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'Damning non-answer': Vance refuses to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
It's the start of the month and Hermes is handing out the money! 😉
"Grant Hipponax a cloak and a nice tunic
and some nice sandals and nice fur boots,
and sixty gold staters from the other [side of the] wall... [= from someone else's house]"
Hipponax, Fr. 32
🏛 Hermes or Mercurius bronze figurine with money purse, circa 2nd Century CE
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#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
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carry on solution hunting,
carry on doing all you can to protect your brain so you may help find solutions to protect others.
carry on seeking the right words to get to the right people at the right time, in and out of the system, perchance to sublimate a mend out of the loop of racketeering and anthrocide.
carry on waking individuals out of mass formation, carry on educating them, keeping them aware of the psychology of mass formation, how to avoid it, and how to help others avoid it too... because remember, they in the big club; they in the psychopathic circlejerk, they too are susceptable to mass formation, and are in, mass formation, as part of their psychopathic circlejerk. imagine we manage to wake them up to egalitarianism, respect, mutually due being fully informed, out of the manipulative dominator mindset, out of the dark tetrad personality... it's possible. we can still mend this. this is no time for spectator-sport loser's script.
every way we can.
everybody's responsibility to poke big brother in the eye, and educate themselves so they may educate others.
... even here, in the belly of the trust-buying honeypot thieltube.
... y'know we can have spaceships for everybody? zero point energy, zero inertia propulsion, and energy-matter transfer, are all technologies that can emancipate everybody, today.
ends of their evil/stupid oppression can happen big and fast.
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heh, that was met with:
Could you say less with more words? Could you be any less specific?
latf smh.
XD
pearls.
#Today
My today is just over 8 hours old.
And I've done my best... 😊
I struggled some with being social. Even though I replied to texts of friends, and I tooted, and even wrote some for my blog... I felt "disconnected". If that makes sense... 🤔
I've folded the laundry, just need to get it down and into the wardrobe and sports drawer.
I *finally* washed some manual dishes, that had been driving me bonkers since Sunday. But I kept putting it off. Not anymore! 😁
I have to call the vet about Arwen in a bit. I just love phone calls... 🫣 But this is for Arwen so it's a good cause. Hopefully they'll have some (affordable) meds that I can pick up soon...
I have to finish the laundry bits.
Have some food and another walk with Arwen.
After that, hopefully some gaming with a bushy-tailed friend! 😁
Busy day today. But also some time for relaxing! 🎮
*I'll be back!* 
🧚🏼♀️ 🍀 💜 🐾
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sending you lots of extra 🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄
And lots of *huggles* 🤗🕊🫂
Love the photo. 😃
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Ow glad you like it, it was just a quick snap to share with bestie. But I liked it so I shared it here as well. 😊
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Unfortunately, today, it's loads of noise... ☹️ I even had to take extra painkillers due to the headache the noise surrounding the house has given me. ☹️ So I'll do my best bit I don't know how much I'll be able to really enjoy it.
Hope you have a better day than me! 🍀
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“From the White House, Biden has dutifully performed various roles to prolong the suffering in Gaza and expand Israeli aggression into a greater Middle East war. These include the roles of frustrated ally to an unhinged maniac, dishonest statesman in ceasefire talks, and loyal arms supplier to a regime of war criminals.
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If Netanyahu is the monster in this ongoing nightmare, Biden is the mad scientist who keeps him alive.”
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📚Ce soir formation sur le syndicalisme révolutionnaire 🚩
Venez comprendre pourquoi le syndicalisme révolutionnaire c'est pas seulement des types avec de magnifiques moustaches.
📆Ce soir (mercredi 2 octobre)
⏰ 19h30
📌 Brest , ludothèque du patronage laïque de Guérin.
lol.
lmao.
“Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work”
The hilarity of him calling himself an artist.
'Scuse me, just got to find my violin. 🎻
I’m going with the OSI definition of “Open Source” here: opensource.org/osd. We both agree the term means the source code is available, so that’s good, but I call your attention to this section:
“The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.”
This does *not* mean that source code is “free to use for any purpose”; in fact, it’s the opposite: it means that the source code comes with a LICENSE (i.e. a set of restrictions on use). Some licenses (e.g. Public Domain) allow you to do whatever you want. Some others (e.g. MIT) allow you to do whatever you want as long as you provide attribution. Others (e.g. GPL3) carry a set of legal ramifications that you should talk to your lawyers about.
