I made a browser extension that changes the word “billionaire” to “oligarch” and, well, it’s about as perfect as I was hoping.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj

"Only about a third of ad dollars reach their intended audiences".

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2023/12/05/ana-report-finds-that-only-around-a-third-of-ad-dollars-reach-intended-audiences

We let these insufferable pricks built an entire global surveillance apparatus that tracks our every digital interaction from cradle to grave, we rolled over and sacrificed the internet for the metrics of eyeballs and rageclicks, we spent all this time hearing about the brilliant engineering acumen of Google and Facebook and whoever else, and the whole thing is only 36% cost-effective end to end.

Is there a tool people use for bumping release versions of apps? I mean the dance that one needs to do before every minor release of an app, where you edit the version in pubspec.yaml, and probably also change the version string in some Dart file, and then make a commit and add a tag that says something like "v1.0.234".

I got so bored by this that I made a tiny one-off tool for Knights of San Francisco. But there must be something out there, no?

#Flutter

Speaking of treasures, I’m very excited to announce svcs 23.21.0 – the first release since going stable! I’m happy to see that while the resonance has been (as expected) rather weak, it has already found people who “got it” – and got excited. So, I’m hopeful it might become a slow burn. :)

Accordingly, most of the changes go back to feedback from using it in practice. Most notably container-local registries and some minor typing hiccups.

Check it out: https://github.com/hynek/svcs/discussions/57

It's not immigrants who are making your life harder.

It's not poor people.

It's not minorities.

It's not LGBT people.

All that other stuff is just to distract you from noticing the actual problem.

Given how often ML models will periodically just spit out their training data verbatim, you should assume that anything you've put into Dropbox is something somebody else might see, whether you wanted that or not, whether that's a problem for you or not.

https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-ai