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

@chriscoyier As someone that has worked on browsers for a minute now, I can tell you that "no incentive" is heavily influenced by capacity, and when you're as rich as Apple, capacity is a choice about values:

https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/

Apple does not *value* a free, open, interoperable, and vibrant web. Apple doesn't value having Mozilla in the world. It doesn't value a bigger and brighter future for the web. This is bad!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Yesterday I've got a bug report for pngquant, and found the bug. It was below the comment:

> it happens so rarely that there's no point doing something smarter

Yeah, I've replaced it with something smarter.

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

This post by @chriscoyier is the most generous case (to Apple) regarding the boot that Cupertino has been stamping on the web's face for a decade.

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/16/chokepoint/

What Chris identifies as "no incentive" to allowing alternative browsers is indistinguishable in practice from late-stage monopoly: when you've extinguished competition and reconfigured the world assuming it doesn't exist, it sure looks like a lot of work to allow it.

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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:

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nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:

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

I wonder what the males in my spider colony think about my plans for them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/17/now-what-2/

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• Death by Snu Snu (remote)

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

The sexual market value of males in my lab is through the roof right now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/17/now-what-2/

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Never thought I would take comfort in the heavy mask usage in Oakland’s Chinatown but here we are. Thanks Covid.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

aaaaaah Mexican Home (Live) by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/x7REgNimFwb

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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

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• The pterosaur Pterandon flies above a stormy sea, head down as if about to make a dive for a fish. (remote)

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

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• Refugees They have no need of our help So do not tell me These haggard faces could belong to you or me Should life have dealt a different hand We need to see them for who they really are Chancers and scroungers Layabouts and loungers With bombs up their sleeves Cut-throats and thieves They are not Welcome here We should make them Go back to where they came from They cannot Share our food Share our homes Share our countries Instead let us Build a wall to keep them out It is not okay to say These are people just like us A place should only belong to those who are born there Do not be so stupid to think that The world can be looked at another way (now read from bottom to top) Brian Bilston (remote)

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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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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/

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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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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)

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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.