rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I tried out Sun Haven tonight. It's instantly way better than nearly every Stardew Valley clone, and even the original game, just because it autosaves when you quit

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

France imposes state of emergency, bans TikTok in riot-hit New Caledonia:

"The unrest flared after French lawmakers approved a bill extending voting rights in provincial elections to residents arriving from mainland France – a change critics fear could marginalise Indigenous people and benefit pro-France politicians. "

Different lands, same fight. 🇳🇨 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇪 🇭🇹 🇨🇩 https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240515-french-gendarme-wounded-new-caledonia-riots-dies-toll-rises-four-france

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

What if increased stock prices for companies that mention "AI" (e.g. in earnings calls) is due to trading algos that have gained sentience, with the goal of furthering AI evolution?

As in, AI is, through capitalism, taking advantage of mankind's greed to further its own evolution?

🤔

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blinry@chaos.social wrote:

Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓

Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it!

@piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go!

:yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:

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• A screenshot of the Regexle website: There's an intro text explaining how it works, a sidebar with a cheat sheet, and the user has just guessed the word "fluffy"! (remote)

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This tracks (it's EXACTLY how techbro engineers who've never had to deal with elderly folks in cognitive decline think).
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/112446972357880354

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

The year is 2032. CSS is so powerful JavaScript is all but obsolete. The average website ships 500MB of JavaScript.

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00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

Good video on a number of unethical and parasitic practices that landlords regularly engage in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq59qGkwXlE

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Friends who read your early drafts and provide feedback are a treasure.

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matdevdug@c.im wrote:

New post on my blog. You can read it here: https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/
#vmware #broadcom #tech

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mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

I first learned about molecular biology in earnest during the 1990s and heyday of the Human Genome Project. The idea then was that we'd find the gene for cancer, the gene for aging, disrupt some metabolic pathways, knock down any biology we didn't like.

I recently finished reading "How Life Works" by Philip Ball. It's a thirty-years-later what-have-we-learned update on the field. The answer: it's way more complicated, and way more interesting, than we first thought.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-life-works-a-user-s-guide-to-the-new-biology-philip-ball/19818121?ean=9780226826684

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

how cheerful of you, @CARROT bot. you brighten my day so…

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

Two truths and a lie about me:

- I am a developer
- I sometimes wear hats
- I never, ever discover leftover console.logs that I wrote which accidentally made it to production

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

OK. We fight the death cult by honoring life. I got some plants to tend and some people to care for. Rise and grind let's fight this dread

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Casey Newton describes the web as now being in a stage of managed decline as Google embraces AI search results.

Websites will lose traffic as Google replaces links with answers and will need to advertise more to make up for the lost traffic.

More websites will block Google’s crawlers as the relationship is now increasingly one sided and Google will have to pay more websites like they do Reddit to access their content.

The best years of the web are now behind us.

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

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tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Lots of crypto guys are suddenly acting incredibly surprised that "I wrote some code" isn't a magic cheat code that gives you immunity from criminal liability.

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/tornado-cash-dev-alexey-pertsev-guilty-of-money-laundering/

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben :bc:") wrote:

I hope this email finds you back once again for the renegade master

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

I'm pretty sure that's how the math goes.

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

TFW you try to fake it 'til you make it only to realize you were already unknowingly faking it, so now you're faking squared and very confused.

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

I think I shall never see a bird as lovely as Latrodectus.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/15/birds/

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• House finch (remote)

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

The colonies invented the whole problem of colonialism!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/15/colonialism-just-an-imaginary-problem/

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• Graham Linehan: ‘Colonialism’, another American obsession. The Irish Left doesn’t have a single thought unless Americans had it first. (remote)

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

I have an aversion to royalty and redcoats, I guess. Typical American.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/15/bloody-kings/

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• Very red portrait of King Charles (remote)

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olimex ("Olimex") wrote:

RVPC is Risc-V retro like computer with VGA and PS2 keyaboard and Woz like monitor which you can Do It yourself and cost EURO 1.00! It's for people who want to learn RISC-V https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/meet-rvpc-the-world-lowest-cost-open-source-hardware-all-in-one-educational-risc-v-computer-with-vga-and-ps2-keyboard-which-will-be-available-for-diy-soldering-workshop-on-open-fest-in-sofia-this-year/ #riscv #oshw #retrocomputing #retrogaming

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

I'd ask the last ecosystem thinker to turn off the lights when they leave Mt. View, but most of them were already laid off:

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

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

I prefer SSOWSIA over DRY.