The only common things between these licenses is that you are able to view the original source code, which was my original statement.
My fellow human being, I have worked for several large software companies that I guarantee you have heard of, all of which will send down a meeting invite with lawyers the moment they THINK I’m reaching for a GPL-licensed repository. You are talking out of your ass.
Please, stop doubling down on this and ask a software lawyer about your position. You’re sadly mistaken.
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Ok Unreal (moteur de jeu 3D) c'est tenu par une grosse boîte (EPIC) et c'est un rouleau-compresseur, mais il faut avouer qu'au niveau technique ils sont balaises.
Là ils viennent de présenter la technologie "Megalights" et il faut avouer que c'est techniquement impressionnant.
sebsauvage.net/links/?oFg_4Q
Ben non, c'est le lien sur texte "Unreal Engine 5.5 Megalights - Tech Demo | Unreal Fest 2024 - YouTube". Il suffit juste de cliquer dessus.
Et l'URL est également re-précisée en dessous.
Mozilla's massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer
Mozilla's massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer - gHacks Tech News
Mozilla has removed uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox's addon store after a review found issues with the extension.Martin Brinkmann (Ghacks Technology News)
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As the article says, only when it blew up. But you're right, the author doesn't look good either.
More honestly, I enjoy a good conspiracy theory with my coffee.
Mozilla can't be trusted to host the addon, so the author is taking on the responsibility of hosting it himself. How is that his fault and not Mozilla's?
Whether Mozilla acted out of malice or incompetence is irrelevant. The report was false and the findings were incorrect, they have to be held responsible either way.
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As the article says, only when it blew up.
The article also seems to say that he didn't bother to disprove the mistaken findings and so Mozilla might've not even heard anything back until it blew up. The whole thing seems to have happened pretty quickly.
Promises from a for-profit company don't mean shit. How many times have you seen the "we've heard you and we'll do better next time" routine, only for next time to be the same or worse? They'd promise you the pissing Sun if it meant more dollar signs.
They're empty words. No company will put out a statement saying "we fucked up, we're sorry, it's going to happen again". Until Mozilla can prove through actions that the issue is fixed, Hill is correct in distrusting them.
I honestly see no purpose in
It's to circumvent ManifestV3.
This is such a storm in a teacup. Someone making the manual checks at Mozilla fucked up and the situation was quickly admitted. I don't know what else to wish, other than that the failure wouldn't have happened in the first place. Sucks that it did. Now what sucks is that gorhill doesn't want to do put it back but it is what it is, luckily it was just the Lite version.
While I like a juicy conspiracy and fuck the sytsems and all, I don't think they were lying when they said that they'd put the addon back if gorhill just resubmitted it.
I thought that was the shit Chrome was doing to block adblockers and antimalware plugins, if Firefox is doing the same thing what browser do we use now? 
I don't care about all the browser wars stuff, I lost interest when it was Netscape Vs IE, I just want a browser that I can configure fully myself and have it be as safe and secure as one can make it, within reason.
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This just makes me worried to rely on uBO but more because what if the author just fucks off because someone else pissed them off.
That is very concerning to me, also.
Large parts of the internet relying on one or two tiny one-man FOSS projects? (UBO and ADguard are often cited as the only two reliable-ish and safe adblockers)
If he can't be bothered with that nonsense, how secure is UBO's future? How secure is the future of adblocking?
I would bet that advertising companies are rubbing their hands now and planning to ramp up pressure against these poor devs.
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I know looking at it from the outside can look like throwing a fit, but as a software dev I can assure you our professional life is a constellation of papercuts and stumbling blocks on the best days. It is a fun job in many ways but it’s by its nature extremely frustrating at times. For professionals, the inherent frustrations are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, the rest of the iceberg being induced frustrations due to work environment causes of various nature, and a lot of devs who also develop stuff in their own free time do it to regain a sense of purpose and control.
If these kinda hiccups keep happening even outside the day job of a developer, it is absolutely understandable that the reaction is simply to cut the bullshit rather than grabbing yet another shovel to shovel away the shit you’ve been covered with this time.
Ultimately, the cost benefit analysis for keeping uBOL hosted on mozilla’s platform became skewed on the cost side and the additional expense is not one that gorhill can or wants to afford.
