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

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

Alright, it's official! Now that Chrome 120 is out, Responsive Video is not only a web standard (again), but it also works across all major browsers: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge, etc, etc. (um, also again)

In case you missed it, here's how to use it to serve those videos responsibly and save your users some megabytes! Spread the word. https://scottjehl.com/posts/using-responsive-video/

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

I've always been a dork.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/11/embarrassing-photo/

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• 1995 photo of me and my wife (remote)

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

I'm in the PNW this week. The weather is flawless & beautiful.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/11/by-the-way-im-in-the-pacific-northwest-this-week/

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• Drizzle. (remote)

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

Do we have any sense for when (if?) the View Transitions API for cross-page animations will be unflagged as experimental, and just a default part of the browser?

It's nice to have it to play around with now, behind a flag, but it also kinda sucks to know literally nobody but web devs are ever going to see those transitions (because normal users don't go edit their Chrome flags). #webDev #chrome #browsers #css

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

damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

Babylon is a point and click surreal/mystical adventure game developed by Italian software house Colors in 1997. The company was originally founded by Ivan Venturi, after leaving Simulmondo. Babylon was supposed to become a series of adventure games, but the publisher gave up on it after the first episode.

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• A woman dressed in 30s style clothing with Babylon written in front of her
• A woman on a bed with two gargoyles next to her and a point and click interface
• A Myst-like vibes in a hallway with a mirror and a door plus a point and click interface
• A woman in a small square in the center of a room with strange symbols around her

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

Oh, right, I forgot about the aftermath of doing debates, when all the loons rise up to tell everyone they're all wrong, only a "Babylonian deterministic quantitative evolutionary mythological Euclidean mind" would think like that. Fun!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/11/the-rising-of-the-full-loon/

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• Some Babylonian deities? (remote)

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

hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

Sadly, C++ standardization leadership’s engagement with the memory safety topic is going even more embarrassingly badly than in January:

https://pony.social/@thephd/111550692413752045

The very first sentence is: “Memory safety is a very small part of security.” … Despite the result that about 70% of software vulnerabilties are memory-safety issues has been repeated at multiple organizations (Mozilla, Microsoft, parts of Google, IIRC also Apple).

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

I don't know if it's weird to play your own game or to toot about it, but: I've been enjoying playing the daily Quina puzzle for a while now and just hit a new personal record win streak.

(It's https://quina.app, if you want to try it out. It's a free progressive web app, but also on the app stores.)

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• The Quinoa stats screen, showing a streak of 46 straight daily game wins, and almost 500 total games played. (remote)

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

simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

“25% of the users in South Africa have worse CPU speed than a Moto G5”

edit: Moto G5 was released in March 2017 and has an octa-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU.

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2023/wikipedias-worldwide-web-cpu-benchmark/

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Finally upgraded the HD with my windows install and now it's time play some stuff that I didn't previously have space for

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Just noticed that studio gallery in SF listed another of my mini paintings for sale...

https://www.studiogallerysf.com/tiny-23-images-4/theft-of-a-moment

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I'm not wild about the new mobile discord app update either. You can swipe left on a message to reply to it, but it's sensitive enough that it sometimes triggers when I'm just trying to scroll vertically

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

kellan@fiasco.social wrote:

Where is the content talking about contemporary software development issues? Like "How to migrate away from GraphQL?", "Maintaining software that was written by a team twice this size", "HTML and CSS for React Engineers", etc?

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I am so bitter about what the one-two punch of fads for NFTs and then "AI" image generation has done to the reputation (and even my enjoyment!) of generative art

It really feels like I just can't have shit this decade

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

djnavarro@hachyderm.io ("Danielle Navarro") wrote:

One of the many little frustrations I have, as a generative artist who writes all her own code and whose art doesn’t implicitly rely on large databases of training data lifted without permission from other artists, is that in the wider world outside a narrow tech community, people don’t draw any distinction between my artistic process and “feeding keywords into DALL-E”. I’m seriously considering abandoning the term “generative art” entirely.

