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

I was strongly opposed to Tim Walz in 2018. We both got better.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/i-was-against-walz-before-i-was-for-him/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtYcbH50ag

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I was at the right place at the right time.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

Attachments:

• An old telephone box overgrown by plants and covered in tags standing next to a pub. In the background, a banner across the street welcoming passersby to the St. Nicholas Market. A man with a cigarette in his mouth is walking past, with his dog wrapped around his neck like a fancy scarf.

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kohnzn@chaos.social ("KOHN der baba") wrote:

Attachments:

• daa6dfbfca8f76b7.mp4 (remote)

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matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

Another day, another audit in which I have to explain the difference between links and buttons.

Deno 1.46: The Last 1.x Release

Our last 1.x release before Deno 2 comes with a ton of features, ranging from a simpler, improved CLI, to multi-threaded web servers, improvements to Node.js/npm compatibility, and more.

Continue Reading…

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FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

Okay, the results of the screen reader survey are in:

"People who use screen readers, do you prefer hashtags to all be at the end of a post, or do you prefer hashtags to be mixed in with the main text?"

• 100 votes prefer hashtags all at end

• 42 votes prefer hashtags mixed in text

...so, it seems to be that hashtags at the end have a lot more fans, but it's not unanimous.

(Link to survey: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112977620571623981)

#Accessibility #ScreenReaders #VisualImpairment #Blindness #Blind

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gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

I've found a lot of conflicting and confusing reports about the #SecureBoot issue caused by a Microsoft update, so here's my relatively informed take about it.

Spoilers: this isn't an issue with GRUB, but with another less known bootloader called shim. GRUB can also be affected though. So let's talk about how the bootchain of a #Linux distro works and what happened to it. 🧵 1/11

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

The UK tech regulator has published a set of remedies for ensuring browser diversity and competition across platforms. They're pretty good! But I, and @owa, think that there are a few bits they should have included. The CMA wants to hear from web developers on this, and so here's some detail about why, and how. Read, then send an email by August 29th!
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/08/21/the-cma-wants-your-comments-on-web-apps/

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

The most cursed business words in tech today:

• "ideate"
• "innovate"
• "performant"
• "learnings"
• "asks"
• "actioned"
• "AI"

"Metaverse" and "crypto" would be on the list, but they died of VC-related injuries.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Evening sunlight under the Yohkai tent.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol #ArcTanGent #ATG #LLNN

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• A crowd, facing away, illuminated by evening sunlight, while the stage in the distance is dark with clearly defined stage lights.

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

Plastics aren't just in our gonads anymore:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

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mia@void.rehab ("tetnicolor") wrote:

Attachments:

• picture of two weevils one of them is bigger than the other the smaller one is labelled "lesser of two weevils" (remote)

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

Also, @doramatadora's talk is a much more accessible intro to these ideas:

https://youtu.be/t3smBkiGUWw?si=sV1zATojVa8EWEzY

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

Related: https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/

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

worth watching

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009644712/why-kamalas-mom-is-more-brat-than-she-is.html?smid=url-share

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

‘CHICAGO (The Borowitz Report)—In the latest sign that Kamala Harris is expanding her coalition, on Wednesday Melania Trump announced that she will speak on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Explaining her decision to speak, Mrs. Trump said, "None of us can stand another four years of Donald Trump."’

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drwho@hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

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• One of many examples of why an 80's kid will never trust AI. It's a screenshot from Wargames listing all of the games that Joshua knows how to play: Bridge Checkers Chess Poker Fighter Combat Guerrilla Engagement Desert Warfare Air-To-Ground Actions Theater-wide Tactical Warfare Theater-wide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare Global Thermonuclear War (remote)

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TheTempleMom@pagan.plus ("Laura Perry") wrote:

One of the most delightful aspects of gardening is going out to the vegetable garden very early in the morning and finding bumblebees still asleep in the squash blossoms. ❤️🐝❤️🐝

#bee #bees

Attachments:

• Closeup of the center of a bright yellow squash blossom, with two bumblebees fast asleep, curled around the pollen-bearing parts in the center of the flower. (remote)

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hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

“However. VC money is like rocket fuel, and you don’t get rocket fuel just to continue grocery shopping every day. You have to get to space.” https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/

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eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

Songs like this make me wish I could sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPa7bsKwL-c

#music #ladygaga #brunomars

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esa@squeet.me ("ESA (unofficial)") wrote:

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.
Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

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

The most important thing about a performance remediation effort isn't making the system faster, even though that's the most visible outcome.

Remediation is a chance to learn *why*, and then teach the team.

