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carpingdiem@med-mastodon.com ("Carpingdiem") wrote:
I love this time of year--the hummingbird babies have fledged and are constantly at the feeder, drinking and fighting. #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #hummingbirds #nature #HoosierMast
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
In this sense, progressive enhancement can be understood as *"let browsers help as much as they can, and only add what they fail to provide"*
This leads to simpler, cheaper solutions to common problems. First, because many of the problems you'll end up with are about letting the browser help *more*, and if you haven't YOLO'd your site off a bridge, that's easier to do.
Second, because you've minimized the amount of JS that might be defeating browser attempts to help in the first place.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This post includes recommendations for teams that are procuring websites, and I think they can be summed up as: *buy simpler problems*.
Every feature that gets added via JavaScript is more complex, more expensive, and harder to improve. That means that when things go wrong, they're treble costly to fix because JS is _"f-it! we'll do it live!"_ for web development. JS disables or routes around all the ways the browsers try to help.
Let browsers help!
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Little known fact is that song managed to tank consumer demand for blank floppy disks.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm so glad we've developed ubiquitous internet service and readily accessible video storage and streaming so that I can enjoy gems like this that I missed the first time around:
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
RFD 508: Whither CockroachDB?
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The CW is true.
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kevinrns@mstdn.social ("Kevin Russell") wrote:
I love it so much!
Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.
Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)
You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)
Fancy that.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox
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paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:
Got to bookmark this page and look at it every time I consider getting the 2019 Pro. Will just wait for the M4 Mini (assuming they don't hobble it) and M4 Studio Ultra.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It is *eternally* f'd up that the "DX" bait-and-switch requires both an acceptance of a heroic developer narrative as well as belief that developers are helpless to make things right when they (reliably) go sideways.
WHICH IS IT!?!
This nonsense is marketing. It's bullshit. And the opposite of bullshit is engineering.
Do engineering, or at least get caught trying.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Reckoning, Part 4: The Way Out
This series was a risk. I don't generally like to post traces without the permission of teams, but the situation has been *so* bad for *so* long, and the marketing nonsense from the JavaScript-industrial-complex is so pervasive, that more is needed.
That starts with acknowledging that everyone making sites is an active participant with agency. We all have parts to play in making them better or worse for folks at the margin.
Choose wisely
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 4: The Way Out
Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
[This is not an invitation to tell me it's my fault, that I just need to curate my feed, etc.]
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Getting set up on Mastodon is kinda hard, and there's a lot you have to understand about instances and stuff like that.
But once you get past that initial hurdle, THEN you get to move on to the part where it's just constant, nonstop reminders of everything that's wrong with the world 24/7.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Anybody else playing Arco on Switch?
Is the performance terrible for everyone else, too? It's not just lag and framerate issues; seems like it's so bad even the music gets distorted and can't keep up. :(
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
carefully invigilating each bite taken of that cheese sandwich ;^}
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It would be a good time for us all to mask up again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/16/bring-back-the-mask/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Don't let robots explain science to you.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/16/soyou-wanna-be-a-science-communicator/
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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
'Apple doesn't oppose regulation; Apple loves regulation, so long as they're the ones doing the regulating. They want to be able to shape and define the digital market, backed by the power of the state, but without any input from the state. In modern corporate orthodoxy, the state is an enforcer for corporate will." https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig
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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:
I made a quick little tool for figuring out how the heck flex layouts work.
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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.
You can propose a regular talk (20 minutes) or a lightning talk (5 minutes)
Please consider submitting, whether you're academic or not, and please spread the word.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the bees seem happy with the catnip flowers this morning
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This morning I've been enjoying this new track from Andrew Huang, Tom McGovern and Gabi Rose: "Julian".
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
thanks, ChatGPT
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Tomorrow's post is in the tube, ready to launch. Some folks find this series hard to engage with. If you don't want to wade through all of it, know that one, single, solitary thing that matters in software: giving a toss about users. Particularly folks at the margins.
Care about users, make their lives better, and the rest will explain itself.
Care about yourself and comforting abstractions ("DX", "frameworks", "SPAs"), and you'll only orbit minor asteroids.
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/nationalpublicdata-com-hack-exposes-a-nations-data/
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stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:
Apple and Google are two sides of the same abusive relationship; where do you even go if you want to participate in the modern world without their influence? What if you want a great smartphone with a high-end camera? Tablet computing? What ecosystems are left?
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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
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urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:
Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text
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kalleboo@bitbang.social ("Karl Baron") wrote:
I recalled a few more fantastically handy Japanese power strips
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gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:
This is so goooooood
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser
It controls and looks great, though the game was outshined by its sequels.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Dear young (<40) people, who exercise a habit of starting sentences with lower-case letters. I don't know what kind of social position you're trying to convey, but the only net result is it's *really* hard to read what you write. Accessibility matters.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If the framework partisans found parts 1-3 rough going, they're gonna *hate* part 4 (out tomorrow).
