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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.

https://github-roast.pages.dev/

this thing is brutal

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sixcolors@zeppelin.flights ("Six Colors") wrote:

Existential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/existential-thoughts-about-apples-reliance-on-services-revenue/

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

a very sweet stroy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/style/sammi-cannold-safi-rauf-wedding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.PBjJ.FfE5y7P0cYmi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

I don't mind being called "weird" because I'm not trying to pass myself off as the model American everyone else must conform to. Do your own thing, even if it isn't my thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/04/you-can-call-me-weird-i-dont-mind/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMZ80N4_Zg

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aliss@outerheaven.club wrote:

ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ʜᴀꜱɴ’ᴛ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀʟᴍᴏꜱᴛ 200 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴇᴅ ɪᴛ. ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴇᴅʏ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴏʀꜱ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴇᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀɴᴋ.

ɪ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɪɴ 705 ᴀᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ᴡᴀꜱ ꜰᴜɴ. ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇʏ ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴀᴅᴅɪɴɢ ꜱᴛᴜᴘɪᴅ ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ “ᴄᴀꜱᴛʟɪɴɢ” ᴀɴᴅ “ᴇɴ ᴘᴀꜱꜱᴀɴᴛ” ɪɴꜱᴛᴇᴀᴅ ᴏꜰ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀʏᴇʀ ꜰᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰɪxɪɴɢ ɢᴀᴍᴇ-ʙʀᴇᴀᴋɪɴɢ ʙᴜɢꜱ. ɪ’ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟɪꜱɪᴏɴ-ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ɢʟɪᴛᴄʜ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʀꜱᴇʏ. ᴛʜᴇ “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ” ʙᴜɢ ʜᴀꜱ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴀʙᴜꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴢʏ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʀᴇꜰᴜꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪx ɪᴛ.

ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴀᴡꜰᴜʟ ʙᴇʜᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴏʏᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏ.

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bram85@emacs.ch ("Bram") wrote:

New #Emacs package: elfeed-export, which exports your elfeed database to JSON or Emacs Lisp Data. I wrote it as a (readable) backup and to allow other tools to process the news entries in my feeds.

Still under development and refinement, and a bit underdocumented.

When you're interested, clone a copy of the package at:

https://codeberg.org/bram85/elfeed-export

#elfeed

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A little photo shoot around the Northern Quarter.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Manchester

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• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, standing in the shade of an entrance of a red brick building, with one hand holding her chin.
• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, leaning against a bus pole, with the sunlight illuminating her from behind.
• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, sitting atop a red street planter, with a pair of blue tinted sunglasses tucked into her front pocket.

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

Working on a blog post covering some of the most heartbreaking performance disasters I'm seeing and the cultural forces that broke the web with JS.

Seeing 10s of megabytes of critical-path JS, served with no compression or caching still shocks, but no longer surprises.

Frontend is now failing in spectacularly performative ways. We stopped teaching the basics, and now all of society is paying the price.

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ryantownsend@webperf.social ("Ryan Townsend") wrote:

👏 more 👏 developers 👏 need 👏 to 👏 hear 👏 this

I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course 😉).

You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.

(screenshot excerpt from https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet)

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• Screenshot from Tailscale's blog post with the following text highlighted: "I read a post recently where someone bragged about using kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that's 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spend most of its time asleep." (remote)

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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

I’m not sure how to say this but WASM isn’t a cheap way to avoid “needing to” write javascript. You use wasm when you need to optimise a slow core loop (most commonly, bitcoin mining); or when you have an existing codebase you are trying to port.

If starfing with no wasm; and add wasm, you’re adding the complexity of a build targeting an unstable api surface, to create opaque blobs that more likely than not will wind up unmodifiable in 3 years as the build tool chain used to create it bitrots

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DamienMarieAtHope@kolektiva.social ("Damien Marie AtHope") wrote:

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bojacobs@hcommons.social ("Bo Jacobs") wrote:

The "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago

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• Quote: “Mel Brooks was once asked how he, as a Jewish man, was able to make so many silly jokes about Nazis. He said that evil people enjoy being portrayed as villains, but they detest being made out to look like fools” (remote)

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

Bitsavers seems to have a copy of the schematics and PCB from the university's now defunct ftp server.

https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/bits/Indiana_Univ/

And you can find on archive.org acceptable scans of the issues in question:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701215405/http://pestingers.net/pdfs/other-computers/circuit-cellar/1997/

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

This tickled a memory for me, and I couldn't let it go until I confirmed it. Thankfully somebody had an index of Circuit Cellar articles, which I could easily search once I used wget for a local copy.

