jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
If you're making a JavaScript game that takes keyboard input, please use the KeyboardEvent.code attribute (instead of .key).
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/code
> this property returns a value that isn't altered by keyboard layout or the state of the modifier keys.
Your players who don't use a QWERTY layout will thank you.
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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:
Microsoft: we shall buy npm and host these massive assets with trillions of requests in perpetuity for free.
Google: we must shut our link shorter, for it is too much for us to bear. bring onto us our fainting couch.
Shits weird that’s all I’m saying it’s weird now.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Whole lotta spiders.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/23/i-told-you-had-to-sort-spiders-today/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just boomers doing boomer things. I cannot *WAIT* for this thing to be approved via SB 423:
https://x.com/_fruchtose/status/1815795001596719189
Also, sorry for the birdshite link, but this coverage seems to only be there.
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unormal ("Brian Bucklew") wrote:
Some people will say Caves of Qud is a bad game, to which I will say, yes but if you only make good things you're missing out on a lot of things that could be made.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:
Check out the first story we published about Nyah Mway: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/protests-erupt-in-utica-after-brutal-police-killing-of-13-year-old-refugee/
Window management in #macOS #Sequoia is cursed.
I've clicked the arrange 2x2 icon *once*, and since then all new app windows keep opening squished to quarter size.
The single-item fill option does not maximize windows. It keeps adding inter-column gaps to all sides of the screen too. So many unwanted gaps, it's like USA bathroom stalls.
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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
Came across https://reddit.com/r/css/comments/1e9wynb/funky_circle_image_effect_with_tailwind_css/ AI-generated tailwind... don't know whether to laugh or cry...
Here's a 0% AI, 0% tailwind, 100% human brain + hand-coded version I made in just a few min on @codepen https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/dyBXLJy
Oh, and it's not in px, it's responsive.
#CSS #boxShadow #code #coding #frontend #webDev #web #dev #webDevelopment
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Physics #cat
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Sinclair top anchor Eugene Ramirez quits over slanted news he was forced to read.
“One of the primary issues that prompted Ramirez's resignation was the requirement to include at least three stories produced by Sinclair's Rapid Response Team (RRT) on a nightly basis…. Through July 4, 2024, the RRT has produced 147 stories this year that portray Democrats in a negative light and just 7 stories that portray Democrats positively."
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's really something that the Republican party is now facing off against a coalition so unwieldy and broad that the only tent big enough to cover it is the pro-democracy label.
If they were even 30% more fair-election-curious, they could shatter the D's narrative. But no, they're all in on coup apologetics and vote suppression and corruption and minority rule. Incredible.
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GUIpsp@types.pl ("Guilherme Espada") wrote:
SIGPLAN-AV and the PLDI24 Video Volunteers present: The PLDI24 videography.
https://www.youtube.com/@acmsigplan/videos
Over 200 videos are now available. If we made an error, please contact us at the email listed in https://sigplan.org/AV/
Big thanks to the Video Volunteers whose contributions made this possible (hopefully I don't miss anyone):
Aidan Olsen
Caroline Cronjaeger
Feitong Qiao
Grace Tan
Hannah Leung
Jing Liu
Joachim Kristensen
Luisa Cicolini
Michael Piskozub
Nicola Assolini
Pedro Barroso
Siddharth Bhat
Yuxi Ling
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rora_borealis@tech.lgbt ("Rora Borealis") wrote:
@GottaLaff Civiqs released their newest data, and it's quite interesting.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
REDALERT: The Senate is likely to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) this week. This internet censorship bill will impact everyone who uses social media. Tell your representatives to vote no today. #THREAD https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
🤣
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@GottaLaff they need to make/sell signs or stickers with “Childless Cat Ladies for Harris”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
We heard from thousands of young people who don’t support KOSA: it will censor the internet but won't help them. Here's how KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:
#KOSA is a horrible bill, co-authored by a GOP anti-trans senator who wants to weaponize it against kids.
Anytime you see "bipartisan" legislation like this, alarm sirens should go off.
If you're in the US, calling your rep is one of the most effective ways to oppose legislation like this. The Stop KOSA site has an excellent calling tool that makes this easy. Please use it.
