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

nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:

"Resource Loading at the Cutting Edge" by @programmingart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV034VqHv5Q

Entertaining and slightly horrifying talk about how buggy HTTP resource priorities are across browsers, servers, HTTP versions… My takeaway is that I will probably just defer to the experts on this stuff instead of trying to go mucking around in the priorities myself.

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

mvario wrote:

Jeff Bezos Donates $120 Million to Fight Homelessness, Then Invests $500 Million to Make It Worse

https://www.commondreams.org/news/jeff-bezos-homeless

#TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires

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

the relentless waves of email from anybody I'd ever dealt with online felt like a problem I would never solve but lo and behold a tiny bit of effort has improved things

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

feeling pretty bad about a lot of things right now but I do want to report that about a week of diligently unsubscribing from unwanted marketing emails has really made a difference 🫡

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

This year the tree was requested to be stood up in the actual center of the room.

Attachments:

• A tall undecorated fir tree standing in the middle of the furnished room in beige tones, covering up the view of a fireplace behind.

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

The Platform Law Blog is always deeply informed:

https://theplatformlaw.blog/2023/12/01/back-in-the-game-court-of-appeal-sides-with-cma-against-apple-in-mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming-market-investigation/

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

Looking back through almost 10 years of CodePen history, I'm struck by how many of my super old pens from before I knew much at all about JavaScript (and I didn't even consider myself a developer yet) are actually still super cool.

Always keep things you make. Always.

You might one day appreciate anew what creativity was born of those old constraints.

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

look
on the bright side
of liiiiiife…

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• dd5526a69fda186a.mp4 (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#SilentSunday

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• Two empty tables with three chairs each, covered by a green and white checkered table cloth, in a cafe with green walls with many paintings on them, next to a counter with various cakes on it under glass covers and a little pumpkin.

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

Today in History: 1970, Cesar Chavez Jailed For Leading Boycott

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/3

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

Trump pardoned them. Now they’re helping him return to power. - The Washington Post

https://apple.news/AOrHwcsGNSM6mLIuHMWhE6A

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

“The true history of Israel-Hamas relations… is very simple. It is war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout …. Hamas thrives in the wars, because that is all it can deliver and all that it exists for. Israel thrives in the long timeouts — in the cease-fires — when all of its societal, economic and innovative strengths come to the fore. Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah want to drag Israel into a permanent state of war. Israel needs… to advocate instead for longer cease-fires, a more hardened border and the flexibility to return to Gaza if Hamas forces it to.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/israel-gaza-ceasefire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE0.8Tai.E2avLf_1MrPJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

It turns out that the prosperity gospel is pretty much indistinguishable from effective altruism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/03/science-contest-at-the-ark-park/

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• Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind (remote)

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

oh… it is, it is

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• ef235a040fdc06af.mp4 (remote)

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

Do you want to spend 4 hours watching serial plagiarists getting disemboweled? hbomberguy is here for you!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/03/pounding-plagiarism-into-a-thin-vile-slime/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social ("Denis - The COVID info guy -") wrote:

Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit COVID within minutes.

"A susceptible person would inhale an infectious dose within 6 to 37 min in a room with normal ventilation."

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47829-8

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

oh yes, yes yes yes

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2023/12/03

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

shadsy@digipres.club ("Phil Salvador") wrote:

VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 1:

We remastered the 1998 documentary The Making of Riven from the original master tape from Cyan. You've NEVER seen it at this quality before!

https://gamehistory.org/making-of-riven/

Attachments:

• A before and after picture, showing Rand Miller's face at much higher quality. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My wife made a Mastodon bauble!

#Felting #Christmas #Mastodon

Attachments:

• A Mastodon made out of wool wearing a Santa hat.

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

rephlex00@beige.party ("James 🌲") wrote:

How come there are donut holes but not bagel holes? Where do all the holes go? Are people not worried about this??

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

GeePawHill wrote:

Fighting words, I know, but look, here's my elder take:

If you think an LLM is a better partner for you than a junior programmer, you have both identified a very serious problem in your org, and signaled clearly that you're a significant part of that problem.

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

typingmonkey ("Bob Dively") wrote:

Perfect. No notes.

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• A New York Times headline: "The New York Apartment Where Kissinger Spent His First Years in America" A Teen Vogue headline: "Henry Kissinger Was a War Criminal Responsible for Millions of Deaths"

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

lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Goodbye, real electronic lab kits?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/goodbye-real-electronic-lab-kits

(This is an expanded version of my earlier post about the demise of old-school hobby electronics kits. It also showcases some cool Combloc tech.)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Apparently to get a smoother surface when felting you can use plastic wrap, and that’s exactly what’s happening here…

#Blahaj #Felting #Christmas

Attachments:

• A felted shark covered in plastic wrap and secured with an elastic band, lying on a table.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

bevy ("Bevy Engine") wrote:

Bevy Jam #4 has just started!

The theme is ... That's a LOT of entities!

It isn't too late to sign up!
https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-4
#bevyjam

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

“We already know that American pickup trucks’ giant and deadly front end has little to do with function and everything to do with image; otherwise, every truck would look like the Ford on the left, designed to European safety standards, with a lower front end and great visibility.”

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/11/17/how-skeuomorphism-is-making-u-s-roads-more-deadly

#WarOnCars

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here is my shark! First time felting. They will go on the Christmas tree…

#Blahaj #Felting #Christmas

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• 5626664fd57d4304.jpeg

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

24 days of dragons. This year my wife made a D&D-themed advent calendar for our little one who's into all things dragon, and D&D in particular.

#darktable #BoardGames #DnD

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• In the background, there's a colorful, mostly red advent calendar with little boxes denoted by day numbers and the word "dragons" on one side. In the front there are two objects extracted from the calendar so far: an icosahedron shaped box of sweets and a d20 die.

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

It's call imperative code because it's quite easy to impair things with it.

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

The last days of George Santos, U.S. congressman - The Washington Post

“America may disagree on the political villains of our time, but a mostly powerless political villain is a court jester at best.”

https://apple.news/AfpqeT4SeSou9F1K0GCg6xQ