fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So I made a #BearBlog.
It's called, Web 3.0 Slept With My Wife.
Why? I don't know, man. Why are you asking so many questions.
Anyway, I intend to write short notes about the future of the web. There's a first post up but it's probably not representative of the tone I'll carry through the rest of the way. I want to get weird. We'll see.
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ami.l.berger@threads.net ("Ami Berger") wrote:
he's so, so close
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ryanrandall@hcommons.social ("Ryan for a permanent ceasefire") wrote:
Before you boldly type that you have no sympathy for people who aren't getting out of the way of #HurricaneHelene , please remember that the Big Bend / Panhandle of Florida has effectively zero regional public transit.
People who can't drive (due to economics or disability) have already been abandoned en masse by #Florida's governments & US automobile-centric city "planning".
Don't harden your heart toward the many people—unsurprisingly, folks already marginalized—that #America has abandoned.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Fully expect to get kicked out of somewhere tonight on Chappell Roan's internet
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Anyway, I'm not interested in "beating" those social media giants. I think it's the wrong goal and will lead to the wrong conclusions and actions.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, I think we really underestimate the power of marketing and advertising. I don't know if it's because we're all swimming in it so much, or if it's because we all overestimate our ability to not be swayed by it (probably a little of both plus other things I'm missing), but marketing and advertising are power. To the extent you can wield them, you can wield power. Advertising doesn't always work as intended, but it's difficult to defeat something that wields it or has wielded it effectively.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
When I hear people ask or wonder about how mastodon or the wider fediverse can "beat" Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, it often feels to me like asking, "What will it take to make a better casino?"
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ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:
Does anyone remember Google People?
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
i’m extremely pleased to tell you that the first cybertruck in costa rica (paying 52% import tax!) got immediately stuck in the mildest of rural road conditions
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adwright ("TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️") wrote:
So it was only a hundred years ago - 1924 - when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts.
She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.
At the time the consensus was stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.
It took 4 more years for a man to confirm the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.
It's all hers now.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
after basically *walking* across Europe with the infantry (note her boots), here is Lee Miller taking a bath at the end of the road… in Hitler’s bathtub just after the a$$hole killed himself.
https://www.artbook.com/blog-featured-image-lee-miller-hitlers-bathtub.html
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
such evocative photography https://www.leemiller.co.uk/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
OMG, I *must* see this movie… she’s been a hero of mine for many years
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stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:
Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, "cut 21,000 jobs, including in trust and safety and customer service, over multiple rounds of layoffs", leading state and local officials "puzzled by what to expect from Facebook" around voting misinformation.
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
The entire BBC sound effects library is now accessible. https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search
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Currently listening, currently feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KACt6YhOyY
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dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:
Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.
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ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:
Doesn’t matter who’s right in the WordPress/WP Engine battle.
The damage to the open web has already been done. It took five days.
https://tedium.co/2024/09/25/wordpress-wp-engine-open-web-negative-effects/
new @tedium
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digiphile ("Alex Howard") wrote:
Today is another good day to download your archive of tweets & make sure you don’t have any apps or services that depend on X to log-in: How to download your X archive https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-x-archive The owner/censor of that service can & will change any policy to ban accounts or block a URL if he doesn’t like them. I just experienced getting hacked, in a way that’s still unclear. Caveat creator.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank pierside in the spring and the Chinese Navy tried to conceal the loss, according to two US defense officials."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/politics/chinese-nuclear-powered-submarine-sank/index.html
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are0h@h-i.social ("Gorgeous Killer") wrote:
Honestly?
Minibosses still goes hard.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But remember! Next.js and React deliver *incredible performance*.
In that it is *incredible* how bad the performance is:
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mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:
look, I get why y’all like the “supply chain” rhetoric, it helps you continue pretending that software security can be solved through capitalistic means
here’s the thing: I’ve run a manufacturing business before. I’m getting a second one going. Supply Chains are defined by an exchange of money for goods, with value-add steps in between. That’s it
Where’s the money, Lebowski?
Software packaging security is a social trust problem, which can’t actually be “solved” in a capitalist framework
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rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
@jalcine @janl @slightlyoff Gruber: "Because native-to-the-platform apps are inherently better [than web apps]. They look better, work better, and adhere to platform design and functional idioms far better."
https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@gruber/113199820516483796
His website on a mobile phone:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The timelines have been obscured to protect the guilty.