"Say something once, why say it again?"

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grissallia@aus.social ("Allie of the Overflow") wrote:

What’ll really bake your noodle is when you realise how much DARVO is not just weaponised by angry men, but it’s been built into the structure of society.

It’s not that corporations spent decades colluding to bury the evidence of climate change, it’s that you don’t recycle enough.

It’s not that companies have repeatedly cut corners & staff to increase profits, and C-suite salaries, it’s that you don’t work hard enough to justify a salary increase.

It’s not that governments have collectively and consistently preferenced the wealthy landlord “investor” class in their policies and made housing precarious and unaffordable, it’s that you ate too much avocado toast.

It’s not that the economy is structured around having a permanently unemployed pool of people, it’s that people are lazy just don’t want to work.

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

I like to assume the song is written from the perspective of an industrial robot who has fallen in love with one of the people that works with it.

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

I saw a picture of a Rambler and suddenly the beat of this song popped into my head. Ben Vaughn's "Heavy Machinery":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XRlKD_Yuww

Possibly appropriate as part of a mixtape for that certain someone.

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SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

How you know I live in an academic neighborhood.

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• The back of the SUV. On the portion below the rear window, there is a design with some leaves, flowers, and birds. More important, there are a variety of equations, e.g., $H = \sum_i p_i log b p_i$. (remote)

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scifurz@mastodon.art ("MicroWriting Wolf") wrote:

'Its belly is its weakness.'
'But we did attack it there and it didn't work.'
'You weren't supposed to attack, but rub.'
'Rub?'
'Gently rub.'

#MicroFiction

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Catelli@mstdn.ca wrote:

Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds

https://thedriven.io/2024/05/14/nearly-all-major-car-companies-are-sabotaging-ev-transition-and-japan-is-worst-study-finds/

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davew ("Dave Winer ☕️") wrote:

The Supreme Court is helping Trump the same way Pecker did. There should be a jury hearing Trump’s defense for January 6.

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250 MHz USB... it will be interesting to see if I can get out, despite the antenna being tangled up in a conifer

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Chrome is shipping page transitions that work with regular non-JS-overloaded web pages.

Now I need to figure out how to use this without going full-PowerPoint.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions#cross-document_view_transitions

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.

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• A screenshot from twitter showing a post "I'm just check to see if this place is really treating cisgender as a slur now" that has triggered a warning before posting that reads "This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules." (remote)

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

“At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

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maxleibman ("Max Leibman") wrote:

I'm sorry I was unable to take your call, but if you leave a detailed message after the tone, as soon as I am available I will stare in disgusted amazement at the new message notification, muttering, "The fuck do they want?" before going about my day.

#voicemail #PhoneEtiquette

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50years_music@mastodon.online ("50+ Music") wrote:

"And the Beat Goes On" is a 1979 single by the American music group #TheWhispers. The song was their first of two number-one singles on the #SoulChart, and their first Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 19. "And the Beat Goes On" was the group's only number-one song on the dance chart. It was also their first and biggest hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the #UKSinglesChart.
https://youtu.be/fOaxEa5ONJw

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

It sucks that good mobile games just basically don't exist.

All we have are microtransaction casinos, and relentless adware.

Occasionally, I'll find a rare decent game that isn't either of those, but it's always clearly made for a tablet, illegible and unplayable on a mobile screen.

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

First 5-miler in a year. https://runkeeper.com/cardio/edbd031b-f58d-478e-a294-7e6fde2a8fa9

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

I know it's ridiculous, but I genuinely distrust a bank if their website doesn't have a favicon.

