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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Jim Mock jim@FreeBSD.org born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, 1974
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]
Mastodon Feed"Introduce yourself using seven #VideoGames"
1. Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines
2. Tetris
3. Left 4 Dead
4. Yoshi's Island
5. Shadowrun Returns
6. Observer
7. Hatoful Boyfriend (or) Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion (sorry, I just couldn't decide! :blobcat_tears: )#SevenGamesToKnowMe
#7GamesToKnowMe #vtmb #VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines #tetris #left4dead #YoshisIsland #ShadowrunReturns #observer #HatofulBoyfriend #SpookysJumpscareMansion
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
If you don't know who Emmett Till was, you don't get to talk about race in America.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
UFOs: noise and grift, elevated into the halls of Congress, and a body of "evidence" that does not warrant the attention paid to it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/28/non-human-biologicsok-show-me/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
🆕 blog! “Should you embed alt text inside image metadata?”
Not everyone can see the images you post online. They may have vision problems, they may have a slow connection, or they might be using a text-only browser. How can we let them know what the image shows? The answer is alt text. In HTML we can add a snippet of text to aid accessibility. […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/should-you-embed-alt-text-inside-image-metadata/
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#a11y #accessibility #AltText #exif
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
President Biden today will sign an executive order “to implement historic, bipartisan military justice reforms that significantly strengthen how the military handles sexual assault cases,” according to the White House. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/28/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-implementing-bipartisan-military-justice-reforms/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is not “ineptitude”… burn-it-all-down appears to be the Republican *strategy*
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mike@robot.rodeo ("Mike McHargue") wrote:
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.
The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."
Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:
Fighting for the open web.
#krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource
#Firefox #Privacy #Chrome #WebEnvironmentIntegrity
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- A digital painting with expressive brush stroke of a cinematic scene in the same vein as the epic final battle of some movies or games. On the edge of a cliff getting disintegrated, we have a tiny fox, sword in hand, shield (icon of UBlock Origin) and its tail is in fire. It's Firefox. He pose in a defiant and combative way in front of a giant sphere: the Chrome logo, with a lot of energy, and probably in the middle of casting a big spell. This is a reference to Google Web Environment Integrity, a new major threat to the open web. License: CC-By 4.0 (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this image from Korea in 1953 should haunt us, every time folks begin speaking blithely of war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/world/asia/korean-war-armistice-anniversary.html
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘The revised indictment said that in late June of last year, shortly after the government demanded the surveillance footage as part of its inquiry, Mr. Trump called Mr. De Oliveira and they spoke for 24 minutes.
Two days later, the indictment said, Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira “went to the security guard booth where surveillance video is displayed on monitors, walked with a flashlight through the tunnel where the storage room was located, and observed and pointed out surveillance cameras.”
A few days after that, Mr. De Oliveira went to see Mr. Taveras, who is identified in the indictment as Trump Employee 4, and took him to a small room known as an “audio closet.” There, the indictment said, the two men had a conversation that was meant to “remain between the two of them.”
It was then that Mr. De Oliveira told Mr. Taveras that “‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted,” the indictment said, referring to the computer server holding the security footage.
Mr. Taveras objected and said he did not know how to delete the server and did not think he had the right to do so, the indictment said. At that point, the indictment said, Mr. De Oliveira insisted again that “the boss” wanted the server deleted, asking, “What are we going to do?”’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/trump-documents-carlos-de-oliveira-charged.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the Justices should abide by the same ethical codes as others https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/supreme-court-justices-book-deals.html
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
This practice of inflating reports with trivialities is harmful:
- Clients drown in low-quality reports bloated with trivial "findings".
- Auditors (like me) feel pressured to mimic this trend. If not, our succinct reports may be misconstrued as less thorough.Ironically, only the auditing firms engaging in this practice benefit, bragging about "100,000+ disclosed issues", without revealing the percentage of those were typos.
Enough with the noise, can we focus on quality over quantity?
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
The alarm bells ring when audit firms boast about the unverifiable billions they've "saved". It feeds into a hype cycle where exaggerated claims like "100B USD+ in safeguarded token value" become the norm.
Audit report "findings" are another area of concern. Common "issues" include:
- Writing 10000000000 instead of 1e10? That's an issue!
- Spot a typo in your codebase or tests? Each one's an issue.
- Used redundant parentheses? That's a finding, too.
