Notices by αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎ (axx@mstdn.fr)

It's mildly hilarious when some people insist that you should teach toddlers that they can't get everything they want and let them get distressed and cry when there are many +40 year old adults that have never managed to learn that, or flatly refused to.

Despite having the brain scaffolding to self-regulate emotions.

Unlike toddlers.

This is the dark theme in @libreoffice. I kid you not.

It turns the background of the page black, but does not change the colour on font in which you type to a light (despite it being set to "automatic"), so you type black on black. Genius.

Also, uhh, the theme isn't dark, in case you weren't sure.

@crowdagger Je crois que dans une large mesure, ce sont des restes d'un temps où on envisageait largement plus ces sites comme des plateformes, plus ou moins neutres (mais qu'on est nombreuses à avoir critiqué depuis longtemps évidemment !) que comme des extensions de leurs propriétaires.

Et pendant un temps, probablement qu'elles l'étaient.

Servo, the web rendering engine started (and then abandoned) by Mozilla is alive and well, after looking essentially dead for a few years.

Custody has been taken over by the Spanish crew over at @igalia and the project is now under the auspices of the Linux Foundation.

https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/

The European Union should be funding this work. frankly.

@pluralistic Good to hear. Hope the campaign goes well!

@pluralistic Looks like this part of the Kickstarter page could use some help Cory :)

In case you ever worry that your organisation's IT skills are not up to standards, Microsoft has been unable to provide downloads of Windows VM for over 3 weeks now: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

This is a company with a 228 000 employees and a yearly profit of 88.1 billion USD.

@quinn I'm half baffled, half angry at the replies to that article.

The level of denial and entitled anger is staggering. Mostly no actual answers and arguments, just variations on "how dare you?" and accusations that let one think that if they read the article, they didn't understand it (even the simple parts).

Can we start a petition to dissolve Missouri ?

Look, the death penalty is idiotic, barbaric and inefficient.

And on top of that, it's infuriatingly, evidently wrong to kill a person that you have doubts might be guilty. But when they are in fact most likely innocent?

The only way it can make sense is if this a form a group punishment, where any member of a given group (a class or supposed race) can be picked and killed, as an example to others.

Stop anthropomorphising AI and Large Language Models.

Start anthropomorphising pigs, cows and other sentient beings rather than paying to have them killed and cut into parts.

How To Geek praises @thunderbird with latest release: https://www.howtogeek.com/thunderbird-is-my-favorite-linux-email-app-again/

Les Français : comment ça « un pays de racistes dégénérés » ? C'est proprement scandaleux !

Également les Français : allez, venez, on vote pour le parti du type qui dit croire en l'inégalité des races, banalise et rit de l'holocauste et pratique la torture durant la guerre d'Algérie !

40 % des Français étant allés aux urnes : OK !

La RATP : Mobilité pour tous, on fait plein d'effort pour l'#accessibilté de notre réseau depuis 30 ans !
https://www.ratp.fr/accessibilite/accessibilite-des-reseaux

Également la RATP : Voici toutes les infos sur votre station. On vous a même mis les commerces ! Hein, l'accessibilité ? S'il y a des ascenseurs ? Pourquoi on mettrait ça sur la page avec toutes les infos sur votre station ?
https://www.bonjour-ratp.fr/stations-metro/strasbourg-saint-denis/

"In fact, the #Gaza solidarity encampments on campuses are student-organized and led, with Palestinian students at front and center, and a disproportionately large presence of Jewish students too. It is students, over 1,000 of them, who have faced arrest."

We should all be proud of these kids.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

I just remembered how great Amarok (the KDE music player) was, and how much it fell from grace after it reinvented itself (badly) for v2. It's now so abandoned it has seen two releases in 5 years, last one 2 years ago, and it's Vision page is 404 http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Vision Sad stuff.

I never tire of reading about the absolute shipwreck that is Uber.

"Uber also covertly operated the microphones in its drivers' phones to listen for the chimes the Lyft app made: drivers who had both Lyft and Uber installed on their devices were targeted for (strictly temporary) bonuses."

Wonderful. More generally, as @pluralistic puts it Uber "invented algorithmic wage disrimination, an exciting new field of labor-law violations".

(from https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy)