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Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

ret@furry.engineer ("Ret the Folf") wrote:

@nano

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• A spoof of the 1984 Metallica album cover "Ride the Lightning". The electric chair is replaced by Apple's Wide Lightning connector from the Vision Pro power supply. The bottom text says "WIDE THE LIGHTNING" instead. (remote)

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

Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne are off their meds again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/01/someones-got-the-old-geezer-cranked-up-again/

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• Old man yells at cloud (remote)

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

Some Christian weirdo built a time machine 30 years ago and used it to send me a blatant scam yesterday. You wanna see ugly? Here's a taste.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/01/i-get-email-101/

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• Garish offer to participate in a Xian loan scam (remote)

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

Missed opportunity: the President of Amazon should be called the Prime Minister instead.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Seit ich gestern von dem Tod Natenoms erfahren habe, lese ich seine Posts und was andere über ihn erzählen. Ich kannte ihn vorher leider nicht, aber immer wenn ich von jemandem höre, der beim Radeln von einem motorisierten Fahrzeug aus dem Leben gerissen wird, werde ich traurig und wütend.

Ich selbst radle mehr in meiner Freizeit und nicht wie viele beim Pendeln zur Arbeit. Dennoch habe ich in den Abendstunden in Hamburg auf einigen Strecken schon ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht wie Natenom und viele andere beschreiben. Bei einer meiner ersten weiteren Radstrecken, bei denen man sich die Straße mit Autos und LKWs teilt, hätte mich beinahe ein LKW-Anhänger am helligsten Tag erfasst, da der Fahrer beim überholen scheinbar seine Fahrzeuglänge nicht mehr bewusst war und ich seitlich nicht hätte ausweichen können.

Seit dem versuche ich so sichtbar wie möglich zu sein (neongelbe Radklamotten mit vielen Reflektorstreifen ftw), aber es hat immer einen leichten Beigeschmack von Victim Blaming ("What was she wearing?!").

Auch die Problematik der optionalen Radwege in schlechtem Zustand kenne ich gut. Ebenso das Unwissen vieler über die Verkehrsregeln (auch bei einigen Radlern!).

Es macht mich auch einfach wütend, wenn es scheinbar immer Personen im höheren Rentenalter sind, welche Radfahrende übersehen.. Ich bin generell für ein regelmäßiges überprüfen der Fahrtüchtigkeit, auch bei jüngeren!

..Es musste einfach raus..
#StopKillingCyclists #FarbeIstKeineInfrastruktur #natenom #ripNatenom

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Excellent video by @Techaltar about the #SocialWeb. You can basically send this to anyone who wants to learn what makes Mastodon unique compared to other social media platforms and what it is that we're doing here 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ptZ1W-FRA

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

fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

rebecca solnit’s writing continues to be an absolute treasure https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/

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

jpanzer ("John Panzer") wrote:

Several historians have dropped a giant mic on the subject of the 14th Amendment.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/298999/20240129110006501_23-719%20bsac%20American%20Historians%20Final.pdf

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

markarayner@mas.to ("Mark A. Rayner") wrote:

But SHOULD you do it?

#ironypolice #irony #youcandoit #slogans #taglines #humor #humour

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• giant orange B&Q (diy.com) truck with the slogan "You can do it" that has jammed itself under a low bridge. (remote)

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

cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:

"No way to prevent this" says users of only programming language where this regularly happens

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Swear to god if Lily Gladstone doesn't take the Oscar for Killers of The Flower Moon

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• A man with a serious expression and text overlay that reads "WE WILL BURN UTICA TO THE GROUND."

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."

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

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.

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

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.

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

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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• Singing Karaoke at beach bar

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

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