Matthias Schmidt @_xhr_@mastodon.social

Komm auf die helle Seite der Macht: Der BfDI such technische Referentinnen und Referenten https://www.bfdi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Stellenangebote/hoehererDienst/technische_Referenten.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3

Ålesund, #norway
This is the spectacular view from the top of hill #aksla, which can be reached via 418 stairs.
#photography #travel

There's a new "experimental feature" being tested in Firefox 83: sponsored sites in the URL bar.

"Mozilla works with advertising partners to place sponsored tiles on the Firefox home page (or New Tab) that would be useful to Firefox users. Mozilla is paid when users click on sponsored tiles."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy

You can disable this by setting `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites` to `false`.

Found via https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jybx2w/uh_why_is_firefox_showing_me_sponsored_links_in/

#privacy

Two decades ago, people would think I was cracy if I said that by 2020 people would love to give their private data to numerous ads (and surveillance) companies.

The data are:
1. Contacts,
2. Phone logs,
3. SMS,
4. All of the data saved on cloud storage (think Google Drive),
5. Browsing history,
6. Email (think Gmail),
7. Camera on their phones,
8. Health data (think Google Fit),
9. Schedule (think Google Calendar),
10. Family photographs,
11. Real time locations,
12. And numerous others.

Artwork by Wenqing Yan aka Yuumei
https://www.artstation.com/yuumei

You say "procrastinating", but I hear "doing side quests".

So This DevTerm from Clockwork Pi appears to be everything I could have wanted out of a #cybredeck when I was 14.

Design inspired by the Tandy 102, but slightly smaller. Screen the same basic aspect ratio as the HP 200 LX, but with modern connectivity and USB.

It'll run DOSBox, it'll run DVTM and all the various terminal apps I need.

The screen ain't sunlight readable, like my Omnibook, but ... I wonder what the bat life is like.

https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm

Pfff, websites can't control me, that's ridiculous...
https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/16/google-gives-gmail-users-new-controls-for-data-used-to-personalize-smart-features/
#google #autocomplete #ai

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RT @lorengrush
It’s an unbelievably sad day for the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. After two major cable failures, the telescope is on the brink of an uncontrolled collapse and the NSF has decided to demolish the structure. https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21575025/arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-decommission-structural-collapse-cable-break?utm_campaign=lorengrush&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://twitter.com/lorengrush/status/1329462749114617857

If you're having a bad day, if you're listening to those old songs and maybe feeling a little lost, then at least know that there's still a Flabellina affinis out there, hidden away on a shipwreck, out there for you. #weloveslug (One of the few living Fl. affinis to be found on the island, #techdiving today on the Faroud.)

@bclindner
1995: "The internet sees censorship as damage, and routes around it."

2020: "One shitty company had a bad day, now nothing on the internet works."

Ah, progress.

AGAIN

npm program downloading binaries over the internet.

It Fails on OpenBSD because it assumes a openbsd-x64.tar.gz file is available on a remote server. Even if it was there, OpenBSD breaks ABI every few months so this is a poor solution. When you use npm, installing a compiler is peanut, why download a binary from the internet???

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: 404 status code downloading tarball https://node-webrtc.s3.amazonaws.com/wrtc/v0.4.6/Release/openbsd-x64.tar.gz

NO KIDDING

The Nethack story of Sery the tourist

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-11-15-nethack-Tou-Hum-Fem-Neu.html

#nethack #games

@solene

Mind blown, I never realized this coincidence:

You can use the next number in the Fibonacci sequence (1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34) to convert from miles to kilometers.

For example, 13 miles is 21 kilometers.

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