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

brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

web components, and in particular defaulting to the lightdom, are having a moment.

momentum's growing despite inertia for userland components systems. slowly but surely I see more and more orgs dropping axios for fetch. GraphQL for rest. jest for built-in test runners.

love to see it.

#webdev #webcomponents

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

braedon@mastodon.nz ("Braedon") wrote:

Publishers and SSPs need to make major strides in standards adoption and compliance if we're going to actually be able to actually make use of schains.

More details here:
https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/blog/supplychain-object-deep-dive

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

Ericlaw ("EricLaw") wrote:

Using DevTools to debug themselves (and other browser UI): https://textslashplain.com/2023/11/14/troubleshooting-edge-or-chrome-broken-ui/

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

A helpful model for what Apple has done to the web over the past decade is the Private Equity playbook [1]:

• corner a big chunk of a market
• extract *extreme* amounts of revenue [2]
• underfund maintenance and load up on (technical) debt, such that bankruptcy becomes inevitable

In this case, the thing that is going bankrupt is the web ecosystem, which from the perspective of Apple's native app ecosystem sure is a dang shame, huh?

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/23758492/private-equity-brendan-ballou-plunder-finance-doj
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/13/23959353/google-apple-safari-search-revenue-antitrust-trial

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

marceles_pixel@mastodon.art ("marceles 🌴🌴") wrote:

wip update.
Still need to do the terrain and the bush is not giving me a good feeling

you do know the reference isn't it?

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

rbanffy ("Ricardo B�nffy") wrote:

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

br00t4c wrote:

Vivian Silver: Israel peace activist who advocated for Palestinian rights confirmed dead in Hamas attack

#activist #qualityoflife

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/vivian-silver-peace-activist-dead-hamas-attack-b2446843.html

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

The Supreme Court has bravely committed to following the Pirate Code in their rules of conduct.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/14/yay-the-supreme-court-has-a-code-of-conduct-sorta/

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Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

It's cold and raining.. Time for some tea! :blobcoffee:

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• Black mug with white Ouija board print with tea. The package is laying on the table showing it's “Süßer Bratapfel“, a sweet wintery apple tea. (remote)

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

davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:

🖼️ 🎨 🤖

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• Screenshot of tweet by Tim Henke @TimHenke: eat shit, René Magritte [quote tweet by:] Mauv @ThatsMauvelous: the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light. Select all squares with traffic lights [standard captcha type image array that shows a sign with a picture of a traffic control light/stop light] (remote)

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

So imagine you cheat on your partner, like tons of times, for decades. Constantly cheating. And finally, you get caught.

And in response, the only atonement you offer is a short story you wrote about an imaginary better person than you are, who didn't cheat.

No apology; no admittance of wrongdoing. Just a few nice little pages that ultimately mean nothing in the real world and do nothing to address what you did.

Ok now you're caught up on Supreme Court ethics thing.

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

.@phae's article on why real browser choice matters is a banger:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/why-browser-choice-matters/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴") wrote:

Well, the company I work(ed) for just folded. Poof! 💩⛈️.
No notice, no severance, no nothing. 🤬

So I'm asking for boosts and leads. If anyone needs someone who knows data, please reach out.

I'm located in Seattle, WA. Remote preferred.

Last few titles include: CDO, Head of Data, and Sr. Operations Analyst.

I've worked in gaming, fintech, and B2C/C2C marketplaces most recently.

I'm proficient in Python, SQL, statistics, team management, (almost) all things data-related, and a host of other stuff.

I'm opinionated and anti-capitalist, but I also routinely bring in multiple times my department's cost in profits for the companies I work for.

I'm also hella nice (despite my RBF) and easy to get along with.

God, pitching myself is so awkward.

That's the toot. Thanks.

---

**Gif is of parent company explaining our off-boarding process**

#PleaseBoost #Boost #FediHire #LWF #Layoffs #LookingForJob #LookingForWork #Data #DataScience #Python #SQL #Snowflake #ELT #DataPipeline #Analytics #BusinessIntelligence #CDO #HeadOfData #PleaseHelp #Gaming #Fintech #ChiefDataOfficer

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• Gif of Kakashi "justuing" Naruto in an uncomfortable place. Naruto flies off screen...like my employment just did. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

josephthomas@beige.party ("Joseph Thomas") wrote:

Was banned from Nextdoor when someone posted looking for a local hand doctor and I replied to “Check on Phalanges List”

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

OrganizingLIS@glammr.us wrote:

After being fired for opposing book censorship, three librarians have filed workplace discrimination claims with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

🔗 https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/librarians-turn-civil-rights-agency-oppose-book-bans-firings-rcna124161

#LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #Librarians #EEOC #LGBTQ #PublicLibraries #DefendLibraries #NoBookBans #FreedomToRead #ReadBannedBooks

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

Testbench passing for #polyphase channelizer for #Haifuraiya, an #opensource #HEO or #GEO communications #satellite design. Applicable to #hamradio, 5 GHz uplink and 10 GHz downlink. Shown is the transponder receiver filter.

