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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:
What is best in life? To connect with as much joy as needed to be able to share it with others; to gladly be the beacon for Gondor's aid; and to seek and destroy the reasons for lamentations caused by the cruel.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
saraislet@infosec.exchange ("insecurity princess 🌈💖🔥") wrote:
When I was 15 years old, a gay man named Matthew Shepard was brutally tortured and murdered. That was 25 years ago, today, October 6, 1998.
This was not called a hate crime at the time, and it was another 10 years before gender, sexual orientation, and disability were included in federal hate crime legislation.
I'd like to say that the world has changed. In some ways, it has. (Hi! I'm gay! — and I'm an engineering manager at a major global corporation, which I couldn't have imagine would be possible in my lifetime.)
But in many ways, the world hasn't changed. The same intensity and depth of stigma is still there in many parts of the world. We've created little channels of tolerance here and there, but bias and the stigma that powers is are still swirling around us, like an airborne virus barely held back by positive pressure.
Keep it up, and don't let your guard down. I can't.
#MatthewShepard #Stigma
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
beatnikprof@mas.to ("Tony Pennino") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
note that it is a dead pineapple now
https://mastodon.social/@jerrylevine/111190856697684810
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mike@flipboard.social ("Mike McCue") wrote:
A terrific story told by @lisamelton of her meetings with Steve Jobs when designing and building Safari. The standard that Steve set for great products more than a decade ago is more important to achieve than ever.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Oozenet ("Thaiis Thei 𓁟") wrote:
Hey academic people. I am looking for collaborators for a project about governance on Wikipedia. Basically the project will involve examining the talk pages, administrator actions, arbitration committee decisions, and Wikipedia policies to see how well the policies are adhered to and how this is affecting editor retention and article accuracy on Wikipedia. If you think this sounds like fun please respond. Any resulting publications will be Open Access. Boosts appreciated.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johnshirley2024@wandering.shop ("John Shirley") wrote:
AND i'm going to be speaking to teen writers tomorrow ,jr high and high school, at the Beaverton City Library in Portland/Beaverton about writing. I'll be answering questions and talking from 11 to 12 AM. It's free. All young writers (and I assume any parents who want to be there) invited.
It's presentation of Willamette Writers.,
October 7, 2023
Time:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location:Admin Conference Room
12375 SW Fifth St.
Beaverton, OR 97005
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johnshirley2024@wandering.shop ("John Shirley") wrote:
In the Portland OR area or going to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival this weekend? There's a FREE event at the HPLFF & Cthulucon. This be readings of horror fiction & poetry, this SUNDAY Oct 8 at 11 am, featuring me, scholar ST Joshi, Denise Dumar & Adam Bolivar at the library by the festival. I'll also be on a panel Oct 7 at the festival, re Lovecraft's #poetry.
Here's where my reading will be, and you can find the schedule for the festival at the same url:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Zora Neale Hurston was another largely forgotten Black woman author. Fascinating life. All 4 grandparents were slaves. She was chastised by (probably mostly white) critics for using idiomatic speech that today we see as popular streetwise dialect.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:") wrote:
The lessons of today: do not roll your own encryption and do not host your own dns
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:
Your Member of Congress likely has someone on their staff who tracks everything that's said about them in local news media. This is why a letter to the editor is still an effective tactic for getting their attention! Tell your representative to be a champion for reproductive rights by supporting our Reproductive Freedom Agenda: https://act.indivisible.org/lte/write_lte_encourage_rep_to_be_reproductive_freedom-champion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=directpost
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rjay@ottawa.place ("Rick Beetham") wrote:
I never realized till now…. From another source…
So, I spoke to people getting food at a food bank and here are some things I learned from those in need:
1. Everyone donates Kraft Mac and Cheese in the box. They can rarely use it because it needs milk and butter which is hard to get from regular food banks.