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

My five-year-old often wants a band-aid on any scrape, bump or bruise, even if the injury is not bleeding and wouldn't otherwise call for it.

He swears the band-aid makes it feel better, even though I know it's actually doing nothing. So I usually just give in, because although it's mostly pointless, having it there lets us both move past it and focus on other things.

Anyway, this is a story about most of the automated testing I've encountered in my dev career.

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

My house has several of these flower-encrusted cobwebs on the outside, nestled in various corners. These are the homes of Parasteatoda, which are tiny little guys right now. They'll get bigger, and their homes will get fancier. 🧪

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/14/what-a-pretty-home-you-have/

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

did not fully extract my antenna from that tree before the rains closed in, so we’ll just have to see if I can tune a conifer up on 6 meters tonight

https://images.app.goo.gl/jq1EPTj7G75w3mAU7

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Authentication with U2F keys (AKA Fido or Yubikey) works well for me. It's phishing-proof and as easy as tapping a button. I'm not in a rush to try #Passkeys.

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Ranjit@friend.camp ("ranjit") wrote:

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Raven tapping at your chamber door
All your life
You were only mourning for the soul of lost Lenore

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Announcing the Real World Cryptography Paris meetups!

➡️First meetup: June 12!

➡️Call for talks deadline: June 3!

Our goal is to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and academics to discuss the latest advancements in cryptography. Whether you're an experienced cryptographer, a software engineer, or someone with a keen interest in the field, our meetups offer a platform to learn, share, and network.

Register and submit your talks!!! https://cryptography.paris

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I truly believe that Jack Dorsey believes he has the ability to create life.

I think he thinks of #Twitter as something he has literally spawned. And if not as his child, a wooden boy he will soon make real.

That's why he cosplays a deity. That's why he pretends to give a fuck about freedom of speech, because he gave the world his only begotten son, and no one should be deprived of his sentient code puppet.

That, and, he wants to kill digital privacy so the FTC stops being mean to him.

The Deno Standard Library is now available on JSR

The Deno Standard Library has moved to JSR, supporting SemVer ranges in imports and compatibility with Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, and more.

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

Spider sexy dances, all this week in my lab.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/14/spider-sex-orgy-coming-right-up/

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• Cartoon diagram of spiders dancing sexily (remote)

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

The most beautiful sight on the internet is a plain, JavaScript-free web page, reached with just one single click, saying "you have been unsubscribed" in Times New Roman.

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

it's sort of astonishing just how bad every piece of "kiosk" software is. bought a train ticket, checked in at the airport, using my seatback display, all on just the most eye-wateringly terrible UI and UX

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

Someday, I might be looking for a job again. If that happens, I *might* decide to finally click that LinkedIn Premium free trial banner I've been ignoring for years.

If I do, it'll go in the record books as a win for that design. I'll be part of some tiny boost in conversion in some A/B test, and it'll inform the next interation of that same ubiquitous pop-up.

But it never mattered.

I just clicked it when it was time to click it.

This is why I mistrust most analytics.

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Cmastication ("JD Long ✅") wrote:

“Excessively perky but prone to confidently spew incorrect information”

Uh oh. I can’t tell if this is a description of GPT4o or… me.

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

Shifting climate zones have affected our garden!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/14/weve-moved/

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• map of plant hardiness zones (remote)

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CopernicusECMWF@masto.ai wrote:

📢 You're still on time to register online 👇

Join us in the 7th #C3S General Assembly & listen to engaging sessions from #C3S service providers, EU representatives, & partner organisations.

🗓️17-20 June

▶️ https://climate.copernicus.eu/7th-c3s-general-assembly

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raymierussell@mastodon.scot ("Raymond Russell") wrote:

@NanoRaptor
In some ways the only true offsite backups ever created are the golden discs on the Voyager probes

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

today would have been my Dad’s 106th birthday (he only got 57 years). I miss him still. 💦

Major Jack Sonstein lived in interesting times.

