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

Every time a team in AU/IN/CN/JP apologise for the early/late meeting w/ folks paid 2-3x as much in PST *doing the same job*, I want to flip a tiny table.

Timezone colonialism is real, y'all.

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BBCWorld@mediastodon.com ("BBC News (World)") wrote:

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

A sweet little song.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/07/would-you-like-a-nice-little-ditty-before-bedtime/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V61BVW56UKU

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chrismarquardt@chaos.social ("Chris Marquardt") wrote:

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jayeless@toot.cat ("Jessica") wrote:

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Techmeme@techhub.social wrote:

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

My favorite feature of the WHATWG URL standard is rejection of the pedantic distinction between #URL, #URI and #IRI:

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals

> Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. In practice a single algorithm is used for both so keeping them distinct is not helping anyone.

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moshboy wrote:

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• goemon's great adventure, game over screen, n64 (1999) graphics: three muscular demons on floating platforms striking weirdly erotic poses. one of the demons has a hoola hoop around their waste. the floating platforms have love hearts on them. the words game over are at the top of the screen in blue.

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

Brandolini's Law is a bear. Every time I think about writing a blog post/series on the lies Reactors tell themselves, I get existentially tired at the thought.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

do not say it in public:

“Considering that we’re a public meeting, subject to Sunshine Laws, [be] cautious of when we are suggesting people for positions and calling them friends as for why we’re justifying that. There’s a lot of ethical implications with that.”'

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/109825596388803104

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martin_kuettner ("Martin K") wrote:

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

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

Almost certainly not a church, and pretty definitely AI generated.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/07/no-atheist-groups-have-stooped-this-low-have-they/

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• Two watermelons (remote)

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

Regarding LB[1]: It's too pricey for me, but it looks like such a lovely and unique book. I've enjoyed getting the author's updates as newsletters over the time he's been working on it. I hope many people get it and enjoy it.

[1] https://typo.social/@jasonsantamaria/109824918557616343

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jasonsantamaria@typo.social ("Jason Santa Maria") wrote:

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• Interior spread from the book Shift Happens. Left side is a black and white photo the Palace Hotel in Cincinnati circa 1900, right side is the opening page of Chapter 2, The Shift Wars. (remote)
• Interior spread from the book Shift Happens. Left side is full page of text from Chapter 2, right side are four closeup photos of shift keys from old typewriters. (remote)
• Book sitting on a desk, the cover is a dark photo of many black keyboard keys in various shapes and sizes, all without labels. Text reads: Marcin Wichary, Shift Happens, Preview. (remote)

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sethcotlar ("Seth Cotlar") wrote:

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ftrain@tilde.zone ("Paul Ford") wrote:

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adrian@discuss.systems ("Adrian Sampson") wrote:

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• Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon Jennifer Switzer Gabriel Marcano Ryan Kastner Pat Pannuto (remote)
• We benchmark discarded smart-phones, some of which are now a decade old. We then build out a cloudlet of Pixel 3A smartphones, purchased on eBay for $65 USD. We measure the performance of the cloudlet using DeathStarBench, a benchmarking suite for cloud microservices [19]. (remote)
• Graphs that compare the DeathStarBench performance on their “junkyard” server versus various EC2 instances. The series in the graphs are several AWS mumbo-jumbo names and “Phones.” (remote)

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

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

Something I didn't include in my splenetic overview of the modern frontend landscsape is how the overwhelming odour in any conversation with a large group of frontend developers in 2023 is rank immaturity.

Your tools are not your identity. Your preferences are not success. Users define what works and what does not; your "DX" is a sub-footnote in the evaluation of product quality.

The infantilised version of our discourse, where users are not front and center, is toxic nonsense.

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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

This blog post was on the frontage of Hacker News in December...

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cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

German version: https://mastodon.social/@cmiksche/109483851269129359

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timbray@hachyderm.io ("Tim Bray") wrote:

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

It's 🤯 to recall that React was a licensing cesspool for, like, 4 years? I guess being a governance black box and a responsibility-free zone is just a continuation:

https://www.zachleat.com/web/react-criticism/#5.5-years-ago

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chairgirlhands@mastodon.lol ("violet hands") wrote:

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

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rklau@sfba.social ("Rick Klau") wrote: