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

Me: [Takes a month to respond to a friend's email.]

Me: [Writes a long email and sends it.]

Me: [Another follow up email] "That was a lot of words. I apologize."

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

I to try to keep on keepin' on.

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

This wasn't an algorithmic suggestion. I suspect somebody on here linked to this, but I can't recall. Anyway, I'm enjoying this song that feels like it rolls along at a good clip. First Aid Kit's "My Silver Lining":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKL4X0PZz7M

(Kind of reminds me of the days when I was a bit less rooted anywhere and moved every year or so. It would've made a good soundtrack as I drove from New York to Seattle to San Diego and then finally back to Albuquerque.)

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

Despite the similarities in names, I've managed to never confuse the two, but the Algorithm decided to suggest Nanci Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" and why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ

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

paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

An anti-coffee ad that I will choose to interpret as a pro-coffee ad

Attachments:

• [A coffee can with a concerned expression and also legs and also arms touches a guy in a suit] When Coffee Gets You--- --Daily Kennebec Journal, 26 May 1914 (remote)

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

samadeleine@tech.lgbt ("Sam Adeleine") wrote:

Learned something new about z-index in #CSS:
https://philipwalton.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-about-z-index/

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

G'morning, all. I woke up this morning with a hankering to hear the voice of Patty Griffin. It seemed like a good way to start my clock change day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1gPVKJ7msI

(I got to see her perform live a long time ago in Boulder, CO, and it was fantastic.)

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

Does Alabama want to kill all the open-minded people in their state? I think so.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/05/feeling-sorry-for-all-of-alabama/

Attachments:

• Bubba Copeland, former Republican mayor of a small town in Alabama. (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today’s 10k

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• 22fbf8458ef815eb.jpeg (remote)
• 988efbae634c70d7.jpeg (remote)

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

My morning reading habits are often a bad idea. I should change them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/05/i-also-browse-social-media/

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• Tweet from Richard Hanania, playing repulsive what-if games. Why is it always about sex with children? (remote)

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

Read every media source with a critical eye. That's just common sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/05/you-are-reading-media/

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• A collection of pro-billionaire headlines from Jeff Bezos' Washington Post (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I was at the Real Camera shop in Manchester and saw a Mamiya medium format camera in person. I wish I had the 800 pounds to drop on it 😅 Bought an amber lens filter instead to see if I can get better colors in this weather.

#BelieveInFillm

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

ed_hawkins@fediscience.org ("Ed Hawkins") wrote:

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023

https://climatelabbook.substack.com/p/mapping-changes-in-temperature-every

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• def14a0b7510495d.png (remote)

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

davisagli@fosstodon.org ("David Glick") wrote:

@tkimnguyen interviewed me discussing my experience in the #plone open source community over the past 15 years. https://plonepodcast.buzzsprout.com/1645492/13907668

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Red door. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• A bright red door on a corner entrance of a grey stone building with moss all over it. A bike leans on the wall next to the door. The signage above the door says "The Hermitage".

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

John Mastodon is just a figurehead; the real work was done by Ernestine Toot. he’s recently been trying but failing to erase her legacy.

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

The arguments against sideloading are real; but we can't let the disaster that is Android prevent us from demanding real browser choice on iOS:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/04/google-play-android-real-time-app-scanning-sideload-apps/

The best solution to "app stores are rapacious" is a web that can compete, and it's no coincidence that Apple is *super* invested in preventing that from emerging:

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/04/apple-argued-safari-is-three-different-browsers/

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

SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system

The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work

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

The comments 😂

A potent mix of resignment, realism, and copium:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-argued-safari-is-three-different-browsers-to-avoid-regulation.2409850/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Red berries. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• A little stone path up a grassy hill surrounded by trees. Red berries embellish the still green tree on the left, as yellow leaves begin to cover the ground.

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

ryantownsend@webperf.social ("Ryan Townsend") wrote:

@guaca shows the breakdown as to why sites are failing LCP at #PerfNow

I guessed correctly that Resource Loading Delay is our biggest problem 🎉

Another reason to serve useful HTML #WebDev!

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• Estela on stage at Perf Now, showing a breakdown of the sub-parts of LCP for sites in different Core Web Vital buckets of Good / Needs Improvement / Poor. (remote)
• Poll asking: Which LCP sub-part is the biggest problem? Options: * TTFB * Resource Load Delay * Resource Load Time * Element Render Delay (remote)

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

Amy_Hupe@social.design.systems ("Amy Hupe") wrote:

When an alt-right extremist Christian American fuckboy sees a conference talk you did and decides to character assassinate you, you really have 2 choices.

1. Let it go and move on with your life
2. Get @heydon to make it a T-shirt

As you can imagine, I took the high road.

Attachments:

• Me taking a mirror selfie wearing a black T-shirt with the troll’s comment printed out in full in white text. (remote)
• A YouTube comment on my talk, It all means nothing in the end, that reads: “extremely sad, 9-5, no mother instinct, no marriage, trauma bound to an undisclosed secret, a doer alpha mentality, afraid of elitism in certain demographic, absence of sacred feminine figure, perfect recipe for covert b narc depression” (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Othello is Solved https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387

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

While I was making breakfast, the kiddo was going through the back catalog of Deep Look episodes, saw this one, and played it while saying excitedly, "Ooh. This is a good one!" I'm inclined to agree.

"Kangaroo Rats Are Furry, Spring-Loaded Ninjas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hyKWwiefF8

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

moshboy wrote:

softporn adventure, game over screen, atari 8-bit (1981) https://www.mobygames.com/game/9303/softporn-adventure/screenshots/atari-8-bit/218168/

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• a simple purple screen with the following text in the upper half: this game has gone to hell.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

When you use an icon font for your logo…

#webdev

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• Café logo that is a basic white on black rectangle

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

Thinking back to that time Wozniak decided to use his new wealth to put on a couple of giant rock festivals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Festival

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

amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

This 1989 retrospective of Xerox Star written by its designers and developers is fascinating. It explains the design decisions, tells the history of the system, and candidly admits the technological and business mistakes.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2953879_The_Xerox_Star_A_Retrospective

#xeroxstar #gui #retrocomputing

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

laamaa@mementomori.social ("Jonne Kokkonen") wrote:

put a donk on it
#chiptune #gameboy #lsdj

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• Turquoise game boy color running lsdj tracker and playing groovy stuff (remote)

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

The Humming Bird (poem)

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• The Humming Bird I laid a humming bird to rest this morning. We found it on the deck beneath the feeder. Probably one of our regular visitors. One broken wing the only clue. Someone said to put it in the garbage. That hurt my heart. Humming birds demand so little in life and so much less in death. I carried the little bird in my hands to a corner of our yard and covered it in leaves, trusting to nature the work that remained. I said a little prayer that I hoped someone someday might say for me: Thank you for the pleasure of your company. The universe was better for having you in it. I got up and spared a moment's thought for all the humming birds that fall where I never see. -- Anonymous (remote)