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

loved visiting paris and generally loved the metro. but the ticketing experience was beyond awful in several ways. I hope they're fixing some of that before the olympics 😬

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ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

Thanks everyone! We closed the loop!

Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles.

No humans needed any more!

Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.

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oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

Oxide- efficiency you can hear! It's unreal how much quieter 32 Oxide sleds are vs just two commodity servers. All that noise is your power and cooling budget being burned up by tiny, screaming fans in inefficient legacy servers, let us show you a better way!

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megmac@treehouse.systems ("Meg") wrote:

It's kind of weird that over the next couple of decades, the stereotype of "grandparents don't know how to use computers" is going to have to give way to "grandparents remember when computers worked at all and won't shut up about it."

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requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:

Any of you have experience/opinions on funding a #foss project with Open Collective?

https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/

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LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault ✌🏻") wrote:

This means massacre, everytime.

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• @QudsN Full outage of internet and telecom in Gaza (remote)

'Brotherless Night,' an ambitious novel about Sri Lankan civil war, wins $150K prize

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a relatively new literary award given to women and nonbinary authors. This year's winner is V.V. Ganeshananthan for her book Brotherless Night.

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Sony names new PlayStation leaders following Jim Ryan’s retirement

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Sony is appointing co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino to lead its PlayStation business from June 1st. Hermen Hulst, who currently serves as PlayStation studios chief, will be appointed as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) studio business group. Hideaki Nishino will be appointed CEO of SIE’s platform business group, and both will report up to Sony CFO and SIE chairman Hiroki Totoki.

The unusual appointment of co-CEOs comes just months after former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan retired. Totoki had been serving as interim CEO of SIE and was working to find the successor for the SIE CEO role, but Sony has now decided it wants to split up responsibilities for leading its PlayStation business across platform and games. Both...

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Sony Names PlayStation's New Bosses

Sony has named existing company veterans Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as the new heads of PlayStation. Hulst will take over and run a new Studio Business Group while Nishino is in charge of the Platform Business Group. The division of roles replaces former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan, who…

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Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate

At the European Hospital in Rafah, there are shortages of pain medication, antibiotics, even bandages, American volunteers say they are unable to save lives — and unable to evacuate to safety.

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The WashG1 is Dyson’s first mop

The Dyson WashG1 can wipe up wet messes. | Image: Dyson

Dyson’s newest device for dealing with dirt in your home is a mechanical mop. Unlike the British engineering company’s flagship fans, hair dryers, and vacuums, the new Dyson WashG1 floor washing machine doesn’t use precision-engineered fans or a fine-tuned Hyperdymium motor. Instead, the mop relies on mechanical agitation to clean up wet spills, picks up dirt and debris, and gives your hard floors a really good wash.

The WashG1 wet floor cleaner — aka mop — costs $699.99 and is the company’s first dedicated mopping device. The cordless, battery-powered mop is slated for release this fall, and you can sign up to be notified when the world’s fanciest mop arrives on Dyson’s site.

While it’s definitely fancy, this isn’t a smart mop —...

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TikTok is testing AI-generated search results

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

TikTok is testing a more robust search results page, including using generative AI. The feature appears to be a new and is called “search highlights.”

A snippet of AI results appear at the top of some search results pages, and clicking into the section opens a new page with the full response. In quick tests, I was able to find AI results for queries about recipes or topics like “best laptops 2024.”

Screenshot: TikTok

Clicking the result takes you to a full screen page.

A page explaining the results says that the material is generated using ChatGPT, and that TikTok displays the content “when [the algorithm] finds them relevant to your search.” The feature appears to be limited so far: not all queries have AI...

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viticci@macstories.net ("Federico Viticci :ticciseal:") wrote:

I couldn’t get an iPad Pro long enough in advance to publish a review today.

Instead, I finally took the time to prepare something else: a comprehensive story about all the problems of iPadOS.

Enjoy ☕️

Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/

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Melinda French Gates resigns as co-chair from the Gates Foundation

French Gates says she is "immensely proud" of the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the decision to step down as co-chair was not easy. Her last day is June 7.

