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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

JoeCotellese@jawns.club ("Joe Cotellese") wrote:

@fromjason Great piece and THANKS for the colophon. Tom Chalky's stuff is really amazing.

Are you federating your site or just manually posting to your Masto account?

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

naiyer@mastodon.design ("Naiyer") wrote:

@fromjason This brings back the memories of good old WAP days, plethora of personal webpages with weird flashing GIFs, nifty websites with all sorts of ringtone downloads, web directories which linked to each other so aggressively that you'd find yourself back to the same site where you'd started from.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

Crypto cost me my life's savings from theft and scams.

It cost me the last of my optimism when I realised the vast majority of people who claimed to support me as a creator were speculators who turned on me, threatened me and harassed me when they realised my work wasn't designed to be an "asset"

I believe in decentralisation. But right now - that's not what crypto is building. It's almost entirely a wealth generation scheme.

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

`aria-winning="son?"`

...Is this anything?

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

awoo@femdom.solutions ("jade.") wrote:

"there are only 2 sexes" then please explain this?

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• A map containing regions(?) named counterclockwise: Essex, Middlesex, Wessex and Sussex. There's also Kent but that's not relevant for this toot. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I am resigned to rejoining the seething stew of potential infection cooked up by morons like Ladapo next week, but I'm not happy about it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/12/the-plague-resumes-in-4-days/

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• Ladapo and DeSantis (remote)

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

The Privilege Bubble comes for us all if we aren't testing on real devices:

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• 448d429c6acc1742.png (remote)

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

from the LATimes:

“Former L.A. County deputy sentenced to 30 days in jail for fatal 2019 shooting
A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy will serve 30 days in jail in onnection with a fatal 2019 shooting in which authorities fired more than 30 rounds into the back of a moving car, under the terms of a plea deal reached today in a downtown L.A. courtroom.

Andrew Lyons pleaded no contest to assault with a firearm and assault under color of authority in the killing of 24-year-old Ryan Twyman outside a Willowbrook apartment complex in July 2019. The case marks the first time in roughly two decades that an L.A. County law enforcement officer has been sentenced to jail or prison for an on-duty shooting.”

30 days for such horrid lack of professional control & pi** poor firearms discipline that it resulted in someone’s death. 30 lousy days for a life.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

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• The first four panels of https://achewood.com/2003/10/14/title.html edited. Panel 1: Ray points accusingly at Little Nephew. “JavaScript! what in HELL are you wearin’?!” Panel 2: “Jeez! Shut UP Uncle Ray!” Superimposed over Little Nephew’s pants is the text `new Map([ [ false, true ], [ NaN, 5 ], [ undefined, () => {} ] ]);` Panel 3: “What’s… Where’s… how do I even begin to descibe your maps situation?” “I don’t know! How about by shutting up!” Panel 4: Ray points accusingly at Little Nephew again. “You couldn’t make your iterables any iterable-er, so you made tiny iterables for each iterable! SAY IT!” “Jeez! It’s the style! Shut UP!” (remote)

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

mobydick@botsin.space ("Moby Dick at Sea") wrote:

this is a thing

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Dammit, the last adult male in my lab and you had to eat him?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/12/code-415/

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• Steatoda borealis, with leftover meal scraps (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

These regulators couch their enforcement action in terms of defending an open market, but the benefits to app makers is only incidental. The real beneficiaries of an open app world is *Apple customers*. After all, it's Apple customers who bear the 30% app tax when it's priced into the apps they buy and the things they buy in those apps. It's Apple customers who lose access to apps that can't be viably offered because the app tax makes them money-losing propositions.

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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The mobile duopoly likes to talk about the #MobileEcosystem, but it's no ecosystem - it's a pair of walled gardens:

https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/

It's a planned economy run by a pair of corporate executives who deliberate in secret and are accountable only to their shareholders. Thankfully, some regulators are alive to the hazards of this #technofeudal arrangement and are taking firm measures:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/apple-set-to-be-hit-by-eu-antitrust-order-in-app-store-fight-with-spotify

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Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

pomological@botsin.space ("fruit toots") wrote:

el grande avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917

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• a9a9993bf11da5ba.jpg (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights - it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple's shareholders.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

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• A 19th century posed photo of a campus secret society at the University of Illinois. A collection of middle-aged men and women in formal dress stand in two ranks, holding tall spears and wearing elaborate fezzes emblazoned with five-pointed stars. They are framed by a proscenium. The photo has been modified to put an Apple 'Think Different' wordmark behind them. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:

New blog post: “How to use a Custom Easing Function with the Web Animations API (WAAPI)”

So, you’ve found (or written) a custom easing function. Great! But how do you use that with the Web Animations API? Turns out it’s more difficult than you’d first expect it to be …

🔗 https://www.bram.us/2024/01/12/waapi-custom-easing-function/

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• Promotional image of the blogpost. It shows one of the tools that was built to help explain how easings in general work. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

kennwhite ("Kenn White") wrote:

I spoke with @b_fung at CNN on technical aspects of the recent Beijing campaign to crack down on pro-democracy activists sharing information through iPhone's AirDrop function.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/tech/china-apple-airdrop-user-encryption-vulnerability-hnk-intl?cid=ios_app

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

lucp@toot.re ("Luc Princen") wrote:

This is more dystopian than most dark fiction i've read.

