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shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:
buckle up kids it's *SUDO* for WINDOWS https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/
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scott@typetura.social ("Scott Kellum :typetura:") wrote:
If someone you know is looking to spin up a Ghost website to migrate away from Substack, I’d love to help out. I’m taking on new projects and I love working with Ghost.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Incredibly grateful to @remotesynth and the https://thejam.dev team for inviting me to talk about frontend's lost decade and how we can, maybe, find a way out:
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theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:
In the spirit of, "fuck it. do it scared," I have been issued my first DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
"Seamless digital engineering: a grand challenge driven by needs"
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1053
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02059
Presentation slidesOf course, the paper could be better, and my presentation was a hot mess, but it's out there now.
I even did this 'highlights reel' version, which is about the size of 3-4 toots: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.2514%25252F6.2024-1053/reader
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ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:
What I'm listening to today: "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Scorpio."
I have a hard time writing about Grandmaster Flash, because he’s such a toweringly important figure in music that there’s nothing I can say that will capture his staggering influence. So let’s say: I don’t think rap music would exist in a recognizable form without him. He either invented or significantly advanced early sampling, looping, and the notion of the modern party DJ, so you can throw techno, raves, and mashups on that list, as well as anything downstream from those. I’m hard-pressed to think of another individual that’s had such a tremendous impact on our music and culture.
Let’s talk about this song. I could have picked The Message, which is instantly recognizable, but I like to dig a little deeper. So here’s Scorpio, which is a terrific song showcasing the experimental side of the group, and a fantastic early techno banger.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
Toddler calls my watch a baby clock.
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intenttoship@botsin.space ("Intent to Ship") wrote:
Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS line-clamp property https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/330d100b-ac9a-49c7-b4e1-fb5f1cd3e35cn%40chromium.org
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Is Apple going to sabotage the web in the name of "regulatory compliance"? It's so brazen that I can't imagine they think they can get away with it, but there's radio silence from FruitCo and growing evidence that it is, indeed, the plan. @brucelawson (of @owa fame) is on the case:
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/apple-breaking-pwas-out-of-malicious-compliance/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Cool cool depressing cool.
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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
hey! has anyone seen Lore AKA @taq ? nobody has heard from it since last friday. last seen in edinburgh uk
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Here's the situation: I made a Jekyll site hosted on GitHub Pages for a friend who wants to occasionally blog. He doesn't want to use markdown or GitHub.
What are my options for inexpensive and (ideally) hosted headless CMSes that can sync to the Github repo? Siteleaf and prose.io both seem like they nearly fit the bill, but I'd love to hear about other people's experiences
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A hyperloop won't work any better in Minnesota than anywhere else on the planet.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/08/somebody-didnt-get-the-obituary/
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320x200@post.lurk.org ("ultrageranium") wrote:
Watt-Wise Game Jam
"Build delightful games that use as little energy per second as possible in order to make games and computing more sustainable, and to discover new directions for software aesthetics. [...] We are developing both hardware and software estimation techniques for measuring energy consumption. Participants can use our open source power estimation tooling while developing their games to optimize for using less power. "
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freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles U. Farley 🇵🇸Ⓐ") wrote:
Future "web pages" will use HTML solely to fetch some WASM, which will itself be an implementation of a proprietary browser which will fetch the actual content.
Remember when all restaurant web sites were built with Flash? That's the future that's coming.
Mastodon Feedrust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
Rust 1.76.0 is now available! 🦀🌈
This release comes with new ABI compatibility docs, new (tier 3) targets, and additions to std including Arc::unwrap_or_clone, Option::inspect, type_name_of_val and more! ✨
Check out the announcement and release notes: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/08/Rust-1.76.0.html
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spaceraser@alpha.polymaths.social ("Sam D") wrote:
There's a thought that I'm having a difficult time teasing out at 5:30 in the morning, but it's been with me for a little bit. I don't know that a lot of people have room, in their conception of computing and tech, for the legitimacy of what my brain is calling aesthetic taste, or doing something for the artistic merit it has. Let me try to explain with examples.
I follow a couple of open source hardware projects that are very active right now, the @mntmn Reform series of computers and the Tangara music player from @jacqueline and co. Both are boutique, small batch electronics, made by people who seem to be driven mostly by the desire to see something exist in the world. It would be nice if something like this caught on and they sold a couple million open source laptops, but I don't think that's a reasonable expectation from these teams. There is appreciation coming from the public, but there's also a lot of criticism focused on the price of small batch, hand assembled electronics ($250 for an mp3 player? My sansa clip was $3 on ebay and it does the same thing!) or on the "impracticalities" of the design decisions made by the team. My phone can do what this thing does, it's not practical to carry around a music player. My ThinkPad is cheaper and does more work, and is half the size. This chonky boi laptop isn't practical.
