slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If it's part of your build process or shipped bundle, no part of those dependencies are ever "unowned"; they're only temporarily disavowed.
IOW, all the code that can hand you a bad day is *yours*, no matter the up-front price.
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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:
If you need to have calendars on your site and would like some pre-baked minimally-assumptive custom elements to help you do that, Nick Williams has something for you: https://wicky.nillia.ms/cally/
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joshmillard ("Josh "cortex" Millard") wrote:
All Dogs Go To Eleven
The score on my current any% run suuuucks...
Purely from a gameplay perspective, I think you should get to replay certain stages at the end of your life.
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the new ginger root is a bop and the video is solid gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiOdGpR0TdU
His policies may be unpopular, but honestly, what other choice do you have?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
control of my country is being seized by far Right Christian fanatics in thrall to a wannabe Mussolini
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ryantownsend@webperf.social ("Ryan Townsend") wrote:
Finally got myself a ‘new’ phone today, it’s an absolute banger.
No, it’s not an iPhone 15 Pro Max, it’s a Samsung A51 for #webperf testing and it scores less than half an iPhone 7 on Geekbench 😬 you can feel the input lag even during device setup!
Hat tip to @slightlyoff for the recommendation. Worth reading: https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/
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SarahGordon ("Sarah Gordon") wrote:
Dragons. But make them the little lizard guys that sun themselves out on the cliffs near my house.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oh no! Intra-species conflict and cannibalism!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/22/thats-a-whole-lotta-legs/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If you'd like to get personally attacked once every 3–4 minutes, I highly recommend Apple Music's "Dad Rock Essentials" playlist.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
No, we're not OK.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/22/how-to-cure-your-manly-depression/
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kwf@social.afront.org ("Kenneth Finnegan") wrote:
One of the fun parts of being a #Linux mirror operator is that you get to deal with China Mobile using ISO download mirrors to fix their traffic ratios with other ISPs at peering points.
Looks like they've moved to using Slackware now...
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Sunset at Golden Gate. San Francisco.
📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA
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intidc ("Inti De Ceukelaire") wrote:
🔥NEWS: How I was able to hack the Belgian social welfare and justice system by buying cheap domains 👇
https://inti.io/p/when-privacy-expires-how-i-got-access
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Last night was the much anticipated Oxide and Friends bookclub! @bcantrill and I were joined by Greg Cost to discuss Philip Ball's terrific book How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Spoiler: no one expected Alan Turing to weave his way into this story! Enjoy! https://youtu.be/5zDPneXJ_a8
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The plushies... They finished production. They look magnificent. Now they just need to reach the warehouses.
WAT?! 😵
I guess that's one way to ruin several classic films in just a single paragraph.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Pastor Tim Thompson is just the latest manifestation of the Xian strategy of using hate & intolerance to farm for money and ill-repute.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/22/the-formula-for-fame-fortune-hate-christianity/
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ryanfb@digipres.club ("Ryan Baumann") wrote:
We already have something that actually can achieve the human-level performance that keeps being claimed by these charlatans yet not attained, it’s called humans. Imagine what investing $7 trillion in humans could accomplish.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My explanation for the orca attacks off Gibraltar is simple: humans are assholes. Refute that, I don't think you can.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/22/the-orcas-are-at-it-again/
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
It’s moral panic time! Thank goodness for News Corp who continue to champion the mental health of kiddies | First Dog on the Moon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/22/its-moral-panic-time-thank-goodness-for-news-corp-who-continue-to-champion-the-mental-health-of-kiddies?CMP=share_btn_url
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this once-upon-a-time SGT thinks there must be be a good story behind young Trooper Whaley making it through the War & getting out a PVT
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wondermark.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Wondermark – An Illustrated Jocularity.") wrote:
#1548; Spring Forth, My Creation
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hdm@infosec.exchange ("HD Moore") wrote:
For anyone considering "Skip this update" due to ITerm2's silly AI thing - NOT updating means missing patches for this fun bag of exploits: https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/escape-sequences/iterm2/hyper/url-handlers/code-execution/2024/05/21/arbitrary-url-schemes-terminal-emulators.html
Maybe time for a new terminal?
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BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange ("Brad Rubenstein “:verified:”") wrote:
Good Lord.
Every WiFi network access point that has ever been in range of an iPhone has its network name (SSID) and GPS location (taken from the iPhone) stored and used by Apple.
Apple introduced a way to opt out in March 2024 - you must append the string "_nomap" to your SSID.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/
(h/t @briankrebs )
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tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:
And obligatory Cyanide and Happiness
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sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:
"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."
The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.
Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.
The system doesn't work for you.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Hopefully a slightly less common angle on a famous landmark. San Francisco.
📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA
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jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:
3/ If the "we are all at risk of cancer" from #foreverchemicals framing for some reason doesn't bug you, consider the taxpayer costs.
Numbers are staggering.
$64 billion in estimated increased disease burden in a single year.
Meanwhile #3M makes $1.5 billion a year from making the stuff.
And 16,000 of 3M's products still contain the chemical.
While company pledges to wind down manufacture. They haven't stopped.
To date, 3m has not admitted wrongdoing and faced no criminal liability
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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
Months ago I worked on a Dynabook-ish design. At Dr. Kay's suggestion, I looked at e-paper displays and driver boards because they've reached ~60hz refresh rates in certain conditions. At that point I found mostly expensive dev kits and closed source designs meant for mass production licensees.
Today Hackster published an article about Modos and their OSHW driver board that they note can work with many panels. 🎉
https://www.hackster.io/news/modos-prepares-to-launch-its-paper-monitor-and-amd-powered-epaper-driver-board-ac6c5ae6a485
https://youtu.be/pXn-bAwzNv4
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor
#dybo
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ieure@retro.social ("Killing Jelq") wrote:
If Apple, Google, and Microsoft didn't have entrenched platform monopolies, garbage like the Microsoft "AI" spyware likely wouldn't even get built. The market doesn't want what they're selling, but users have no choice but to take whatever abuse the vendors heap upon them, because they can't easily switch to a better product.
And they have monopolies because the US government won't enforce antitrust laws. All technology is political.
(Don't "Linux" me, I've been running it longer than you've probably been alive, I know what it can and cannot do.)
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daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:
The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The lens did not work correctly 🥲 The aperture blades must've not closed fast enough. Everything looks like it's shot on the most open aperture, even though I know that most of these shots were supposed to be f8 and f11.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
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pamelaoliver@sciences.social ("Pamela Oliver") wrote:
Big findings: Newswires more interested in violence & White-focused issues including Confederate symbols & White identity groups. Black newspapers cover more worker struggles, local struggles over defunding of public services, schools, community violence issues. #BlackHistory #Sociology
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC
"After backlash, Trump pulls social media post with reference to 'unified Reich'"
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
this would have solved a number of my problems! https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/21/apple-wallet-app-transit-cards-paris-toronto/
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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:
Painted the very best boi as an early bday present for @fpiatti
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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Wrote a little blogpost about the NOVA documentary I appeared on https://dustycloud.org/blog/i-appeared-on-pbs-nova/
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poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club ("Poise Under Chaos") wrote:
If computers weren't a mistake, billionaires definitely were.
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I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/
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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:
Every time I hear a "flirty" AI assistant voice, I feel a spike of revulsion. It's creepy. Seems obvious in retrospect, but I think I figured out why:
I'm very sensitive to manipulation. Not to say I always see it - I can, in fact, be quite gullible. But, when I do detect it, I take it as a deep personal insult and flag the source as never to be trusted again.
Apropos of that, a "flirty" AI assistant is not attempting to form a reciprocal social connection with me. A "flirty" AI assistant is manipulation.
A "flirty" AI assistant is an attempt at an emotional security exploit by a corporation in the hopes that I'll mistakenly grant the imperfect thing some empathy and give it a trusted place in my life. It feels very crass and dystopian.
Some folks describe this as a UI affordance to make users more comfortable with the machine. With me - and probably a lot of folks - it lands as sour as a door-to-door Comcast salesperson.
Ironically, the only assistant voices I tolerate tend to be very emotionally flat and matter-of-fact. Like, I know what you are, machine, and I'll trust you more if you stop pretending.
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just a quick reminder that tomorrow is #WorldGothDay on #kexp, tune in for a full day of gothiness
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snazzyq@threads.net ("Quinn Nelson") wrote:
The simplest tasks on iPadOS are either incredibly difficult and time-consuming, or they’re so unintuitive that even a 25-year Apple veteran can't figure them out. Frankly, neither reflects well on iPadOS.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I can still remember being in my 20s, and I would laugh at this preventive measure.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
A framing I think a lot of people miss is that when you're watching videos online, you are literally watching reality TV.
The medium may be different; the crew may be a different size (though maybe not). But at the end of the day, that's what online videos are; they're reality TV.
Which means you should approach anything from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. with the exact same (highly warranted) incredulity you might give to The Bachelor, House Hunters, Dr. Phil, etc.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Tax the rich! Even better than eating them.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/21/picking-rich-peoples-pockets-is-profitable/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The actual thing that happened here is: I posted something, for the first time after several weeks of no activity.
