Happy Ada Lovelace Day! 🎉
The Ada Lovelace Day goal is to "... raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths," and to "create new role models for girls and women" in these fields 👩💻
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Love…
#AdaLovelace #AdaLoveLaceDay #WomenInTech
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Related favourite #Mastodon feature: disabling boosts by a specific account.
Sometimes someone's regular posting is super interesting, but their boosting is overloading my timeline.
🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 60F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
The outer bands of Hurricane #Milton are now lashing the #Florida coast. The massive storm is even bigger than Helene.
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas might be visible, weather permitting, Saturday after sunset. #space
Red Sox ace Luis Tiant, who couldn't return home to Cuba for 4 decades after coming to the US to play ball, has died. He was 83. #MLB
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- adventure (22%, 26 votes)
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Nature is coming for America - UnHerd
#politics #society #environment #climate
The inference of this cautionary tale is perhaps that we’re all only as radically independent as technological buffers against the elements (and bears) make us. Radical individualism, ironically, works best in a context already pre-cleansed of the kind of material threats that require human cooperation and ingenuity to overcome.
Biden Can End His Failure in the Middle East—if He Listens to the American People
https://time.com/7071948/biden-us-support-israel-gaza-palestinians/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."
@zandra not directly, but to some degree because self-hosted wordpress still engages with wordpress.org for things like spam blocking and plugins.
However, if you are self hosted, you are not using WP Engine. So you are not on Matt Mullenweg's Enemies List.
ohh I see! my blog does use a ton of plugins so that’s good to know
also… yay for not having an additional enemy!😬
As an existing user, you'll probably be ok for a while. But when I tried to download and sign up for SimpleNote last year, I wasn't able to. They never sent me an e-mail when I tried to sign up so I assumed they had disabled new signups or something like that (IIRC; I haven't tried again since).
Sorry to potentially be bearing bad news.
Yeah it totally sucks since SimpleNote is the one product that they haven't truly enshittified yet but I feel it will be at some point the way it's going.
If you haven't tried it yet, I do like and have used Joplin a lot more. I sync it with my Nextcloud instance and it's cross platform plus it works so well.
joplinapp.org/
So I was reading this article (h/t @ernie)
404media.co/wordpress-checkbox…
and I hit this kinda jawdropper of, sorry to link the bad place, a tweet:
twitter.com/JavierCasares/stat…
Where someone describes being banned from wordpress.org for asking questions about the "affiliated with WP Engine" checkbox. Note that's a thread, which neither the 404media post nor probably the Twitter website will show you, and there are followups beyond that one screenshot. I assure you they were reasonable and calmly stated
It was very accessible for less techie people which is why it got so spread out - but as someone who just needs a website for portfolio/webcomic stuff I'd love to know if there's something else I could migrate to in the future.
@batichi If I had such an alternative, I would already be using it. :(
The two things I am currently looking at are:
- ClassicPress— fork of an older version of WordPress— since I have limited feature needs, may be attractive for less churn and less dependence on the wordpress company (?)
- Ghost— I know nothing about this— I just know everyone's recommending it
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ClassicPress looks promising but I don't follow the PHP development scene well enough to know whether to recommend it, how practical it is to port plugins, other issues?
They claim their codebase is 1/2 the size of current WordPress
@dmarti @james_inthe_box Welllllll
I mean, I haven't used a single WordPress feature intentionally since 2016. My experience with WP is every couple years I have to upgrade WordPress for security reasons, and the upgrade is a big hassle, and I'm unhappy with the changes.
So if this is just "Wordpress, but old, but with security patches", that's great, as "Wordpress, but old" is what I'd prefer, and maybe it'll even be more compatible with my theme
@devlord I don't actually know what JetPack is. I think WordPress tried to get me to install it last month but I didn't bite. Is it just a cache with html minification?
The things I make use of wordpress dot org for are:
- Akismet (essential)
- I install and upgrade versions/plugins using the wp-cli frontend, which uses the names and versions in the plugin repo (nice to have)
Everybody is talking about packing the Supreme Court, but what about also regulating it, as the Constitution provides? Senator Ron Wyden has a solution…
youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9…
⌛️ ÚLTIMO DÍA para firmar la Iniciativa Ciudadana #TaxTheRich que pide a la #UE un impuesto a las grandes fortunas para:
⚖️ Luchar contra la #pobreza y las desigualdades.
🌍 Frenar el #CambioClimático y financiar una #TransiciónEcológica justa.
Por la #JusticiaFiscal ✍️ 👉 tax-the-rich.es
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#Uvalde City Officials Releases Dozens of Missing Videos From Officers Responding to #RobbElementary Massacre
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The new material largely affirms prior reporting by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE detailing law enforcement’s failures to engage the teen shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers in 2022.
#News #School #Education #MassShooting #Students #Teachers #Parents #Police #GunViolence #Texas
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turns out that “good guys with guns” aren’t actually a thing stopping “bad guys with guns” at all, after all. Surprise!
It’s very hard to fix a society when it reaches a state of being so utterly broken.
Trump didn’t send Putin COVID tests.
Trump sent Putin Abbott test MACHINES!
This, while Americans:
- Lacked adequate testing
- Had no vaccine
- Faced a crumbling healthcare infrastructure
- Watched as the Trump administration intercepted state-purchased COVID care
At best, he's guilty of negligent homicide. But more accurately:
TRUMP
IS
A
TRAITOR.
It’s time for real consequences!
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I think it’s important that this be shared as widely as possible so that, in the future it will be harder to say, as so many did post-Holocaust, “but we didn’t know”.
I agree that the information in the article is important and should be as widely available as possible.
Unfortunately, the NY Times paywall is preventing this. Here's a link that does a reasonable job in removing that restriction and making the article available to anyone, anywhere, with a web browser.
I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total.
-Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
Comment le festival de Cannes façonne le cinéma — Cinéma Et Politique
youtube.com/watch?v=iKJDsUDzVk…
#vulgarisation #éducPop #cinéma #politique
An Ohio court has declined to issue arrest warrants for Trump and JD Vance for their remarks about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield.
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You can add wireless controller support to the NES through its unused expansion port
RetroTime’s NES Hub brings Bluetooth to Nintendo’s classic console with an easy DIY upgrade.
Scientist’s ashes dropped into hurricane Milton’s eye as final tribute
Hurricane hunter Peter Dodge's last flight into the storms he spent his life studying.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…
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