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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Keming, noun.

kem-ing, plural kemings.

The result of improper kerning.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Hey, how are you, is everything okay?"

LOL OMG NO.

But for the purposes of this conversation, thanks for asking, I'm just fine.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

That elephant really tied the room together.

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falkowata@strangeobject.space ("Kat") wrote:

Our take on catification is a permanent pile of papers in the middle of the kitchen - and the cats love it!
#CatsOfMastodon

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• Two cats covered in paper inside a pile of packing paper in the middle of a kitchen (remote)

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grindhold@chaos.social wrote:

you've heard of PALWORLD. now, get ready for NTSCWORLD! 🕶️

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

eric@mastodon.ericlathrop.com ("Eric Lathrop") wrote:

Some cool #Firefox add-ons for improving #Mastodon:

Simplified Federation: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/?ref=upstract.com
Automatically take you to your home instance when you try to follow people from a page on another instance.

StreetPass: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/streetpass-for-mastodon/
Automatically discovers mastodon accounts on any web page you visit. Keeps a list so you can browse accounts at your convenience.

Substitoot: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/substitoot/
Fill in missing replies, boost/favorite counts, profile pages.

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andreabettini@mastodon.uno ("Andrea Bettini") wrote:

La concentrazione oraria di PM10 in Pianura Padana fra il 1° gennaio e il 31 gennaio 2024. Impressionante
(Fonte: CAMS/ECMWF) https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Air_pollution_fluctuations_over_the_Po_Valley

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• aa3f9a6b8c3afd25.mp4 (remote)

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esther@strangeobject.space ("Esther is walking") wrote:

Earlier today, @danhon posted these amazing signs against unwanted replies.

Here's a convenient little website (with no cookies, no ads, no tracking) with all of them ready to download and use, including alt-text that you can easily copy.

https://files.selfawaresoup.com/need-not-reply/

See also Dan's thread https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/111925461009889302

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• An informational message to manage replies. It reads: DO NOT REPLY TO TELL ME YOU DON’T HAVE THIS PROBLEM ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT, UM MIR ZU SAGEN, DASS SIE DIESES PROBLEM NICHT HABEN NO RESPONDAS PARA DECIRME QUE NO TIENES ESTE PROBLEMA NE RÉPONDEZ PAS POUR ME DIRE QUE VOUS N'AVEZ PAS CE PROBLÈME (remote)

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• Niki Shafer @MrsShafer5 Today a student asked me if a word needed a "flying comma". He meant apostrophe, but I think I'm going to call them flying commas from now on just because it makes me smile (remote)

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kdriscoll@aoir.social ("Kevin Driscoll 📳") wrote:

The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990. Recovering the text, diagrams, and formatting was not impossible but it was hard. A great example of the use of #emulation for historical research and digital preservation.

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-original-www-proposal-is-word-for.html

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• Screenshot of the original WWW proposal open in Word for Macintosh 4.0 running on an Infinite Mac emulator (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

mouse@bookwyrm.social wrote:

"We usually describe the smell [of blood] as "metallic" because it's similar to the smell left on our fingers when we handle coins, or in the air when we scrub a bare metal pan or sink. ... Our hominid ancestors would have known that molecule [epoxy decenal] and smell long before they paid much attention to rocks and ores, so for much of our prehistory, they may well have experienced metals as bloody-smelling."

— Harold Mcgee: Nose Dive, pp. 502-503

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• Harold Mcgee: Nose Dive (2020, Hodder & Stoughton) (remote)

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

(I'm ignoring for the moment the problematic attitude of those who think they have a natural right to do something simply because it is easy to do with a computer and a network.)

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

I think that it's probably not possible to serve both the desire to potentially reach everyone (1:∞) and a desire to have mostly private conversations with a small group of people (1:1) on a single platform.

We probably all need access to both types of communication media, but it doesn't feel like they can fit together in the same space. It's like trying to have your book club meeting at a rock festival. Or hold your rock festival at the corner coffee shop.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

"Tech #Threads" is almost exclusively #Meta employees quote posting Meta affiliates about Meta offerings, while trying to appear organic.

It's all very "hey fellow kids" meets Truman Show.