Back in the early 90s, Ingo Cyliax of Indiana University developed an MC68030 based workstation, which was documented in 3 part series in issues 86-88 of Circuit Cellar Ink. It had an ISA bus and could run NetBSD. I had those issues for a long time, but never did attempt building it.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ivan's one easy rule to resist the spread of misinformation online:

Before automatically re-sharing a social media post telling you what some linked source says, *go read what the source actually says*. Then make an informed decision.

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

yes!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804

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

the sounds of my yute

https://music.apple.com/us/album/tom-trauberts-blues-four-sheets-to-the-wind-in-copenhagen/1485074801?i=1485074802

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

it is a good night for some Byrds

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

it is building, and the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are *hot* (and thus full of energy for that system to gobble up)

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

overactive fail2ban banned *mah* sorry a$$ from my main server just now... what wuz *that* about?

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a group in Melbourne called the Australian Soldiers' Legion (ASL) helped the Wagglens family, which included a homeless, wounded WWII veteran, his wife and children, squat a empty house in Bell Street, Hawthorn https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10160/wagglen-family-squat?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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MikeSaccone_@mastodon.online ("Mike Saccone") wrote:

A sunrise great blue heron flyby over the Potomac River.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f6.3, 1/500s)

#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

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• A great blue heron in flight in profile. The bird has dark blue wing feathers on the bottom half of its wings and lighter gray-blue feathers on the top of its wings, back, and throat. It has a long beak, yellow eyes, and a cap of dark blue feathers atop its head. The background is out-of-focus water. (remote)

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

Troopers Koehler and Haggerty almost made it all the way to peacetime… but in war, unlike in horseshoes, almost just does not count 💦

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

TIL about the doodle grid method of scaling and transferring drawings. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5A_9vylrQ

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jgeorge@oldbytes.space wrote:

LOL what the everloving heck is this, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen an IBM logo on. Spoilers: it's legit. I have it, it works, it does precisely what it says on the tin, and I love it.

Takeapart thread coming soon.

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mhoye wrote:

[dad voice] We have panic at home.

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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

Full source code for DOOM SNES released

https://gbatemp.net/threads/doom-for-snes-full-source-code-released-by-former-sculptured-software-employees.657118/

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cascadepine@mas.to ("Cascade Pine") wrote:

A leaf cutter bee, nomming on some pollen. You can see it’s got three extra eyes on top of its head. I never knew bees had 5 eyes until I took this photo!

#insects #bees #nature #macro #macroPhotography

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• A black bee with a white fuzzy band on its back is sitting on the stamen of a flower, absolutely chowing down on some orange pollen. (remote)

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1moremin@mastodon.ie wrote:

#ThickTrunkTuesday

The Tree is so big that no frame can contain it. There is no way to hold its integral essence in a single picture.
Everyone calls it The Cedar or just the Tree. They say “I’ll be at the Tree” and you don't need to ask “which one?”
The Tree is actually a juniper, not a cedar. It's an Arkeuthos (Αρκευθος), an oxycedrus Juniper I believe, though the subspecies of these trees vary a lot as I’ve learned these days.
Still, we all call it the Cedar.

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• The Tree as seen from northwest. Two distinct trunks, separated long ago, send huge branches around, shaped in forms that twist and swirl in time and space. (remote)
• East side, more curves and forms. The sky is still blue between the upper branches, but yellow and orange above the horizon. Someone's watching the sunset in the distance behind. (remote)
• The other side of the eastern trunk. Ancient grey shapes folding and flowing, leading up, to a labyrinth of sharp leaves and younger branches. (remote)

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

Good to know that the right-wingers want to quantify our genetics so they can tell us how to act during the day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/03/blood-quantum-is-back-baby/

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• My DNA says I'm 2/3 scandinavian and 20% british (remote)

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

Also, without going on too long about this, I think this mindset has also protected me from any sorts of ideas of exceptionalism. Like the idea that certain groups of people can't develop their own tech or something. Just utter bullshit and nonsense. History is rife with independent invention. Much of invention is path dependence leading to a context where a lot of people will have similar ideas. It's foolish to the extreme to underestimate other humans' ingenuity and imaginations.

