Notices by aerique (aerique@genart.social)

@jk I think they have orders from their overlords at Google to actively sabotage Firefox so there will be only one browser (engine) left.

@cwebber The one you brought with you to your talk in Amsterdam was not the Pocket version, right?

@nikitonsky I've also been using my own restrained theme for ages now: https://codeberg.org/aerique/emacs-theme-aerique#emacs-theme-aerique

Another important aspect of what restrained themes do is partitioning the code into easily scannable pieces.

@val @artemis I wonder when Google will try to install rootkits on people's machines through exploiting yt-dlp.

@cwebber You might get more reactions if you tag this with "Lisp".

Attended a great talk yesterday at @dedependance hosted by Nuria Ribas Costa with @Mer__edith and Evelyn Austin (@bitsoffreedom) about #Signal, AI and Europe's "Big Tech Initiatives" (amongst other things).

They had an interesting perspective on how Europe can catch up on the US with regards to Big Tech, "the cloud"¹, hyperscalers, etc.

Their perspective was: should we even want this? Should we want to copy the US's Big Tech template and perhaps end up like them?

¹ such a dumb term

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@skinnylatte For me, as one of those white people mentioned in this thread, it's more about "not yet another appliance my kitchen is full enough as it is!".

But I just throw rice in boiling water like pasta and taste it every few minutes until it's ready while preparing the rest of the meal 🤷

@taylan Right, I get your point and I perhaps should not have used a different label for Tori in my original post.

Do you want me to change it or just keep it as it is with this thread attached as clarification?

@taylan So either you misinterpreted what I wrote or I am indeed using the wrong terms.

What I tried to convey in my original post is with the recent news of Neil Gaiman, someone whose writing I enjoyed a lot, I only need two more people from my past that I admired to come out as awful people.

I was not saying Tori Amos is a "terf" at the moment.

Does this clear things up or do you think I should not use the term at all?

Reading your post above I am not clear on your opinion of that term.

@taylan No.

After Neil Gaiman I just need Tori Amos to come out as terf, Maynard James Keenan a nazi and my collection will be complete.

@screwtape @mdhughes @Ardubal @simon_brooke @amoroso A Dutch version: Als bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen, bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen? (in Bergen?)

@mcc @jbo I was disappoint when we couldn't put widgets on the lock screen anymore. I like having my calendar in an unavoidable place so I do not forget things.

(Yes, I know about mods and widgets on the homescreen. #SailfishOS also fixes this for me.)

@JessTheUnstill @jonny Wow, this thread keeps on giving.

@deshipu @technomancy I'm not a billionaire asshole¹ so I don't know. I've also not given it much thought but if you don't expect the worst, I don't really know what to say.

Look at Jabber / XMPP²: we could have had an open protocol and a wealth of different clients but we're stuck with WhatsApp³ in most of the world and whatever the hell the US uses.

¹ just a regular one
² yes, I know XMPP still exists but who uses it?
³ try using an non-iOS or degoogled phone, see how that goes

@deshipu @technomancy If it grows and becomes popular it'll be a threat to them.

I hold no love for Facebook but they've been pretty good at identifying threats early and taking care of them. For example: Instagram and WhatsApp.

@Mehrad @drewdevault @jacksonchen666 Same for me. After reading up on the history of sign language it is understandable but it /is/ a pity.

Funny thing, there's signs for a word in one language that are offensive in another culture.

@technomancy are you with us through VPN?