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nasa@social.beachcom.org ("NASA") wrote:

Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240617.html #APOD

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tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@jsonstein Yep. Link, for others tuning in: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

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tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@jsonstein It's my belief that the forces of the "conservative" right have really been after civil rights, really shifting into gear when they could no longer shelter their children in religious schools tax-free. Everything after that is a smokescreen. A lot of that "smoke" is stuff people care deeply about like abortion and divorce and IVF (more of an option for rich white folks) and LGBTQ issues (which I believe is really about sex in most people's minds).

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tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@jsonstein ...and restored the (white) right to choose, in its various guises, we'll have no energy to fight for the rest of the rights that don't (directly) affect us. Brown v. Board. The Voting Rights Act. Districting. Ranked-choice voting. And all the thousands of little things that help entrench white power in this country, frankly (why do cities need "at large" council members?). Issues with lending, leasing. Etc.

Which is the function of the smokescreen.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

marching towards theocracy. Washington, Jefferson, etc… this country’s Founders would be horrified at codifying religion into law

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

worth a look

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-and-a-lie/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I love D3

https://www.d3indepth.com/geographic/

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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

The Web Engines Hackfest 2024 talks have been published in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4sEzdAGvRgBVK-g6z4-YGt8uv3Dni6ag 🎞️

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is a semblance of the tech press reporting on what the student experience of computing is like worldwide:

https://youtu.be/RaBdEp1Wec8?si=cmXcgR2hwEpSbJgX

Not pretty.

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20002ist@thepit.social ("Mark Eckenwiler") wrote:

@TwoClownsEating @Vonskinnback @courtcan @strypey

“I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I've had my differences with Fil over the years; sometimes in ways that were visible from space with low-resolution sensors. But this is the kind of work I can get behind, and I wish him nothing but luck in making it a success:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR8y7swDkPU

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trisweb@m.trisweb.com ("Tristan Harward") wrote:

I'm scared how misunderstood LLMs and GenAI truly are; they are so far from a genuine intelligence it's not even funny. They are statistical models for language, trained on a lot of words and sentences, representing the statistical likelihood of words following other words, sentences following other sentences, just with a lot of data and samples to pull from. That's it. There's no intelligence, there's no path to intelligence; it's simply statistics chaining words and symbols together.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Flamenco Sketches (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis

https://pandora.app.link/vUORWq3luKb

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

It's Easy To Remember (Take 6) by John Coltrane

https://pandora.app.link/aLENituluKb

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Back to Earth by The Dave Brubeck Quartet

https://pandora.app.link/q90asFVkuKb

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Le petit bal (Take 1 - Bande originale du film "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud") by Miles Davis

https://pandora.app.link/JYa8jlHkuKb

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Violets For Your Furs (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) by John Coltrane

https://pandora.app.link/tUZfZDPjuKb

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhhhh… I See Your Face Before Me (RVG Remaster) by Miles Davis

https://pandora.app.link/jTIyRI8iuKb

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

ICYMI Friday, I kicked off this season’s crowdfunder. We’re already 15% of the way to Target One, which is fantastic, but that’s no reason not to click through.

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LAUNCHING A NEW CROWDFUNDER: If you’d like more special-guest episodes of my terrible podcast for grown-ups “The 9pm Edict” then please click through and consider pledging your support to The 9pm Winter Series 2024. It’s all the usual deals. https://the9pmedict.com/winter2024

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘“I meant,” said Ipslore, bitterly, “what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?”
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.
“Curse you!”’

- from Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

seems like a sensible framework: “… safe, secure, and trustworthy AI innovation to harness the opportunities of AI while mitigating its risks.”

https://ai.gov/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Absolute banger from @JuliusGoat this week. Too many highlighted quotes to pick from.

The Case For Shunning - by A.R. Moxon - The Reframe
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-case-for-shunning/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

doing some trimming today

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

In case JOMO is unfamiliar: https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/112617449834025940

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I think I'm going to try and take a JOMO break.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I'm about to rewatch Fahrenheit 9/11 for the first time in twenty years. It's on Tubi. Why not.

