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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
My toxic dev trait is I love getting myself into situations where I can use ridiculously complicated math in CSS to achieve a desired visual effect.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is pretty amazing, lays to rest the European image of Amazonia as bare of culture, tech development, & urbanization
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tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:
Put up a page about attaching PIX to Chrome for WebGPU debugging/profiling. Working on similar ones for other major graphics debuggers too.
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
For Browsers, Apple's compliance plan is "unworkable", "as painful as possible", "a massive problem for us", "doing everything they can to make the DMA fail".
THIS is the feedback from our industry.
Read More: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-dma-changes/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
If #Apple continues on this path I’m going to have to switch back to Android. The idea that they deserve a fee from developers for people simply running programs on their operating system is unhinged. The App Store fee is justified because it’s a distribution channel. But whatever this is, is nonsense.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Rapist gets $83.3 million dollar fine instead of the imprisonment he deserves.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/26/83-3-million/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Jury award in #TrumpTrial in NYC:
emotional damage: $7.3M
reputational harm: $11M
punitive damages: $65mTotal: $18.3M
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Jury is apparently returning to the courtroom in the #TrumpTrial in NYC
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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:
when you're not in the mood for small talk with the chatty neighbor
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thehill@press.coop ("The Hill :press:") wrote:
NRA head confirms he used company funds for private trips, gifts in court testimony
Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), confirmed in court Friday that he used company funds for personal trips and gifts. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued the NRA in 2020, alleging LaPierre and other... #press
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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:
Stuff like this is what gets me really interested in AI: https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/
Like, how cool would it be if some computer science stuff helped us understand why consciousness and language evolved, because it turns out there are meaningful scaling laws.
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Man, no company on Earth has worked harder to hurt general purpose computing than Apple.
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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
Whoa this new Romare track! Such heat. Amazing house/disco.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Honestly, some folks in Legal and Marketing need to switch to decaf. This level of hopped-up contempt has got to be hell on their blood pressure.
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ondra@unextro.net ("Ondřej Pokorný") wrote:
@slightlyoff I've argued for years that every damn gracefully degrading/progressively enhanced webapp should make it visibly clear why some features are missing on iOS. Users need to know what they are missing out on.
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erinbee@gorgon.city ("Erin Bee") wrote:
Good news for people with moderate sleep apnea, just a fantastic title for a medical paper for everyone else: "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Or, you know, maybe a banner on your NTP saying "We can't bring you the full version of , but we'd love to. Tap here to learn more.", with a link to a blog post outlining the (entirely unfair restrictions) and ways folks can get involved to help overturn them in their jurisdictions.
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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
This one part weights more than all of my machine tools combined. "Machinist" can mean so many things!
https://youtu.be/8sghJRYVHh4
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just try to imagine the meetings where these terms were cooked up; the dripping contempt for developers...the sneering, snarling woundedness towards regulators.
Apple seem to think everyone else is *incredibly* stupid.
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
“How symbolic that precisely on International Holocaust Remembrance Day it was proven what we have been claiming for years: that UNRWA employees are collaborators of the terrorist organization Hamas and that the UN has become not only a place where the existence of the State of Israel is delegitimized, but that its employees physically participated in the attempted extermination of Israel and the murder of its citizens.” - Israeli Amb. to the UN Gilad Erdan.
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dsilverman ("Dwight Silverman") wrote:
I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol’ Nginx | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/i-abandoned-openlitespeed-and-went-back-to-good-ol-nginx/
This is about the guts of the @spacecityweather blog. It’s intensely detailed geekery.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Now that real browser choice has broken cover in the EU, now would be a *great* time to rebadge their WebKit knockoff-browsers; e.g. "Edge Lite", "Chrome Lite", "Firefox Lite", etc.
Make the contrast clear in every geo: there's no real version available because Apple doesn't want you to have choice.
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markmetz@sfba.social ("Ⓜ️Mr.MarkⓂ️") wrote:
Oh jeez, here we go again.
“The organizers of the “Take Our Border Back” convoy have called themselves “God’s army” and say they’re on a mission to stand up against the “globalists” who they claim are conspiring to keep U.S. borders open and destroy the country.
“This is a biblical, monumental moment that’s been put together by God,” one convoy organizer said on a recent planning call. “We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil,” said another. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. It is time for the remnant to rise.” (The remnant, from the Book of Revelation, are the ones who remain faithful to Jesus Christ in times of crisis).”
Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reading about "Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:
If you accidentally cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war you can calm them down with a casus belli rub.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@serge @Bam as to the overlap between antisemitism and antizionism, where, at least on the fediverse, the intersection is the union, I see precious little discussion of the rights of indigenous people.
Yes, this was pretty clearly a strategic win for Hamas, and that's no accident. To imagine that the way this has unfolded is coincidental would be the height of naivete.
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serge@babka.social ("Serge from Babka") wrote:
It has in most ways worked out just as Hamas wants indeed, not only in Gaza but also activating other partners such as Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
It didn't activate the PLO as they wanted. The PLO is rationally staying out of this.
Now we just need to hope that the next Israeli election can happen and that they get a left wing government soon so there's a chance for peace.
This won't stop the antisemitism or the "anti-Israel" people. They'll hate us no matter what, but it will possibly be a peace for Palestinians, and maybe also eventually for Israelis.
For the Jews in the diaspora, we know that the hate against us has nothing to do with Israel. Israel is just an excuse.
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Mabande ("L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ") wrote:
Re. that "bike helmets doesn't protect against concussion" argument against helmet laws:
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WmShakesp3are ("Doc Holliday") wrote:
BTW, if you were thinking of becoming a sociology major and you are being educated in Florida, your course of study was just abolished. I can understand why FL doesn’t want any sociologists there, because it’s a perfect society.
Dictionary definition of sociology
so·ci·ol·o·gy
noun
the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
the study of social problems.
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Latest on the week long cyber incident at three UK councils in Kent, where the IT supplier has gone completely missing (they don't even have a website still and no point of contact) and Civicia have apparently washed their hands of it after being paid £7m.