salith @salith@computerfairi.es

“I genuinely believe Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history. It’s easy to attack them for being musically regressive: after all, they didn’t just Stop The Clocks, to quote the title of their 2006 best-of, but rewound them by 30 years. But the real problem is that they set social attitudes back even further.
…
It’s no coincidence that Oasis are the band of choice for flag-shaggers and Reform voters”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/stop-the-celebrations-oasis-are-the-most-damaging-pop-cultural-force-in-recent-british-history

#oasis #neanderthalRock

With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.

1. Open about:config in your browser.
2. Accept the Warning it gives.
3. Search browser.ml and blank all values and set false where necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as 0 .

Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

@hailey if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing

The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

Wonder how long till AirTags get banned because they can be used to track the scam that's called "recycling" and the other scams of the so called "free market" and "secure supply chain":

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycled

I just made @alice LOL

I have walked this earth for almost fifty years, and today for the first time I heard somebody refer to a phoenix as a "molotov cockatiel".

And sure, it's not new to the world, it's just new to me. But the world still has undiscovered joy and wonder in it, it can still surprise you, and I thought I'd mention that.

writer: "she quickly dragged a brush through her curly, thick hair"

me: she absolutely did not

TIL that people with disabilities that prevent them from using print books can get virtually any audiobook at no cost through the "Talking Books" program. I heard about it from a reference librarian with the Maine Digital Library, but it's a national US thing. And people with dyslexia are eligible.
#books #audiobooks #accessibility #dyslexia #libraries

That’s one of the reasons why I take it personally when people use “AI” models and cryptocoins. You are being complicit in creating the demand that is threatening to directly destroy the environment I live in. None of this shit would be happening if there wasn't demand so I absolutely do blame you, personally, if you are a regular user of either of these things

There’s a cost to these tools and you’re pushing it onto others like an asshole

So, fuck you and the AI-generated horse you rode in on

Point of Pride provides free chest binders (specially-designed chest compression garments) to any trans person who needs one and cannot afford or safely obtain one. They ship in the U.S. and globally.

https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders

#trans #nonbinary #transmasc #transmen

just found out that when you have a cropped image in a google slides presentation and you export the presentation to a PDF file, the PDF actually just uses the original image with a clip set on it so it's really easy to extract the uncropped version ??? this seems potentially bad, definitely not the behavior most people would expect