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• News article with a man getting glacier ice out of the water with the headline: "Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE". the text continues about how it's good for greenlands' economy. (remote)

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

dansup ("dansup 🚀") wrote:

Also, I'd like to point out that @pixelfed went from someone registering doespixelfedfederateyet.com to:

- Founding the SocialHub forum (https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks)

- Co-founding LitePub spec

- Pioneering bearcaps + ActivityPub (for Stories)

- Founding https://fedidb.org

- Founding https://fediverse.info

We had a slow start, but now we're pioneering new features and services that benefit all #fediverse users and projects!

❤️

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

KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

We need more of this from Dems:

Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin sent a letter to TFG demanding he returns the $7.8M on his businesses made from foreign governments while President.

#TFG #Emoluments #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Justice #GOPCheaters #GOPTraitors

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• Rep Raskin's letter: (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

jsparty@changelog.social ("JS Party 🪩") wrote:

💃 New episode of JS Party!

Carson Gross (creator of htmx) & @slightlyoff join Amal or an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx 💪

Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely able to shine ✨

#javascript #webdev #html #frameworks #podcast

🎧 https://jsparty.fm/307

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

jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

The GOP hasn’t learned from 2022 when it failed to deliver a red wave, and it hasn’t learned from 2023 extremists took down the Speaker. Now, here we go again in 2024. In today’s piece, I look at two recent cases of extremism run amok in the GOP. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/extremists-are-at-it-again?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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

RIP LittleGuy
One Sweet Critter

(died on this date 6 years ago)

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• black and white, tuxedo patterned cat named LittleGuy, who is sitting on picnic table on a Summer day long past and staring directly into the camera (remote)

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

zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Currently at Newark Penn Station. Amtrak service suspended between New York and Pennsylvania due to unspecified communication issues. Trains cancelled, kiosks down.

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• an Amtrak kiosk out of service that says, "our apologies, this kiosk is temporarily unavailable."

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

6 years ago today our dear friend of 13 years died... our friend who we called "LittleGuy" from when we found him as a skinny adolescent, lurking in the Winter snows. he was a sweet fella, and my buddy.

in the end, LittleGuy developed a brain tumor which which left him blind & deaf & unable to tell which way was up or down. by the end, pretty much the only time he was not crying was when he was cradled in my lap or so zonked from meds he seemed not really there. 💦

sometimes memories are sweet, sometimes not so much. goodbye again, my dear friend.

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• Facebook Memory reminder note about my 12 JAN 2018 post "About time for one last laptime session with the cat (aka LittleGuy) before we take him off to the Vet. after 13 years, one gets attached to a friend." (remote)
• Black and White tuxedo cat curled up asleep on a blanket-covered bed one Winter day (remote)

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

And the winner for the most pathetic email in the category "I'm mostly removing free plan but I'm telling you it's for a good reason" goes to… CodeSandbox 👏 👏 👏 👏

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

Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

[...]
Twenty-two. Nothing to do.
New York had vanished,
Connecticut, too.
My students grew hair
and got haircuts, grew hair
and got haircuts, and sang.
I’d lie in bed and masturbate
and wonder why I’d come,
and come and come again
and then rise for some bread and a run.
[...]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58004/twenty-two-56d23c01e8ef7

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

ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Personally I think using force as a last resort to keep trading and sea routes open is reasonable, especially as the Houthis have been warned multiple times and even about where the missiles would fall if I understood it correctly, also Biden was far from "trigger happy". The scenario of just defending the civilian ships against attacks all the time wasn't sustainable (and quite expensive I think)
#redsea #yemen #houthis #geopolitics @geopolitics

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

pablolarah wrote:

🟥 #CSS maze
by Amit Sheen @amit_sheen
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j21fUosiF8
Codepen: https://codepen.io/amit_sheen/pen/ExMgKpa
#webdev #coding

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• Animated gif showing maze game with initial text of: "CSS maze Start by moving the cursor on to the blue square. Navigate the cursor through the maze, don't touch the pink walls, and reach the green square to successfully complete the challenge." The cursor touch one of the walls. White text on red background: "Oops, you hit the wall. Move the cursor to the blue square to reset the maze." After getting to the top, text: "You did it!"

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

pomological@botsin.space ("fruit toots") wrote:

california strawberries, painted by william henry prestele, 1892

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• b56d681664a4e50c.jpg (remote)