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

However, in my old age, I have also developed a reluctant acceptance of the limits of my own understanding. We can't know everything (no matter how much we *really* want to), but just be careful who you trust when you decide to delegate understanding to somebody else.

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

Regarding LB[1]: That is the attitude I've had about computers, but also other things. Computers were the first memory I have of seeing people talking about something as though they were mysterious and unknowable, and that just made me angery and sad for people. People made it. Other people can understand it! To this day, whenever I see somebody more or less say, "Don't worry your pretty little head about that," my gut reaction is, "WTF are you tryin' to pull here?"

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@psypherpunk/112898887050260641

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psypherpunk@hachyderm.io ("PsypherPunk") wrote:

Wonderful article: "Computers can be understood": https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

"…no single human understands all of the layers…from the transistors and silicon up through …the application code, not even to mention all the network services involved…"—why I am, shall we say, not a fan of the phrase "full stack".

"…engineers I’ve worked with (including myself) who are the most comfortable reading unfamiliar code bases are at risk of habitually undervaluing documentation…”—ouch, that one hurt.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

View from around Old Dungeon Ghyll.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• Fells partially illuminated by the evening sun, partially in shadow from the heavy clouds above.

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

I have a soft in my heart homebrew computers. Things like:

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6940

Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC532

OR the many others I've seen. I'd like to add to that list with my own someday. 😄

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jbenjamint@mastodon.scot ("Ben Thompson 🐕") wrote:

This is quite the read - the fascist (and explicitly Nazi) origins of sex-testing at the Olympics.

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/a-forgotten-athlete-a-nazi-official-and-the-origins-of-sex-testing-at-the-olympics

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CobaltVelvet@octodon.social ("hinged death kinnie") wrote:

this is it. the ship is sinking.
on 2025-04-03, in 8 months, on its 8 years anniversary, the octodon will be permanently shut down.
use this time to slowly migrate your accounts and download your post archives. tell your local friends who might miss the instance announcement.
the first reply will contain a small list of instances to consider; the second a personal note for my followers.

thanks to everyone who supported us, to our crew and members.
i am glad to have built and shared this with you over the years. it was a beautiful horrible adventure. i hope you will remember it as a good place that united so many people for quite a while.

it always had to end eventually. for an impulsive little social website, 8 years is a good run. we have witnessed and remember so many friends who are gone. the octodon, too, gets to live impermanence and have a good end while we still can take care of it.

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

When a woman accomplishes something, the conservatives will line up to cast doubt on their identity. Every time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/03/as-we-all-know-real-women-lose-at-sports/

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• Imane Khelif (remote)

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

Sometimes reader mode just doesn't quite work for a web page[1], and so you drop into the inspector and add a little something like this in the style sheet:

body {
/* favorite width here */
max-width: 50em;
margin: auto;
}

And suddenly it's much more comfortable to read. After over 30yrs of the web, this kind of adjustment is inaccessible on the client unless you've had toxic levels of computer exposure like I have.

[1] https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The article "SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums" by Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame, with photos by Annie Leibovitz, was published on the Dec 7, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

It covered hacker culture in the Bay Area, mostly at Stanford and Xerox PARC. The article made PARC widely known, contributed to its myth, and caused some consternation among Xerox management.

https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

https://archive.org/details/19721207rollingstoneexcerptspacewararticlev02

#retrocomputing #xerox #parc

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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

Tyler Cipriani writes an interesting blog post about git credentials:

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/07/31/git-as-a-password-prompt/

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VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

"childless woman" is such a 19th-century-ass insult. what else you got. do I render inferior tallow? do my cabbages grow pale and blemished? does the quality of my sock-darning bring shame upon my father's name?

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makeworld@merveilles.town wrote:

I fucked up my repo so bad

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• A screenshot of a tree/flow diagram from Wikipedia. It outlines the history of Christian denominations splitting and joining. (remote)

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

oh, what a lovely weekend project idea @CARROT

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• 3f15c91180b7bcbd.mp4 (remote)

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

@rgadellaa ROC's notes on input latency are dead-on. That's the butter that makes the bread worth toasting.

What isn't called out is the role of benchmarks and bespoke macOS ports for pretentious (but underpaid) tech press. That shite murders good projects.

