☝️ "You could see a lot of jaws dropping. That’s not a strategy — that’s just hoping things don’t go bad.”
Long article about #signal, demanding moderation policies to avoid bad press:
https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging-employees-violence-misinformation
Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else?
https://velvetshark.com/articles/why-do-brands-change-their-logos-and-look-like-everyone-else
Occasionally, stories in "Humans of New York" make me cry a little: https://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/641197408909443100/before-she-passed-she-told-my-dad-that-she
They have an #RSS feed, I highly recommend subscribing to it. It reminds me of what's important in life. 🙂
Fun: Rope has health indicator (Link to reddit, sorry):
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/l0j4tc/the_rope_tells_the_truth/
I found a nice #blog article on covert contracts:
Work: “If I review your code quickly then you’ll make it a priority to review mine.”
Parenting: “If we do a fun craft then you won’t pitch a hissy fit when I say no candy afterwards.”
Friendships: “If I don’t make fun of your weight then you won’t make fun of my height.”
This high-res scan was fun to play around with indeed.
https://kottke.org/21/01/an-incredible-10-gigapixel-scan-of-girl-with-a-pearl-earring
#ipfs question: Governments can still try to take down individual nodes, just like they go after regular servers and #bittorrent nodes, right?
Sad to see how duolingo collects more and more ads and gets premium in your face.
I get it, they need money to stay alive but it's more than 6€ a month for yearly which is way more than it should be IMO. I should probably deduce 30% for Google/Apple tho.
Language learning is always expensive, I get it but with community-prepared courses and not super high quality lessons (for the most part) I can't justify it in any way.
"#Wikipedia is the first digital Wonder of the World"
That's a fitting title, I guess.
https://netzpolitik.org/2021/podcast-npp-219-wikipedia-ist-das-erste-digitale-weltwunder/
Hilarious: "Ivanka #Trump and Jared Kushner’s refusal to allow their Secret Service detail to use any of the bathrooms in their home forced the agents to look elsewhere in the neighborhood"
Lemmur ( a mobile app for #lemmy ) just had its first release! https://github.com/krawieck/lemmur/releases/tag/v0.1.1
Everyone who can please support their work via patreon : https://www.patreon.com/lemmur
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