A small spoiler: one outrageously effective technique is to stop hiring for framework expertise.
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@sangster @slightlyoff as it happens, someone just wrote this, which probably sounds familiar: https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy/112966152364902922
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After seeing how @zachleat and @mia have used Web Components, I'm super excited to chat with them about it on Winging It Live.
Tuesday, Aug 27 at 1pm ET
Select "Notify Me" on YT or subscribe to get an alert for the event.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Yeah...IDK...maybe don't *"experience seamless integration, optimized performance, and reduced bundle sizes"* from folks that can't even get their own marketing site out of "needs improvement" purgatory?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Did you know you can just drag an SVG file into the HTML field of a CodePen?
Feels magical every time.
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
Medicare is negotiating Rx prices for the first time thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Biden-Harris admin announced today that prices for 10 of the most used drugs will be cut by as much as 80%, saving seniors and taxpayers billions.
Project 2025 would eliminate this.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you liked @scottjehl's incredible free course on Web Performance with WPT[1] -- and who doesn't? -- it's great news that his new paid course on Web Components is up:
https://scottjehl.com//learn/webcomponentsdemystified/
This is the tech we need right now, particularly as we abandon the JavaScript-industrial-complex's addiction to language forks, compilers, bundlers, and user-land complexity. Moving back to the platform could not be more timely.
[1]: https://www.webpagetest.org/learn/lightning-fast-web-performance/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There are basically only two kinds of keycaps:
- Normal, boring key, but in a slightly different color than usual
- BRO THESE KEYCAPS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE FROM THE COCKPIT OF A MECH IN A SCI-FI ANIME DUDE LOOK AT THESE SICK JAPANESE LETTERS FUCKIN LEDS BRO
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argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:
learn how the author (Heikki Lotvonen) accomplished this in this blog post
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/
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argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:
no pain syntax highlighting‽
- no JS
- no markup transformation or tokenizationhow?
via **Colr Fonts** 💪
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ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:
This is the correct take @gruber. Given the choice between harming creators and damaging its relationship with a big tech giant, always choose protecting creators.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Poor homestead planning.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/a-tragedy-in-the-making/
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andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:
Blog post - The Web is such an incredible expression of human creativity. We should be grateful for it and support those who build on it. #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload
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TCatInReality ("TCatLikesReality") wrote:
Not enough attention paid to how extremely #Weird Trump's clothes are. Hair - yes. Absurd tan - yes. But now the #Guardian captures all the weirdness about his clothes.
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richardgrant ("Richard Grant") wrote:
Oh lordy this video is so good
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
Whoever is in charge of digital media for the Harris Walz campaign?
Give them the medal of freedom
Another home run! 🇺🇸
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
X/Twitter has a new AI image creator capability, and of course, it's starting out on the wrong foot with violent, dubious, and IP-stealing images. One user was able to create an AI image of #ElonMusk with an assault rifle in a very bloody classroom filled with children's bodies.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220173/xai-grok-image-generator-misinformation-offensive-imges
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ami.l.berger@threads.net ("Ami Berger") wrote:
At some point Kamala Harris is going to say something about hot flashes at a rally and the entire GOP will just collapse in on itself in a fiery heap like the house at the end of POLTERGEIST
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elazar@phpc.social ("Matthew Turland") wrote:
CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good.
https://matthodges.com/posts/2024-08-12-csv-bad-dsv-good/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
TIL about https://www.projectwallace.com/
Extremely cool
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
No one expects consistency from Megan McArdle!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/ok-megan-which-is-it/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
He is correct. I'm feeling particularly inimical nowadays.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Beginning to think "move slow and fix things" should be a standard greeting between people now. Maybe we need a response to go with it. One person says, "Move slow and fix things" (vulcan salute optional), and the second person says... 🤔
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Movin' slow and fixin' things.
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seachanger@alaskan.social ("malena") wrote:
“a peek at the undulous innards tucked between their four-foot-long shells reveals sparkly blue flesh—that hosts what new research shows to be the most efficient solar panels that scientists have ever found”
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siliconundergro@ioc.exchange ("Silicon Underground (Dave F)") wrote:
What was it like teaching Andy Warhol how to use a computer? One person alive can answer that question: former Commodore employee Jeff Bruette. He shared his stories with me a few days ago, which I collected in this blog post. #commodore #amiga #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/working-with-andy-warhol-jeff-bruettes-recollections/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Imagine how frustrated Elon Musk must feel, that all his money can't silence his daughter.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/15/hey-elon-this-is-how-youll-be-remembered/
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
This is the *key* thing people don't understand about social media adoption.
