cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Some days I go from JavaScript UI to http server to kernel driver to board schematic with more tooling and languages to the side of that dive into the hardware, and then some piece of software breaks because of an update motivated for reasons I don't care about, and I'm just... tired. 😩
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Hypothesis: Your tolerance for changes to the tech stack is inversely proportional to the number of languages, runtimes, and tools you have to deal with.
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Stephen_Stone@chitter.xyz ("Regular Mouse 🐁") wrote:
Happy 21st of September, folks.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is anyone else appalled at how many lies these Republicans are spreading?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/21/theyre-not-even-good-liars/
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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:
Italian incense doesn't smell very good. Do not recommend.
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ErisCaffee@masto.ai ("Eris :trans:") wrote:
Oh look. The FTC found that the big social media companies collect tons of data about their users, store it insecurely, sell it to others for a profit, and all sorts of other abuses.
I am shocked, shocked I say.
Well not that shocked.
#Privacy #FTC #FaceBook #Google #Discord #Twitch #Meta #Youtube #Twitter #Birdsite #Reddit #WhatsApp #TikTok
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Oh yeah, they also built a ~16-foot fence at three noticeably different heights, and left garbage buried in our yard (including, but not limited to, a can of chew)
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listen “babe” if you want my love 8 days a week, you can take it up with my union rep
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rachsmith ("Rach Smith") wrote:
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
It's normal to sit up and take notice when someone you hardly know and who is in a position of authority baselessly accuses you of doing something dishonest or unethical, because it's hard to shake the notion that the bad thing you're being accused of is something they are already well acquainted with.
Early in my solo career, I spent a lot of time talking to businessmen in Russia, who invariably would at some point accuse me of taking bribes to write unflattering things about them or their businesses. I soon learned that those individuals were accustomed to paying journalists in their country to write unflattering stories about others.
This reminds me of behavior in various state and federal GOP efforts to "secure" the vote, which has led to a flood of state proposals that effectively make it harder for people to vote, register, or have their vote count. "We can't let them steal this election again" is the refrain, even though it was never stolen in the first place. But it might very well be this time.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
New #running shoes. My vote of confidence in myself, that I'll be able to run regularly again. It's been on and off for the past couple of years, but it looks like I got better at managing my various pains.
Never used any Altra shoes before, but so far they feel nice, thin and light, not getting in the way.
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sboger ("Manic Pixie Dream Grandpa") wrote:
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
And yet, somehow, this guy who took three times longer to do the job than he said, and who didn't even build some of it right, is not even the worst contractor I've hired in the last two years.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Who wants to join the I love websites club
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
(This toot brought to you by the GM who told us we "should've known better" than to hire him in the first place when we had the nerve to point out that the job we hired him to do was not done the way the contract explicitly said it would be, nor on the timeline promised, when we signed it all the way back in May.)
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Either I am cursed when it comes to hiring contractors, or every company that does manual labor in the Kansas City area is some combination of apathetic, untrustworthy, and/or run by complete assholes.
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jennosaur@mastodon.art ("Jenn") wrote:
You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling~
CHAPPELL ROAN BABES 💋🗡️✨
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jenn@pixel.kitchen ("jenn schiffer") wrote:
i think i’m gonna have to block the threads instance, not because of some moral issue (unfortunately people i know and love use it lol) but because i keep trying to engage and forget that they don’t see shit from me and i can’t engage back *and* they’re just talking about news stuff, not like personal updates so i am not gonna be missing out. anyway you asked
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The cloud is other people's computers, and the invisible hand of the market is other people's operations research
andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
That moment when it's 8 PM on Friday, before an international trip you're taking on Sunday, and you find out that a patch you committed caused a memory regression in Chromium.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We're in the midst of a transition to True Fall. Right now, the Midwest is just dreaming about October.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/20/pre-fall/
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
Theory: It all started going to hell when the mainstream media decided it was "internet" not "Internet".
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JanMiksovsky@fosstodon.org ("Jan Miksovsky") wrote:
@davatron5000 I no longer focus on web components, but back in 2020 wrote about my experience trying to use Storybook and my decision to replace it with something much simpler and HTML-first: https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2020/11-02-storybook
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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:
Oh, so that’s what happens to them.
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Californian Ideology (1995):
"Individual freedom is no longer to be achieved by rebelling against the system, but through submission to the natural laws of technological progress and the free market."
My oh my, how nothing has changed. https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Hyperloop has only one sensible use case: if you've already built a city on Mars and need to move workers out to peripheral installations. Small-diameter tunnels are cheaper, the near-vacuum comes for free, and you want to minimize surface exposure time (to avoid high energy cosmic radiation).
On Earth it's a stupid idea that Dilbert Stark only promoted as a spoiler for high speed rail, which he saw as a threat to his electric toy cars.
https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/113169440612521612
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sinituulia@eldritch.cafe ("Sini Tuulia") wrote:
Meanwhile, I have a deep need. :blob_heart_eyes:
I can't believe this is a toy that was sold and that it's so beautiful and such a weird shape, and apparently you can still find original ones that work? To sew with?? What a fantastic fucking apparatus, truly.
Here's the original ad and then a random auction photo, I typed in the entire text in the alt text if you need it to read it!
