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"The Grammar Daily" comes out one month from today!

I'm going to ramp up my promotion, and I hope you'll bear with me.

About 11 months ago, I walked away from ~280K followers on Twitter, so I'd really appreciate your support!

https://amzn.to/48R4T69

Check this out. Thief approaches door of house with car parked out front. He is holding a wire antenna. If the car owner has left their keys near the front door, the wire antenna will boost the signal. Success! The key fob is near the door. Signal boosted. This causes the car to think the key is very near to it, and opens the car door. Thief's accomplice gets in and starts the car. They drive away! https://mastodon.social/@it4sec/111167031354970229

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

Discovering LangChain4J, the Generative AI orchestration library for Java developers https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/09/25/discovering-langchain4j/ by Guillaume Laforge — @glaforge
#Java #aiml

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. - Ron Paul

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

I never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to paste text with styles intact.

And this is why we are the top of the food chain.

"When I bake bread, I give thousands of yeast organisms false hope by feeding them sugar, before ruthlessly baking them to death in an oven and eating their corpses."

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tweeted a link to this article about hydrogen fuel cell trucks saying:

"Just another way technology (not carbon taxes) is leading the way to a lower emissions future."

Which is a weird thing to say, considering the trucks are funded with $7.3 million from Alberta's carbon tax:

https://www.eralberta.ca/projects/details/alberta-zero-emissions-truck-electrification-collaboration-azetec/

(Emissions Reductions Alberta gets its money from the province's carbon tax on large emitters.)

#alberta #ableg #cdnpoli #abpoli #climate #climatechange

🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Hello Canadians looking for Canadian news (especially if you’ve been dependent on Facebook or Instagram links).

CBC has created an index of Canadian news media which is searchable by location. It brings up an interesting pot-pourri of digital, tv and radio sources although you can search for just one. There’s a French version as well.

I’ve already discovered some new (to me) small newspapers from nearby regions 😃

#CBC #Facebook #Meta #Instagram #Canada

https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/local-news-directory

Record labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing obsolete vintage records

The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-obsolete-vintage-records/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I think we all know Canada is especially hot and on fire at the moment.

But in case you were wondering just HOW hot and on fire it is...

The CBC Climate Dashboard gives you a ton of at-a-glance data:

🔗 : https://cbc.ca/climate

#canada #cdnpoli #climatechange #climate #environment #wildfire #wildfires #heat #heatwave #dataviz

Let me spin a yarn for you.

The Marion County Record story has had us chasing shiny objects, those being police abuses of power, salacious allegations about the police chief, and a 15-yea-old DUI charge.

Any of those things could be the cause of that unheard of raid, but in my experience these kinds of abuses in small towns are usually tied to three things: Money, family, and politics.

What if the Marion County Record hit the trifecta?
#Kansas #MarionCountyRecord
#NewspaperRaided
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The bad old days

Antonina and her two children escaped #Ukraine last year, evacuating their beloved city of #Kyiv for a safer home in #Germany.

But what happened next was like a slap in the face.

Her son, eight years old, was enrolled in temporary schooling for refugees – and was given an atlas that took Russia’s side in the conflict.

It did not depict #Crimea as part of #Ukraine. The map showed it as part of Russia.

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