@cdarwin@c.imIf you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that
👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet
"Agrarian Justice",
⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid the cram in too many features over time?
Perhaps, but that didn’t really affect the basic functionality.
Calling it “bloatware” is funny when in our current era of personal computing everyone and their dog ships Electron apps.
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialIn Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…
@axbom@axbom.me
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ReleaseSaturday — This week I've been working on extracting, refactoring & generalizing the minimal column store database I've been using for my personal knowledge/media management toolset, and I'm happy to share it with the world now:
https://
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThe minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…
@x_cli@infosec.exchangeTomorrow, I'll be publishing a #WebDAV provider for #Terraform
It handles HTTP Basic, TLS and mTLS authentication.
It supports write-only attributes to deploy secrets, including deployment of ephemeral secrets.
In a few weeks, I expect to publish another version implementing…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUrban sprawl could deny 220 million people access to clean water by 2050 #environment
@bici@mastodon.social"Here’s a problem that’s highly likely going to get much worse, people [are] outsourcing their thinking to AI. “Many people are becoming reliant on AI to navigate some of the most basic aspects of daily life. A colleague suggested that we might even call the most extreme users “LLeMmings”"
Brilliant. From the Crank.
Read it Now
@UP8@mastodon.social
@unixorn@hachyderm.io@… #talos #k8s #cilium
Posted part two of my homelab k8s cluster series:
https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/k8s/02-k8s-cilium-r53-and-cert-manager/
This one covers using cert-manager to create certificates for domains hosted on Route 53 and setting up a basic https service using Cilium and also automatically redirecting http to https.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBill Gates' offener Brief an die Hobby-Anwender: 50 Jahre Software-Piraterie
Vor 50 Jahren verfasste Bill Gates einen „Offenen Brief an die Hobby-Anwender“, in dem er die unautorisierte Verbreitung von Micro-Softs 4K-BASIC anprangerte.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alLike global search and replace but don’t like surprises?
Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).
![Screenshot of me serpl with Search, Replace, Result List and Preview panes in a command-line interface. Search has /setup and [Match Case] mode selected, Replace has /settings with [Simple] mode selected. The Results List shows about 20 items and the selected file is shown in the preview pane with three replacements in diff-style red/green highlighting on lines 27, 28, and 35.](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/116/018/395/920/498/956/original/410fe9292b452830.jpeg)
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaWell, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOn the Raspberry Pi 5, the Raspberry Pi Foundation's decision to require 5v5a and essentially mandate the use of a quite nonstandard USB-C power supply to get the rated performance out of the system is fucking dumbassed to all hell and causes the device to be extremely inflexible in any application outside the most basic maker/dabbler shit. What if I want to integrate the Pi5 with a NAS? I have to put two overrides in config.txt, and then it still moans about undervoltage even when provi…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialRust unit testing: basic HTTP testing
Real-world application testing - Beginning with Axum
🦀 #rust
@tschundler@leds.socialYesterday @… had questions about Christmas Past. Reading replies reminded me: My first foray into wood work was when visiting a relative for Christmas.
I was 7 or 8, and we were visiting my dad's uncle Friedel in Lingen. We made some wooden ornaments, with a coping saw and dull chisels.
My dad still has an ornament I modeled after a lego set…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialHow to get rich in tech in 2026:
1. Vibe code a fake AI service integration to your favorite IDE.
2. Convince your employer to pay for the service/credits.
3. Start charging credits to your own usage.
4. Pocket the exorbitant cost of basic autocomplete
5. GET RICH BABY! 🤑🤑🤑🤑
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAnarcho-syndicalist trade unions are reconceived not just as bargaining bodies but as the basic cells of a future socialist society, simultaneously fighting capitalism now and learning to administer production democratically.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAlright, started work on the `av1an` module for my distributed encoding server. First up, getting a proper JSON format to set the command-line options. The schema is about 320 lines long, but it does lend itself to some nice data formatting. A basic encode "job" block looks like this and actually generates the appropriate command-line arguments.
