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phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:
God this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read
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Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu ("Tom Brand") wrote:
What if Sun Microsystems released a Zune digital media player?
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TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tom Forsyth") wrote:
Very excited!
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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:
Day 7 - Moon
Day 8 - Sun
Day 9 - Ocean
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emmanuelleskaly@mementomori.social ("Emmanuelle Skaly") wrote:
Does anyone know anybody at #Meta ???
They just suddenly closed my account saying it's related to a random Instagram cat fishing account that I never heard of and has got nothing to with me. My main customer base is on Facebook for my small handmade jewelry business. Can you please reblog to help me reach anyone at Meta?#technicalsupport #help #helpneeded #support #facebook #instagram
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Thanks for canceling that meeting five minutes before. No, I never prepare for these things. It’s ok.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love using @simon 's "llm" cmdline tool as place to ask for ad hoc "how can I...?" suggestions.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm on board with Mallaby's critique that persuasion is important, and that maybe Krugman paints followers with the same brush as leaders, closing off those pathways.
But R "leaders" are not leading, and the capitulations and cravenness was in full view by early 2020. It's hard to imagine a more fated errand than this piece. But you know, presumably it got the author some knowing nods at think-tank cocktail parties for a couple of weeks.
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
Check out the FBI's files on the mathematician Paul Erdős! You may know him as the author of 1500 math papers, endlessly traveling and collaborating. But to the FBI he seemed suspicious, because he came from behind the Iron Curtain, got caught poking around a secret radio tower in 1941, worked with a mathematician from China, and refused to take a loyalty oath.
In 1954 he was barred from re-entering US after going to Amsterdam to address the International Congress of Mathematics. But 5 years later he was granted a visa after Hubert Humphrey intervened on his behalf.
The FBI eventually decided he was ”purely a mathematician with typical atmospheric mind as related to factual things.... a genius type who lives within his own mental scope".
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Anyway, not everyone was high on premium-grade, DC-strength medicinal centrism. The Guardian was at least on the right side of history:
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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:
Washington is one of only two states in the US to legalize mutual combat, so I’m really hoping that whoever owns the Managed NAT Gateway at AWS accepts my challenge.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Presumably this was written *just* before Jan 6th, and I cannot stress enough how wrong the entire thrust of this piece was. In the years since, Republicans have proven themselves everything Krugman showed them to be and nothing like Mallaby hoped.
Literally every still-serving R they held out hope for voted against the IRA:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Was looking for a decent reference to Krugman's "zombie ideas" and had missed (forgotten?) that he'd done an anthology book of those columns. Which in turn brought up this review. Talk about aging like fine milk:
*PHEW*
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Maybe it's not the school nurse. Maybe it's the lunch lady who is in charge of school sex change operations? Inquiring minds want to know.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/lies-lies-and-more-lies/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's not typing with two fingers; I'm typing in binary.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:
I like this idea a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
A commitment to Quality, humility and responsibility backed-up by unity among others who share the same commitment is incredibly powerful.
cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
Keeping your Dotfiles in Sync and your Secrets in Gopass https://blog.m5e.de/post/keeping-your-dotfiles-in-sync-and-your-secrets-in-gopass/
cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
Dotfiles synchron und Geheimnisse in Gopass halten https://blog.wronnay.net/dotfiles-synchron-und-geheimnisse-in-gopass-halten/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I share my home with many ill-tempered roommates.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/examples-of-life-in-my-neighborhood/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm going to be leading people on a mini-field trip to the campus lawns this Thursday. There is some life here.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/if-youre-in-the-neighborhood/
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
my javascript analytics tells me that 100% of my visitors have javascript
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vincedmonroy@threads.net ("Vince D. Monroy") wrote:
Gov. Gavin Newsom: What Kamala Harris has done in the last eight weeks is unprecedented in U.S. history. We’re not just winning on margin of error. We’ve expanded the map in the United states. You saw new polls this morning — states that were not even in the conversation, now Donald Trump has to either defend or invest millions of dollars. The momentum is with us. She’s the change candidate.
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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
Here's the trailer for the film Donald Trump doesn’t want us to see. This looks AMAZING.
