Interesting phishing attempt 🤣

An evening game #AgathaChristie

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Opera browser: my final disavowal

While the Internet is being flooded by a record amount of Opera ads, affiliate program members and new hardcore defenders, while I - as someone, who has been using it without a break, for more than 10 years, have had enough and I’ve finally decided to uninstall it.

Part of the reason for this decision, was the new Opera One UI update, that I not only found incredibly ugly and uninspired, but also worsening the already abysmal performance of the browser, as well as adding to the already gigantic pile of bugs within.

All of this, came after a few very frustrating weeks, where the browser constantly crashed, under the weight of its own AI bloat. Every time any text was selected, it was trying to load some ridiculous AI integrations on top, but always crashing and loosing all the opened tabs.
After the UI update, the whole browser somehow felt even more wonky and laggy.

Even for those, who might be fans of the new UI and all the added “features”, that now include a built in generic anime girl game and stupid cartoon noises, upon clicking almost anything, in the “gaming version” of this browser, the growing concerns about this browsers spyware-like connections, to all kinds of mysterious servers, should at least be considered and looked into further. Not to mention the extra problems, that come with them being a Chinese-ran company, storing this data in China.
Quick summary: https://youtu.be/NV8akIgfDqQ

Int the interest of brevity, I won’t go further into the pointless social media arguments they engage in, their past promoting predatory loans, them inserting affiliate links (to the sites you visit through tiles), running a very questionable free VPN service, hidden extensions, that cannot be removed and god knows what else.

Either way Opera, you were an alright browser - many, many years ago. Sadly all I can say now, is “rest in piss, you won’t ever be missed!”.

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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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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@prologic@twtxt.net thank you! I got started on some 3D stuff this morning, we then went to the candy store to get some candy, tonight well have that, and nachos + a movie. and the rest of the day we have been outside :)

here is what I got started on this morning :

just testing some ocean stuff.

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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.

Interesting thoughts about multi thread vs single thread performance.

what’s wrong with this headline? 🤔🧐

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

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children of the rain

picture of a newborn mushroom

Rain victims

a picture of infant oranges fallen down

Amazingly (haven’t worked on it in a while) GoNix still builds and runs (on QEMU), even on my new Mac Studio M1 😅 Nice!

I wrote here a few days ago about kokori’s “rootkit” (now also available on CD) but it all started on this day 13 years ago, with the release of our “init()” EP, seen in this picture:

Já anda por aí, enquadrado no festival literário “Lamego, Cidade Poema”. É o livro “Era Uma Vez - Lamego 2023”, e tem o seu lançamento oficial no último momento do festival, domingo às 16h.

Participo nele com um texto de não-ficção para o leitor curioso geek: não haverão muitos, mas dá-me prazer saber que a história geek Lamecense vai estar nas prateleiras de uma qualquer biblioteca.

Lamego 2023

Wow spammer are getting desperate when they try things like this 🤣

kokori’s album “rootkit” is going to be released on CD next month.

This is the album I’m most proud of have having made.

Accepting pre-orders now!

kokori's rootkit CD

Check this out 😆

#NewPotatoes from the #garden

(not many, but they’re delicious)

Photo by @marado@marado

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Here is a screenshot showing the client running on NixOS.

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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.

We had a wonderful day by the ocean today.

a radiosfera em Portugal é uma cena fascinante, e agora que já não é preciso comprar um tijolo caro (basta um dongle USB de 30 paus), estou determinado a entrar mais a fundo

alguém quer vir também? :szterminal:​

#rádio

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According to the RedMonk programming language rankings from Jan 2023, Go and Scala are tied at 14th place 😏

1 JavaScript
2 Python
3 Java
4 PHP
5 C#
6 CSS
7 TypeScript
7 C++
9 Ruby
10 C
11 Swift
12 Shell
12 R
14 Go
14 Scala
16 Objective-C
17 Kotlin
18 PowerShell
19 Rust
19 Dart

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Experiencing some “red screen of death”

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net ROFL 🤣

@rlafuente@ciberlandia.pt Great game!

but I lost

In the “Ben Shapiro says bad stuff” department, here’s some anti-semitism:

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Picture from the office this morning :)

#Greenwashing 101, from #PingoDoce: 1) create your own “ecodesign” stamp; 2) put your “ecodesign” stamp on your products even if they have an obvious use of plastic lids where no plastic would be necessary; 3) profit.

a picture of two milk packets, that have an \"ecodesign\" mark, but also plastic lids

Hulduefni and Merankorii joint album “Synthetic Works” was released on this day, nine years ago.

a picture of the CD

Exciting!

Looks like Google’s using this blog post of mine without my permission. I hate this kind of tech company crap so much.

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Five years ago I was posting this on FB… “Artist and Computer”, edited by Ruth Leavitt , published 1976 https://www.atariarchives.org/artist/index.php

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de

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My wife cut waves for me out of vinyl foil, and I was then allowed to apply them. It looks cool and can also be removed without residue if necessary.

For the first time, already pretty good and almost without bubbles (Blasen in German). 😜🤪 /BadDadJokes

And this is a PNG created from the project file before the cutting. The colours match almost perfect, as she did not use a colour pipette of a photograph.

#Vinyl foil #MacBookPro #cricutmaker

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Like this?

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Quite predictably, the introduction of Chat GPT, has led to even more browser bloat. 🎉

Also since I’m already bringing up opera - I have genuinely no idea, what their dev team is smoking, as all their additions this year, have been this desperate:

From some cashback scam and TikTok integration…

…all the way to some “lonely men bait” and adding NFTs - a full year, after everyone stopped caring.

@prologic@twtxt.net and it even looks okay on mobile without any extra work, but it does not like long names:

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Working on improving how the External feeds under /feeds looks: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/commits/branch/feed-list

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The idea is to use the design for /following and /followers too and use it for a base for other lists down the line.

um poema censurado para o dia do livro, em ante-véspera do 25 de abril:

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net here’s the same prompt on craiyon.com, no retries: