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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
destevez ("Daniel Estévez") wrote:
Next Sunday I will be speaking at FOSDEM's Software-Defined Radio and Amateur Radio devroom about Maia SDR. The talks will be streamed live. To all those attending in person, meet you there!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
my dead and wounded comrades are not "suckers and losers", Oh Ye who never did a day of any public serice in your life
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
draconigen@packmates.org wrote:
Totally didn't do this while slacking off another project.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
And before the inevitable "just switch browsers" responses show up: a) I'm not going to go look up how to enable feature flags in mobile Chrome. That's too much trouble. And b) I shouldn't have to switch browsers to view content anyway.
I get that I can't expect the code to run everywhere. But if you want to show your users something, you have a responsibility to meet them where they are.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Web dev pet peeve: demos of new browser features that don't include a screenshot/video.
Thanks for the CodePen demo, but it doesn't actually work in my browser, so it's useless. I've come away with nothing but a code snippet with an output I have to just imagine.
Please, if at all possible, show demos in a way that's guaranteed to work no matter what browser or device I'm on.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Is this the OS equivalent of being transported back to the moments before the brief (and ill-conceived) relationship between your biological parents was consummated?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Tim Pool has never been insightful or good at analysis, so his lack of comprehension about ongoing demographic changes is unsurprising. LGBTQ+ and atheism rising!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/28/encouraging-news-from-the-younguns/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gurupanguji ("@gurupanguji") wrote:
"Only Apple can protect us" is a bad position for these people to be in.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
When supposedly great minds can't (or won't) tell the difference between the *existence* of a gatekeeper and the *abuse *of that position, it's time to re-evaluate their status.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you hadn't already written off Steve Sinofsky as a monopoly apologist and blowhard, this oughta seal the deal:
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/215-building-under-regulation
It's a masterclass in deflection and denial, in love with the idea that being maximally dickish (as Apple has been) is always the best policy. Wild, wild stuff.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I told one of my clients I had a crush on Twister Helen Hunt, and now they keep sending me pictures of her in the Teams chat
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
When we look at #Meta's recent moves individually— billions spent on data centers and GPUs, big marketing push for AR VR, open-sourcing AI— it's easy to brush off #Zuckerberg as a wild-eyed tech bro chasing trends.
But, when we step back to consider these plays as a collective, and moves toward a long-term strategy, we see something new— infrastructure building and consumer influence to adopt data hungry tech.
Almost like Zuck is pivoting to Cloud Services.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:
A quick reminder that on radio garden you can scroll around the map of the world and listen to local radio stations from all over.
And it rules.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we likes it when things
work right the first time
ran a test...
fired off a Zoom mtg
logged on 2x...
once on tablet
plus once on desktopsuccessfully kept routing
of desktop audio on track
so #JS8Call / #flrig audio
running to/from radio
in parallel w
desktop voice mic audio
running to/from Zoom
(so I can talk at the same time
as running the radio)
plus
screen shared from desktop
worked fine
display + audio on tablet
simultaneously with
desktop rig ops from desktop worked fineI love my little desktop 'puter
;^}wa2rrb
#AmateurRadio 📡
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The first 2024 Mastodon award, presented for creative wordsmithing, goes to @GottaLaff for the phrase ‘Flopsweat McBoneSpurs’
Congratulations, Laffy!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I did a bronze workshop once. We worked on bas-reliefs to eliminate many of the difficulties encountered in a typical piece, but it was still quite involved. I did everything up to the wax casting and then handed it over to the foundry. I never did get a proper patina on the final piece though. :(
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
lea@lea.lgbt ("Lea Rosema") wrote:
So, Zuck bought 350000 gpu chips for #AI, each 30k US dollar. That's an environmental nightmare I guess. #meta
https://futurism.com/the-byte/experts-terrified-zuckerberg-agi
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've been catching up with my copy of Spectrum 26 and came to Patrick Masson's piece "Reflection", which won the gold award in the dimensional category. I went to the internet to see if there was any additional information or photos. Luckily Kristine Poole had an entire blog post just last year about working with Masson to cast this piece in bronze.
Worth checking out if you have an interest in bronze casting and the team effort it takes:
https://www.muddycolors.com/2023/04/reflection-an-artists-vision-realized-in-bronze/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
klim@typo.social ("Kris Sowersby") wrote:
@reichenstein I think I found iA Writer’s polar opposite
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
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
