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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple has gone to war with the web and seem to think regulators and web developers and competitors are idiots. They hope lies about security concerns will work now when they've failed so many times before. This can't stand. Join @owa to fight back:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Painted two more miniatures. I have a squad of these to assemble.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:
I guess this stuff is plenty obscure, huh?
So, folks, there's a new browser engine dropped (a while ago, actually). It isn't based on WebKit and it isn't based on Firefox, it is written from scratch for a hobbyist operating system SerenityOS by some awesome/crazy people. The browser, called Ladybird, actually can be compiled for Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenIndiana and Android.
It can pass Acid3 and render Github page well (note that Firefox and Chrome circa 2018 cannot do that!), and it has decent JS and afaik wasm support.
Their site is https://ladybird.dev/
I am not related to the project in any way, just amazed that it exist, and I think it deserves more love and publicity. And optimizations for low-end computers. And privacy features. And so on!
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Shocked about the death of Kelvin Kiptum :-(
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/11/marathon-world-record-holder-kelvin-kiptum-dies
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Don't use Midjourney to make scientific illustrations. You'll only get nightmare fodder.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
rnd@toot.cat ("/dev/urandom") wrote:
people who say "mozilla should just invest completely in making a fast lightweight web browser and they'll regain their marketshare" are sadly mistaken
out of all the history of software displacing other software i've seen, it is almost never about quantitative improvements ("20% faster", "10% less battery consumption", etc.)
if that were the case, desktop linux wouldn't be stuck at 3% market share
usually it is either about some sort of killer feature (like when IE was dethroned by firefox for having tabs or in some places by opera for being optimized for slow internet connections)
or about being the first in a certain niche (like how smartphone-targeted messengers displaced old IM apps like AOL, ICQ, MSN etc. by being better-suited for smartphones and having an easy phone-number-based way to keep contacts, even though those previous protocols actually had more features
maybe the folks at mozilla are foolish for chasing trends, but i don't know what else i would do in their place
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Apple is on course to break all Web Apps in the EU within 20 days ‼️
👇 Read the blog, fill the survey, join the fight!
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's not actually IRB-approved if you have to pack a fake board with pseudoscientists to get it approved.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/15/new-depths-in-pseudoscience/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
gertvdijk ("Gert van Dijk") wrote:
nginx (by F5) forked as freenginx by long time core developer Maxim Dounin 👀
http://freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2024-February/000000.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Girl scout cookies generate ~$800 million a year in revenue. It's a big business.
Am I saying that girl scouts shouldn't be allowed to sell cookies? No! Do all that stuff! I like high school bake sales too! Raise money for homecoming!
But don't act like it's somehow different from Black kids trying to sell you candy bars in the parking lot. Don't act like it's nefarious when you see a car with the Black parents at the end of the parking lot. It's not. The girl scout's parents are close by too.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
First experiment with the tungsten light.
Pentax 6x7
Kodak Portra 400
Takumar 105mm/2.4#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jesper@agda.club ("Jesper Agdakx") wrote:
This paper titled “Methodological Irregularities in Programming-Language Research” does not mince its words.
Substantial industry and government investments in software are at risk due to changes in the underlying programming languages, despite the fact that such changes have no empirically verified benefits. One way to address this problem is to establish rigorous evidence standards like those in medicine and other sciences.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
A loving tribute to my all-favorite game series: Ghosts 'n' Goblins and Ghouls 'n' Ghosts.
Modeled and rendered using MagicaCSG, post-processed in Affinity Photo and Photoscape X.
See the previous posts in this thread for work-in-progress images.
#DigitalArt #illustration #CharacterDesign #design #art #artwork #artist #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #MagicaCSG #sculpture #game #gaming #games #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #FanArt #GhoulsNGhosts #capcom #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LordGeekington@sauropods.win ("Cameron McCormick") wrote:
Cannot believe I am only learning of the #PriceMaster now
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
markmoxon@universeodon.com ("Mark Moxon") wrote:
I am very proud to present the results of my latest project...
...the first-ever fully documented and annotated disassembly of Lander on the Acorn Archimedes.
Lander was the very first game released for the ARM platform, and is arguably the only game ever written explicitly for the original ARM1 processor (there are famously no MUL instructions in there). And, of course, it's the second bona fide classic from the genius of David Braben, as this is the game he wrote next after his astonishing work on Elite.
I will be adding a number of deep dives to the site over the coming weeks, but for now, I hope you enjoy the results, which you can see here:
And as always there is also a GitHub repository containing fully buildable source code that you can play with:
https://github.com/markmoxon/archimedes-lander
I hope you like it!
#retrocomputing #arm #retrogaming #acorn #riscos #archimedes #disassembly
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
webdev_discussions ("Webdev Weekly") wrote:
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/
Mastodon FeedArtificial intelligence and natural stupidity go hand in hand.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This cop killed the car, but missed the tree that threw an acorn at him.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/15/the-ideal-cop-paranoid-and-trigger-happy/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
manjusrii@mstdn.social ("Dr Belinda Barnet") wrote:
Just want to share Alan Kay’s response to being quoted by Zuck in Meta’s recent video on Vision Pro (he concludes with a quote from Kay, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.")
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
bert_hubert@fosstodon.org ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺") wrote:
Regarding AI *in* Firefox, this has brought us a built-in translator that does not outsource the work to the cloud. That's amazingly good work. I'd love to see the browser do more of that kind of thing. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:
Streetpass, a new favourite extension.
It glows when you browse a personal website from an author with an account on the fediverse.
https://streetpass.social/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It doesn't matter what apple *might* intend, the here-and-now consequence of the 17.4 Beta 1-3 breakage of PWAs + radio silence is a gigantic FU to the web and to web developers.
It's not acceptable. It's anti-competitive (even if they subsequently recant). It's brazen.
@owa has a post up w/ details and a plan to help make developer voices heard:
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I go back and forth over how much I'm actually enjoying this game in the long run.
The setting is cool, but the game only runs at 2 speeds and there are a lot of common actions that take 30 seconds on the fastest speed. It puts a hard limit on how quickly you can actually get anything done, and a run of a few hours can be ended or seriously impeded with just a few unfortunate draws
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
My OTHER Heart-aligned recruit, you know, the ones who are supposedly good at smoothing over crimes? He just got perma-jailed too. It cut short his illustrious career of trying and failing to get rid of a single piece of notoriety
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Current run of Cultist Sim seems to have stabilized, but it got off to a pretty frustrating start.
I wanted to do a Heart-based cult because they're good at covering up crimes, but it took ages for me to actually find a piece of starting lore and a Heart-aligned recruit.
And then after a run of bad luck, she got sent to forever-jail before I could even promote her all the way!
Mastodon FeedAny recommendations for open source (or at least supports exporting) multi-device (iPhone and macOS), auto-syncing #2fa alternatives to Authy?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This subtoot brought to you by HR Block
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Just because it is a holiday and you are a brand does not mean you should try to alchemize those two facts into a promotion.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Neat side street. Brussels.
Pentax 6x7
Ilford Delta 400
Takumar 105mm/2.4#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
"I mean, sure if someone sent you a DM my server technically can and may actually receive and store it for a time.... but I super pinky-just-met-you-on-the-internet promise I'd NEVER actually like look at that stuff "
