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

Also, Tailwind's "it only compiles what you use" benefit is way more of a footgun than I think most people realize.

Example: I define an animation in my Tailwind config file. Ok, now I can add it with a class name. Cool.

But that animation *will not exist in CSS* unless I add that class. If I have a reason to use it _not_ with that Tailwind class (like if I want to change duration or easing), it just won't work. Nothing will happen. The animation never got compiled. Calling it does nothing.

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

A browser that browses for you.
A code editor that writes code for you.
A chatbot that does the chatting for you.

Interesting times.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When big tech invokes "user empowerment" it almost always means "users empowered to generated content for our platforms in a way we've decided is best"

Best for whom? NEXT QUESTION PLEASE 🙃
#smallweb #mastodon #meta #threads

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

Tailwind naming conventions irritate the crap out of me.

Want a border-radius between `rounded-md` and `rounded-sm`?

It's just `rounded`.

`border-0` is 0px.

`border-2` is 2px.

Wanna guess what gives you a 1px border?

It's just `border`.

WTF.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Wanted: Bluetooth or USB dead man’s switch that pauses your audio book when you fall asleep and let go of the switch.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

(Continued)

"No more “build it because we can.” No more algorithmic feedbags. No more infrastructure designed to make the people less powerful and the powerful more controlling. Every day we vote with our attention; it is precious, and desperately wanted by those who will use it against us for their own profit and political goals. Don’t let them."

Don't let them. #threads #mastodon #meta #socialweb

https://archive.ph/2024.02.01-174027/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What really drives this home; what transforms it from a simple article into a manifesto, is the ending:

"We do not have to live in the world the new technocrats are designing for us. We do not have to acquiesce to their growing project of dehumanization and data mining. Each of us has agency."

#threads #mastodon #meta #socialweb

https://archive.ph/2024.02.01-174027/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

First, The Atlantic article identifies two major tactics for combating anyone who dare question the technocrat doctrine that everything must be open, quantified, scaled, and marketed.

Those tactics are:

1. This future is inevitable so might as well do it.

2. Anyone questioning this future is an "enlightened know-it-all"

Anyone with a popular blog post that questioned this doctrine likely experienced these two rebuttals. I got one just the other day in a comment. #threads #mastodon #socialweb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I feel like there's someone in the world that needs this exact analog mixer but can't afford it. It's ten bucks at my local pawn shop.

I'd be happy to buy it on your behalf and ship it to ya.

#music #musicproduction

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• Picture of analog mixer

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

Geez, Siegel played that piece while six months pregnant and feeling sick.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic:

"Silicon Valley, under the sway of its worst technocratic impulses, is following the playbook established in the mass scaling and monopolization of the social web."

I think this article is the closest thing we have to understanding the #Threads / #Mastodon interpolation initiative. At the very least, it gives us a framework to understand what feels like a heavily coordinated march. 🧵

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

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :verify:") wrote:

*throws away my IoT smart-toaster*

it wasn’t even AI-enabled!!

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

Listening closer to Dorothy Siegel's piece, and I was getting suspicious about the clarinet sound. The phrasing felt a bit too... organic? It turns out Siegel was playing the clarinet part.

https://archive.org/details/dorothy-siegel-computer-music/Dorothy+Siegel.mp3

Still pretty cool.

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geekmomprojects ("GeekMomProjects") wrote:

Setting up my wearables installation with the CETI Institute in the Lloyd center (old GAP storefront) for the Portland Winter Lights Festival. Just need to clean up and tape down the power wires now. There are lots of other people setting up awesome original illuminated projects in the same space. If you're in the area, come by and check it out sometime this weekend. Info here: https://ceti.institute/event/constellations-2024/

#portland #winterlightfestival #wearables #ledwearables #ledart

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• A walk-by view of six mannequins wearing a varied assortment of illuminated clothing. The first three are wearing little black dresses enhanced with LED strips and fiber optic cables. The last three all have denim jackets with illuminated diffused shapes on the back, worn over clothing decorated with LED strips and strings. Each mannequin is carrying an Illuminated purse.

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

caption: Admiral On The Bridge

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• giant spaceship ops center with mixed-creature crew (remote)

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jacqueline@chaos.social wrote:

u can buy my gay mp3 player if u want. i think it's a pretty cool device. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

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

screwing around with DALL·E, figuring out how to smoothly retain elements through multiple iterations

caption: general crew meeting

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• mixed crew of dogs, cats, robots, androids, and humanoids gathered at a spaceship crew meeting, chattering with each other over snacks prior to the meeting start. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Using the time in German train hell to catch up on my podcasts.

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

I guess I'm on a computing history trip this morning. This is a very well done little web page capturing an LP record from the "First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival". They even included the liner notes!

https://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/

The "Flight of the Bumblebee (backwards)" by Wright & North is a hoot.

And I was really impressed with the "Rondo from Sonata in B flat for Clarinet and Piano" programmed by Dorothy Siegel.

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

is ChatGPT (web interface) just slow today?

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jyasskin@hachyderm.io ("Jeffrey Yasskin") wrote:

@slightlyoff @jaffathecake It's too bad they can't share the votes and vetoes: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/blob/main/2024/selection-process.md#round-3-prioritization

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

Dear UI designers: artwork cannot always go to the edge.

In the vast sea of possible devices, the edge will always be an unpredictable distance away, with possible variance of many thousands of pixels. It may be much closer or further than the mockups accounted for, and stretching artwork to that edge may not be practical or possible.

Have a plan for what it looks like when you don't have an edge available, and hand that plan to the developer implementing the design, please.

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

Pholcids are just so obliging about holding still for their picture.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/02/bronze-pipework/

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• Pholcus in my dining room (remote)

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jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

There’s a bipartisan tax bill that lift millions of children out of poverty and provides businesses with critical tax breaks. Even though it passed overwhelmingly in the House, GOP senators are stalling it to prevent a “Biden win.” Sound familiar? https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/is-bipartisanship-dead?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

moi, today (via NYT)

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• ab098ae2b96537c5.png (remote)

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

"Get out! And take your devious little programming languages with you!"

I'm obviously going to start including an axis of deviousness when I think about programming languages now.

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

It's like every ignorant pseudoscience has a revolting substrate of racism lurking underneath.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/02/chris-rufo-figured-out-how-to-erase-part-of-his-history/

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• Chris Rufo (remote)

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

wtf, wait. no way.. how the

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• Email from LinkedIn congratulating me for being a member for 20 years (remote)

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

this is a bad post but it has been inevitable ever since I saw a drawing of, well, https://twitter.com/hurricane_smutt/status/1283147684954554369

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

The struggle against complexity and inefficiency in computing has been there from the beginning.