Needless to say, this is not working from a CWV perspective.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@rgadellaa Maybe Gruber would change his mind about the web not being for apps if he had a decent browser on his phone? 🤔🤔🤔
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I keep tooting this post, but that's partially because @rgadellaa keeps updating it as the history of Apple's uniquely colossal iOS web #fail gets more richly reported.
Storing data in an iOS PWA has been a particularly unreliable thing to try:
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--updates
Apple alone can fix this, but won't, and won't let better browsers try. Which leaves only native apps.
Conclusively anti-competitive no matter how you slice it.
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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:
"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"
How can this possibly be legal?
Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.
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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
7⃣ 545 ❤️ Cycling gradient glow - no text duplication https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/rNPOpJK
A simple #SVG filter trick.
We create the gradient text.
The filter creates a blurred copy of it and places it underneath.
We then animate the gradient stops... magic! 🪄✨
#css #svgFilter #filter #filterEffect #glow #text #textEffect #textGlow #cssGradient #code #coding #frontend #web #webDev #dev #webDevelopment
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gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:
My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.
We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics in #Firefox: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers, etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.
And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.
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grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:
People in the U.S. can get free COVID tests again.
I just ordered mine! Get yours here.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Even if it's written in Rust, don't do it.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, stop connecting non-lethal machines to the internet. It's probably not necessary to have connected fridges, coffee makers, toothbrushes, shoes, sweaters, whatever else we're thinking about.
I mean, if you want to make a one-off hack and connect your hoodie to the internet allowing strangers to control the drawstrings for a laugh, cool. But if you're thinking about mass producing them, providing "where is my hoodie" services, and monetizing the data etc. Just... don't.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Please stop connecting lethal machines to the internet.
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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:
Grown-ups do not conduct supply-chain attacks. However this ends, I will not be building on WordPress moving forward without a serious governance overhaul.
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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
Has mullenweg walked back any of his bullshit yet? It's incredible that this is happening at all, but taking longer than a day to fix it is unacceptable.
The thing is, wordpress plugins are a tarpit as it is. The plugin registry is a trust anchor in an otherwise untrustworthy space. But part of gaining trust is demonstrating reliability. This whole thing is intentionally sacrificing reliability in order to demonstrate malice.
I'm struggling to imagine a way to more effectively destroy trust.
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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:
Ryan McCue, co-lead on the Wordpress API, on the Wordpress/WP Engine situation: “WP Engine must win this legal battle for the continued health and vibrancy of the WordPress project.”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AxiosNews@flipboard.com wrote:
Exclusive: Harris campaign ties Trump to Robinson in new ad on contraception
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/26/harris-ad-contraception-democrats-robinson-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Kamala Harris @kamala-harris-AxiosNews
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
People have been ghoulishly exploiting the bereaved for millennia. Grieftech is just the latest implausible version.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/26/the-most-ghoulish-use-of-ai-so-far/
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EvilBunnyPottymouth ("Evil Bunny Pottymouth") wrote:
from Kamala’s Wins
BREAKING: In a stunning new leak, this photo of Donald Trump and Kevin Roberts (the author of Project 2025) flying in Trump’s private jet has surfaced. Retweet to make sure everyone knows these two are inextricably linked.
#Project2025
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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:
Computer models designed to simulate slime molds (left) turn out to be exceptionally good at simulating the large-scale structure of the universe (right).
Similar network patterns appear across scales differing by 30 orders of magnitude!
https://newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-astronomy-research-uses-slime-mold-to-model-galaxies/s/136ea12b-091a-4240-9de2-389026ef37f3#space #science #nature #astronomy
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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:
Special counsel Jack Smith, stymied at every turn by federal courts from putting Donald Trump on trial, is about to submit his most compelling evidence that the former president conspired to derail the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election.
Whether the public sees it before the 2024 election rests with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breakinghttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/jack-smith-trump-investigation-dossier-00181108
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… the year 1877 sits right in the midst of the crisis of the accelerating industrialization of America…”
and I think the year 2024 sits somewhere in the midst of a modern crisis of the accelerating development of [whatever history ends up calling] the information economy of 21st century America (currently probably at about 10-15% of US GDP)
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paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:
Progress?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
re-reading “1877: America’s Year of Living Violently”… there are some powerful parallels between that (post Civil War) era & these times, I think.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo.”