If there's anything noteworthy, I'll write about it.

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

A nice trend, web components can be incrementally useful! No need to use all the specs if you don't need them (ht @sjorsrijsdam )

https://www.rijsdam.nl/blog/web-components-without-having-to-go-instantly-from-0-to-100

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

The problem with Apple is: the newest device is probably better than its peers, but any device more than a year or two old is probably way worse, because it's being bulldozed into artificial obsolescence.

My half-decade-old budget Android holds up better than my Apple devices from a year or two ago. And it certainly holds up better than whatever iPhone was being marketed back then.

(Not that Google doesn't do this, too. They definitely do. But not quite to the same extreme.)

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ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:

hi manmade horrors beyond my comprehension, im dad

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Well, this might work for a Desktop Computer Lab switch. So smol! So open!
https://docs.murexrobotics.com/elec/boards/networking/switch

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JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

I have a joke about legacy code but very few people understand it now

#HappyFathersDay #DadJokes

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

strongly agree with Dr. Arati Prabhakar (Director, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy): the criteria for evaluating AI technologies should center on whether it is safe, effective, & trustworthy.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The evidence that I wasn't an awful father is that I never lopped off any of my children's limbs? Finally, a standard I can meet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/when-you-dont-want-to-be-cited/

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CptSuperlative@toot.cat ("Captain Superfluous") wrote:

I don't want my phone or laptop to generate images.

I don't want them to generate text.

I don't even want them to pseudo-summarize, or pseudo-search, or pseudo-answer questions, or have pseudo-conversations, or pseudo-meetings.

I want to be able to change the god-damned, fucking battery.

Hype that.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

thanks for the oh so cheery greeting, @CARROT

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

awww… daKid, who is in her 40s now, called from London to wish me Happy Father’s Day

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rooster@chaosfem.tw ("Jessica") wrote:

@lisamelton eastern part of Oregon is Mountain time, Florida panhandle is central

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

The web: Three languages and three runtimes in a trenchcoat.

(It's often more than three of either in practice.)

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Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

Boss: Why is your work only 80% complete?

Me: Oh, yes! There’s a very good explanation for that.

In my last performance review, you noted that I was exceeding all expectations, but that you were only giving me a 4 out of 5 because you “never give 5s” because “there’s always room for improvement.”

As a result, I’ve taken the initiative to deliver at 4/5 capacity to ensure I’m performing according to your expectations.

As we’ve already established, I’m easily capable of performing at and above 100%, so please let me know once you’ve adjusted my performance rating to a 5 and I will adjust my performance accordingly.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Firefox OS failed[1], but at least we still have Electron apps, right? 😅

[1] Yes, I know about KaiOS

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DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:

@TheBreadmonkey You might enjoy this cover of Psycho Killer, because it's incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmGpJJsQEU

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their git repositories.

Here's a dump of this data (33MB compressed, 150K files): https://lib.rs/data/rust-repo-checks.tar.xz

The comparison algorithm and the JSON format is described here:
https://gitlab.com/lib.rs/main/-/blob/main/tarball/src/comparator.rs

#rustlang

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

So…this is the state of British journalism?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/%f0%9f%a4%ae%f0%9f%a4%ae%f0%9f%a4%ae/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It turns out that black widows can get pretty intense at mealtime.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/black-widows-the-most-boring-pet-ever/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I will always favor banning ads.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/a-brilliant-approach/

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Jantar@mstdn.social ("Jan Thie") wrote:

@undeadbydawn @Shachihoko @duanetoops @aordover @elysegrasso @rdviii @bookstodon
Cryptonomicon is great but I will still always tell newcomers to start with The Baroque Cycle (if they don't mind really really long books) because these books show you both the mad magic of a storyteller who's always totally just in control *and* why the act of storytelling itself is the highest form of escapist truth-telling.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I've been obsessively watching through the in person #BloodOnTheClocktower games on the #NoRollsBarred channel, it's so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxsdMGy4XA

