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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ml@ecoevo.social ("Megan Lynch (she/her)") wrote:

Can you read what's on that slide? Would you say it's more important for the camera operator to show us the speaker's face & body or to show us the slide?

Note there are no captions I could find. Anyone who's Deaf, hard-of-hearing, has audio processing disorders, or for whom English is not their first language will have trouble without that accessibility in place.

We need to rethink turning over online conference production to third party vendors, IMO.

#Botany2023 #a11y #DisabledAndSTEM

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• Screenshot of my view of the online portal for Botany 2023 conference going on right now in Boise, ID. On the left is a menu with choices home, program, posters, exhibit hall, participants, discussion board and more. Up top is the title of the one thing I can access right now as an online attendee "Whole genome duplications and impact on angiosperm character evolution". Inset is the camera view of a speaker with long hair standing at a podium. Much smaller in the upper left-hand of the inset screen are the slides the speaker is talking about. On my 17" laptop screen, the inset slide is about 1 inch by 2 inches large - not large enough to read any text on it or see much of the diagram. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hmmmm... the "backyard" example in Section "7.2. Defining Modules to Control Scope and Privacy" is, ummmmm, just a little on the "dense" side. time for a break and maybe another cuppa

#LearningRust

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

"dilfs of the computer chronicles" would be a fun gimmick account but it's more effort than I wanna expend

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #749 from The Computer Chronicles - Optical Storage Devices 1985-5TcsOgy9weg

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• Approximate Frame #749 from The Computer Chronicles - Optical Storage Devices 1985-5TcsOgy9weg (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

then why not just *say* that? [grumble grumble]

#LearningRust

'Most of the time when Rustaceans say “crate”, they mean library crate, and they use “crate” interchangeably with the general programming concept of a “library".'

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

onward! upward! 7 dot 1 Packages and Crates!

#LearningRust

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am not so sure that this is syntactic sugar which I wish to consume:

#LearningRust

"Using if let means less typing, less indentation, and less boilerplate code. However, you lose the exhaustive checking that match enforces. Choosing between match and if let depends on what you’re doing in your particular situation and whether gaining conciseness is an appropriate trade-off for losing exhaustive checking.

In other words, you can think of if let as syntax sugar for a match that runs code when the value matches one pattern and then ignores all other values."

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"other" and "_" with "match" rounds things out nicely... seems to cover all the situations (covering the cases of with and without variable binding with different notations seems useful for scanning and debugging code)

#LearningRust

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

demanding a trailing comma on the last match case is not my favorite convention, but I can "live with it". I get how it makes version-control diffs cleaner. #LearningRust

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

starting a new #LearningRust week with "6.2. The match Control Flow Construct"

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

24 July 1932 | Czech Jewish boy, Pavel Schwarz, was born in Prague.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

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• A portrait photo of a young boy. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sad seeing this happen to local #journalism

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/santa-barbara-news-press-declares-bankruptcy-ceases-publication-after-more-than-150-years

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

When a general assures you that his "judeo-christian ethics" means he will do only good, brace yourself for atrocities.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/its-all-about-ethics-in-war/

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• Crusaders & the sack of Jerusalem (remote)

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

I despise RateMyProfessor with a surprisingly deep passion.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/no-not-a-professor/

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• RateMyProfessor screen shot (remote)

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

When the media invite you to bite on a "TikTok challenge," the appropriate response is to roll your eyes and not…and if you do, gag and puke it up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/suckered/

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• Tide Pod (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the fog has not lifted… this may be a two-cuppa day

☕️☕️

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

That could be Morris, if a massive volcanic eruption replaced the Dakotas with mountains.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/good-news-from-the-heartland/

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• Energizing Rural Communities logo (remote)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

elilla@transmom.love ("sommer sonne elilla&") wrote:

Rob Sheridan on insta:

> Before #Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”

please notice I was born in 1983 :>

(source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu7p_LQvWfC/ )

