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

Lately IG has started showing me ads for UT Austin, which is kinda like when you buy a microwave and Amazon thinks it means you're starting a microwave collection, but on a much larger time scale

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:

The CSS feature `@​container style()` is pretty neat!

Are you familiar with `@​mixin` in Sass? It's a little bit like that.

1. Declare a chunk of CSS you want to re-use
2. Set a --custom-property to trigger it

Attachments:

• SCSS code featuring a @mixin and then calling that mixin with an @include call. (remote)
• CSS code setting up a @container (style) query watching for --featured: true; and then "calling" it by setting that custom property on two different selectors. (remote)
• Examples of elements being styled with our custom chunk of code, making the background yellow and putting a star in the upper right area. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

diekus@toot.cafe wrote:

Update on a draft that includes some fixes to address feedback from developers about the Web Install API: https://github.com/diekus/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/WebInstall/explainer.md . As usual, any comments, or feedback feel free to create an issue here: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/issues/new/choose #webinstallapi #pwa #webapp

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

"staff frontend software engineers" with takes like "Shadow DOM is too hard, and also it's not Framework I Like" would be like compiler engineers that refuse to use expanded registers on new architectures out of spite.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

https://deadpan.studio/news/wave-group-show-2023/

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

Made the mistake of looking at birdsite, and People Who Don't Understand The Web Platform Talking Smack About Web Components (TM) is gonna be the meme that turns off the lights over there.

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

The anchors are all 4k, the experts are 🥔 quality.

BRB, digging out a 180p webcam and smearing vaseline on it to improve credibility in meetings.

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

I'll never do it myself, but bless all your selfies.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

accudio@mastodon.scot ("Alistair Shepherd") wrote:

The other day I shared "I'm a Luddite (and So Can You!)" by @tomhumberstone, a fantastic web comic about Luddism and it's relevance now especially related to AI.

Unfortunately it didn't have alternative text, but Tom allowed me to post the alternative text I've written on my blog!

https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/im-a-luddite-alt-text/

https://mastodon.scot/@accudio/110799640991758946

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

also not to unnecessarily plug my employer but the reduced friction of using @tailscale SSH to connect to my machines without worrying about ports or key management is also a big factor

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

I started using tmux just to get "tabs" in my terminal but the ability to detach and remotely connect to sessions has enabled one of my biggest ever shifts in how I use computers

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

Popehat ("Ken White") wrote:

Just a reminder that two prominent Federalist Society members wanted to overthrow the government by fraud and then have the government murder you if you objected.

Eat that with your fuckin’ Chick-fil-A sack lunch.

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

karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

@jsonstein I go out to the Mojave Preserve multiple times every year. I was really bummed out by the (Cima) Dome fire a couple of years back. And now this.

When out among the Joshua trees it is hard to conceive of them as a forest - but they are - and that fire could run wild through them - but it does.

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

Nik really has his heart set on getting chewed up by demons

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• TSR screencap. Nik and Yao outside at night. Dialogue box says, "Nik: ...I just think that if somebody is forcing young girls to wait in the mines, then I think we should find a way to help them."

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Obligatory ask from my daughter for girl pikachus...

Much improved over last time IMO (https://mastodon.social/@lloydmeta/109483389605995925)

#StableDiffusionXL

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

yay, proto-corn!

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• corn plants with tassels (remote)

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

For the most part I'm really liking the plot of Nik's route, but the stuff about miners clamoring for justice isn't really supported by Sam's time in the mines. The miners don't seem to know Sam was spotted nearby, so because of where it happened, suspicion should naturally fall on other miners.

There IS a guy they suspect of trying to get other miners hurt, but they don't accuse him of the original murder. They don't even bring it up.

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• Screencap of The Smoke Room. A close-up illustration of William on a dark night, primarily lit by the fire he's using to light his cigarette. Dialogue box says, "William: And folks's attitudes toward one another become more paranoid and hostile each day that a murderer isn't named."

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

coyotebroad wrote:

In acquiring church status, the Family Resource Council told the IRS it holds chapel services at its office, averaging 65+ people. But when @ProPublica called to inquire about service times, a staffer responded, “We don’t have church service.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status

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

shadowserver@infosec.exchange ("The Shadowserver Foundation") wrote:

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NO released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) in response to active exploitation of CVE-2023-35078 (a pre-auth CVSS 10.0 RCE) and CVE-2023-35081 in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) (formerly known as MobileIron Core).

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-213a

Please follow the mitigation advice from the advisory.

You can track the Ivanti EPMM world-wide patching progress here - https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/combined/time-series/?date_range=7&source=http_vulnerable&source=http_vulnerable6&tag=cve-2023-35078%2B&group_by=geo&style=stacked

Still 865 instances vulnerable (2023-07-31) - down from 2729 when we first started scanning and reporting for CVE-2023-35078.

Get free daily reports of vulnerable instances in your network in our Vulnerable HTTP report - https://shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/vulnerable-http-report/

You can also track CVE-2023-35078 exploitation attempts/checks at https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/honeypot/time-series/?date_range=7&host_type=src&vendor=ivanti&vulnerability=cve-2023-35078&group_by=geo&style=stacked

Latest patch info from Ivanti - https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/CVE-2023-35081-Arbitrary-File-Write?language=en_US

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

mcc wrote:

"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin/

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• A pile of Chromebooks

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

Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Gulf fritillary

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• A gulf fritillary butterfly on a leaf (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

Attachments:

• (Corporate executives, as they watch the world burn) "Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly" (remote)

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

oh man a little bit ago I got to the point where Yao takes them to the site where the gold is supposed to be and they have their first undeniable encounter with Something.

I had to bounce when they sprung a timed-reaction decision on me, it's too late in the night for that kind of stress.

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

Hugops to all the SREs on call for podcast apps tonight. We hear you, keeping the series of tubes unclogged.

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

You know all this stuff about jacking off with/unionizing/scamming miners in the old west has me thinking about Mark Twain and this shirtless photo on wikipedia, which appears with the evocative but mysteriously unsourced caption, "Mark Twain spoofed sexual conventions in ribald ways during his stay in Nevada and California during the 1860s, but the avoided telling the 'queer secrets' of miners bedroom antics."

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• It's a shirtless photo of Mark Twain! If the estimated date is right, he'd be in his late 40s. He's got a hairy chest and he looks pretty toned

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

nekohayo ("Jeff Fortin T.") wrote:

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

sargasso@climatejustice.social ("Linus") wrote:

@breadandcircuses If global warming were a country at war with us, the resources devoted to its defeat would be unimaginable.

If only it could be viewed in that context by those that make the decisions.

Instead it is the opposite where we work every day to increase the donations of armaments to our clear enemy. An enemy that only exists because of our support but one that grows stronger every day and has openly committed to ensuring our destruction.

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

Trump impeachment day PBS segments really highlight how, as an industry, we failed to deploy reasonable webcams even though we had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic as a hook.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Can’t get over the fact that in the Dune canon, “Geoff” is a Fremen name.

(Geoff was Harah’s first husband who was bested by Jamis.)

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

Democracy Alerts - Former President Donald Trump Indicted for Efforts To Overturn 2020 Election - Democracy Docket

“This week’s indictment marks the third time this year that Trump has been indicted on criminal charges”

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/former-president-donald-trump-indicted-for-efforts-to-overturn-2020-election/?utm_source=Democracy+Docket+Newsletters&utm_campaign=35065ce0bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_18_06_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-9336cb8284-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=35065ce0bb&mc_eid=5c53c3b9ff