Cat HicksI have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
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AdfichterđĽ đĽ đĽ Our case covered in the "Guardian" âźď¸ âźď¸ âźď¸
Guardian is asking: "Why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?"
âPalantir repeatedly contacted different government agencies through different means ⌠and tried to repeatedly get a foot into the door,â says Lorenz Naegeli
Many journalists have investigated Palantir, reporting for example on its contracts with the US federal government, or with the USâs Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE. But Republik and WAVâs work may have struck a nerve.
âItâs the first time [anyone] has published a story about Palantir that has a failure narrative,â says Adrienne Fichter, a tech journalist with Republik. âThey didnât get through and they were not good enough for Switzerland ⌠Thatâs why theyâre going for us, thatâs why theyâre suing us, they want to fight this narrative.â
Marguerite Meyer says: âI think Palantir doesnât really mind moral criticism. That has been done heaps. But what our reporting shows is a bit of a failure to sell their products â I believe they really donât like that.â
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/20/us-tech-giant-palantir-swiss-magazine-wav
Chad 
It's not often you see a CVE perfect 10.
Anyone with a #Ubiquiti #Unifi network needs to update their Network controller immediately.
@mttaggart Not to mention, you can put the skillfiles that you often use together for later re-use. Like a bookshelf or a room full of bookshelves. They should find a name for that.
@NickGates @Bridgemakes My mind tried to find out why so many solutions veered into philosophy based on assumptions that weren't originally stated. But your experience kinda clicked for me, because without these assumptions you have to just accept and not question the existence of the infallible predictor, even when it should not matter for the outcome.
abadideaSo You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement
Things you donât need:
- federation/distributed systems
- multiparty end-to-end encryption
- an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed toâ
Things you DO need:
- a user interface that is Normal
- the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
- higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
- any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it
I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons
@darktable What if we helped that with a friendly initial setup. ;-)
The best thing is, there already are some existing functionalities in that direction. For instance, the way iops are condensed in functionality and more accessible in the quick access panel. Modules there also already offer functionality to switch to the full experience.
Offering a tidier experience based on something like that should not take anything away from us, while also not making darktable "simple".
@Edent To spin it even a bit further/weirder?. Could tipping/subscriptions be a federated service itself? You set a limit on your account and can reach anyone that has it enabled. As a bonus you get to decide whether to tip public on a specific post or to the recipient or as DM.
Anyone not interested in the noise could just mute the servers.
Anyone not interested in the noise could just mute the servers.
@darktable To put it a bit blunt. If you get to the point where you discuss onboarding you've kind of already lost a big chunk of first time photo developers and those coming from tools that do not require onboarding. If editing photos is someone's creative outlet and they're not the type obsessing about which tone mapper is best đ, then there's just so much noise. I'd love to toy with an initial friendly setup from where you then can progress deeper when you have the time and the spoons.
@darktable Reading this again in the morning. It seems a bit like a roundabout way of describing what others have said about the complexity too. I also toyed with the toolbox analogy đ.
Compared with PS/gimp, when you start either of those you get better and more immediate visual cues and feedback as to what tool is doing what. That is a much different path to proficiency.
Compared with PS/gimp, when you start either of those you get better and more immediate visual cues and feedback as to what tool is doing what. That is a much different path to proficiency.