Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 7

Facebook confirms that it tracks how you move mouse on the computer screen https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/facebook-confirms-that-it-tracks-how-you-move-mouse-on-the-computer-screen-1258189-2018-06-12

I think I'm starting to understand America now:

American toddlers are eating more sugar than the maximum amount recommended for adults https://qz.com/1302201/american-toddlers-are-eating-more-sugar-than-the-amount-recommended-for-adults/

high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar-ucla-233992

GitPub: An extension to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub

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exlplainshell is pretty cool stuff
https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=0%3C%26-+script+-qfce+%22ls+--color%3Dauto%22+%2Fdev%2Fnull+%7C+cat

#GDPR

fucking humans https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/22/humans-less-1-life-earth-have-destroyed-half-its-plants-more-80-all-mammals

move aside Roomba, we're not done here

Artificial intelligence is learning to see in the dark
https://qz.com/1279913/artificial-intelligence-is-learning-to-see-in-the-dark/

Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench - It is now the deepest known piece of plastic trash, found at a depth of 36,000 feet inside the Mariana Trench. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/plastic-bag-mariana-trench-pollution-science-spd/

Finally switched to Debian/Gnome after using macOS for years, and I gotta say I'm impressed. So far everything just works, all the apps I use are available, l haven't ran into any issues with getting stuff like WIFI or sleep working.

Overall, I have to say that Linux on the desktop has come a very long way since I last tried it. Feels nice to be back on an open source OS again. :)

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grep

the island of Kotisaari in Finland by Finnish photographer Jani Ylinampa

This is the most dystopian shit I've seen in a while:

Google and Microsoft are pushing websites to replace passwords with their fingerprint scans and facial recognition.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/360582/google-microsoft-push-websites-to-go-password-less

A young star 200k times brighter than the Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds.

Credit: NASA

drone gets taken down by a house panther

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