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โ€˜I signed up for new ad-supported accounts on Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu and watched all the ads on 12 popular shows โ€” two on each platform โ€” and wanted to quantify was exactly how much of my viewing went to ads versus the program itself.โ€™

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You enter a dusty, pink room. There is a CHAIR near the window. You see a RUBBER DUCK here, in the window.

Exits: SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST
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GRAVY-EYED. Blear-eyed, one whose eyes have a running humour.

A selection from Francis Groseโ€™s โ€œDictionary Of The Vulgar Tongueโ€ (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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The Anti-Social Century


Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. Itโ€™s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.


Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support

Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkanโ€ฆ





I'm baffled that the Linux Foundation is supporting Google-based browsers, but it is.

Apparently the idea is to broaden the ecosystem, but I don't see how anyone but Google benefits from this in the long run.

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in reply to Dan Gillmor

Why baffling? It's a corporation, partly run by Microsoft. The board find ways to profit from open source projects.


I think we know what comes next #Meta

โ€œMetaโ€™s head of civil rights is leavingโ€

theverge.com/2025/1/10/2434114โ€ฆ

#meta
in reply to Pete Gontier

@integerpoet I predict Meta isnโ€™t going to experience user flight, because there isnโ€™t an alternative like Mastodon or Bluesky that can give people an equivalent experience.
in reply to Dave Rahardja

Also true. But they might not flee anywhere but television and, I donโ€™t know, hanging out in meatspace? Because I didnโ€™t flee Twitter on principle. It just took Lonny putting it onto a worse trajectory in the weeks following purchase to wake me to the fact that the experience had already been too close to a net negative in my life for too long. if Mastodon hadnโ€™t existed I would still have bailed from Twitter.
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The only Democrat whom Trump and the Republicans have any use for is one who is completely subservient to them.

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Biden leaves behind a remarkable legacy in public health byteseu.com/640935/ #EverythingScience #Science


โ€œWhen an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong was admitted to a hospital for a condition related to an enlarged prostate, doctors noticed something elseโ€”he was oddly gray.

His skin had an ashen appearance. His fingernails and the whites of his eyes had become silvery. When doctors took a skin biopsy, they could see tiny, dark granules sitting in the fibers of his skin, in his blood vessels, in the membranes of his sweat glands, and in his hair follicles.

A blood test made clear what the problem was: the concentration of silver in his serum was 423 nmol/L, over 40 times the reference level for a normal result.โ€

arstechnica.com/health/2025/01โ€ฆ




Topics in the latest edition of my "Cornerstone of democracy" newsletter include:

-- While Trump cultists lie about wildfires, a nonprofit acts
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-- Difficult, not hopeless, times ahead
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"Difficult, not hopeless, times ahead"

I can do difficult. I always have. I hope this is true. I think all we can do is a little each day. Think about how each action can have further effects.

I've been doing this. It's been building bit by bit. But I'd really like to find some good ways to volunteer more.

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vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/01โ€ฆ

#verblog #desktop #freebsd #laptop #linux #macos #pkg #resume #windows




How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch byteseu.com/640933/ #Technology


OK, after a long hiatus I managed to spend some time to write a small piece about how to package Python libraries as RPMS using Mock and PODMAN. It's being reviewed, will share the link once is public.

In the meantime, a sneak peak of the article cover, I took this photo while visiting Campo Marzio in Rome, Italy.

#rpm #python #photo #rome

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