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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: * $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday,v 1.36 2007/09/07 03:23:06 edwin Exp $
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Tim Bishop tdb@FreeBSD.org born in Cornwall, United Kingdom, 1978
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: * $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer,v 1.11 2007/09/07 03:23:06 edwin Exp $
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Leander Perez, who defended the military service ban, served as district attorney, judge, and political boss in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, during the civil rights era. A devout Catholic, he took a segregationist position so extreme that the Archbishop of the Diocese of New Orleans excommunicated him from the church. An active member of his local white citizens' council, Mr. Perez gave public speeches... encouraging politicians to commit criminal contempt in defiance of desegregation orders."
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Looking through his early filmography is just painful. Another lost film of his: The Head of Janus, a Murnau adaptation of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde with Conrad Veidt in the lead role
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
OK, I have a new holy grail of lost media for when I finally get that time machine: a 1918 Hungarian film adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray with Bela Lugosi in the role of Lord Henry https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009852/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"free drinks reception"... and every grad student in the UK shall attend
https://mastodonapp.uk/@PrehistoricSociety/111024023275278579
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
If you're using a shitty model, you'll get shitty behavior.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
it is shaping up to be one of *those* mornings
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
“#Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials” #Ukraine #Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lafp@cornputer.org ("L. Pereira :blobbybara:") wrote:
A long time ago, I remember playing with a web page that had tiny programs written in FORTH that worked similarly to shadertoy, in the sense that it was possible to make art with it.
I can't for the life of me remember the name!
Does anybody out there remember that thing? (Boost for reach?)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Or alternatively:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Time to Move On":
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The plaintiffs are Republican and unaffiliated voters who argue that Mr. Trump is ineligible and that they will be harmed if he appears on primary ballots… Similar efforts are unfolding in other states. Last month, the liberal group Free Speech for People wrote to the secretaries of state of Florida, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin, urging them not to include Mr. Trump on ballots. And an obscure presidential candidate, John Anthony Castro, a Republican, has sued in New Hampshire.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Justice Protasiewicz has said nothing publicly about the case. She declined to comment… The Republican Party beyond Wisconsin is seeking to use impeachment as a first line of defense against Democratic officials.”
call it what it is: election nullification
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
tracking Trump’s Election Subversion Indictments - Democracy Docket
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The problem with modern frontend isn't that people pick React, it's that a huge chunk of industry have abandoned user-centric values in the name of efficiency, delivering neither good UX nor acceptable DX in the process.
Picking React in '23 is merely a symptom of a much deeper rot.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I know, from experience, that ~nobody dragging React behind them into the new gig is thinking in terms of cost; it's all "opportunity", but if you asked "cool, but what framework from this decade would you pick?", they don't have an answer.
React is legacy tech, held up by a dense web of cargo cults, self-congratulating to a lack of conclusive evidence. How it has remained so turgidly preeminent is a mystery only solved by an industry of product mangers failing to mange their products.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What is this...an email for ants?
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
People ask me for advice about career stuff, and the answer is always the same: give a shit about your marginal user.
All rips, no skips, on the other side of doing right by the lest of us.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
stuart smith's adventure construction set, user interface, apple II (1985) https://www.mobygames.com/game/991/stuart-smiths-adventure-construction-set/screenshots/apple2/432058/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:
Seriously tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04N0Nxc2i3Q
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
retr0id@retr0.id ("David Buchanan") wrote:
*reading a golang codebase*
this isn't very pythonic
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
at annual ‘Membership Meeting’ for local #AmateurRadio group 📡
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straphanger@urbanists.social ("Taras Grescoe 🚇") wrote:
Not #Amsterdam. Not #Copenhagen
It's #backtoschool in... #Paris
Bicycles, scooters, e-bikes, bikeshare, wheelchairs...and a few, whatdyacallem?
Oh yeah, cars.
Enjoy, and prepare to be hypnotized.
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Mastodon FeedI love recordings of old Craig Ferguson talk shows. This one had me in tears. #comedy https://youtu.be/AQhxVINuJrI?si=j7CKl5dcmjX-jyJw
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nervous_jesse@mathstodon.xyz ("Jesse Louis-Rosenberg") wrote:
We made a new puzzle based on the Spectre tile, the aperiodic monotile discovered earlier this year by @Chaimgoodmanstrauss, @csk, and others. It is a set of 111 tiles with a truchet-style pattern printed on them
