remy @remy@fosstodon.org

Somebody Snuck A Potato Into CES 2020 To Make A Scathing Point About Useless Smart Gadgets

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petepachal/2020/01/10/somebody-snuck-a-potato-into-ces-2020-to-make-a-scathing-point-about-useless-smart-gadgets/#ba1bd4b6a28f

Yep, it's that easy! 😂😭

🎨 by @TommySiegel

#climatechange #climateemergency

[ https://tweets.newsbots.eu/Greenpeace/status/1212705305060098050 — #bot]

Happy birthday, Chelsea Manning! Remember the injustices committed against her.

#FreeChelseaManning #ChelseaManning

Amnesty International calls Google and Facebook a threat to human rights. We believe that centralization of power in hands of #GAFAM is indeed extremely dangerous. #privacy #decentralization matter for a free society!
https://gizmodo.com/amnesty-international-google-and-facebook-are-a-threat-1839982963

Take action now

We can no longer pretend that Google is a positive force in the world.There is a simple first step that every internet user can take to make things a little better. Seek out a better web browser to replace Google Chrome and tell everyone to do the same.No to Chrome is designed as a starting

No to Chrome – Google want to automate us – https://notochrome.org/

@nitox I've been handing these out.

In light of the Overwatch 2 trailer I'd like to remind you that Blizzard is a dog of the Chinese "executes and harvests organs from political prisoners" government

Seems like we are a few years off from entering the "oops" phase at this point.

#ClimateChange #Climate #UsPol #globalWarming #meme #joke #jokes #humor #humour #science

If this image (seen on mastodon.social) matches your mood you should immediately engage with and donate to https://www.rainforesttrust.org/ and https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/ (or other such organizations). Otherwise you merely (ab-)use the catastrophe in a moralizing fashion to look down on others.
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This rebuttal of all the points in Google's privacy gaslighting post yesterday is a really excellent read.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/

"We're a Java shop, so you only need Java!
And our 300 chef repos. So you need to know Ruby, but it's not normal Ruby, it's like buggy Prolog Ruby.
And our infra is code. Python code.
And the frontend is JavaScript and sometimes TypeScript.
And a bunch of legacy PHP too.
And

Adding either a colorized grid or horizontal lines causes the brain to see a grayscale image as a colored one. This is known as the Munker illusion.

Programming Languages Explained With Music 🤘

#LogicielLibre #liberté

GitHub ∈ Microsoft ∈ USA

Un développeur de logiciel libre a le malheur d'habiter en Crimée, pays pour lequel les USA ont des restrictions à l'exportation.

GitHub lui a restreint son compte.

C'est trop chouette la centralisation, hein ?

https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/289

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I saw a question somewhere the other day from someone saying something like "my multiple Electron apps use a lot of resources, is it possible to use just one shared runtime to handle them all?" and I just yelled at the screen "IT'S CALLED A WEB BROWSER YOU FUCKING DICKHEAD" but I don't think they heard me.

Slack caught slackin'?

https://keybase.io/blog/slack-incident