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• A composite image featuring two separate screenshots: on the left, a social media post with a caption referring to a review of a product called Apple Vision Pro, including an image of a man speaking; on the right, two stills from a movie showing

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

mcc wrote:

I wish that it felt like Mozilla knew what Mozilla is for

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

This sucks… got an email from Authy saying they’re discontinuing their desktop app even earlier than expected. I wish they offered an export to 1Password

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

I hadn't heard Michigan repealed their "right to work" law, but it's in effect now.

https://truthout.org/articles/michigans-historic-right-to-work-repeal-goes-into-effect/

Probably helps that they only passed the "right to work" in 2012, but still good news.

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henry@front-end.social ("henry ✷") wrote:

is there a mister en place

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Jyoti@mas.to ("Jyoti Mishra") wrote:

I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers.

#ACAB #FuckThePolice

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• Scott Hechinger @ScottHech In case you missed it. The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000. $150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year. (remote)

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craigmaloney@octodon.social ("Craig Maloney ☕") wrote:

Dear @mozilla

The only trustworthy AI is no AI in the browser.

Knock it off.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Could it be that this approach would also work for digital communities?

Who's to say really. Let's just do the thing we always do and see where we land. #mastodon

https://kottke.org/

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

There's an interesting discussion at the bottom of bridgy docs about how different social networks have different interaction details.

For instance, it would appear if you have follow requests enabled on mastodon if you're bridged... that's not supported yet so they just auto-accept all followers 🙃

https://fed.brid.gy/docs

#BlueSkyBridge #MastoAdmin

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• How are activities routed? A bridge does more than just translate protocols and formats. It processes activities (events) based on domain-specific logic and semantics. The domain Bridgy Fed currently handles is public social microblogging, the kind popularized by Twitter. There are many other related social domains, with fuzzy boundaries and lots of overlap, eg forums (Reddit), questions and answers (StackOverflow), project trackers (GitHub), and many more, but here we're currently focused on microblogging. Even within that domain, behavior logic varies. Twitter follows are one way, but Facebook friends are bidirectional. Your Bluesky timeline (skyline) includes your followings' replies, but your fediverse timeline generally doesn't. LinkedIn...honestly I have no clue how LinkedIn works, but I'm sure it has its own logic, workfluencers and all. Here's what Bridgy Fed's activity router does. I've tried to make it follow "least common denominator" logic, ie do the most common and least surprising thing, and I've explicitly tried not to innovate or invent anything new here. It's a bridge, not a product, after all. (remote)

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gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

So it seems that the word's out, there will be layoffs at Mozilla. What is maddening about this is that the company is in a very good spot financially speaking. Just check the last public audited financial statement: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf

Expenses have been significantly lower than income and the company has significant assets that could cover Firefox development expenses for *years*.

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

So when @mozilla starts doing some non-browser related stuff online zealots decry them for not focusing on the browser. Now Mozilla is shedding some projects nobody asked for, specifically to focus on Firefox, and these same people are now complaining about that.

Oh, that's must be because they mentioned "AI"? My bet is that's just a marketing term to attract attention, not the actual reason.

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night @bcantrill and I were joined by members of the Oxide storage team to talk about Crucible, the service that provides reliable, distributed, virtual block devices to VM instances in the Oxide Rack. We talk about the constraints, design, implementation, surprises... and the boundless future possibilities. With some Rust praise as usual! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEKSqBBcZw

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

Yeah, I think I'll skip this post for now...

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• Screenshot of the bottom portion of Mastodon's "What's on your mind?" edit box showing -972 characters remaining. The last bit of text that is visible reads, "one big platform or interoperable protocols where we can scream at each other incoherently 24/7 forever." (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Apple Computers 1999 — a full web page gloating about Macintosh's immunity to the Y2K bug. There's a Douglas Adam's quote and everything.

What a magical time. #webarchive #apple #y2k

https://web.archive.org/web/19990423032310/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/hal.html

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• According to Information Week, the tab for the Year 2000 software fix will hit $600 billion. Had IT professionals realized back then that Apple technology was immune to the millennium bug, they might have succumbed to temptation—and saved themselves a bundle in the process

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I liked the way the buildings were arranged in front of me with the peak of the town hall looming over. Brussels.

Pentax 6x7
Ilford Delta 400
Takumar 105mm/2.4

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

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• A black and white photo of various buildings.

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

this is hilarious

“Biden Teases Super Bowl Conspiracy With ‘Dark Brandon’ Meme” - HuffPost

https://apple.news/AW5Nx_ZdPS7Wz4qn6a0SmHA

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

this is A Very Big Deal

“OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory” | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-memory-openai/