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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The aliens have landed, and are trying to sell us crap through AliBaba!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/23/i-have-proof-that-the-aliens-are-here/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Kind of a surprising to my brain to see St. Vincent and The Roots cover Portishead, but wow:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
To all you turkeys: we've declared our house a sanctuary!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/23/not-in-my-home/
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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." -- Martin Golding
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every time I think "hrm, maybe I shouldn't use Workbox and should instead roll my own", I find another useful bit of the Workbox ecosystem that changes my mind.
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davidallan@mastodonapp.uk ("David Allan") wrote:
Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan in the Western Scottish Highlands and another example of being in the right place at the right time to catch a burst of autumnal sunshine, highlighting the colours of the season. Sometimes, luck is on your side!
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Because it continues to save my bacon on regular basis, shoutout to @koush's awesome Vysor PWA: https://app.vysor.io/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.
(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Because I dug them up for colleagues today, enjoy these indispensable web performance posts (and associated video) by @TheRealNooshu :
https://nooshu.com/blog/2020/12/31/how-to-run-a-webpagetest-test/
https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/10/02/how-to-read-a-wpt-waterfall-chart/
https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/12/30/how-to-read-a-wpt-connection-view-chart/
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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner :vm:") wrote:
I didn’t know I needed to watch a dog and a tortoise play as friends, but here we are.
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- Multiple scenes of a small dog and a larger tortoise interacting with text that reads ‘why their friendship is so special.’ 1: dog carrying toy and bouncing around tortoise with text that reads ‘they’re always happy to see each other.’ 2: dog sharing toy with tortoise with text that reads ‘Skippy brings Tilly his favorite toys.’ 3: tortoise walking up to ledge where dog is standing with text that reads ‘Tilly always looks for Skippy and waits for Skippy and even climbs stairs to reach him’ with tortoise walking up shallow steps to get to dog. 4: dog and tortoise eating watermelon then lying in backs near each other with text that reads ‘they eat together and nap together.’ 5: older clip of puppy bouncing around tortoise with text that reads ‘they’ve been drawn together since the moment they met and love each other despite their differences.’ (remote)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I guess Michael Voris won't be representing the Church Militant anymore.
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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (festive)") wrote:
Have you heard this 1941 synth rendition of Parade of the Wooden Soldier?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Writing unit tests to capture the undocumented behavior of the parser when it's "working" to hopefully ensure I only fix the bug and not otherwise change the behavior.
(Ideally I would change the parsing behavior since it's kind of weird, but it's safer to preserve existing behavior while eliminating bugs.)
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hamatti@mastodon.world ("Juhis") wrote:
A company lays off thousands of people, nobody bats an eye.
A company fires one CEO and everyone loses their mind.
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
I wonder if they have already, but the JS ecosystem is so focused on performance that they're pulling that under the rug for now.
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
I wonder how far away JS engines like V8 are from reaching diminishing returns in performance optimization.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Having a nice cup of tea out of this totally ordinary mug ☺️ See you this Friday!
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dmoren@zeppelin.flights ("Dan Moren") wrote:
“You there, boy, who’s the CEO of OpenAI?”
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Berkeley Softworks GEOS for the #Commodore64 (and other 8-bits) had a WYSIWYG word processor called geoWrite that could have images (from geoPaint) pasted in.
The official assembler took geoWrite files as input. You wrote assembly in geoWrite, and could bold and italicize stuff.
But when the assembler encountered a pasted-in picture, it automatically turned it into data pseudo instructions and set some assembler vars for the height/width.
You can’t tell me that isn’t rad.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Then again, that means there's hope for change. We just need to throw some monkey wrenches into the machine minds.
(Also, to be clear, there's nothing wrong with small groups of enthusiasts and nerds. They have needs too. 🤓)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Even if you don't directly work for the VCs, Microsoft, Google (i.e. the web), etc., we're all working with the rules they've established. If it can't be deployed their way, it probably won't be.
At least in the large. In the small (like here), I see all kinds of amazing ideas. But for the time being, the biggest impact of these ideas seems to be among small groups of enthusiasts and nerds.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was reading this post agaiin:
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Pointing out how Microsoft has thoroughly captured modern software development, and then I'm thinking how pretty much all software these days is delivered via the web or mobile platform.
It definitely feels like our collective mindsets and imaginations have been captured, declawed, defanged, and stunted by the interests of the machine minds of corporate entities.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Especially when the parsing code is parsing unsanitized inputs.
(In this case, the somebody mentioned above wasn't me, but obviously it could be, so I'm not trying to beat up on anybody.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I hate when I glance at somebody's (convoluted) string parsing code and immediately spot a buffer overrun. *sigh* 😩
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0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:
This is what happens when one project takes over all discussion of an open standard and becomes synonymous with it. If you have a problem with #mastodon, apparently you’re only alternative is #bluesky. There are so many #fediverse projects that most people don’t know about that provide a much better experience. Stop using fediverse as a synonym for mastodon.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Despite an inability to grow a beard (of any color), I was honored to be asked by Ray Lucchesi and Jason Collier to talk about @oxidecomputer on their "Grey Beards on Storage" podcast
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renzelen@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ren Zelen") wrote:
2023 ocean photographer of the year – in pictures
The winners and finalists of this year’s contest celebrate the blue planet but they also draw attention to the many challenges to marine life and ecosystems https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/nov/21/2023-ocean-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
How do you know it's a bad rainbow?
Because it broke out of prism.
And was just a light sentence... should have used the time to ... reflect.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Made this just for fun.
Honest LinkedIn notifications: https://codepen.io/collinsworth/pen/eYxMQbj