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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Honestly, though, every university in every state has lots of students who are avid agriculturalists already. Minnesota isn't that special.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This should be another reason you would choose to enroll at the University of Minnesota.
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
packing for a radio play-date with a friend, we are going to try out setting up a couple of vertical antennas on a hillside near Highland Park Reservoir #ROC
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
trying to stick to my “follow often, unfollow easily” socmedia behavioral pledge
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Preemie baby spiderling.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The vendors that built these sites are failing, but in a monopsony with disempowered and under-staffed in-house tech, there's nobody to call BS. Regulatory capture is most effective when suppliers are able to degrade state capacity to even outsource effectively.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
To get the sense of scale of this misapprehension, here's a comparison between a competently built site from the UK's GDS vs. the MA site. They do substantially the same job:
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Went down by the river and found a very angry Big Headed Ground Beetle that wanted to kill us and eat our flesh.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The common thread? Megabytes of JavaScript on the wire:
MA: 7.7MB of JS
NJ: 3.0MB of JS
MI: 3.1MBThis is stochastic errorism: the frontend community's unshakeable, ungrounded belief that it's fine for us to suggest that building JS-first is healthy or normal. That the complexity is under control and that CPUs and networks get faster every year (they don't).
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The (absolute) state of frontend, 2023: a brief tour of some websites folks need to use to feed children in America:
MA: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_BiDc9H_682-r:1-c:0
NJ: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_AiDc6G_6AG-r:1-c:0
MI: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_BiDcSN_6GF-r:1-c:0
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AstroKatie ("Katie Mack") wrote:
When you walk into the ladies’ room and discover that your hotel is part of the Hilbert franchise
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a row of radishes is a wonderful thing; they sprout so fast & bring such hopefulness
#SpringGardening
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Mastodon FeedNVME SSD + external USB-C enclosure makes a pretty good #backup disk. I'm currently restoring a backup at 250MB/s.
Mastodon Feedrust@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon FeedI like the speed of ARM Macs, but their iPadized locked-down bootloader drives me nuts.
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damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:
How it started. How it's going.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
You don't have to follow the Reactors off a cliff. It's ok. HTML/CSS is good, actually.
Mastodon FeedI'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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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So impossibly tired of what the JS-first consensus hath wrought.
Mastodon FeedI can't wait for Cities: Skylines 2.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon Feedbcrypt@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"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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
Mastodon Feed@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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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
how now, ground cow