*Why* was this system performing the way it did? *Why* was it designed that way? *Why* wasn't there observability in place to catch this? *Why* will these changes make the system faster? *Why* will we avoid regression in the future?

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

Names and dates on documents. Every time. Don't forget.

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mattbors@mstdn.ca ("Matt Bors") wrote:

A lot of people forget, or are simply not taught by their parents or health care providers, that they can listen to Parliament/Funkadelic and instantly feel better. Immediate effect. Results do not vary.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I want a version of MIRI (the #RustLang interpreter/checker) that makes noise whenever it executes undefined behavior. So I can listen to the silence... of soundness.

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5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

I'm learning that a hard thing for folks to accept about web components is that they are just codifying *existing web capabilities*

We've been so conditioned that framework components twist things to fit invented APIs that we've genuinely lost touch with how the web actually exists 😫

This leads to unwarranted fear that to adopt even one web component is equivalent to taking on a burden equivalent to a new JS framework, including performance hits.

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

Losing it over this title/poster combo

Attachments:

• A poster for "Bullets Don't Argue" (1964). Clearly something cobbled together pretty recently from a cropped film still. The title has cheap-looking gradient and dropshadow effects applied. The image is of a man and woman leaning out of a covered wagon. The man is grinning and pointing a pistol at something offscreen. The woman is wearing a gingham shirt, overalls, and has her red hair in an extremely 1960s bouffant. She's smiling and plugging her ears, anticipating the gunshot.

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

Day 1 of the 2024/25 school year.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/today-is-the-start-of-claaaaaaaaarghh/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEcvSq4SDkc

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

I am so jealous. Nature didn't make me pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/i-wish-my-butt-was-this-pretty/

Attachments:

• Maratus lobatus, a jumping spider (remote)

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

I do believe this is the epitome of the US approach to medicine and health:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/as-hospitals-failed-and-patients-died-ceo-reportedly-netted-250m/

(Reading until the end, I see I Bernie Sanders agrees with me. 😆 )

Doctorow previously wrote about this situation as well:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5000-bats/#charnel-house

I hope those places facing pressure from assholes to privatize their healthcare systems pay attention to this sort of thing.

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

So many crabs…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/crabby-destiny/

Attachments:

• Summary of phylogeny and divergence time estimates for Brachyura (88 brachyuran families, 263 genera, 333 species, 338 individuals plus 6 outgroups). Posterior ages were estimated in BEAST2 using a fixed topology resulting from the concatenated ML analysis in IQ-TREE, 36 vetted node calibrations, a birth–death tree prior, and relaxed lognormal clock model. Shaded circles at nodes represent ultrafast bootstraps. Pie slices are colored by superfamily, with the outermost ring colored by taxonomic section. Line drawings, one representative per superfamily (numbers corresponding to taxa in Supplementary Table S7), by Javier Luque and Harrison Mancke. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love the look of dusty glass.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

Attachments:

• A windowsill with two framed artworks facing inwards. The dust on the window reflects sunlight in an appealing way.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Kids in _Terminator 2_ are a bunch of fucking narcs.

Attachments:

• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, leans out of a patrol car to talk to two girls. One is saying, “You just missed him.” (remote)
• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, shows a photo to a teenager in an arcade, who responds by pointing toward John Connor. (remote)
• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, shows a photo to a two boys in a shopping mall. One of them responds by pointing across the mall. (remote)

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

Did you know your mortgage payment can just go up by $500 per month out of nowhere?

I didn't either!

Turns out, predicting the future is somehow a normal part of this system, and when somebody in an office somewhere does an oopsie guessing what your taxes and insurance might cost multiple years in the future, that's on you and not them!

The entire American housing system is such absolute garbage.

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

🔥

“Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: stupidity."

- JB Pritzker

🫳🎤

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

I think I want to be excited about uv but man, idk

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our choice to go with CockroachDB was hardly hasty! @dap joined me and @bcantrill to talk about why we choose CRDB… and how Cockroach Labs' recent switch to a proprietary license impacts that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHMYp8M40k

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

You chumps keep dropping iron for the coming summer while I'm out here working on my bod for Sweaty Boy Autumn.

