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ColleenDoran , to random
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SNOW GLASS APPLES Currently 41% off! https://amzn.to/3ubvTxG By @neilhimself adapted by me, letters by Todd Klein, published by @darkhorsecomics

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Rita89 , to random
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When I woke up, I saw it in my IG. Wonderful news, @neilhimself ! 😍❤️😃

davidboatymcboa , to random
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Fantastic news our winner has now come forward to claim her amazing @neilhimself copy of 🌟STARDUST🌟 the book will soon be winging its way to her along with my congratulations and thanks!

Now we begin all over again with Coraline!

https://raffall.com/348260/enter-raffle-to-win-numbered-edition-of-coraline-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

mitchw , to random
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.

“So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/

thomasrenkert , to random
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🤖⚔️
@fnieser.bsky.social und ich haben gebaut. Ein , das auf Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1basiert, und das mit mittelhochdeutscher Literatur finetuned wurde.
Bisher noch Proof of Concept, aber demnächst vllt im Schulunterricht?

thomasrenkert OP ,
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perhaps interesting for @histodons as well...

jda , to random
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Morning Mastodonians!

Hockey is a funny game. Before the puck drop, my D said to me "You're going to see a lot of shots.". And it did look like the other team had 3, maybe 4, of the best players on the ice. But instead, we crushed them, 7-1, and the lone goal I gave up was a bouncer from the second line I should have had. We worked hard, but still, I would have never guessed. I wasn't even stressed too often. Funny how that works out sometimes.

jda OP ,
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@nnscott @bookstodon @books oh, that sounds interesting! I read Claire Tomalin's wonderful biography of him but I've never really read any of his books.

nnscott ,
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@jda @bookstodon @books You know more than me, having read the bio, but I understand that Dickens started as a police reporter and his early works: Sketches By Boz, Oliver Twist and Pickwick Papers, all benefit from some "reading between the lines" as he alluded to things he knew that he couldn't write straight out. Thomas summarizes long works like Mayhew's London Life, reports of vice committees and so on that illustrate the congested, abusive and creative London Dickens found so fascinating.

andrew , to news
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"Since April 2021, the FDA has received more than 116,000 MDRs, including 561 reports of death, reportedly associated with the Phillips CPAP machine foam breakdown."

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/update-certain-philips-respironics-ventilators-bipap-machines-and-cpap-machines-recalled-due

@news

user0 , to random

Mobile-Friendly-Firefox Updates:

End of the year features & fixes!

  • Modified userContent.css:

    • set page background color to match fenix_colors.css, fenix_one.css, and fenix_one-alt.css
  • Modified fenix_colors.css, fenix_one.css, and fenix_one-alt.css:

    • optimized colors to better support styles that do not hide the tab bar: desktop and mobile styles, as well as all styles while using larger screen (lapdock, monitor, or tv) including laptop and desktop computers
  • Modified install.sh:

    • optimized logic: only attempt to create backup on first run of install.sh script
    • added new user selection option for applying recommended preferences to user.js
    • fixed typo preventing dynamic_popups_max.css from being applied
  • Modified uninstall.sh:

    • optimized logic: only continue with uninstall if at least one chrome directory has been located in selected browser profiles
    • added logic to remove added preferences from user.js if present
  • Modified README.md:

    • added note to pre-install section about applying recommended preferences with install.sh script

user0 OP ,

@justin

Thank you for the interest. I will start adding screenshots in the new year, very soon. I have taken several, but I still need to decide which ones to use and how I'm going to organize them.

user0 OP ,

@justin

I had added lots of screenshots, but the repo ballooned in size and took too long to clone. So I completely removed all screenshots and opted instead to link a screenshot that I posted to the Purism forums. I may add some more in the future, but I don't want to clutter the README.md with too many images. Sorry if that's a let-down.

user0 , to random

Mobile-Friendly-Firefox Updates:

Screenshots! Well, not quite. I had added lots of screenshots, but the repo ballooned in size and took too long to clone. So I did a git rebase -i <SHA1> command to completely remove all screenshots and opted instead to link a screenshot that I posted to the Purism forums. I may add some more in the future, but I don't want to clutter the README.md with too many images.

