Michel Salim 

@michel_slm
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Server wrangler by day, gourmand by night. Facebook production engineer, Fedora Project contributor on weekends. He/him. @michel-slm for my cat pictures.
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Michel Salim Jan 11, 2020

The UK is leaving the Erasmus student-exchange program, in addition to leaving the EU. Sigh.

#brexit
#education
#erasmus
#exchange
#rip

https://monocle.com/minute/2020/01/10/dumbing-down-and-out/#1

Dumbing down and out - The Monocle Minute

Like a lot of people, you might have been a beneficiary of Erasmus, the programme that enables European Union-based students, especially poorer ones, to study…

Michel Salim Dec 6, 2019
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Michel Salim Nov 30, 2019

On #Android with the KISS Launcher, enabling the minimalistic UI gives this to you for free. And you can still tap to get the history of your recently-launched apps.

https://shawnblanc.net/2019/11/a-blank-iphone-first-home-screen/

#focus
#mobile
#productivity

A Blank iPhone First Home Screen

[About a week ago]( I moved all the icons off my iPhone’s first Home screen. Basically I moved everything over by one screen. So the first Home screen became the second, the second became third, et…

Shawn Blanc
Michel Salim Nov 29, 2019

#Facebook fact-checking partner in #Germany getting hate mails, likely from the far-right sites they help suppress

Angriffe auf die Faktencheck-Redaktion von CORRECTIV
https://correctiv.org/in-eigener-sache/2019/11/27/angriffe-auf-die-faktencheck-redaktion-von-correctiv/

Angriffe auf die Faktencheck-Redaktion von CORRECTIV

„Prostituierte der Lügenmedien“. „Lügenmediennutte“. „Berufslügnerin“. Solche Beschimpfungen müssen wir uns im Faktencheck-Team fast täglich anhören, weil wir Falschmeldungen öffentlich Fakten gegenüberstellen. Besonders unsere Redakteurinnen werden nicht nur in privaten Nachrichten, sondern auch öffentlich beschimpft. Reichweitenstarke Blogs veröffentlichen ihre Namen, teilweise mit Foto, und präsentieren sie der Leserschaft als Feindbild. Aus Beleidigung werden schnell Drohungen. Dann …

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Michel Salim Nov 28, 2019
DMW!Nov 28, 2019

RT @[email protected]

Today I found out the most fucking insane thing and that's George Clooney did all those Nespresso ads so he could spend millions of dollars keeping his own private satellite in orbit over Sudan for years to keep track of war crimes being committed by the Sudanese government

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SimplyTome/status/1199447166642786304

Cormac Browne on Twitter

“Today I found out the most fucking insane thing and that's George Clooney did all those Nespresso ads so he could spend millions of dollars keeping his own private satellite in orbit over Sudan for years to keep track of war crimes being committed by the Sudanese government”

Twitter
Michel Salim Nov 27, 2019
Glyn MoodyNov 27, 2019
Go game master quits saying machines 'cannot be defeated' - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/27/go-game-master-quits-saying-machines-cannot-be-defeated sad but inevitable
Go game master quits saying machines 'cannot be defeated'

Lee Se-dol retires from Chinese strategy game after playing against Google algorithm

Michel Salim Nov 27, 2019
HishamNov 27, 2019

Orkut, just for the "cool, sexy, trusty" stats

RT @[email protected]

Please quote this Tweet and tell me your favorite dead Google product.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/1198773553039962112

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Michel Salim Nov 26, 2019

This is quite concerning: his poll numbers are *up* ?!

"Here is the political toll this has taken on Trump: Since the day the hearings started, his approval rating, as measured in the Real Clear Politics polling average, has risen by slightly less than a point, and his disapproval rating has fallen by slightly more than a point."

https://nonzero.org/post/trump-impeach-force-field

#impeachment
#trump
#uspol

Michel Salim Nov 6, 2019
doctorowNov 6, 2019
Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/05/bad-to-worse.html
Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year

Freedom House, a US-government-funded nonprofit think-tank whose mission is to spread democracy, issues an annual “internet freedom” report; this year, for the ninth consecutive year, t…

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Michel Salim Nov 6, 2019
doctorowNov 6, 2019
T-Mobile: because we have a (stupid) trademark on one magenta shade, no one can use pink in their logos
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/05/risible-visible.html
T-Mobile: because we have a (stupid) trademark on one magenta shade, no one can use pink in their logos

T-Mobile has a trademark on RAL 4010, a shade of magenta. Trademarks on colors (see also: UPS, John Deere) are a dangerous trend, robbing us of the spectrum one shade at a time, but T-Mobile’…

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