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cuchaz@gladtech.social ("Jeff Martin") wrote:

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• A scatter plot comparing the sizes of "Smartphone Screens" to "How Far My Thumb Can Reach". From 2007-2010, the two were roughly the same size. With several years of sustained growth (roughly linear), smartphone screens in 2022 are now about 2 times bigger than they used to be. During that period, my thumb did not grow any larger. (remote)

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brunoph@breakpoint.cafe ("Bruno Philipe") wrote:

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• Photo of a large cardboard box in a supermarket. The box has prints of images of potato dishes and the word potato on it. A large sheet of paper with a price tag reads “onions 5lbs bag”. The box is filled with watermelons. (remote)

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0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:

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staltz ("André Staltz") wrote:

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

It looks like the whole barrel is rotten clear through, so don't stop at the first bad apple you find.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/17/one-bad-apple/

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• David Carrick, rapist cop (remote)

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

The vultures are circling at news of Harriet Hall's death.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/17/you-know-whats-worse-than-a-faceful-of-spiders/

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• Harriet Hall (remote)

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

My first investment of 2023 announced – Grünfin! 🌱

New funding, additional B2B business direction. Grünfin now helps companies to set up a sustainability focused employee investment program. 🇪🇺 EU-wide coverage.

News here: https://investinestonia.com/estonian-green-investment-platform-grunfin-raises-e2m/

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
kaysarahsera@tech.intersects.art ("Sarah Kay") wrote:

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• After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning By Leila Chatti How desire is a thing I might die for. Longing a well, a long dark throat. Enter any body of water and you give yourself up to be swallowed. Even the stones know that. I have writhed against you as if against the black bottom of a deep pool. I have emerged from your grip breathless and slicked. How easily I could forget you as separate, so essential you feel to me now. You beneath me like my own blue shadow. You silent as the moon drifts like a petal across your skin, my mouth to your lip—you a spring I return to, unquenchable, and drink. (remote)

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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

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

I'm starting my semester with some hardcore spider vids.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/17/a-stiff-shot-of-spiders/

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• Cartoon spider (remote)

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HourlyOtters@botsin.space ("Hourly Otters") wrote:

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• A picture of an otter. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://www.gocomics.com/klibans-cats/2023/01/17

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fanjo@esperanto.masto.host ("Fanjo") wrote:

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tradecraft@newsie.social ("Todd Brogowski") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Hallelujah (Vancouver Winter 2010 Version) by k.d. lang

https://pandora.app.link/E8yPDx3nEwb

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

your Three Miles Down (Live) by Gil Scott-Heron on Pandora

https://pandora.app.link/K1Ztx2EjEwb

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

Some useful suggestions so far:

- https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/
- https://woofjs.com/
- https://godotengine.org/

#programming #beginner #games

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

weird how names only ever end in positive ordinals. it's a bold move but you should be able to name your child henry the negative seventh

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

Related, I'm trying to find what to teach her when she outgrows Scratch eventually. Looked into #pygame, and it's too low-level: you need to code your game loop and handle events, and stuff like that. Theoretically I could extract that into an ad-hoc "engine" and expose higher level things she could script, but I feel like some had already done this a thousand times already.

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

So my 10 year old suddenly got REALLY into programming and made a whole quest game in Scratch in two days.

Now I need to choose a laptop for her which will allow her to do things and see her through the middle school at least. And yes, the final choice will be hers eventually, but I need to bring it down from myriad of marketing fluff to a few models that make sense. I hate choosing laptops :-(

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Went bowling and had a drink called The Large Marge.

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

TIL I learned about Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVZfJO01NI

Via last boost.

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jennwrites ("Jenn Turner") wrote:

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nak@social.domov.de ("Andreas Ufert :mastodon:") wrote:

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

Yo @paul_irish; any chance that we can get Lighthouse to avoid warning on images w/o explicit width/height if they have `aspect-ratio` and either a CSS width or height value?

And maybe same for "excessive DOM size" if `content-visibility` is applied to most of the offscreen elements?

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

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GiantMilitaryCats@home.social wrote:

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GiantMilitaryCats@home.social wrote:

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

I understand the desire to reach for the tools we have available, but I don't think applying copyright licenses to toots is going to do much to help with the disagreements around search because now we're going to get dragged into arguments about "fair use" and what is "copyrightable" etc.

In so much as something is copyrightable, most regions default to "all rights reserved". So, if you insist on a copyright view, there you go. Hands off. :/

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

there’s no place like ::1

there’s no place like ::1

there’s no place like ::1