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
After 7 years of cryptography and security audits, I've weathered my fair share of criticism, particularly on severity assignments and perceived superfluous issues in some of my reports. But let's talk about the state of smart contract audit reports, where this sort of problem appears to exist on a completely higher dimension. Small thread: 1/3
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:
July 2023 is the hottest month of July on record globally. In fact, it's so hot that the reports are coming in before the end of the month: no chance that the last few days can change the picture.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jecfish@indieweb.social ("Jecelyn Yeen 🐟") wrote:
Devs: How can I debug beyond console.log()?
Me: Asked and you get it. New #DevToolsTips video just drop - explaining breakpoints, logpoints and more!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fringemagnet@mstdn.social ("Annie Hsh :coffefied: :ww:👾🖖") wrote:
Seen one of these posted without credit, so sharing some more here because they are amazing and I'd buy every single one of them if they existed.
Made by New Zealand model maker and 3D artist Natalie Stevens (natalie.3dblah). More of her work here:
https://www.instagram.com/natalie.3dblah/#Barbie #film #movies #3D #3Dart #StarTrek #Aliens #Dune #BattleStarGalactica
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- Barbie Dream loader, from the film Aliens, in bright pink and purple colors, and the tagline "Authentic poseable forks and flashing safety light!" (remote)
- Barboe Dream shuttle from Star Trek the next generation, all in bright pink, with the label 'BRB1-E' on the side and the tagline "warp nacelles really light up!". (remote)
- Barbie Dream Viper, from Battlestar Galactica, all in bright pink and the tagline "dolls not included, some assembly required" (remote)
- Barbie Dream Sandworm from Dune with the tagline: "playset includes dream saddle, maker hook, & thumper" and "squeeze-to-open jaws with delicious cinnamon scent!" (remote)
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ExtentOfTheJam ("Louis") wrote:
A fun rhythmic glitch while working on keeping the curves away from the front of the screen. It would’ve been even better if the zmap got corrupted. #indiedev #msdos #retrocoding
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
lmao there's another vignette where Carl decides to try acid. I can't speak to personal experience there but I would kind of respect it if these characters were deliberately traumamaxxing by doing hallucinogens in the middle of terrifying-hallucinations-while-sober-ville
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
A less obvious weed-related break with psychological realism that this game does is that the stoner character lives in his childhood home, which he (correctly) believes is haunted. Being high all the time in a genuinely haunted house would be fucking miserable
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
oh man I just started a side-story in the Echo VN where Chase tries a magic blueberry muffin and it's given the most overblown reefer madness kind of treatment. This is way funnier than they probably intended
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
you are really not supposed to tamper with evidence, Citizen Trump.
‘The revised indictment also added three serious charges against Mr. Trump — attempting to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence”; inducing someone else to do so; and a new count, the 32nd, under the Espionage Act stemming from a classified national security document he showed to visitors at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/trump-documents-carlos-de-oliveira-charged.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the chances of accidental expansion of this war just went up
https://www.dw.com/en/romania-war-edges-closer-to-natos-border/a-66360520
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Going to share a few more up-close shots of the new Mastodon merch! I'm happy that we got to incorporate some Mastodon history in the designs. Mind you there's only going to be 250 of each at launch!
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- Three stickers on top of a person's palm. One sticker features an elephant dressed in a jean outfit and holding a pineapple. Another features an elephant hiding under a table while a man in a red space outfit is looking for him. The last one features an elephant holding a chicken, with more chickens in the background.
- An enamel pin attached to a white t-shirt. The pin features an elephant riding a paper airplane.
- A purple mug featuring an elephant on a green landscape. The elephant is waving.
- A black t-shirt featuring an elephant riding a paper airplane among different colored planets. The Mastodon logo is visible.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I know we love talking about #mastodon here on the #fediverse so I won't bother keep it brief when I say: this place really has stepped up and been good for me! Not perfect, etc, etc, but a nice space
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
In 1942, the Pittsburgh Courier, a prominent Black newspaper, responded to a thought-provoking letter from 26-year-old Black soldier James G. Thompson. In his letter, Thompson questioned whether he should risk his life for a country that treated him as a 2nd-class citizen, stating, "Should I sacrifice my life to live half American?" In response to this poignant question, the Courier initiated the Double V Campaign.
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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #Military
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Mastodon FeedI've seen Oppenheimer in #70mm IMAX, and I'm disappointed.
The picture may have been super sharp, but that didn't really add anything to the experience. OTOH the projection had noticeably poor black level, and a standard dynamic range — like an average LCD TV.
Good OLED TVs can do better IMHO.