```json
{
"source": "video.mkv",
"destination": "test.mkv",
…
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Retrocomputing emerges not only as a fun, recreational activity, but also as one with widely applicable skills, particularly for those working in sustainable computing, and those spreading its use in regions of the world where it has not yet reached peak maturity, and where refurbishing old hardware is an effective way to raise standards of living through computer tech. In this age of rising temperatures and rising oceans, reusing old computers is a very valuable skill."
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIt's wild to me how funding in our country works. Untold billions (if not trillions) for police and ICE. Billions in funding for the dumbest of AI ideas. But basic science? My wife is scrambling to get less than a million dollars of funding to do studies on heat waves that could help save millions of lives.
Remember heat waves? The kind of thing that will only become more frequent and deadly as we fail to curb our carbon emissions?
@brian_gettler@mas.toAs an historian of the fur trade in Canada, I think it's sort of perfect that the Thomson and especially the Weston families get the charter. Nobody performed the proud Canadian tradition of corporate monopoly over the basic necessities of life and knowledge of the outside world better or longer than the HBC.
htt…
@shriramk@mastodon.socialNew talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnest-…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI found a stash of mechanics and handicraft magazines from 1936-1949 - just 4 magazines. Heck some are scary 🙂
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A distributed systems reliability glossary.
https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/
saved 2025-12-03 https://…
@rachel@norfolk.socialI have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics
@servelan@newsie.socialAI Revolution: The Case for Universal Basic Income
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5713876-ai-displacement-and-ubi/
@rettichschnidi@swiss.social
@comex@mas.toI tried vibecoding again. Gave Opus 4.5 what I thought was a fairly hard assignment: generate a TypeScript compiler transform, using ts-patch, to let me mark functions with a magic decorator to make the compiler inline all calls to them.
It one-shot a basic implementation.
Getting to a higher-quality implementation required guidance from me – at times it had bad instincts – but when I gave guidance, it was competent at following it.
Overall, I'm spooked.
@aardrian@toot.cafeI’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf only there were some clue about why the Democrats keep losing to Trump…
…It couldn’t possibly be that denying the basic humanity of Palestinians and going all in on genocide doesn’t resonate with people who aren’t fascists, could it? https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/1156562588…
@datascience@genomic.social
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs
Basic Channel:
🎵 Mutism
#BasicChannel
https://open.spotify.com/track/3moYb5sN4MtjX7J4KkM7Dr
@ripienaar@devco.socialSigh and still bsky lacks even the most basic feature one needs to survive online midst constant outrage like timed mutes.
Still hoping for a bsky client from Tapbots but probsbly have to start looking at others.
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… "basic tech feels like a struggle" indeed 🙄
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no
@grumpybozo@toad.socialVoice authentication???
I would not trust the basic competence of any org doing that. Facial recognition is bad enough.
Part of this is that I’m whatever the voice equivalent is to face-blindness. I don’t believe that such a thing as a “voice print” can exist. I can tell the difference between Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but any more similar and I’m lost.
@scott@carfree.cityThis car was reportedly going 80 to 100 mph. That shouldn't be possible on a (sub)urban street. Every other commonly used consumer product has basic safeguards: you can't accidentally set your toaster to 2,000°F. Speed limiters in all cars now!
https…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaA good day is when I learn something new. Today I learned a small thing in AWK for IF statements. It makes the life of the team easier now as I can allow for multiple year checks on an input file. This coming December I can set it up to handle 2026/2027 dates without causing an error message like we received today. I knew how to do it in APL, BASIC, C, dBase, PASCAL, PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN, REXX, RUST, SQL and BASH. Never did it in AWK.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialA 5-year old boy should not be in a detention centre but at school (where he was), regardless the facts/circumstances. These are violations of basic human rights of children.
https://www.startribune.com/lawmakers-visit-…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialJosh Johnson is on tour, in London this week. Here’s some of his routine from yesterday. It’s about 40 minutes. The first part is his basic schtick, but please be sure to keep watching, listening, or skip ahead to 23:00 and watch the next 14 minutes. We think, “it can’t happen here.” It’s happening here, folks. He’s talking, of course, about #Minneapolis. And
@detondev@social.linux.pizzai keep hearing ppl complain abt my megathreads cuz on "akkoma" or whatever they take forever to load, but here on masto they just load lickety split. as the only woman here who isnt doing anything with tech imma need yall to explain how eugen managed to defeat transgenderism with regards to this very basic functionality
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…
@buercher@tooting.ch @cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is currently questioning the role of science in maintaining the nation’s health, economy and global posture.