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

@rgadellaa - Never sleep on compiler flags or allocators or new OS-level APIs! This is the stuff of battery life and benchmark wins. Nothing makes browsers faster than data locality (we have done *ridonkulous* projects in Chromium on this; AMA), and nothing wins you security like telling system malloc and sandboxing to GTFO

• Hardware acceleration is wicked hard in web-landia because we can't make old sites do good things. But a new engine could set new lines. That's virgin territory.

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

via @rgadellaa, I'd missed this insightful post by ROC (who I'm not sure is here?):

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html

I'll only add notes to his queries in the thoughtful "Going Beyond" sections:

• You can always best a multi-OS browser on some perf aspects by optimising for a single OS...at least in the short run. Apple manages to do it (at least on power) through private APIs, and a sufficiently funded team can investigate/reverse enough to do the same (on open OSes....so not iPhones).
• (ctd.)

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

It was always "interesting" to me to see that it was reliably the most off-piste, bespoke, hardened, and locked-down configurations of general-purpose OSes (like OpenBSD) that got pwn'd in sweeps. Modern (as in, post 1990) OSes and CPUs just leave too many services hanging out for that not to be true over time, and nobody is djb except djb. So we have to find other ways forward. And seamless upgrades are the most powerful tool invented yet.

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

TIL that OpenBSD (my "distro" of choice as a padawan professional security engineer circa '02) is somehow still going. What I learned in those years is the same lesson I learned watching the progression of Windows and the web: when software is situated so tightly on fine-grained contracts that it cannot upgrade seamlessly, it becomes a liability as surely as night follows day.

Anyway, this is WILD to my old self. After 15+ years of not getting it they learned...sot of?:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html

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

"How can one person possibly be two things?" ask America's men/husbands/fathers/followers of Christ/developers/musicians/marathon runners/kombucha aficionados

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Ponygirl wrote:

Abortion is never illegal for the wealthy. Abortion bans are class warfare.

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Giuseppe Stromboli Tarr") wrote:

"I live in a red state my vote doesn't ma-"

If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to make it harder to vote in red states. Voting in red states can turn them into swing states like Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona. And voting in blue states can keep them from becoming swing states.

California used to be Red. Texas was Blue long ago. Florida was once a swing state. Obama took Indiana but it's gone redder since. Ten years ago Arizona and Georgia going blue was unthinkable.

Things change and we can make them change.

And that's before getting into more local elections. Turning cities blue, the state legislature.

Red states have flipped blue in recent years at those levels too.

Because people vote, and if we vote in high enough numbers we can turn a tight election into a walk in the park. If we vote in high enough numbers, we can turn a loss into a win. So many good things have happened in states where someone won by like 100 votes. (arizona is one)

-sniperct

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

When I say "things are forever ruined and will never again be the same as they once were," what I am specifically referring to is the food quality at Chipotle.

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Miniver ("Jonathan Korman") wrote:

It is a common misconception that “Mary Shelley” is the name of the novel, when it is actually the name of the novel’s creator

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• A matched set of classic novels, with a funny glitch in the formatting of the titles on the spines Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway Lewis Carroll | Alice’s Adventures Frankenstein | Mary Shelley Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer Charles Dickens | Great Expectations

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TartanLlama ("Sy Brand") wrote:

A wrote a book on how debuggers work!

It guides you through writing a complete native debugger from scratch.

Available Spring 2025 from @nostarch (probably not with this cover)

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• Cover for Building a Debugger by Sy Brand. It prominently features a cat with a blep and says "placeholder not final"

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GayOldTime@masto.ai ("Gay Old Time") wrote:

Traditional Masculinity™
#vintage #male #fashion

Attachments:

• Page from a 1972 clothing catalog featuring the Shirt Suit Supreme. It’s got a collar big enough to reach your nipples, and massive colorful ruffs on the front and pant legs. (remote)

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lproven@vivaldi.net wrote:

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/cpm_50th_anniversary/

In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems

<- by me on @theregister

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Hi everyone, I am organising LOCO 2024, 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing
It's hybrid and will be held 3 Dec 2024, in Glasgow (Scotland) and on line.

Please consider submitting, whether you're academic or not, and please spread the word.

https://locos.codeberg.page/loco2024/

#FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

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rochacbruno@social.rochacbruno.com ("Bruno Rocha :verified:") wrote:

All I need to be productive every day.

- Any editor with decent syntax highlighting
- Terminal
- pdb

extra: Solarized Light Theme

#meme #ide #python #tt

Attachments:

• Full IDE vs simple Editor (remote)

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alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

When the Back-End Engineer tries to add some white space below a component.