If you’d like to join this or any other @OpenResearchIns project, get in touch.

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• Green glowing logic diagrams on black background. This simulation of the Theseus Cores customized IP block is running on a remotely accessible VM at Remote Labs West, which is hosted for free for open source work by ORI.There are nearly 30 signals shown in this simulation. Some of them are buses, which are signals grouped together to communicate arrays or coordinated sets of bits of data. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online ("Adam F. Lawton") wrote:

The US government never misses a chance to screw vets. It's uncanny.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

truth

https://mastodon.online/@Adam_Cadmon1/111406222790166322

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

latimes@press.coop ("Los Angeles Times :press:") wrote:

Trump's dangerous 'vermin' speech would have been at home in Nazi Germany

The former president used ugly Nazi-like language to foul Veterans' Day and dishonor a long line of Americans who fought and died for their nation. It should not be bushed off as Trump being Trump. #press

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-13/trump-vermin-speech?utm_source=press.coop

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

`@staticmethod` is (almost?) always wrong in #Python. It doesn't take the object's state as an argument, which means it's just a plain function. The class name is only used for namespacing, but modules already do this.

The only reason that I know of why people keep writing them is being taught Java's version of OOP too early too deeply. Java uses classes as a namespacing primitive.

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

font-size: 3000%;
[hacker voice]: i'm in

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

taniel@journa.host ("Daniel Nichanian") wrote:

TODAY: It was confirmed that Dauphin County, PA, home to Harrisburg, flipped to Democratic control in last week's elections. For the first time in 100+ years.
GOP incumbent conceded.

One reason this matters? Ballot access. County officials in PA have a lot of discretion on this. I talked to the Dem who won last week about how he plans to expand ballot access: He wants more ballot drop boxes. And he wants to allow ballot curing. https://boltsmag.org/democrats-pennsylvania-election-2023/

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

I did back-of-the-napkin numbers last year; Apple really has starved Mozilla, nearly to death:

https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/

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

A lot of web developers have given Apple the benefit of the doubt over the past decade, assuming that Safari was terrible because of some internal necessity created by Apple's culture.

Turns out they were drowning in cash while investing a decreasing fraction of web revenue back into the platform...all while they strangled Mozilla and mobile browser competition:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-accidentally-blurts-out-that-apple-gets-36-cut-of-safari-deal/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have received a report that Vivian Silver’s remains have been identified. I had held on to hope that this life-long activist, a supporter with her deeds of peace & reconciliation, might have survived the Hamas attack. my wife went to grade school with her & is crushed. 💧

even the peacemakers suffer & die when fanatics control both sides of a conflict.

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

Watching Dr No. First impressions:
• Bond is a chickenshit coward, afraid of spiders.
• Ursula Andress is a terrible actress. What did they see in her?
• Andress killed someone with a spider. Improbable.
The movie just hates spiders.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Less than 15 minutes, DHL.

Just kidding, I already know you fucked this up again. I just wish your tracking system wouldn't suck as much as you do.

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Cats are hobbits??

- little people
- furry toes
- can walk without making noise
- believe in second breakfast

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

jk ("josef") wrote:

when the Computer was created, heroes vowed to end its malevolent reign. the only thing powerful enough to destroy the Computer? a type of advanced weapon called Software. the battle has been ongoing for decades, with the Computer fending off all manner of assaults, and growing exponentially more powerful. but soon, the end is in sight. our heroes have the upper hand. we have mighty stacks of Software, tall as castles. soon the Computer will slow to a crawl, and its evil will be stopped forever

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

PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Re-reading Orwell's 1984 I discovered that among all the other more well known observations, he saw AI art coming and identified it (correctly imo) as a tool of authoritarian power.

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• Passage from Orwell's 1984: "Julia was twenty-six years old. She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ('Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!' she said parenthetically), and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor. She was 'not clever', but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with machinery. She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touch-ing-up by the Rewrite Squad. But she was not interested in the finished product. She 'didn't much care for reading,' she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces." (remote)
• Passage from Orwell's 1984: "The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Depart-ment. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen." (remote)