Maybe the subtitle should be “The Education of a Narcissistic Psychopath.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I was curious how the *popular vote* numbers in the States mapped to a hypothetical “Electoral College vote”.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You can get almost anything you want in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Name Above Every Name (even Pastor Quiboloy!).
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decarpentier_nl@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Giliam de Carpentier") wrote:
Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
https://decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info. (Or come see it live at Maker Days Eindhoven this 14 & 15 Sept.)
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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:
This, Radicle, is what I've been working on for the past year, though most of my efforts are going into adding CI support to @radicle . That's not part of the 1.0.0 release, but it's coming. I even wrote an article for @LWN about Radcicle.
I now only use Radicle for my personal Git hosting, and I am satisfied that it works for me. It might work for you.
Try "rad debug" which is something I made.
https://toot.radicle.xyz/@radicle/113113084558432607
https://lwn.net/Articles/966869/
https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.liw.fi/
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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:
🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Searching for a Sustainable Future
@Meyerweb and @bkardell chat with colleague @seaotta about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosystem
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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
The main aspect of the PERQ machines that sticks in my brain is the C compiler's use of graphics RAM, causing the display to go weird during compilation. Yet another example of my interest in sensory experiences more than CS, I suppose. 😸
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/313862.html
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
give them each a microphone
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The value of his 57 percent stake in Trump Media — which he was given primarily in exchange for lending his name and support to the platform — has fallen by $4 billion since the company’s Wall Street debut in March.
Trump Media is losing tens of millions of dollars each quarter and struggling to generate sufficient advertising revenue from Truth Social to justify even its current lower valuation.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“…Mr. Trump is now the oldest person ever to run for president on a major party ticket and, if he wins, would become the oldest president in history by the end of his term, when he would be 82. While he managed to sidestep questions about his own capacity while Mr. Biden was his opponent, the rival he will square off against at Tuesday’s prime-time debate in Philadelphia will be Vice President Kamala Harris, who at 59 is nearly two decades younger.”
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
My toxic trait is that I believe that if a site can't be bothered to gzip it's MB+ of JS, browsers shouldn't bother to load it.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
They're hanging out.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Don't let these people gaslight you or your team. They might not be trying to get one over on you, but that doesn't mean they have any idea what they're talking about.
And yes, this effect gets *worse* the fancier the titles are, not better.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I *frequently* have the experience of telling folks that they can pull in some components from a Web Components design system (Fluent WC v3, or Material, or Spectrum, or Web Awesome), only to have people who *were just telling me that 45KB is "not a lot" for a framework* get cold feet at the idea that there might be 5-10K of library coming along for the ride.
So then you press a little...ok, so if size is an issue...will you *at least* switch to Preact?
🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As a result, they construct an echo chamber that *assumes* framework choice is totalising. That the idea of sharing componentry from multiple frameworks *must* be unwieldy and expensive. And then they perpetuate those entirely falsified premises to the next set of bootcamp grads.
They're constantly erecting mini-shrines to IE 9, and let me tell y'all...it had some real upsides, but it wasn't a good enough browser to be worth *this* sort of veneration.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Writing a post on how frontend technology choice-making is extremely broken in 2024, even on the Lemon Vendors [1] own terms, and I ran across the perfect word to describe how the React ecosystem is trapped in a legacy cage of its own continual re-making: stovepiping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stovepiping
Folks trapped in these priors spout zombie ideas and undead arguments because they've never experienced the modern web as developers. Not really.
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A reminder that if Mozilla can build Firefox's entire UI in Web Components, and if Chromium browsers can power a huge fraction of the UI with them, they're good enough for your website.
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gallaugher@mastodon.world wrote:
Someone just called the CyberTruck a “Deplorean”. Chuckling.
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jgreig@ioc.exchange ("Jon Greig") wrote:
As a Haitian-American I am appalled and terrified at what we're seeing today.
Elected officials, using their verified government accounts (even the US HOUSE JUDICIARY ACCOUNT) are spreading a story that is provably false in order to stoke violence against Haitians. This was literally outlined in the DOJ documents about the Russian efforts to spread misinformation.
