HeartyBeast

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Were Nazis allowed to deliberately ‘run rampant’ on Twitter pre-Elon? That’s a hot take.

Musk’s buying Twitter had nothing to do with it being ‘monetised’ as far as I see. Musk just offered such a stupidly large amount that the board had to say ‘OK, sure.’

Humza Yousaf to resign as Scotland's first minister in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s a weird one isn’t it.

ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So why are they allowing part-time work then. If working in the office is necessary then surely it is necessary 100% of the time.

Ummmm, no?

For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one in c/science@kbin.social
ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social -5 points 6 months ago

I’m that guy, to the extent that you’re the guy who never leaves his basement. I.e neither are true

ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Its just inefficient to be using a building and requiring people to travel for what does mostly amount to sitting on your own on teams calls anyway.

Absolutely agreed, that’s why it is usually best to try and get the team together on agreed days - having a couple a week allows for flexibility, but also makes it likely you get critical mass

ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social -4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They fully admit that it isn’t necessary to be in the office

Do they? I don’t think so.

ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Tories and Labour are so far left that George Galloway is described as far right

What are you even trying to say? And Blair is many things, but not a Thatcherite

ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse in c/technology@beehaw.org
For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one in c/science@kbin.social
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

It’s certainly possible that it is happening constantly, and we’ve only started looking for it recently. I’ve had a tinker with writing a better headline and it’s not easy. What would your short, pithy, accurate and unambiguous headline be - suitable for a non-technical audience?

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Decent brand external drive for Time Machine backups? (kbin.social)
 

My TM drive has just failed and I'm looking for an alternative. There have been so many mergers and rebranding among drive manufacturers over the last few years and noise about how previously good brands have been taken over and now sell junk, I'm trying ti get a steer on which ones are still decent.

Looking for 4TB - to be honest, happy woth spinning rust as it is only for backup the speed of an SSD not really needed.

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COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals.

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Researcher flags OpenCart security issue, founder rages (www.theregister.com)
 

Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer

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Survival, scandal, a secret cell: how the nail-biting Israel-Hamas hostage deal was done (www.theguardian.com)
 

Weeks of precarious talks finally led to Friday’s releases of captives. Here’s the inside story

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‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase (www.theguardian.com)
 

Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children

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AI boss Sam Altman ousted by OpenAI board (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

OpenAI said it 'no longer had confidence' in his ability to lead the artificial intelligence firm.

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Air Video HD video streaming software seems to have been abandoned. Does anyone know a good alternative? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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For many years, I've used the excellent https://airvideo.app - it has a free little server component that runs on a Mac and a paid for iOS app that lets you watch on the device or stream to Chromecast or Apple TV.

I wanted to give my kids access to my ripped movie collection, but the app seems to have gone missing from the (UK) Appstore - and the developers aren't answering e-mail.

So. Here's what I'd like.

Something that will show me the contents of my folder of video files on my Mac and let me stream to my TV.

I've had a look at

  • Plex Hugely overly complex - tries to be an entire media manager for everything in the world

  • VLC Streamer By HobbyistSoftware. Kinda OK, but seems to take up about 300% of my M1 iMac CPU and is a bit clunky.

Any other recommendations?

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Tesla reverses course on Cybertruck resale restrictions (www.theregister.com)
 

Time for eBay jockeys to ready their watchlists for second-hand clunkers

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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook (nymag.com)
 

Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?

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Could we have 'hide' post back again please? (kbin.social)
 

There used to be a handy 'hide' option hiding under the 'more' menu. It seems to have been removed. Any chance of getting it back?

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Northern Lights: What is Steve and why is it different to an aurora borealis? (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

The rare phenomenon illuminates skies across the north-east of England and parts of Scotland.

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Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API services down (www.cloudflarestatus.com)
 

Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues.

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