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gws@mstdn.social ("George Stagg") wrote:
Have you ever given a presentation and wished you had an #rstats or #python console right there in your slides with you? Based on a great suggestion from a webR user, Quarto Drop is a #quarto extension that adds a fullscreen interactive console and code editor directly into a #quarto reveal.js presentation. The console is powered by #wasm, using #webR or #pyodide, and can be dropped down from above or hidden away with the click of a button or a shortcut key.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-we-know-about-kamalas-climate-plan-1851601786
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a little afternoon reading material from @b0rk
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cool. Black widow spiderlings start out orangish, with white markings, and a solid black mask around the eyes. 🧪
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
I don’t think it’s appropriate to call the first Black woman presidential nominee by her first name. If you say Biden and Trump, you should say Harris.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
All the creationists have to do is look beneath their feet.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's Spider Tuesday! I don't expect that to be as catchy as Taco Tuesday.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/23/i-know-what-im-doing-today/
@Vivaldi I couldn't convert my mum from Opera, because:
- you don't import open tabs. They're 99% of what is important to import.
- speed dial page is the other important thing, and the import did not enable it automatically.
- you don't deduplicate the imported bookmarks. Every browser imports from every browser, and then every import click in Vivaldi makes another "Imported (17)" folder. It's an off-putting intimidating mess of exponentially multiplied unsorted old dupe bookmark folders.
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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:
Hidden in deep darkness, there may be a trillion sunless planets wandering our galaxy -- including vast numbers of Earth-size worlds exiled from their homes.
The discovery of these "rogue planets" is one of most fun stories I've covered. Read it here:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rogue-planet #space #science #astronomy #tech #astrodon
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EFF's "privacy badger" extension today expanded its effects on your Chrome settings to disable the Google "Ad Sandbox". This disables not just Topics (the worst of Ad Sandbox's features so far) but also the other two features— including "Ad Measurement", a feature that Apple copied a couple years back and Firefox adopted as an "experiment" this month.
https://mastodon.social/@eff/112831156838249955
The EFF here succinctly argues why all of these ad features should not be running on your computer:
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
i_lost_my_bagel@mastodon.lilysthings.org ("number 1 rover fan") wrote:
fun fact: if you have a laptop or desktop that has an intel cpu with "vPro" on the sticker there's a chance the management engine in your CPU is just hosting a web server at all times.
It's at port 16992
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:
This is a disappointing (though hardly surprising) climb-down for Google Chrome. However, it reinforces what I've been saying for ages: don't use Chrome. Use a browser that respects your #privacy. There are many Chromium-based options that respect privacy out of the box, such as Brave and Vivaldi. Edge can be easily configured to respect privacy. Firefox and Safari are both great options that have better default privacy. And install @privacybadger extension. https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/news/privacy-sandbox-update/
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:
"“I don’t think folks appreciate what we’re seeing from the Ds right now,” observes political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitcofer. “Newsom, Whitmer, Shapiro- every top tier Democrat- has put personal ambitions aside to come out and help the party coalesce around Kamala Harris.”
Political commentator Bob Cesca adds, “And they’re putting their ambitions aside for what could end up being 8 more years.”"
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:
So, it seems like Elon Musk is engaged in election interference against Kamala Harris.
Perhaps today would be a good day for journalists, politicians and everyone else to vacate the Nazi bar and come over to open social media.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
WrenArcher@beige.party ("Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹") wrote:
I did some searching but couldn't find the original source of this graphic but it's just too good not to share. My apologies for swiping this without credit.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Ft Knox, 1968
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… in interviews, Democrats were eager to make the race about character and experience, noting Ms. Harris’s law enforcement background and Mr. Trump’s litany of legal problems.
“She is a former prosecutor and he is a convicted felon,” said Marcia L. Fudge, a former housing secretary in the Biden administration who said she had spoken with Ms. Harris on Sunday. “If there ever was a huge choice, this is it.”’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Vance, in “Hillbilly Elegy”:
“We talk about the value of hard work, but tell ourselves that the reason we’re not working is some perceived unfairness… ‘Obama shut down the coal mines’ or ‘All the jobs went to the Chinese.’ These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance — the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.”"
