Mozilla didn't hear you, and they're adding a shopping addon instead. Thanks to buying a company that trafficks in private data, which is now an official Mozilla subsidiary.
That's right, Mozilla is now an adtech company.
At least Pocket is "universal" -- it works on every site. The shopping extension only works on the three biggest commerce websites within one country.
After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.
Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!
I agree that going fedi doesn't automatically solve the issues.
However, moving it away from a multi tiered paid platform (they really tailored it so they could do this) and controlling the bots/scam accounts would be a completely different experience.
I think fedi would at least solve the first one, and I'd expect would help controlling the second.
@selfhosted strange problem. I have a raspberrypi as vpn gateway. I have a reolink cctv. It emails me when motion. If i use openvpn, it works fine. If i use wireguard, it does not work. If i connect to the vpn gateway on my laptop, openvpn and wg forward the laptop traffic fine. The openvpn and wg is connects to the same commerical vpn service.
@technology Oh, for sure, they mention the App Store fees and extensive review process, but in my opinion involving the price of the iPhone and past history of Apple is strange (and seems to make the case weaker).
Eeeeehhhhhh… you can’t really fault a company for a previously unknown hardware defect going against their stated principles. That’s like faulting the devs of OpenSSH for their principle of security because CVE-2023-38408 existed for years.
Hate on Apple for legitimate things, of which there are many.
Since Mangane is unknown to most of you here’s an explainer.
There are three main microblogging flavours of the Fediverse:
Mastodon, Glitch, Hometown, etc.
Misskey, Firefish, Sharkey, etc.
Pleroma, Akkoma, etc.
For atomicpoet.org. I used to use Pleroma but I’ve migrated to Akkoma. The Pleroma/Akkoma flavour is quite unique in that, not only is it perhaps the most resource efficient—it allows you to use different front-ends.
This is where Mangane becomes interesting because it is an incredibly user-friendly and attractive front-end developed by @clovis. And, in fact, I think it provides the most user-friendly and attractive UI/UX on the Fediverse.
Three servers that use Mangane are:
bdx.town
social.wedistribute.org
atomicpoet.org (this one)
Why am I so enthusiastic about Mangane? Because not only is it good-looking and user-friendly, it provides excellent rendering for text-formatting. And its management of reposts (both regular and quoted) is spectacular.
Anyway, I’ve been testing Mangane for months. I’ve been using it on a live server for two weeks. I’m pleased with the results.
The saga of Waverley Park — Melbourne's car-dependent suburban AFL stadium with a planned seated capacity of over 150,000 (not a typo!)
A really good run down by @philip on the plans by the AFL (and its predecessor, the VFL) to build the world's largest stadium in outer-suburban Melbourne.
Unfortunately, a planned railway line past the stadium to Rowville was never built. That meant a massive 25,000-spot car park as the only real means to get there.
While most of it has been demolished and redeveloped for housing, the oval itself still used by Hawthorn Football Club as a training and administration centre.
@awelder@jedsetter@nictea@philip@fuck_cars You often hear from Melburnians that it's the world's most livable city, and how the CBD is laid out nicely in the Hoddle Grid is laid out compared to inner-city.
And how Melbourne's inner-suburban tram network means it has much better public transport than Sydney.
And it's true. Colonial Melbourne, funded by its gold rush, did a much better job at planning than early Sydney.
But after the World Wars, it's a very different story.
Sydney is at least constrained by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north, the Royal National Park to the south, and the Blue Mountains to the west.
That means the only places for new sprawl are either northwest past Rouse Hill, or southwest around Campbelltown and Camden.
As a result, there's a lot more pressure from developers to densify.
Meanwhile, Melbourne just has the Dandenong Ranges to the east and Port Phillip Bay to the south.
As a result, even right now, you have new housing estates past Pakenham, Melton, Wyndham Vale, and Craigieburn.
As for sprawling Australian capitals, I think Perth has definitely been punching above its weight since the 2000s mining boom.
There's now continuous McMansions sprawl right down the Coast from north of Joondalup to south of Mandurah.
And there's new subdivisions that are closer to Bunbury than they are to the Perth or Fremantle CBDs.
@ajsadauskas@awelder@jedsetter@nictea@philip@fuck_cars And Perth doesn't even have much of a pre-car inner-city, so it's dominated by car-friendly suburbia. The new train lines are good, but it's a pity they run between freeways and thus miss out on local walkable neighbourhoods around them.
So WestConnex was totally going to solve traffic in Sydney by adding more lanes for cars. Just a few teething problems on the Rozelle Interchange and it'll all clear up, they said.
I wonder how it's going?
"Gladesville and Drummoyne locals say gridlock is worsening in their suburbs following changes to improve traffic flow through the notorious Rozelle Interchange, with drivers using local streets as “rat runs” to dodge congestion."
Are there any incremental games I haven't heard of that allow for continuous significant offline progression (that is, you can make substantial progress by waiting even if you've already been away from the game for a month)? I'm thinking of something along the lines of Gooboo, though I'd like something faster paced.
Simply put, we're close to getting evicted due to two unexpected hits this month to our pay. My insurance is all messed up at the moment, so I can hardly afford my meds, either.
Things are just dire at this point and we're not even eating to pay what we can pay already. I'll update the post with the total, but I'm trying to get to $150.
Sydney has opened up consultation on a strategy to reduce car traffic and make the city more walkable
"Driving in central Sydney will become harder under a plan to make the city more comfortable for pedestrians.
"The City of Sydney wants to narrow roads for wider footpaths and push for lower speed limits to discourage drivers from the CBD and transform Sydney into a walkable city.
"The council will also install more pedestrian crossings and prioritise people over cars... five times more pedestrians than motorists on the average street, yet just 40 per cent of road space is allocated to footpaths."
We will ensure that there is sufficient space for people to walk.
We will improve connectivity for people walking by ensuring there are frequent street crossings that give people priority and that align with people’s walking routes.
We will ensure that footpaths and crossings are accessible so that everyone can use them.
We will plan our city based on 10-minute neighbourhoods so that people are able to meet their daily needs easily by walking.
We will make it safer for people to walk by reducing vehicle speeds.
We will reduce traffic volumes on surface streets and manage through-traffic in residential neighbourhood streets to improve both safety and experience for people walking.
We will work to make all people feel safer while walking around our city.
We will work to improve compliance with road rules, especially the lesser-known rules that benefit people walking.
We will make our streets and public spaces comfortable and inviting by ensuring that they
are green and cool.
We will make sure that there are frequent opportunities for people to stop and rest, use the toilet or have a drink of water.
We will make our city more pleasant to walk in by reducing noise and air pollution from
traffic.
We will make all streets interesting to walk along by ensuring that built form has active, permeable frontages that invite engagement and curiosity.
We will use design, activations and installations to create neighbourhood-based community and encourage people to interact with their streets.
Unfortunately, the car-brained leader of the local business lobby isn't on board:
"Business Sydney executive director Paul Nicolaou welcomed efforts to make the city pedestrian-friendly... But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."
(Worth repeating that 80% of people on an average city street are pedestrians, so it already is a predominantly walking city.)
Anyway, if you think the plan's a good idea, make sure you let the Sydney City Council know by emailing sydneyyoursay@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au