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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

thepracticaldev@fosstodon.org ("#DEVCommunity") wrote:

Meme Monday baby!!!! 👀

Share some memes in the comments on #DEVCommunity: https://dev.to/ben/meme-monday-4nn9

Shared by Chris Gustin

Attachments:

• A person playing chess looking frustrated with their head in their hands “Candidate struggling to solve coding task during technical interview”. Shiba Inu dog they are playing against giving side-eye “Interviewer who just copied it from the internet not knowing how to solve it”. (remote)

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

mia@front-end.social ("Miriam (still)") wrote:

The #CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins.

The explainer: https://css.oddbird.net/sasslike/mixins-functions/

The discussion & resolution: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment-1939628591

The spec: (working on it!)

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

fclc@mast.hpc.social ("FCLC") wrote:

Was reminded this website exists, it’s great https://0.30000000000000004.com/

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

calibre@webperf.social ("Calibre") wrote:

📬 Performance Newsletter №145:

🔹Performance Inequality Gap 2024 by @slightlyoff
🔹INP becomes a Core Web Vital by @malchata & Rick Viscomi
🔹How many bytes is a "normal" web font by @stoyan

and more!

#webperf #perfmatters

https://mailchi.mp/perf.email/145

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What Pick-up Trucks and SUVs were for Big Oil, Artificial Intelligence is for #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon, and #Meta.

All they need to do is sell Americans on the gas guzzler. And they'll spend billions to do just that.

The big three hyper scalers control two thirds of the Cloud Computing market. Throw in Meta, and now you have most of the internet's infrastructure represented. That includes data centers *and* deep sea cabling.

They want data-hungry consumers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/02/12/nvidia-is-now-more-valuable-than-amazon-and-google/

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

fossifoundation ("FOSSi Foundation") wrote:

We are really excited to announce the first batch of speakers for Latch-Up! https://fossi-foundation.org/latch-up/2024
It's a solid line-up already and more will come. We would love to see you there to speak about your project or just hang out, so make sure to register to secure a seat at North America's premier open source silicon event!

Let's catch up at Latch-Up!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

[Rebuilding corporate reputations | McKinsey (2009)](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/leadership/rebuilding-corporate-reputations):

> Leveraging existing grassroots support—through blogs, bumper stickers, and interactive Web sites, for example—is one method. Another is to have people with high standing reinforce key strategic messages.

This 2009 article almost reads like a proposal specifically for #Threads and the team just ran with it lol

For context, McKinsey is a huge lobbying firm with a board seat at #Meta.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

just had a ciabatta moment* when I learned that chicken tenders are believed to have been invented in 1974?!

* a ciabatta moment is when you realize a food is way newer than you thought, named for the fact that ciabatta was invented in 1982

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

I doodled this yesterday, and it gave me a little joy to look at.

#doodle #yaombaaa

Attachments:

• Doodle of a sea turtle hanging with a little fish buddy. (I did not use reference, and I'm pretty sure no sea turtle has a shell like that, but I like it anyway.) (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

@ahl @oxidecomputer In preparation for tonight's discussion, we have made a couple of relevant RFDs public:

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0060
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0177
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0444
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0445

Join us live at the top of the hour!

https://discord.gg/3u5aeHap?event=1205365838077501480

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

Matt_Noyes@social.coop ("Matt Noyes") wrote:

Just shared this with some young people trying to find their paths.

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• Poster of Sister Corita Kent's rules for teachers and learners (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Like you know that conspiracy about the dude who made a car run on water and then he disappeared lol WHERE IS FIRECHAT

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

No okay this is weird. They were launching an SDK, firechat was as popular as ever, and then poof. Gone.

Firechat allowed users to communicate and send files to one other within 200 feet, without an internet connection.

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Attachments:

• A painting of a rabbit swimming in dark water (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Does anyone know the story for Firechat? Remember that app that used a mesh network to send messages?

The app and the company behind it, Open Garden, sort just disappears around 2018. Then reappears in 2019 for a brief moment selling some crypto WiFi scam.

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

Like it's clear youtube provides a valuable service for many things like this, and at the same time, it's not clear to me they should really be stewards for this sort of stuff.

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

Yesterday my wife had trouble with a youtube video she was trying to watch. It kept stopping at a specific point and she couldn't advance beyond it. It was a video lecture for a class she is taking at the community college. I was able to bypass whatever the issue was by using yt-dlp, but it got me thinking about how these private services become de facto public infrastructure without us really giving it any thought.