  • Modified single_tab_mode-alt.css, alt-single_tab_mode-alt.css, single_tab_mode.css, true_mobile_landscape-alt.css, true_mobile_landscape.css, true_mobile_mode-alt.css, true_mobile_mode.css, fenix_theme.css, fenix-alt.css, fenix.css, fenix_fox-alt.css, fenix_fox.css, fenix_one-alt.css, and fenix_one.css:

    • simplified variable by directly setting numerical value
    • improved important notice
  • Modified fenix_colors.css, fenix_one-alt.css, and fenix_one.css:

    • apply color to tab manager button badge to match tab text and close button
  • Modified fenix_colors.css and fenix_one-alt.css:

    • removed menubar and navbar color modifications
  • Modified browser.css, true_mobile_landscape.css, true_mobile_mode.css, fenix.css, fenix_fox.css, and fenix_one.css:

    • added menubar and navbar color modifications
  • Modified single_tab_mode-alt.css, alt-single_tab_mode-alt.css, and single_tab_mode.css:

    • optimized active tab width for better fit and to fix flickering when there are two or more pinned tabs
  • Modified true_mobile_landscape-alt.css and true_mobile_landscape.css:

    • added tab manager menu and button counter to remove dependence on tab_manager_button.css
  • Modified fenix_theme.css, fenix-alt.css, and fenix.css:

    • remove back-button removal
  • Modified install.sh:

    • added new user selection option for back-button
  • Modified README.md:

    • added linked image

I've decided to tone down the use of tags in my posts.

ollieparanoid , to random
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Made an initial merge request to get the wonderful improvements from @user0 into mobile-config-firefox. :firefoxnew:

The idea is to make desktop firefox behave more similar to the Android version, e.g. getting rid of the extra tab bar, and some of the buttons around the urlbar to have more space for typing the URL.

Merge request with test instructions, feedback welcome:
https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/merge_requests/40

Huge thanks to user0! 🎉

kiudecan ,
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takes way too many clicks and scroll to open an add-on menu. Fiddling with uBlock e.g. is tiresome

@user0 @ollieparanoid

user0 ,

@kiudecan

I appologize for not replying to you sooner. I have been busy with many things and hadn't logged into my account here in a few weeks.

What would you think of having an access to add-ons MUCH more straightforwardly ? Maybe icons directly at the top of the burger menu?

I had tried something similar in order to move the new-tab button into the Tab Manager Menu, but it unfortunately doesn't seem possible. Menu items can be re-arranged and hidden, but they cannot be added to a menu or moved from one menu to another. I agree though that your idea would be really cool if it could be done.

Or icons on display next to the URL field, with a sliding bar letting you browse all the way to the end?

I don't think this is possible with CSS code either, so I can't help, but I found a post on reddit that involves javascript:

https://farside.link/libreddit/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/ezfqnh/new_scrolling_toolbar_buttons_wip_replacement_for

Thanks for your interest in my code, and sorry again for the long delay in responding to you.

gmr_leon , (edited ) to games
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What online multiplayer games play well over wifi/higher latency?

I'm thinking turn-based games may work okay in this respect, but which of those might you recommend besides Civ? Also what other types of games work better over wifi/higher latency than you might expect?

I know ideally you'd simply wire up your system to not have to fuss with either, but it's not always an option in some circumstances.

@games

herrcaptain ,

Ah, yeah, playing on official or public servers is definitely gonna be a mixed bag in terms of location. I’ll admit I didn’t really consider that as I’m lucky enough to have a good group of friends with similar gaming interests, and we’re all within about 100 KM of each other. I just ended up building a server and self-hosting out of my home.

astanix ,

You can play a ton of turn based board games on boardgamearena.com

You can play real time or turn based. It works on any browser, even mobile.

ErsatzCulture , to random
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With the news that has subsequently broken, I fear this item that I submitted to Mike Glyer at File 770 will get overlooked.

Please remember that there are many, many more victims of this mess, and who don't have large followings on English-language social media to hear their anguish.

https://file770.com/pixel-scroll-1-30-24-oceans-elven/comment-page-1/

EDIT: Any chance of some boosts on this plz? It bothers me my posts about censored posts & big biz dodginess get lots of engagement, but not the human side

Yorkslass70 , to random
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charles_perkins ,
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@Yorkslass70 @neilhimself I love all of Zelazny's work but A Night in the Lonesome October is one of my favorites! I got to hear him read the whole thing to us at a Con over three nights. Every so often he would stop and make notes in the manuscript he was reading from.

stevedurbin ,
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@Yorkslass70 @neilhimself

I have several friends who read this every October chapter-by-chapter, day-by-day; I don't have that level of discipline; if I start it, it's getting finished same day!

Zelazny was a very underrated writer; I sometimes think he's omitted a lot in libraries, who always seem to have a lot of Asimov, simply because of his alphabetical positioning.

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HuShuo , to random
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from @phil_lol_ogist on twitter:

"No one:

1590's Boomers:"

lavaeolus ,
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@HuShuo After some sleuthing I found the original:
Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after Samuel Ward.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j8c3mm3x/images?id=c5c22e69

// @histodons @histodon

lavaeolus ,
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After some sleuthing I found the original; it really is from the early 17th century:

Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day.
Engraving, c. 1627, after Samuel Ward.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j8c3mm3x/images?id=c5c22e69

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