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• Convenience store in New York City 2nd avenue named BR BR BR BR BR (remote)

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

I made today's Puzzmo puzzle, a mid-sized themeless with some of my all-time favorite clues! Solve it here: https://puzzmo.com/link/crossword/2024/08/02

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vxo@digipres.club wrote:

Your periodic reminder that Sir Mix-A-Lot is an RF design engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpZOvADLW0

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

worth rereading from time to time:

“What does the Constitution say about picking Supreme Court justices? Not much” - MinnPost

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2016/02/what-does-constitution-say-about-picking-supreme-court-justices-not-much/

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

Cheer up! Janelle Monae is singing!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/02/a-great-way-to-start-the-morning/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ONr6K8GpE

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

Kamala Harris is "evil", according to noted expert in evil and ignorance, Ken Ham.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/02/i-guess-ken-ham-wont-be-voting-for-kamala-harris/

Attachments:

• Christian cartoon of two people afloat on a bible with an anchor, beset by a storm of culture war buzzwords, like "LGBTQ", "gender", and "evolution". (remote)

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adoralaura@tech.lgbt ("Adora 0x61646F7261 :verifiedlesbian: ✨") wrote:

Ok, PSA:
Gravatar is going Web3/Crypto-Bro.

To delete your account, login to wordpress.com and delete that, it’ll take care of gravatar too.

https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/30/decentralized-identity-management/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Go is to programing what Brutalism is to architecture.

It's the basic materials laid bare and exposed for what they are, striped down to the functionality and almost free from any decoration."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Of course I feel like the photo lacks a subject, but you don’t get a lot of choice after hiking up rocks for two hours with a 3kg camera and a tripod on your back, and a smaller camera swinging from your neck, standing on the only flat surface you can find.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First time shooting Ektachrome! From our unfinished hike to the Grisedale Tarn.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Ektachrome 100
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

Attachments:

• Fells.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I love how in iOS when I'm editing my writing it now will aggressively highlight a word and ask me "hey did you want to spell this word incorrectly, by chance?"

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

Attention, world:

I have completed the jokerless challenge in Balatro.

That is all.

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clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

Saw this thermometer cricket hanging out on our 🏳️‍🌈 today.

Its name comes from the fact that you can deduce the temperature by counting the number of chirps they sing.

For Farenheit the formula is

40 + number of chirps made in 15 seconds

Attachments:

• A light green cricket with translucent wings perched on the pink and white stripes of a pride flag. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan's children represent the conflicting political sensibilities reflected in contemporary American politics.

Each child represents a political faction, and throughout the show will argue their case for their ideology to take charge to save the empire.

#succession

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• Photo of all of Logan's children. From left to right: Roman, Kendall, Connor, and Shiv.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan is a deeply broken man. His rags-to-riches story arc reminds us that the American Dream realized is not often fueled by hope, but rather the trauma endured by violent childhood poverty.

#succession

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• An older person with a bare back covered in deep scratches or wounds. A figure wearing white clothing is visible to the side. The background is dimly lit.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan represents the manifest destiny of the American Dream.

His last name "Roy," means "King" in Old French, and has become synonymous with the conservative wing of the American ruling class in the Succession universe.

(Nan Pierce serves as his liberal counterpart, but we'll get to her later.) #Succession #LoganRoy

Attachments:

• An older man Logan Roy with a serious expression, wearing a black cap and grey jacket, sitting on a beige chair near a window in a private jet.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Let's start with Logan's media empire. Waystar Royco is conglomerate of businesses (perhaps fifty total?) united under one brand. While still powerful, the company is showing signs of decay and people are starting to take notice.

In #Succession, Waystar Royco is The United States.

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• Room filled with people in suites. Shiv Roy is standing at the podium center stage with the Waystar Royco logo behind her and two big screens at either sides of the stage.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My Roman Empire is HBO's Succession, and how the show, and all its characters, serve as an allegory for the United States as a dying empire.

That may sound obvious, but I don't just mean the show's themes. There are direct, knock-you-over-the-head parallels if you look for them. And I've been DYING to talk about it.

Thread? Thread 🧵 (Spoilers). #succession #waystarroyco

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• Poster for the HBO show Succession with the main characters standing in front of a painting hung on a dark wood wall. The painting in a gaudy gold frame depicts an epic fight with men, horses, tigers and other animals. From left to right: Kendall Roy, Roman Roy, Siobhan Roy, and Logan Roy. Bottom text reads "Succession Season One"

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

No, but seriously...why don't we have `` yet?

