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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a row of radishes is a wonderful thing; they sprout so fast & bring such hopefulness
#SpringGardening

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

NVME SSD + external USB-C enclosure makes a pretty good #backup disk. I'm currently restoring a backup at 250MB/s.

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

@djc Also I have endless problems updating macOS on this particular machine, because for some inexplicable reason Apple's servers refuse to bless writes to the macOS partition. The only way to update the OS is to erase and mess up the disk so hard that Apple Configurator will give up trying to restore the same macOS version, and bless installation of a newer one instead.

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

We can make good things! Things that everyone can use. The tools are there. It's not magic, but it does mean putting users first.

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

@slightlyoff the collective noun for a group of React cargo culters is "reactionaries". Fact.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I like the speed of ARM Macs, but their iPadized locked-down bootloader drives me nuts.

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• Your Mac has no volume to recover. Restart or Restart.

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damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

How it started. How it's going.

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• Eating disorder helpline fires staff to use Chatbot instead
• Eating disorder helpline disables Chatbot for harmful responses

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

You don't have to follow the Reactors off a cliff. It's ok. HTML/CSS is good, actually.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've adopted this little demon. #catsofmastodon

His name is Max, but he's from Wales, so I guess it's spelled Macs.

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• Black cat yawning, with fangs and claws showing.

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

So impossibly tired of what the JS-first consensus hath wrought.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I can't wait for Cities: Skylines 2.

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

I'm beginning to wonder…all these people I used to hang out with in the heady early days of New Atheism are turning out to be colossal asshats. Was it me? Did I somehow alienate them against any kind of rational, progressive thought?

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

Lawrence Krauss is reduced to splashing around in the right-wing anti-trans sewage pond. I guess he's desperate for attention.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/31/this-is-lawrence-krausss-career-now/

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• Lawrence Krauss (remote)

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

OH: "most search results on our Slack for 'egg freezing' are about fertility benefits but once in a while it's just someone's pip freeze output"

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

This is "looking through the wrong end of the telescope" shit, but the last place I saw web development as incompetent as Bluesky was several SNAP-enrollment websites built by the lowest bidder:

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going_to_maine ("Going T. Maine") wrote:

I would go to a Wren Faire

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

@ericajoy this post seems like something you would appreciate. https://mastodon.social/@jentrification/110458443186981566

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data corroborate reports of an internet outage affecting the Ministry of Education of #Greece; the incident is attributed to a DDoS attack on the "Subject Bank" platform on public sector ICT network AS35506, resulting in disruptions to graduation exams 📉

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

how now, ground cow

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

Another obstacle to science communication: AI generated garbage.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/30/ai-generated-garbage-videos/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McM3CfDjGs0

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

In my mobile text communication I still insist on completing thoughts, using punctuation and capitalization, and editing what I typed for clarity before sending it. Even in private messaging. What does that make me?

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bob@feed.hella.cheap wrote:

@ToddVierling @jerry reach and privacy are opposites in a very literal sense. the closest you can get to having both is to write under a pseudonym

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

they had to call them "driving instructors" because autodidacts was already taken

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

break time for Bonzo ::poof::

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

and continue, of course. grumble grumble #LearningRust

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ugh, break... many years of coding have taught me (the hard way, always the hard way with that fellah) that break suxs. oh well, I don't have to use the stuff that suxs.

#LearningRust

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

screw variable shadowing, I hate variable shadowing; clarity is more important than saving one lousy variable naming task.

I know, I know [with apologies to Phil Karlton]:

There are just two hard things in programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

let us not avoid the difficult tasks just because they are difficult. doing the hard things right will save your butt in the long run.

#LearningRust

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

The most damnable thing about our lost decade in frontend is how it made stooges and collaborators of good people. Folks who didn't *mean* to make the web less useful and accessible, who never intended to lock anyone out of digital society.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, the "cargo doc --open" command is seriously sweet...

#LearningRust

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@schock [waves hello]