- from ‘Jingo’ by Terry Pratchett
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
our fabulous furry friend Mookie is visiting
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Put some spikes on the bird feeder to deter the squirrels, and all that I have accomplished is creating a local society of smarter, more cooperative squirrels.
Five minutes after filling it up, Squirrel Robin Hood here is hanging off the side, shovelling it all out into the ground for his friends who are eating well.
There’s a metaphor in here somewhere, I’m sure.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Me to anyone who will listen this week
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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
Yet another one of those @codepen demos I made over half a decade ago, back when only Chromium browsers supported animating #CSS variables (and only behind a flag 🚩)
codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/qzxpJK
As of this summer, it's cross-browser! No flags required or anything! ✨
#code #coding #cssVariables #frontend #web #webDev #webDevelopment #dev
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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Jorkin Depeanus Tarr") wrote:
Sometimes, people make fun of guys for doing stuff like this, but I think it's way more cool to do something you are passionate about, that is actually constructive, than buying guns for a self-created Apocalypse and harassing women online, because they won't have sex with them.
Nerds rule!
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lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:
The year is 2025. Kamala Harris is president. You have $200 in your bank account. When you deposit an additional $99,999,800 Kamala will begin to tax your unrealized capital gains. Your fist clenches. The communists have won.
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
OpenAI plans tectonic shift from nonprofit to for-profit, giving Altman equity
Under plans that have attracted criticism, shift may give Altman 7% equity in the firm.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
c0debabe@hackers.town ("c0debabe, mapache") wrote:
Just ordered my free test kits.
Get you some!
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The CDW page for it is LOLSOB; just loading it errors out half the time for me, and it has no specs. Or photos. Incredible.
https://www.cdw.com/product/asus-nb-14-u5-115u-512-16gb-chrome/7948064?pfm=srh
Anyway, the model number you're looking for is "CX5403CMA-DB562-T". Good luck, I guess?
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Y'all, they finally made a fast-ish Chromebook with a decent-looking screen, but they didn't tell anyone and you can't buy it direct 🤦
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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
- man walks again after buying $100,000 exoskeleton
- a battery in the watch that controls it dies (presumably cheap to replace)
- company refuses
- right to repair is coming for exeskeletons
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
Rudy Giuliani is now permanently disbarred in DC
Happy Thursday 🇺🇸
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25175451-in-re-giuliani-21-bg-0423
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jgkoomey@mastodon.energy ("Jonathan Koomey") wrote:
Good read on polling problems. Human choices aren’t really predictable, but a lot of people cling to the false notion that if only they had more data, more graduate students, more funding, more coffee, or a more sophisticated model that it would become possible. Nope. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-25-polling-imperilment/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"On Monday night a white-haired, 78-year-old man clambered up onto stage and declared himself to be “cognitively very strong”, before then comparing himself to Winston Churchill, inventing a Shakespeare quote, and making an impassioned call for the return to television of a comedian who died nearly 20 years ago. The man wasn’t my dad after six pints of Boddingtons. It was Donald Trump, who could soon become the most powerful person in the world."
Adam Gabbatt, TheGuardian
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
Nice follow request from TotallyNotASpammer@open.registration.social
Online earning
anserali7278@mastodon.social
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as my Dad used to say: there are times when sitting on the fence just means that they will lay the barbed wire through you.
I hope Walz has learned from that experience, & that Harris also learned from Obama's futile struggles to find compromise with Congresscritters who were never going to do so.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've never heard a storm in Minnesota described as "unsurvivable", but hey, Florida, you do you.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Be like Sphen and Magic. Don't be like Abraham and David.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute:
"“It enables dominant firms to extract rents from consumers and small businesses dependent on their services, and creates systemic harms when systems fail or malfunction due to the creation of single points of failure. Most concerningly, it expands the economic and political power of the firms that have access to compute, cementing the control of firms that already dominate ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/09/26/computational-power-and.html
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DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:
I agree with every word of this.