Yet the NIH stands as a testimony to the conviction that science is good for society,
that persistent investment in basic research is essential to technological advances that serve the public interest,
and that our nation’s health and economy benefit from developments in biology.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI consider myself an anarcho‑syndicalist, and to stay true to that, I must be honest with myself and with others. I reject political parties and reformist trade unions because I believe real emancipation cannot come from institutions built on hierarchy or compromise. When someone joins a union that ties itself to a political party or to representative institutions, I no longer feel that we share the same basic ground. For me, any step into party politics, parliamentary games, or electoral st…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deFor right-wing people a basic concept is we against “them”. They are not against healthcare, but against healthcare for “them”. Not against the subsidized bus their mum rides but against busses for “them”. Not against grants for their dad's payments but against giving “them” money.
They are the ones God loves as they are righteous, but not “them” who are wrong. Jesus? Ok, Jesus may pity “them”, but only with a grin.
So when MAGA announced all the cuts the voters' minds re…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability
@outer@mas.toThis basic science advance was made with a rocket sled. (And math.) But rocket sleds are FUN!
#Science #PlanetaryScience #RocketSled
@jtk@infosec.exchangeLeaseweb's annual service price increase will be 3.9% in 2026. Outside of domain registrations and big contracts, not many basic #hosting providers do this on such a consistent basis.
It is not unreasonable to charge more to account for inflation on salaries, rent, energy, etc. However, as we all know, hardware gets cheaper and better all the time. Are these customers getting more …
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaI don’t usually post things like this - maybe due to a yearly sense of failure 😅 (by most conventional metrics) or alternatively a reluctance to rub it in if others have had even harder years. But I’ve come to think that not just private gratitude, but occasional public sharing might actually be beneficial. & so, having now dawdled / hedged long enough, here are some things I'm thankful for in 2025 😂 -
- Going from pain when using a mouse, playing keys, & many other basic &…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgThe Meris Polymoon is—by far—the best delay pedal I've ever come across, both sonically and in terms of feature set. Audio is absolutely pristine, the analog signal remains unaltered throughout, and as well as nailing basic tones there are no end to the creative possibilities. You can create presets, and you can run the whole thing via midi if you need to.
#GearSquad
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngNeither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…
![Syntax color highlighted TypeScript source code:
```
import {
cycle,
map,
normRange,
permutations,
str,
take,
transduce,
} from "@thi.ng/transducers";
// LUT size (number of samples per axis)
const N = 9;
// example curve of N samples in [0,1] range
// (the curve here is y = x^1.2, i.e. a basic darken effect)
const curve = [...map((x) => (x ** 1.2).toFixed(4), normRange(N - 1))];
// compute cartesian product to produce RGB tuples
const lut = permutations(curve, curve, curve);
// alt…](https://mastothing.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/645/234/959/322/403/original/b9dc6bcea2fe1257.png)
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukDay 2 of #freesoftwareadvent I use digikam for most photo management; and also it's sibling showfoto. digikam has a load of different photo tools, from the simple colour fixes, un-distortion etc - and simple album management - all the way up to some very fancy tools. It does the download from phone or camera great. showfoto is most of the basic tools but setup generally for …
@johl@mastodon.xyzOh, you want to know how we got to write the way we all do now in the distant future? That’s a fascinating question! Let us delve right into it! The basic ingredient is the Old Language — however, we added some small, but important details:
🔍 Using em dashes far more than the typical casual writer
As you may have noticed, this is because em dashes are over-represented in professional and published writing.
1/3
@ripienaar@devco.socialStill home alone. So set up my first real machine with my new CM tool yesterday.
