 A friend just pointed out: "ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA." Let’s do this. The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.
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  @mjg59 Interesting. So 'recall' still does the screen capture but the parts that are DRM'd just aren't visible? @mjg59 It is a hardware design decision that tells you where their priorities lie and who they are willing to protect. Most of the *people* in Silicon Valley, vote Dem. But most of the *money* in Silicon Valley, votes GOP. Some of these VCs sit around in online chat rooms with alt-right reactionaries and real life nazis. Some of them hold little public meetings, where they talk about ending democracy and great replacement theory. Some of them write books on why diversity is bad, and should be avoided. Most of them cheer on Elon's anti-woke, fashy push. And y''all are surprised that they support Trump? 4/N the MNT Pocket Reform Operator Handbook is out as a free PDF: https://mntre.com/documentation/pocket-reform-handbook.pdf edited and illustrated by @holo_memory and me, pixel tina graphic by @theawesomerandomness @mntmn @holo_memory @theawesomerandomness Love it. It is always great to see work of such quality and care. @mntmn @holo_memory @theawesomerandomness Is this right, that the left mouse button is not the leftmost button?  @mntmn @holo_memory @theawesomerandomness see this is why I love your company. Everything is open, now I really want to buy the handbook separately just to support your teams efforts. A platform for old Swiss prints. This is where I found a map for the corner of Zürich where I live, from 1925. So much green. @pvonhellermannn for me, the key reflection is that information is not what we’re lacking. I find that particularly hard to accept because my career is about providing information Seeing this game of Snake on automatic going up to 4160 points is mesmerizing. Interesting project on GitHub, by Jeremiah Cheatham: A game called "Yellow Snow", implemented in various languages. I was interested in the Gforth + SDL2 code but ended up unable to install it. I'm on Debian and sadly installing libsdl2-mixer-dev (which I need for this project) then decides to uninstall a bunch of stuff including some SuperCollider stuff that I want to keep. Very nice blog post on the hardware of the #CanonCat: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/refurb-weekend-canon-cat.html What I find interesting every time I read about it, is how close it’s conceptually to #Emacs.
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Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. But he only served 9 months due to a sympathetic judiciary and massive public outcry from his political supporters. If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, it should.
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 "Hitler fue condenado a 5 años de prisión. Pero sólo cumplió nueve meses debido a la simpatía de un poder judicial y a la protesta pública masiva de sus partidarios políticos. Si esto le resulta incómodamente familiar, debería serlo."  @shoq And that was not just some missbooking of hush money for a porn star, that was an attempted coup, people died, leftists doing the same thing would have been executed. So more like January 6th.  @shoq @patmadigan Trump has many more indictments to go. Our Court system should get those trials over with before the election. Trump is a convicted criminal and liar, but is he the most corrupt American who ever lived? America needs to know.
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 @davidrevoy : Merci David, ce genre de post est essentiel. Et tu pointes bien les problèmes de Wayland que les geeks en console comme moi ne voient pas (je ne sais même pas ce que c’est la calibration d’un écran). Au fait, bienvenue sous Debian !   @davidrevoy loved this article. I also installed #debian12 with #gnome but I may switch after reading! so apparently kyoto university lets students wear literally anything they want to their graduation and its best thing any university has ever done  It takes 20 tons of earth to make one gold ring. In a handful of soil there are more than 50 billion life forms. There are 5,000 handfuls of soil in one ton. 100,000 in 20 ton. 5,000,000,000,000,000 life forms poisoned by mercury and cyanide to make one gold ring. 80% of gold is for vanity. 10% is for speculation 10% for industry. Gold mining is environmentally devastating lots of reform parts and expansions now available at crowd supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform incl very good deals on a311d processor upgrade (rcm4-bpi) and standalone keyboard My next laptop will be definitely a MNT Reform. I love the idea, the hackability, that's it's open... and the fact that I can have one with a trackball!  Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works! You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!! They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape! |
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@tek OMG YES THIS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
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YES! this is a huge issue for me. ADHD diagnosis escalated my exhausted annoyance at flashing ads and wiggling UI elements, up to an indignant outrage at the arrogant robbery of my precious limited attention. it very literally impairs my ability to function with digital interfaces — and i'm an information technologist! i can't imagine surviving these days without uBlock Origin's element zapper rules.
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I've been calling advertising a form of psychological warfare for years. Can we get advertising executives and executives of ad-funded big tech charged with crimes against humanity and tried in the ICC?
It's too bad you can't try a corporation and give it the death sentence, because there's a good case to be made for doing that to advertising companies, including Google and Facebook.