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

jenn@pixel.kitchen ("jenn schiffer") wrote:

if you’re a developer in nyc, join us on the 27th in our brand new fastly nyc space. i will personally hand you a “live waf love” sticker https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fastly-connect-developer-meetup-nyc-compute-at-the-edge-tickets-828860503077?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Attachments:

• photo of my desk showing a little skeleton sitting in a fastly mug and next to it are some glitch stickers and a few fastly “live waf love” ones (remote)

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

in programming, every fscking thing takes longer

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

ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Lots to take in from this long op-ed from @pluralistic, but this bit popped (pooped?) for me: “And “app” is just a euphemism for “a web page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to mod it, to protect the labour, consumer and privacy rights of its user”.” https://t.co/6fnHw1DPPX

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Tonight -- and by popular demand! -- @ahl and I will be talking with our @oxidecomputer colleagues working on the Crucible storage service at the heart of the rack. As with all things storage, there are war stories aplenty; join us at 5p Pacific, today!

https://discord.gg/3u5aeHap?event=1205365838077501480

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

You can see pictures of the shuttle mounted to the "SCA" here:

https://www.nasa.gov/history/40-years-ago-sts-3-columbias-third-mission-to-space/

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

Ha! So relatable for anybody who lived there:

"So much gypsum dust covered Columbia that Bolden recalled, "I flew it several flights later on my first flight, STS-61-C, and when we got on orbit, there was still gypsum coming out of everything! They thought they had cleaned it ... but it was just unreal what it had done!" Dust continued to be found in the spacecraft for the rest of its career."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-3

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

A cool thing that happened while I lived there is that they diverted the space shuttle to land there one time (STS-3). We got to go out and see the shuttle before they retrieved it with a boeing or whatever. I also saw the shuttle mounted on the boeing as it was being flown out.

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

astra_underscore@wetdry.world ("Astra, gender detritovore") wrote:

a fedi instance is like a rock, and its users are like the bugs that hangout under that rock

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

I suppose that attitude is one of the reasons the place was chosen to detonate the first atomic bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

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

"White Sands, New Mexico. A 5,000 square mile tract of barren, sun baked wasteland..." Ah, yes. I guess one person's wasteland can be another person's backyard. Takes me back to my youth...

Quote is from here:

https://youtu.be/B7KR1nCA4Js?t=97

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

ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:

What I'm listening to today: "Labi Siffre - Let's Pretend."

Labi Siffre is a singer/songwriter who had a successful solo career in the 1970s. These days, he’s probably most recognizeable indirectly — Eminem’s Top 40 hit "My Name Is" is entirely built around a sample from the back half of Labi Siffre’s 1975 song "I Got The."

I think that’s a shame, because Siffre’s original work is really great, and I think he deserves way more recognition. He’s a Black, openly polyamorous, openly gay man, an antiracist, and his lyrics are packed with so much love for the good in humanity.

This is "Let’s Pretend," off his 1973 "For The Children" album, and it’s a protest song. It’s anti-war, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and captures his disillusionment with the profound gap between the professed ideals of religion and its leaders’ actions. It’s a savagely critcical song, but takes the high road of love to express it. It’s beautiful, and I’m feeling its message more than ever these days.

If you’d like to read a bit more about Labi Siffre, this interview with him from 2022 is a very good read: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/31/i-had-the-perfect-life-then-both-my-husbands-died-singer-labi-siffre-on-love-loss-and-happiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1MFtzFDLSk

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

the year is 2025. in order to signal to the fediverse that you'd rather not have your toots exploited by third-party services you've not signed up for, you must include 73 variations of the #nobot hashtag in your profile, leaving you seventeen characters with which to describe yourself and your interests.

then, a new project is announced. to opt out, you must add the #NoHinkyHijinksPrettyPlease hashtag to your profile.

there is no better way to approach any of this.

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

silviamaggi@mastodon.design ("Silvia Maggi") wrote:

On my inspiration series, Design, Digested, I share articles about #Design, #UX, and other topics that I find interesting.

It’s far too easier to find articles hosted on sites I dislike (Medium, Substack, and LinkedIn are the main culprits), and I’m reluctant to rely on those. It’d be great, and more inline with my values to share what people write on their websites.

#AskFedi: Are there any design blogs that I should be aware of? Thank you!