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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I've never used Figma as a designer, but based on the current state of the web, I'm guessing it must have a Clippy-like character who regularly pops up and says, "hey, it looks like you're doing a rebrand! Could I suggest a generic sans serif to put a purple gradient on top of?"
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jomc@friend.camp ("joanne mcneil") wrote:
looks like I need a backup plan to organize a book event in New York.
Does anyone know galleries, studios, restaurants with backrooms etc that might accommodate 25-50 people sometime the first week of December?
I hope that because it's just before holiday party season there are still some options out there. Ideally nothing too far out from the city. (ie I can probably get people to meet in Cobble Hill, but probably not Jersey City).
Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Streaming some more Talos Principle 2! Come join, it's a fantastic puzzle game, and I could certainly use some relief after an incredibly stressful month. https://twitch.tv/compuowl
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ntnsndr@social.coop ("Nathan Schneider") wrote:
Thread: WeWork is imploding. This is a case in point about the problems of relying on venture-capital financing for everything...
Mastodon FeedThis is super fascinating: Emotional prompts enhance language models, study finds.
I need to also use these prompts with my kids…
Mastodon FeedReblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:
Tech unions are a hot topic at the moment, and rightly so! In this Igalia Chats episode, we talk about a closely related kind of organization, the co-operative. Igalia is a co-op, so we asked fellow Igalian Valerie Young to talk about what a co-op is and how they offer another path to worker power. https://www.igalia.com/chats/val
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jopabinia@ecoevo.social ("Jo Wolfe") wrote:
Today we publish a new paper on a molecular #phylogeny of true #crabs. We find crabs transitioned from marine to non-marine environments 7-17x over 100+ myr! This culminates 15+ years(!) of effort from an international team! 1/4
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syad066/7370615
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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:
"Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant. Most adblockers are browser extensions that are most widely used on Chrome, which is a Google product and the most popular browser in the world. They are being used to block ads sold by Google, the largest ad company in the world. And they are specifically being used to block ads on YouTube, a Google-owned website that is also one of the largest websites on Earth." 🤔 https://www.404media.co/youtubes-war-on-adblockers-shows-how-google-controls-the-internet/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Come to Minnesota, O Mighty Turkules, and teach our timid Midwestern birds about turkey power.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/06/only-strong-turkeys-survive-in-new-jersey/
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bunnie@treehouse.systems wrote:
US lawmakers are asking to restrict American participation in RISC-V "to prevent China from gaining dominance in CPU technology". The request is misguided. I wrote a letter to the US government on the subject:
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862
I'd appreciate if anyone can help amplify or route the message, so that US rule-makers can better understand the issue.
If you don’t agree with my stance, I encourage you to also send a letter expressing your views, so your opinions can be heard.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Wisdom from David Bowie:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I hope I never have to hear another word from this uncharismatic turd ever again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/06/shut-up-sam/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Was very pleased to find this among all the other classics right at the front.
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kirb@hachyderm.io ("Adam Demasi") wrote:
I respect VLC replacing the usual "agree"/"disagree" radio buttons underneath the GPL license, which is just an indication of your rights and not a document you need to mark your acceptance of, with a simple "You are now aware of your rights 😇" label
Where the agree/disagree radio buttons usually appear, it instead says:
"You are now aware of your rights. Click Next to continue."][5] ([remote][6])
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Stepping stones. Cumbria.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io ("Darryl Ramm") wrote:
@ahl @bcantrill @sdtuck @steveklabnik
Hey the needed company rename is now obvious... (I'm all done trying to give serious feedback 😉)
Mastodon FeedFor my next life, I'm hoping to be reincarnated as a giant squid at the bottom of the ocean.
Pleeeease.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Interesting detail: some of the characters seem to be aware of other timelines in this one. Ooishi complains about how Tomitake always dies
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
bastianallgeier ("Bastian Allgeier") wrote:
Reading the latest thread by Mastodon‘s CTO @renchap made me realize once more how small the team behind all this is and how they really try to listen to feedback and get it right.
It’s incredible what they‘ve achieved. It’s literally David vs Goliath compared to other social media platforms.
We should always keep that in mind when some things are not 100% smooth.
We get an ad-free, algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@verge But more impactfully, if app store purveyors actually thought that privacy were a human right, they would prevent native apps from circumventing browser choice through tracker-blocker-blocker approaches like "in app browsers".
Ever wonder why the web feels like it doesn't work right from insta/fb/whatsapp? It's because Apple and Google are *extremely* happy to hold the coat of Meta while they shake you down for data.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@verge Again, and I cannot stress enough, none of the real low-hanging fruit has been collected. We're still in the "doctor, it feels good when I stop punching myself in the face" phase on digital privacy, and yet the tech press is out here showering heavyweight facepunching champs with confetti for brief pauses.
What would a serious, if minimal, privacy effort look like? To start with, app stores would set policies about use of payments for apps that do not sign up to data-at-rest covenants.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@verge This power has not been used to clamp down on tracking, except in the most performative, low-impact ways. The idea that Apple and Google removing *explicit tracking IDs* from the OS is some sort of huge privacy win is *bewildering*. That the tech press lapped it up like it has actually been useful, when the big issues come from data at rest, has been serially depressing. Privacy advocates cheering for the worst "do something, do anything" improvements makes me mentally flip a tiny table.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@verge At a tactical level, the tracking gap (the practical amount of data an app can extract vs. its web counterpart for the same service) has always been maintained in favour of native. Recent, belated attempts to (timidly) hang a "beware of dog" sign about fingerprinting really give you a sense of how little oversight there has been. But why?
Because better tracking in apps gives the app stores more power, which is good for business.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@verge Never forget: whenever Apple and Google spout platitudes like "privacy is a human right", always ask "and so what policies have you put in place in your app stores to discourage abuse of data at rest?"
They've had unbelievable, unprecedented power over native developers for the last 15 years...has it been used to improve privacy? Or to facilitate scaled tracking in ways never possible on the web?
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reyjrar@hachyderm.io ("Brad L. :verified:") wrote:
I can't help but notice the new Apple laptops rate "Video Playback 22 hours, Web Browsing 15 hours" under battery life.
Congratulations web developers everywhere, it's now more computationally intense to render a webpage than video playback!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
morganm@subdued.social ("B. Morgan Murrah") wrote:
I am interested by websites that have no ads and also have basically no footer or header or identifying information at all. Its like a totally different experience sometimes.
Ive used this confetti.js snippet in a couple of demo projects and I have no idea who to attribute it to basically and that mystery is actually rare and interesting in this world.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:
@aw check this out
https://github.com/fuzzballcat/milliForthmilliFORTH weighs in at just 422 bytes. This beats out Tunney's sectorLISP (436 bytes) by 14 bytes, making FORTH now the smallest language once again.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I had that thing for years. I haven't been doing work like that in a while, but I just found out you can pick up a cheap "light pad" for like $20. Holy macaroni! O_o
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
When I was a teen, I was into drawing and inking. Part of my process would involve tracing over a pencil rough where I had worked out a composition. If you're not using tracing paper, you need to use a light box to help you see the under drawing. At the time, they were expensive. So I built my own by getting a local glass shop to cut two panes of glass: one smooth and one frosted. I picked up an under counter fluorescent light, and then built a box to house it in from scraps.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I was conflicted about leaving Facebook.
I was conflicted about leaving Instagram.
I was even conflicted about leaving Twitter.
But LinkedIn?
What a cruel twist of fate that the one social network I'd be delighted to nuke forever without even a second's hesitation is the one society decided you need to keep for your career.