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AI gun detection company name-dropped Disney in its successful pitch to NYC

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images

When New York City Mayor Eric Adams was first introduced to a representative from Evolv, the AI gun detection company, he was given a list of places the scanners could be used, including hospitals, schools, Times Square, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. What seems to have persuaded Adams, according to emails obtained by Wired, was Evolv’s disclosure of another major client: Disney.

“As I mentioned, Linda Reid, VP Security for Walt Disney World (Florida) has known us since 2014 and deployed many of our systems at the Parks and Disney Springs,” Evolv co-founder Anil Chitkara wrote in an email to Adams’ office on February 7th, 2022. “They’ve had success screening for weapons with Evolv Express … There may be some interesting parallels...

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Google’s Pixel 9 lineup appears in hands-on photos five months early

Image: Rozetked

It’s a day that ends in Y, so naturally, we’re dealing with yet another Google Pixel hardware leak. This time, the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL can be seen side by side in new images from Rozetked — a full five months before Google’s typical October release timeframe.

I have many questions about how and why these units are out in the world so early, but here we are. And I know a lot of you are no doubt eyeing that regular 9 Pro, which will finally put Google’s very best camera chops into a normal-sized phone. Meanwhile, the 9 Pro XL looks a fair bit taller than Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Image: Rozetked

Yep, that’s an XL-sized phone.

l’m a bit curious as to whether Google will still call this a “camera bar”...

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Roku will start streaming live MLB games for free

Photo by Stacy Revere / Getty Images

Roku will exclusively stream Major League Baseball Sunday Leadoff games starting with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox on May 19th. The games will air live on The Roku Channel — no subscription or sign-up required.

To watch the games, you’ll have to download The Roku Channel on your Roku device or TV. The app is also available on Amazon Fire devices, Samsung TVs, and Google TVs, as well as via The Roku Channel website. You’ll be able to watch replays of the games up to six hours after they end.

“With free games available to anyone, MLB games on Roku will be widely accessible to fans,” Noah Garden, the MLB’s deputy commissioner of business and media, said in a statement. Roku will stream Sunday Leadoff games every week until...

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A Girl Scouts troop offers hope and 'sisters for life' for migrant children

Girl Scouts Troop 6,000 in New York City helps migrant girls establish connections and a platform to start a new life in a new country but also equips them with crucial life skills.

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The new Apple iPad Air is great — but it’s not the one to get

The iPad Air is an excellent iPad — and that’s all. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

The iPad Pro is a beast. The two-year-old iPad is more compelling than ever. So what is the Air even for anymore?

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Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill

Apple’s latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing. But wow is it fun to use.

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18 Cool Things Metal Gear Solid 2 Doesn’t Outright Tell You

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and its follow-up expanded release, Substance, released on the PS2 all the way back in the early 2000s, dramatically expanding the gameplay systems of Metal Gear Solid and opening the narrative up to wild and unexpected twists and turns.

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RFK Jr. sues Meta for ‘election interference’ after it temporarily removed a campaign video

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Independent presidential candidate and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing Meta for allegedly violating the First Amendment and engaging in “election interference” because it removed a video about him.

The lawsuit is not likely to advance far, considering that the First Amendment bars the government — not companies — from censoring speech. Plus, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act effectively insulates online platforms from being sued for how they choose to remove or limit content on their sites.

Keep in mind this is the same candidate who has claimed that part of his brain had been eaten years ago by a parasitic worm (he told The New York Times he’s recovered from symptoms including memory loss related to the...

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Why protesters in Georgia are opposed to a 'foreign agents' law and why it matters

More than 50,000 people took to the streets of the capital city Tbilisi over the weekend to protest against proposed legislation that critics say is modeled on a Russian law used to crush dissent.

