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

Elon Musk should have hired the MyPillow guy to run the birdsite -- he'd have had the one guy who matches his incompetence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/18/sympathy-for-linda-yaccarino/

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• Melting check mark (remote)

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

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 🤡

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• Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 🤡

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The European Commission has had enough of Musk's deadbird site -- at least enough to stop paying him for the privilege of swimming in a toxic waste dump -- and people are talking about that.

Which reminds me:

Please don't beat up on people who leave that toxic place, even if you believe, however righteously, that they should have left long ago.

They're doing the right thing now. Thank them, and encourage others to do the same.

https://www.politico.eu/article/no-more-ads-elon-musk-x-twitter-european-commission-tell-staff/

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

Techmeme@techhub.social wrote:

Sources: Apple is pausing all advertising on X (Ina Fried/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/apple-twitter-x-advertising-elon-musk-antisemitism-ads
http://www.techmeme.com/231117/p17#a231117p17

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

saramg@fosstodon.org ("SaraMG") wrote:

C: I am the best language, C++ is too obsessed with types.

Also C:

void foo(int a, float b) {
printf("%d -> %f\n", a, b);
}

typedef void(*fn)(float, int);

int main(void) {
fn bar = (fb)foo;
bar(3.1415, 42);
return 0;
}
// outputs: 42 -> 3.1415

C++: Who hurt you, man?

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

HEY, LEFTIES. LISTEN UP.

Guy I knew had a phrase, "can't stand prosperity." It refers to people who can't take good news, who have to turn it into bad news.

That's a _lot_ of you. STOP IT.

See link. Is this a complete victory? No. Is it a step? _Yes._

The response of a _lot_ of lefties is "that's not perfect so it's shit, and you're shit for being happy about it." Not those exact words, but close, and it's _exactly_ the attitude.

If that's not what you mean you react that way, then here's the correct response:

"Fuck yeah! Now let's make them do [the next step]."

Because "that's shit and you're wrong for being happy?" THAT'S NOT ANALYSIS, THAT'S SELF-SABOTAGE AND AIDING THE ENEMY.

STOP.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111427593887443105

#uspol #uspolitics

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

cool story, fusion roxs

https://www.hcn.org/articles/food-a-sausage-fusing-chinese-and-mexican-cultures-is-spicing-up-tucson

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

ivanica ("petite moi 🍂") wrote:

…and PJ Harvey at the Tiny Desk❣️
#musicfriday indeed!
#music #nowplaying #tinydesk #pjharvey

https://youtu.be/pSUgrhmtXIw?si=JI65n0EkC8kghn8G

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

brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s a poem called ‘As I Grow Old I Will March Not Shuffle’.

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• As I Grow Old I Will March Not Shuffle   As I grow old I will not shuffle to the beat of self-interest and make that slow retreat t o   t  h  e      r   i   g     h     t.   I will be a septuagenarian insurrectionist marching with the kids. I shall sing ‘La Marseillaise’, whilst brandishing homemade placards that proclaim ‘DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING’.   I will be an octogenarian obstructionist, and build unscalable barricades from bottles of flat lemonade, tartan blankets and chicken wire. I will hurl prejudice upon the brazier’s fire. (remote)
• I will be a nonagenarian nonconformist, armed with a ballpoint pen and a hand that shakes with rage not age at politicians’ latest crimes, in strongly-worded letters to The Times.   I will be a centenarian centurion and allow injustice no admittance. I will stage longstanding sit-ins. My mobility scooter and I will move for no one.   And when I die I will be the scattered ashes that attach themselves to the lashes and blind the eyes of racists and fascists.   Brian Bilston (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

She is comfortable enough to routinely steal my chair now.

#CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon

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• A white and orange short hair cat with a pink nose and long whiskers is lying in a sphinx pose on my mesh office chair. Her name is Peaches.

