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detachedspork@mastodon.ie ("detached spork") wrote:
Little girl in Algeria decides she wants to play soccer, gets bullied by the boys because she's a girl.
She takes up boxing, to defend herself from bullies, makes it to the fucking Olympics, only for a demented British children's author to publicly shame her for not being enough of a girlWHY DON'T GIRLS DO MORE SPORTS BIG MYSTERY WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE THAT
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I love this type of LLM "instruction" that you find when prompts get leaked: "Do not hallucinate". Like, *that's* been the problem. We just keep forgetting to tell them not to hallucinate. So silly!
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Look I don't care which one it is, but it's too confusing that there's a Stream Deck *and* a Steam Deck, so one of them needs to change their name.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
HTML+CSS are best understood as the world's most effective compression format for scalable UI with formatted text.
If your web page ends up being larger than a PNG of its contents, ya done f'd up, son.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
OSS *can* be software in the public interest, but it doesn't inculcate that value in every community. I wonder if this is why the JS ecosystem became fundamentally selfish and incurious about impacts on users 🤔🤔🤔
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A question came into focus for me yesterday: is the success of Open Source for early-in-career folks building portfolios a contributor to frontend's ethical dessication?
OSS is "software for me, incidentally for thee"; does introducing that ethos to young programmers keep us from driving home the lesson that when you get paid to write code, your responsibilities are to users and customers?
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Now is a great time to text the folks in your life still on Twitter and ask them if they're happy to be supporting this:
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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:
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Patricia@vivaldi.net ("Patricia Aas") wrote:
But like @thephd alludes to: when you lay off your devs you loose organizational knowledge. It basically starts a clock in my experience, two years down the line most no longer have the knowledge inside the company to maintain the product anymore. The first period runs on inertia and just needing to make small changes, two years out there are always architectural changes needed. Unfortunately the distance in time from layoff to “legacy system” means management never sees them in context.
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teacherbuknoy@masto.ai ("Francis Rubio :verified:") wrote:
Firefox 129 is released, which means I can now use @starting-style and transition-behavior in #CSS to animate from display: none! :catjam:
In another brilliant branding and strategic move, Google that "invested heavily in embedding Google Cast technology into millions of TV devices" is dropping the Cast tech and replacing the "Chromecast with Google TV" with a "Google TV Streamer".
I can't wait for it to be killed next year in favor of "Google AI Nest TV (original)"
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112915985245901016
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
And thanks to a comment from @olm_e, I think I managed to track down the song in the boosted video. It's from "Zero Gravity (Above and Beyond Remix)" by Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPLh1l6tkhg
(Sometimes I can't let these songs go until I find the source. No. It's not a problem. Why do you ask?)
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Inside Mr. H's tea room.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #FollowThePig
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'd rather be spidering.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/enough-adulting/
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checkervest@laserdisc.party ("there might be owls") wrote:
Good morning, happy Tuesday! I met a friend first thing
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Our little podcast will be discussing a topic with which we have some familiarity: cognitive issues. Check in on Saturday, 10 August, at 4pm Central!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/when-brains-betray-us/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
CSS opinion: don't hide overflow-x. You're just causing yourself more problems later. Fix the overflow.
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blinkygal@sunny.garden ("dana :blobhaj_witch:") wrote:
My partner caught a great #SilentSunday photo.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Harris/Walz in November!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/its-walz/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: I discovered there's even more people out there applying their own soundtrack to videos of the TGV. Like this little one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTCD32h60s
And this much longer mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6umPyHxQio
Also, here's one for the trolley enthusiasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtuDMHVfgs
I'm probably biased, but I feel like this format would be good for promoting public transportation. 🤔
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almost forgot to post this
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The Dultsevs are just the latest in a long line of Soviet and Russian illegals in the century-long history of the programme to go through the messy and painful process of revealing to their children that their whole upbringing has been a lie.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Rinaldo Nazzaro, 51, a former Pentagon contractor and analyst at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turned founder of the Base, wrote on his personal Telegram account that he’s seeking a stateside leader for his organization and is willing to pay them a salary of up to $1,200 a month.
The Russia-based leader, who is the subject of an FBI investigation…”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/06/us-neo-nazi-base-election-rinaldo-nazzaro
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's been long enough. I think we can all be honest and acknowledge Alexander was not that great.
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I simply wish to disable the features
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can't sleep. Probate lawyer dumped a thick pile of documents on me, and it's now sinking in that I have all these responsibilities to my brothers & sisters & nieces & nephews that I have to sort out. Mom, I had no idea what it meant when I agreed to be the executor of your estate way back in 1984. You & Dad were supposed to live forever!
