Journalist and musician. On the other site as @superglaze too.
@timnitGebru It's truly amazing that so many in the tech community have come to interpret "I can download this opaque binary blob and run it myself by cannot modify it" as "open source", when that used to quite literally be the definition of proprietary, closed code.
At some point it seems "open source" just became code for "downloadable for free". I have no idea when or how that happened but it's a damn shame. Personally I blame an entire generation of technologists who grew up with SaaS.
Georgetown University Law Center professor Josh Chafetz wrote: “There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent…. And it's hard to think of anything more destructive of our constitutional order than a claim that a president can either spend funds that have not been appropriated or refuse to spend funds that have”
Excellent news!
https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/113901807240668357
@janl Thanks Jan!
My band has some #newmusic! The Bathe EP is out today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPV_ueFSYWA #alternative #rock #berlin #indie
Want some #newmusic? My band, The Board, has a new track out today called Forward Together. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dXtNXkDFoiQfAujvs2kqA?si=b456f850470245b7 #alternative #rock
I don't usually explain my lyrics but this new song we're releasing today is about a guy who falls down the online rabbithole and ends up being tempted by fascism and really I think this is quite an opportune moment to release it https://open.spotify.com/track/5EYbts7Gv48VIrTzEF5nVW?si=c4425333169d45b2
A friend who is involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest impressive photos of the restored walls and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. The colours of the reliefs and inscriptions in the building have been covered by a coating of dirt and soot for some 2000 years.
Since 2018, the original bright colours have been uncovered.
Photo: D. v. Recklinghausen
I'm going to build a simple new website for my band. Which company (I'm in Germany) offers the best cheap WordPress hosting?
My band, The Board, has new music coming out next month! It's an EP of five tracks - we'll release one each Friday in November - and you can pre-save the first single here:
Looks like Tenacious D might be done. The dangers of bad improv.
https://consequence.net/2024/07/tenacious-d-future-on-hold-gass-jokes-about-trump-assassination/
Someone complained that the xkcd Dependency comic is unrealistic because it only shows one critical dependency you've never heard of.
However, it all makes sense once you realize it's actually a fractal:
1/2 🚨 @edri & 9 civil society groups' submission to the @EU_Commission concludes that #Apple fails to comply with the #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA.
To protect its gigantic profits, the #gatekeeper continues to block freedom of choice on your device 🙅♀️
Read more ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/apple-must-comply-with-the-dma-urges-civil-society-call-to-european-commission/
I'm reading up on solid-state batteries and every damn time I read the word "electrolytes" I think of Idiocracy
@alper Incredibly depressing results, even if they’re not unexpected
The Germans have voted for more flooding. Good luck and have fun! ✌🏼 #EUWahl2024
Microsoft, with UK and EU privacy regulators on its case, has decided to make Recall opt-in rather than opt-out after all https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs/
Oh Quora. The lead item in its latest email digest is someone confidently giving an egregiously wrong answer to a question about Intel, and it’s followed by a photo of someone who has been tortured and raped in jail, with the poster asking “What do you think of this?”