Every Haitian in America that I know is terrified. I just don't know how we address something like this when half (if not more) of our country is willing to act on straight-up disinformation
What are we supposed to do? How can you ever get through to people that would believe stuff like this?
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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@slightlyoff I am basically at the point now where I've been burned by 3rd party dependencies enough that I basically assume that using anything from npm is like lighting a fuse that'll explode at some undetermined time in the future.
How many active fuses are you willing to light today? How many have you extinguished? How likely is imminent time absorbing doom for your project?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this piece fits my feelings
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadly, there are still adherents of this view of the world
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh, a love song
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love this man
Deno can use private npm registries with Cloudsmith, which offers additional security features, analytics into module usage, and more. Here’s how to do it.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Really need to write the "NPM is frontend's partially hydrogenated corn syrup" post.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
AI is taking over with bland, algorithmic content, so what’s left for us humans?
Simple: go completely fucking insane.
The future of creativity lies in absurdity, and shitposting is the new avant-garde.
https://joanwestenberg.com/shitposting-our-way-through-the-singularity
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
One of the things that makes no-ads, no-profit-motive social media possible is *acknowledging* that creating a social space is demanding and expensive - that some communities might dissolve - and planning ahead of time for that.
I've been on a number of message boards and moderated newsgroups. Nothing lasts forever. The important thing isn't a forever service; it's a combination of preserving what's there (which Cohost is doing) and providing people a way to exit gracefully.
3/?
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castarco@hachyderm.io ("Andreu Casablanca 🐀") wrote:
@slightlyoff I suspect you may have read this article already, but as a reference for others... this is somehow related (as in half-assed es5 backwards support is bloating the web for no good reason):
https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-state-of-es5-on-the-web/
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MisuseCase@twit.social ("Misuse Case") wrote:
@Dany @tilde @paninid One of the ways Japanese nobility communicated was by sending each other short poems called waka (imagine Tweets but also with a required syllable structure). They also had a bunch of poetic conventions drawn from old poetry anthologies, native mythology, and Chinese classics that they were all expected to know and use.
/1
Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
If you think about it etymologically "villain" and "burger" are the same word
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadness, a light has gone out of our world:
“…abandoned as a child by his parents, raised by a racist grandmother and mute for years in his stutterer’s shame… he learned to speak again with a herculean will.”
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scott@sfba.social ("Scott Murray") wrote:
“Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something” by @fromjason
Every once in a while, someone writes a clear-headed, forceful, just-angry-enough and just-foulmouthed-enough (but not too much so) rant about the state of the #Internet that is a joy to read. This is that rant.
(Apparently this was published in March, but I missed it then. Still very applicable now.)
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mordremoth@lgbt.io ("Amelia") wrote:
One of my absolute favorite quotes of all time, and a central guiding idea in who I've chosen to become in my own life:
"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle... for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness... those goodly endeavors that cannot be allowed to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish..."
(Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés)
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's good, I suppose, that a lifestyle electronics brand is adding accessibility features to its high-end headphones, but y'all, it's still a $250 luxury electronics purchase. I'm not sure the bar has really been lowered much here.
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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:
i know we all got sold on 'isomorphic' or whatever but littering code with conditionals is the definition of spaghetti code. looking code like 'use server' or isNode or likewise reeks of problems in an uncanny valley no compiler can fix.
we separate concerns for these very good reasons!
its cool if the language is the same that doesn't mean the logic is or even should be between client and backend.
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
@brianleroux yes! Isomorphic JS was a mistake
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alcinnz@floss.social ("Adrian Cochrane") wrote:
Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards - Adrian Roselli:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/09/semi-annual-reminder-to-learn-and-hire-for-web-standards.htmlAn enhancement to accessible responsive tables - tempertemper:
https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/an-enhancement-to-accessible-responsive-tablesImproving the Screen Reader Experience for Learn WCs - Component Odyssey:
https://component-odyssey.com/articles/12-improving-the-screen-reader-experience-for-learn-wcsThe Ultimate Guide to Font Performance Optimization - Anna Monus @ DebugBear:
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/website-font-performance
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC, what bigoted morons:
"Reacting to reports that pets were being stolen in Springfield, JD Vance posted, "Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country. Where is our border czar?"
...the Springfield Police said there was no report of pets being stolen and eaten."
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/jd-vance-speaks-up-for-cats-turns-out-it-was-for-a-conspiracy-theory/ar-AA1qgpoM
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Drywall does a pretty good job for its intended purpose (hold paint while pretending to be a solid wall), but I sure wish more people understood that it's just soft rock held together with paper and you shouldn't try to hang much on it.
Also, while drywall does solve the problem it is intended to solve, I hate having to repair the dang stuff. At some point you just have to tear it all up and start over. :(
(This complaint brought to you in part by a 6yo attempting to swing from a towel rack.)
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For the avoidance of doubt, that was 300K *COMPRESSED*, so something like 1.5MB of JS source.
The worst thing the Reactors ever did was to convince people that their own dreams of infinite network and CPU abundance into the future were real, when in fact they were just playing themselves.
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rachelnabors@toot.cafe ("Rachel Lee Nabors") wrote:
So I'm making an "intro to web development as a career" course for O'Reilly, and I want to get some quotes of real folks working in web development to sprinkle in the slides. If you'd like to be featured/help me out/share your story with newcomers to this field, I'd be so happy if you'd fill out this wee form: https://forms.gle/qW3wNvvHeZ2cqGB5A
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's 2024, the web platform now includes a full component system, CSS we only dreamed of 10 years ago, deferred module loading is now a platform feature, and a fuller JS standard library than it ever...even in Safari!
And yet.
Today I was told unironically that 300K of JS was a hard target to hit for first load of a simple-ish experience.
I am verklempt.
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veerlepieters ("Veerle Pieters") wrote:
🚴🏻 What is behind the physics of a bicycle?
This interactive article explains it all in great detail.
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joelanman@hachyderm.io ("Joe Lanman") wrote:
Just remembered something - GOV.UK Design Principles used to start like this:
1. Start with needs*
* user needs not government needsbut when the list was replicated (as it was, a lot) this first most important point often came out as:
1. Start with needs
Which is just not right, and could actually lead directly to what it was trying to avoid (government needs). I suggested the change to "Start with user needs" which is what we have now.
Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Hah, today I learnt that the wireframe 'CGI' in Escape from New York, used for Snake Plissken to make a stealthy glider entry into the lawless prison island by air, was actually 'faked' by building a model of Manhattan covered in reflective tape. In 1981 this was the cheaper solution for a movie with limited budget
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't need to watch the stupid debate tomorrow, because one of the participants is hopeless, making it a waste of time.
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eklektikos@mastodon.uno ("🖖 εκᴧεκτικός :fediverso:") wrote:
Il primo equipaggio che partirà per Marte tra 4 anni is the new entro il 2018 Tesla sarà dotata di guida completamente autonoma. 😆
Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Total Replay v5.2 is out. It features 502 Apple II games (200 new since v4), all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.
https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay
Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v5.2
Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, Kris Kennaway, @ladyailuros, and everyone else who contributed to this project in the past five years.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Brands commenting under viral videos made by small creators feels like... theft? It's an advert without payment.
Imagine your painting displayed in an art gallery, then some executive walks by and slaps a Taco Bell logo underneath it with a 👍
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timClicks@mastodon.nz ("Tim Clicks") wrote:
A new #rustlang tip is live on my site https://timclicks.dev/tip/how-to-accept-a-file-as-a-command-line-argument-in-rust
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The federation concept is dope. Big fan. But this emerging worldview that "all connection is good connection" regardless of implementation or even an ounce of thoughtfulness, is bizarre.
To me, it feels like VC growth-at-all-cost religion repackaged. Big Boz memo vibes. It's giving "your safety is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
Where's this weird urgency coming from? What deadline are we trying to meet that demands such thoughtless action, and subsequent unabashed defending?
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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:
i think both sides are to blame here
Browser benchmarks used to be much better:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a good night to listen to Mr Prine
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"They" don't deliver your service, *you* deliver your service. "They" aren't going to be in the room after the contract is over, *you* will be. And any procurement plan that doesn't provide simple-to-execute change of vendor at *any point* in procurement is TBTF, and should be verboten.