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Once again, mastodon's affordances (and missing affordances) are framing everyone's imagination. There are other options than simply allow list vs deny list federation. Personally, the one I want to see is multiple named federations:

Right now, there's just one federation, named public. There's absolutely no reason we can't have more than that.

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

The better answer, ofc, is to go back to the pre '90 situation: if you qualify, welcome in! That's the *much* better solution for just about everyone.

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

There's a lot of extremely cross-pressured ways to think about this, from the policy vantage point. OTOH, I've had friends and colleagues whose futures have hinged on this process, and to find out it has been so thoroughly gamed makes me livid on their (extremely deserving) behalf:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-h1b-visa-lottery-system/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyMjU0ODI1MywiZXhwIjoxNzIzMTUzMDUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSElBQzNEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3RjAzNTczNkJDRjE0NDg0QjY5MUUwODYzMjFERjBGNCJ9.uD8WrMWJEWn4e5QEu8d1dk-rIv2N_iGQYk7NmYil9so

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trigonella@social.seattle.wa.us ("मेंथी") wrote:

Seattle voters have explicitly and loudly demanded social housing, but this reactionary city council is attempting to delay and destroy it. Right now they are trying to delay I-137 (despite it having the numbers) to a low-turnout special election next year instead of the November ballot, and trying to muddy the waters around it to distract voters.

Tell them to act without delay! Only takes 30 seconds.

Boosts appreciated!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-seattle-city-council-to-pass-i-137-or-at-least-put-it-on-the-november-ballot

#Seattle #SocialHousing #I137 #ShareTheCities

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

This is timely and useful:

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/patterns-for-memory-efficient-dom-manipulation/

On a related note, my colleague Seth Brenith has been hard at work making Edge DevTools better for tracking memory leaks, particularly for apps that use Custom Elements. "Raw" DOM is good, actually!

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verge ("The Verge") wrote:

A watchdog for corporate climate commitments is cracking down on carbon credits https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210744/climate-goals-corporate-watchdog-carbon-credit-offset

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seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:

Blogs are still a thing, and blogs have always been a thing. They didn't go anywhere. My technical blog is thriving.

People come back to old posts constantly.

Something I posted 10 months ago is still my top performing post. Social media posts are ephemeral & if something happens to your content - it's gone.

Host your own blog, control your content. My social media posts may max out at 500-1000 views but my page views have a consistent baseline of 30k/a month. And I haven't posted in a bit.

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keyboardsmash@tech.lgbt ("nino") wrote:

i googled "owl baby" bc i love owls and i wanted to look at a baby owl, and-

i, personally, relate to the middle one on an emotional level

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• a photo of three baby owls. the background seems to be some kind of conifer tree. the babies sit on a branch, that's sticking out from the bottom right of the photo. description of the owl babies from left to right: the left one os very fluffy and light grey, and kinda looks grumpy and sleepy. the middle one is almost falling off the branch, hanging onto it with its tiny owl feet. the right one is a bit darker than the others, you can already see the typical brown pattern adult owls have in their feathers. it's head doesn't have feathers, though, you can see the skin. it looks a little angry. (remote)

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pixelfed wrote:

Everyone deserves to feel safe and respected online.

That's why we're introducing new comment controls to Pixelfed next month.

This new safety feature puts you in charge of your interactions, creating a safer and more welcoming space for everyone.

#pixelfed #commentControls #safety

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• Pixelfed Comment Controls

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ekuber@hachyderm.io ("Esteban K�ber :rust:") wrote:

If you've updated your #rust version to 1.80 and are getting inference failures on the time crate, update its version. It is a known issue, it was caught with crater and there has been a new release of time with a fix since April. I'm saddened that there is customer impact regardless (which was foreseen).
#RustLang

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

“Some GLAAD employees were upset when they encountered executives’ globe-trotting Instagram photos and as word spread that Ms. Ellis often flew first-class — especially since employees said they faced scrutiny over minor violations of the group’s expense policy. One employee who expensed a cup of coffee was chastised for taking money away from the L.G.T.B.Q. cause and had to reimburse GLAAD, according to a former employee.”

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

For what it's worth, I've always been confused by Cloudflare's official position on abuse, which is that they are not a hosting provider, but rather a pass-through, so it's not up to them to be arbiters of what's fine and not so fine.

