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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fool@mk.toast.cafe wrote:

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

Pay people to solve problems with HTML and CSS, not to make them with JS.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Naturally this all occurred to me when I was trying to take a nap

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

I think I should go offline for a while and deepen my understanding of all this SALAMI everybody keeps talking about. :thonking:

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

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• 17752f75502cde2e.png (remote)

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

a fun weird implementation detail is that a toot can be a reply to another toot without mentioning the original author. (I don't know how most clients treat it: @ivory for one does not treat it as a "mention".) Is anybody doing anything interesting with that? Odd that you can kick off a connected thread in a pretty low-profile way

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evanw@hachyderm.io ("Evan Wallace") wrote:

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

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

LL Bean stands for ladies love bean

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

forgot that i scraped every .onion TLS cert as of august 2022. here they are sorted by not_valid_before date: https://github.com/diracdeltas/deonion/blob/main/result.txt (the second line is the subject). lmk if you see anything interesting.

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

Between these shots, there are:

- 14 years
- 5201 miles
- 3 camera changes
- countless liters of green tea

But it's the same pot and the same tray.

The darker shade and deeper shadows on the second shot are not (only) from different lighting, the pot has stained over the years and became immeasurably cooler :-)

#tea #photography

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• A collage of two shots, old and new, of the same yellow clay teapot with an engraved decoration, standing on a tea tray in the middle of a grass lawn.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I was thinking about the word "bid" as in "I bid you farewell." In this sense it has an irregular past form: "He bade me enter."

It made me wonder if it was related to German bitte (yes) and what the conjugation of the related verb ("bitten") was like. Sure enough, the past tense of bitten has lots of As in its various forms. "Er bat" etc https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitten#German

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mcc wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/22/investment-fund-links-atlanta-police-cop-city-project

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"...links between Roark Capital, an Atlanta-based private equity firm which owns the country’s second-largest restaurant company, Inspire Brands, and a corporate backer of the Atlanta police foundation (APF).

Paul Brown, the CEO of Inspire Brands, whose portfolio includes fast-food franchises Dunkin’, Baskin Robbins and Arby’s, sits on the board of trustees of the APF, which is raising $60m from corporate funders to build Cop City in the Atlanta forest previously earmarked for a public park."

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

putting this sign up on my text editor

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• Bar sign reading "2 DRINKS MAX / NO TABS" taped to a point of sale device (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I finished up Paranormasight a couple days ago and moved on to AI: Somnium Files. It's not grabbing me quite as much as Paranormasight but it's cute so far.

Paranormasight's art style is kind of a tough act to follow.

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• Screencap of Paranormasight. A girl named Hitomi looks pensive as she says, "Too bad he ended up dying..." She's got feathered hair and she's wearing a school uniform.

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jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky Alciné") wrote:

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tantek.com@tantek.com ("Tantek Çelik") wrote:

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simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

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

I find myself working on some old C code[1], and I find myself wanting to do things like pass around some lambda functions and other things like that. But *no*, instead I have to define an entire function and give it a *name*. And I can't even do closures, unless I do something ridiculous and pass around function pointers that take a void* parameter (which will be cast etc.), and then pass around the void* parameter too. It's just so... so... UGH...

[1] I know. I *KNOW*.

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
lorenzofb@infosec.exchange ("Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai") wrote:

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falkowata@strangeobject.space ("Kat") wrote:

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• A close up of a sleeping tabby cat. She's sleeping on her side, with feet next to her face. Her curled front paws ready on three legs. (remote)

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

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• News headline from the Financial Times (London): "Plan to raise UK state pension age to 68 delayed amid falling life expectancy" (remote)

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

kids these days will never know how hard I laughed at this comic

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• Ivan visits lynda.com on his weird lamp-style iMac: "So, is the Browser-safe Pallette dead? Though this might seem blasphemous to our older readers, I believe it's safe to design without the palette. I believe this because so few users view the web in 256 colors any more." Ivan: What?!? Bollocks!!! Ivan: *reaches up to his shelf* I guess I won't need this any more... *throws a canister of hair coloring labeled #FFFFCC in the trash* (remote)

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

ugh my touchpad was acting very weird and a restart didn't help but a full shutdown did. what could cause that?! would be very annoying if i had to have that in my fixes to try

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

don't you hate it when you go to a web site,wand they're using colors that aren't even on the web safe color palette??

kids these days, smh, etc

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

Beethoven: genetically ordinary, as you should expect.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/22/famous-person-found-to-have-ordinary-genetic-history/

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• Beethoven (remote)