Residual capacity to change systems comes from owning systems in a "can we make changes and deploy them?" sense. And that requires control and continuing technical capacity.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A good (the best?) first step is to build a mandate and a budget for in-house service development and delivery, then prevent omnibus contracting in any form. Hire in-house talent to integrate and run services that will be continuously delivered, then start small and iterate. Success breeds success.
From there, tools like OSS can have a big impact on breaking up this sort of boondoggle contracting.
Procurement *is* policy; treat it that way.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I wrote a series a couple of weeks ago [1] that highlighted the destructive role of too-big-too-fail govt software procurement practices in the US, saddling the state of California with a benefits portal so slow that many struggle to use it.
This sort of thing is everywhere when you start looking; monopsony requires solutions that don't allow predatory vendors to treat each municipality as prey:
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Wouldn't it be cool if we had an annual blog awards?
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me: *in the wilderness alone and scared*
CVS: *from behind a tree* you want me to ask your doctor to refill your Adderall subscription?
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The funniest thing my mother ever said to me happened after I trapped a spider in her house and let it free outside.
She said to me, as a stranger would, "oh you're one of those."
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tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:
@bendelarre @slightlyoff @jensimmons And we have an update: François Beaufort, DevRel for WebGPU, just let me know: "It's actually shipping in chrome 129: https://github.com/blurbusters/testufo-public/issues/4#issuecomment-2333689442".
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A friend tipped me off that a Major American Sporting League's website had, from a low, low point (which I had traced in years prior due to a partnership engagement with the Chrome team) descended to the depths of JS excess. The names have been obfuscated to protect the guilty.
Folks, this is how you break a digital business: a legacy site teetering on the edge of usability, suddenly sunk by hundreds of KB of Reactor overconfidence and "works fine on my $3K laptop and $1K phone"
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mia@front-end.social ("Mia (CSS workshops available)") wrote:
"Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control seventy-five percent of the cloud computing market. Meta and Google own half of the fiber optic cables supplying internet services across continents."
…
"So what did GAMM do? They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away."
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
This post is making the rounds but I can't pinpoint from where. Anyone know where the traffic is coming from?
Anyway, I'm never not excited when I notice someone is reading something I wrote. No better feeling, truly. So, thank you. It makes my day.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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RecoveredExpert ("Recovered Expert") wrote:
»The old sync-and-share business model wasn’t working for them anymore, so they turned the internet into a network of expensive, gas-guzzling computing power.
…
The reason why GAMM … are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate.«It’s essentially taking old IBM concepts and applying it in today’s world.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
#AI #Blockchain #Cloud
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:
“The reason why [the Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Meta oligopoly] and all its little digirati minions on social media are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate. That fact may be devastating for the earth, indeed it is for our mental health, but it’s wonderful news for the four storefronts selling all the juice.”
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:
Next Friday, @lewis is getting an omg.lol Prami tattoo, and he’s letting *you* choose where. For real!
1. Visit https://stjude.omg.lol
2. Click "Donate now!"
3. Click the "Polls" tab and choose a body part.
4. After you click “Checkout”, you can change the amount if you’d like.How often do you get to help end childhood cancer *and* influence where someone gets an adorable smiling heart tattooed onto his body? This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, folks! 😄
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Our definition of violence is too narrow. We reserve the phrase "violence is never the answer," for when poor people act out, but never for the state-sanctioned violence they're acting out against.
I wonder why that is.
Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:
Artist Chelo depicts what we see - and what we don't see - on social media. I like the full-circle nature of this comic.
Source: https://www.instagram.com/monero_chelo/related_profiles/?hl=en #art #socialmedia
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mxbck@front-end.social ("Max Böck") wrote:
✏️ New post: Remember when the code in your editor was exactly the same code delivered to the browser? Now there's usually a build process in between, and that can get ... complicated.
Do we still need that? Can we do modern web development completely #buildless?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh well, we all make these little mistakes @CARROT
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:
perfection doesn’t exist, but better does
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Y'all know JS doesn't get cheaper by the MB, right?
There's no bulk discount.
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
Top 10 Binary Numbers!
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