Notices by Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org)

2019: Black Friday discounts!
2023: Black Week, seven days of deals!
2027: Black Month, November's shopping spree!
2030: Black Year starts now, 365 days of discounts!
2033: BLACK CENTURY HAS BEGUN, SHOP COMPULSIVELY UNTIL YOU DIE!

@MsMadLemon wonderful stuff ❤️

This is shockingly accurate

I've been routinely complaining about how antiquated traditional Unix APIs are, and honestly, they are antiquated. But in the past few weeks I had to deal with traditional Win32 APIs and boy, oh boy.

I'll pick Unix stuff designed in the '70s over Win32 EVERY SINGLE DAY.

@cederbs I'd post some facepalm meme here but no amount of facepalming would be enough

This is very interesting: small, vertical solar panels are more suitable to harsher climates (both colder and hotter) than traditional large panels. As with everything renewable, when you hear someone telling you that X is unsuitable because of Y, remind them that a lot of these things are just technical problems, and we're deep into the 21st century so we can solve those. It's the political and economical forces that are pushing back hard, not technical limitations.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/08/norways-national-football-stadium-has-the-worlds-largest-vertical-solar-roof-how-does-it-w

Mainstream media in Europe is having a meltdown over the relatively slow growth of electric cars and it's so silly because it's such a car-centric POV. Sales of electric bikes, mopeds and microcars have been booming. So the transition to electric vehicles is actually going fairly well if one realizes that there's life outside of the auto industry.

I bought a kids' encyclopedia for my children because it's impossible for them to find reasonable explanations for a lot of fundamental topics on the internet. Wikipedia is way too verbose, and search engines only regurgitate sludge and SEO garbage.

It's incredible how the Internet started as a place where you could find *anything* and turned into this decomposing amorphous mass where you can find nothing at all.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell yes and they even have a kids version, but it doesn't help if you're not a native English speaker (and my kids aren't)

My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.

We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics in #Firefox: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers, etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.

And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/6271288/

#GetFediHired #FediHire #Hiring #JobOpportunity

@anderspuck could the current push in Donetsk be a result of the realization that they won't be able to sustain the war for longer? Are they throwing everything they have at the front in a last ditch effort to obtain measurable gains knowing they'll have to dramatically scale back their military operations soon?

Remember to donate to your instance if you can afford it. You'll help keep this place running, free of ads and available to everybody.

The minute the Ukrainians design a weapon with the required range and precision to kill Putin, they'll use it. They'll blow him up to smithereens and dance in the streets. And they surely won't ask our permission to do it.

As the West debates whether we should let #Ukraine use western weapons to strike deep into Russia, the Ukrainian armed forces struck an ammunition depot 766 Km from the border, and caused an explosion so large it registered as a magnitude ~2.7 earthquake.

https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/113157771123895403

Thousands of people drown in the Mediterranean every year, looking for a better life, and nobody cares.

Now a few extremely rich people go down with their luxurious boat and we have to hear about it from every single news outlet, several times a day for several days over.

Fuck this society that has nothing but disdain for the poor and empathizes with the rich.

Andrew Tate involuntarily posted the best pro-vaccination ad ever.

@malwaretech Firefox has a blocklist that stops a number of buggy versions of those DLLs from being injected into the browser, and we spent even more time working with the vendors to get them to fix their bugs 🤷

I'd like to clarify the origin of the accusations against #ImaneKhelif because I don't think most people realize where they came from. The vitriolic mix of of misogynist, transphobic and racist insults against the Algerian athlete started days before the match, largely on Italian papers belonging to far-right politicians and businessmen. Here's a few examples from late July (English translation of the titles is in the alt text). 1/8

The reasons why it's bad are rather obvious: most ad networks know more about you than yourself. Google in particular has an incredible view of your life, they probably know more about you than yourself, because they meticulously tracked and stored every interaction you had with them for as long as you've been online. 4/11

Firefox is currently made of 30 million lines of codes. Just running the test suites on a server costs a ton of money. You have to pay everybody's salaries, including the security people who are on-call 24/7 to respond to 0-days and similar security incidents. You have to pay for Sync storage and processing, you have to pay for download bandwidth, heck we need several people to deal with accessibility alone. 8/11