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emdiplomacy , to random
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3 Tremml-Werner: Multiple Actors and Pluralistic Practices: Non-European Perspectives on Early Modern Diplomatic Relations (1/10)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-003

emdiplomacy OP ,
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Appearing in various places around the globe, treaties are not only concluded between polities who share a similar idea of sovereignty or territorial rights, which does not disqualify them as instruments of The issue about intercultural treaties leads to the question of whether these agreements had an equal or unequal character. Clearly, different forms of unequal treaties existed from the seventeenth century onwards – colonial treaties and the unequal imperialist treaties implemented with Asian empires such as China, Japan or the Ottomans. In Canada, for example, the British crown concluded dozens of treaties with the indigenous populations with regard to settlements and land rights. Indigenous agency within these processes has often been overlooked in the study of these treaty negotiations. (9/10)


@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

emdiplomacy OP ,
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Tremml-Werner demands more exchange between studies of European diplomatic history and that of other world regions and academic traditions to integrate native and indigenous sources and voices more balanced and to understand the rise of diplomacy as a result of global processes. (10/10)

@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

maegul , to workreform
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What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss

Adam Neely on "quitting " puts two ideas together (that I hadn't) and implicitly asks "what if the new platform/economy fails you"

Longevity and freedom from traditional gatekeepers. The content-creator economy fails on these promises.

Burn out is baked in and ignoring the traditional gate-keepers is at your own very serious risk.

The world is the same, tech is just milking us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ

@workreform

mariyadelano ,
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@maegul @workreform I've been referring to this as "the single platform creator trap" - a creator who is trapped by their own belief that they can't control the value they bring, is stuck within one third-party online platform, and who doesn't fundamentally know how to recreate their success or take it elsewhere.

Creators who can make multiple platforms work always always always have way more control.

It's a self-imposed alienation from owning the means of production in Marxist terms.

maegul OP ,
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@mariyadelano @workreform

head rolling around in unbounded confirmation

Yep yep yep yep yep …

inspirationgrid , to random
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inspirationgrid OP ,
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@WanderingPoltergeist I know it's far-fetched, but I would love to see a company like SEGA make a surprise comeback into the hardware space. And the nostalgia aspect alone would definitely help them!

WanderingPoltergeist ,
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@inspirationgrid Nostalgia is one hell of a drug that we've all fallen victim to at some point. However, if they made awesome hardware...I wouldn't mind at all!

NikaShilobod , to random
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Sorry, had to redraft. My app is not having fun with the edits.

A thought I've been chewing on after a particularly vivid dream: I wonder if the minotaur in the maze was a symbol of the internal human struggle between our needs in both a wild and a built world and how those structures, like cities, are overwhelming and oppressive while simultaneously being isolating and entrapping. Or perhaps a symbol of domesticates being trapped between two worlds...

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zdl ,
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@raymccarthy @Illuminatus @NikaShilobod @nathanlovestrees @folklore @folklorethursday @archaeodons @ancientneareast I think the description I've heard (from another domain) that best applies here is "it's not even wrong".

NikaShilobod OP ,
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realcaseyrollins , to gaming
nekusoul ,
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That article is a bit out of date and wasn’t really true anyway. The people who are creating Pretendo, who wrote the blog post this article is based on, did an update on the situation, specifically calling out the media for their sloppy articles:

With that said, some outlets did a less than stellar job at reporting our last post, not covering some topics fully or accurately.

TL;DR: Many of the issues have already been fixed, even going so far as there are now entirely new servers in place to act as a proxy for Amazons servers to work around some security related incompatibility issues.

freebread ,

Thank you for clarifying- still want to get back in for some Splatoon 1 before the end

claudiac , to random
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📖 Every book lover has a TBR list a mile long. 📚 What's next on your to-be-read list?

Let's talk about the books that you can't wait to read! 📣

miki_lou ,
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@arratoon @bookstodon @claudiac Brilliant! Thanks for the suggestion!

miki_lou ,
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@penpencilbrush @claudiac @bookstodon Have to thank you again for recommending Blackwells. Although I am a solid supporter of my local independent bookstore and public library sometimes they just can't get books that aren't published in Canada or in North America. Blackwells delivered Hannah Kent's wonderful Devotion and Maggie Shipstead's excellent Astonish Me. So grateful to finally have the opportunity to read these marvellous .

braveamateur , to random Swedish
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1/10
Top 10 I read this year, in no particular order. No rereads.

The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

braveamateur OP ,
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9/10
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

braveamateur OP ,
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10/10
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
@bookstodon

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spiritedpause , to linux
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A Sneak Peek at new linux distro Zorin OS 17

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/12/04/a-sneak-peek-at-zorin-os-17/

@linux

linuxdweeb ,

and KDE users didn’t even get anything new at all.