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GuerillaOntologist@social.coop ("Josh Davis") wrote:
When the percussionist is the band leader, there are going to be three drum solos in every song 😎
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I've so far asked the IACR Board of Directors three times whether they're planning to write a statement expressing sympathy to the mass murder that's happening in Lebanon, with over 600 deaths (including 50 children) in the past three days.
I haven't received a response, despite the IACR having published a statement expressing support with Israel less than two weeks after Hamas's attack last year.
The IACR was correct in issuing a statement condemning what happened in Israel last October, but has repeatedly refused issuing a similar statement about Gaza, settling only for a minor edit, and now is outright ignoring all requests for a similar statement about Lebanon, a country that never invaded Israel or took any hostages to begin with.
Some IACR members expressed interest in signing a "well-worded petition" regarding this matter.
I've written one here and will be sending it to the IACR Board of Directors in a few days. If you're interested in signing, please either reply to this tweet or send an email to n@nadim.email.
Petition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2HDOC0K_K9v1BoycIg4sCeJbBWHOdfSmBTyz38RrIc
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
petition to rename the 'dark web' to the 'spoopy internets'. 100,000 signatures and i will personally battle Bari Weiss in Tekken 4
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
LinkedIn is out here with some s-tier trolling, y'all.
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NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:
in this time of great trial for the internet ecosystem, we turn to the sacred texts for guidance
(memes, i'm talking about memes)
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chikorita157@sakurajima.moe ("chikorita157 🐰:unverified:") wrote:
The latest on Matt Mullenweg running WordPress into the ground by tinystepsforward (post viewable on Goblin Band)
autocrattic (more matt shenanigans, not tumblr this time)
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CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us ("Charlie McHenry") wrote:
So according to Zuck, #Meta is going to deploy its newly minted #AI to generate personalized images in our feeds on #Facebook and #Instagram. Uh-huh, it’s a thing people. But as Casey Newton pointedly observes: “…if Meta moves too quickly, pumping the feed full of cheap AI-generated content risks giving the company’s core products the feel of an abandoned amusement park.” #Brutal
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etherdiver@ravenation.club ("Ether Diver") wrote:
Insides and Outsides – “Sentient Sky”
Well-produced, atmospheric synthwave with plenty of drive and vibes to spare.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org ("Sean Tilley") wrote:
Look, I’m going to be completely honest. Some aspects of today’s events, and some elements leading up to it, have given me bad vibes. I’m not trying to assasinate Evan’s character or make him look like a bad person, but I want to characterize some of the dynamic problems I’m seeing from coopting “The Social Web” as a term, and equating it, #Fediverse, and #ActivityPub as all one-and-the-same.
I might get flamed for sharing this, but I have to be honest about what I really think, and why I have some problems stomaching how things are happening.
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you don’t want “the old internet,” you want a space that hasn’t been colonized by capital
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mark *needs* VR/AR hardware to be the next phone to escape Apple's hardware prison.
And it just occurred to me that the Apple Vision Pro is Cupertino's first "concept car," a muscle-flex that shows consumers that Apple is capable of leading them into a post-smartphone world. And that any other hardware is second rate.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo @owa And there isn't an install or sync button from `chrome://webapks/`. What is going on, y'all?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… they don’t like us much, either.”
“Whyever not?” said Lord Selachii.
“Well, because during our history those we haven’t occupied we’ve tended to wage war on,” said Lord Vetinari. “For some reason the slaughter of thousands of people tends to stick in the memory.”
“Oh, history,” said Lord Selachii. “That’s all in the past!”
“A good place for history, agreed,” said the Patrician solemnly- from “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo @owa And is prompted install broken? The only PWAs offering install in 128 after install + sync seem to be those that have custom `onbeforeinstallprompt` UI
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo Even with Chrome sync turned on, the only browser that can install real PWAs *still* doesn't offer one-tap restore. Why not?
/cc @owa
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo And so begins another round of "hunting for half my apps, then manually reinstalling them, because Android"
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It is *wild* that, in 2024, PWAs do not restore correctly when setting up a new Android device.
@beverloo, is this *ever* going to get fixed?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Actually, I take it back: what Matt Mullenweg is doing is *even worse* than any of those examples, because in those scenarios, it's just two for-profit businesses going at it.