Pretty good to see it working and doing what I want.
I sent nee Rpi to the house in Latvia and held off setting their OS up etc till I could do it with CCM and pretty happy with that.
Rpi need only basic OS setup so perfect fit
@teledyn@mstdn.ca @servelan@newsie.socialAn Illinois County Has Made a Guaranteed Minimum Income Permanent - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-cook-county-illinois-chicago-ubi-2025-11
@nelson@tech.lgbtIt's remarkable how much modern web page programming breaks fundamental things. Scrolling with spacebar or page down doesn't work. Or selecting text. Or doing Ctrl-F to find stuff on a page. All this basic functionality destroyed so some mediocre programmer can use a giant Javascript framework that isn't even necessary.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeCPR renewed for another two years.
Have I mentioned how much I hate bagging mannequins? If they made CPR dummies out of soft fleshy silicone instead of hard plastic they'd seal to the BVM so much better. 50% of the time I squeeze the bag on a dummy it leaks and I barely get any chest rise.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI wonder if one of the issues people have with unhoused folks w/smartphones; feeling a cognitive dissonance that someone with a pocket supercomputer but flailing for basic needs (food, etc)
And…yes those two things together are F’ed up.
Guess which one should be fixed?
(Spoiler: It’s Not the📱)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat’s disgusting is speaking to a Palestinian person in Gaza this way.
Maybe Mastodon server admins should check for basic humanity before allowing people on. Unless that’s not a necessary prerequisite for membership in your community, of course. https://lemmy.ca/comment/20336687
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net• Type Coercion: 0.041ms (32,600 ops/second)
• Basic Parsing: 0.133ms (16,900 ops/second)
• Large Payloads (10KB): 2.3ms (437 ops/second)
💰 Cost: Free plugin with negligible latency impact (<1ms for typical responses)
🎯 Scope & limitations:
• Fixes JSON syntax errors, not schema adherence
• Works for non-streaming requests only
• XML healing available on request
• Tool calling has few structural issues, schema adherence evaluation coming soon<…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeMatching Algorithm with Recursively Implemented StorAge (MARISA) is a space-efficient, fairly fast, and static trie data structure. MARISA serves as a dictionary structure, and by definition, it supports exact match lookup, which is the basic operation of dictionary. In addition, MARISA supports reverse lookup, common prefix search, and predictive search.
Thanks to @…
@cdarwin@c.imThe assumption is that one day large language models and other related AI technologies fostered by Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT actually will be a great and infallible productivity tool for genuine work.
It already is decent for providing basic overviews of highly-covered, well-sourced topics, even as hallucinations and sycophancy continue to dog the tech, particularly in situations where accountability is more critical.
Despite today's downsides,
many companies ar…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Exploring the fragmentation of Wayland: an xdotool adventure.
https://www.semicomplete.com/blog/xdotool-and-exploring-wayland-fragmentation/
saved 2025-11-21
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioNot linking to it, but why do news outlets keep amplifying “AI” propaganda from companies making chatbots without at the very least some basic vetting?
(No, statistical algorithms on calculators don’t have feelings. Never have, never will.)
@markhburton@mstdn.social"In his aping of Farage, Starmer is now contemplating a ‘review’ in the new year of how the European Convention of Human Rights — drafted by British lawyers to enshrine in law fundamental basic rights after the Second World War — is implemented in the uk. That is, watering it down."
As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
htt…
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"So there I was, finally grasping the reality of what you're up against, as a Windows user:
Random bugs that break basic functionality
Updates that install without permission and brick my system
Copilot and OneDrive ads appearing in every corner of the OS
Copilot buttons everywhere, coming for every application
Can't even make a local account without hacking the setup with Rufus (they even removed the terminal workaround)
Ze…
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialThe great thing about R is that if it can't do what you want out of the box, you can program it.
So I've just put 2-3 hours into programming that should be basic functionality, but is only accessible piecemeal in a dozen different incompatible libraries.
Now n <- n 1 incompatible libraries.