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Elon Musk is just a failure as a human being.
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
Out of everything in life possibly the one thing that most resembles a mechanic from a pen and paper RPG is taking a shower. You may take one shower per day and during the shower the solution to one Problem will simply spontaneously present itself to you. You can take multiple showers in the same 24 hour period if you like, but the effect will not stack
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was listening to a local FM station on my commute and the traffic report comes on and I don't recognize any of the roads or place names even though I've lived here for 14 years. Finally at the very end I realize the report was for a city 600 miles south. And then I remembered most FM stations are "local" these days.
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tendigits@merveilles.town ("Tendigits") wrote:
I’ve had an amazing 1st full day in Ithaca NY. I took a full roll of mostly nature shots, the gorges, waterfalls, flowers. This library was impossible to capture with the lens on my camera, but the phone camera worked. So I can share it now, vs all the nature shots which will have to wait to be developed and scanned.
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ivana@mastodon.xyz ("Ivana Isadora Devcic") wrote:
The two stages of sorting through your old backups:
🥰 Wow, this is so well-organized! I'm proud of my past self
💀 What the heck is this file naming scheme...? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SUBFOLDERS?!?
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jasonsantamaria@typo.social ("Jason Santa Maria") wrote:
📕 My book On Web Typography is now free!
It’s 10 years old, and with A Book Apart winding down, I’d like to keep it available for everyone to read. Even though it’s about ever-evolving web typography, the information is still solid — I wrote it to act more as a guide for approaching aesthetics and function, and less about the specifics of code. Enjoy!
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Carl_Zimmer ("Carl Zimmer") wrote:
I'm very excited to share my next book: AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE. Check out my new email newsletter to find out all about it! https://buttondown.email/carlzimmer/archive/fridays-elk-introducing-air-borne-my-next-book/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is anyone surprised that a court rules that Google is monopolistic?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/making-google-apple-and-microsoft-sweat/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is good, not for Moritz's specific politics, but because it gives those who see and know better than to accept the "Trump 2 will be fine" lines we hear air cover to push back: https://on.ft.com/3SCd2Vr
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
excellent
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a terrible idea, poorly thought out…
‘One bill sponsor has said that widely used educational materials that teach about the history of racism in the U.S. causes depression in kids. Kids speaking out about mental health challenges or trying to help friends with addiction are likely to be treated the same as those promoting addictive or self-harming behaviors, and will be kicked offline. Minors engaging in activism or even discussing the news could be shut down…’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love ‘bg’ and ‘disown’
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moorejh@mastodon.online ("Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.") wrote:
Nice practical use of machine learning: reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14478 #machinelearning #joshuatree #botany
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's not exactly peak SF politics -- no desperately needed housing projects are getting killed to "consider community input -- but it's real, real bad:
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/05/san-francisco-chinatown-bike-lane-breed-sfmta/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
in my humble opinion, the Supreme Court needs an independent Inspector General with investigatory powers who reports to Congress & the American people.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Prosecutors plan to charge former Kansas police chief over his conduct following newspaper raid
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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:
The patron
----------
The alien came to the library again, shortly before closing time, and quickly found a book."May this entity borrow The Complete History of Knitting?"
They always return the book they borrow after five minutes, but the ritual of checking it seems important to them.
"Of course. Did you bring your card?"
1/4
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"It's juts not realistic to expect people to use a sound from outside their own phonetic system."
Thank you Dr. Lindsey!
(from this pronunciation video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihLE-wh0xc)
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's a UI crime that the "raise hand" button in Google Meet looks just like the waving emoji
(Source: once a week, somebody, sometimes me, raises their hand instead of posting the emoji they want and hijacks the whole meeting)
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy’s quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and Democrats alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest. Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eating a dog after a friend shared a photo with Vanity Fair magazine showing Kennedy dramatically preparing to take a bite of a charred animal; Kennedy said it was a goat.”
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Let us read what we want in the library!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/republicans-weird-library-policies/
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's always interesting to read about bootstrap projects. In some ways it's a little like speed running an alternate computer history and makes obvious the places where there are discontinuities. Or I guess I could look at it as how to automate rebuilding (computer) civilization. Of course, it takes as a given that rebuilding computer civilization as we know it is worthwhile. 😆
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siliconundergro@ioc.exchange ("Silicon Underground (Dave F)") wrote:
In 1985, #commodore commissioned Andy Warhol to demonstrate its new #amiga computer. Jeff Bruette, the software engineer who assisted Warhol, was one of only two people who thought to keep copies of the original files. Last week, he came forward. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My appreciation of Destin Sandlin has now gone negative.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/i-coulda-told-you-so/
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
In the Langdale valley.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Dementia: Healthier lifestyles could prevent it
The Lancet Commission on dementia said in its 2024 report that 14 lifestyle factors make up 45% of a person's risk — a guide to reduce your risk.