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• One of the photos from the magazine. A respirator model is fully covered in metallic pink, light shining on both her breathing apparatus and hazmat suit. She's enveloped in pink clouds of vapour billowing against a dark, navy blue background. (remote)
• In a predecessor to the "This Is Fine" meme, a Barbiecore doll-like model watches as her pink house is engulfed inside and out by pink fires. The photo is a slide set, and it's juxtaposed to another doll kneeling peacefully on pink foam, wearing a light pink one-piece. She's surrounded by stylish, modern 1983 furniture, all of it going up in flames in a hot pink explosion. (remote)
• A total bimbo smiles to you a huge, capital-D-shaped smile, in perfect makeup and glamorously stylised hair, as a nuclear explosion detonates in the background, pinkily. The doll wears retrofuturistic glittery pink: a latex collar, a strapless top with pointy tips, booty shorts, all with a metallic lustre and flowery patterns. (remote)
• It's my skeleton when the cops finally get me and burn me at the stake. It's a plastic pink skeleton melting in pink flames, still grinning more bimbo than ever. Chunks of sqhuishy body parts such as ears and boobs meld with the skeleton in undifferentiated pink. (remote)

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

Is anyone on that rotting hellsite going to switch to calling it "X"?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/the-delusions-have-begun/

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• X logo (remote)

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):

hywan@fosstodon.org ("Ivan Enderlin 🦀") wrote:

A giant leap forwards for encryption with MLS, https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/a-giant-leap-with-mls/.

The Messaging Layer Security (MSL) protocol is a new encryption standard defined by the IETF (RFC9420), to provide a way for users of a messaging service to communicate securely without servers being able to eavesdrop on their conversations.

Matrix has been working on this with Cisco, Google, Mozilla, AWS, Wire and so on.

Matrix is working on making MSL decentralized too.

#messaging #encryption #security #ietf #matrix

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• The logo of MLS. 6 iconographic “persons” handling their hands in a circle, seen from above, with “MLS” written on the right of it. (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

SteveFaulkner ("Steve Faulkner") wrote:

First Rule of ARIA

"If you can use a native HTML element or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so."

#accessibility #webDev #HTML

https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#firstrule

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

HuShuo ("David Hull 胡大衛") wrote:

@TechnicallyRon@Twitter.com:

"I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler."

That last one has to be a guy who doesn't understand why he is so attracted to the Kens.

#Feminist #PinkAcidTrip #Gay #AlienatingDangerousAndPerverse

https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1683058689224179712

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• A Barbie ad: "An alienating, dangerous and perverse film."
• A Barbie ad: "The feminist agenda will kill us all"
• A Barbie ad: "They won't be happy until we are all gay"
• A Barbie ad: "A pink acid trip that feels like being slapped by lots of confusingly attractive people"

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

ericsedge@bitbang.social ("Eric's Edge") wrote:

I've uploaded a couple of my older #HyperCard games to Macintosh Garden.

Hyper-Wordle
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/hyper-wordle

Royal Game of Ur
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/royal-game-of-ur

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• Hyper-Wordle main screen (remote)
• Royal Game of Ur main screen (remote)

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

It's been fun hanging out with you all today... But I think I'm going to localhost this site again for a bit. I gotta go put the finishing touches on a rainbow "telescope" the kiddo requested. o/

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

"Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go... there you are."

-- Buckaroo Banzai

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

Turns out this song also makes a pleasant soundtrack for the late afternoon.

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

I saw somebody mention KLF on this here website today, which caused me to discover "Doctorin' The Tardis", which apparently reached number 1 in UK and New Zealand. I feel like the music video is a perfect match for the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAVx0u9Cw4

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

Masque of the Red Death (#spider version)

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• Theridion (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

🦀 #rust #memes

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• Family Guy Big Crab as Rust Compiler blocking the entry of NULL pointers to Peter Griffin's house. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Floridians died at a higher rate, adjusted for age, than residents of almost any other state during the Delta wave, according to the Times analysis. With less than 7 percent of the nation’s population, Florida accounted for 14 percent of deaths between the start of July and the end of October.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/politics/ron-desantis-covid.html