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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🇺🇳") wrote:
@fromjason Always appreciated the work of @hrheingold. More #Fediverse leaders need to read his stuff.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Welcome to the future, goats and monkeys.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Timelapse from last week. I had a window seat when I flew across Massachusetts with the Sun low in the sky. EVERY lake, river, stream and puddle lit up when they reflected the sunlight. There was also sun showers happening which made a second sun reflected in the air below us. #mawx #timelapse #sun
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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
😜 AI is going to ruin everything.
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mitchw ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this phenom is so sad to see, esp when it happens to a small family biz…
“Ruben's Bakery survived pandemic but not street takeover” - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-05/rubens-bakery-ransacked-street-takeover
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The optimists all died in the gas chambers. The pessimists all have pools in Beverly Hills.”
- attributed to Billy Wilders
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dermot@mastodon.ie ("Dermot Casey") wrote:
Just finished ‘Prophet Song’ which is a stunningly written book. There a really interesting bit on class in Ireland mixed in. Also I’ve thoughts on the role of imagination in life & Billy Wilders comment ‘The optimists all died in the gas chambers. The pessimists all have pools in Beverly Hills’
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punkmetalnbowie@kolektiva.social ("Punk Metal n Bowie") wrote:
Inc.: Costco Employees Just Voted to Unionize.
https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/costco-employees-vote-unionize-company-response-remarkable.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dsilverman ("Dwight Silverman") wrote:
What's Your Number? 10 Tricks Inside the iPhone Contacts App | PCMag
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/tricks-inside-apple-iphone-ipad-contacts-app
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz ("Albert Cardona") wrote:
Michal Olšiak, Czech sculptor, did it again. This time, giant sculptures of insects. Fascinating exhibition, wish I could go there.
Ants, flies, weevils, beetles, and more. The gallery:
(If a Czech native speaker could translate his wikipedia page to English or French or Spanish, that would be greatly appreciated: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Ol%C5%A1iak )
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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:
Speaker #MAGAMike is determined to destroy democracy here🇺🇸 & in Ukraine🇺🇦 (by holding UA funding hostage for a border bill that won't pass the Senate).
HSE Rs want to accelerate tax cuts for their donors, protect tax cheats by reducing IRS funding, & cut approved Covid relief funds & any spending for the social safety net.
Johnson is pushing for the HR2 border proposal, to speed up tax & IRS spending cuts & for ~$6B in rescissions of already appropriated Covid funding.
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
The Website vs Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist by @jakelazaroff
Loved this post. I have pre-existing biases here because I hate it when people get high and mighty about “apps” or say “the document web” so they can forego basic HTML or a11y. ughck.
But I think Jake’s four quadrant chart of offline ↔️ online vs static ↔️ dynamic is a much better framework to discuss the differences/nuances in the type of projects we work on.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/the-website-vs-web-app-dichotomy-doesnt-exist/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
How the fuck does Tailwind not have animation delay!?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
She is a fine sysadmin and did nothing wrong. Let her work on that #Linux cluster. 😭
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Finally switched doctors and it's so good. The previous place was cash-only until the pandemic got them to start taking cards so they could do phone appointments. It felt incredibly sketchy having to stop at an ATM before going there like I was hitting up the fucking plug
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autiomaa ("Daniel Schildt") wrote:
Learned that there is Callouts feature in Obsidian, for making content parts to a stylish visual info blocks. Different keywords turn those to various (consistent) colors and icon styles.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
mikedev@fediversity.site ("Mike Macgirvin 🖥️") wrote:
- We don't have 'followers-only' posts in the same way Mastodon does. You can create a private post to your followers, but it's actually private and only your followers can access it. This is enforced by the webserver. Anybody who isn't a follower gets a 403 Permission denied.2. I once worked for a large corporate provider and am a veteran of the first browser wars. I don't trust anything large corporations say. I watch what they do. Meta have always been a mob of sneaky bastards, so I just assume they are going to lie. It's in their DNA. 3. It depends on your software. If you follow one Threads user and make everything private, there's no cost differential. If you make a public post that goes to the same Threads user and it goes viral, you could have a problem no matter what size server you have. ActivityPub is a very chatty protocol. If ten million or 50 million requests hit mastodon.social in short order, it will cause the same amount of pain as if they hit a rasberry pi running in your garage. But DDoS has been an issue for a long time and there are mitigations for every major web server. It isn't something that magically appeared with the fediverse.
