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

This talk about some of the things Project Fugu enables is *outstanding*:

https://noti.st/nielsleenheer/zP0qdm/slides

by @html5test

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tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

Exciting, Mozilla just sent an Intent to Prototype for the Screen Wake Lock API: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAGnPerLhyypKpZh-F2r2xp5h12yQaE9ivjkwGaX%3Dm9mu-qHwVw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer. More background on the feature: https://web.dev/wake-lock. It's supported by Chrome and Safari.

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

I made another tier list about The Smoke Room.

I wish tiermaker auto-generated alt text. #tsrvn

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• A chart of Smoke Room characters with 6 tiers. Tier 1: "Can Say Faggot, Will Say It". Contains Paul, Will, Kane, Tsela, Murdoch, Porter, Ralph, Felipe. Tier 2: "Can Say It, Won't Say It". Contains Avery, Cynthia, Dahlia, Dimitri, Chang, Cliff, Nik, Jeb, Yao, Yiska, Melissa. Tier 3: "Can't Say It, Won't Say It." Cordelia, Marcy, Hattie. Tier 4: "Can't Say It, Will Say It." Andy, Ben, Blithe, Caldwell, Red, Beckett, Briggs, Franz, Harlan, Huxley, Holly, Nate, Reed, Gretchen, James III, and Jim Tier 5: "Has To Say It For Work." Sam, Dora, Ethel, Todd Tier 6: "Physically Incapable of Saying It But Lives Vicariously Through Others". The Shadow Creature.

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

I'm excited for daily October horror movies again this year. Obv I could start early but part of the fun is the anticipation

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

Very easy

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• It's easy to say with hindsight that NFTs are a stupid scam but it was also easy at the beginning to say that and through the middle too

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gugames@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Gugames") wrote:

My upcoming comedy #pointandclick game, The Will of Arthur Flabbington, is aaaaalmost at 1000 #wishlists on #Steam...
...can we reach 1000 before end of September? 😁
🔄Repost this if you know someone who loves adventure games to let them know about this game!
➡ Wishlist here https://store.steampowered.com/app/2174720/The_Will_of_Arthur_Flabbington/

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jordaust ("Jordan Austin") wrote:

It never gets old and it makes me so happy in wormhole.app when you tap "Get the Android App" it just invokes the PWA install prompt 🔥

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• Screenshot of Wormhole web app with a button that says "Get the Android App".

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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

Seriously #safaribrowser no Canvas2d filters? Even in Safari 17??

It's embarrassing the lengths I have to go to to make things work on Safari. It's even worse that the performance of these workarounds is so bad that a 1000$ iPhone is outperformed by a 200$ Android.

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

I sometimes feel like a lot of things about how tech and the tech industry have developed would make way less sense if I hadn't read Tim Wu's "The Master Switch"

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Apologies for the late notice, but no Oxide and Friends today due to the holiday (wishing an easy fast to those who observe); @ahl and I will be back next week, I promise!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Uhm…

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juliaserano ("Julia Serano") wrote:

lately I've seen stories about how anti-trans activism is increasingly cloaking itself under the guise of "parental rights." but it's also crucial to note the many parallels between this movement & the anti-vaxx parent movement (especially spreading medical disinformation):
https://juliaserano.medium.com/understanding-the-anti-trans-parent-movement-90d126de1fc9?sk=a3ab3891f321dbd49d00774cee6a8a27
#trans #transgender #LGBTQ

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LeoBurr@tiggi.es ("LeoBurr :leoburr:") wrote:

"Back in the old days" geezers like me would download anything we liked and keep "backup" copies because we knew we were one HDD crash/tableflip away from that data being gone forever.

Over the past 15(?) or so years, I've noticed more of an attitude of, "I don't care, if I lose it, it'll always be on the Internet and I can re-download it." Since YouTube and other video services have started taking content down, and the Internet Archive is on the ropes, younger folks are starting to learn that the Internet isn't forever.

Stupid things you said on social media as a teen, maybe. But a lot of media out there isn't.

My attitude never changed on this, which is why I RAID-6 and LTO-6 all of the data I feel is critical, and why Tiggi.es is in a replica cluster, copied to a RAID-6 volume daily, and backed up to LTO-6 every 3 days.

I'm paranoid about data loss and data availability in ways that many who haven't spent the better part of their career working in storage/Internet aren't. Data loss is almost inevitable. Almost. But data that isn't under your control can vanish without notice.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Status: upgrading local #Ubuntu to the next beta, 23.10. Something I got used to be doing for many years.

