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So AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?
4·3 days agoJust wave your arms and shout. They’re more afraid of you than you are of them!
4·3 days agoAnd TIL of the Beachy Amish, who absolutely do not go around on horsedrawn surfboards with Annette Funicello.
6·4 days agoBasically, yes. EEE is a strategy developed by a dominant company whose revenue stream came from paid proprietary software and services but which embraced open standards with the goal of vanquishing the threat to their business model posed by that openness and maintaining/recovering their proprietary domination.
Does ActivityPub being open and used by many different projects & organizations pose a threat to Piefed’s business model? Is Piefed a powerful company that built that power on a proprietary model and seeks to preserve that power by embracing, extending, and extinguishing ActivityPub? With the goal of maintaining/recovering proprietary domination?
No. So it ain’t EEE.
中西 圭三 - Woman
Nakanishi Keizō - Woman
(Japanese; my Japanese only good enough to catch a few snippets)
One I came to love because the guy in the room next to me when I lived in Japan kept playing it over and over until I did. Also featured in my first (and last!) attempt at doing karaoke in front of Japanese people.
https://youtu.be/xYe0d9QFLIAВремя и Стекло - Тролль
Vremya i Steklo - Troll
(Russian)
The Ukrainian crunk equivalent of “No Scrubs”? (IIRC read an article explaining how the song is about terrible men hitting on her)
https://youtu.be/q--5Ht49vNYAnders Nelsson - 鬼新娘
Anders Nelsson - Ghost Bride Song
(Cantonese)
From the soundtrack of 殭屍先生 (Mr Vampire, 1985), Hong Kong horror-comedy about the hopping dead.
https://youtu.be/q9DHRNREzlkTabou Combo - Konpa Mania
(Haitian Creole & English; I only know a few words in Creole)
A konpa track I think sampled by Wyclef Jean. https://youtu.be/McUmXoB_9yw
From “No racism” to “No “no racism””: America’s great again!!!
Nothing better for jumping over the Make America Great Firewall!
8·6 days agoMaybe by an intellectual property stickler. You know, for infringing on New York State’s I ❤ NY registered trademark.
/jk
I’m in Mexico, and on those occasions I listen to Spotify with ads, for the first time I’m hearing ads in English from universities in Canada wanting to attract students from Mexico to do masters and PhDs there.
TIL that Egyptian Islamic Jihad (who assassinated Sadat) merged with Al Qaeda in June 2001. And that Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the main orchestrators of 9/11 and bin Laden’s #2, come to Al Qaeda from Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
TIL that. Thanks. Now reading up on eusociality in hymenopterans.
31·7 days agoKDE Connect
I’ve used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I’m sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone’s lockscreen to pause the music.)
I’m starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.
There’s more too I need to explore.
(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a ‘device unreachable’ error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)
Upvoted for FreeTube.
What do you use to send YouTube links to FreeTube? Personally I’m using LibRedirect https://libredirect.github.io/
47·7 days agoI disagree.
Especially as the people who believe in “pizza place basements” are now running the show.
An obedient drone serving the monarchy? Cry me a river!
My software chops begin and end with: 10 PRINT “HELLO, WORLD” 20 GOTO 10
Good to hear devs are working on it.
Ah, practising the deeply held moral principle of “I’m alright, Jack”.