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ryanc@infosec.exchange ("Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:") wrote:

OH: Lawyers are attack librarians.

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joshmillard ("Josh "cortex" Millard") wrote:

TIRED: "unicorn"
WIRES: "horny on mane"

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cory@social.lol ("Cory :prami_pride_demi:") wrote:

“If you put yourself through hell long enough, or if your lifestyle does, eventually it just blows up or breaks down. And then you’re screwed.” #NoMeansNo #PunkRock #PunkRockHistory

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

amusing stories told on tonight's usual local voice net at 50.250MHz USB #AmateurRadio 📡

#RocDigi JS8 learning net on 20m coming up at the top of the hour (0200Z)

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

I've long said that we should have been spending frontend's Lost Decade exploring sync and a diversity of offline-first approaches instead of bailing out from the predictable consequences of legacy, desktop-oriented framework misdesigns.

I'm constantly glad that RociCorp is doing something about it. Here's Aaron Boodman on some of the history:

https://youtu.be/cgTIsTWoNkM?si=Kt8lVIMCH_D2UPFf

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lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:

how is it only january my life has been already ruined a couple of times this year

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

Me: [squinting] "I've been using augmented reality tech for decades." [puts glasses back on and immediately stops squinting]

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Is it too late for a Tracy Chapman Fast Car discourse entry? No? Great.

The song Fast Car is an indictment of manifest destiny. Covering the song as an identity that historically doesn’t believe there’s anything wrong with the American Dream, feels like a betrayal.

Boom, roasted; as my nice says when she thinks she has made a point.

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

Yesterday was the blaster beam, and today it's a bass tagelharpa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBEt5mubDY

Now I'm wondering what an ensemble with a bunch of these atypical string instruments could sound like. 🤔

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Rise of techno-optimism: Silicon Valley backed new political force in America

"This group — mostly rich, white, middle-aged men with tech jobs, companies or investment funds — is building impressive, if unorganized, political muscle through social media, podcasts, new journalism projects, and political donations and activism."

Great. We’ve finally identified the major faction that has flown under the radar for so long. Now let’s acknowledge it’s a dangerous movement https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/30/rise-of-technooptimism.html

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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

farm-to-table experience

#Caturday

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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/

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• 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.

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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)

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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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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/

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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

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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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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

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

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

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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.