LinkedIn is masterful at spin for the sake of engagement.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
some of us come home and try to pick up our lives, some come home in a box. thank you Trooper Haggeryy, I just wish you’d had a little more time. 💦
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jimbob@aus.social ("Bela Lugosi's Dad") wrote:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
XKCD 927, but instead of standards we're talking about proprietary tooling that attempts to lock you in.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Vendor: Our new software eliminates all those competing, incompatible tools from vendors that locked you into their tooling.
Me: How does it work?
Vendor: Without getting into too many details, it's amazing. Here, look at these fancy animations and try our quick start. Just install it.
Me: How does it work?
Vendor: Without getting into too many details...
Me: [interrupting] What is your business model?
Vendor: We're mission driven to make developers happy.
Me: [walks away] 😠
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Yeah, we've got silly creationist goons here in Minnesota, too.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just read an *extremely* long blog post (with dozens of graphs and code snippets) about improving INP in react websites. Some good stuff for tamping down re-renders in the post.
So I traced the site.
Don't know why I expected the 5.7MB of JS served over H/2 to be gzipped. It's 2024. Up is down, down is left.
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yvonnezlam ("Yvonne Lam") wrote:
Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:
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driusan@doomscroller.social ("Dave Mac Farlane") wrote:
Google (trans v.) (goo-gul)
1. To destroy a product while coasting on your reputation
2. To take a well liked product and cancel it
3. (Archaic, obsolete) To search on the internet
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loren@flipping.rocks ("Loren") wrote:
in case you ever need help telling what kind of drum and bass someone is talking about i made this handy little chart!
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Oh there you are! We've been waiting so long we sent Email out to find you. Now we've got to wait for them to come back before we can leave..."
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was going to have FG say "It's the microplastics and forever chemicals." But that didn't seem as punchy.
Sometimes dark humor is all I've got. :(
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Famous Host: And for our next guest please welcome my good friend, the fabulous and talented Famous Guest...
Famous Guest: [walks on stage to massive applause smiling and waving and gives the requisite hug to FH and then sits next to host's desk]
FH: It's great to see you again, and may I say you look terrific!
FG: [earnest] Oh thank you! It's the microplastics.
Audience: [nervous laughter]
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Really, this is a problem with human discourse, that's larger than online or language. At a certain point of popularity, it becomes more "cool" to dislike something than to like it. It's a sort of virtue signaling.
I guess maybe I hate it because I spent so much of my 20s and 30s being very hipster-ish about music, and knowing now how stupid that was and what great things I missed out on. (Also: who cares?)
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I find few things more tiresome in online discourse than when it becomes novel to hate on a once-novel term that's now mainstream.
Example: "enshittification." Once considered novel; now mainstream. Used to be loved; now you can't go a day without somebody saying "'enshittification' has been enshittified."
It's the ultra-online version of hipster-ism. "I used to like that term's early stuff, before it sold out. Now I like this new term, you've probably never heard of it."
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.
Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.
The ozone could have a huge hole.
We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.
I feel like we forget this, you know?
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Please don't stop writing documentation. Please don't stop writing documentation. Please don't stop writing documentation. Please..."
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
People still think evolutionary psychology is valid? We still need people to hammer on its absurdity and expose the bullshit artists who promote it.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You're going to need the Pope to rubber-stamp your visitation by the Holy Mother Mary in the future.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/20/what-is-the-vatican-method/
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
And we're off!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Computers weren't a mistake. Computers not owned and controlled by the people operating them and the people impacted by their programming was a mistake.
Corporations weren't a mistake. Corporations owned and controlled by people far removed from the employees and those who are impacted by corporate actions are a mistake.
(Of course, there's a connection between the two besides their similar phrasings.)
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
"Unless and until our tax laws are changed and the Supreme Court’s legalization of political bribery is reversed, we’ll continue this disintegrative slide into fascism and the danger of domestic armed conflict.
This fall we’ll have the opportunity to elect politicians who actively oppose oligarchy and fascism while embracing the true spirit of American egalitarianism.”
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/civil-war-oligarchs/
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Noupside@saturation.social ("Renee DiResta") wrote:
🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal
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tayledras ("Tayledras 🐾✌️") wrote:
In case you forgot about Winnie the Pooh...
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Two bits of news: (a) Iran's president and foreign minister found dead at helicopter crash site (https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48) and (b) Saudi Arabia's King Salman, 88, has pneumonia (https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabias-king-salman-88-has-pneumonia/2024/05/19/) (His successor is Prince Bonesaw, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman).
If King Salman doesn't make it, middle eastern politics could get very unpredictable. Never mind if (c) Benny Gantz pulls down Netanyahu's coalition the same time … (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-killed-wounded-israeli-forces-thrust-deeper-gazas-jabalia-rafah-2024-05-18/)
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Pixelfed Groups will bring a whole new dimension and experience, I can't wait to ship this monumental feature!