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I hope this email finds you
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Watermelon Man (Remastered 2007) by Herbie Hancock

https://pandora.app.link/vd0bCzzJsKb

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhhh… listening to Fran-Dance (w John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis

https://pandora.app.link/fgSzHdPIsKb

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

If you want to convert me from atheism, don't do these things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/foolish-evangelicals-you-cant-convert-me/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA35PblM2uI

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(At least when I let myself do something like that.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I was thinking that the cool thing about the 6yo is that I can get a few bucks worth of craft supplies, and they can be absorbed and entertained for hours. And then I realized the same is true for me. 😆

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jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:

Latest comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence

#ai #cartoon #comic #tech #technology #economy #internet #education

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• BILLIONAIRES FUND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE 1. BILLIONAIRE 1 - HMM... MAYBE NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE REDUCED TO PATTERN RECOGNITION AND THEFT BY ALGORITHM. BILLIONAIRE 2 - WHAT IF WE FUNDED H.I.? 2. BILLIONS ARE POURED INTO ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, AND WRITERS, SPARKING A NEW RENAISSANCE. ARTIST AT DRAWING TABLE - YOU MEAN... I ACTUALLY... GET PAID? 3. CLASSES ON CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE LAVISHLY ENDOWED. TEACHER HOLDING POINTER AT VIDEO MONITOR SHOWING AN OPINION COLUMN - WHAT LOGICAL FALLACIES CAN YOU FIND HERE? STUDENT - THERE ARE SO MANY! 4. EVENTUALLY... WOMAN TO BILLIONAIRE 1 - THANKS TO YOUR FUNDING OF H.I., I NOW CAN SEE THAT YOU SHOULD BE PAYING AT LEAST A 90% TAX RATE. BILLIONAIRE 1 - HMM... SHOULDA STUCK WITH A.I.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

just ask Little Donnie

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balloob@fosstodon.org wrote:

@slightlyoff you were one of the people that inspired me to pick and stick with web components (started with polymer 0.4). I wrote about it a couple of years ago https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/05/22/internet-of-things-and-the-modern-web/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

They used to live in a universe where Sonic and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were real, and they all worked together and had adventures. Then they got sucked through a portal and were born in this universe where they had to start all over as a baby.

Seems reasonable.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Summer really gets the toxic reply guys fired up, it seems like.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

TIL that the Home Assistant UI is Web Components all the way down; specifically, Lit and MDC.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

sound off with the your mascot names in the comments. I find a way to casually mention that the michelin man is named bibendum like, every 3 weeks

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

one beautiful thing about living and growing is noticing patterns in your own interests that you wouldn't have considered in advance. like after learning a few over the years i've discovered that I love when corporate mascots have given names that are not widely used

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Everyone remembers their first bicycle, I presume.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/first-bike/

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is *so* important:

https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/112617509552335398

The scale of value destruction I've witnessed from junior engineers and managers cosplaying the inflated titles they were given in the last decade is hard to describe. Hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, thrown on the pyre of burning ignorance.

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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

Let's be clear, I'm not suggesting this is strictly better and the answer to all of your problems. I'm suggesting this as an intentional business tradeoff that I think provides more value and is less costly in the long run. I believe if you stick closer to core web technologies, you'll be better able to hire capable engineers in the future without them convincing you they can't do work without rewriting millions of lines of code.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Royce White and the Drinking Fountain map: it worked for John Snow and the Broad Street Pump, you know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/maybe-crime-is-spread-through-the-drinking-water/

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“On June 14, 1920, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie… were lynched by a mob of white residents in Duluth, Minnesota… in town working with a traveling circus when two white teenagers falsely claimed that they and three other Black circus workers had attacked them and raped a local white woman. Newspapers reported the alleged assault, and false rumors soon spread that the woman had died from her injuries… there was no evidence that an assault had occurred.”

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/15

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adredish@neuromatch.social ("Redish Lab") wrote:

Welcome back, Voyager 1!

Voyager 1 is sending full science data again!

