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

Ange wrote:

Magika - fast file identification via deep learning. Open-source and used internally at Google.
Assessed by yours truly.
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/magika-ai-powered-fast-and-efficient-file-type-identification.html

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Back at my comfort zone drawing tactic: Wanting to draw, don't have any own ideas -> check for cool selfies and draw them! This is based on a picture of MechaGhoul (https://linktr.ee/mechaghoul) from a while back. If you're interested in cool cosplay, check her out!

#mastoart #sketchbook #watercolor #portrait #watercolor #goth #MechaGhoul

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• Watercolor painting based on a selfie of MechaGhoul. A half body drawing of a young woman with her long hair in two high pigtails and a straight fringe. Her hair is black at the roots and transitions to purple, the same color of her makeup. She is wearing white contact lenses, one of which has a black X. She is wearing a sleeveless black top that zips up in the front and has multiple straps across the chest and her right arm. She is looking at the viewer, her right hand elegantly placed at the side of her face, wide grin and tongue slightly poking out. Behind her a rough black X for decoration. (remote)

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

cstrotm ("Carsten Strotmann") wrote:

Great. A new book about #Forth, #APL, #Simula and other nice languages:

Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks: Rediscovering the Tools That Built
the Future

https://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven

It is good to learn new (old) ideas!

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's a real mystery.

https://x.com/keleftheriou/status/1758266408969080902

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

Goemon Impact Play

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Apple's lies to justify killing web apps are transparently self-interested. Anyone who has seen them get ritually humiliated over easily disproven security posturing over the past few years will recognise this instantly:

https://www.threads.net/@alex.stamos/post/C3YnwW9v4-p

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Why is it such a surprise when a tech outlet does an actual journalism about Apple's prevarications?

Why is this so unusual?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/apple_web_apps/

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

nmoo@mas.to ("nate") wrote:

Ah, I see that Apple is using "very low adoption of home screen web apps" as a justification to entirely remove home screen web apps. Web apps, by the way, only have a very low adoption because Apple strategically half-implements broken versions of the open standards which define their behavior. Web apps behavior is well-specified and fully viable on other platforms, but... Apple wouldn't get a cut of the revenue.

This is kind of the entire goal of the DMA.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-european-union/

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

I predicted malicious compliance. But "we can make a Vision Pro but we can't make web apps secure in 2 years and will nobody think of the children? And the PUPPIES?!?!?" is god-tier corporate punch-fisting of developers. Hats off to Cupertino for their chutzpah. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/apple_web_apps/

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a_smeriglia@mastodon.uno ("Astutillo Smeriglia :verified:") wrote:

Ecco il Tomblotto Climate Change Edition. Spero di non avere dimenticato niente.

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

ericb@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eric Billingsley") wrote:

lofi Gymnopédies to relax/study to:
https://sparsegamedev.itch.io/lofi-gymnopedies-to-relax-study-to

created for the PICO-8 Free Music Jam and available under the CC4-BY-NC-SA license

enjoy

#pico8 #chiptune #classical #lofi

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• Erik Satie, wearing headphones, sits at a piano while it rains outside. The rain is synchronized with the musical notes that are playing. A pear rests by the window. Rendered in a cartoon shaded pixel art style. (remote)

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

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

thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

@fromjason Agreed both about this article and about the tech press more generally. I've been thinking about writing something about this brouhaha ... none of the coverage I've seen has talked about any of the history, focused on the consent issue, or highlighted the parallels to the Meta discussions. It's ludicrous that the TechCrunch article quoted Evan on Threads about how Bluesky should adopt AP as an example of Mastodon's hostility to Bluesky -- and didn't bother to mention that Evan was in the github comments strongly defending the original non-consensual bridge proposal 😂​ But of course tech media is going to side with their corporate masters.

Anyhow the end result is actually ok -- Ryan's planning on making the bridge opt-in, and it probably increased momentum of consent-based federation in general (although there's still plenty o' challenges). And it's tricky to write about (and I'm in the middle of other stuff) so I'm not sure it's worth the time. But then again it's a very clean illustration about the differences in opinion on whether or not consent matters, which also very much relates to the Meta situation (and several of my previous posts), so maybe I'll give it a try.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I swear to god if one of you needs come in my comments about the difference between mammoths and mastodons...
I'll prob like it because that shit is cool

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#OpenAI text-to-video called #Sora. I know we all hate AI, I get it. And new releases like this always give me a weird chill.

But look, a little Mastodon herd.