Basically, corporate software is indistinguishable from malware. Since you need to stop malware anyway (or suffer the consequences), let's just kill two birds with one stone.
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cs@mastodon.sdf.org ("cseiler") wrote:
Back a year ago, I posted a link to this embedded toot.
http://cseiler.freeshell.org/mdon.html
Today almost a year to the date, it was removed for this apparent reason (see screenshot). My post does none of those things. #Meta apparently doesn’t want the sharing of Fediverse content even as they push forward with #Threads.
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- See rule Community Standards Cybersecurity We don't allow people to try to gather sensitive information or share malicious software. Examples of things we don't allow & Getting access to accounts or data without permission & Encouraging someone to give away their password or username & Using phishing or malicious software to get someone's login info Read in full Cybersecurity Your freedom of expression We want you to share freely with others. We only remove things, or restrict people to keep the community respectful and safe. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
dletorey ("Dave Letorey") wrote:
@fromjason but where is the landscape version?
Mastodon FeedLet’s grow online greenspace for healthy sociality & mutual aid:
"tl;dr Now that so many are forced to use online media to communicate, let’s use this opportunity to create many smaller virtual communities and social networks outside the enclosed world of Facebook."
Seems there’s a big ideological gap between the Rheingold, the person who coined “social web” some thirty years ago, and those attempting to co-opt the term today. https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-grow-online-35091994
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just found out that Netlify deprecated LFS image resizing and I feel like an epic weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
We both get to agree they aren't going to fix it and move on.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances
Part 4 of Strategies for the Free Fediverses
Here's how @zkat describes caracoles: "you essentially ask to join concentric federations of instances ... with smaller caracoles able to vote to federate with entire other caracoles."
And @ophiocephalic's "fedifams" are a similar idea: "Communities could align into fedifams based on whatever conditions of identity, philosophy or interest are relevant to them. Instances allied into fedifams could share resources and mutually support each other in many way"
The idea's a natural match for community-focused, anti-surveillance capitalism free fediverses, fits in well with the Networked Communities model discussed in part 3, and helps address scalability of consent-based federation discussed in Part 2.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:
every time there's an utopian community forming (either by billionaires or any other) we should ask: who's going to clean? who will dig ditches, clean toilets, care for children and the elderly, cook and serve meals. where do they live? how much money do they make? are they included in the utopian vision? what are their rights?
Mastodon FeedEffective Altruism is fun because billionaires get to claim they’re charitable toward a broken system they themselves created.
And as a bonus, they throw in a little of that homegrown, Stanford-style eugenics talk. It’s a convo that always seems to creep back into liberal circles somehow. You know, the good stuff. /s https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-altruism-is-a-welter-of-fraud-lies-exploitation-and-eugenic-fantasies/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'll be upset about the worker collecting three paychecks from three companies for doing three people's jobs when there are no workers collecting one paycheck from one company for doing three people's jobs.
Mastodon FeedI’m telling ya, buttons are back. People want to feel something. Even if that something is tactile feedback. I don’t hate this.
From Clicks:
"Clicks brings together tactile typing with the iPhone experience. They’re the perfect pair." https://www.clicks.tech/
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Mastodon FeedI'll end the thread with this— #Technoracket would be labeled "negative," and its creators "paranoid" if it came out today.
But of course, they were right. The "robots" came, jobs shipped off, pensions axed, and salaries decreased through stagnation.
And there's never really a good enough "I told you so" to the people who knew all along but lied.
Oh, Scrappy. You little rascal.
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Mastodon FeedI'm trying my hardest not to think-piece this 30s cartoon to death.
But come on, is there anything more prophetic to the current state of AI vs Art than two robots sawing a piano in half?
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Mastodon FeedIn the end, Scrappy is forced to destroy the switchboard and his android helpers.
Did he hire back his workers? The story doesn't say. But I would think so.
