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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sitting here, drinking coffee and petting a cat who is stretched across my lap, watching the sun slowly rise…
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mthehorrible@fosstodon.org ("mthehorrible :kdelight:") wrote:
Sim City guy warned us 30 years ago
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Encountered the most insane bit of micro-targeted advertising on the internet I've ever experienced today: a deodorant ad with a tight close-up of the unshaven armpit of one of the judges from Chopped
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
My 11-year-old daughter thought it was hilarious that someone had bothered to make a reaction video to my talk, and she insisted on watching it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBkpPtN-Ek
She (correctly!) observed that the rebuttal was missing my argument ("he's not doing a very good job listening!"). But more interesting was that she really took issue with his obsession with IQ ("he doesn't understand that people are smart in different ways"). Finally, she turned it off: "He's boring."
The kids are alright.
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dredmorbius@toot.cat ("Doc Edward Morbius ⭕") wrote:
@isagalaev Irony here is that there was a time when rail was the corporate bogeyman and monopolistic bully blocking innovation and alternatives (including both road and air).
And before that: canals.
Capitalist power seeks to entrench itself.
Oh, and the whole canard about capitalism being a wealth generating engine is ... highly misleading. Capitalism generates profits, that is privatised gains and socialised or externalised costs. Wealth in its true form is common weal and accrues to all.
That bit of solipsistic misdirection and equivocation bothers me increasingly over time, and I've got to call bullshit on it.
Capitalism is far less a wealth generating machine than a profit concentrating one. Which is to say, an engine of inequality.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Today in the "Ivan answers questions in headers without reading the article" category:
Why America Still Doesn’t Have Fast Trains — https://time.com/6340931/america-high-speed-rail-history/
Because auto and oil lobby pay Congress to continue not funding it.
Next!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jeffcarlson@twit.social ("Jeff Carlson") wrote:
Why are TVs so inexpensive these days? Because the TV companies make billions by recording what you watch and sell that data to advertisers. “These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour”. This article tells you how to turn it off:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching
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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :welp:") wrote:
Always watching...
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A reminder that @phae 's "Anti JavaScript JavaScript Club" t-shirts are now on sale as a fundraiser for our friends at @owa. Two worthy web causes for the price of one!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
my favorite recent JS8 contact? Still Bay South Africa on 20m band (14.078MHz) 8203.4 mi (13202.0 km) on 15 watts #AmateurRadio
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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:
You enter a bright, dark grey room. There is a SAFE near the door. You see a RADIO here, near the window. There is a FERENGI MULLAH here, whistling.
Exits: DOWN SOUTH NORTHEAST
#bot
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
setting up for usual weekly voice net on 50.250MHz USB
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Working the Performance Inequality Gap series update from a flight and boy howdy, none of the rosy networking predictions the JS-first crowd pinned their hopes on have panned out *even for the wealthiest users*.
It's been a decade-deep branch mispredict on the client environment being post-resource-scarcity. Things didn't get uniformly faster, they got more variable.
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- [from 40k ft at 580mph groundspeed, a super-modern Intelsat connection somewhere over Alberta, Canada has impressive downlink max (>35Mbps post-Nagle) but RTT's north of 1 second and upload channel capacity measured in the Kbps.
Rich users are marginal users too.][3] ([remote][4])
Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Last night George Cozma from @chipsandcheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review joined me, @bcantrill, and the Oxide Friends to discuss AMD’s recent MI300 announcement and the implications to accelerated to compute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM35uzl4Dkg
hot takes:
ROCm — “I can’t believe it’s not CUDA!”
ML — “bigger than the spreadsheet!”Also: the worst LinkedIn recommendations ever given.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
it is? 🤪
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
One of the more prominent AI doomerists made a reaction video for my Monktoberfest talk "Intelligence is Not Enough" -- and it is both revealing and disconcerting as to the depth of the doomerist conviction.
Mastodon FeedYes! I finally discovered the real use for image generation (Dall-E in this case) – imaginary Lego sets I would love to have.
I started with just a generic future city, then went steam punk, jumped to No Man Sky and finished with Commander Keen-inspired one 😁
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- Imaginary Lego set generated by Dall-E called Future Metropolis showing a futuristic city with neon-lit skyscrapers, skytrain and flying vechicles.
- Steam punk inspired imaginary Lego set featuring a mansion, flying ship and a number of top hats.
- Imaginary Lego set inspired by the computer game No Man Sky
- Imaginary Lego Set inspired by my childhood favorite computer game Commander Keep. Dall-E titled it "Cosmimc Adventurer"
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Time for @hatfilms music making stream on the @yogscast #JingleJam.
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pomological@botsin.space ("fruit toots") wrote:
surprise apples, painted by james marion shull, 1937
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Some Caligula's Horse for #ProgTuesday.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ban conversion therapy, the same way you would ban thumbscrews and the rack.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/12/some-good-news-from-washington-state/
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Really, if you just never make a design with a background image that people might need to see or read or have positioned a specific way, and instead treat all background images as purely decorative elements that might be cropped or overlapped in completely unexpected ways, you'll be way ahead of the curve.
If it's that important, don't put it behind/cropped together with something else.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For many years while I was at Google, I said to anyone who would listen that the most leveraged opportunities to do good for the web were to fix GTM bloat and YT embed JS. Instead they did AMP and continued to regress on analytics because it got some mid-level PM promo to cram their mostly-unused things into heavily-used things.
Incentives matter, y'all:
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If there is one thing I wish I could permanently embed in the brain of every designer in the world, it is this:
You cannot put content over the top of a background image and expect the two to just fit together without conflict in every context and at every screen size.
That is an unrealistic fantasy that your two to three specific Figma breakpoints are enabling you to indulge.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:
📮 One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB
Mastodon Feed*takes adhd meds in the morning*
*looks at bottle*
. . .
*brain starts singing to the melody of "feliz navidad"*🎶 Methylphenidat~ Methylphenidat~ 🎶
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
It's kinda funny how shamelessly Outer Worlds is trying to be Fallout but in a moderately different setting. Tim Cain worked on it, but apparently as only a consultant. It doesn't matter though, because it's imitating something that already had his fingerprints all over it.
The first big quest is even something really close to the water chip quest from the original Fallout.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A whole lotta people are about to realise that alternative app stores full of native apps are terrible, actually, and what they actually want is PWAs.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
IDK, man...I'm not sure if be out here leading with "you know how Chromium moved to 6-week releases in 2010? Well, we finally did it too!" when leading engines moved to 4-week trains in 2021.
But it does get fixes to users 4x faster than the old cadence, so I guess this whole "threat of competition thing" really works.
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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:
The app stores are cracking open, walls between social media platforms are coming down as the old networks fail, the headlong rush to AI is making all the search engines worse, and the open web is more powerful than ever — we are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 20 years. Most users have never seen this kind of change.