Companies like Twitter / Facebook / SnapChat have *vast* teams of sales people. They offer support in setting up accounts, priority support lines, branding and moderation expertise.
Individuals mostly don't see that. So it appears that your local council just decided one day to join Twitter. They didn't - they were sold a product.
Mastodon's growth is (mostly) organic - and that has a limit.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Your blog does not need frameworks built for SPAs.
Your e-commerce "experience" should be progressively enhanced (no, that does not mean "SSR+huge bundles")
Your news website is not "an app".
Part 3 of my series on how JavaScript fucked over US public benefits services is up, and includes a handy rubric for "should we React?"
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 3: Caprock
SPAs and the frameworks built to support them are kryptonite to organisations that are not 110% across the complexity of the infrastructure they own and operate. This is a predictable recipe for disaster in low-maturity teams, both public and private sector.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
Say what you will about Elon Musk...
No, seriously. Whatever you want.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@natogreen (both intellectually and sartorially, to be extremely clear)
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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:
Thanks @mmasnick for the push to make this art
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@natogreen Am I going to vote for @natogreen's preferred candidate as a replacement for local rep? IDK. Just wanted to shout out a fully cromulent neighbour and say sorry for looking like the ghost of Richard Daley in pajamas as we discussed housing policy. You deserved better.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Last weekend I had a surreal experience.
One of my podcast heroes -- the inimitable @natogreen, who you might know from The Bugle, which I was listening to back in '13 when I lived in London; also still too -- showed up on our doorstep to stump for a candidate as I was deep in the unwashed, unshaven, bedraggled throes of writing a 15K word series on the inaccessibility of California public digital services thanks to JavaScript-industrial-complex fuckwittery:
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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 collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
I'm bad at taking compliments, so I've started responding to compliments about my appearance with "This isn't even my final form."
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If they did a season of The Bachelorette where instead of trying to woo a woman, all the dudes were ruthlessly competing to prove they loved capitalism the most, it would be pretty much just like a normal day on LinkedIn.
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
The real magic of this is that I'm not even signed into Youtube. That's the part that really locks in the flavor.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"During testing […] system began unexpectedly modifying its own code to extend the time it had to work on a problem."
WAT???
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Hello from #ArcTanGent! Connectivity is very intermittent here, but imagine a picture of the stuffed Mastodon toy in front of the #ATG sign.
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alex@cybervillains.com ("Alex Stamos") wrote:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Incredible to think Liz Truss might never go to a Tesco again for fear of being photographed next to her betters.
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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:
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snipe@hackers.town ("snipe ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ :antiverified:") wrote:
In the Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" painting (1480-1490 circa) there is music written on the butt of one of the characters in hell. Here's what the 600-year-old butt music from hell sounds: https://youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U
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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:
Nobody should have to agree to a commercial entity's terms of service to access state services or participate in democracy
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starwall@wizzzard.online ("ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ") wrote:
thank you China for developing a viable sodium-ion battery as opposed to lithium because we were absolutely going to run out of that shit
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tdverstynen@neuromatch.social ("Tim Verstynen") wrote:
It looks like House Republicans want to:
- reduce the number of NIH institutes from 27 to 15.
- reduce billions of dollars in funding for things like biomedical engineering, aging research, and addiction research (almost entirely).
- increase congressional influence over what gets funded.This is a truly atrocious proposal that will significantly imperil our country's research infrastructure. If you are in the US call your member of congress and tell them to reject the House Committee on Energy and Policy proposal.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That ain't Minnesota.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/some-scenery/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You know that AI "roast my GitHub profile" thing that was going around a week or so ago?
A lot of people posted theirs, because they thought the AI roast was funny.
So I tried it. And honestly, mine was just *mean.*
It wasn't funny; it was *cruel.* My feelings were legitimately hurt. I felt genuinely awful after reading it—even though literally nobody else saw it, and I *knew* it was just AI barf.
And all I can think about since then is: *this tool is going to help bullies do so much harm.*
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
As immigration angers a Alabama town, residents seek solutions ‘without all the racial slurs’ - https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/as-immigration-angers-a-north-alabama-town-residents-seek-solutions-without-all-the-racial-slurs.html
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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Giuseppe Stromboli Tarr") wrote:
I'm going to be honest, they had me in the first half.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
A person, K, who supported our Ops team in Purchasing confided in one of us that K was undergoing chemo and was at a point where K needed to shave their head. K didn't know what to do about this because we were all onsite workers, and K didn't need the whole building to know that K was going through chemo. And the usual worries that even though Management knew about K's problem, what may happen if that became office gossip.
Ops member said, "Don't worry, just be yourself tomorrow, and if anyone asks, just say 'talk to Ops'."
