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ProperDave

@anildash
@molly0xfff
This reminds me in the 90's when users in the UK couldn't sign up for AOL if they lived in the naughty worded counties like Essex or Sussex. How times have clearly not changed.

Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:

@anildash @molly0xfff @olivia

Somewhere inside Meta:

Product Owner: “Yeahhhh, so we apparently made it impossible to find people named Molly.”

Tech Lead: “I TOLD YOU!!!”

Alan Langford

@anildash @molly0xfff If your truth habit is affecting your life or the life of your family, help is available at Truph Social, where we can help you break the habit.

mikołajczyk, podobno

just as i was writing about moderation tools, i received spam that pleroma/akkoma MRF would have trivially caught but mastodon still doesn’t have the means to prevent

mikołajczyk, podobno

Just to illustrate how toxic #Germany “environmental” organisations became in EU.

#Poland branch of #WWF was just denied participation in parliamentary maritime commission based on a very simple - and unfortunately entirely justified - argument.

WWF was one of the organisations which since 2006 blocked Baltic pipelines based on marine protection arguments. They compiled a whole list of threatened species, including birds, marine mammals etc. Then in 2010 they suddenly made “out of court agreement” with Gazprom, WWF head Jochen Lamp became the head of a new environmental fund which incidentally received a 10 million donation from Gazprom. WWF withdrew all its opposition against Nord Stream.[^1]

In a similar way, Greenpeace Germany fiercely fought #nuclear power while having a daughter company Greenpeace Energy, which for years sold… Russian fossil gas in Germany. The company was very active on the lobbing front -it sued European Commission for approving public funding for Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, published fake reports showing nuclear CO2 emissions to be equal to those of brown coal (!) etc.[^2] The Greenpeace NGO had no problem with fossil gas, they just called it “transition fuel”, and in 2017 they even voted (!) to extend use of coal (!) until 2038. When asked about how support for coal plays with their environmental goals, they just posted a “dissenting voice” which was meaningless because it was non-binding - what was binding was the vote, and they voted for. When the Greenpeace Energy gas controversy was finally highlighted by the media, they simply changed their name to “Green Planet Energy” - they preserved all the legal links with Greenpeace, but they were less obvious under the new name.

[^1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-7-2011-004021_EN.html

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Planet_Energy#Fossil_gas_controversy

Just to illustrate how toxic #Germany “environmental” organisations became in EU.

#Poland branch of #WWF was just denied participation in parliamentary maritime commission based on a very simple - and unfortunately entirely justified - argument.

WWF was one of the organisations which since 2006 blocked Baltic pipelines based on marine protection arguments. They compiled a whole list of threatened species, including birds, marine mammals etc. Then in 2010 they suddenly made “out of court agreement”...

mikołajczyk, podobno

Plasma 6.2 is out — Welcome to the "Let's get Creative🖌️" edition!

Check out the inbuilt tablet configuration, improved HDR and color management, enhanced #accessibility, cool visual design upgrades, granular power controls, and much more.

kde.org/announcements/plasma/6

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

An artist and konqi painting the new desktop onto a canvas
Full screenshot of Plasma 6.2 with several utilities open: System Settings, Discover, and System Monitor
The color blind configuration page in System Settings
The power management widget showing power configuration
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reef

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
not saying i dont appreciate all this but maliit is such a rough experience without ctrl or meta its not even funny 😭
like i love that you're supporting artists but as someone who uses kde on his tablet its painful to have to reattach my physical keyboard just to undo something while drawing.

Micah

@kde @kde I absolutely love KDE's focus on creative apps and usability in the creative industry!

crimsonfall

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

I can't wait for this release to get pushed to Fedora! I'm eager to check out the tablet settings panel in particular!

To all the KDE devs, thank you! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

mikołajczyk, podobno
accessibility includes supporting old hardware, nobody has the same economical status as you to afford a new machine
mikołajczyk, podobno

Two-thirds of my life
Gone, like fleeting summer warmth
Nuclear fallout

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WordPress account, with me blocked
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Juliette

@rmccue WTF ? What did you say ? 😆

"With great power comes great responsibility".
It's unfortunate that some people just can't seem to handle that responsibility...

mikołajczyk, podobno
"The Matrix.org Foundation no longer requires "real" or "legally identifiable" names in order to contribute to projects."

uncommon matrix W
mikołajczyk, podobno

So… O’Reilly sent me email today hyping up how my books (really, just the one, I assume) is going to be AI-translated into Spanish and German, with other languages to follow. This was probably inevitable, but I still have concerns.

First: are there no human translators of these languages?

Second: who’s going to proof-read all 1,126 pages to make sure nothing got botched, especially given the technical nature of the content? The readers? Which isn’t even crowd-sourcing: it’s customer-sourcing.

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Waldo Jaquith

@Meyerweb We’ve done a lot of work on AI-assisted translation at U.S. Digital Response for the past year. It can make a good first draft for a translator, but it is in no way a replacement for a human translator.

Lisa L. Spangenberg

@Meyerweb Amd that's a terrible idea. I've worked on Help documents with a first pass translation done by a specialized deliberately-created-for-the-purpose LLM, and that's not bad, but it's still double checked by humans

Bramus

@Meyerweb We have machine translations for web.dev and developer.chrome.com and the results are often really bad.

The Dutch translation of my recent “Animate to height: auto in CSS” article translates back into something along the lines of “Animate on altitude: automatic with CSS” 😬

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socketwench

@Quinnypig It really smacks of the kind of blindly devoted faith that somehow their machine-god will not only save them from the rising tides, but allow them to remain moneyed power-brokers, doesn't it?

aeva

@Quinnypig it's like they turned their entire search engine into "yes and"

mikołajczyk, podobno

I'm super excited to be representing the Ladybird Browser project in the Open Source Zone at @github Universe this year! It's surreal to be listed alongside members of influential projects like Homebrew, Node and Kubernetes. Come say hi and pick up a sticker 🐞🤝🐙🐱

github.blog/open-source/10-pro

mikołajczyk, podobno

Servo Weekly Report Nº12
Here are a few highlights from the last week:

• Font performance improvements
• WebGPU canvas presentation improvements
• Support for size keywords is in progress
• Continued work on Flexbox support

Help support Servo, an independent web browser engine, and the health of the web ecosystem:

github.com/sponsors/servo
opencollective.com/servo

Servo Weekly Report Nº12
Here are a few highlights from the last week:

• Font performance improvements
• WebGPU canvas presentation improvements
• Support for size keywords is in progress
• Continued work on Flexbox support

Help support Servo, an independent web browser engine, and the health of the web ecosystem:

mikołajczyk, podobno

You’d think Meta would have learned the lesson of “engagement = good” after all these years

RE: https://www.threads.net/@pkafka/post/DAyiFI0P_-P

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