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louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

We Sold Our Beloved Company to the Literal Devil

Hello everyone! We’d love to tell you about our charming company history. Then, we’ll briefly mention that the literal devil acquired our company that we know you all love. Don’t worry, we’ll still be running the show, even though the literal devil owns the majority stake now. Not much will change, because the literal devil promised us. He has a track record of keeping his promises (🤞😈), so don’t worry.

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

GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("John Kennedy") wrote:

I recreated the PDP-8 minicomputer instruction set reference card in case you want to print one out. Hey, I don’t know. Maybe you’ll need it. Just saying.

https://github.com/GrantMeStrength/retro/tree/gh-pages/PDP

Attachments:

• The PDP-8 instruction set reference card. (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud ("Design Thinking! Comic") wrote:

User Needs vs. Business Needs

Attachments:

• Panel 1: A man stands in the middle of the frame. The title of the frame reads "User Needs". Panel 2: The man is towered over by a larger business man with a hammer raised to strike the smaller man. The title of the frame reads "Business Needs ($$$)" Panel 3: The man and the larger business man are both towered over by a larger man also with a hammer poised to strike. The title of the frame reads "User Needs That Impact Business Needs (Loss of $$$)" Panel 4: But they are all dwarfed by an extremely large man with a hammer about to strike. The title of the panel reads "CEO Whims". (remote)

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

One of the most frustrating parts about doing effective ecosystem work is that most answers aren't found in fixed designs, instead they involve spaces of opportunity with change over time.

This melts the brains of many engineers and PMs who just want "the answer" rather than "the next most impactful thing", which might change existing behaviour.

Factoring time into decision making is incredibly hard for most folks.

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

evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Donate some extra money to Texas abortion funds today just to piss this guy off:

https://jezebel.com/texas-abortion-fund-donor-names-lawsuit-1850884550

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

erosdiscordia@inkdrop.space ("Mystery Babylon :aheartdrawn:") wrote:

I'm up to Chapter 20 in my scifi webnovel "Radiant Inverse"!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72693/radiant-inverse-a-psychological-scifi-adventure/chapter/1305877/flight-chapter-1-the-pilot-record

I've also re-written the first four chapters, to bring in the core plot more quickly.

If you have some time today, why not check it out, and let me know what you think!

:boost_requested:

#writing #writingcommunity #scifi

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

meg@fediscience.org ("Megan") wrote:

Margo's voice still gives me chills.

New #music video from Cowboy Junkies - What I Lost (Live From the Latent Lounge)

https://youtu.be/8-cJSwx-Vzc

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

Haven't seen that one yet... On the other hand I now have a name for my D&D elf character.

#starbucks #spelling

Attachments:

• Starbucks label spelling my name as "Hiven".

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

unnameduser ("Unnameduser") wrote:

@Sustainable2050

"To put this into perspective, Swiss glaciers have lost as much ice over this two-year period as was lost over the three decades between 1960 and 1990."

😬

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

Turns out when you click the "place order" button on Instacart, it pops up a modal to try to sell you on Plus.

As if that wasn't skeezy enough, *clicking the "x" button to close the modal stops you from checking out*.

I know it's obnoxious, but one of the things I miss about Twitter is being able to publicly call out companies for doing dark anti-pattern shit like this.

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

selfsame@tiny.tilde.website ("Melt Egg Man") wrote:

Welcoming Bandcamp to the RentSeekr family

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

Collinsworth's law of music: any song that includes the title of *another* song in its lyrics is a bad song.

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

mhoye wrote:

I don't know what I expected Mr. Rogers rocking out to look like, but it's amazing: https://imgur.com/gallery/CgPeUqP

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

thraeryn@hackers.town ("The Embodiment of RED :fire_t:") wrote:

@thegibson My guy,

The Time is NOW

Let's start with "Nothin's Gonna Stand In Our Way" from the soundtrack to The Transformers: The Movie, originally recorded by Canadian group Kick Axe performing as "Spectre General"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_2_5ATvLvs

and covered wonderfully by Transformer cosplay band The Cybertronic Spree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9ZtTC2aHw

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miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:

@Macross @thegibson reminded me of the song from Miami Connection

https://youtu.be/R43dYg_Kuc0

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

The title of the lightning talk is still officially listed as "TBD: Updates on line-clamp". Should I just remove the TBD?

Btw, this is an update over my lightning talk from last BlinkOn, where I went through why -webkit-line-clamp isn't good enough, and what's cooking on that regards in the CSSWG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZ3BcDSpo0

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

i like the way marketing people use "journey." when i visit a web site it is often to restore precious heirlooms to my kingdom, etc

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

I (once again) forgot to announce on social media that I'll be attending BlinkOn 18, on October 17-19, and that I'll be giving *two* talks there:

- a lighting talk with updates on my work implementing line-clamp in Chromium
- and a breakout talk / session about how to integrate the TC39 AsyncContext proposal (similar to Node.js's AsyncLocalStorage, or zone.js) together with web APIs, and with the task attribution effort the Chrome team has been doing.

https://www.chromium.org/events/blinkon-18/

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

🗓️ October Conference News: Igalians will be at five events and present nearly two dozen talks and workshops next month!!

https://www.igalia.com/2023/09/29/October-Conference-News.html

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

redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

Fallow Friday, do NOT plant any crops

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litui@μ.computer ("Aria Burrell") wrote:

Threw on a battery, attached the sensor, and took a photo that doesn't look like it was shot with a potato.

#esp32 #lcars #startrek #lilygo #co2

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• LCARS-themed CO2 sensor showing CO2, Temp, and Humidity readings. It's a Lilygo T-AMOLED with a connected CO2 sensor and a lithium poly battery. (remote)

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SDF@mastodon.sdf.org ("SDF.ORG") wrote:

The Interim Computer Festival is this weekend Saturday September 30th and Sunday October 1st in Seattle WA from 10am - 6pm both days.

https://sdf.org/icf

#event #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #free #seattle #museum

Attachments:

• A person playing a game on a vintage computer (remote)
• Vintage Computer enthusiasts in a room full of vintage computers (remote)

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

Something I said on discord, out of context:

If I didn't want my found family to die I simply would not sell the god-ordained future king to an apocalypse cult

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

How does one bigoted old fart have so much power?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/29/stupid-old-bigot-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud/

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• Tommy Tuberville (remote)

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

Unsurprisingly, Dianne Feinstein is dead.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/29/dianne-feinstein-is-dead/

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• ba4c1795fc16aacc.jpeg (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org ("James Baker") wrote:

So it turns out Europol want the access to all the data that would be collected under plans to scan messages for CSAM. Confirming worst fears that child abuse is being used as an excuse for routine mass surveillance of all images and messages https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/ . #surveillance #eu #privacy

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

TIL on x86, one assembly instruction can have multiple different representations in machine code, with different capabilities, which may have side effects affecting its performance.

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/mulsd

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

The American Anthropological Association dodged a bullet by cancelling an attempt to gather a group of bigots under their banner.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/29/anthropology-panels-elizabeth-weiss-and-the-devious-self-serving-propaganda-of-gender-critical-bigots/

Attachments:

• American Anthropological Association banner (remote)

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):

alexelcu@social.alexn.org ("Alex Nedelcu") wrote:

#Java 21 is an outstanding LTS release. Generational ZGC + virtual threads + pattern matching 😍

https://openjdk.org/jeps/12

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

cybersecurity@poliverso.org ("Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare") wrote:

Discord is investigating cause of ‘You have been blocked’ errors

https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-6888745f-0e4059c5a1c342ad