This is misinformation.

KDE users got a broken Nvidia driver.

jaeme ,

Zorin OS 17 isn’t going to dethrone Linux Mint any time soon. I wish they switched to following Ubuntu LTS releases instead of being on their own timeline. 22.04 package base is going to be 2 years old by the time this releases.

They obviously spent a lot of time on aesthetics and simplicity which seems to be the main appeal of the distribution.

spiritedpause , to worldnews
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20 countries from four continents launched the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy by 2050

https://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-declaration-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050-recognizing-key

"Endorsing countries include the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom. "

@worldnews

agarorn ,

Nukular was between 15 and 20% in the 90s. It decline afterwards to now 9%.

ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix

agarorn ,

Because the world moves to solar and wind, not nukular

ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix

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.

carinealders , (edited ) to random Dutch
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Update: Problem solved! It reads: Es freut mich, daß Sie bis heute schon so große Erfolge erringen konnten. So wünsche ich Ihnen auch für Ferneres recht große weitere Erfolge. Nachdem die jüdische Musik doch bald ganz eingedämmt ist, wird für unsere deutschen Künstler wieder eine bessere Zeit kommen.

Dear German colleagues of ! Can any one of you transcribe this passage from a letter of 1933?
" @historikerinnen @histodons

Ardeija ,
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@carinealders @historikerinnen @histodons I read your text snippet as "Es freut mich, daß Sie bis heute schon so große Erfolge erringen konnten und wünsche ich Ihnen auch für Ferneres noch große weitere Erfolge. Nachdem die jüdische Musik doch bald genug eingedämmt ist, wird auch für unsere deutschen Künstler wieder eine bessere Zeit kommen", even if the first sentence seems grammatically iffy (the word order is a bit uncommon, as if the writer perhaps rephrased the sentence during writing).

steter ,
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@carinealders @historikerinnen @histodons Mastodon's preferred translation service mistook the source language for Nederlands. Here is the German translation of the antisemitism, courtesy of DuckDuckGo:

"I am pleased that you have been able to achieve such great success to date. So I wish you great further success in the future. Now that Jewish music will soon be completely contained, a better time will come for our German artists."

BBCRD , (edited ) to random
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This week we've got a series of updates for you after being hard at work...

First up is some research we've carried out to help us get the most out of low-powered TV platforms - which we hope will make it easier for us to create high quality user interfaces for our services:

At the drop of a frame: Measuring the performance of graphics on TVs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-10-measuring-the-performance-of-graphics-on-tvs

stillbreathing ,
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@BBCRD I suspect @slightlyoff will be interested in this

chris_hayes , (edited )
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@BBCRD unexpected and interesting. I'd feel like this is more of a suggestion that the WebGL implementation wasn't sufficiently optimized, WebGL optimization is kind of a bottomless pit. Though maybe there's a way that WebGL taxes the system that makes frame drops unavoidable regardless of implementation. Embedded systems are another world.

Okay now do WebGPU 😆

schizanon , to piracy
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stepanzak ,

I’m seeing this post on !Piracy That sounds like a Lemmy instance. But maybe I’m missing something.

HumanPerson ,

They both use the same protocol for federation. This is something that happens sometimes.

kcarr2015 , to random
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Huh, according to the ship's holodeck runs on a separate power supply. One of these shows is contradicting established lore! 🤔

4gottenfuturist ,
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@kcarr2015 @MirrorAyako @allstartrek I no longer care about this as intensely as I did 25 years ago, but the whole "separate power supply for the holodeck" thing is a load of nonsense that somebody came up with in the 90s to justify lazy creative choices (which, to be fair, may have been foisted upon them by Rick Berman or UPN execs). To see it used on modern productions by people with way more creative freedom than the Voyager writers kind of annoys me. These people should know better.

sezduck ,
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@richard @kcarr2015 @MirrorAyako @allstartrek
The difference is the cheese.

RickiTarr , to random
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I'm thinking about Mastodon in a wide view, in the world of social media, this feels a little outsider, while at the same time it also feels like it might be the future. So, let's talk about it!
What do you get out of Mastodon?
Why are you here?
How has it compared with your other social media experiences?
What do you see for the future of Mastodon?
What do you want to see?
And basically anything else about it you want to say about Mastodon.
LET'S TALK!

SRLevine , (edited )
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@mambearpnw Maybe? With the new search feature you might be able to just search for Holly or Stephen King, but the or hashtags will work if someone used them. I don't get many hits on the first, but I get plenty for the second.

If you're a reader you can follow or the auto-boosting group @bookstodon (this makes it easier to find people who use the hashtag), people love to talk books with those.

mambearpnw ,

@SRLevine @bookstodon Thanks for showing up. I appreciate the patience. 👊

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