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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@slightlyoff hah. Yes. We recently added a Google login button just because we hadn't yet implemented proper auth and we wanted to throw together the account UX...
The innocent little JS import adds an iframe, and enough drag to make a noticeable slowdown to rendering even on a MacBook Pro M3 MAX. For a login button.
I am not kidding.
It's going to burn in fire.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The greatest minds of a generation, etc. etc.:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I remember a Google that had not been consumed by JavaScript brain worms. A Google where high-traffic services had to be fast; where folks competed to see who could make the smallest 404 page; byte golfing to win latency.
That Google, it seems, is gone. In its place, a login page comprised of 380K of JS (1.2MB unzipped) *on top* of 125K of HTML (687K unzipped) generating seconds of main-thread blockage on low-end devices:
🤦😢
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Not for nothing, but Apple's bombast and triumphalism on Privacy is just as hollow, if not more so.
The only way to get privacy, rather than ads selling you a new phone with a privacy sticker on the box, is to lobby for legislation that makes data-at-rest toxic to sell or recombine.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The only way to get privacy online is, was, and remains legislation. At some level, it's good that Google has finally figured that out. At another level, I hope some of the folks involved that threw elbows instead of doing math can start to reflect on what (and who) they wasted:
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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:
Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online
Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/practical-svg-is-now-free-to-read-online/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In my house, there are many spiders.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/so-schon/
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Takerufuji is back!!! That was a nice surprise!
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
randulo ("Randulo.com") wrote:
This is fantastic, a beautiful moment with Norah Jones. The definition of musicality.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In their floundering for a line of attack, one tactic the Republicans are following is to mock her for laughing?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/laughter-humanizes/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Finally finding a few Monarch larvae in our yard.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/little-princeling/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
IABs that don't respect browser choice are a scourge. Shame on Google and Apple for allowing them.
ICYMI, a great post on them via @rgadellaa :
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-in-app-browsers/
And @owa's video explaining the problem(s):
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tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:
THEY DID IT!!!!
My local library built the seed library!
The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!
The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!
Free seeds for everyone!
#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid #seedLibrary #earthDay
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
people are posting this because it's funny and of course it *is* funny. but also, having non-critical fail-fast elements in your instructure (fuses, basically) is a legitimate path to resilience.
I'm hoping that there are computer scientists (or adjacent scientists) studying orgs that missed out on the worst of Crowdstrike and getting into the technical details of how that worked? I know it's way too early to see papers on this but are there maybe blog posts already??
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:
Thought I couldn’t get surprised by CSS anymore, but then someone goes and builds a raytracer using `box-shadow`s??? https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-not-to-use-box-shadows
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Brace yourself for an openly racist, misogynist Republican campaign.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/nosedive-right-into-the-sewer/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The strong longing and wishing for ones’ children to have their own children and to be able to manifest the affection and express the feelings of endearment inspired by having grandchildren, mixed with the simultaneous fear of knowing the life your grandchildren will inherit will be radically different than the present one, and perhaps filled with untold suffering as climate change accelerates and drastically alters the Earth.
https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/portfolio/nonnapaura/
Others:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm home. I've decided that no one in my family is ever allowed to die again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/the-magical-misery-tour-is-over/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'm thrilled to support Harris.
Just one thing: Trump isn't going to stop hammering on his opponent's weaknesses (real or imagined), and the media isn't going to stop unquestioningly parroting him in an obvious double standard.
So maybe we *don't* help them out so much this time, eh?
In November I want to see us standing behind our candidate—and I think we will—not wringing our hands over whatever MAGA talking point the NYT laundered into quasi-journalism.
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ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:
the Joint Statistical Meetings, a huge conference, will be here in Portland in _TWO WEEKS_. I finally took a look at the schedule, and I will be running around going to a million sessions starting Sunday afternoon.
(also the online schedule doesn't let you save sessions, so good luck trying to be organized)
Do I know anyone who will be there? Can you boost so that I might meet fedi-folk who should be in my professional circle?