So, yeah, it’s not a hissy fit.
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That poor dev is just getting so much shit thrown their way constantly having a short temper about it makes sense. They are fighting against an entire industry to make the internet usable for people. I hope everyone who has the means to donates to support the ~~developer~~
Edit: donate to block list maintainers thanks to lemmyvore below for the correction
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The original ublock origin is unaffected
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Whatever comes after uBO will never be like the same old thing, but we just keep on going forward and fondly remember the nice things we used to have, thanking those that worked tirelessly so we could enjoy those nice things.
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The discourse about Mozilla is ridiculous, here and most everywhere. You've got people taking every perceived opportunity to attack them for things they do, things they didn't do, and things it's imagined they might've done. And then another crowd of equally determined people doggedly defending them for every idiotic blunder they make, such as this one.
Meanwhile Mozilla itself has nothing substantial to say. This is not the first time a prominent extension has mysteriously gone missing from amo with Mozilla telling us nothing about its role in the incident. @mozilla@mozilla.social needs to be in the discussion giving us a real explanation of what happened, why they got it wrong, and what they're doing to improve things.
The best I can think of is that the explainer language used to justify the extension's removal was just boilerplate language that got copy+pasted here because someone clicked the wrong button. But even that makes a mockery of the review process.
I think "oops clicked wrong button" would be slightly more defensible, but not by much. If they truly rejected the extension for content in it that it does not have, it's hard to see how a human could make that mistake even accidentally. But maybe there's something I'm missing.
Yep, which further highlights the problem: @mozilla@mozilla.social 🔗 mozilla.social/users/mozilla/s…
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m…).
Mozilla Social FAQ | Firefox Help
Mozilla.social will shut down on Dec 17, 2024. Download your data and migrate before then.support.mozilla.org
Performance wise they should be identical, what matters is how many lists you have enabled, etc. If anything, performance-focused list management will result in more performance with ordinary uBO. Either way, gothill is a legend
Edit: I'm wrong, apparently Lite can be faster on android after all
There's a dozen Firefox extensions that really matter, at any given time. Mozilla has never appeared to give a particular shit about any of them. Paying special attention based on popularity wouldn't be ideal, but for fuck's sake, their passive-aggressive treatment keeps burning out the developers who fuel their ecosystem, and it would take vanishingly little effort to shield their keystone plugins.
If their active neglect had ruined both uBlock and DownThemAll - I'm not sure I'd be using Firefox anymore, and I've been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox. Why the fuck would anyone normal even consider it?
A mid range phone, that doesnt feel like a mid range phone. My previous phone was Oneplus 6. Nothing 2a feels like how Oneplus 6 felt right at the beginning, at 30% lower a price. I'm loving the face down light only notifications, and the gesture navigation. Gestures means i can use my one thumb to scroll back and forth easily.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
It was a manual review conducted by an actual person that in the end admitted they were wrong
Good to know! I wasn't sure if it was automated or not. That's rough.
I thought that was the shit Chrome was doing to block adblockers and antimalware plugins, if Firefox is doing the same thing what browser do we use now?
They're doing a modified version of V3 that they changed to restore ad-blocking functionality.
It’s probably a coincidence that shortly after Mozilla acquires an ad company, they “accidentally” remove an ad blocker.
I mean I'm of two minds here. One, there's an epidemic of intellectually lazy, kneejerk Mozilla hate and it's time to turn the tide on that.
But on the other hand, even as a Mozilla fanboy I can see how this is a really bad look, and really indefensible. I think it's more of a huge error of judgment, and if there are other huge errors, I can begin to see a problem, but I think they have too much of a positive track record in their history to just go reaching for the tinfoil hats so quickly.
I don’t think throwing a fit and it being a hissy fit are the same thing.
~~the things people will debate online~~
edit: I beefed it on this one. They were being normal and I misunderstood. Note to self to think before typing in the future.
How is that his fault and not Mozilla’s?
Mozilla ruptured the relationship with bad judgment. Which is important when you're deciding to invest a lot of effort into something.
then someone with much more talent can step up, rename the plugin, and carry on.
The challenge is choosing the next maintainer user handle.
then someone with much more talent can step up, rename the plugin, and carry on.
The challenge is choosing the next maintainer user handle.
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Good choice?