Our Ops team decided to collectively shave their heads. Ops then came up with a story about Ops & K going out bowling, getting really drunk, and losing a collective bet where we had to shave our heads.
K didn't know this. People kept going into K's office asking what happened, and K just looked mildly embarrassed and said, "Talk to Ops."
Everyone in Ops made up a wilder story than the last. It became a competition. Every anecdote had some kind of praise or regard for K. K eventually walked over to Ops, and found out what we did.
By the end of the day, the following was accomplished:
- K didn't have to tell anyone anything.* Ops developed a reputation for mild insanity and a lack of regard for social consequences.* Nobody was going to cross Ops to gossip about K.* Management had a private aside with an Ops member, who made it really clear where the entire Ops team stood.* K had no issues with any private requests to management, aside from the occasional question about how Ops was doing.
K is doing just fine.
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Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:
Mitch McConnell issued this "dire warning" to republican state legislators...
"Let's assume our worst nightmare: The Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they'll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster."
Weird how he didn't have any problem eliminating the filibuster on SC nominations in 2017.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, that’s why he retired from the Guard to run for Congress. good.
‘… in 2006, Mr. Walz ran for Congress.
By now the parents of 3-year-old Hope … both Walzes were upset with the course of the war in Iraq.
“We just asked ourselves, like, What can we do?” Ms. Walz said on the podcast. The rational thing, she said, was for her husband to run for Congress. “We felt the way you stop the war is stop the money, and the way you stop the money is the United States Congress.”’
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Exciting news for all cryptography enthusiasts and engineers! The new Hax Playground by @cryspen is a game-changer, making formal methods in cryptography more accessible than ever.
With Hax, you can write in a subset of Rust and seamlessly compile it to F*, ProVerif, and other powerful tools. This isn’t just another IDE; it’s a browser-based platform for experimenting with formally verified cryptography.
Whether you're diving into complex protocols or just starting out, Hax Playground makes high-assurance cryptography tangible and practical.
Check it out here: https://hax-playground.cryspen.com
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david@theblower.au ("David de Groot") wrote:
A sleeping Boyd's Forest Dragon, as found in the Daintree rainforest, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.
These iconic lizards sleep hugging a tree and are quire difficult to spot as their skin tone blends quite well with the bark.
#WorldLizardDay #lizards #reptiles #AustralianWildLife #WildOZ #BoydsForestDragon
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s0@cathode.church ("s0: Soldering Saboteuse") wrote:
I’ve been thinking about the “three Es” (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) of corporations to open standards & technologies, and how it’s somewhat similar to the way users are pulled in, squeezed and dropped in a cycle.
I hereby humbly propose a new “four Es” for the user-facing side:
“Entice, Entrench, Enclose, Expire.”
Step one, Entice, is grabbing users. Look how great and fun it is here on Flibber, the new social media! everything is free, your data is secure, there aren’t any ads, we’re adding features! Hype hype hype!
Step two, Entrench — make it the “place to be”. Get chummy with governments, press, influencers. Acquire competitors. Users are on Flibber without even noticing now. Heavily push Flibber integrations into all sorts of areas of people’s lives.
But you need to make money, too. Start selling user data. Introduce ads slowly like a frog in a pot. Start pushing exclusivity to your business partners so they push all their customers to you. You’ve stopped doing any R&D for users’ actual experience, now it’s about how to sell them on. And when you’re big enough, your competitors will starve.Step three, Enclose. “Snap” go the APIs. Sorry that’s deprecated. No longer available. Sorry that requires exorbitant access fees. Open this link in our app to view that page.
Users aren’t profitable anymore — selling them is. Lie harder to everyone, and charge more for the privilege. You’re judge, jury and accountant now. Jack up the integration and business license costs. What are they going to do, not use Flibber? That’s where their customers and constituents expect to get news now. Discontinue features that are expensive. Hell, strongarm your own infrastructure suppliers into exploitative contracts too — you’re too big to turn down.And the final stage: Expire. Eventually, the calculus doesn’t work anymore. Your investors want more money, but there’s nothing left to squeeze.
Dump Flibber on a private equity firm to rip out the guts, and let it crumble, scapegoating a new CEO.
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wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore :ferris:") wrote:
Some lizards from my photo library for #WorldLizardDay
I think these are:
1. Australian water dragon
2. Robust velvet gecko
3. Eastern water skink
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Disney has Satan for a lawyer.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/now-ill-never-sign-up-for-disney/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What should I bring to the first committee meeting of the semester?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/it-begins-again-2/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
There is a bit from Emma Goldman's autobiography "Living My Life" (1931) which is frequently paraphrased as "if I can't dance I don't want your revolution," but I think Goldman's actual words are better.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life
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