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

OMG, the hash closed captioning is making of the national anthem singer at the DNC is hilarious

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

TIL there's an on-device network link conditioner for Android, saving tons of time in helping people understand how slow the internet actually is for many people. Easiest $3 I've spent in a long, long time:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.twocities.throttly.paid&hl=en_US

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mnot@techpolicy.social ("Mark Nottingham") wrote:

Hey legal people:

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-w3c-director-of-legal-and-compliance/

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

When you need to debug something in:

CHROME:
Just install it for free on any platform

EDGE:
Just install it for free on any platform

FIREFOX:
Just install it for free on any platform

SAFARI:
Buy a $1000 Apple device or go fuck yourself

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chessert@mastodon.online ("Chris Hessert 🇺🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

@mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

May I suggest adding the Meidas Touch live feed link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKPupCln3z0

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Yoav ("Yoav Weiss") wrote:

I think language negotiation on the web can be both better *and* more private. So I wrote up a few words https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/improving_language_negotiation/

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

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mizblueprint@mastodon.online wrote:

Summertime, and the shady spot gets smaller.
#DogsOfMastodon
#BerneseMountainDog
#GoldenRetriever
#Blep
#BloomScrolling
#Hydrangeas

Attachments:

• A Bernese Mountain Dog and a Golden Retriever lie on the grass in the shade of a garage next to a blue, purple, and green hydrangea. (remote)

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

tonight's speech by Michelle Obama is much anticipated

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

🙄

Donald #Trump says he would be open to #RFKJr. playing a role in his administration if the independent candidate drops out and endorses him -CNN

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

surPRISE

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/harris-offers-10000-tax-credit-for

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Shader languages are nice, but I'm missing some sort of data-flow abstraction language for managing inputs and outputs of compute shaders.

For multi-step processes there's quite a lot of boilerplate involved in configuring bindings, allocating and selecting buffers.

This makes shaders harder to reuse, since the buffer-juggling pipeline-dispatching code is slightly different for every platform and engine.

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informapirata@poliverso.org ("Informa Pirata") wrote:

🔁🖼 Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso Il libro in PDF di Kenobit, liberamente scaricabile in licenza Creative Commons: https://cl...

Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso

Il libro in PDF di Kenobit, liberamente scaricabile in licenza Creative Commons:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/jmCZRro…
Informa Pirata: informazione e notizie

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a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

Niche #pdx request: anyone know of an all-ages place with a coin-operated jukebox?

4yo and especially 6yo are obsessed with Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, but neither has ever seen a real jukebox. I think it’ll blow their minds.

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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns.

AP reports: "The hacking and similar activities, federal officials said, are meant to sow discord, exploit divisions within American society and possibly to influence the outcome of elections that Iran perceives to be 'particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests,' officials said."

https://flip.it/ZEJ_ID

#Iran #Hacking #Politics #USPolitics #Disinformation #Trump #Harris #News

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mafeesh@kolektiva.social ("Mafeesh Moushkella :verified:") wrote:

Elon Musk called Trent Reznor a "crybaby" for deleting his Twitter account. Wil Wheaton then wrote this incisive summary of the man-child that is Elon Musk.
#musc #elon #billionaires

Attachments:

• Wil Wheaton: I can not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience that is Elon Musk He's the richest man on the planet. You can't go anywhere or do anything without interacting with something he's part of in some way. There are literal millions of people who uncritically worship him, in spite of overwhelming evidence that he's a douchebag. Some number of them will come after me, as they come after anyone who points at their naked emperor. They'll spend entire days going after me and people like me, slavishly serving a man who does not even know they exist. They are his army of fools, uncritically serving his every whim. And it still isn't enough. He can have any material thing he wants, and he will *never* be happy or satisfied. He has no real friends. Every single person around him is either a viper, a parasite, or both, So what does he do? He bullies and threatens and harasses and trolls and behaves lie the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been. That's a tragedy for him, but it's dangerous for us. He doesn't care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he «can not ever have. YYou know the saying "hurt people hurt people"? He's a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people | care about less safe. The consequences of this one man's midlife crisis are global, and that terrifies me. (remote)

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

In modern CSS, if you find yourself applying margin to items based on their position in a list, you're probably still using outdated techniques.

Most likely, you actually don't want margin there; you want a flex box/grid with gap. No need to uniquely style the first/last item.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Groggy morning thought: A cosplay hotel like the now-defunct Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser but it's a 1971 training facility for new PDP admins based in Maynard, Mass.

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

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lumecolca@kolektiva.social ("Lúmëcolca") wrote:

@cstanhope
"Move slow and fix things."

"Repair and relax."

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

Cool. Banks are discovering that flirting with Elon because he has "allure" might make poor business sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/i-dont-often-follow-financial-news-but-when-i-do-its-to-giggle-at-asshats/

Attachments:

• dollar bill on fire (remote)

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

So fucked up that exercise actually makes me feel good. Like wtf. Such bullshit. Unacceptable.