Throwing a fit can mean getting angry. It being a hissy fit would mean the cause was something childish and not serious.
I'm not trying to debate it, if you look I'm the one who originally wrote the comment so I'm trying to explain what I meant.
Agreed. Especially considering uBlock origin is pretty much the main reason to use FF at all. They shouldn't be delegating reviews of it to someone who would fuck up this badly.
Assuming this wasn't a "test the waters" kind of thing to determine just how much they were reliant on ublock.
I've been using the main FF build for a while now but I'm wondering if I should start looking at the various fork options.
I dont get why you would run that on Firefox. Users will find the corrent one, all good.
Btw is the uBlock without Origin addon still there?
This one is completely on Mozilla. TBH I'm not very happy with their governance either. Stop spending money on bullshit and start working on the damn browser. Stop hassling devs like him who have had an immense contribution to not only open source, but your fucking browser's usage metrics.
I wish another browser standard comes up and we can say goodbye to this google-infested shit-bucket that is mozilla.
Ok, but "google-infested shit-buckets" are also Chrome and all the chromium poop cups, even more so one might say.
Not disagreeing, especially with the sad sentiment of what's happening at Mozilla, just trying to keep in mind the other 95% of the browser picture.
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I'd love a legit third choice (again)!
And he just leaves them hanging.
I'm referring to the users asking the questions.
Mozilla isn't google. They took it back and encouraged the guy to reach out in the future if any issues arise.
BFD, it's not like they banned his account, just one gimped extension that doesn't do the whole ad blocking experience and even then only because he didn't do anything to try and reverse it. Then after it's restored he throws his tantrum and removes it.
With all the extensions out there false positive detections of malicious apps are going to happen. Nobody has unlimited resources to hire boatloads of devs to review every single line of code of every extension for every update done. That's an insane expectation.
There is fairly substantial rumor that there may be a smear campaign against firefox lately because they are still supporting manifest v2, which our owning class does not care for.
Mozilla has made their fair share of stupid decisions lately, but they are still leagues ahead of Google, Amazon, and the other FAANG-type companies in ethics and trustworthiness. Definitely something to keep a pulse on, but nothing to throw the baby out with the bathwater over. And if it really bothers you, use LibreWolf/Fennec.
To be fair it's been less than a day, one of the great things about internet messaging is how asynchronous it can be, it's great for calming anxieties about needing to come up with a reply immediately like if you're on the phone or something x.x
You're right though, I don't reply to things often enough, partly because I'm very sick with COVID at the moment but also a lot of it is my social anxiety and fear of rejection.
I get so scared of what people might say that I avoid looking at the replies, even when I initially reach out because I want to interact with people and form connections ><
It's one of my big problems that I need to overcome, I'm still working out how to tackle it, but I do know it's a problem, and it's mine to solve.
Alas I can't afford things like therapy, so I just have to stumble around trying to figure my ADHD, possibly autistic (wish I could get seen for a diagnosis...), anxious, dumb ass brain out 😅
I'm sorry in the mean time for being a bit annoying, I don't mean to be on purpose 
Your username vintage balls reminded me of those little rubber balls we used to get at kids, I don't see them any more (maybe they're seen as too much of a choking hazard now?), so they feel kinda "vintage" to me now haha.
Those things could really bounce! I liked the semi translucent ones with the rainbow swirl patterns.
I'm not the best guy to ask for sensitive responses, but try to take my blunt and possibly obnoxious response in a positive light.
There are a lot of people saying terrible things on the internet, to the point where only the more aggregious ones stand out. Most things will be ignored or forgotten by most people, whether they were good or bad, but I appreciated this post, and you for putting it out there.
I was trying to make a lewdly suggestive comment about vintage balls leaving them hanging. Apparently it wasn't done very well, but it did have unintended and appreciated consequences.
Ahh, old hanging balls, gotchya xD
Yeah the medium of text can be tricky to convey meaning sometimes, I'm a pretty sarcastic person (gotta love using humour to cope with every situation, so healthy...) with a very deadpan kinda delivery on a lot of it, so I often find myself wondering if my intent came across well over text. Tricky indeed.
Anyway you're cool, and thanks for taking the time to reply so thoughtfully
Now, I'm going to go back to being drenched in a cold sweat! It seems that's today's COVID symptom roulette wheel choice! 💦☉_☉💦
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