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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

olivvybee@beehive.gay ("Liv 🐝") wrote:

I don’t need “ai” in my terminal, I’m perfectly capable of typing something that looks plausible but does something completely unexpected myself thanks

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

se vi ne estas usona aŭ kanada: kiom vi scias pri usona futbalo?

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

Having watched the Play team try to knife the web from the inside, the idea that a jury found them to be slimy and gross (or at least culpable for anti-competitive nonsense) is the least surprising tech news of the year:

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

flameeyes ("Diego Elio Pettenò") wrote:

As usual, because someone will ask "Why is that a problem?" and because @foone doesn't do blogs...

https://flameeyes.blog/2020/03/23/the-gpl-is-not-an-eula/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Techmeme@techhub.social wrote:

The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play
http://www.techmeme.com/231211/p24#a231211p24

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

I started up Outer World and every other sentence someone says "Spacer's Choice" so obv I'm like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZDPCjEoIMI

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

Suggesting or greenlighting a new React-based project in 2023 is not a victimless act. It's the fast-track to team pain, P&L trouble, and user marginalisation.

Pay people to solve problems with HTML & CSS, not to make them with JS.

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

Behold! The JS-industrial-complex at work, "scaling" in the sense of *"destroying value and opportunity at scale"*:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=231211_AiDc3H_CA4-r:1-c:0

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=231208_AiDc65_EBV-r:1-c:0

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

Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

So, while we do not love Big Tech choke points and the control that a handful of companies wield over the tech ecosystem, we do everything we can to ensure that in spite of this dynamic, if you use Signal your privacy is preserved. 5/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week, AMD officially launched the MI300. We at @oxidecomputer have been keeping an eye on this one for a while, and @ahl and I are excited to be joined by two analysts who attended the event last week: George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review. Join us as we nerd out on the future of accelerated compute!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1181642457297977454

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here’s our tree!

#Christmas

Attachments:

• A living room with a green Christmas tree with warm white fairy lights, and a multitude of felt wool baubles as well as some crochet and plush ones, topped by a copper star. A red and white cover is underneath it.

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/

Attachments:

• 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/

Attachments:

• 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.

Attachments:

• 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/

Attachments:

• 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).

…

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.)

Attachments:

• 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)