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialthe war in Ukraine is once again on the back burner while Putin’s basic needs are being aided by the US Government
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"This means Scotland rapidly expanding its own decarbonisation efforts not just to limit our need for US fuels but also to limit our need for fuels in general – if the civilised world follows then basic economics means that over supply and under demand will crash the price of oil and make it economically unviable for the US to do things like invade other countries for their resources" -- excellent point, @…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialHead injury. How does John Brooks not know this? Basic.
#LFC
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialBasic Instructions. Link in alt.
@cdarwin@c.imWhen school counselors must decide which children get to eat,
it’s time to acknowledge we’re in a national affordability crisis.
The problem is the economy itself
— not just its current condition, but the underlying unfairness of how it is organized.
A friend's elderly parents live near an elementary school not far from the nation’s capital.
For several years, they had been quietly raising money to provide groceries and basic supplies for families whose child…
@buercher@tooting.chDans un arrêt rendu le 19 novembre, le TAF vient d’en faire la démonstration en prenant position sur un recours contre la loi fédérale sur le renseignement (LRens), qui autorise de facto le SRC Š espionner massivement les Suisses, sans limite ni contrôle. Afin de respecter les droits fondamentaux ainsi bafoués, le parlement fédéral est invité, dans un délai de cinq ans, Š réviser sa copie, approuvée Š 65,5% par la population lors d’un référendum en 2017.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/autorisant-la-surveillance-de-masse-des-suisses-y-compris-des-journalistes-et-avocats-la-loi-sur-le-renseignement-devra-etre-revisee?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioYou'd think that Gracenote must be one of the oldest APIs still working but there's basic Internet protocols that are way older, like NTP or DNS
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialIs there a local home assistant that can do basic queries, timers, Internet radio (news), and weather. The pushiness of Alexa new voice is getting on my nerves.
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (Kyu-Seok Shim/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific<…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://lgbtqia.space/@dianea/115944820180442960
It’s not about the metric system.
We largely do not know our own basic units well.
For the lurkers: 100mm=10cm~4in.= pack of "100" size cigarettes. Those don’t change size like the S…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io…OK, that plus human training on basic usage opsec, but that’s mostly not a stuff app vendors can fix. Although usability defaults would help with some of it.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYour regular reminder that you can find the fundraisers of people from Gaza who are part of our fediverse community and donate to them directly to meet their basic everyday needs at:
#Gaza
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe only two development environments in the 90s that ever came somewhat close to this dream were Visual Basic and Microsoft Access.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115588696937650065
@cdarwin@c.imWe hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues.
And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies.
That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.
-- Bernie Sanders
https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115578233117718180
On second thought Internet Explorer 5.5 seems way too new for this laptop—I might reinstall basic Windows 95 again and only add Office '95.
Interesting though that it seems to run fine.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-mustafa-suleyman-weekend-interview/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIDK if you can’t make games without making unethical shortcuts (labor exploitation, never-ending crunch, AI plagiarism, etc.) because otherwise you’d need “300 people and 7 years”, maybe work on making games that are better?
A lot of the really big games of the last decades were initially made by just a few people with really great basic game loops.
@cdarwin@c.imBari Weiss gushed about the popularity of El Salvador’s president,
who describes himself as the “world’s coolest dictator,”
and how safe he’s made the Central American nation
– without noting he’s suspended basic civil liberties,
has been accused of making deals with gang leaders,
and has thrown thousands of innocent people in jail without giving them a fair trial.
Months later, on Sunday night, Weiss squashed a CBS News story on the treatment of immigran…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alReport Card
Israel, age: 77½
Excels at:
✅ Genocide
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Apartheid
✅ Racism
✅ Settler colonialism
Fails:
❌ Basic humanity https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115530516843421204
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…
@cdarwin@c.imWhen an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026,
what happened next looked familiar, at least on the surface.
Within hours, cellphone footage spread online and eyewitness accounts contradicted official statements,
while video analysts slowed the clip down frame by frame to answer a basic question:
Did she pose the threat federal officials claimed?
What’s changed since Minneapolis became a g…
@cdarwin@c.im
