Russell Keith-Magee
@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz
Thank you Google. I understand that you want Android developers to be active
in their Play accounts. I understand that you sent me several email warnings
about this. I was, however, quite busy.
But yesterday, I was able to find time to log in to my account. There were
warning banners telling me my account might be closed due to inactivity.
And I was able to upload a new version of my app.
...and 10 hours later, you cancelled my developer account. Seriously?
Remember xroaches and similar? Bongo
Cat + V-Pets Wayland Overlay
A cute Wayland overlay that shows an animated pets reacting to your keyboard input.
a.k.a. low-profile
@Nead@vivaldi.net
@jcrabapple If I ever add this to my Linux desktop, it is clearly a cry for help.
HOWEVER, installing this* on someone ELSE'S desktop should be viewed as fair game.
*Clippy
Google ads are malicious. Well, all ads are malicious, but, specifically: Homebrew users are accidentally downloading malware instead of the real app
I lay this on both Google, for prioritizing scamware over good search, and on Apple, for
still, how many years later, having horrifically out of date system tools, and no actual
package management strategy or system.
Debian packages have been a thing since 1993, RPM since 1997, and Apple still has... uh...
Via.
SANS: Malicious Ad for Homebrew Leads to MacSync Stealer.
AliExpress package tracking shows customs complete in Los Angeles, off to Wenatchee WA, then to Spokane, so kinda sketch, but back to Sacramento a week ago, I was kinda getting hopeful...
Now they're reporting that it arrived in Waipahu (Hawaii?). Not installed this weekend, I'm guessing.
With the Pulitzer Prize nomination of Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell of The New
York Times, a lot of people are pointing out how horrible the reporting was. A good look
in Assigned Media: “You Betrayed Us, Azeen”
A story on the allegations of former St. Louis gender clinic staffer Jamie
Reed left parents who spoke with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi crushed.
American Public Media reports: At a Loss for Words —
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
Good breakdown of "whole word" and phonics method vs "three-cuing" and
"Meaning/Sentence/Visual" (MSV) and "whole language" method, and how a predictive/contextual
approach to teaching reading may have set us up for the whole "LLMs are so smart" current
situation.
Via this Fediverse
thread