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

I guess Duane Gish has achieved a kind of immortality, as the personification of the dumbest, worst, most dishonest debate strategy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/the-ghost-of-gish/

Attachments:

• Duane Gish (remote)

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

People who think this is how science works should not be trusted with science policy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/science-is-not-supposed-to-be-partisan/

Attachments:

• Cartoon of an astronomer seeing a fly on his lens and assuming it means aliens are invading. Only a creationist would think this way. (remote)

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HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

Perhaps you have heard (or even believe) some or all of the elements of the following story about the past:

"Life in the past was crude and hard. People could not afford mercy or charity. People in primitive societies would leave the sick and weak behind to die, and even the ancient Greeks killed disabled infants through exposure."

I have frequently encountered this set of ideas, in various permutations. It shows up all over the internet in popular historical accounts:
"Infanticide was a disturbingly common act in the ancient world, but in Sparta this practice was organized and managed by the state. All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren't up to standards were left to die...If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside. Left alone, the child would either die of exposure or be rescued and adopted by strangers."

It is also quite wrong.

https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-it-wasnt-easy-being-spartan

1/9

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janrosenow@mastodon.energy ("Jan Rosenow") wrote:

We continue to see misinformation about heat pumps being spread by parts of the media and on social media.

I debunked 18 common & largely misleading heat pump myths for Carbon Brief.

Don’t believe poorly informed commentators - listen to the evidence.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Between this and the recent ransomware of a nonprofit organization tasked with removing children from abusive homes and supporting them, I'm getting the impression that maybe word has gone out that any and every US target is permissible and encouraged to increase the chaos and further precarize living in America.

https://therecord.media/columbus-ransomware-officials-warn-victims-after-data-leak

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

The Royal Institution has posted Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures. I've been listening to them as I draw in the evening. So If you're into that kind of thing, here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZygWxt60aCWSgDcoazRdTY7

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andi@sciences.social ("Andi Fugard") wrote:

I have a conjecture about Mastodon users. Have you heard of xkcd? Boost for a large convenience sample.

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maphew@vmst.io ("matt wilkie") wrote:

Government, development, hiring, contracting, ownership

the truth bells
they ring in my head
me nodding and grinning, a madman.
The words below are not mine
/1

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

Behold! The mexican restaurant theory of website performance:

MPAs/Progressive Enhancement: ordering guacamole & chips, and then a large-but-reasonable amount of each arrive in reasonable time.

SPAs/whatever-Next.js-is: ordering guacamole & chips, only to find out that it's "tableside service", which means they spend ages dragging a trolley full of uncut ingredients to your table, then waiter glares while you're expected to make the guac for your family.

In *theory* better. In practice? Hrm.

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

I had an AP Econ teacher named Mr. Bates (no, really) and he was *incredible*. One of the best lessons he taught was on monopoly pricing power and how it allowed segmentation. His lens? The "mexican restaurant theory of pricing", in which he pointed out to a bunch of bratty midwestern know-nothings how the description and presentation of the same ingredients created competitively unsupportable margins.

Tonight, I had a flash of re-application...(thread)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

You know how that one Jay-Z and Alicia Keys song sounds like she's saying "concrete jungle wet dream tomato"

Well, a couple years ago, when I was drunk laying in bed, I bought wetdreamtomato.com.

I don't know what to do with it.

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digichelle@hachyderm.io ("Michelle Catherine Marcó") wrote:

This thread by @slightlyoff hits close to home. As someone who receives state benefits in California, I’m all too familiar with BenefitCal’s slowness and jankiness, because I have to deal with it on a regular basis.

Loading a website over broadband in 2024 should not feel like loading a website over a 9600 baud modem in 1995. We need to do better. We need to cut the bloat.

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112950935070472492

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technomancy@hey.hagelb.org ("technomancy (turbonerd aspect)") wrote:

so I knew google was fucking up ublock origin badly with the recent manifestv3 shitshow, but apparently that's not the only reason firefox is better at blocking: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

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kcarruthers wrote:

Isaac Hayes estate sues Trump to stop using hit song 'Hold On, I'm Coming' at rallies

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/isaac-hayes-estate-sues-trump-after-deadline-passes-to-stop-using-hit-song-hold-on-im-coming-at-rallies/

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

hilarious: the FoxNews & MSNBC booths are next to each other at the Democratic National Convention

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whit_whal@oulipo.social ("Valid Moby Dick Parts") wrote:

It was Moby Dick. “‘Moby Dick!’

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

The difference between a secure products company and a security products company could not possibly be larger.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Ye Olde Too Many Tabs Open

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

Here's one I'd never heard before. "Let's Get Digital" from What Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyhLzsY-Vc

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

LMFAO, you can't even open this so called "web app" on an iPhone. It will just send you to the app. If you uninstall the native app, then open the link, it will send you to the App Store.

