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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses - The New York Times

I keep coming back to this story. #Meta has clearly implemented its own version of “AmazonFC,” but to what end? Is there a University Study behind some paywall that suggests this public relations strategy is viable?

And the scale this is happening on #Threads implies a lot of time and money was invested in this PR push. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/style/amazon-fc-ambassadors.html

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

"Oh, no, sorry, THIS exit sign is just there to let you know this building has exits. It doesn't go anywhere. You want THAT exit sign over there, which looks and is positioned identically to the wrong one."

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agatha@tech.lgbt ("agatha :v_trans: :v_lesbian:") wrote:

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• Are you an LLM? Do you: - Easily forget what was said earlier in the conversation making you look dumb - Not really understand what is talked about and instead say something barely appropiate but it doesnt quite fit? - Feel like you need to use lots of energy and resources to be able to socialize? - Sometimes remember things that aren't that way or things that didnt happen? (remote)

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

I love tap to pay, but it's also kind of a failure of iconography.

"Oops, sorry, you tapped on the tap to pay icon that lets you know this machine has tap to pay. It doesn't do anything. You actually have to tap on the tap to pay icon that *is* this machine's tap to pay. They look 100% identical and there's absolutely no standard or way of knowing which is which."

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Simple is objective. A system with fewer states and components is simpler.

Easy is subjective. It's a whatever feels like the path of least resistance to you.

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thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org ("The New Oil") wrote:

CEOs from #Meta, #TikTok, #Snap, #X and #Discord head to Congress for kids’ online safety hearing

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/childrens-safety-hearing-discord-meta-snap-x-tiktok-january-2024/

#politics #kosa #cybersecurity #privacy #anonymity

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Tired: OnlyFans
Wired:

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

Deleted a toot before I spread dismay into the void. Feels good. I need to do that more often.

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"We caught a transmission," the message from the stars began, "that simply said 'we exist and we are glad you also exist'. We do not know who sent it, but if you catch this, know that we exist and we are glad you exist."

"Shall we pass it on?"

"Like a chain letter?"

"Yes?"

"Yes."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I never heard the term "evolutionary design", although this is apparently the way I design software (and try to teach others to do it). Here's a perfect, short and to the point, explanation of the concept by @CodingItWrong: https://codingitwrong.com/2024/01/29/brief-summary-of-evolutionary-design

Also a good reminder of what the word "refactoring" actually means, despite it being widely used to refer to any arbitrary reshuffling of code.

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

well I'll be damned, Rust really can run in a web browser context as wasm FTW!

https://www.well.com/~jeffs/demos/rust/slint.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

After a full beach day, we (mom, sis, bro in-law, mom) head to our favorite beach bar for food. It's loud, busy, and dingy. We love it.

In the middle of our meal, my six year old niece guides me over to the karaoke stage and asks me to sign her up. I look back at my sister and she just shrugs 🤷🏽‍♀️ like "whatcha gonna do?"

When it's my niece's turn, she hits the stage and she's fearless. An older couple comes up to my sister and brother in law after and hands them a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL

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ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Omar") wrote:

The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: https://smspower.org/SegaAI

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

I was unaware they had caught the person who had leaked tax filings of some wealthy individuals:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/irs-trump-taxes-prison.html

This hyperbolic statement from prosecutors is hard to read without laughing: 'Prosecutors said the harm from Mr. Littlejohn’s disclosures were “so extensive and ongoing that it is impossible to quantify.”'

Aside from refusing to answer uncomfortable questions from reporters, I'm pretty sure there's been nearly zero real world consequences from the leaks. :/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I was on the Software Engineering Daily podcast (again, first time back in 2018), so if you are software- or engineering-inclined, and want to hear more about that side of Mastodon, you can have a listen:

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/01/31/mastodon-with-eugen-rochko/

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Adactio: Journal—Switching costs” https://adactio.com/journal/20837

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tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Normally I see people being ridiculous on social media over israel-palestine by equating zionism with judaism (which, as a Jew, sucks).

But a new thing I'm seeing is people defending israel sending special forces dressed up as doctors to assassinate militants in a West Bank hospital (because the guys they killed were "bad")...

How do I explain to people that you don't get an exception from the Geneva Convention because the dudes you war-crimed were naughty?