https://www.dw.com/en/dementia-healthier-lifestyles-could-delay-or-prevent-it/a-69836594?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There's a market for "I ❤️ my infuriating little fuckwit" bumper stickers, is all I'm saying.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
North Korea moves 250 missile launchers to southern border
Pyongyang staged a celebration to mark the deployment of the launchers. North Korea claims stationing more nuclear capable weapons on the border is a necessary deterrent to the US and South Korea.
https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-moves-250-missile-launchers-to-southern-border/a-69855788?short range “dirty” nuclear munitions for “tactical” use?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
(note that the suspect was born & raised in Britain)
“On Saturday, a library and a food bank were set alight in Liverpool as groups damaged and looted businesses, and in Hull, fires were set and storefronts smashed in the city center.”
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Pet owners will really be like: "I just love this cute little jerk. 🥰 This awful little turd. ❤️ This adorable little gremlin wakes me up at 3am because it broke my favorite things and then ate the pieces and didn't shit them out when it had the chance. 💕 What an angel. 😇 What a sweet little fucker sowing relentless chaos into every aspect of my life 😍"
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“When Harris’s parents immigrated here in the early 1960s, they entered a pre-existing racial caste system and the classifications that undergirded it. When the couple fell in love, so-called antimiscegenation laws prohibiting Black people from marrying white people still existed in 16 states.”
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oops.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/thats-a-whopper-of-a-retraction/
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jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web.
Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
*"the framework isn't the problem, Alex, it's only XXXKB"*
This is something I've been hearing from wealth-bubble apologists for *years* whenever I bring the JavaScript-industrial-complex in for critique. And you know what? They're right. It isn't the framework that's the problem, it's absolutely amoral behaviour of the folks doing the propaganda and the responsibility-free zone they want to expand within frontend culture.
So that can go. If it means they take their frameworks with them, fine.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I beseech thee, oh Manager! Banish this scripted pestilence! Free thine HTML from the shackles of JSX! Liberate the CSS to frolic in the fields of s, as of yore. Smite the CSS-in-JS and exile React from these lands!
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If I seem prickly about the JavaScript-industrial-complex, it's because I've *seen* some shit, showed that shit to the folks most responsible, and they did jack to fix or prevent it from happening in the future. Now the whole web is covered in shit.
The post I'm working on now is a tour of a wee corner of a tiny smidgeon of what I've seen, as viewed from the relatively generous device and network budgets I updated to earlier this year[1]. I'm livid all over again.
[1] https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/
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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
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mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:
can we get the `EyeDropper` api in all browsers pls
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Tomorrow on Oxide and Friends, previous guest Nicholas Carlini ("Adversarial Machine Learning") will return to discuss his recent blog entry, "How I use AI" (https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html). As with our other treatments of the topic, this promises to be neither breathless hype nor doomerist fear mongering, but rather in the muddy middle where LLMs are finding real, practical usage. Bring your own real usage and join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific!
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhhh, yes
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dance-me-to-the-end-of-love/1440945503?i=1440945506
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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:
I feel like actually, a grand bulk of how “front-end” works now is interesting workarounds for browser limitations that don’t exist anymore.
but because change is expensive we just kinda kept using the elaborate workarounds despite not needing them
and because institutional memory can’t exist in an industry with a 5 year 95% turnover rate, most people don’t remember that we don’t need most of this shit anymore
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I wrote some code to play an insulting rap track for anyone who knocks over the shelves in the grocery store:
A wrecked aisle diss function.
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I don't think the options are monster frameworks vs everything bespoke. I think the third option is better frameworks that are actually designed based on a) real needs, b) maintainability, and c) long-lived products.
https://mastodon.esmevane.com/@ironchamber/112905265598897110
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I didn't see the presentation, but this video shows the project, and it looks like a fun build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQDeBpHmg
(I could try to estimate the cost for that PCB, but nah. I'll just enjoy the result.)
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
excellent, major media outlets like Deutsche Welle are noticing them
https://www.dw.com/en/war-in-gaza-an-alternative-voice-for-peace-from-israel/a-69833772
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anizocani@tech.lgbt ("ani betts") wrote:
Oof, finding out just how hard running next.js on anything other than Vercel is 😢
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
My frontend villain origin story was when I started asking people why we needed this complexity. People agreed it was complex. But when I asked people to tell me what we bought for ourselves, the answers were vague and unclear. That’s when I knew we had gone astray.
https://mastodon.social/@tef/112903811292290724
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What kind of reputation does Boeing have anymore? They really have to fire a lot of executives.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/04/boeing-gets-another-black-mark/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
amusing:
“an hour into his speech, the Atlanta crowd had emptied out more than usual. (Like Madonna, he often keeps his crowds waiting for an hour or more past the scheduled start time, which doesn’t help the situation.) Large splotches of blue had blossomed across the upper stands, and people on the floor had started to sneak away, too.
