The snail pace that #Mastodon has when it comes to fetching replies/threads is really bad. Had to delete a few replies again because someone else had already posted the same answer hours before, but my instance hadn't fetched them yet. Le Sigh.
IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) the real question is: Why do browsers share all of this? (And it's not just Chrome. These are Web Standards, so all browsers share this) Why isn't there a simple option to say "Read-Only, send no data back except for which page I want to see"? The web is not we want it to be, IMHO.
To all the commenters explaining how to make this go away: That's not the point. At all. The majority out there has to deal with this stuff and they don't even know. That's what this experiment is about.
An EU-wide #RightToRepair has been adopted by the EU parliament with 584 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions. The directive now goes to the council and after it is officially published, member states have 24 months to implement it in national law.
What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? Well, @bert_hubert did just that. And it sounds like you are listening to an old school modem. Creepy stuff! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/
Could I kindly ask y'all to please add (paywalled) or ($) or (โฌ) when you post links here to content behind paywalls? It is really annoying to click through several "consent banners" and other popups, thus feeding gazillions of trackers with data about me, just to get the "to continue reading, please subscribe" message. #kthxbai
Gave my ticket to a good friend, so she will have a blast and that makes me happy too :) I will pump myself full with pain meds and hopefully get some healing and sleep.
There is no historic equivalent to what is happening with temperatures on land and sea. This is a horrific situation, IMHO. But we continue to make it sound manageable by talking about "record temperatures" which sounds nicer than "we don't know WTF is happening anymore, but we know it will lead us into dire straits".
My personal little mental health trick. I have a notebook and a pen at my bed. All the negative things, the moments where I felt bad for internal or external reasons, I collect them during the day and put them in the "will write this down this evening" bucket. In the evening I take my notebook and already 90% of what I thought belonged there has disappeared. The few things that make it are safely stored there. Every 31st of December I burn the book, unread. and replace it on 1st of January.
It's my version of what my grandma once told me. She said she has a bucket sitting right outside of the bedroom. Every evening she looked into the bucket and put all her negative thoughts in, so she could go to sleep without them. In the morning she would look in the bucket and see it was always empty. She shrugged and moved on. It's a simple trick, but it works for me.
(important note: my bedroom is free of mobile phones and computer screens. I had quite severe insomnia for many years and keeping the bedroom reserved for sleeping has really helped me deal with it)
It's called the BรD book because that ligature, though used in a wrong way, I know, somehow makes it feel nice to me :) Anyway, take this idea as it is meant to be. It helped me, I share it, maybe it'll help someone out there too. No need to tell me, no need to ask me more questions about MY mental health. I am fine :) Sharing is caring!
The important part is the mental "will write this down this evening" bucket. It means that I don't let out my anger in the moment. This allows me stay focused in the moment and react in good ways. It does NOT mean that I simply swallow everything that hurts me. I make myself aware that I DO feel hurt or negative. That's what the mental bucket is for. Over the years (yes, I had many BรD books) it helped me a lot in staying focused in the moment, knowing that my anger has a place to land.
This is a bit creepy. A day after I wrote this, a paper gets published with the title "Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57916-z
Because I see a lot of exaggerated posts. Yes, one of the 16 states in Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) announced a new policy to use more #OpenSource. They will switch from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice, from MSXML to ODF as base format. By installing Libre Office on their Windows Clients. The switch to Linux as operating system will come, but later.
This IS a bold move and I am a big fan. But letโs stick to the facts. Itโs a gradual approach, implemented in phases over quite some years.
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