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

Goose jams out an absolutely killer version of Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors" on this show from Friday. did not see that one coming https://goosetheband.bandcamp.com/album/2023-12-08-goosemas-x-hampton-coliseum-hampton-va

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

donmoyn@sciences.social ("Don Moynihan") wrote:

New, from me: three tales about the weirdo hypocrites behind the book bans.
Case 1: a woman said that the image of a kiss in a kids book triggered a porn addiction and called for the publisher to be banned. Did not mention she works for a rival publisher.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-weirdo-hypocrites-behind-the

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

From a long-forgotten, fleetingly restored tab, this post about Binance's "Bond Villain Compliance Strategy" is very, very good:

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/bond-villain-compliance-strategy/

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

I hate airlines.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/10/im-at-the-airport-sorry-to-say/

Attachments:

• Humphrey terminal, MSP (remote)

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

carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Infowars is back on X. From the article:

“Last year, Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child and tweeted, “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.””

This year I guess he has bills to pay and page views to generate so no mercy is officially rescinded.

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-x-account-elon-musk-90cfc990631dec5e8f337167fbe16372

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The New Stack wrote a piece on my recent Monktoberfest talk, "Intelligence is Not Enough":

https://thenewstack.io/bryan-cantrill-on-ai-doomerism-intelligence-is-not-enough/

When @sogrady and I talked about me giving this talk over the summer, I definitely wondered if AI (AGI/ASI) doomerism would be a passing fad, and if my talk would be left alone attacking a strawman. As it turns out -- and to my surprise and dismay -- the opposite occurred; here is hoping that the talk can serve as a rebuttal for those who sow fear of an AI existential threat!

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

brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

@coldclimate my personal regret demon is "download our app" which inevitably a shit SPA in webview

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

brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

sometimes see otherwise smart devs claim we do not need browser engine choice.

it's understandable as most developers do not remember IE stagnation, which now in hindsight was a great boon teaching the importance of stability, but also enabled Firefox to catch up, exceed IE in courting devs, and open the gates for further diversity.

diversity is good! we want options.

a singular engine, even auto upgrading, would absolutely jeopardize the open web.

#webdev

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

rose@ruby.social wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good mastodon server for a non-profit? I’m giving advice to a non-profit that uses technology to deliver continuing medical education to developing nations with unreliable internet. I have no idea what would be the best server for them to join. Thank you!

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

"The policy is the latest manifestation of the anti-immigration culture wars that are the death throes of this gasping dry wank of a government, malignantly salting the earth for its cursed successors."

What a beautiful sentence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/10/james-cleverly-anti-immigration-policy-foreign-wife-tories-stewart-lee

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

seems like reasonable advice

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• 9f47531f1f099289.mp4 (remote)

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

It was the Pizza Hut of times, it was the Taco Bell of times.

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

Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

It really is flat-out crazy seeing right wing extremists who've created a whole new level of hatred of Jews over recent years--knowingly inciting mass murder and multitudinous hate crimes against Jews--suddenly pretending none of that has happened & attacking people for not "properly" defending Israel's government as it is clearly pursuing a campaign of mass war crimes against civilians, killing tens of thousands of women & children while claiming it is their right to do so. Crazy pills.

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

this short thread points out the two-faced insanity of far-right politicos both here and in Israel, and asks a reasonable question: how can killing Palestinian children possibly help eradicate terrorist ideology & attacks on Israel?

the answer of course is that it has the exact opposite effect: right-wing policies are creating the next generation of radicalized "fighters".

https://mas.to/@Nonya_Bidniss/111557093423036373

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

"For more than a decade, election officials have relied on a system to reduce fraud and boost voter registration. Trump's cronies are sabotaging it, state by state — and trying to replace it with something more MAGA"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-election-plans-corrupt-voter-registration-eric-eagleai-1234920083/