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nshady@aus.social ("Nick Schaedel 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

NPR left Twitter/X and the results to their traffic were negligible. https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

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

Greg@social.coop wrote:

The visuals aren't as good as the Solaris one, but this NASA and Chill "Uranian Sunset" soundtrack is great: https://plus.nasa.gov/video/space-out-uranian-sunset/

#NASAandChill

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FirefoxDevTools@mozilla.social wrote:

The markup view will make element attributes referencing element ids (aka idref/idrefs) actual links to referenced elements.
This was only accessible in the context menu (via a "Select Element #myId" entry there), or using Ctrl/Cmd + click on the attribute value.

It wasn't very discoverable so we now* show the "select Element button" next to those.
This can be very helpful when using aria labels referencing elements that are far away in the DOM tree.

#a11y

* @FirefoxNightly 2023-11-17

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• [The Firefox DevTools markup view showing the DOM tree. A span element has an aria-details attribute with "bezier bezImg" value. Next to each of those attributes is displayed a button with a crosshair icon.

 Further down the tree, we can see two other element whose id match the aria-details attribute value from the span element, respectively bezier and bezImg.
 
 Two arrows are drawn between the buttons and the element they will select when activated][8] ([remote][9])

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

They even omitted the word "allegedly" on the front page :-)

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

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

somewherewhen in the multiverse you sent some person three dollars in an envelope to pay them for their shareware png decoder on your mp/m-running Z28000 processor-based personal area network mesh to make web browsing more performant.

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

"OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board" — https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired

I did not expect such plain speak from mainstream journalists! Kudos!

Now, onto actually reading the piece.

#OpenAI

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

Geez, every time I want to write it as "everytime". It should be a word already.

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

I don't know about you all, but I think I'm wiped from all the disimproving of software I've done for the week. *phew* 😓

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KevinMarks@xoxo.zone ("Kevin Marks") wrote:

@Techmeme the board says Sam Altman lied to them
He insists it's just a hallucination.

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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

i for one would be happy to be candid in my communications with the openai board

just so incredibly candid

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

You don't have to give Apple the benefit of the doubt in 2023; they're rabidly anti-web and anti-browser-choice. Remember, Apple makes *billions* a year from the web, and re-invests the tiniest fraction of that back into Safari, all while holding back competitors that might deliver real competition with their native app platforms. It's all of a putrid piece:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/apple-files-legal-challenge-eus-digital-markets-act-2023-11-17/

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

I'm choosing to interpret Resident Evil 4 as being about how religious extremism is an infectious brain parasite.

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• c7627bac3d722f36.mp4 (remote)

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

enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠") wrote:

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

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

(No, I don't understand symbolism nor Jung.)

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

Did Sting ever write a Synchronicity III to explain what that something was that crawled to the surface of that dark Scottish loch? If he doesn't, somebody else should.

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

kincaid@mendeddrum.org ("Kincaid") wrote:

@pzmyers as someone from a UK uni, the whole 'murican university sports scene is utterly bonkers. We had various teams, no-one knew how they'd done unless they played or were mates. Or the womens hockey team trashed the bar because they'd won/lost/thursday...

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

Yay? UMM qualified for the division III football semifinals. They play in Wisconsin tomorrow. So today, the campus is empty, and only one person showed up for cell biology. Lecturing to a bunch of empty seats is kind of depressing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/17/little-victories/

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• Might be the wrong kind of football. Don't care. (remote)

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alcinnz@floss.social ("Adrian Cochrane") wrote:

HTML Web Components - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/html-web-components/

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ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social ("ChurchHatesTucker ☑") wrote:

#Ambigram in the wild. (A light to get waiter's attention in Maastricht.)

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• d7b625736464c52f.jpeg (remote)

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sgrif@hachyderm.io ("Sage Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This was the same day I was being told my position was being cut due to lack of budget for it.

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• Rust Foundation board meeting minutes for Oct 10 showing an operating surplus of $228k for the year and discussing moving $1.2m to certificates of deposit (remote)