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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
i know some people think that this time, in this fight, restrictive copyright law will be a force that empowers the working artist and not powerful interests that oppose them
I hope they're right! history here does not give me much hope, but I would love to be wrong
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good lord, this is *me*... down to the initial meds
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Amelina, 37, won the Joseph Conrad literary prize in 2021 for works including Dom’s Dream Kingdom and had been nominated for other major awards including the European Union Prize for Literature.
She largely set aside her writing after the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, to focus on documenting war crimes and working with children on or near the frontline.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘For a group of people who consider themselves “survivors” of the Christian sect – some have even called it a cult – Balsbaugh’s tenure as president of Trinity, which came to an abrupt end in April, was emblematic of deeper problems within People of Praise, including an alleged culture of sweeping serious allegations of abuse against minors by some members of the faith group under the rug.’
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mimetus, a pirate spider, is setting up shop in our hallway. Warning to other spiders: cannibal stronghold here.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
kadin@mastodon.sdf.org ("Kadin") wrote:
Why did every login page become two separate pages with two 'submit' buttons (one for the username, followed by a *separate page load* just for the password)?
I dimly remember when a couple of sites started doing it, but it's *everywhere* now, and it doesn't seem like it's for any good reason. (You can just check the name and stop if it's not valid!)
It seems like one of those UI tics that every designer feels the need to ape because…Amazon does it? Idk.
Here's an idea: CUT THAT SHIT OUT.
#UX
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thank you SGT
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
I went ahead and submitted a FEP for this. I'd appreciate any feedback from implementers.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
We are launching KBIN fully managed service
Hey dear community, we just launched today our fully managed hosting service of KBIN... #kbinMeta
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Validity is measured by how old and traditional an idea is.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/03/if-galton-invented-it-it-must-be-true/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A paper every two days! Something in the system is broken.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/03/the-incentives-are-all-wrong/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
JesusQR@paquita.masto.host ("Jesús QR") wrote:
@pzmyers Or in Spanish: that was one of the things you needed to have in order to vote during Franco's dictatorship. Basically there was an advisory council which was elected: it was one of the ways to gerrymander it so only the supporters of the regime actually had the vote.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
"The childless have little stake in the future" must have sounded better in the original German.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/03/next-step-compulsory-pregnancy/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:
Advice for newcomers: don’t bother with the official Mastodon apps. Try these instead!
Web: https://elk.zone
iOS: https://tapbots.com/ivory/
Android: https://tusky.app (haven’t used this one myself, but people seem to mention it a lot)(See replies for more options)
Mastodon Feed#EV charging boggles my mind: a random person can casually connect a 900V cable capable of transferring a third of a MEGAWATT, in pouring rain — and nobody died yet. There's solid safety engineering there.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
ner@mindly.social ("Noel Romey") wrote:
everyone, blind or sighted. xword-dl instructions can be found here: https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl #accessibility #accessible #crosswords
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
ner@mindly.social ("Noel Romey") wrote:
As a blind lover of crosswords, I was devastated when many of the sites disallowed or discontinued .puz outputs of their puzzles. Unfortunately, this made it impossible to solve puzzles with websites that use web solvers like the NY Times because inaccessible to screen readers. Enter xword-dl,. I've installed xword-dl on my raspberry pi, and am now happily solving the NY times crossword using the APH solver. Thanks @xor for this and
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
"what is the best way to get a kindle device that can be jailbroken?" he asked trepidatiously
pointers welcome
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is ostensibly about Twitter, but I read it as the perfect encapsulation of frontend's lost decade:
https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1675235246365880321?s=20
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
lgarron ("Lucas Garron") wrote:
Apropos of API shutdown and bird site nonsense: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ still works. Might be a good time to port over your following list while you still can.
(Thanks to @luca!)
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
still too true
https://music.apple.com/us/album/sam-stone/1018524551?i=1018524559
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
@snellingio this might be interesting to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gf2MT-IOsg
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
anthem of my sordid yute
https://music.apple.com/us/album/illegal-smile/1018524551?i=1018524553
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Unwed Fathers (Live)" by John Prine .
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The Bottomless Lake (Live)" by John Prine.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
New release of xword-dl, my command line crossword puzzle scraping software, now available on PyPI. This release fixes New Yorker downloads and some WSJ bugs. I'm even prouder that I seem to have gotten GitHub Actions working on a first attempt to automatically tag and upload releases!
$ pip install xword-dl
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
brody@peoplemaking.games ("Brody 🚀 Brooks") wrote:
Just discovered that Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is $10 on Steam right now.
If you have held out on Disco Elysium, folks...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:
Thank you all for your kind words of support! A bunch of great follow-up questions came up in the Hacker News thread yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552015
Tomorrow on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and @bcantrill will by joined by @sdtuck to answer them. Join live, 5pm Pacific!
https://discord.gg/twfq4ED7?event=1125191309477564478
Recorded (as always!) and made available as a podcast:
Mastodon FeedLOL. Those XML URLs are forever.
> Going on a small tangent, if you look at the xmlns attribute in the sitemap snippet, you'll see that the URI is on HTTP, and not on HTTPS. This is working as intended: it's a reference for parsers about the elements in the XML. Please don't file more documentation feedback about this.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping
