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

queerthoughts@tech.lgbt ("Luna") wrote:

My pronouns are they/she, except if you're on Windows, then they're they\she

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)") wrote:

Nothing to be sniffed at.

#ThanksGiving #holidays

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• Thanksgiving Tip: Never eat food offered by an adorable toddler relative. It might look like a cookie, but it's actually the flu. (remote)

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

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Apple is attempting to escape the obligations of the Digital Markets Act for iPad.

In our submission to the EU we outline why that would be a terrible outcome for both consumers and the Web.

It is critical that the Web be allowed to compete fairly and equally on every device.

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• It is critical that iPadOS be designated a gatekeeper. Allowing Apple to ignore all of the DMA obligations for such a significant segment of its ecosystem, will allow Apple great power to not only increase lock-in, reduce interoperability and hobble competition on iPad but also to curtail the effectiveness of the DMA with regards to Apple’s obligations on iPhone. - Open Web Advocacy

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB
📡
#AmateurRadio

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

WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

This makes me laugh each time I see it.

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• A sign in box requesting your email address to sign into the New York Times under a headline reading “Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It."

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

FirefoxPerf@mozilla.social ("Firefox Performance") wrote:

We’ve added markers in Firefox Profiler to indicate LargestContentfulPaint, which is now available in Firefox Nightly. This allows users to see LCP and other metrics directly on the profiles they capture. Here’s an example profile: https://share.firefox.dev/3G2wynn https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/LargestContentfulPaint

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• 46c32c8924aa6434.png (remote)

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

ericphelps ("Eric Phelps") wrote:

Nothing exciting, just pics of the industrial area where I work (USA / California/ Sacramento). Yes, we still have leaves on the trees in late November!

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• A street with two lanes each way along with a center turning lane. The roads are wide not because if they amount of traffic, but to leave room for the big trucks. There are colorful trees lining the road.
• Solar powered car chargers in a government parking lot. I never see cars charging here.
• A giant electrical switching center across the street from my office. The whole thing spreads out maybe 500x1000 feet. It reminds me of the old movie "Forbidden Planet" because it's just so big.

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

"hey Cortana, define 'Streisand Effect'"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/21/james-dyson-tells-libel-trial-daily-mirror-article-was-distressing-personal-attack

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

paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers") wrote:

Fox News host’s '$90 Turkey' claim mocked as prices plunge in 'Thanksgiving miracle'

Jason Chaffetz has always been a bold face idiot and liar.

Kroger has turkeys for 49 cent per pound with a digital coupon and an order of $25.

Even without, turkeys are cheaper this year. Hell, everything seems to be. #USPol

https://www.alternet.org/fox-news-hosts-thanksgiving-miracle/

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• Kroger coupon (remote)

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

Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:

“Why the long face?”

“Lost my job. The whole SETI institute got shut down.”

“Oh, I heard something about that, the new administration decided to stop wasting money trying to find aliens, yeah?”

“Oh no, we found them alright, a long detailed message in the fourteen-twenty megahertz band. Looks like it was beamed right at us from the edge of a small open cluster about eight hundred light years away. We call it the HOLY FUCK signal.“

“What?! Why haven’t I heard about this? What did the aliens say to us?”

“Well, that’s the problem. The message was sent AT us, but it wasn’t FOR us. It was for the previous tenants”

“Previous whatnow?”

“Look, the Earth is forty five hundred million years old. There’s plenty of time for alien visitors to have colonised the planet, flourished for a million years or more, then gone extinct and had every trace of their civilization erased by geological activity”

“And this message is for those dead dudes?”

“Exactly. It appears they mortgaged this planet. The HOLY FUCK signal is a foreclosure notice.”

#tootfic

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

mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

What is clear is that Altman and Microsoft are in the driver seat of AI. Microsoft has the IP and will soon have the team to combine with its cash and infrastructure, while shedding coordination problems inherent in their partnership with OpenAI...

http://windowscopilot.news/2023/11/21/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/

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

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

it’s a real banner day for those of us who take massive amounts of psychic damage after simply reading the word “binance”

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

temptoetiam@octodon.social ("Abie") wrote:

Why native prairies don't have Dust Bowl.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/11/roots.html

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• A long banner hung in a museum showing native prairie grass with root system. The grass is ~1.5m tall, but the roots are easily twice that, and protect the prairie soil from erosion. (remote)

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

Another crypto con is sinking. Good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/21/crypto-is-disintegrating-before-our-eyes/

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• Changpeng Zhao, crooked. (remote)

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

This is how I imagine Americans make hamburgers and nothing will change my mind

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• 4159725c897e9a27.mp4 (remote)

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

graceghughes@zirk.us ("Grace Greggory Hughes") wrote:

When a nesting screech owl finds a Texas blind snake, they swiftly and carefully scoop it up and carry it back to the nest, but not as food for the young owlets—as a “house pet.”

Once installed in the nest, the Texas blind snake eats any insects that venture near, like a cat in charge of pest control.

Baby owlets with a Texas blind snake in the nest fare 50% or higher better than baby owlets without one. 4/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Palantir – the US spy tech company – has its hands on our medical data via the newly granted £480m NHS Federated Data Platform contract.

The #DataGrabBill will ease the way for unprecedented exploitation of our most sensitive data.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #surveillance #NHS #palantir

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/21/patient-privacy-fears-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir-wins-nhs-contract

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

this took me a while to understand, even though I'd been frustrated on both sides of it

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

sometimes anticipating and responding to a polite objection comes across as aggressive because then they have to cite a less polite objection

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

jcutting@vivaldi.net ("John Cutting") wrote:

I'm so happy with this Gameboy Camera shot of my cat

#gameboycamera #photography #fedicats #catsofMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

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• Miracle shot of a cat emerging out of the shadow in pixel glory (remote)

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

scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

Would you look at that! Firefox 120 is out and I’ve got myself a little credit on the release notes. 🥹
Responsive video is now supported in Firefox and Safari. Go ahead and set up those sources with some media queries and save some users some bandwidth! Chrome 120 will be out in another week or so and then support will be across-the-board. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Apple's out here splitting hairs trying to minimise the impact of the digital markets act on iOS: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-eu-dma-submission-apple-ipados/

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

joeyh@hachyderm.io ("see shy jo") wrote:

Attribution of source code has been limited to comments, but a deeper embedding of attribution into code is possible. When an embedded attribution is removed or is incorrect, the code should no longer work. I've developed a way to do this in Haskell that is lightweight to add, but requires more work to remove than seems worthwhile for someone who is training an LLM on my code. And when it's not removed, it invites LLM hallucinations of broken code.

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/attribution_armored_code/

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

A few weeks back there was a news cycle about Apple trying to wriggle out of the EU's DMA by claiming that Safari is ACTUALLY 3 *totally* different browsers (for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS)...which is hilarious? And sad?

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

This might trigger despair because it can seem inevitable that big tech's white-shoe lawyers would once again get away with (proverbial) murder. But anti-competitive predation isn't inevitable, and @owa is on the case!

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-eu-dma-submission-apple-ipados/

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

How is it 2023 and there still isn't a huge warning banner on the styled-components page advising people to avoid this anti-pattern at all costs?

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

Fun evening activity

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• 6e5d66ebfa945971.mp4 (remote)

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

thomaswilburn@toot.cafe ("Thomas Wilburn") wrote:

Don't let the focus on shadow DOM as style/subtree isolation scare you off--it's also a neat tool for building expressive mini-languages in HTML that anyone can use.

https://www.milezero.org/index.php/tech/web/components/chiaroscuro.html

(Maybe the first of a series of posts exploring the parts of the web component API that I think are currently under-explored.)

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

rgegriff@hackers.town ("Chrisshy Keygen") wrote:

System Administration as a branch of Home Economics

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

@owa Previously on "The Real Gatekeepers of Silicon Valley":

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23954376/google-spotify-user-choice-billing-deal-bumble-epic

https://www.theverge.com/23954852/google-netflix-app-store-deal-play-10-percent-revshare

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/19/22632818/google-project-hug-game-developers-play-store-millions-epic-lawsuit-complaint

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203630/apple-amazon-prime-video-ios-app-store-cut-exempt-program-deal

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/05/apple-netflix-punitive-measures-in-app-purchases/

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

Mobile app stores are rotten and anti-competitive, part 8,617:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-android-billing-commission-secret-deal

It's actually worse for competition that Google and Apple are cutting dirty side deals with publishers big enough to shake them down, as it hurts the chances of their competitors.

The anti-choice architecture of app stores is indefensible in a world where safe browsers can deliver the same services; no wonder Apple and Play have worked so hard to prevent that.

/cc @owa