There just seems to be a blindness to the importance of, and the validity of, the power of an emotional response to a piece of consumer electronics, the same way a piece of fine art might move you. We can accept that a painting is valuable, primarily, as an object that elicits a human response, that requires a human element for the "thing" to "work" at all. An oil painting isn't practical. It requires care and a bit of maintenance and a big wall to hang it on and who has the time? It's just a picture. There's a guy out there making custom one-off computers using techniques from fine furniture making, trying to imagine and create a world where this semi-magical piece of human ingenuity, the product of countless hours of labor, care and creativity, isn't consigned to the e-waste pile after a couple years. Tech people are baffled. How are you going to upgrade it? Why use wood, it's not as thermally efficient as aluminum. It's not practical.
The instinct to tear something down, just because it's primary merit is artistic expression, isn't present in other disciplines. When someone shows up to a dinner party in a nice outfit, and the wearer shares that they made it themselves at home because they couldn't buy something exactly the way they wanted, people are impressed at the effort and might ask more about the construction. If they share that they're trying to buy less clothing because the waste in textiles and fashion is ATROCIOUS, SIMPLY A MONSTROUS ATROCITY BY ANY MEASURE, people may admit that they don't share that conviction that strongly, but good for you. Or maybe they'll say "well that's well and good but you aren't as good a sewist as the person from *checks tag* Bangladesh that constructed my outfit so keep trying." What you don't hear from the majority of people, right off the bat, is that you're dumb for spending all that time making your own or paying a sewist to custom make it for you because you could have bought something to cover yourself for $20 at walmart.
So I guess I just want to validate the emotional response to a piece of computing hardware as a good enough reason, on it's own. The joy of ownership of a device that not only fits your taste but also has a story and a particularity. Something with stickers and spray paint and dents and wood scrollwork and a CRT monitor. Because you like it. Because it's yours, and it's made the way you want it, and it's made for you to use.
I'll conclude with a similar thought I read in a book about building and renovating kitchens. The author spent a lot of time in the introduction opposing the HGTV-ication of the entire conversation of a kitchen renovation. How much do we spend, how much did the value of our home rise? What finishes and fixtures do we use, which do we avoid? We don't want to negatively impact the value of our home, we don't want to put custom cabinetry in because we'll never get the money out of it that we put in to it. What if they don't like teal paint, they may not pay as much for the house. Completely left out of this conversation is how much you will enjoy using the kitchen in the intervening time between you renovating this kitchen and you selling this house! You're the one who spent the money, you should enjoy using the kitchen!
You should enjoy using your stuff. If you'd enjoy it more if it was spray painted neon green, then break out the rattlecan. Make it yours. Even it it's less practical.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
In case you're wondering why the works of Mojo Nixon are on my mind:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(Thanks to TJ Trout and Jer on 90s morning radio out of Albuquerque for introducing me to that one.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I didn't know anything about Mojo Nixon, but listening to one of his songs just now made me realize he was the one behind "I Hate Banks". It's a song that has many admirable qualities, and considering I only heard it a few times in the mid 90s, it seems it must be quite memorable.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I teach my writing class today. I'm supposed to talk about ChatGPT. Here's what I will say.
NEVER USE CHATGPT. YOU ARE HERE TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE ABOUT SCIENCE, YOU WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH THAT BY USING A GODDAMNED CRUTCH THAT WILL JUST MAKE SHIT UP TO FILL THE SPACE. WRITE. WRITE WITH YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR HANDS. DON'T ASK A DUMB CYBERMONKEY TO DO IT FOR YOU.
I have strong opinions on this matter.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The lesson: Join a union, support unions.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/08/how-did-that-get-past-jeff-bezos/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Why are my groceries so expensive? Look at the de facto monopolies that take over small towns.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/08/under-the-thumb-of-the-supermarket/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
RIP Mojo Nixon, psychobilly performer extraordinaire
‘Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child’
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Gibson_Is_Pregnant_with_My_Two-Headed_Love_Child
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Look, you don't *have* to read @molly0xfff's defenestration of Chris Dixon, but honestly, life is short and nice things are few and far between; particularly in tech:
https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/
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jamteayang@zirk.us ("Jessica Yang 楊佳美") wrote:
Appropos of something, here are 8 magic school books NOT by a racist, billionaire TERF:
✨In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
✨The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
✨SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
✨It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts
✨Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
✨Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
✨A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
✨A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinMy personal fave is In Other Lands which is queer and heartwarming and so much fun 🥰🌈 #Bookstodon
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AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social ("Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉") wrote:
Absolutely triumphant Los Angeles taggers cover abandoned high rise!
Also, why are 27 stories of abandoned condos vacant in downtown Los Angeles while homeless people are dying on the sidewalk below?
“With all due respect, shit’s abandoned, doing nothing. Let’s put some color on this bitch and do what we do if they ain’t gon finish the job,” one ... tagger, Hopes, said.
#LosAngeles #Graffiti #DTLA #LA #OceanwidePlaza #Tagging #Anarchism #PropertyIsTheft #DowntownLosAngeles #StreetArt #MastoArt #UrbanArt
https://lamag.com/news/downtown-high-rise-graffiti-artists-speak-out
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-campaign-civil-war-texas-border/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
New way to game the system just dropped #twitter
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:
So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :verify:") wrote:
new shirt by @heydon