2. Boxed milk is a treasure, as kids need it for cereal which they also get a lot of.
3. Everyone donates pasta sauce and spaghetti noodles.
4. They cannot eat all the awesome canned veggies and soup unless you put a can opener in too or buy pop tops.
5. Oil is a luxury but needed for Rice a-Roni which they also get a lot of.
6. Spices or salt and pepper would be a real Christmas gift.
7. Tea bags and coffee make them feel like you care.
8. Sugar and flour are treats.
9. They fawn over fresh produce donated by farmers and grocery stores.
10. Seeds are cool in Spring and Summer because growing can be easy for some.
11. They rarely get fresh meat.
12. Tuna and crackers make a good lunch.
13. Hamburger Helper goes nowhere without ground beef.
14. They get lots of peanut butter and jelly but usually not sandwich bread.
15. Butter or margarine is nice too.
16. Eggs are a real commodity.
17. Cake mix and frosting makes it possible to make a child’s birthday cake.
18. Dishwashing detergent is very expensive and is always appreciated.
19. Feminine hygiene products are a luxury and women will cry over that.
20. Everyone loves Stove Top Stuffing.In all the years I have donated food at the Holidays, I bought what I thought they wanted, but have never asked. I am glad I did. If you are helping a Family this Christmas, maybe this can help you tailor it more. It does for me!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Artsandsocks@ottawa.place ("ArtsandSocks 🧶🪡") wrote:
@rjay Cash donations allow food banks to purchase perishables like milk, meat and fresh vegetables, often at wholesale prices. So I quit giving my money to grocery chains, and started giving my money directly to the local food cupboard. I even get an income tax receipt. It's a win all around.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
climagic ("Command Line Magic") wrote:
I've always read that global variables are bad.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nando161@kolektiva.social ("Nando161") wrote:
Jesus fucking Christ. Do not trust any of these fucking #ancestry #companies with your #data. #dna
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:
Cosmic rays strike again!
A software update fixed the #Euclid mission's Fine Guidance Sensor which was having trouble filtering out the random noise, caused by high-energy particles hitting the telescope's detector, to get the signal of real stars.
Euclid would lose its guide stars and then automatically start to look for them again, creating loopy star trails. Great for accidental science art, bad for science.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
lots of automated "Heartbeat" responses on 20m JS8, but no humanoids responding to my CQ
boo hoo hoo
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mongoose@vmst.io ("Baroque Mongoose") wrote:
So my sister, who is musical, took a sound engineering course. And the course tutor had a birthday just before the course finished. So she made him a cake.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
noodling around on JS8 tonight, 20m at the moment
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:
So I spent the last six months on a server move / PHP upgrade for my web game, Improbable Island, and I'm FINALLY DONE OMFG
"Why the hell did it take six months, Dan?" well because I've been making and running this game for fifteen years and it's gotten HUGE, that's why.
Anyway it's blazing fast now and if you wanna give it a go, it's at https://www.improbableisland.com!
Also, if you've got a personal hobby website, I'll run a banner for it on the New Day page, no money, no catch, you don't even have to link back, just collecting cool hobby sites and showing them to my players to help keep the internet weird. Special consideration given to weird 1997-looking Neocities stuff. :) https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php for that one.
Boosts appreciated!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lauraehall@xoxo.zone ("Laura E. Hall") wrote:
- This graphic by Jennifer Johnson lays out the elements of the solar system by their astronomical source. We are made of star-stuff
Source: https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/johnson.3064/nucleo/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
6. Criaturas Hediondas (1993). A really cute amateur production from Brazil that probably exists because someone got a camcorder for their birthday. 80 minutes of kids running around saying things like, "On Mars, there's many people addicted to brains."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
vruba@everything.happens.horse ("Charlie Loyd") wrote:
Dear software people,
Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.
It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.
Sincerely,
Charlie
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mia@front-end.social ("Miriam (still)") wrote:
There are two 'straw polls' happening over on the CSSWG github. Official voting is limited to members, but anyone is welcome to weigh in on the conversations.
Long hand property for text-wrap:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9102#issuecomment-1747785298New property for auto-resizing textarea and inputs:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7542#issuecomment-1747805436
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
webmink@meshed.cloud ("Simon Phipps") wrote:
Revelling in the new Hania Rani album that just dropped for #BandcampFriday, "Ghosts". It is simply sublime, as I have come to expect.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay wrote:
@isagalaev @vruba I've definitely seen modern software that doesn't handle unicode properly, like spitting on codepoint boundaries. I've also seen things not properly passing a language flag to their renderer, which is important when figuring out which glyphs to use from CJK unified ideographs
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Stunned by the Arabic experience in #AssassinsCreedMirage, to my knowledge the first AAA game to be so fully localized into Arabic.
Everything is not just in Arabic, but well-written Arabic with great turns of phrase.
Proud of my friend Malek Teffaha, who helped make this happen.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
OMG Slack murdered its own theming even worse than I thought: there are only 20 colors total to choose from.
Twenty. Colors. Total.
From literally over 16 million colors—the entire RGB gamut—to 20.
Mario Paint came out on the Super Nintendo 31 years ago, and it had almost that many colors.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Also: um, if you can interrupt me to say my changes haven't been saved, maybe you can...oh, I don't know...add a save button?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Like...did Slack adopt Tailwind? What's happening?