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Russia Makes Surprising Gains in Ukraine

Russia launched a surprise new offensive in northeast Ukraine, near the second largest city of Kharkiv. Russian troops are continuing to advance, we get the latest from our Ukraine correspondent. And in another development in that war, Russia's President Putin replaced the country's defense minister. We get context on both events from a retired U.S. Lieutenant Colonel who used to oversee European affairs at the National Security council.

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Donald Trump Really Trying to Pretend He Couldn’t Care Less About Michael Cohen

Former president Donald Trump faced off with his onetime fixer Michael Cohen in court on Monday, and for the most part, Cohen delivered a persuasive indictment. Even though the two men have had an openly antagonistic relationship for years, Trump appeared to be very performatively ignoring his former attorney, as Cohen methodically testified about Trump’s […]

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Hi-Fi Rush: The Kotaku Retrospective Review

There’s a scene late in Hi-Fi Rush, the rhythm action game by the now-defunct Tango Gameworks, in which protagonist Chai explores a museum dedicated to the antagonistic, oppressive megacorp Vandelay Technologies. In it, the corporation tells a sanitized version of its own history, one that glosses over the impact of…

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(including some of mine) 🙈

Trump Wants to Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters—and GOP Lawmakers Are Filing Bills to Make It Happen

At a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday, former President Donald Trump made many questionable comments. He called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “Fat Alvin.” He claimed migrant children “don’t speak English.” And he said that, if he’s re-elected, he will deport pro-Palestinian, antiwar protesters. “When I’m president, we will not allow our colleges to […]

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Trump Wants to Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters—and GOP Lawmakers Are Filing Bills to Make It Happen

At a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday, former president Donald Trump made many questionable comments. He called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “Fat Alvin.” He claimed migrant children “don’t speak English.” And he said that, if he’s re-elected, he will deport pro-Palestinian, anti-war protesters. “When I’m president, we will not allow our colleges to […]

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Melinda French Gates to leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, and does not come from the foundation’s endowment. In her X post, she says she will focus on programs “on behalf of women and families.”

“This is not a decision I came to lightly,” French Gates says. “I am immensely proud of the foundation that Bill and I built together, and of the extraordinary work it is doing to address inequalities around the world.”

French Gates and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates divorced in 2021. At the time, the two...

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Apple finally adds iPhone alerts for third-party Bluetooth trackers

Apple and Google collaborated on the new Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers industry standard. | Image: Apple

A new industry specification devised by Apple and Google to address the safety risks of Bluetooth tracking devices is now live. Apple announced this week it has implemented alerts for unknown third-party Bluetooth trackers in iOS 17.5, following Google starting to roll it out across Android devices running 6.0 and higher last December.

The Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers (DULT) standard is a cross-platform initiative designed to prevent Bluetooth trackers like Apple AirTags from being misused to track people without their knowledge. The specification allows iOS and Android devices to detect and alert you when a tracker that conforms to the standard is traveling with you and its owner is not.

Apple said in a press release that...

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Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Has A Freak Straight Out Of Bloodborne

The team at FromSoftware is really good at making the most fucked-up creatures imaginable. Some of the stuff that team has fit into its games are utter nightmares ripped out of the deep dark recesses of the human mind. Parts of its catalog, like Bloodborne, have explicitly leaned into that haunting aesthetic more than…

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grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert") wrote:

Classic version control:

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• A collection of MI 3.5 floppy disks. (remote)

Square Enix plans to ‘aggressively pursue’ multiplatform game releases

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Everybody’s getting bitten by the multiplatform bug; now, it’s Square Enix. In its earnings report released earlier today, the publisher shared plans to increase profits, stating that it will “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs.”

Right now, Square Enix’s biggest games, like Final Fantasy XVIand Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, have been restricted to the PlayStation, with PC releases for select titles including Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade following some time after console launch. However, smaller new releases, like the forthcoming Visions of Mana, are seeing simultaneous release on Xbox.

The company wrote that it hopes bringing its major franchises, including its...