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KE0FFT@mastodon.hams.social wrote:
I found this #QSLCard last night on eBay. I was *at* the 1993 #Chicksands Friendship Fete. I never knew the base had an amateur radio club.
Callsign GB2USA belonged to the late Maj. USAF (Ret.) Everett E. Worrell, Jr., who likely filled out & sent this card over 30 yrs ago.
A B-17 Pilot in WWII, he flew 35 missions over Europe, served 27 years in the USAF, was a Communication Inspector General, a #HamRadio operator & MARS (Military Auxiliary Radio System) member for decades.
(Continued…)
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evanw@hachyderm.io ("Evan Wallace") wrote:
I've been studying algorithms for collaborative text editing recently. The best way for me to understand something complex is to implement it myself, so I made my own simple text editing CRDT. It comes with an interactive demo to show what goes on "under the hood":
https://madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer/
The code is small enough to understand (only 500 lines including comments). But the internals use optimized block-based storage similar to Yjs (a popular CRDT text library), so it should be pretty realistic.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"How was your experience?"
Idk, go ask your AI. Isn't it supposed to be great at answering questions and replacing humans?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Oh, what's that? You've integrated AI into your product?
And it's capable of answering questions, you say?
Fantastic!
Please redirect all future requests for my feedback to the AI.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
By "coming up!" I apparently meant in nearly two weeks time. But I did get to it, and it ended up even hackier than I thought it would as it involved the use of a hack saw. But we're all fine here now. How are you doin'?
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@phae @Samsung No lie, this is the on-device UI. No toggle, no way to request an opt-out on-device *where we were already authenticated*. And this is *after* tapping "Do Not Sell My Personal Information". Real work went into making this something other than a simple toggle button:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@collinsworth @phae [ visions of my future self ]
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
@slightlyoff @phae We got a Samsung Smart TV last year and it is without competition my absolute most regretted tech purchase. Even if it wasn't spyware and adware thinly disguised as a TV, the UI is atrocious, and the controls are unpredictable. It's a UX failure on every level.
I'm seriously considering just factory resetting it, never connecting it to the internet, and doing absolutely all streaming through a third-party device. Wish I'd just done that in the first place.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@phae @Samsung Today in "websites that work better than the Samsung CCPA opt-out flow": California's Secretary of State page for filing a compaint:
https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@phae Hey @Samsung; y'all know this is unacceptable and likely illegal, right?
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Setting up a new Samsung TV that @phae liked, and the horror show that is the privacy UI cannot be overstated. There's no on-device way to opt-out of collection. None.
Instead, you get told to visit a URL (but not taken to it in the built-in Samsung Internet browser) for CCPA requests. That website is here:
https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy/rights/
And as a CA resident, it makes me apoplectic that it simply *fails *at a required login step. This cannot be spirit, or letter, of the law compliant:
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a_smeriglia@mastodon.uno ("Astutillo Smeriglia :verified:") wrote:
Passa una meteora: 200 mila video di tutti i tipi.
Passa un’astronave aliena: un video sgranato a bassa risoluzione.
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w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
At our recent AC meeting Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke on his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.
He spoke about the potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars 🌎 🌖 ✨
🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
they rode hard in an ugly war, and died far too young to really enjoy the peaceful fruits of victory
Little #Kitty Big City has all the classics, like the Shiba in a bush.
https://www.littlekittybigcity.com/
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tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:
We are trained to make excuses for the inexcusable.
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robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:
8 x 6 inches, Oil on Panel
A new tiny painting coming to EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow (5/20)An average human cell is estimated to contain 100 trillion atoms and the average human body is estimated to contain 32 trillion cells. We truly are, as Richard Feynman wrote, "a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe."
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poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club ("Poise Under Chaos") wrote:
Mark Knopfler - All Comers (Official Video)
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Long drive, short visit, but I'm getting my great-grandfather's old pocket watch repaired!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/19/good-morning-from-the-big-city/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Sunday morning tunes selection from the kiddo (with some assistance from me). New track from Posy: "Tones and Bubbles".
![Person 1: Hold up, I need use the ATM machine. Person 2: Actually, the 'M' stand for - 1: Aw, nuts. I forgot my personal PIN number. SMH my head. Lemme go inside the bank, I'll BRB right back ASAP as possible. 2: *twitch* [grimacing, with nosebleed] starting. 1. Aw, dang. RIP in peace. 2: [lying on floor dead]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/395/009/414/239/365/original/66d7d37feda839fa.png){kind=link}
