purlupar @purlupar@mastodon.social

#Firefox 88, for some reason, has turned on JavaScript on its own PDF viewer by default (it was disabled on past releases)

to disabled it just open about:config, type "pdfjs.enableScripting" and change to false

#Merz - Wenn ein Mann von gestern verbissen anfängt, die Sprache von gestern zu verteidigen, weiß man, dass das morgen bereits begonnen hat. Gut so. Gendergerechtigkeit braucht mehr als die Alleingültigkeit des generischen Maskulinums leisten kann.

Me doing some coding XD

Communication
Over
Video
In
Distress

#COVID

Good night

Every single zoom meeting with friends - Karolina Żebrowska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFnqaQozJ8

Ich hab mir bislang dazu nie Gedanken gemacht aber eigentlich sind die Begriffe "Sommersemester" und "Wintersemester" unpassend.
Korrekt wären "Frühlingssemester" und "Herbstsemester", wenn man es genau nimmt ... 🤔

I'm reading a novel from 1999, when CRT screens needed screensavers to avoid burn-in.

"The thought's occurrence had nothing to do with logic; it appeared like a screensaver on the surface of her mind, whenever her mind went blank."

Pro tip: If you want an #AI to classify benign/shady content, just scrape news websites. Everything in the "Sponsored Content" section is shady #scam for sure. You can also use it as free training material to teach people to recognize #spam email.

Impressionist reflections on a frozen canal

Since end 2020 @Facebook@twitter.com banned linking in FB posts to https://delta.chat stating "violation of community standards". Multiple people filed complaints but nothing happened, no responses, no explanations, nothing. Please help (RT/like or comment how to proceed). Thanks!

This is kind of a subtoot becasue I can't find the original toot I wanted to reply to, but:

Social media isn't bad for you. The info I got from _some_ yt channels, _some_ people on reddit, hn, tildes, and now here on masto, ofc along with a lot of other experiences, reading, and thinking, has had a significant impact on my life. Learned a lot of study topics that way, yes, but also, I got to witness so many realities different from mine. It opened me up to the whole world and taught me 1/

"Copenhagen is Great ... but it's not Amsterdam"

"Because once you Copenhagenise, it's time to Netherlandsise!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjzzV2Akyds

Midtown Madness 2 (2000)

@juliobiason well played.

Then again... literally the name of the next year is "2020 won", so perhaps it's time to cut our losses.