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
The transition of virtually any code base in the world to safer, better languages, such as Rust, is not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of “when”.
Putting aside the White House recently identifying unsafe languages as a national security risk, there is also the fact that all software will become strictly unmaintanable in a decade simply because the most skilled people in the upcoming generation will not be competing for C++ jobs, they’ll be competing for Rust jobs!
This is why Linus Torvalds actually admitted that the main reason for introducing Rust into the Linux kernel is actually in order to enfranchise younger talent! Look it up.
The transition to Rust for all the world’s kernels, drivers, microcontrollers and more isn’t going to be just motivated by safety concerns (themselves already more than enough), but also by the fact that if you don’t transition, you won’t have the best engineers, today in their teens, willing to work for you in ten years to carry your stack into the future. You will therefore open up your entire empire to being replaced by the upstarts that will actually take these engineers in and let them shine.
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wolftune@social.coop ("Aaron Wolf") wrote:
I'm speaking at #fossy2024 in just under two weeks. First, I'm doing an updated co-presentation with my son about teaching #softwarefreedom concepts to children. Second, I'm co-presenting an updated overview of the economics of public goods to set the stage for a panel discussion on FLO funding dilemmas.
Starting to regret throwing away boxes of old IDE cables now 🫣
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alanferrier@mastodon.scot ("Alan Ferrier") wrote:
I'm definitely up for the series finale of the Donald Trump saga being the one where he loses to a Black woman.
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
here i got you a copy of tomorrow's nyt
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris
https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198
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samhainnight@mstdn.social ("Samhain Night") wrote:
While I'm thrilled at the thought of President Harris, I am a bit concerned that the "donor class" got a sitting president to drop out of the race.
Getting rid of Citizens United has got to be a priority, folks.
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kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:
An interesting side note in all of this is that the Supreme Court has given total immunity to a guy with six months left to serve and no fucks left to give.
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rodhilton ("Rod Hilton") wrote:
This November, you have the power to make Elon Musk waste 180 million dollars.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:
mods are still asleep. Post more woodcock
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
miona@toot.lgbt ("他の星からMiona") wrote:
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
In-App Browsers are hijacking our web, and that really needs to stop
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-in-app-browsers/
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JubalBarca@scholar.social ("James Baillie") wrote:
*runs in, panting*
Heard the timeline was in desperate need of a baby wild hamster right now. Got here as quickly as I could.
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
RIP Evelyn Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTDwJEBe21s
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malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:
The Democratic party has to be hands down one of the most useless political parties in history. The republicans have built a comprehensive 4 year plan to dismantle democracy, meanwhile it's 6 months into the election year and the democrats are still busy eating glue.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The Convention Rules Might Decide” - POLITICO
“…the pledged delegates [have] become free agents. They are under no obligation to follow whatever preferences Biden may express — whether endorsing his vice president or calling for an open convention with a “mini-primary” to decide his replacement on the ticket.
What happens at this point is up to the convention itself, which always has the power to adopt, amend or discard existing rules.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/20/biden-democratic-convention-nominee-rules-00169821
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A wise and selfless decision: Biden decides it's time to tend to his fig tree.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/21/biden-out/
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Two things are still true:
If enough Black people in swing states re-check their registration, and sign up for mail-in voting, early voting, or ballot drop off, then Biden can't lose.
The Dem party has spent significantly more time, money, effort, and attention, trying to get Kamala Harris out of the Whitehouse, than it has spent registering Black voters in swing states or telling them about mail-in voting or early voting. 🤡
The "despair" is unnecessary and self-inflicted.
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nonfedimemes@wetdry.world ("memes sometimes stolen from outside fedi") wrote:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thinking about my brother, who died on this date in 2017. RIP Maj. Larry Sonstein, VMI ‘66. we too were young, once upon a time.
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Bethdlindsay@social.coop wrote:
Cackle cackle cackle. Old tweet but just learned of it. #libraries
Image reads: forget STEM, now I’m all about STEAMED HAMS: science technology, engineering, art, math, humanities, anthropology, music, and such.
