I finally decided that I needed to get my photos etc from Facebook so I can close the account I haven’t logged into for 4 years. I’ve been putting it off for so long but I really need to delete my presence from meta. Getting my photos and videos out has been absolutely horrendous. It reminds me why I’ve avoided that app for nearly half a decade. The good news is that I’m almost ready to pull the plug so huzzah.

2024/12/16 Media Summary #crosspost
#luther with SZA by Kendrick Lamar

#man at the garden by Kendrick Lamar

#APT. by Rosé

#tv off feat. Lefty Gunplay by Kendrick Lamar

#Reincarnated by Kendrick Lamar

#Cowboys vs Panthers

#Ravens vs Giants

#Chiefs vs Browns

midday-ai/midday

bluewave-labs/checkmate

RIOT-OS/RIOT

Perfect_Gentleman/PG_Overlay

berkeley/channels

hugohp/index
blog.wuyuansheng.com/2024/12/1…
#Work

#Tuba v0.9.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- Audio Visualizer
- Accent Colors and other GNOME 47 changes
- Focus Picker
- Account Suggestions for new accounts
- Scheduled & Draft Posts
- Hashtag extraction from posts
- Full emoji reaction support for supported backends
- FediWrapped
- Thread Muting
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/release…

#GNOME #GTK

Drone Crashes into New Jersey Homeowner’s Backyard as Biden Regime Continues to Gaslight Worried Americans

thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/d…

Decided to get back to this years-old mosaic and finally finish it. It's M33 / The Triangulum galaxy from the PHATTER survey, which is a spin-off of the PHAT survey, originally taking a similarly huge mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy. I'm glad they got to do the Triangulum too because there's a lot of cool stuff to look at. Now, if only I could figure out how to share an 871 MB image file in a way that is enjoyable and not hugely detrimental to the image quality...

🎉🎉President Trump Confirms Emissary Position - Ric Grenell, Presidential Envoy for Special Missions - The Last Refuge theconservativetreehouse.com/b…

Who in their right mind would want to dine at Bill Gates' table?
As part of their Bovaer trial, Arla Foods is working with some of the largest supermarkets, including Aldi, Tesco and Morrison’s, who will stock their shelves with dairy products produced by cows which have eaten the additive. And they hush up that the chemical additives bio-accumulate in the organs and affect fertility.
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As if #Biden's unwavering support for #genocide wasn't enough to tarnish and ruin his legacy, his commuting the sentence of the #Pennsylvania "Kids-For-Cash" #Judge all but destroys it.

Congrats, #Joe. Didn't think anyone could turn out to be a worse #President than #Nixon or #Bush but here we are. #USpol

politico.com/news/2024/12/13/b…

The National Spelling Bee Goes Woke: Women Is Now Spelled W-O-M-Y-N

Is the federal education dept. President Trump wants to eliminate in charge of the national spelling bee? 🤔

The fact they are changing the correct spelling of women to an incorrect spelling cancels the national spelling bee as a reputable organization to be in charge of the nation's spelling bees.😜

pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024…

The USA just armed Israel with new BLU109 bombs.

These bombs
💥 BLU109 stands for “Bomb Live Unit” and it weighs around 2,000 pounds.
🔥can be dropped and it penetrates steel and then explodes. (Imagine the size of destruction).

💥it is also known as “bunker buster”

The US armed Israel with 100 of these BLU109 (common to the USA Air Force).

🪽This is new.
🪽This is for using against a population of refugees, wounded, no water or food or communications or any sufficient life sustaining emergency needs.

🪽this is to be used in a genocide.

Knowingly. Willingly. Intentionally.

x.com/MariamBarghouti/status/1…

#news #unitedstatesterroristregime #genocide #israel #bunkerbusterbombs

As we are finding out now, politicians, the Military Industrial Complex & corporations created this war & resultant carnage for power & personal greed. They can each explain their part to God when their reckoning day comes.

Vietnam Veteran Survived Four Combat Tours

First Bayonet Charge of the Vietnam War | Unbelievable War Story

youtube.com/shorts/W8PcDZmotLA

Vietnam Veteran Survived Four Combat Tours | Full Interview

youtube.com/watch?v=p2yOH2yRMq…

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"50 years later and you can tell it is still real and happening to him. Combat PTSD. Respect."

"This made my eyes water. It's about time we told some of our stories. Coming home sucked. To all Vietnam vets, from the heart...THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY!"

"The way he tells it you can tell he remembers every moment to this day & it really affected him. No words to thank these men for serving their country and going through absolute hell & carnage."

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Today in Labor History December 16, 1970: The Polish government attacked workers in coastal cities where they had been rebelling against high prices, killing between 50 and 150, including soldiers who refused to shoot people.

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#AskFedi/ #FediPoll - #Writers and #novelists of the #Fediverse... which app do you prefer to #write your #novels with?

  • Microsoft Word / Libre Office Writer (50%, 1 vote)
  • Google Docs / Microsoft 365 / Zoho Docs (0%, 0 votes)
  • Scrivener (0%, 0 votes)
  • Manuskript (0%, 0 votes)
  • Bibisco (0%, 0 votes)
  • Notepad / Text Editor / Vi / Other plain text editor (0%, 0 votes)
  • Typora / Zettlr / Other markdown specific app (0%, 0 votes)
  • Something else (Please comment!) (50%, 1 vote)
2 voters. Poll end: never

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2024/12/15 Media Summary #crosspost
#Yuan

wavetermdev/waveterm

google-gemini/cookbook

TEN-framework/TEN-Agent

Byaidu/PDFMathTranslate

go-gitea/gitea

curl/curl

PaperMC/Paper

tursodatabase/limbo

commaai/openpilot

johnnyjayjay/blog

Butter/ELUStats

MalcolmMielle/bark_monitor

weathered-steel/sdmmc-core

1-1sam/slackbuilds

fistons/AOC_2024

NeoApplications/Neo-Feed

blog.wuyuansheng.com/2024/12/1…
#Work

rumble.com/v5z1pqn-omg-investi…

Absolutely remarkable that I can sit here on my phone and casually scroll past a photo that ESA captured ON a comet as it hurtles through space somewhere.

social.beachcom.org/@nasa/1136…

#WhatATimeToBeAlive

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Several countries slam Israeli plans to expand settlements in Syria’s Golan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/israels-golan-heights-plans-condemned-as-us-says-it-struck-isis-in-syria?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera

Trump says Turkiye carried out “unfriendly takeover” in Syria
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/12/16/trump-says-turkiye-carried-out-unfriendly-takeover-in-syria?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

My own thoughts on #BlueSky :
It's not a bad site. I enjoy seeing people I used to follow on the bird site; people like Mark Hamill, who really is part of the resistance. But right now, BlueSky is most definitely, with my algorithm, a We Hate Trump party. And, I get it. I cannot stand him or his band of deplorables. Still, all that hating can't be healthy.

I scroll through BlueSky and memo, comment, and photo after meme, comment, and photo is Trump. I don't want to see him that much. And, quite frankly, in modern propaganda, all those posts do nothing but give Trump the attention he wants. In modern propaganda, all reality is PR. Rage sells. More rage, more clicks, more $$$, more attention, and the cycle begins again. This constant posting, even if what is said is true and well deserved, doesn't diminish his influence; rather, it grows his influence exponentially.

I like coming to #Mastodon , because I can go thru my feed and see a whole world 🌎 whose reality has nothing to do with Trump. ((Bless your diverse minds and the realities you occupy.)) I can feel myself unclench and breathe easier. I can easily not give the deplorables my attention.

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FBI informant who lied about Biden 'bribes' pleads guilty
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnl7qdvjno?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews

Jännä kun #Tampere Nääshalli luopuu matkakortilla maksamisesta. Liikuntavuorot pitää vuoden alusta maksaa jotenkin toisin, ei vielä näkynyt tiedotetta, miten. Kyynikkona ennustan, että varmaan jollakin mobiilisovelluksella, joka kerää tietoa (toki matkakorttikin on henkilökohtainen, joten tietoa sekin maksutapa kerää). Ja sitten pitää joka kerta mennä tiskille ja maksaa jotenkin vaikeasti, jos ei ole älypuhelinta. Saa nähdä!

