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

I do get tired of everyone sidling around the real root of the problem.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/19/their-one-true-god-is-ignorance/

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• RELIGION. A DAUGHTER OF HOPE AND FEAR, EXPLAINING TO IGNORANGE THE NATURE OF THE UNKNOWABLE. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TBH I'm kind of tired of the freezing rain and gusty winds.

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

I'm just gonna throw it out there

Here's my spicy take

Letting greedy assholes run hospitals to maximize short-term profits is a fundamentally bad idea that needs to be stopped with whatever tools are most expedient

https://pestakeholder.org/news/new-report-details-harm-caused-to-healthcare-industry-by-apollo/

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luka@sonomu.club ("Luka Prinčič :heart_gq:") wrote:

"we have gone quite mad that we need 50+ million lines of code for a garage door opener. That we find this normal must come with some pathology."

by @bert_hubert

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:

Favourite stove burner?

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CliffWade@allthingstech.social wrote:

AllThingsTech.social is looking for a moderator to help us moderate the instance as well as grow the community here on Mastodon, Discord and other areas.

We're looking for someone that is energetic, outgoing, has ideas to help us grow as much as possible and to help make #AllThingsTech the safest, most fun, most welcoming instance in the #Fediverse

If you feel that's you, please reach out to myself or to @beardedtechguy so we can talk further!

#Moderator #Mastodon #Community #HelpWanted

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• An image that says help wanted in a thin black font. There are some various graphics around the edges of the image. (remote)

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CliffWade@allthingstech.social wrote:

Are you pre-ordering the new Apple Vision Pro?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD #Apple #VisionPro #VisionOS #Tech #AllThingsTech

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Fantastic music, even better dancers. I ❤️ Jungle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU5tSF6k-m8

#music #jungle

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have the theme from L'homme Orchestre stuck in my head today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGYnQ85sLJ0

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yabellini@fosstodon.org ("Yani Bellini Saibene") wrote:

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

A tumblelog directory from 2007. Not sure if any of those links still work but I'm feeling adventurous. #SmallWeb #oldweb

https://web.archive.org/web/20070708185344/http://tumblelog.co.uk/

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DrRGST ("Cultural Historian: Dr. RGST") wrote:

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

How smart can AI be if it wants my job? Someone hasn’t done the research

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

ugh, my personal TTL is pretty low tonight

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m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone Silvestroni") wrote:

Magnificent writing by Jason Velazquez:

"A 'poor man' will spend more in his lifetime for a worse pair of boots than someone who can afford the upfront expense of premium footwear. SaaS models produce similar outcomes. We pay a smaller monthly fee for the implied promise of long-term, iterative software improvements. But subscription models don't incentivize companies to make better 'boots,' just deeper moats that keep us trapped inside the service."

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/i-guess-i-ll-just-pay-til-i-die-why-i-m-switching-from-ulysses-to-ia-writer/

@fromjason

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

This by @timbray mirrors my recollections of the zeitgeist; the pivotal moments revolved around the founders giving in to fear, and through fear, turning asshats that sold the FOMO best into petty dictators who had free rein to put down upstart googlyness that might get in their way (see also: the saga of JBQ).

Too much of that, and the org stopped being able to fight back. It's Ruth's Google now, well and truly.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

In which I mourn Google: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Meta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence:

"External research has pegged Meta’s H100 shipments for 2023 at 150,000, a number that is tied only with Microsoft’s shipments and at least three times larger than everyone else’s."

#Meta is buying up GPUs, for a product it's giving away, and no one at The Verge thought to press them as to why?

How clear must Zuck be: Meta is pivoting to cloud services— #AI, the #Metaverse, and #Threads are his forays.

Its signals, Jerry.

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• Still of pilot episode of Seinfeld. George is saving his hands at Jerry. "It's signals Jerry, it's signals"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

For my last five or so essays, I’ve settled into this #writingprocess where each morning I’ll write 500 words, which may or may not build on the previous morning’s draft.

I do this until I have about three thousand words, and then I look for a common thread. If I find it, I edit. If I don’t, I keep writing, or I throw it in drafts.

Or I cry. It’s a coin toss, really.

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

Just checking in on that Android fragmentation problem. I'm sure Google solved it by no...oh.

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• [To keep the tech press from reporting on what an incredible disaster Android fragmentation is in the wild, they stopped publishing the stats on the web and instead have forced folks to dig it out of obscure Android Studio dialogs.

 How bad is it?
 
 As of last Oct, more than a year after Android 13's release, only 23% of devices were running it, and fully 40% are running 2019's Android 10 or an even older version.
 
 Disaster.][3] ([remote][4])

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

📝 Where have all the ~websites~ flowers gone? A rebound of a post by @fromjason

https://daverupert.com/2024/01/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

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

This means that folks who want to keep the party going suddenly need to get on board with the much more complex systems needed to keep the dashboards from reporting a sea of red.

At long last, computer says no, and it turns out that when you can't just make slow things and get showered in praise for it, it isn't as much fun to focus on "DX".

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

The lived complexity of React at scale was *always* daunting. It has constantly required huge infra to keep things from spilling out of control, ship gates to prevent regressions, tight metrics to catch what the gates miss, and hawkish management that understands all of it.

Most teams didn't have any of this, and so instead of delivering better UX with React, they externalized un-priced costs onto users and businesses. Those impacts are (finally!) being priced via INP.

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

It's no coincidence that the dissents from React orthodoxy are starting to trickle out at about the same time that CWV + INP is forcing the community to accept the level of tooling & infra that was *always* necessary to make the experience good (but which nobody outside of FB had, or wanted to pay for). Turning into a torrent:

https://macwright.com/2024/01/03/miffed-about-react

https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/annoyed-at-react/

https://dev.to/matfrana/react-where-are-you-going-5284

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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

Revenge of the devs? Honestly, what a week to make the decisions Apple has made with regards to following the court order. Jesus Christ. https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111777851523787805

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rigo@mamot.fr ("Rigo Wenning") wrote:

@slightlyoff slightly good read for you IMHO

https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/111777375110323593

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

The Law of Conservation of Reality: the effort needed to achieve a goal shall be the same regardless of the means used

- from ‘The Color of Magic’
#DiscWorld #TerryPratchett

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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

@Eggfreckles cries in the state of PWAs for Safari.

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Mrfunkedude ("Mr. Funk E. Dude") wrote:

How to fall off of a staircase.

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