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
From the studio that brought you "Could this meeting have been an email?" comes...
Could Storybook just be a web component?
...and...
Could snowflakes in a design system just be a handful of CodePens in a Storybook sidebar?
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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:
*logs on*
*checks headlines*
*logs off*
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
We've been talking a lot recently about how to enable more small to mid-sized projects by avoiding a lot of the trappings of complex modern stacks. I think we should talk more about how the data layer fits into this. Both on frontend and backend.
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/113170675996221391
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Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:
Hello!
30 trillion cells in my body are human, whatever that means, and 38 trillion are various bacteria! There are a bunch of viruses too which are currently impacting my functionality!
I am 68 trillion microorganisms in a trench coat which results in a sort of self-propelling, self-replicating digestion tube, but I am paid to act as if I am a clean, rational, thinking machine!
This is very stressful for all 68 trillion of us, so sometimes we complain about it on the internet.
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
I've had a background thought thread running for over a year now that focuses on dissecting our interactions with the software we build and use, for ourselves and to share with each other, and how much it's shaped by the goals of commercial entities that are in direct opposition to what would be most useful/pleasant/effective for us as people. I'm trying to keep that thought thread as close to foreground as I can whilst I build new software for our various social enterprises so the thoughts can inform my decision making as I build.
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ieure@retro.social ("Boosty Collins") wrote:
I had to steal all those books, films, albums, television shows, papers, and video games, etc. to train my natural intelligence model.
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vertigo@hackers.town ("Vertigo #$FF") wrote:
Anyone looking for an #embedded engineer? Full time remote strongly preferred. #getFediHired
I am experienced with #EmbeddedC and, to a lesser degree, #EmbeddedRust and #EmbeddedJava. I even wrote JNI bindings for Java in Rust to call into Tock:OS. I have some recent experience with a very large C++ code base, but I wouldn't call myself an expert with it. I also have experience building test automation frameworks written in #Python and #Rust.
Oh, sorry for the edit spam. But I almost forgot to mention that I have extensive experience with the #RISCV architecture and instruction set.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the details reveal their fears
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“In the wake of Thursday’s explosive revelations about North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson, JD Vance abruptly cancelled his entire campaign schedule in order to clear his search history.”
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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
It's finally happening. I'm bringing a early FPGA exhibit to @SDF Interim Computer Festival (https://sdf.org/icf/).
Tonight I got 86Box setup and did a run through of installing OrCAD386 and X-ACT v2.4. Discovered I have a tutorial for that version and I was able to go through it. It builds a design for an XC3020 demo board that I have as well.
Now I need to replicate the setup on my RapidCAD machine, run through the tutorial again, and download the design to my board. That'll be the main exhibit.
With that out of the way, I can turn my attention to getting my Epson Apex 200 upgraded to 3MB of RAM so it can open XC3000 designs in X-ACT v2.12.
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a friend of mine just booted Linux on an Intel 4004! (yes, the first microprocessor)
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is interesting, more will come
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal
Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant's power generation for at least 20 years.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
watching the 1st in the PBS series on LBJ, I was struck by how they skipped over both his time teaching Brown children in a segregated school and his brief active duty time during WW2. one period helped form his politics, and the other revealed a great deal about his character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson?wprov=sfti1#Early_life
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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:
VLC Media Player has encountered a problem with Windows
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I printed and framed two photographs on my parents’ request. Digitally printed from 35mm Fuji Superia X-tra 400 film on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper.
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alberto_cottica@mastodon.green ("Alberto Cottica") wrote:
Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important.
It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany).
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I used to move my alarm time constantly, based mainly on how I felt at night when I was getting in bed. But when my kid started school, I was forced out of that habit, and I recently realized what a positive difference it's made in my life.
It's also a lot easier to drag yourself out of bed when you already know exactly how much time you have, because you live it every day. It's psychologically easier to obey an unwavering constant than the whims of yourself from last night.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Tiny life tip: set your alarm for the exact same time every day. Don't move it around based on the day or how you feel at night.
For one thing, you get to know exactly how much time you have in the morning, and it's nice to just offload that mental work.
But more importantly: it's an anchor for your sleep schedule. If your alarm time doesn't move, your bedtime is much less likely to move, and you're better incentivized to organize your evening around the next morning.
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cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:
I was having a nice day until I saw this and have made the executive decision to make it all y'all's problem as well
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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:
"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)
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Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:
#UFO50 released today! It's the long-awaited next game from Mossmouth (creators of #Spelunky.)
They describe it thusly: "UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design."
And all these games were supposedly made by the same fictional company. Can't wait to dive in!
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VincentTunru@mozilla.social ("Vincent Tunru") wrote:
Some people argue that Firefox should be able to survive on donations, if only Mozilla accepted them.
To which I say: prove it, you cowards; go set up your monthly donation to @servo.
If there's a project that can prove that that model works, it's Servo.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I made a bear blog so I can rant about politics without mucking up my main blog.
RSS it why don't ya.
Anyway, look out for a new essay on my main blog soon. I think it's a pretty pretty pretty okay post
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Had to explain to a colleague how the compositer works with animations and y'all, browsers are a miracle.