Former FBI informant pleads guilty to phony bribery scheme involving Bidens
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/former-fbi-informant-pleads-guilty-to-phony-bribery-scheme-involving-bidens?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe News @europe-news-AlJazeera

Man sentenced for helping pregnant Chinese women travel to give birth in the US
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-pregnant-women-birth-us-citizenship-445f70ca940217da7f44aa2185c657e3?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

Suspected carbon monoxide poisoning kills 12 in Georgia: Authorities
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/suspected-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-kills-12-in-georgia-authorities?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera

Not sure what is going on here in TN but yet another example that the largest and most dangerous criminal element on the streets today is law enforcement.

youtu.be/faTzaiQk40Y?si=tjAsM2…

Reading for an exam and being forced to use the garbage that is Adobe Digital Editions

You read the book, painfully annotating it for when you are ready to refresh your memory before the exam.

You read the other books.

You go back for your annotations and find out that thanks to the Ebook bs your 14 day loan has expired. Annotations are gone.

Plus the app no longer opens the new book file either.

You use an Android device so you can't access the .annot file in any way.

For fucks sake!

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Tech ~ Making lives suck so much ass.

It's nice to just lose days of work and not be able to access files on a device YOU OWN.

FFS.

I'll ceremonially burn this tablet once my studies are done. I'm over it, this is literally the worst for an audhd like me. I cannot muster the will to read that book AGAIN, because my brain does not remember stuff like others brains do, I need my bullet points before the exam. I also don't have time for this shit.

Fuck it, Star Trek time then.

POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS AT NIGHT spaceweather.com/images2024/16… spaceweather.com/images2024/16… spaceweather.com
Feislachen is an aurora tour guide for Lights over Lapland, so naturally he kept taking pictures until he caught auroras and PSCs in the same frame

Aa long as they don't give the money too soon, to this fake regime!
justthenews.com/politics-polic…

"But meritocracy is a myth anyway. For the most part, hard work and talent aren’t sufficient to achieve everyone’s dreams. Hard work and talent function a lot better with substantial family support and existing wealth. Renowned nepo-babies Donald Trump or Elon Musk are good examples of how all you need to make a big fortune is to start off with a small fortune"

Spot on article from Patrick Freyne

#Burnout #Productivity #Capitalism

irishtimes.com/life-style/peop…

Video: Daniel Penny Spotted at Army-Navy Game With JD Vance

newsweek.com/video-daniel-penn…

@TrumpWarRoom
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President-elect Vance, and Incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stand for the National Anthem at the @ArmyNavyGame.

x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1868…

A former OpenAI researcher known for bringing the artificial intelligence company, which is facing a barrage of lawsuits over its business model, to the public has died, authorities confirmed this week.

Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead in his Buchanan Street apartment on Nov. 26, according to San Francisco police and the chief medical examiner's office. Police had been called to the Lower Haight apartment around 1 p.m. that day after receiving a call asking officers to check on his welfare, a police spokesman said.

The medical examiner ruled the cause of death a suicide, and police said this week there was "no evidence of foul play at this time."

The information he had was expected to play a key role in the cases against the San Francisco-based company.

Balaji's death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating American copyright law in developing ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence program that has become a blockbuster and is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/ope…

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In "This Week in KDE Apps"...

* Itinerary keeps your travel data safe (and lets you import and export it)
* Gardening app PowerPlant gets new looks
* Kaidan, the XMPP chat app, releases version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1

blogs.kde.org/2024/12/15/this-…

Remember to support your favorite apps donating to our fundraiser!:

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Hi, I'm looking for a job. I have not been fired, or laid off, I was investing personal time in trying a few different things. Personal time is now running thin.

I have been professionally a computer programmer for 19 years. I was mainly a web developer (“full stack”) during the first 14 years, but now have gone to simpler fields. I am now what I would call a distribution integrator, and UX-focused developer spanning from the platform firmware up to the user-facing interface. (See: NixOS involvement, Mobile NixOS, Tow-Boot, etc.)

I am looking for remote work, and live on the Eastern Time Zone in North America. I am flexible about working hours if needed. I am bilingual (French and English).

A good fit for me will have me working and contributing back on Open Source Software as a significant component.

If you know of a job that would fit, feel free to reply at any visibility here. Feel free to also ask me superficial questions right here!

If you are interested in hiring me, please e-mail me <samuel AT dionne-riel.com>.

Thank you for your time.

(Boosts / reposts appreciated.)

#fedihired

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