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

Me: [Googles an issue specific to React/Preact]

Google: OH BRO YOU WANNA INSTALL THIS NPM PACKAGE, BRO

Me: No, I don't want to install—

Google: HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? OR THIS ONE? I GOT A WHOLE PAGE FULL BRO TAKE UR PICK

Me: No, actually, this is just a fairly simple question about how to use a very common web API with React, and I—

Google: NPM INSTALL ABSTRACTION-OVER-AN-ABSTRACTION-OVER-ANOTHER-ABSTRACTION

Me: Seriously, can I just get one plain code sample

Google: PACKAGE PAKIDGE PAKKIJJJ

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neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

After learning the neat trick to approximate distances without square root, I wanted to see if I could automate stroke thickness in oekaki for more natural brush-like lines.

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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:

Too many people in political and journalistic circles seem not to understand let alone be trying to reckon with the fact that a very sizeable proportion of the right doesn't hear "strongman" as shorthand for "dictator" or "fascist," but as a literal, laudatory description.

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

sadness

"The towns and agricultural communities that line Israel’s border with Gaza were once bastions of the left. Many villages there were founded as kibbutzim, socialist agricultural communities. Over the years, many residents used their proximity to the Palestinians in Gaza to help deliver aid and run solidarity campaigns.

On Oct. 7, the closeness of those communities to the border made them vulnerable to the attack by Hamas terrorists. Well-known peace activists, including Vivian Silver, a founder of Women Wage Peace, were among those killed. The attack made the survivors rethink policies they had previously championed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/world/middleeast/israel-oct-7-left-wing-peace.html

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ohiorob@mastodon.world ("Ohio Rob 🐶📻") wrote:

Agrarian #Jewish #socialists living in kibbutzim, many of whom for decades lived alongside #Gazans and were among the most active peace activists in #Israel were hit first and hardest on Oct 7th.

And socialists worldwide basically instantly turned their backs and started pouring themselves into the emerging “from the river to the sea” + #Oct7 denial movement.
🎁 link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/world/middleeast/israel-oct-7-left-wing-peace.html?mwgrp=c-mbar&unlocked_article_code=1.HE0.w0q2.9x4B0Db0PMtU&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share

#NYT #GiftLink

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starchy@infosec.exchange wrote:

I'm just glad Jared Kushner solved this whole Israel-Palestine thing, imagine how much worse things would be otherwise

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stephen@crabsin.space ("Stephen 🐈 🇨🇦") wrote:

For anyone who's into APRS, I've been working on a modern alternative called CATS for a few months: https://cats.radio/

It cleans up the bloat in the protocol. Packets are modular, consisting of whiskers, which can be mixed and matched depending on what you want to convey in your packet.

Everything from the physical layer up has been completely revamped. We're running raw FSK for a massive 12dB coding gain over AFSK. Modern commercial transceiver chips makes it economical to do everything in FSK. These didn't exist when APRS was first developed.

We're also using LDPC for forward error correction, and have boosted the data rate from 1200 baud (APRS) to 9600 baud.

I've developed reference implementations of a Raspberry Pi I-Gate and mobile transceiver. Both are fully FOSS, and I'll also be selling units fairly shortly for $24 USD and $49 USD respectively.

But that's all just a summary. I highly recommend checking out our site for more information! https://cats.radio

Hope you like it! #hamradio #amateurradio

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dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

It's hard to overstate the importance of SSH in securing home networks, massive cloud centers and everything in between. Now, researchers have devised a novel cryptographic attack that breaks integrity of this widely used protocol. Dubbed Terrapin, it's the first-ever practical attack of its kind, and one of the very few attacks against SSH at all. Terrapin exploits weaknesses in the specification of SSH when paired with widespread algorithms (ChaCha20-Poly1305 and CBC-EtM) to remove an arbitrary number of protected messages at the beginning of the secure channel, thus breaking integrity. In practice, the attack can be used to impede the negotiation of certain security-relevant protocol extensions. Moreover, Terrapin enables more advanced exploitation techniques when combined with particular implementation flaws, leading to a total loss of confidentiality and integrity in the worst case.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/

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

The phrase "good chap" only applies in its original meaning to people who shudder slightly at the idea of being called "a good chap".

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."

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

The thing about counter-proposals and competing implementations is critical. What we want out of standards and the market of ideas is for vendors to be listening to needs, proposing solutions, and for developers to be providing feedback about which ones are best.

Vendors that spread FUD *without providing analysis or counter-proposals* are playing games, and not in your favour. Lack of a counter is the strongest tell that a critique isn't being offered in good faith.

