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anji ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

DJ Shadow - Ozone Scraper

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

I like 4:3

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

jonathanf@toot.thoughtworks.com ("Jonathan Fernández") wrote:

In Spain we call the fascists 'fachas'.

Today Guillermo Fesser (journalist) gave a perfect explanation in a tweet (post?) of our concept of 'facha':

The fachas are called fachas for being classist with their compatriots, racist with immigrants, arrogant with foreigners, sexist with women, thieves with the public treasury, liars with the history of the Franco dictatorship and greedy with their employees.

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• Original tweet I mention in my post, with the same text but in Spanish. (remote)

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

APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

A Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin

Credit: Megan Hanrahan (Pierre cb), Wikipedia

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230820.html #APOD

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• Building in a city are pictured. Above the buildings appears a long dark cylindrical cloud that goes to the horizon. (remote)

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

not a happy anniversay:

‘On Aug 20, 1619: Traffickers Bring First Enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia… the first enslaved Africans were brought in the Virginia colony at Point Comfort on the James River on August 20, 1619. It was reported that “20 and odd Negroes” from the White Lion, an English ship, were sold in exchange for food; the remaining Africans were transported to Jamestown and sold into slavery… Spanish records suggest they were captured in Angola, then a Portuguese colony… [then] stolen by two English ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer. Once in Virginia, the enslaved Africans were dispersed throughout the colony.’

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/aug/20

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

My spicy #Rust take for the day: The standard library's unstable panic_immediate_abort feature should be the default. Don't bloat all our binaries with a primitive debugger. When I want a debugger, I'll use a debugger. But my users (for my application projects), and my users' users (for my library projects), get no benefit from the default code that prints stack traces, while the cost is 100-300K per binary depending on platform.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Anyway, sorry, I'm griping about this a lot lately. Maybe I just need to blog it out.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

This is, of course, to say nothing of how Tailwind itself falls behind current browser standards.

Currently, there's no way to use any of the newer versions of `vh` or `vw` in Tailwind. Or, for that matter, the `:has` selector.

It also irks me (while we're near the subject) that Tailwind's linter barks at you if you try to use browser fallbacks. Like, if I try to use `h-screen` (100vh) and then add `h-[100dvh]`, the linter argues that I'm being redundant. But I'm not; I'm covering my bases.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

This week I learned the same class name might mean different things in different versions of Tailwind. (e.g., `outline-white` in v3 does what you'd expect, and sets the outline color to white. It *used* to set more properties in older versions, however.)

I *also* learned many projects don't use Tailwind directly; they use `twind` or another layer.

So depending on how you're pulling Tailwind into your project, you have 1–2 extra layers of upkeep that can slide out of date/do unexpected stuff.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I’d love to see your pictures of your Mastodon merch under #Merchtodon!

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hmtn@is.nota.live ("ijo Sijen") wrote:

big ergo doesn't want you to know

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• Two pictures of a dude sitting at a chair. In the first, she's sitting up perfectly straight, and in the second she's curled up upon it in an anatomically slash geometrically dubious pretzel. The first picture is captioned with an X. Not Comfy. The second has a check mark. Comfy! (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

alinanorakari@broken.graphics ("Alina 0xFF") wrote:

My new Linux laptop is pretty sweet

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• Ubuntu running on a Nintendo Switch (remote)

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

ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Yep, this is still going on...

More graphs here: https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/. Note that while sea ice is growing (austral winter), it's happening a lot slower than average. It's unlike any other August in our satellite record.

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• Line graph time series of 2023's daily Antarctic sea ice extent anomaly compared to 2016, which was the record for the largest magnitude sea ice anomaly. 2023 is a record for low for the current date. The range in sea ice anomalies between 1979 and 2022 is also shown. Anomalies are computed to a 1981-2010 baseline using passive microwave satellite data. (remote)

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

jdm2@tooters.org ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

My early entry for #SilentSunday: the ocean view of the #Caribbean sea from Patillas, #PuertoRico #MastodonPR

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• View to the ocean from a rocky beach. Plenty of coconut trees are seen towards the border of the photo (remote)

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

book@toot.lgbt ("Book") wrote:

This old boy came to say hello.

#dogsofmastodon #dogs

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• Old dog in the laundromat (remote)

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

fmacskasy@mastodon.nz wrote:

@mike - "Anyone using Twitter to get info on #HurricaneHilary is bound to be misinformed right now. The hashtag is littered with fake videos and reports."

Why oh why am I not surprised.

I was thinking today that Musk buying X/T shows why billionaires should not exist. Too much $$$ - not enough common sense.

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

Hints From Heloise:

U-shaped “lawn nails” are great for making it hard(er) for folks to trip over the coaxial cable running between your #antenna and your #HamRadio

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• 10314d65f0d716b6.png (remote)

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

‘One DeSantis appointee, the conservative activist Chris Rufo, has argued that “the goal of the university is not free inquiry.” In court, lawyers for the DeSantis administration have argued that the concept of academic freedom does not apply to public university teachers, whose instruction is merely “government speech,” controllable by duly elected officials.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-takeaways.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

‘In a report calling for Florida to abolish diversity programs, one of the experts — who argued in a 2021 speech that feminism makes women “more medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome” — urged Mr. DeSantis to “order civil rights investigations of all university units in which women vastly outnumber men” and root out “any anti-male elements of curriculum.”’

