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Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”

This comment on Eva Mendes post this week stuck out because it underscores how false and widespread misinformation on food & agriculture is.

And I’m gonna use it to educate:

1️⃣ Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide: it kills all plants because it interferes with their EPSPS enzyme that is needed to make specific amino acids. Without those amino acids, they can't make proteins and they die.

1/
Since everyone is talking about their first Mac on the Mac’s 40th birthday I want to chime in with my first Mac, the Mac IIsi. Bought while in college and used it to write my thesis.

It's 2024 and the answer to "how can I find out how much this medical procedure will cost me" in the US is still, "it's your responsibility to get the billing codes while in the doctor's office but before treatment is rendered and then call your insurance to get an estimated charge and then call the medical facility's billing department to see what their cash price is and then decide if you want insurance billed or pay the discounted cash rate that won't factor into your deductible."

Just absolute horse shit 💩

#healthinsurance

Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Mozilla Foundation

A gentle reminder that there's a water hole in #Namibia with a 24/7 #webcam and it is awesome.

At home, we call it #GazelleTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8

Namibia: Live stream in the Namib Desert

YouTube

Are you going to get a Covid shot this fall?

#Covid #Vaccine

Boost please.

Hell yes
79.8%
Hell no
2.9%
Hell if I know
13.3%
Hello
3.9%
Poll ended at .

Hypothesis: The Fediverse consists almost entirely of adults.

I expect most youths are drawn to the large corporate social networks; but those of us who took the effort to come here have likely experienced the Internet before most of those existed.

Of course, the only way to test this is by collecting data using the most scientifically rigorous method available to me: a Mastodon poll, lol

(I expect this will only reach English-speaking Fedi, but do boost if you're able)

⬇️ What is your age? ⬇️

Less than 18 years old
2.2%
18 to 27 years old
17.3%
28 to 39 years old
35.1%
40 or more years old
45.4%
Poll ended at .

The company that

- Ran a secret, illegal, manipulative psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users
- Has documented proof of working to put competitors out of business
- Literally shopped our data around to other companies, including direct messages
- Conspired to manipulate a presidential election
- Has been proven to support or at least turn a blind eye to genocide

But ooh hey shiny new app let’s sign up

I don’t understand people. I just fucking don’t.

Linux users who want to read @annaleen's piece about the open social web in The Atlantic, but don't have a subscription -- the way I do it is to use Lynx, the text-based web browser, in a terminal.

If you don't have Lynx, install it, then, in a terminal:

lynx
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/social-media-centralism-fediverse/674041/

As it loads, reject any cookies with <Shift>V, and there you go.

I use this technique all the time for NYT and WP articles.

#linux
#fediverse
Social Media Has Entered Its Chaos Era

Facebook and Twitter seem less relevant by the day. They may be replaced by new “federated” platforms.

The Atlantic