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combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:
Here's my latest artwork, an artcade machine named "Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something." If you pay up, it shows you a cat picture on its bulbous, flickering screen, and plays you a silly song with meowing.
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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍") wrote:
Remember this, and all the outrage in the West at Putin's tyranny, and his authoritarian Russian state?
And yet today in the UK five people who on Zoom call discussed blocking a motorway for a few hours, were sent to jail for more than double this sentence.
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fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:
The urge to make a plain HTML, native widgets demo of the DoorDash order page is almost overwhelming. Can you imagine?!
* Accessibility for free
* Fast load (``)
* Fast interaction
* Scrolls in only 1 direction!
* Command+F and other browser affordances work for free
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/
This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
girlgerms@infosec.exchange ("👩💻 Jess "GirlGerms" Dodson :ferdiverified: :donor:") wrote:
Microsoft Recovery Tool available now, with instructions to assist with the Crowdstrike issue impacting Windows endpoints.
This will require physical access & 1GB USB. You will need admin rights (+ access to the Bitlocker key, if Bitlocker is in place).
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
When I say that COVID is on a technical level fairly easily solvable, we just choose not to - it's things like these that I'm thinking of:
https://www.mpg.de/16075350/1127-chem-ventilation-made-easy-152990
> A simple ventilation system removes 90 percent of respiratory aerosols which potentially include coronavirus particles, from indoor air […] The design is very simple and was implemented using DIY store materials worth about € 200.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
The guy who ran our heat pump project gave me homemade rhubarb jam in exchange for some dishwasher tablets and this is the only kind of working relationship I'm interested in from now on.
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Finally shipped a new release of xword-dl, my command line tool to make puz files from online crosswords. Lots of fixes to existing outlets, new support for Puzzmo and Daily Pop, a "preserve HTML" option for formatted clues, and more. https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2024.7.20
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The argument for ineptitude is frustratingly strong. Remember when Apple took more than two months to close a cross-site tracking leak that it introduced into *every* iOS browser? Waaaaaaay back in
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...2022?
https://fingerprint.com/blog/indexeddb-api-browser-vulnerability-safari-15/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So the choices here don't have to include giving up on the idea of real online privacy, but we *do* have to understand Apple as either:
- inept re: privacy such that or should *absolutely* not be a sole arbiter of it for a large fraction of users in the web
- a capitalist trying to sell you an expensive new phone by virtue signal...er...marketing
Neither choice involves trusting Cupertino or taking it at face value; no matter how pretty the face it puts on.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So three things can be true at once:
1.) reducing collection can help, and in the short run it can disrupt some of the worst collectors and creepiest re-identification.
2.) reducing collection is not a replacement for privacy laws and will be long-term ineffective in *exactly* the ways Apple's blog post gets SO CLOSE to understanding.
3.) any firm that says "privacy is a human right" but only makes devices for the rich is *lying*
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple is *absolutely* spending more in every state and government capital around the world to defeat browser choice than they are to push for real privacy. They're spending *boatloads* more to scupper right-to-repair than they are to make privacy a reality by *killing the model brokers rely on* and legally prevent re-identification without consent.
But boy howdy, those ads. They sure are purdy.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is not to say that there aren't problems in the Topics API! Or that the folks who shipped it were fully open to feedback (a lot of good done, but also some fingers in ears). But as with Apple's own privacy-api-cum-tracking-vector, we can expect the first-pass issues to get fixed.
But *both* Google and Apple's efforts are mostly marketing; band-aids to distract from the lack of effective privacy legislation that would get at the real issue: huge pools of data at rest.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple markets privacy, rather than providing it. To provide it, they would need to spend the sort of money they splash out on billboards and ads *about* privacy to push for laws that *ensure* it.
They are not doing that.
Which makes chest-beating posts like this from folks that not-so-long-ago added high-resolution fingerprinting surface area to all iOS browsers in the name of "privacy"[1] *extremely* hard to take seriously:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Once again, I cannot recommend enough that web developers fully internalise this blog post by @TheRealNooshu:
https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/10/02/how-to-read-a-wpt-waterfall-chart/