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

If you see someone, *particularly* someone on a browser project, say *"but that's non-standard"*, know they are either so ignorant about standards as to be ignorable (most likely), or they are trying to cover for their own suppression of a specific technology in the ecosystem.

Suppression works because developers often lack enough familiarity with standards processes to ask follow-ups like *"is that because your organisation objected?" *or *"where can I read your counter-proposal?"*

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

Seeing through the nonsense is easy when you know what to look for. Some signs that a standards-track design is safe to use ahead of final assent:

• signals from proposing vendor that they want to take it to standards (e.g., proposals in WICG or other venues with minimal IP donation as a requirement)
• high-quality design docs
• high-quality test suites
• implementations in at least one major project

Not the end-game, but together they signify much lower risk than detractors often assert.

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

It's usually a *goal* of standards bodies to ensure that interop is both possible in theory and minimally real in practice. This highlights the semantic games that some parties play: they'll try to substitute the status in the process (in which they can deny any design unanimous assent) with a signifier of quality or readiness.

This means parties who benefit from delay can prevent progress at no cost so long as they keep a toe in the process water and commenters remain ignorant of the game.

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FirefoxDevTools@mozilla.social wrote:

:has, text-indent: hanging, text-wrap: balance, iframe lazy loading, … :firefox: #Firefox 121 is released today with lots of presents for web developers 🥳

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/121.0/releasenotes/

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ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

I post iterations of this graphic every month, but I can't recall seeing one this strikingly obvious in the final frame 🔥

Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

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• September to November surface air temperature anomalies over land for each year from 1924 to 2023. There is a long-term warming trend. Nearly all land areas are warmer than average in the final frame. (remote)

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

a "standard" refers to a design that has been given an IP halo via group assent. It has *literally nothing* to do with the quality or utility of the design. These are totally orthogonal concerns. The world is littered with standardised designs that suck, or which are not adequately described so as to promote interoperability. Something "being a standard" is not a bar for consideration or adoption in all but the most risk-averse domains.

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

Need write a blog post on how some participants in standards weaponise process misunderstanding to hide their inaction on important problems while holding others back.

But for now, a primer!

"proprietary": designed with intent to denying an open license, e.g. Apple's touch event patent threats.

"standards track": design intended for open licensing via standards bodies and, therefore, the widest possible adoption.

"standard": ~all parties agreed to allow it to be licensed with their support.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Oh geez, that racist guy popped up in my feed from yet another instance, boosted by someone I follow… At first I thought I should call it out and bring attention, but there's a catch: the guy is Black, so the optics are never in my favor no matter what I'm saying.

But then I thought… If he has to keep switching instances, it probably means enough people eventually see his faketivism for what it really is and block him, so he needs to start fresh. So I just blocked him again as well…

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5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

Happy Monday!

🎁 Be sure to catch up on the #12DaysOfWeb posts from the weekend and today - days 4-6!

#CSS #JavaScript

https://12daysofweb.dev/

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

Its bewildering that the fear mongering about Project Fugu APIs from Mozilla and Apple has not timed out. The most popular browsers have been shipping Web Bluetooth and Web USB *for more than 60 releases*.

The sky has not fallen. Cattle still low. The tides lap the shores, and the moon still nudges the oceans as it passes.

It was always BS, but now it's *ancient and debunked* BS. Can we just admit they're good, actually?

https://fugu-tracker.web.app/

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Alanmoo@xoxo.zone wrote:

@slightlyoff @ryantownsend having been an EM at a couple places since CWV started to have an impact on SERPs, I can’t understate how helpful it is to have them to point at, especially with the slightly vague “improving perf can help SEO, but we don’t know how much. Better try though”. I should write up a blog post, but I was able to create momentum on an internal eng culture shift to focus on perf because of this.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Beautiful 10k run today

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

See y'all at #37c3! Just booked everything for next week's trip to Hamburg.

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

yes!

"Five wolves were released in remote western Colorado yesterday, marking the beginning of an ambitious reintroduction program." https://www.hcn.org/articles/wolves-paws-on-the-ground-how-colorado-got-its-wolves-back

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

oh well, lotsa automated responses but no humanoids this morning... some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

lots of responses to my HB on 40 meter JS8, so time to push a CQ and see if there are humanoids out there #AmateurRadio 📡

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

time to try 40m JS8 #AmateurRadio 📡

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

someone gave me a drumset as a holiday present when I was quite young, and somehow my Father managed to step on each and every one of them

#ChristmasMemories

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

again, lots of automated 30m JS8 HB responses but zip for actual humanoid responses to my CQ #AmateurRadio 📡