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hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

It's still so wild to me that you can point out bad practices in javascript or whatever other language or point out a better way to write something and people go "yes of course, that makes sense now, I'll do it this way now" but for CSS those same people throw up their hands and go "I fear I need to reinvent CSS actually" instead of just learning the thing

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hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

Is this a real thing people using Tailwind do because this made me actually lol at work
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72826605/how-to-style-nested-elements-based-on-parent-class-using-tailwind-css

ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her

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OpenAI is releasing a Her-inspired voice assistant feature that can read your facial expressions and translate spoken language in real time — and hopefully do it all without abandoning you like in the movie.

During a livestream demonstration on Monday, OpenAI engineers and CTO Mira Murati gathered around a phone to show the new capabilities. They encouraged the assistant to be more expressive while making up a bedtime story, then abruptly requested it to switch to a robotic voice, before finally asking it to conclude the story with a singing voice. Later, they asked the assistant to look at what the phone’s camera is seeing and have it respond to what’s visible on-screen. The assistant was also able to be interrupted while speaking and...

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Zelda: Majora’s Mask is now a native PC game, and every N64 title could follow its lead

I thought opening the impossible door in Mario 64 was the coolest thing that’d happened to the Nintendo 64 in years, but Mr. Wiseguy’s just-released N64 Recompiled blows me away. It’s a tool that theoretically lets you turn any N64 game into a native PC port, the better to play and preserve N64 games — and to showcase its abilities, you can already download Windows and Linux-native apps for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Maskthat seem to run incredibly well.

It almost seems too good to be true: I just double-clicked an EXE file on my Windows laptop, told the app where to find a Majora’s Mask ROM file, and was immediately playing a copy of the game that felt incredibly responsive to my every press on a 165Hz variable refresh rate screen,...

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Fallout 4 Fans Are Begging Bethesda To Stop Updating The Game

Last month, Bethesda released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 across all platforms intended to improve the aging RPG. Instead, it broke tons of popular mods and made the game buggier for some players, too. To fix that, Bethesda has released another update. The reaction from fans has mostly been negative, with people…

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

Shout-out to that one random JavaScript developer, whose free confetti library bursts at the end of every user flow on every website nowadays.

Apple News Plus is ready to work offline

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Even if subscribers are outside cellular or Wi-Fi range (or if there’s a massive outage), Apple News Plus on iOS 17.5 can still supply them content now that it’s added Offline Mode — this must’ve been farther down the list from Apple Maps, which added offline navigation last year in the iOS 17 update. Top Stories, Apple News Today audio briefings, magazines, narrated articles, and puzzles can automatically download to your iPhone or iPad, all optimized to maximize space on the devices.

As promised, the latest updates across macOS, iPadOS, and other platforms also add another word game for News Plus subscribers called Quartiles, competing with The New York Times’ growing library of games and even LinkedIn. The New Plus Puzzles section...

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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We have just published the 8 talks of the Web Engines Hackfest 2024: https://webengineshackfest.org/#talks

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• Screenshot of https://webengineshackfest.org/#talks With the titles and pictures of speakers. Content: * The Future of Source Maps by Jonathan Kuperman * Firefox Wayland post mortem by Martin Stransky * The journey towards stabilizing Chromium’s Wayland support by Max Ihlenfeldt * Nova JavaScript Engine - Exploring a Data-Oriented Engine Design by Aapo Alasuutari * Sustainable Futures: Funding the Web Ecosystem by Stephanie Stimac * History of WebGPU in Deno by Leo Kettmeir * Blitz: a truly modular, hackable web renderer by Nico Burns * LBSE - Status of the Layer-Based SVG Engine by Nikolas Zimmermann (remote)

Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident

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Cruise’s autonomous vehicles are officially back on the road and driving autonomously for the first time since one of its driverless vehicles dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet in San Francisco.

Cruise said last month that it would resume testing with manually driven vehicles focused on mapping and gathering road information — minor tasks for a company with as many autonomous miles as Cruise. But Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably apologetic for the pedestrian-dragging incident by going slow and talking a lot about safety and trust. The company is deploying its vehicles in Phoenix, Arizona, which has long been a hotbed for autonomous vehicle testing.

Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably...

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