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mcc wrote:

Anyway the single moment of greatest joy I have experienced this summer was when I discovered the Atari 2600 core for the Analogue Pocket will happily open *any* file, such as ROMs for other systems, and attempt to execute it on the assumption it is an Atari 2600 ROM, invariably leading to a 200-ms-to-3-second loop of bizarre blocky pixel noise and glitch sounds

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• Purple green and black pixels
• Gray, orange and black pixels

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

getting ready to leave for first dog-handling volunteer class at #ROC city pound tonight, should be an interesting experience

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

TFW we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine...

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

TFW the sun has gone down and the moon has come up and long ago somebody left with the cup...

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

it's kinda wild how often the Amtrak site just doesn't work

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

When you win the French World Scrabble Championships but don't speak a single word of French.

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

Wait, what if we survive to the 6th of October?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/25/what-happens-on-4-october/

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

@pnathan please hire Paul, he's been running Seattle's local mastodon instance for a while and looks like a capable engineer!

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pnathan@social.seattle.wa.us ("ꙮ ⚗️ pnathan ⚗️ ꙮ") wrote:

Well. Soft layoff. It sucks. I'm looking for work. Site reliability engineering, software engineering. Keyword bag: Linux, Golang, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP.

Can build out a full cloud infra and then the software running on it, database backends, observability infra, can work through the whole operational lifecycle incl paging and decomonissioning.

Will do contract work too for the right price.

paul@nathan.house is the email.

Free free to retoot.

Ed: remote only. Travel fine.

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

Them: "AI will usher in a bleak and desolate future internet, where what little meaningful content remains is drowned by tidal waves of mindless nonsense that nobody asked for, generated purely for engagement."

Me: "...so LinkedIn, then?"

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trochee@dair-community.social ("Jeremy Kahn") wrote:

@danhon

Somebody suggested that NFTs should have been dubbed "grift certificates"

and I keep coming up with more puns from the same template

Like, the AI hype and the crypto bubble is all coming from Stanford kids in the Grifted Program

I'm sorry

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

does anyone monitor their outgoing email volume? I find that it's a a surprisingly good proxy for my happiness and creative fulfillment and "gaming" it almost always makes me feel better anyway

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kevinmgill@deepspace.social ("Kevin M. Gill") wrote:

A protostar embedded in a protoplanetary disk embedded in the dark molecular cloud LDN1527. You’re seeing an infant (100,000 years old) solar system about 447 light years away. The star itself is hidden from view by the edge-on protoplanetary disk occupying the ‘neck’ of the hourglass shaped nebula. This is processed from image data taken by JWST in September 2022.

NASA/ESA/CSA/Pontoppidan, Klaus M. (PI)/Kevin M. Gill

#JWST #space #science

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• An hourglass shapes nebula (remote)

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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

NASA Photos from today's OSIRIS-REx sample landing:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72177720311435828/with/53210646183/
#OSIRISRex

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• The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the Utah desert. The blackened gumdrop-shaped capsule is sitting on its heat shield. It has a bright orange and yellow circle on its side. The dark capsule contrasts with green scrub bushes as well as the pale, pinkish soil and mountains in the background. (remote)
• Lockheed Martin System Safety Engineer Victoria Thiem performs preliminary checks on the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The engineer stands in front of the blackened, gumdrop-shaped capsule, holding a black object with an antenna in her hand and leaning slightly over the capsule. Behind her are two bags, one on top of the other. The top bag is clear plastic with a white and yellow rectangular object inside. The dark capsule contrasts with green scrub bushes as well as the pale, pinkish soil. (remote)
• Lockheed Martin Mission Operations Assurance Lead Graham Miller, Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialist Michael Kaye, and Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialist Levi Hanish, prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport. The three recovery specialists surround the capsule, squatting down to cover it in protective plastic layers. They are wearing nitrile gloves, hiking gear with long sleeves and pants, and ballcaps. The capsule sits on top of two sheets of plastic in the Utah desert. The top sheet is clear with transparent orange tape being applied by the recovery specialists. The bottom sheet is grey with black straps. (remote)
• Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom. Three people stand around the opened capsule. They are covered head to toe in white cleanroom "bunny suits". The opened capsule is a mess of orange tubes and metallic boxes. A fourth person stands off to the side, also in a bunny suit, photographing them with a camera. (remote)

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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🇺🇳") wrote:

🇺🇸 :covid19: US residents: In light of this current #COVID wave, your government has today again opened up your allotment of 2 free home test packs. Request yours now, then boost this post for others:

:boost_love: https://www.covid.gov/tests

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Happy autumn to you.

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• [The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: comm n pr ble whe writin p ems in the shape of decid o s trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly ntil their letters loos n like leaves, an they d start to float down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.] (remote)