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nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

bonan matenon

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• kato (remote)

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

20 minutes staring at failing code to determine the issue is that I used `data.get(field, '')` instead of `data.get(field) or ''`. Honestly I love it

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artefacts@liminalisland.xyz ("Polyamorous Divorce Lawyer") wrote:

my husband is doing a masters in history & i’m trying to manipulate him into saying stuff like this in class

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• sapphixxx on Tumblr: “Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc” somethingusefulfromflorida “"Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.” olivia-online “The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America” bitterrosebrokenspear “I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.” computationalcalculator “"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meii-era texas"” (remote)

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

Uh-oh, I have the same nightmare.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/27/do-spiders-have-anxiety/

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• “It's the same dream night after night ... | walk out on my web, and suddenly a foot sticks—and then another foot sticks, and another, and another, and another ...” (remote)

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

We all need an occasional taste of the abyss.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/27/a-soothing-interlude/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKA-pXGckE

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

@baldur also, this:
https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

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pierstoval ("Alex Rock") wrote:

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

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• A small comic drawing. It represents two houses, and a text. The house on the left with a hole in its roof on a rainy day, and the character, apparently an anthropomorphic dog, can be seen through the window on the ground floor. On the right, the same house with its hole but it's sunny outside and the character is seen hopping through the roof's hole and watches the sun. At the bottom, there is the following text: « Haggis has a hole in his roof. He never fixed it because on rainy days it is too wet to work. And on sunny days it doesn’t need fixing. »

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krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:

"Google Sites" now supports embedding images.

What you want:

What you get:
* ~100 HTML elements, including 57 unique CSS class names across 83 attributes, 30 hidden DIVs, 3 iframes, 2 external script tags, 2 inline script tags, and 1 actual tag.
* the is inside an iframe, nested 3 (!) levels of iframes deep.
* an image cut off in both X and Y directions.
* not one, but two unwanted scrollbars.

#enshittification #webperf #SemanticHTML #html5 #HTML

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• Firefox DevTools inspecting the footer image on the Unicode CLDR home page at https://cldr.unicode.org. The page is generated and hosted via the "Google Sites" platform. (remote)

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tillybridges ("Tilly Bridges") wrote:

WGA strike officially over at midnight tonight. you can read the terms of the deal at the link (it’s… huge).

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba

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

I set up a printer tonight, one we inherited from my wife's uncle.

Took me two downloads, two app installs, searching for a cable, then searching for an adapter for the cable, perusing 3–4 manuals, a Google search, and a lengthy setup wizard that errored twice...

...and STILL it was honestly easier than I thought it might be.

What is user experience even

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

Gay pornography becomes history after two thousand five hundred years, I think.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/26/those-randy-etruscans/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Been listening to this a lot today.

https://youtu.be/2RIHzB5HlKw

#np #nowplaying

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

Heavy rain just started. Thought y'all needed to know.

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lucasarts_places@botsin.space ("LucasArts Places") wrote:

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (DOS EGA)

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• Room 027: Mars - Pyramid Exterior (remote)

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

I think with this FTC lawsuit[1], plus recent decisions supporting the labor movement, the Biden admin might just have won my vote. I did not expect anything close to this from Joe Biden in 2020.

(I'm still voting Marianne Williamson in the primaries though. She's just better.)

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/ftc-files-the-big-one-a-lawsuit-alleging-amazon-illegally-maintains-monopoly/

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

Yay! I just go to get my sticker every year.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/26/i-got-mine-2/

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• I got my flu shot sticker (remote)

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

New post:

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/tailwind-is-smart-steering

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jaseg@chaos.social wrote:

Researching inductor parasitics, I found this cool manuscript by radio amateur David W Knight. To visualize the E-field in and around coils, they used a gas discharge tube! Even if you're not up for the math, check out the PDF linked below for a few more cool pictures 😄

https://g3ynh.info/zdocs/magnetics/appendix/self_res/self-res.pdf

#physics #electronics #science

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• Four pictures of a large, 10 cm diameter demonstration coil wound on a plastic core. The coil has about 100 windings made from very thick wire. Centered in front of the coil, aligned with the axis of the coil, is a long transparent mercury vapor gas discharge tube. Each of the four pictures has text with the excitation frequency of the coil, and in each picture, the gas discharge tube shows glow with a different notal pattern. At 8 MHz, there is one node, whose sides extend about half the length of the coil beyond its ends. At 15.3 MHz, there are two nodes symmetric to the center of the coil, extending about a quarter of its length outside of the coil. The nodes are skewed towards the coil's center. At 22.4 MHz, there are three nodes that are almost entirely within the coil's length, with the middle node being apprximately twice as long as the outer nodes. At 28.9 MHz, there are four nodes, with the middle two being about twice the length of the outer two. (remote)

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

I think a proper fate for Adam Britton has been shown in the movies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/26/awful-personand-he-was-a-scientist-too/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-BfD6diAU

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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• fef183e94e8f5f84.png (remote)

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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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