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@whreq Soup is a dish produced by steeping any sort of ingredient in water; tea is a dish produced by steeping tea leaves (or, colloquially, functionally equivalent ingredients that are low in nutrition but high in flavour) in water; therefore the latter is a subset of the former

Gentle reminder for anyone that needs it right now: It's alright to cry, it's alright to be angry, bad feelings are here for a reason and it doesn't make you bad for having them. What you say to others is important, but what you say to yourself is everything. Speak words of kindness and encouragement.✨✨✨✨

reference to AnonOps, "journalism" 

@gsuberland@chaos.social I'm reminded of how back in the AnonOps days we decided to do a little experiment and send a completely false and unverifiable claim about a non-existent hacker group (with an obviously unserious name) to a bunch of Dutch and Flemish news outlets.

A bunch just ignored it. Several national tabloids printed it without any verification - one of the tabloids even *made up extra stuff* to fill the story, without asking anyone. We were just baffled by this. The only outlet that did any attempt at fact-checking and then decided not to run the story, was a small regional outlet.

It's hilariously (and frankly concerningly) easy to get something published in large mainstream press outlets with absolutely zero credentials or verification.

"this crowd is not law enforcement friendly" good. good

Its hilarious that Windows is just bootleg Linux with ads and tracking now.

Felt like a big 'ol rugpull. And what of phones that got abandoned by their manufacturer? Custom ROMs trip SafetyNet. Not so bad when it was only things like Android Pay, but then Google opened up the SafetyNet check to *EVERY* dev to use, and then you had a bunch of apps doing SNet checks for no real good reason other than as a total middle finger for those of us rolling third party ROMs/have our phones deeply customized.

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A convo in a group chat reminded me to touch on something: Why I fell out hard with Android.

I was with Android from the very beginning. Android felt built for enthusiast users who wanted to play around. You could ignore that aspect if you so wished but it was nice for those of us who liked to play around.

...until Google decided to unleash the blight that is SafetyNet upon us, and let slip the biggest "fuck you" to those of us here from the very beginning.

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Matrix encryption will keep the contents of your conversation safe from everyone, even the participants

Proton Mail does not care about blind people. Straight up.

Which does not make them all that unusual, but it is striking. Especially given their posture on the importance of everyone using <strike>their</strike> private, secure email.

Almost as if it's all a *gasp!* marketing ploy.

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LOLOL

Yet another mandatory upgrade of the Proton mail bridge, yet they still can't get the thumb out of the sphincter to add even a modicum of #accessibility.

Like, I don't know, labeling their controls. Or, making the password field, the entire point of the app, focusable so that I can f*cking read it and use my email.

Oh well!

And yes, I've sent them emails. Dozens, actually. As have several others. They do not care.

I am a web designer in my twenties. I’m wondering why the industry is designing for one browser, and for a handful of screen resolutions.

I am a web designer in my thirties. I’m wondering why the industry is designing for one browser, and for a handful of screen resolutions.

I am a web designer in my forties. I’m wondering why the industry is designing for one browser, and for a handful of screen resolutions.

I am a web designer in my fifties. I’m wonderi

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Dat is helemaal waar.

Maar 'het is groot en heeft veel geld, dus ze zullen het wel beter kunnen' is een gedachte die volstrekt logisch lijkt te klinken.

Je zou moeten denken 'het is groot en heeft veel geld en veel macht, dus de kans dat we door ze genaaid gaan worden is heel groot' is een veel realistischer gedachte.

@koen @SIDN @NGIZero AWS is overigens bijzonder duur en het aantal gevallen dat ik heb gezien waar het ook echt goedkoper was dan de alternatieven kan ik op 1 vinger tellen.

Ik had er al eerder over geschreven, maar ik ben niet de enige die een probleem heeft met de plannen van @SIDN.

Het feit dat SIDN tot juni vorig jaar in 3 maanden tijd 5 berichten op #Mastodon heeft geplaatst en sindsdien niets meer, is tekenend.

Koen de Jonge - SynQ wrote the following post Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:40:38 +0100 @jpostma inderdaad het gebruik van open software is niet triviaal.

Maaarrrrr.... dat geldt gewoon niet voor de @SIDN dat is een organisatie die per jaar miljoenen ontvangt aan subsidie (belastinggeld) en ook nog eens miljoenen verdient aan de 'verkoop' van domeinnamen.

Als het voor #SIDN te duur of te moeilijk is dan is de oplossing niet om dingen bij AWS te plaatsen, dan is het tijd voor een nieuw bestuur van de @SIDN die wel in staat is om het belang van een toegankelijk internet, gebaseerd op volledige openheid en transparantie in te zien.

En dan wil ik ook de raad van toezicht nog wel even aanspreken: wanneer je dit als raad van bestuur toestaat gaat er iets grondig mis met het controleren van de kernwaarden van de #SIDN
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