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Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
andrwcnln@mastodon.scot ("andrew! :Limmy_WakingUp:") wrote:
Just posted Weeklinks 003 on my blog:
This week features:
- A wonderful talk from @bcantrill
- Some great recent posts from @pluralistic
- And the greatest blog post I've ever read (sorry Cory!)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
The British Government has made a tourism ad ahead of the 2024 election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRoYvFTE3c
Mastodon FeedWe're doing ad-blocking wrong.
Instead of blocking ads, we need to ensure they register being shown as often as possible.
Drain these ad budgets with useless traffic 😈
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from SMBC Comics
https://mcusercontent.com/c196cb2377d2d5462fdfa5dbf/images/90516ac3-ad07-d00d-21b2-a59af63e843c.png
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
eaton@phire.place ("Eaton") wrote:
The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wow, GTA is leaking into real life
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
IFTF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("IFTechFoundation") wrote:
Announcing NarraScope 2024! https://narrascope.org
June 21-23
The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester, NYNow accepting talk proposals: https://narrascope.org/pages/call.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bhawthorne@infosec.exchange ("Brian Hawthorne") wrote:
@1dalm @GottaLaff The 3-judge panel of the court of appeals for the 11th federal district ruled 3-0 that the law Meadows was using to get his trial moved from state court to federal court only applies to current federal officers, not former officers.
And even if it did, what Meadows did wasn’t part of his official duties so the law would not apply anyway.The result is that Meadows’s trial will remain in Georgia State Court.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:
#CoSocialCa there's a spam DM problem right now on the fediverse. If you get spammy DMs, please report them and Trust and Safety will block them for everybody. It's probably too early to block the originating servers (which are pretty big), but we might have to do that if the volume gets too high.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:
“The signal is repeating! We’ve got the whole thing.”
“How many bits?”
“Almost 500k. 454,957 bits”
“I got a hunch, factorize that number”
“Bingo, seven fifty seven times six oh one. Think it could be a rectangular bitmap?”.
“It’s what we used to do back before those assholes let Arecibo fall down. Try bm2png.pl in my bin dir.”
“That worked. Holy shit I know that image. It’s the Pioneer plaque. That diagram from Pioneer 11 of human figures, and a map to Earth.”
“What, thats impossible, it’s only been, what, 70 odd years. That probe would still be in our own Kuiper Belt.”
“Outside it, actually, it’d be about one sixty AU out. They lost contact in the mid 90s. Still basically in our backyard but.”
“It’s too soon! If someone’s found it now, that would mean. Shit. They’re. Already. Here. Inside the Solar system.”
“And all they’ve got to say, is ‘Hi, we liked ur meme’.?”
“Maybe not, can you bring up an image of the original plaque? Are the images identical?”
“I’ll do a layer subtraction. Hey, there /is/ a difference. In the map of the planets. They’ve omitted Pluto from their copy.”
“Fucking hell. Little green reply guys.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:
Pair of shoes I painted for myself
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The Beeper/iMessage thing is breaking into US legislative consciousness because it's a visible effect of anti-competitive behaviour. Mobile browser makers should also make Apple's nonsense visible by changing the names of their apps -- e.g. "Firefox Lite", "Chrome Lite", etc. -- to signify that Apple prevents them from bringing the real thing to iOS.
There's been a lot of cowardice in these teams, but I hope that examples like this can instill a bit of backbone:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006037/apple-beeper-doj-investigation-imessage-letter-android
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
VSCode the moment I install rust-analyzer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
gka@vis.social ("Gregor Aisch") wrote:
It's getting late, but I just finished a new monster blog post on some ways we can shoot ourselves in the foot when analyzing spatiotemporal datasets. Curious to hear what you think 🙏 !
https://www.vis4.net/blog/2023/12/spatiotemporal-data-analysis-pitfalls/ #ddj #datajournalism #gis
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Maybe the UK bringing the DMU law forward, plus a spate of failed amendments from Apple allies there, gave them a sense for how much they've already pissed off the *conservative* govt?
Or maybe this was too high-profile and it risked @verge et. al. finally covering their anti-web shenanigans?
Or maybe it was just too close to the Epic ruling?
It's a risk that the (true) narrative could take hold that App Store predation has been defended by keeping Mozilla and other browsers down.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:
This is the lowest price I’ve seen on SAF’s Aranet4 CO2 monitor (for measuring indoor air quality for Covid safety): $149 — that’s 40% off the regular price. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07YY7BH2W/ref=nosim/0sil8
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
StrangelySamara@todon.eu wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Recall that Apple tried to argue -- in filings that they *knew* would become public -- that Safari was faster than other browsers *because Apple's hardware was faster[1]*.
Presumably some over-paid, over-worked white-shoe associate proffered that argument (not in-house counsel), but at no point has Apple displayed even the mildest concern for its reputation when it could win delay and deflect attention from how hurts the web's competitiveness.
[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62277271d3bf7f158779fe39/Apple_11.3.22.pdf
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
valkyrie@wandering.shop wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Didn't see this coming: Apple decided *not* to appeal to the UK's Supreme Court[1] after having its proverbial ass handed to it over trying to block ongoing investigations into browsers by the CMA [2].
It's the first time Apple have been anything short of belligerent on even the narrowest of arguments. Recall that they fought the UK to a standstill for 6+ months on the meaning of the word "shall".
[1]: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming
[2]: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2023/1445
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:
Breaking news: I have also decided not to buy Figma for $20B today
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
We found a flaw in the SSH specification which allows a MitM attacker to drop certain messages from the secured connection. If you are using SSH, check this out: https://terrapin-attack.com 🐢
Joined work with Fabian Bäumer and Jörg Schwenk at Ruhr University Bochum, HGI, funded by CASA Excellence Cluster / DFG.
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Why does Rust use pipe characters to enclose the parameters of anonymous functions/closures?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mom is feeling better, so I can go back home today in good conscience.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/18/travel-day-yuck/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If I had been paying for Adobe Creative Cloud every month since graduating, I would have now spent over $5,000 on it.
And if I cancelled, I'd have nothing to show for it; no access to my work, no right or ability to open the programs any longer.
Instead, I bought the Affinity creative suite, for which I have spent under $400 total (I've bought it more than once), and which I own to use for as long as they'll run.
I don't always make good choices, but this one turned out rather nicely.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is such a huge change for #AmateurRadio operations.... best New Year present ever:
"to eliminate the baud rate limitation and establish a bandwidth limitation in certain amateur bands."
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-amends-amateur-radio-rules-greater-flexibility
📡
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Congress never lifted the ban on speaking fees or gave the justices a major raise. But in the years that followed, as ProPublica has reported, Thomas accepted a stream of gifts from friends and acquaintances that appears to be unparalleled in the modern history of the Supreme Court. Some defrayed living expenses large and small — private school tuition, vehicle batteries, tires. Other gifts from a coterie of ultrarich men supplemented his lifestyle, such as free international vacations on the private jet and superyacht of Dallas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow.
Precisely what led so many people to offer Thomas money and other gifts remains an open question."
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"
Question: "What was it called?"
Dennis Ritchie: "Well, the second letter was different"
Mastodon FeedThe multi-part support in #OpenSCAD is shockingly non-existent.
