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Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

mikebutcher ("Mike Butcher") wrote:

Microsoft cuts off Compute to OpenAI in 3, 2, 1…

“Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders”

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/openai-co-founders-sam-altman-and-greg-brockman-to-join-microsoft/

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

dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The NY Times frequently urges me to download its spyware app, and I always decline, but "no" isn't one of the options. The closest thing to that is "Not Right Now". Which means they won't stop asking no matter how I feel about it.

You expect that from, say, Google. But it's crappy behavior by the top news organization in the U.S.

Attachments:

• NY Times popup urging me to read article in its app, with only option being "Not Right Now" -- there should be an option that says No.

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

I get that there's a full-on CSSWG omerta, in which everything is "super complicated" and "we need implementation experience", but JFC. Transpilers are an indictment, and your job as the language committee is to *put them out of business*.

Not groking this has an ignoble history, but it doesn't improve with repetition.

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

projectgus@aus.social ("Gus") wrote:

Sincere video from Justine Haupt about the challenges of productising her rotary cellphone project. A good, honest, overview of the challenges of manufacturing at small scale.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zX7TdufZlTA

#electronics

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

This is great; we tried to get hierarchical CSS (and variables, and mixins) done in 2011, in the same era as we took our first crack at Promises and async/await and classes and arrow functions.

You can quibble a lot over how fast is "too fast" for things to move through standards bodies, but you can't look at CSS's evolutionary rate -- gated by full consensus, in which Apple has a veto -- and think "oh, yes, this is going to plan":

https://buttondown.email/cascade/archive/007-css-is-not-a-natural-disaster/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I originally watched TAS semi-ironically but it is truly one of my all-time faves

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

I think we should use base 12/dozenal/duodecimal for ages because honestly most people are still teenagers until they're 25 anyway. Also, I think you should actually be 36 when you start your 30s and 48 when you start your 40s.

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

Very much the "every 90's kid comes of age 3 times..." tweet, but for IPC contention.

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

There's a specific moment in a software engineer's life where they learn that you can't spin up as many worker threads as there are cores and hope to have a good time, and I think we need a name for it.

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

AirmindedAI@sigmoid.social ("Airminded AI") wrote:

“there can be no ethical consumption under capitalism, 1980s scifi art --style e5WlhK8biJD7SYOC” #midjourney #AIArt

Attachments:

• A person in a mustard jumpsuit and a visored helmet sits at a control panel with a view panel looking out over a large empty area in a city (remote)
• A pensive young woman in a green jumper sits at a data terminal with a view over skyscrapers (remote)
• A tired female worker overlooking computer-automated production processes (remote)
• A male worker at a computer terminal in a large chemical factory. There are trip hazards on the floor (remote)

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

An ad blocker, only it blocks cashiers asking you to give up your contact info or sign up for things.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

i built a little webapp that saves state as an unruly URI fragment hash but it looks like some clients (like Signal and Apple Messages) don't want to recognize the whole things as a complete URL. is there anything I can do about that?

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

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

Logging off like...

Attachments:

• Short clip of Spock smashing the everlovin' crap out of a computer terminal with his bare fist. (remote)

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

schizanon@mas.to ("🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸") wrote:

> Well the Devil put the coal in the ground, Devil put the coal in the ground, said I double-dog dare you to follow me down, Devil put the coal in the ground.

#steveEarl

https://youtu.be/wLvJW5F9WT4?si=PQ8t6IM4Kd20AgyW

#lyrics #country #music #countryMusic #climateChange #coal #mining #capitalism @countrymusic

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

JavaScript isn't what you're against.

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

The JS-first approach to web development requires a suspension of disbelief; a semi-conscious unlearning of what worked based on data-thin systems about what will surely be possible after you make the leap.

Now, a decade on, we don't need to. Just count the lethargic tombstone UIs and writhing, pained teams, helpless to crawl back out of the tar pit.

Vercel et. al. are selling diving boards; why are y'all still jumping off?

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

achim@social.saarland ("Achim Domma") wrote:

"Intelligence is not Enough" Great talk by @bcantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

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

(I hang out here and try to curate the people I follow (and the ones I block and mute) so I get the right sort of propaganda.)

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

Logging in every day to ensure I get my daily dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LgLcDg15SM

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

derwinmcgeary@octodon.social ("серафими многоꙮчитїи") wrote:

I guard my true email address like a character in a folk tale avoiding giving the fair folk anything to work with

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

redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

some of y'all need to stop obsessing over devices, and start contemplating devirtues

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Between @MrLovenstein, @warandpeas, @exocomics, @oglaf and @Chrishallbeck, Mastodon is very well covered in terms of webcomics. I only wish False Knees was here, too.

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

amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space ("Andrew") wrote:

like email, emotion is short for e-motion, and that in turn is short for electric motion
the term was introduced in late 19th century when electric motors started to be used to drive the kinematics of the machinery instead of piston engines

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

tef wrote:

i think the best fact i know is “make gear ratios coprime so they evenly wear”

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

Guess how many spiders my wife and I paired up this morning?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/19/bless-your-beautiful-hide/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7OJs10y5t0

Attachments:

• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

r000t@fosstodon.org wrote:

The Associated Press just served me an ad for fake anti-virus. The entire page was taken over, and forwarded to the malicious site, within seconds of opening the news article, every time.

An ad blocker isn't just something to hide some annoying eyesores, it's a vital layer of security.

If you have friends or family who might fall for fake AV or "windows technical the department" scams, they *need* an ad blocker. No site they visit can be considered "safe" unless it simply doesn't have ads.

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• 21f3cfbaabbdacaf.mp4 (remote)

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

Does anybody else read the email titles in their promotions folder and think "wow...an actual human at a large corporation said ok to that"?

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

calcifer@hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

Are you colder than the surrounding high-humidity air? You may be entitled to condensation

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

francc@mastodon.online ("Fran 🇦🇷") wrote:

If you bought something from Digi-Key in the last 20 years, surely you will recognize what this lamp shade is made from. Yes! That slotted brown paper with a sexy texture that I find too beautiful to toss in the garbage 😁 So here you have the Digi-Key Paper Lamp! You can build one using a light bulb holder with cord, a cable tie, an LED bulb, and some of that awesome Digi-Key packaging 💡♻️📦

#DigiKey #Lamp #Electronics #Recycle #DIY

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• 8e3e6f11d928f8ad.jpeg (remote)
• f952285c44b6a40a.jpeg (remote)

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

anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

@carnage4life can’t believe a bunch of effective altruists didn’t know how to function in the real world