I’m smitten with Mittens 😻

Thanks for the empathy and suggestion :)

Thanks for your suggestion! This is what I implemented, and with Protonmail it was pretty easy to set up. It would be a nice thing for them to implement on the Mastodon.social side of things

Black tea: Yorkshire Gold (by Taylor’s of Harrowgate). Other: Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time tea

There’s a cat in that image

You might be able to 2FA via text or phone call. That’s what I do. It’s bad enough I have to BYOD for a laptop. I don’t want MS BS on my personal phone as well

I’d say in about 2 years, the entire place is going to be bots with AI generated content that try to mimic “real users” using their new Dynamic Product Ads tool

Yeah, it’s just partially like that now lol. A few weeks ago there was a side-by-side reddit screenshot post on Lemmy. It showed the exact same reddit post, with the exact same tens of comments (all word for word, some in response to each other iirc), from different accounts less than a year apart. 100% fabrication. I’d never seen such extensive bot-masquerading as people behaviour; it was a realization moment for me

I wouldn’t know about biggest surprise, but I didn’t see the Red Hot Chili Peppers replacing guitar with keyboard. I really liked what John Frusciante and his predecessors had brought to the group. I went from a deep Peppers fan to not listening to anything post Stadium Arcadium

Crap, I use FMovies. If the site is making headlines like this I’m probably going to need another site soon

https://web.archive.org/web/20240229043417/https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/italys-piracy-shield-creating-real-problems-as-vpns-start-turning-away-italian-users/

Yup. https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-get-32-billion-government-grant-new-25-billion-israel-chip-plant-2023-12-26/

DuckDuckGo browser is available for android

No snootiness was perceived :)

Fair enough, thanks for the info!

All AI, right?

I think for me this thing is a symbol of where we are and where we’re heading in terms of not being able to look away from ads

In the fall, Jezebel reported how a bipartisan bill ostensibly meant to protect children from harmful content online could be weaponized by Republican politicians to censor everything from LGBTQ+ content to sex ed info to abortion resources—and for all internet users, not just children.

This is so dystopian

I think the tech companies believe they’ll get good PR for a bill that purports to be about child safety. In actuality, the bill will allow them to censor anything they want on their platforms while sidestepping criticism about curtailing free speech because they can say “we’re just trying not to get sued; if you have a problem, take it up with Washington”

Well-written article, very troubling read.

It is blatantly evident that the settler-colonial Israeli war machine holds greater control over Columbia than its own administration.

Editor’s summary of original article published in Science:

When intact, the Amazonian forest is dense and difficult to penetrate, both on foot and with scanning technologies. Over the past several years, however, improved light detection and ranging scans have begun to penetrate the forest canopy, revealing previously unknown evidence of past Amazonian cultures. Rostain et al. describe evidence of such an agrarian Amazonian culture that began more than 2000 years ago. They describe more than 6000 earthen platforms distributed in a geometic pattern connected by roads and intertwined with agricultural landscapes and river drainages in the Upano Valley. Previous efforts have described mounds and large monuments in Amazonia, but the complexity and extent of this development far surpasses these previous sites. —Sacha Vignieri