This is an amazing debugging job, of a 1970s computer, done remotely over a distance of 15 billion miles (nearly 163 AU), and a lag time of nearly a day each way.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-program/voyager-1/voyager-1-returning-science-data-from-all-four-instruments/

#voyager1 #NASA

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

interesting to see a recommendation to use ChatGPT in a “JS8 For Newbies” document

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“…for years leading up to the attack, a Microsoft engineer named Andrew Harris repeatedly warned the company… beginning in 2017, he repeatedly raised his concerns… a product manager told Harris that addressing the solution in the way he suggested could risk alienating the federal government, harming Microsoft’s chances of getting one of the largest government computing contracts in U.S. history.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Every decision you have ever made, every setback endured and accomplishment achieved, every external force influencing the course of your path for the good or bad — the culmination of your entire life — has led you to reading this shitty post right now.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It was the ignorant cockiness of that last snide comment that made me snap.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/if-only-they-hadnt-made-that-last-comment/

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• Male skeletons literally have more ribs than female skeletons and many other differences. Did you go to an online college? (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Ruined a perfectly good joke. I mean... Okay, it wasn't a *good* joke, but it didn't even make sense with the wrong URL. *shaking fist* Blast those javascript jockeys!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

That thing where as you scroll down a page, the URL completely changes? Not cool, friend. Not cool.

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socialnetwork@mastodon.uno ("Fediverso e Social Network") wrote:

Il costante crollo di server nel #fediverso ha ragioni precise.

Dopo l'euforia iniziale molti hanno realizzato che gestire un'istanza non è un gioco, ma costa molto tempo e molto denaro.

Complici anche i molti attacchi hacker, siamo a più di 300 chiusure al mese, cadono le piccole istanze senza risorse (nessuna delle top 20 è stata chiusa) pleroma x il selfhosting ha perso più di #mastodon!

Pazienza, evidentemente avremo meno #istanze improvvisate e rimarranno le istanze meglio gestite! 👍

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Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:

@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2

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ImpossibleUmbrella@infosec.exchange ("Impossible Umbrella :donor: :tux: :vim:") wrote:

This is a fascinating tale of #physics
#mathematics #spaceflight
& #retrocomputing - via @arstechnica

How a 55-year old big was found in the first lunar lander game…

https://martincmartin.com/2024/06/14/how-i-found-a-55-year-old-bug-in-the-first-lunar-lander-game/

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sparrowsion@queer.party ("Sion [main]") wrote:

Article reminds you that (a) you can apply for free voter id and (b) this uses your current name, a current photo, and has no gender marker: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

gathering up my dog-walking gear… time for my weekly volunteer gig at the Pound. need coffee.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Opinion: "It is not difficult to see how the lawsuit against us could become part of a broader effort to dismantle press freedoms for journalists across the nation. If journalist freedoms are stripped from us in Mississippi or elsewhere, the corruption and wrongdoing of our government leaders could go more easily unseen. Every citizen — not just the journalists — would be harmed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/mississippi-press-freedom-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Should “The Apprentice” end up widely available globally but not, for political reasons, in the United States, it will be a sign of democratic decay, as well as an augur of greater self-censorship to come. After all, if anxiety about enraging Trump is already shaping what you can and cannot watch, it’s probably bound to get even worse if he actually returns to power.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/the-apprentice-trump-movie.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

"Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the first time EU regulators have used new digital rules to target a Big Tech group"

Let's hope the fines are big enough to trigger a change.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/apple-set-to-be-first-big-tech-group-to-face-charges-under-eu-digital-law/

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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

This is horrible. Reporting from Reuters revealed that the US military ran disinformation campaigns, including creating fake social media accounts, to sow doubt in the quality of COVID vaccines, masks, and tests produced by other countries.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

So relatable:

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-detects-heartbeat-message-from-voyager-2-1850696125

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm like the Voyager space probes in that I too am gently prodded by our best practitioners to keep functioning after nearly five decades.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings.

If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend arguing about it is wasted energy.

