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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
once again, many automated "HeartBeat" responses & few humanoid responses to CQ calls up & down the bands using #JS8 this morning. I think there may a phenom similar to "mic shyness" at work here #AmateurRadio 📡
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"Distraction-free reading"
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thisisjofrank ("Jo Franchetti") wrote:
So, the redundancy train finally came for me. Let me know if you know of any interesting DevRel or DevEx roles out there. 💖
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
The 1980s was a different era
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eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:
was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after *checks watch* 9 years
A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Psst: I feel this way too (about trying to write political satire about the post-Brexit UK):
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carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:
But gosh, Epistemology of the Closet is still fresh. The segregation of "gay studies" out of and away from canonical cultural study is, sadly, still the stage we're in. I cannot stress enough how weird it is that it's 2023 and most of the LGBTQ+ faculty I know (if I know them at all) are closeted at work, at least to students. Many others have simply left the profession. And for primary and secondary teachers? I had like 10 out gay teachers before college; none of my students have had even one.
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PropCazhPM ("Citizen.Coping") wrote:
Wow!
Joan Donovan, a disinformation researcher at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, has accused Harvard of shutting down the project that she led in order to protect its relationship with mega-donor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
#misinformation #disinformation #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/tech/facebook-disinformation-whistleblower/index.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Donald Trump's co-defendant in the Georgia election fraud case may have violated her bond by threatening a witness in the case.
Trevian Kutti, a former publicist of Kayne West, said on a video post that she will "f**k up" the life of a witness when the case is over.
Kutti made her comments on an Instagram Live video, answering questions from members of the public. The video was recorded on Tuesday, November 28"
may have?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
👀 Via Anthony Michael Kreis:
Good morning from #Fulton County: I suspect we’ll see a motion to revoke Trevian Kutti’s consent bond for witness intimidation of #RubyFreeman within the next two hours and would not be shocked if she’s indicted again for an additional racketeering act by the Grand Jury #legal #TrumpIndictment #Georgia
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
most of my"followers" on Bluesky seem to be bots, and the UX still feels like an abandoned & unfinished class project. I am not surprised that the "interesting activity" level there is so subjectively low.
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tokyo_0@mas.to ("Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)") wrote:
Got this stuck in my head now. Thanks, @jsonstein 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Happy Anniversary, Chicago
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Whoa, a medical device that can kill you if you don't type your numbers the way it wants? Scary.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/04/uis-matter/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
If you use an Insulet Omnipod 5 to manage your insulin dose, there is a _terrible_ bug in the Android client where in some conditions it drops the decimal point in a calculation, which can result in dose 100x what's intended.
https://vxtwitter.com/morganherlocker/status/1730455721815527429
Press release: https://www.omnipod.com/fsn-11-2023
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The end of the semester hits with a week-long splat.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/04/last-week-of-the-semester/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What I'm going to think of every time someone invokes "DX":
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Looking forward to watching the @hatfilms live music making stream on the @yogscast #JingleJam later today (5pm GMT). They’re very talented!
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Apple loses appeals court case vs 🇬🇧
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)Law Platform Blog's analysis:
"This opens the door to the CMA reopening the MIR which could lead to significant remedies being imposed against Apple."
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cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:
Wayland (formerly X)
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annaecook@mstdn.social ("Anna E. Cook") wrote:
Be sure to check your kid's candy this year! Just found an accessibility overlay in my kid's candy! ⚠️
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Anyway, just a reminder to hire people to solve problems with HTML and CSS, not too make them with JS.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
These folks can't be serious thought leaders because they aren't in touch with reality outside the privilege bubble.
It's fine to ignore them. They haven't been right for a decade, and I think that's long enough.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
None of this is new, and none of the bad effects have abated at scale enough to relax. New projects are still being started on react and angular. The JS emitters have no shame because they largely don't think they did anything wrong.
Something something "interactivity" (for rich users) something something.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But world-historically rich programmers didn't want to hear about it, and browsers let them get away with UX murder.
Frontend's Lost Decade is now a threat to the value of the web to businesses and users. A collective failure of uncapped JS emissions that has destroyed vale at shocking scale:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Ever since, the frontend community has poured its investment and attention into minor permutations of the same 2008-browser-centric frameworks and approaches.
It isn't working. We lost an entire decade on one great branch mispredict. The trends that used to deliver for "everyone" only continued for the rich.
For everyone else, Moore's Law meant first-time access through hand-me-down CPUs and networks as prices fell.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There have, of course, been good reasons to lean on userland abstraction – Safari sandbagged platform advancement this whole time, much the way IE6 used to – but repeated warnings didn't cause a change in behaviour.
The pushback to this sitrep in 2016 was *furious*:
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The Higurashi cast love to call Keiichi "the magician of words" but all his spells are either pedophile ravings about his classmates or long asides about videogames that did not exist at the time the VNs are set
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reigns, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted useland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".
This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.
They could not have been more wrong.
JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.
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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm reminded that polls are not accurate any more, but this is wild stuff even with large error bars:
