.host/s/i9K5Lk55J7EZoQc

The use of the word "lol" is apparently pretty rare now: https://research.fb.com/the-not-so-universal-language-of-laughter/

I trained a neural network on 1,228 types of cookies and apparently these are what cookies sound like to it.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/180892528177/aw-yeah-its-time-for-cookies-with-neural-networks

Wollt ihr mal sehen was Facebook technisch unternimmt, um die Blockierung von "Sponsered Posts" zu erschweren?

Es sind 5 Divs, 9 Span-Elemente und 30 CSS-Klassen. Wow.

Für alle, die noch ein einfaches elektronisches Geschenk suchen: Tchibo verkauft grade für 15 € einen UKW-Radio-Bausatz ohne Löten

@douginamug There's a good German group called Anstiftung who are involved: https://anstiftung.de/

Also a big petition: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/recht-auf-reparatur

(Assuming you are still in Germany!)

If you want to see how industry lobbying works... a before lobbying and after lobbying side-by-side on proposed EC environmental measures to make home appliances more repairable and longer lasting.

https://eeb.org/publications/80/product-policy/96186/briefing-on-resource-efficiency-provisions-in-ecodesign-2018.pdf

Firefox is now more important, isolated and vulnerable. Some suggested ways we can support it:
• Set it as your default browser. And if you're back home with family over Christmas, suggest/set as their default too.
• When you hear web devs say "can't everyone just use Chrome", please challenge it.
• Contribute to Mozilla-led projects, e.g. MDN Docs: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/contributing-mdn-webdocs/
• Donate to Mozilla if you can: https://donate.mozilla.org

The young woman thought carefully before speaking to the Genie.

"I wish to understand anything I read, no matter the language."

"Your wish is granted."

"I wish for the ability to summon any written work."

"Your wish is granted."

"And I wish to be able to transcribe all that I learn."

"Your wish is granted."

Alexandria took a deep breath. It's not every century a library is reborn with a will of its own. There was so much to rebuild.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

Heute ist ein Tag, an dem ein nasskalter Wind ums Haus pfeift und ich unendlich dankbar für ein Zuhause bin. Für eine Heizung, für schützende Wände, für die Möglichkeit, mir etwas Warmes zu essen/trinken zu machen oder heiß zu duschen.
So viele Privilegien.

~~~~~

Today is a day when a wet and cold wind whistles around the house and I am infinitely grateful for a home. For a heater, for protective walls, for the possibility to eat/drink something warm or take a hot shower.
So many privileges.

A web page pretending #VanillaJS is a 0-kB #Javascript #Framework.

http://vanilla-js.com/

It's a joke, of course, and while reading the page the more experienced #webdevs among us should recognize it as such. Vanilla JS is what browsers give us, based on the EcmaScript specs and their own. It is not a script or library to load into a web site: it's already there.

The page author probably uses this to mock all those webdevs who couldn't write JS to save their lives, without jQuery...

How would you manage all your passphrases during boot (disk encryption key, desktop login, #GnuPG passphrase, #ssh passphrase ...)? Do you #automate it somehow? Or use a #passwordmanager ?

"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories