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On the other hand, they *did* include a few parts that I didn't actually order

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I now also know why the parcel was delayed by a day because the box had clearly been damaged in shipping and patched up with tape

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Just received an online order, and using a heatsealer to split a ziploc bag into compartments sure is a... choice.

One that makes the whole 'ziploc' part completely useless 🙃

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.

quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/

*old man voice* back in my webdev days, every website was just bootstrap2.css, now everything looks like this

@marlies Spotify has a long history of hosting fascists and nazis, unfortunately. See also the Joe Rogan thing. People have been boycotting it for a while for this reason.

Skype is shutting down in May. I've been using it to speak with my grandmother, and I am looking for an alternative, with the following features:
* can do live subtitles (in French)
* works without a phone number/sim card
* can call your contacts and be dialed (i.e. not only invite by email/calendar/url…)
* simple UI/UX (with big buttons) is far more important than feature rich.

I know various things that do some of the above, but I'm not sure what (other than Skype) does all of it.

Any help?

@SURF Bedankt. Na dat artikel gelezen te hebben resteren er mij twee vragen:

1. Hebben jullie al onderzocht of een nuttig model uberhaupt haalbaar is met een dergelijke beperkte dataset? Onderzoek hiernaar in het verleden liep namelijk uit op teleurstellende resultaten.

2. Wat is jullie plan om te voorkomen dat het model de al-bestaande vooroordelen in de maatschappij 'vastlegt' (deze zullen immers ook in de trainingsdata verwerkt zitten), versterkt, en als het ware een ideologische 'eenheidsworst' creeert omdat iedereen hetzelfde model gebruikt met dezelfde ideologische waarden erin gebouwd? Aangezien dat flinke schade kan veroorzaken aan de maatschappelijke ontwikkeling, nog meer dan veel ICT-systemen nu al doen.

health, ~, food mention 

So I've been adjusting my diet to account for my newly acquired immuno-deficiency and hunger-feeling disruption (because well, post-transplantation meds), switching most of my breakfast away from carbs and uncooked meats etc., and towards yoghurt with seeds, including sunflower seeds. Because that's safe, right?

Well, whaddayathink, the fucking sunflower seeds got recalled because of a potential salmonella contamination. You can't make this shit up 😐

At least I don't seem to have picked up any infections, but this is some "the universe aligning to fuck you up" shit. Fucking sunflower seeds! Of all things!

nlpol 

@rek @joepie91

Rutte has spearheaded over a decade of conservative backsliding in the Netherlands. Never holding any actual positions, just always aligning himself with power. An absolutely ghoul in a suit.

Just another Waymo picking up in the bike lane on Townsend and 3rd. They programmed them to do this on purpose. But sure, tell me again how cyclists should worship robocars as our traffic-safety saviors. 😒 #bikeTooter

@kriskowal Ah, oops, I was only thinking of the ^Z and fg part, not the `say` part 😅

I think probably the closest `say` equivalent on Linux would be `espeak-ng`? That does usually require separate installation. Or alternatively `notify-send` for displaying a notification (which I believe is preinstalled on a lot of distros).

@kriskowal This should also work the same on a typical Linux terminal, I believe?

MacOS Command Line Tip>

If you kicked off a job and it turns out it’s going to take a lot longer than you thought, and you don’t want to throw away your progress:

^Z
$ fg; say done

This will pause your program, then resume it, but this time you’ll get an audible notification when it completes. Unblock thyself.

The semicolon is important because it’s analogous to a finally block. You’ll get a notification for either success or failure. You can also && say yay || say oh no.

nlpol 

@rek Yep. Guy left an absolute garbage fire of a government behind, and is now doing the exact same "wreck things with a smile" shit in NATO.

Just about every part of government and society here is in crisis right now, and most of it can be traced back directly to him.

nlpol 

@rek That idiom is commonly applied here to Mark Rutte in particular, former prime minister of the Netherlands, since nothing seemed to stick to him despite his many failures, fuckups, and harmful policies

eupol, vague 

Ah, but see, it's *European* tech, so then it's fine!

it has been 0 days since I've had No space left on device

There’s more to #Ottawa than manicured lawns and pretty petals.

Thanks to multiple grassroots efforts, Ottawa’s bountiful greenery is getting more sustainable as #rewilding efforts are on the rise. Here are four projects that deserve attention and support.

#urbanrewilding #cities #seeds

rewildingmag.com/4-ways-ottawa

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