Matt, on the other hand, is wielding his power over the nonprofit #wordpress foundation (which should exist, in part, to *prevent* situations like this one) in order to directly benefit his own for-profit company, in a way that's impossible to retaliate against and an obvious conflict of interest abuse.
Fire Matt.
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blueghost@mastodon.online ("Blue Ghost") wrote:
WriteFreely is a blogging platform.
Google Blogger alternative.
Supports ActivityPub (fediverse).
Supports RSS.
Supports SEO.
Supports anonymous posting.
Supports Let's Encrypt certificates.
Supports hosted instances.
Supports self-hosted instances.Host via Tor Onion Service.
No advertisements.
Minimalist design.
Schedule posts to be published at a future date.Website: https://writefreely.org
Mastodon: @writefreely @write_as#WriteFreely #WriteAs #Blog #Anonymity #Privacy #Tor #deGoogle
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If someone has asked you to build them a component that is going to be embedded on someone else's web page, you have a duty of care to be minimally invasive to the performance, accessibility, and utility of that greater experience.
750KB/3MB for a totally optional chat widget *that doesn't do anything until you click in anyway*, is dereliction of duty. Including a full-fat copy of a heavyweight, legacy desktop oriented framework is *failure* from the word "go".
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This chat widget is *absolutely* losing this Major Cloud Vendor money. I guarantee it. They won't know how much until they run the A/B, but it's more than zero, and likely more than they make from it.
And that's the least of its problems. Frontend, as a profession, needs to be better than this. We each can push back, dig into the use-cases, and ask "why is this good for the user?"
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
At a product level, this is malpractice. At an engineering level, it's enabling the worst instincts of our generation's "acceptable" PM class. It should be beneath any self-respecting engineer to participate in building something so horribly constructed, nevermind conceptually misbegotten.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is not -- and I cannot stress this enough -- the content of the page. It is a thirsty-ass widget that appears after you have loaded the page (but competes with the page for wire and CPU resources) to show you a little "unread count" bubble that you did not ask for and cannot ignore.
At ~750K, this is almost 20% of the page's 4MB (wire, 18MB unzipped) payload. Rotten to the core.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Friend shared a chonky landing page for a Major Cloud Vendor's offerings...and y'all, I don't think anyone has internalised how high on their own supply the contemporary JS community is.
It takes some cirrostratus levels of disconnectedness to believe your `chatbot.js` is fine when it clocks in at ~750K (wire, 3MB unzipped) INCLUDING ITS OWN COPY OF REACT, lodash, every polyfill you've ever heard of, and 269 embedded `data:image/...` URLs.
andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC, welcome to 1877:
“Injuries reported after explosion rocks California courthouse”
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
It looks Matt Mullenweg has ordered WordPress.org servers (managed by automattic) to block servers using the IP ranges owned by WP Engine.
That means that people trying to use wordpress servers installed in WP Engine servers can't no longer access to plugins, themes, or updates, for example
This is despicable.
This is breaking entirely with the principles of open source. It's ghoulish.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:
We love a good opinionated piece, especially if it's from the 90s by perhaps the best and most prolific ̶b̶l̶o̶g̶ weblog ever written.
1996— "Please stop using the term “web log” to refer to a chronologically-ordered frequently-updated website. The correct term is “weblog”. Furthermore, “blog” is not short for “web log”, it is short for “weblog”."
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mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:
You know what’s mad about the future? It’s likely you could swallow and shit 2TB of data in one go without any discomfort.
Yes that’s how I rationalise the increasingly ridiculous density of data storage.
Obvs don’t do this.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Imagine if Apple decided to block anyone with a gmail address from accessing the app store.
Imagine if AWS shut down your app if you used Shopify.
Imagine if Microsoft blocked GitHub for Macs.
This is the exact kind of thing Matt Mullenweg is doing in #wordpress, and it's utterly indefensible. No matter what you believe about WP Engine, their customers—members of the community Matt claims to care about—don't deserve this.
Matt needs to be removed immediately.
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whoisryosuke@threads.net ("Ryosuke") wrote:
TIL you can embed videos on GitHub if you use webm or mov files. Way higher quality and efficient than using a GIF.
