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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:
I do NOT enjoy the weird religious-colonialist overtones and origins of the phrase "servant leadership" it is not a good phrase I do not like it and I think it has not escaped its 1970s source enough to have transcended it.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Part of my day job is information architecture. I’ve been working towards making it most of what I do 🎉 so I’m brushing up, and collecting sources.
This is a great summary of XEROX PARC’s Information Foraging: A Theory of How People Navigate on the Web https://www.nngroup.com/articles/information-foraging/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
I don't want Chromium to win. Now its monopoly is removed, Apple can now actually invest in Safari so it's no longer "the new IE6". Since regulators started looking, Apple has really put work into it. Let's hope this continues. WebKit runs on Mac, Linux, Android and Windows (there used to be Safari/ Win). If anyone has money, marketing clout and brand loyalty to make a brilliant cross-platform Safari to compete against Chrome. If anyone can, it's Apple.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
romac@hachyderm.io ("Romain Ruetschi") wrote:
Oh GPUI even has a website apparently: https://www.gpui.rs/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
#Microsoft CEO: AI needs ‘guardrails’ after fake explicit images of Taylor Swift go viral | The Hill:
"“But it is about global, societal … convergence on certain norms … especially when you have law and law enforcement and tech platforms that can come together, Nadella continued. “I think we can govern a lot more than we think we give ourselves credit for.”"
AKA, “this is our fault, but we’ll lobby for legislation that puts AI in ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/28/microsoft-ceo-ai.html
Mastodon FeedNot sure if I’ve already shared this but
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/chord-tracker/id975438908?l=en-US
Is pretty cool. It analyses songs you throw at it (could be on your device) and it gives you the chords to play along with. Does a pretty good job too in my experience.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
CRGonzalez ("Carmen Gonzalez") wrote:
Albuquerque, NM, has become the largest U.S. city to permanently make public transportation free for everyone. The city found that fares didn’t cover the administrative fees, so they actually save money by making public transportation free.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
It's not the most profound thing to say, but I really like the new look of @Mastodon input box in the default Web UI.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Here’s my contribution to #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.
I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
After the Gold Rush by k.d. lang
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
“While legal experts expect the EU to challenge Apple's insincere compliance with the DMA, developers should take this opportunity to rethink their native app serfdom. They should push web apps to their limits and then demand further platform improvement.”
“The web doesn't require commission payments, technology fees based on usage, or permission from platform rentseekers. The web can set the iPhone free, even if Apple won't.”
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/apple_europe_ios_analysis/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
2024 continues to be a big year for Team Finding Out, and via @phae, it looks like the UK's CMA is back on the browser and cloud gaming case. Timeline has been published, and we can expect findings in Oct and compliance to bite early next year:
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming
I'm not a betting man, but browser engine choice isn't likely to be restricted to the EU forever.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
All I Want by Joni Mitchell on LOUD
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh
My Innocence/Sophia (Live in Japan) by Laura Nyro
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
And before the "won't somebody think of all the legacy apps that don't get updates!" rolls in, remember that Apple is *famous* for capriciousness towards developers and forced adoption of SDK changes at arbitrary points. These are choices, and they speak to values.
Apple's values are compromised. It's not shocking or surprising that Apple does what megacorps do, but we gotta get over that and start holding shitheel anti-user behaviour to account, and that starts with real browser choice.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is a weak take because it embeds the idea that Apple has been powerless to improve the security of native apps to the point where they could run without a nanny. The web proves otherwise; it's a matter of engineering, and Apple simply doesn't want to do it because it might obviate the need for the marketplace it taxes.
Not coincidentally, it's also why Apple has kneecapped the web on iOS. It's all a choice; none of it is on the up-and-up:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Wedding Bell Blues (Live in Japan) by Laura Nyro
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This sort of snivelling attempt at memory-holing the very recent past is just odious.
Remember: Apple prevented browser choice for as long as they possibly could, still undermine it via in-app browsers, and only added *any* version of it in late 2020 after pressure from legislators, including grilling by the US House's Judiciary Committee:
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG-116-JU05-20190716-SD036.pdf
Y'all don't get spotted an assumption of good faith with sneering, loafing a track record like that.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
typewriteralley@towns.gay ("Ryan Packer") wrote:
A bill advancing through the Washington legislature would make neighborhood cafes legal by-right in all residential areas in every city and town in the state.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Whenever I re-read Apple's press release about DMA compliance and how users will be "confronted with a list of of default browsers before they have an opportunity to understand the options available to them", I think back to the iOS onboarding flow and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.
From: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/][3] ([remote][4])
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
If our civilization collapses, extraterrestrial archeologists can look at this and be impressed. Three satellites following the Earth in an equilateral triangle, each 25 million kilometers from the other two. Each contains two gold cubes in free-fall. The satellites accelerate just enough so they don't get blown off course by the solar wind. The gold cubes inside feel nothing but gravity.
Lasers bounce between each cube and its partner in another satellite, measuring the distance between them to an accuracy of 20 picometers: less than the diameter of a helium atom! This lets the satellites detect gravitational waves — ripples in the curvature of spacetime — with very long wavelengths, and correspondingly low frequencies.
It should see so many binary white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes in the Milky Way that these will be nothing but foreground noise. More excitingly, it should see mergers of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies as far as... the dawn of time, or whenever such black holes were first formed. (The farther you look, the older things you see.)
It may even be able to see the "gravitational background radiation", the thrumming vibrations in the fabric of spacetime left over from the Big Bang. This radiation was created before the hot gas in the Universe cooled down enough to become transparent to light. So it's older than the microwave background radiation, which is the oldest thing we see now.
It's called LISA - the Laser Interferometric Satellite Antenna. And we're in luck: ESA has just decided to launch it in 2034.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
PennamitePLR@pixelfed.social ("Penny Richards") wrote:
In 2017, I crocheted myself a solar system costume. The headpiece is mounted on a bike helmet for stability (I got that tip from some folks who build showgirl costumes). The tunic is made from fine black linen yarn, very matte, very tedious, much like I imagine space is most of the time. The planets are made using an online sphere pattern generator, so that I could vary the sizes in a predictable way; they are strung on a fishing line with beads, and suspended from an elastic collar, also crocheted. They are also kept in place with a beaded "asteroid belt", located between Mars and Jupiter, of course. Photographed at Manhattan Beach Pier. All second-hand yarns, though I had to ask around for enough yellow to make the sun so large. #solarsystem #crochet #costume #planets #sun #astronomy #planetary #yesplutotoo
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:
• Some performances of 4′33″ are played at a different tempo to that specified by Cage. The concert pianist Gregor Örsted famously played 4′33″ in three minutes and five seconds on a dare, and once played it in under three minutes (but hit a wrong note so does not qualify for the record fastest performance).
• A radio station in Houston was known to edit out the second movement of 4′33″ as an unofficial “single” cut. It was quite popular and led some listeners to believe this was the original version.
• An unauthorized five-second sample of 4′33″ can be heard at 1:58 in the original album version of Britney Spears’ song “Oops, I Did It Again”, but this was rectified in subsequent releases.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
love this
https://www.ign.com/articles/weirdest-devices-that-run-doom-1993
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I think I might be more of a "lowercase i & w" #indieweb fella.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
It’s wild looking back at file share with hindsight. In the 80s and 90s, record labels poured champagne off of looted artist royalties.
When #Napster hit, those same labels shed crocodile tears. They promised that artist would get their fair due if only we could kill file sharing.
Now that everything is locked behind DRM, artists are getting screwed more now than ever, and distributors are yanking our purchased digital assets ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/27/its-wild-looking.html
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
(That being said, been secretly working on a new puzzle game for the past two months, probably will be out by end of year)
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Frankly low-key amazed at how much of my life now has become about sports, fitness, and spending time with loved ones. What happened to being a giant nerd and obsessing over computers and cryptography all day? Now it’s just during work hours.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vnglst@hachyderm.io ("Koen van Gilst") wrote:
I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.