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

“Mr. DeSantis, genuinely embittered by his experiences at elite institutions, also astutely grasped how they could be useful to him. He now offers voters a revisionist history of his own encounters with the ruling class to buttress his arguments for razing it — and for remaking public education itself.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-takeaways.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

This is sadly not as good as the original Mite wa Ikenai but it's still kinda funny. You no longer really exorcise the photos by burning out the phantom hands/eyes/faces that appear, you just have to find the spot where something is off.

Spoilers: the potted cactus is sitting in a little puddle of blood

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• Screencap of the switch game Zettai mite wa ikenai shashin. On the left half of the screen is a dialogue box that says "Hint: Cactus." On the right is a photo of three people sitting together in a cafe posing for a group photo. As mentioned in the post, there's a little potted cactus on the counter sitting in a puddle of blood.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

mixael@kolektiva.social ("Mixæl Laufer") wrote:

Yesterday, the best news which has ever come out during my lifetime, did. There's going to finally be an HIV cure. It's a ways down the road, but this all but guarantees it.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-treatment-based-gene-safely-effectively.html

Here's the original paper explaining what was done in detail. Again, it's going to be a few more years before this is on the shelf, but there's finally hope for the end of HIV.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41434-023-00410-4

Here's one of the two papers where the technology germinated about a decade ago. Note that the last paper was SIV instead of HIV, but it's such a good model, it almost always translates to humans.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2647

Here's the other one. If you don't like reading original source materials like this, or want to read the first announcement with the details on the good news, I'll sum up...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2623

This is a gene therapy which inactivates HIV/SIV by entering the virus itself and editing the genome. This is cool in and of itself, but it is meaningful because it does a thing called "draining the viral reservoir". This is what makes it a cure and not just a treatment.

The reason why you can only suppress, and not eradicate viruses, is because they will go into a dormant state and hang out for years and then re-deploy, and you're back where you started.

This is why, as amazing as antivirals are, you're generally stuck taking them forever.

This is also why Sovaldi is such a big deal: it actually *cures* Hepatitis C, which previously was only treatable. You take it (along with other things) for twelve weeks, and at the end you are free of the virus. This is a first. No other cures for viruses exist.

And now there's a method to drain the viral reservoir and inactivate HIV. And this isn't just the best news of my lifetime, but it also paves the way for therapies to cure Hep B, and any number of others.

I am so excited, so happy, so hopeful.

✨💖✨

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

oh hell yes. I just realized I had enough leftover credit from my last prepaid card to actually get this.

Originally 980JPY discounted to 440, and then I used some extra gold points to bring it down to 200-something.

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• screencap of the switch main menu. It has just started downloading a Japanese game called "Zettai mite ha ikenai shashin", or in English, "Photographs that must never be seen"

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

Making some progress on shiny hunting. I've found that it goes pretty quick if you hatch eggs in one window and play a VN in another, hence the decision to replay Higurashi.

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• Pokemon Violet screencap. A screencap of a pokemon box labeled "Shiny 001-030." 11 distinct shinies are pictured: the Sprigatito line, the Quaxly line, the Lechonk line, the last two forms of the Hoppip line and a single Fuecoco. The current party consists of a male and female Crocalor.

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

AuntyAlias@universeodon.com ("Nora Jean Stone") wrote:

Cory Doctorow:
America's largest gas company, secretly paid millions for people to oppose California climate rules, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. Californians were forced to pay to lobby *against our survival*: It's breathtaking fraud: @socalgas https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

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• 3046c365ee1fa4af.jpg (remote)

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

JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

Loading bars explained:

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• Showing a green loading bar. Below it, the same green bar from another (3D) angle, where now it's obvious that some steps are deeper than others

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

It's also not all that fast. If I constantly have to stop to make components just in case I want to change the appearance of 2+ similar items on the page at the same time without having to do a tedious and probably manual find-and-update, I'm not sure I'm gaining anything over the vanilla CSS approach.

More than all of this, though: scoped CSS does this as well or better anyway, and basically unless you're using React, you probably have that already.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

If I'm just writing vanilla CSS, I can add a class to x things, and instantly be able to change them all at once. No further setup.

But if I want to maintain that same ability with Tailwind (which, believe me, you'll want sooner or later), you're railroaded into over-relying on components instead of just making markup.

That's not necessarily bad, but...it *is* a lot of context switching, and again, incentivizes architecture decisions that might not otherwise be sound.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I realize this doesn't sound like a drawback; having everything be componentized seems like a fine goal.

However, it seems a tad naive. Creating a new component the *instant* a thing exists more than once is often premature optimization. So you're kind of incentivized to make architecture decisions that wouldn't make sense in another context, just to maintain group editability.

Besides, I don't really like being disincentivized to just write good HTML where that's all I need.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I finally realized how to verbalize of my biggest issues with Tailwind:

It really ONLY works well if absolutely every single thing across your entire project is a component; that's the only case where you don't lose the ability to make mass changes in one place.

Otherwise, you're just using a sophisticated version of style tags, and any time you want to change, say, how the headings look, you've got to manually change every one.

Tailwind makes extremely little sense in a non-component world.

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

I think I might replay the first 3 Higurashi games. I played them before the 4th one dropped on Steam (so 2016) but I never went past that.

And apparently they were still dropping new chapters up until 2020.