Mr. Trump’s most faithful followers were also feeling defensive about the dueling rally discourse on Saturday.”
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm seeing only very tiny spiders today.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/04/day-of-the-tinies/
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
I’ve heard that several times before. There are two types of Star Trek fans:
1. Those who appreciate its vision of a progressive future where humanity overcomes racism, sexism, and other social issues.
2. Those who enjoy the military and naval aspects of Starfleet in the series.It still baffles me how some fans can overlook the other aspects while watching the show.
I guess some of them also think that Trump is Luke Skywalker and not the Emperor.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seriously
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Of *course* this abomination uses `styled-components`. How could The Inevitable React Rewrite *not* lean into the very worst ideas of Reactor excess?
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vincew@masto.nyc ("Vince Wadhwani :6train:") wrote:
I feel seen #ttrpg
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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
@democratsabroad I’m a big fan of yours. Any promotion of https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris is of course welcome. Also, if you can help me connect with other state or state-equivalent party organizations not yet on Mastodon, that would be fantastic! @jaybaltz@mas
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
How untethered from values, consequences, and reality is the JavaScript community?
Behold! The UK Govt's JS-optional design system[1]...rebuilt in React? Absolutely, positively, cursed:
https://github.com/govuk-react/govuk-react
I don't understand how this is even minimally compatible with gov.uk's *excellent* progressive-enhancement guidance:
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
incredible focus
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seattletimes@press.coop ("The Seattle Times :press:") wrote:
North Cascades Highway stretch closes again due to wildfire
As of Sunday morning, North Cascades Highway is closed between mileposts 148 and 157 due to the ongoing Easy fire. The fire has burned more than 930 acres. #press
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bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ("Bodhipaksa") wrote:
J.D. Vance says that people who don't have children have no stake in the future.
Yet he's a Catholic: a religion headed by *checks notes* a childless Pope, and run by *checks notes again* thousands of childless priests. (Well, supposedly.)
And wait, news has just come in that Jesus, the man whose teachings Catholics claim to follow, was yet another man who (according to their own orthodoxy) had no children.
Childless people have no stake in the future.
Shouldn't he convert, or something?
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Pockets
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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:
An area roughly the size of New Jersey has become a “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, providing little to no oxygen for fish and other marine life, NOAA says. The dead zone is a yearly occurrence in the Gulf, but this year is much bigger than usual, covering four million acres, the 12th largest one the agency has recorded over 38 years. Read more from CBS News.
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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Brad Raffensperger’s #Voter Registrations Targeted in Georgia’s New Online Portal
==Days after #Georgia #Democrats warned that the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations could be abused, officials have confirmed misuse attempts — including efforts to cancel the registrations of prominent #Republicans.
#News #Voting #election2024 #Election #Politics #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-voter-registration-cancellation-portal-mtg-raffensperger
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“To start the cancellation process on the portal, all users need is a voter’s name, date of birth and county of residence. To finalize the cancellation request, they also must provide the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number or their full driver’s license number.”
not too difficult
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-voter-registration-cancellation-portal-mtg-raffensperger
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Yes, it's offensive that these folks take no responsibility. Yes, it's demoralizing that so many people are willing to go along with it. But that doesn't mean we have to accept that they "won". The future is all to play for, and we can start by pointing and laughing. They deserve ridicule, not just scorn.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Working on this next post has finally crystalized something for me: the excuses that advocates of SPAs (and the frameworks they justify) make are functionally identical to the C/C++ apologist's approach to memory safety.
In both cases, no amount of long-documented failure seems to move them, and so we must move ourselves away from them.
SPA architectures and tools must simply be banned for most kind of work, *PARTICULARLY* in the public sector.
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Segments I have hiked on the John Muir Trail over the years, as visualized by Google Photos
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beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("tranny demon hacker") wrote:
I was listening to @spiralganglion and @jimmyhmiller's Future of Coding again (go support them on Patreon!), specifically the episode Worse is Better, and something struck me about how nerdy folx think about "why" questions
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davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:
New post "The Fear of Making Bad Art (or whatever) https://davebauer.art/the-fear-of-making-bad-art-or-whatever/
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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
