Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 4
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 11:13:37 EST 
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Though they’d generally like to be paid more, most Americans give their employers the benefit of the doubt when it comes to compensation, believing companies do what they can to pay employees well.
https://qz.com/work/1542840/survey-most-americans-say-employers-do-their-best-to-pay-well/
#economy
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/most-americans-believe-employers-do-their-best-to-pay-employees-well/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 04:59:52 EST
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same smile -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 04:57:48 EST
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This should be the only (Camellia Sinensis) tea that we buy
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/rainforest-alliance-certified-tea
See CNN article -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 00:56:33 EST
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Having lived most of my life outside the country of my birth I often have thoughts about this. For many people, group identity is a matter of importance. Here in Israel/Palestine I have seen many newcomers go to great lengths to integrate into one or the other society. Some people also seem to see a deficiency in their original identity, and try to adopt a new identity even without really needing to on a practical level. For example, they have converted to Judaism, taken on something of the national ethos, but then gone back to their own countries. Or they have taken up the Palestinian cause, and sometimes converted to Islam, and continued in this while living elsewhere.
Different types of newcomers:
There are some immigrants who spend long years painstakingly adopting and perfecting a new national, linguistic, tribal or religious identity (these sometimes go together).
There are some who are natural chamelions and quickly adjust; without necessarily taking any new group identity to heart. They would just as easily adapt to living in a third country.
There are some who live in a new country but staunchly resist its influence, asserting their foreigness and maintaining their love for their former country (sometimes without realizing that they have been subtly changed by their adopted country, and probably would not be able to live again easily "back home". I think this has been true of my parents.
There are some who live a double life - pretending to "belong" when they are dealing with citizens of the new country, but privately living and keeping up the attitudes and prejudices of the former country.
There are some for whom group identities are unimportant. They take the trouble to understand the outlook of people in their adopted country: their red lines, hangups, prejudices, and the things that make them happy, proud, or provoke favourable responses. But they don't go out of their way to change themselves. They don't feel a need to take on a new identity package because of this, or feel any need to abandon a former national, linguistic, tribal or religious identity.
I think I am closest to the last category. Group identities or membership in them are not so important to me. I have no doubt gradually accrued certain traits from the places I have lived. This is not so much a conscious process, but happens all the same. There is no particular country where I feel entirely at home, and whereever I go I feel something of a foreigner. But this doesn't really affect me.
#identity #nations
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/thoughts-about-immigration-and-adopted-identities/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 11:28:55 EST
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You've managed to make a nice use of Hubzilla articles. I went back to Wordpress, but partly because it was too much work to move everything. In SPIP, another PHP based CMS that I use, it's possible to preface titles with numbers (in order to put them in the desired order), but then to hide the appearance of the numbers so that only the text is seen by the reader. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 10:55:39 EST
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this is why they say that Linux is for the hobbyists. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 10:52:22 EST
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audio - Guardian interview with the writer, David Wallace-Wells
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/feb/05/is-climate-change-way-worse-than-we-realise-today-in-focus-podcast
He expanded the original NY magazine article into a book
#environment
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/the-uninhabitable-earth/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 07:47:52 EST
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Success! Spent an hour hunting down the culprit - a rogue libbabl version - but GIMP now works again.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/4476-2/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 05:10:30 EST
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It's an interesting alternative to Gecko, KHTML and WebKit and a semi-alternative to Chromium (though based, like Chromium on Blink)
QtWebEngine
Qt WebEngine integrates Chromium's fast moving web capabilities into Qt.
Our goal is to bring the latest and best implementation of the web platform into the universe of Qt. The integration with Qt focuses on an API that is easy to use, yet extensible. We also make no compromise on the graphics integration, integrating the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick.
Relationship to Chromium
Qt WebEngine uses code from the Chromium project. However, it is not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:
Binary files are stripped out
Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out
The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like OpenSSL
We do update to the latest Chromium version in use before a Qt release. After a release some bug fixes and security patches are backported. For LTS releases of Qt we might also update Chromium in a patch level release.
Wikipedia article on web browsers and what they are based on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/qtwebengine/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 04:29:25 EST
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QupZilla was in the MX Linux repositories. But it's an older name for Falkon. I've now installed the nightly build of Falkon as a kde flatpak. This seems to be as fast, and does not produce a message in Gmail about this being an old browser. Falkon and QubZilla run on QtWebEngine as a rendering engine. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 15:12:07 EST
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thanks - I've heard of it. Not tried that one yet. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 12:19:46 EST
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Hmm - that's a surprise. QupZilla seems to speed things up tremendously. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jan-2019 16:49:15 EST
hosh
CNN currently is running 3 good articles on climate change (I say articles, because I've disabled CNN's video autoplay and usually just read them)
Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/opinions/climate-change-getting-worse-intl/index.html
How to solve the world’s plastics problem: Bring back the milk man
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/loop-reusable-packaging-mission-ahead/index.html
Teen activist tells Davos elite they're to blame for climate crisis
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/europe/greta-thunberg-davos-world-economic-forum-intl/index.html
She traveled to Davos 32 hours by train to avoid flying. That makes me feel guilty about booking that plane ride from Delhi to Bangalore now, rather than face a journey of a similar length. OK she's only 16 and I'm 62... but maybe on the way back up.
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/3-articles-on-climate-change/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jan-2019 16:17:32 EST
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great to hear that you are self-hosting - does that mean a home server or with a hosting company? -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 20:21:16 EST
hosh
"The problem with our society is not that it values material things too much but that it doesn’t value them enough "
https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-love-material-things-more-than-we-do-now-not-less
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/the-love-of-stuff/ -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 18:54:16 EST
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re-tagging some old blog posts, I see that this operation also re-published them in hubzilla - pardon me. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 18:21:59 EST
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"Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook
Source: http://www.vikshepa.com/the-goal-is-to-automate-us-welcome-to-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
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