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• A rage comic, titled "Machine language differences". A C++ virtual function call in tail position is pictured below the title. Next, four happy faces labeled "AMD64", "ARMv8", "MIPS64" and "RISC-V" show how it is neatly compiled for the respective architecture (between two and four instructions). Last, a rage face labeled "Power64" shows its complicated assembly result. (remote)

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• CryptoNovo @CryptoNovo311 52m Someone created an instagram account using my photos please do not follow or DM anyone claiming to me. CryptoNovo @CryptoNovo311 4h 🚨🚨🚨I am NOT asking for anything please do NOT get scammed👇 (remote)
• CryptoNovo @CryptoNovo311 · 10h I have not asked anyone for anything. DO NOT send anything to anyone using my name and account number! The discord you see below is a fake account. A couple other CryptoPunks owners have scammers acting as them as well.CryptoNovo @CryptoNovo311 · 20h I just got hacked!!! Are you kidding me!?! (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Sure, you can start body shaming others, just don't be surprised if they start brain shaming you.

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• Overview of the hover effect from the linked demo (remote)

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• Activists hold Twitter and other tech companies accountable for online hate. Credit: Change the Terms Coalition, B. Anderson (remote)

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• Promotional image showing a code editor containing the code that is included in the linked to post. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

that is the first time I have felt moved to block someone here

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• A rewrite of the lord's prayer, by Zatnosk, calligraphied in dark blue ink with a sepia and brown decorative border with gold highlights, and a little banhammer hanging from the bottom of the left-side border; "Our Admin, who art in shadows, welshed be thy name, thy Instance come, thy will be done, on .ART as it is in fediverse. Give us this day our daily Butts, and boost our arts, as we boost those who art near us. Lead us not into fediblock, but deliver us from bad actors, For thine is the banhammer, the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Artmen." (remote)

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bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

who does the graphic design / photo styling for ham radio publications and how do i hire them to do everything

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

When wealthy users can't experience a capable web, it functionally doesn't exist. Technology decision makers need to *see and feel* the future to believe in it, and until they can, investments (and incentives) will not change.

This has been the calculus behind the last decade of projects I've been lucky enough to help lead (PWAs, Fugu, etc.), but we can't sugarcoat it: the web is losing, badly, and Apple + Google are not upset about that.

Not even a little bit.

/cc @owa @chriscoyier @tomayac

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

But, of course, even if Android were perfect it wouldn't change the world enough to keep the web from losing. Why? Because all wealthy users carry iPhones, and you can just follow the money from there.

As long as Apple is allowed to use it's local monopolies in wealthy geographies (US, UK, Japan, etc.) to distort the decision space and prevent true browser competition, the web will never be credible.

Which is why it's crucual that we all support @owa

/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac

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

MOST of the world's new end-user computers are smartphones, and 80+% of those devices are slow Androids.

And yet:

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac

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

The web is losing on mobile, and losing on mobile is the start of becoming a fully-legacy platform.

Chris' piece does a good job talking about the very front end of what irrelevance looks like, but it will get much more...frozen. No generational platform evaporates; they just stop being something anyone invests in.

And this is where web developers are complicit. Instead of fighting back, we have retreated to the privilege bubble.

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

But we did get PWAs and Push and all the rest built, and opened up the still-going Fugu collaboration. They are the anchor for Chris' hopeful notes, but it's later than it looks.

I gave a talk about it back in '19:

https://vimeo.com/364402896

/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac

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

And so hope and avarice combined to make the web mobile roadkill.

Chrome wasn't even available for Android until 2013, and wasn't default until 2014. Meanwhile, Android created a huge capability/feature gap for native that mirrored iOS.

You literally cannot imagine how painful it was to get PWAs and WebAPKs and TWAs and Web Push and the rest done within Google, despite the heavy pro-web bias outside of Android-land.

/cc @chriscoyier @tomayac