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

the NYT Crosswords app should absolutely generate a little custom card based on your times and scores and stuff! (They do a link which pulls in a preview image in certain contexts. I'm sure you get better analytics with that but it's a worse approach.)

I feel like the underappreciated lesson of Wordle's success is making it easy to share your results wherever, and an image does that better than a link

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

(it's not possible to add alt text from at least the iOS share dialog, which is a real negative, but I'm not sure where the blame lies for that one)

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

The "Share-a-Fact" card generator in the Wikipedia app is such a great interface and no other app has the guts to do it

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

I always wanted to be Renfield when I grew up, and now I am.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/11/the-renfield-protocol/

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EmpireofDirt@universeodon.com ("Empire of Dirt™ :verified:") wrote:

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artbyemilyhare@mastodon.art ("Emily Hare") wrote:

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas¹ :flan_molotov:") wrote:

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amelialiarakos@social.coop ("Amelia Liarakos") wrote:

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Mrfunkedude ("Frosted Pop Farts") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

too damned young

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm very sceptical of the Rust Foundation. Their latest move feels like unleashing Nintendo's lawyers on an open-source community.

The proposed policy wants to control every use of the word "Rust" in a cover-our-asses chilling legalese serving the trademark owners. It's something I'd expect from a megacorporation, and it's jarring when applied to the cottage industry and community projects around #Rustlang.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaM4pdWFsLJ8GHIUFIhepuq0lfTg_b0mJ-hvwPdHa4UTRaAg/viewform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutR_LNoZw0

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

They call themselves journalists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/11/what-are-they-teaching-in-journalism-school-nowadays/

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

Peter Gabriel's "I/O (Bright-Side Mix)" is my morning theme:

https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/track/i-o-bright-side-mix

He talks more about the track and larger project here if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH1tMwqAv-c

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

What do you get when you give a stupid frat boy billions of dollars? We're finding out. It's not pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/11/what-meritocracy/

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robin ("Robin Berjon") wrote:

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• A very large artificial-intelligence system (goes the story) had been built for the military to help in long-range policy planning; financed by ARPA, with people from M.I.T., Stanford and so on. "The system is now ready to answer questions," said the spokesman for the project. A four-star general bit off the end of a cigar, looked whimsically at his comrades and said— "Ask the machine this: Will it be Peace or War?" The clerk-typist translated this into the query language and typed it in. The machine replied: YES "Yes what?" bellowed the general. The operator typed in the query. Came the answer: Yes SIR

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

Tim Minchin is a legend!

Here's on confirmation bias and, uhm… progressive discourse :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1juPBoxBdc

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

just got an email from someone who was using lower-case Ls for Is

kind of a power move tbh??

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communalsauce@kolektiva.social ("Sauce") wrote:

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

people in star trek tos love standing right next to brightly colored walls

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

boosted @dansinker's toot on this but it bears repeating: not a good company! not good people! https://refuseuline.com/

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infosec_jobs ("infosec-jobs.com") wrote:

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infosec_jobs ("infosec-jobs.com") wrote:

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dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

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

somehow I was designated to receive a ULINE catalog—a thousand-page glossy brick of every kind of packaging/retail/industrial good—and I am a kid in a candy store going through this thing

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

success!

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

firmware hex file being downloaded to MCU

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

preparing to update the firmware on my KX3... say a little prayer for me