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thomasapowell@fosstodon.org ("ThomasAPowell") wrote:

@slightlyoff Don't be so glum Alex. As a modern #webdev I apply Ourself Centered Design so these points you are plotting don't matter since nobody we personally know would own a Moto E13 & if they somehow did what's wrong with them!

Sincerely,
R. E. Actlover
Senior Frontend Vibengineer
CoinGPT.io

p.s. If you haven't heard of CoinGPT we are a metaverse ready planet scale platform for alt coins so users can make micropayments to chatbot powered services in Web3

p.p.s. Great stuff as usual

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bitbear@icosahedron.website ("Asbjørn Ulsberg") wrote:

The untold history of web development:

1990: HTML invented.
1994: CSS invented to fix HTML.
1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS.
2006: jQuery invented to fix JS.
2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery.
2013: React invented to fix AngularJS.
2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular.
2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React.
2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue.
2019: React hooks invented to fix React.
2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks.
2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue.
2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid.
2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again.
2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte.
2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites.

(By https://twitter.com/fireship_dev)

#Web #Development #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #React #ReactJS #JQuery #Svelte #Angular #AngularJS

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

It's the rise of techno-optimism.
It's the rise of techno-authoritarianism.
It's openness at all costs, and "we'll fix safety later."

Techo-optimism. Techno-authoritarianism. And Techno-Utopianism...

Are you getting it? These aren't three different ideologies. This is one propaganda push.

And we call it— Big Tech Pivot to Infrastructure Because Platforms Are No Longer A Sustainable Business Model For Monopolies (the name needs work)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic:

"Recall, too, the company’s secret mood-manipulation experiment in 2012, which deliberately tinkered with what users saw in their News Feed in order to measure how Facebook could influence people’s emotional states without their knowledge."

I’m sure none of these tactics have spilled over to #Mastodon to influence opinions about the #threads interpolation 🙃

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

While I do like the Book of Hours, I think it really would've had me by the throat if it was just a bit more of a conventional sim game let me design my own little rooms. It's not quite as satisfying when you're filing things away in the irregular spaces they give you by default.

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

Engineering is a discipline of design through investigation and constraint, with the goal to develop useful products that serve users and help society.

The opposite of engineering is bullshit; substituting fairy tales for inquiry and evidence.

If the tone of my blog tends towards despair, it's because the professionalisation of frontend appears not to have made more engineers, no matter how generously the word gets slathered on CVs:

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/

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

Incredible to think that Apple's actually going to launch the Vision Pro without WebGPU support because they chose to starve the Safari team of resources:

https://www.theverge.com/24055677/apple-vision-pro-epic-netflix-app-ecosystem-monopoly

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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

Has anyone got any recommendations for interesting* web #hosting? I am currently on Linode, and lets just say I don't feel entirely sure that I am the sort of customer they care about since Akamai bought them. I don't need anything special, just a small Linux VPS.

*Small, weird, ethical, surprise me!

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Since Apple released their Digital Markets Act compliance proposal we've been asking web developers how these changes may affect how they work, their businesses, and the web as a whole.

👇In today's article we go through their unfiltered reactions: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/developers-react-apple-eu-dma-compliance/

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• Image showing three pull quotes, stating: To me, it's an excellent demonstration of why browser choice is crucially important [...] legal compliance are clearly not incentive enough. Brian LeRoux, Begin. Apple has been forced to lift this restriction, but how they react to this will show us their attitude to the web. Jake Archibald, Shopify. It would be quite disappointing if—when the rubber meets the road—browser variability were dependent on the country in which you reside! Zach Leatherman, 11ty, CloudCannon

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

You're saying I can learn things from a toothpaste label?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/31/i-will-never-see-a-commercial-label-that-i-lo/

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#Meta minions have this practice on #threads where they tag Mosseri under people reporting Meta's shady behavior.

In an environment where the governing body is not bound by ethics, it's 100% an intimation tactic.

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Via Tamar Hallerman:

New: Fulton County DA #FaniWillis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade have been subpoenaed to testify at a Feb. 15 hearing involving motions to disqualify them from the election interference case, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday #Georgia #legal

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infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

Love this toothpaste label - let's roll it out across all products

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