I will die on this hill.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

And if you're an engineer, you will be able to retain much higher market value over time if you dig into and understand core web technologies. I was here before react, and I'll be here after it dies. You may trade some job marketability today. But it does a lot more for career longevity than trying to learn every new thing that gets popular. And you see how quickly they discarded us when the market turned anyway. Knowing certain tech won't save you from those realities.

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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

I always have to start with the cynical take. It's just how I am. But I do want to talk about what I think should be happening instead.

Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions. We need to relearn what the web is capable of and go back to that.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ellieraejaye@lgbtqia.space ("Ellie Dangerous") wrote:

Blue Monday on vintage Casio instruments

https://youtu.be/h9mm0YlMa9I?si=fQvLPsdSkKdVLFTV

#NewOrder #BlueMonday #Casio

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vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

One of the last remaining features the Mastodon core team is preparing to ship with a 4.3 beta, is …drumroll… GROUPED NOTIFICATIONS!

Soon, a flurry of likes and boosts on popular toots will no longer overrun your mentions! The backend API merged a couple weeks ago but the native implementation is still being refined.

In typical #vmstio fashion it’s available early for our members. You can access it through a dedicated URL, for the time being.

https://vmst.io/notifications_v2

This is very much a work in progress but feedback is welcomed.

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

zakalwe@plasmatrap.com ("Cheradenine Zakalwe") wrote:

@m@blat.at Finland went HARD "Fuck you, buddy" to the fash.https://yle.fi/a/74-20092966

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herereadthis.blog@herereadthis.blog ("Here, Read This") wrote:

«Samir Saran, the head of the Indian thinktank the Observer Research Foundation, who described himself as an atheist in a room full of believers, nevertheless agreed that something bigger than Europe was at stake as he almost mocked the inability of the west’s $40tn economy to organise a battlefield defeat of Russia’s $2tn economy.

He argued: “There is one actor that has reorganised its strategic engagement to fight a war and the other has not. One side is not participating in the battle. You have hosted conferences supporting Ukraine and then do nothing more. But when it comes to action, Russia 2.0 is grinding forward.

“It tells countries like us that if something like this were to happen in the Indo-Pacific, you have no chance against China. If you cannot defeat a $2tn nation, don’t think you are deterring China. China is taking hope from your abysmal and dismal performance against a much smaller adversary.”»

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/putin-war-ukraine-forgotten-lessons-of-history-europe

«Flowers, not tomatoes, greeted the French prime minister Édouard Daladier, to his surprise, when he returned from Munich in 1938. Knowing full well the threat posed by Hitler, and that he and Chamberlain had betrayed Czechoslovakia, the only democratic country in central eastern Europe, he turned to his counsellor and said of the cheering crowds: “Bunch of fools.”»

https://herereadthis.blog/2024/06/14/were-in-1938-now-putins-war-in-ukraine-and-lessons-from-history/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@voight @augieray @_L1vY_

Holy crap, their "About Republicans" page: https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's *wild* that The Verge – a news website, not an app, for very self-conscious and thoughtful reasons – cannot bring itself to understand what laws like this will mean for the web vs. native apps:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24177599/apple-google-japan-law-third-party-app-stores-competition

🤦🤦🤦

See also:

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

dotproto@toot.cafe ("Simeon.__proto__") wrote:

@slightlyoff This seems like an extension that might be up your alley for getting an intuitive feel for the weight of a page https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey/112478654366688315

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mhoye wrote:

Fifty years of diff: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/06/14/fifty-years-of-diff-and-merge/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

early-rising moon today

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

JS is like C/C++ in that if your team isn't terrified of it, they shouldn't be let anywhere near it.

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

My $0.02 re: the Apple stuff.

Provably private cloud computing is still a pipe dream - homomorphic encryption, etc.

Approximations are possible. They are complex, fragile, and with threat model carve-outs you can drive a truck through.

This ain't necessarily bad, but three things can simultaneously be true:

1. It's a major improvement from the infra security standpoint,

2. It doesn't confer any bulletproof assurances to you, the consumer,

3. In light of #2, it can be a step back if it blurs the PR line between keeping your stuff local and your device shipping it off to the cloud.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Boat. 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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