But if you think about it, by that definition Cloudflare is the world's largest proxy network. Probably they don't use this term to describe their business because proxy providers are -- at least historically -- somewhat strongly associated with abuse.

Either way, if Cloudflare decides to stop proxying traffic for a particular customer, they are not being arbiters of free speech, as the CEO constantly claims. Because that customer's site will still be reachable. It simply won't enjoy the protection from DDoS attacks that Cloudflare offers for free.

Underneath all of these concerns, a lot of people in the security industry seem to believe that if Cloudflare were to somehow start clamping down on the rampant abuse of their services for cybercrime, then those bad actors will just move to someplace else where Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies have less visibility, like Russia's DDoS-Guard. That may be. But I say let's burn that bridge when we come to it.

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

I love these so much:

https://ffoodd.github.io/chaarts/

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

self-dealing, like the Trumps and LaPierre:

‘The overall pattern of spending represents “a potentially abusive use of charitable funds that would be surprising and insulting to a lot of their donors,” said Michael West, a lawyer who advises charities at the New York Council of Nonprofits. “It appears she may have fallen into the trap of excess.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/business/glaad-ceo-spending.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

“New data released… by the FBI reveals that both violent crime and property crime have dropped precipitously this year. The data, which is subject to revision, compares crime in the first quarter of 2024 with crime in the first quarter of 2023. It shows substantial drops in every category, including murder (-26.4%), rape (-25.7%), robbery (-17.8%), and property crime (-15.1%).”

https://popular.info/p/the-most-important-crime-statistics

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realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:

A central argument of Trump's campaign is that there is a violent crime wave fueled by undocumented immigrants

The DATA shows the opposite is true. Violent crime is plummeting.

So Trump fills his stump speech with anecdotes of crimes committed by migrants, pinning the blame on Biden and Harris.

Trump claims if he wins in November, those crimes will stop.

But there were similar crimes committed during Trump's presidency.

Trump blamed Democrats.

https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-migrant-crime-during

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FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

Here is a thread of all the US news organisations I could find on the Fediverse:

US National News:
➡️ @ProPublica
➡️ @NewsDesk
➡️ @TheConversationUS
➡️ @Salon
➡️ @Vox
➡️ @time
➡️ @csmonitor
➡️ @AxiosNews
➡️ @TheRoot
➡️ @damemagazine
➡️ @19thnews
➡️ @lawfare
➡️ @WAMonthly
➡️ @Votebeat
➡️ @NewsLitProject
➡️ @themarkup
➡️ @sludge
➡️ @Forbes
➡️ @bloomberg
➡️ @foreignpolicy
➡️ @VOANews
➡️ @ErinBrockovich

Midwest US:
➡️ @IMidwest

Alabama:
➡️ @AlcomNews

Alaska:
➡️ @AlaskaBeacon
➡️ @AK_OK
➡️ @AKNativeNews

🧵 1/4

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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

Russia is expected to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan and others in a large prisoner swap, according to multiple reports.

From CBS News: "As part of the deal, at least 12 political prisoners held in Russia are expected to be released to Germany. Eight Russian nationals are expected to be returned to Russia, including several with suspected ties to Russian intelligence. Among the Russian nationals expected to be involved in the swap is Vadim Krasikov, a convicted murderer who has been serving a life sentence for a 2019 killing in Germany that the judges said had been ordered by Russian federal authorities."

https://flip.it/K.PDxF

#Russia #News #Gershkovich #PaulWhelan #Diplomacy #Europe

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Griffin:

Last night, Donald #Trump called Leader Schumer "a proud member of Hamas."

In response, Leader Schumer says: "The lower he drops in polls, the more unhinged he becomes."

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DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

August 1, 2019 – Providing no evidence to support his claim, Trump told the crowd at a rally in Cincinnati that “We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America and curing childhood cancer very shortly.”

#NeverAgainTrump #TrumpMustLose2024 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #KevinDRoberts #USPol

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

“Mitsubishi Motors Corp. agreed to join an electric vehicle partnership w Nissan Motor Co. & Honda Motor Co…

The memorandum opens the door for the three to jointly discuss a framework for "further intelligence and electrification of automobiles," based on a previous working arrangement signed by Nissan and Honda back in March, according to a statement.

The companies said they hope to accelerate their #EV efforts and "improve business efficiencies"
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/01/mitsubishi-honda-nissan-ev/2481722516306/