@crystalmorganmusic Testing!
Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there
My Mom built an analog ad blocker for her favorite tablet game and while I cannot stop laughing, I'm also hella proud of her. Go Mom! Stick it to the man!
Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021—turns out they use way more fuel, and create way more CO2, than almost anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.
This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.
#ClimateCrisis #CO2 #TheWarOnCars
https://mastodon.ie/@sinabhfuil/112138746226813931
Becoming an adult feels like slowly being pushed into a managerial position you didn't really want.
@dangoodin I haven’t had to do this often and I’m sure there are more efficient ways, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the transcript when I used youtube-dl and ran the downloaded video through openai-whisper. As a nice bonus, that also spits out multiple formats that might be useful.
@pluralistic I seem to recall one passionate pro-Apple commenter specifically argue that Beeper Mini somehow hacked/trespassed on Apple's infrastructure/IP, thus the weakened security of iMessage.
They're not necessarily wrong in the claim that Beeper Mini is a hack. It *is*, in the sense it subverts the assumption that only Apple devices can use Apple services. It's also quite ironic:
1) iChat used to support multiple protocols;
2) What Beeper did to Apple, Apple did to Microsoft with iWork.
The key to a great Mastodon experience is finding and following #hashtags you find interesting. Doing this has allowed me to find all sorts of interesting people and blogs lately. Some of my most enjoyable follows are:
It is that time of year again. I need to do obligatory post 🎄
If you access corporate email on a personal device that can be unlocked with FaceID, you must change your face at least once every sixty days.
You may not reuse any of your most recent 12 faces.
It is hard to describe, in words, the level of not being ready to go back to work tomorrow morning after a four-day weekend
@pluralistic In the early noughts, folks at Google took great pride in how quickly users who arrived at their website were sent on their way. Unlike other enshittified websites of the time (Yahoo, AOL...) they knew that it didn't matter how long users spent on your website just that they come there and find what they want ASAP.
Now?
The same as it was with Y/AOL, Google has no incentive to send users on their way, all incentives are geared to keep them within Google's walled garden.
I was reminded of this xkcd today: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Then I realized… we have that now.
“Check whether the photo is of a bird” (or, equivalently, “search for photos that contain birds”) is now a thing that software can do.
Looks like @polygon is now officially on Mastodon too 🙂
@dbtechyt Any tips for someone who’s just getting into self-hosting stuff at home again? I’ve never had a reason to use Docker personally or professionally, so I’m a complete novice when it comes to that stuff.
Right now I’m enjoying Proxmox and LXC containers immensely, but Docker seems to useful to avoid forever.
@emory Gotta leave plenty of room for “bug fixes and performance improvements” over the next few years. That’s how this works now, right?
@matt You should be able to specify in BIOS what happens after a power failure. I set mine to power on automatically and it’s done the trick so far. It’s simple, but it works!