Even on Android, you can't install it. Adding to home screen just creates a regular bookmark.

This is not a web app. It's a website.

A website that doesn't run on iOS.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223811/apple-podcasts-web-app

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mhoye wrote:

🎵That’s me as a coder
That’s me with the (int)float
Losing my precision🎵

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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

our #32bitcafe back to school code jam entries are now displayed and available to browse! check out your available courses here to learn from folks around the cafe!

https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/

this was officially our biggest code jam ever with 30 submissions! 👏

thank you to EVERYONE for participating! you all did an amazing job with this prompt!! i’m so proud of our community!

#smallweb #indieweb #codejam #personalweb #webevent #webdev #cozyweb #internet #html #css #js

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robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

Nebulae
6x8 in, Oil on panel

"The notion that our atoms were once part of other people and will again become part of other people after we die provides a meaningful connectedness between us and the rest of humanity, future and past."
-Alan Lightman

New tiny painting on http://www.everydayoriginal.com tomorrow 8/20/24

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

This is... good

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49031

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calmeilles@mstdn.social ("Matthew Malthouse") wrote:

In France car parks with space for 80 cars or more are now required by law to be covered with solar panels.

- Parks between 80-400 spaces have 5 years to comply
- Parks with spaces of 400+ have 3 years to comply

This should be required everywhere!

#ClimateCrisis #Electrification

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

Elon is just another Otto.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/ugh-cultural-christian-thats-an-excuse-for-a-lot-of-stupidity/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fuc1oSoCB8

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

For people asking what is it about, it's about #Python Steering Council (if I'm not mangling the title) suspending a core developer. Search around if you're really interested, but really, don't. It's not a nice story.

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

Because the normal Internet is dying (for many reasons), I'm getting a lot of information from YouTube these days. It kinda works, but it bears reminding myself once in a while just how inefficient it really is: a video about "my favorite way of focusing Fujifilm cameras" should not be 40 minutes long.

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

Trying to resist from posting anything about the current shit show in #python land is really hard, given what people are boosting into my stream. The only reason that's holding me back is that nobody is listening to anyone, so it's going to be in vain. I wish there'd be a tag to filter it out.

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

Should you use CRA? Not even once.

This has always been true, but only in the last couple of years have its creators acknowledged as much. And yet, they're pulling the same shit Facebook pulled when they failed to signpost to the community the scale of infrastructure necessary to keep their baroque JS in check.

Lies by omission are still material.

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

A point I buried in a footnote last week, but should probably draw out:

We know that frontend is wallowing in irresponsiblity because regretted approaches continue to spread (e.g., CRA, "CSS-in-JS", etc.) *even when their creators disavow them*. Why? Because those "leaders" do not put warning signs on their abandonware. They do not do the right thing and strongly recommend that users avoid those systems.

Don't believe me? Check out CRA's home page:

https://create-react-app.dev/

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

I'm not Irish, so I'm safe. I've gotta worry if JD Vance ever targets the Norwegians & Swedes, though.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/what-voting-block-will-he-piss-off-next/

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

This tracks: years ago I saw a CS report on the prevalence of programming bugs in Excel spreadsheets that found about the same number of bugs per LoC-equivalent as in Visual BASIC written by low-proficiency programmers. Spreadsheets encourage spaghetti code and opaque variable naming: meanwhile spreadsheet debugging tools are stuck in the stone age (i.e. 1970s). The defect rate goes down in organizations where spreadsheets are developed by the IT department, not MBAs …
https://paquita.masto.host/@rinze/112959459848001627

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

this is a good story, a humanizing piece

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2024/08/19/podcasts/the-daily/kamala-harris-dnc.html?referringSource=sharing

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Need to remember to forget you.

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

(void *)0

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brianstorms ("Brian Dear") wrote:

Wow, that didn’t take long.

#Starbucks hires former CEO of Chipotle, home of the We Make Money The Old-Fashioned Way: We Keep Raising Prices While Streadily Shrinking Portion Sizes policy, and voila… a Venti at Starbucks is still a Venti cup, but with the smaller Grande serving secretly inside. 🤷‍♂️

Hmm. You’re going to piss off a lot of customers, Starbucks, if this is now a thing.

(photo taken before consuming even first sip of beverage)

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

hah!
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/harris-offers-10000-tax-credit-for

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

I think every small town has a religious crank who spams the local newspaper with pious bullshit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/bad-grandpa/

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

If there are evolutionists, why are there still creationists?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/where-have-all-the-creationists-gone/

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