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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My nice and I negotiated on her nickname and we agreed on "powerpuff girl"

"Goofball" is officially out.

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

I'm not the only one revolted by Sam Harris.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/30/if-you-think-im-too-mean-to-sam-harris/

Attachments:

• Sam Harris & Eric Weinstein (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Re: Lindsey Graham Promises To Try To Repeal Section 230 Every Week | Techdirt

Color me suspicious that some form of a sec 230 repeal will make it to the Meta-sponsored 4 tech bills in the house. It won’t be the full repeal, just enough to make it effectively impossible to run a hobbyist forum or niche social community.

That is, without some compliance cloud services. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/30/lindsey-graham-promises-to-try-to-repeal-section-230-every-week/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What song describes you in the morning?

Me: https://music.apple.com/us/album/help-im-alive/1440945965?i=1440945967

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• Album cover: Help I'm alive. With a light bulb on black background.

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

triptych@social.yesterweb.org ("Andrew Wooldridge 🌱") wrote:

If you are a #webdev type person and lately the web has felt kinda dry and not fun anymore, consider building a static site from scratch with no build steps, node, or vite.

Instead sit down in front of a code editor and hand code some HTML, CSS, and JS on your own. Fire up the @MDN web docs in a window, turn off all the builders and makers and pre processors and winds of tail and frameworks, and just try to build something cool, quirky, half-broken half-made, animated, and wholly your own. It will really help you get back in touch with why you wanted to be a web developer in the first place.

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imajeanpeace@infosec.exchange ("Jean") wrote:

It's PRIDE season again! Atleast here in Australia. I'm so excited to see heaps of companies changing their corporate logos to rainbow. Yes, the same logos that are often associated with exploitation, representing values that outsource labor to developing countries for profit maximisation. Yet, during this season, we are expected to overlook these practices, no? Cause we are seduced by the colourful facades of their so-called diversity and inclusion that mask the underlying economic disparities and labour exploitation inherent in their business models. They have capitalised on progressive values, turning them into marketable commodities, while systematically undermining the very principles they claim to support. Insidious.

Get Corporations out of Pride. Im marching with this banner on Sunday as well

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• Changing your logos to rainbows means nothing (remote)

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

gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

"Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta combined more than doubled their energy consumption between 2017 and 2021."

And they will double their energy and water and material demand again by 2026.

Is anyone anywhere in government paying the least bit of attention to the environmental catastrophe that Big Tech is massively accelerating? Or have all our politicians been bought off by Big Tech?

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/115850/ais-rise-is-having-an-enormous-environmental-impact/

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

https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/111846451617886393 of course took me down the DALL·E rabbithole to this

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• an armadillo wearing glasses and a suit reading a book in a library in a castle, with numerous human figures studying at desks and wearing vaguely medieval garb (remote)

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

a WHAT now? Why yes, you *can* have my personal email address and, gosh, I *would* like to sign up for the newsletter:

https://conf.11ty.dev/

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

rem@front-end.social wrote:

My personal projects:

"Oh, I built that with Next. That's nice…[a hour or so later], ah better, now with 11ty".

I used Next to generate static sites, but the underlying tech "disrupts" so often that it's borked in 12 months.

11ty, even if I stick on "old" 11ty, it's stable. It'll rebuild.

I do love me a static site (usually cheaper too!)

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

well, that was a fun process (produced via interaction w DALL·E)

Title: Exfiltration

Attachments:

• pirate ship approaching with another ship under tow, small boat with figure piloting it headed towards them from our perspective, streams of data falling from the skies and gigantic floppy disks bobbing in the seas (remote)

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

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Ginni Thomas was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Her consulting firm also stands to gain if Trump is re-elected. Yet Clarence Thomas refuses to recuse himself from the Colorado ballot case. This should be a scandal of epic proportions.

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

So it seems that the good folks over at @owa read Apple's proposed iOS browser rules. Suffice to say, they are not impressed:

"...even a generous observer would conclude that much of their proposal seems designed to spite and circumvent both the intent and letter of the digital market act"

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-review-apple-dma-compliance-for-web/

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

started the slow switch of my domains off of Gandi (they wanted to charge me $120/yr to renew https://1923.press! more than 2× the market rate!)

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

Sam Harris & I have had a mutual antipathy since the earliest days of the 'new atheists,' but he can console himself with the fact that he's the one who has gotten wealthy pandering to right-wing bigots and New Age weirdos.

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

Sam Harris has a twisted idea of "civilized" ethics that ought to put him in the same cage with Nazis. He seems to believe that Israel is a paragon while Palestinians are subhuman.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/30/sam-harris-and-the-disgraceful-philosophy-of-bigotry/

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• Explosions over Gaza (remote)

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

I'm not sure how I wound up reading this today, but I enjoyed it, and look forward to the restaurant industry evolving and adapting into something better for everyone.

The Restaurant Revolution Has Begun (gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/opinion/restaurant-industry-shutdown-inflation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk0.bkGd.jxQNsFKxy9U2&smid=nytcore-android-share

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

@slightlyoff ...how late exactly did you say you stayed up to finish it?

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• Mastodon screenshot showing Alex toot at 24:59 (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Here's to the crazy ones— the misfits, the rebels. The ones who put a hyphen in their website address unapologetically.

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mattrambles@t00t.cloud ("Matt Stein") wrote:

@fromjason 🤔 If I was painting, a lot of it would be…

“I have a sick idea for a landscape.”

[hours or weeks pass]

“Welp, that’s a cat with a balloon but I’m pretty happy with it.”

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

dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

Guile Hoot v0.3.0 has been released! Quality of life improvements, bug fixes, more R7RS stuff, hashtables, and a really solid start on a module system thanks to the one and only @wingo

Get yourself some Scheme in the browser like it's 1995 in a parallel universe!

https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v030-released.html

#guile #scheme #wasm

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• A pixel art owl with text that says "new release v0.3.0" (remote)

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

henry@front-end.social ("henry ✷") wrote:

🔵 - a website in which you have been falling. you scold yourself now, free-falling endlessly down this trap-doored hole. you curse your foolishness for seeking the footer on a modern website, when you're certainly old enough (or perhaps young enough!) to have learned that...

(inspired by Andy and Matthias' conversation about the lurking evils in web design these days lol)

https://strange.website/2024-01-30

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Re: A crypto mistake via We keep making the same mistakes with spreadsheets, despite bad consequences | Ars Technica:

"The clerk who processed the refund for the Australian customer had wrongly entered her bank account number in the refund field in a spreadsheet. It was seven months before the mistake was spotted. The recipient attempted to flee to Malaysia but was stopped at an Australian airport carrying a large amount of cash."

I ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/30/re-a-crypto.html

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

Breaktime for Bonzo ::poof::

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

xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:

If you have the chance to hire Ned and you don't, you're a fool.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202401/i_am_at_liberty.html

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

AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

Retired software engineer and national treasure K Lars Lohn uses math and some Python code to track an irritating early morning booming noise that was waking the community: https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Side note: this tweet is almost certainly why I use the word "weirdo" in my writing so liberally. It's the funniest thing to me

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

dryak@mstdn.science ("DrYak") wrote:

"The audio log you find in a trashed office in a sci-fi horror game:"

Source: https://twitter.com/MikeIrvo/status/1752123455125016839

#Neuralink

Attachments:

• Michael Irving: The audio log you find in a trashed office in a sci-fi horror game: Elon Musk: The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection. (remote)

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

jilleduffy wrote:

Reading people's layoff notes the last few days, I would like to share some reminders:

1. Work will never love you back.

2. "It isn't personal." Ignore people who say that. Your salary, your sense of purpose and work integrity *are* personal, and when they are taken away without warning, it affects *you* personally, even if the decision to cut your position was only about money.

3. Thinking about your emotions through a job loss as grieving can be helpful.

4. Work will never love you back.

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

yes!

https://blog.simplecast.com/sandmen-audio-in-the-age-of-netflix-exploring-the-sandman