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

Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:

This thing I wrote on BirdChan is doing the rounds again there:

🎶I am the very model of an Internet Monopoly,
I Hoover up your data then I model it’s topology,
I influence your buying and your vote with my psychology,
And if you ever twig, you’ll get my insincere apology!🎵

🎶Each time you search the web I make a note in my big database,
Your photo uploads help me guess your weight and recognize your face.
I’ve information detailing each ad you’ve seen and clicked upon,
I even know the username you use on Ashley Madison!🎵

🎶I track you as you surf the web, with magic cookie pixie dust,
I override your Do Not Track, to silently betray your trust.
I’ve even got the DNA, your sister sent to Ancestry,
Oh yes I am the very model of an Internet Monopoly!🎵

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

fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

i’ve been writing front-end for the last 17+ years, and man, it’s so under-appreciated, under-resourced and plain disrespected it makes my web soul hurt.

systems aren’t maintainable, semantic, accessible or performant and it’s a direct result of javascriptification of FE and pure disregard for it as a discipline.

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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Bookplate for Zoldos Sakeviciutes by Vaclovas Kosciuska, 1963. http://art-exlibris.net/exlibris/25670?query=&pt=owner

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• Engraving print of bold lines depicting a happy kitten sitting up proudly on top of a hardcover book, looking joyfully up at a little flying insect above it. A mouse or rat sits on floor beside the book, reading a tiny newspaper. The name "Zoldos Sakeviciutes" appears on an undulating banner beneath this scene and the words "ex libris" appear on the left side, the whole plate being enlivened by swirling, zigzagging, and jutting design elements descending from the upper left corner like a visual jazz interpretation of a robust sunbeam. (remote)

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Frances_Larina@sfba.social ("Frances Larina") wrote:

"Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable"

It's amazing, what can happen when workers are the primary recipients of the rewards for their own labor.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/six-months-in-journalist-owned-tech-publication-404-media-is-profitable/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#HyperScalers— Microsoft, Amazon, and Google own over 70% of the cloud computing market. Amazon owns 35% alone. This is a problem for the other hyper scalers.

#Amazon makes it effectively impossible for customers to use competing cloud solutions, because they charge based on the data going _out_ of its servers (egress). And since everything is proprietary, non of their servers play nice with each other.

So #Google and Meta started pushing #DataPortability and "openness"

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

surPRISE

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/politics/fbi-informant-bidens-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.BJGi.NxWTunyRNtZE&smid=url-share

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Why does the web feel transitional? And why do our platforms feel like a Potemkin Village?

I'm sorry to report that we don't live on Beyoncé's Internet anymore.

Most of the steel and glass that makes the Internet go vroom, is owned by four companies— #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Google, & #Meta (MAGM)

MAGM spent hundreds of billions on infrastructure in a race to own the real Web 3.0— Cloud Computing.

But a clear leader emerged (Amazon), and the others are scrambling.

Openness is their new gospel.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It’s mind boggling how much more power-efficient computers have become in the last two decades.

It’s not that new PCs are less power hungry than old PCs. It’s that all the computing power of a big old PC can be had on a tiny cheap board that runs on a battery.

https://lobste.rs/s/embgla/one_less_un_xy_option_for_32_bit_powerpc#c_qywexy

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

zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

IF YOU PROGRAM A "NO" BUTTON TO SAY "MAYBE LATER" YOU HAVE FAILED AT BOTH INTERFACE DESIGN AND BASIC CONSENT

edit: okay since this is actually getting some traction i wanna make sure to credit heather flowers for writing this

edit 2: for the folks wandering in off the street wondering what the numbers are for, these are from a list i compiled over the last few years

https://notes.yip.pe/notes/notes/Principles%20of%20UI%2C%20A%20Thread.html

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

When I'm on the train, on the way doing errands, and the music that comes up on shuffle inspires me. :blobcatrainbow:

Rein - Accelerate
https://song.link/s/5pi0VjJa9enmj6fZAYOsBO

#mastoart #sketchbook #pendrawing #music #rein #electro

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• Rough black sketch of a young woman with short blond hair, body facing the viewer, her head turned away to her right. She is wearing a large coat, nothing beneath, and is holding it closed. Her facial expression is slightly angry. She is shaded in bright red and behind her a black rectangle is shattered like a broken window. (remote)

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lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:

“They will–not can, will–feed it to their AI system and use it to rip off your work. They specifically declare you can’t complain about derogatory uses. They can mix your book with work you find abhorrent and release it as a new product. They can use a speech recognition system and create a printed version of your book.” https://mwl.io/archives/23448

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

tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:

This is the beg tech equivalent of a kid breaking their toys because they were told they needed to share.

And I take issue with the article stating "It’s understandable that Apple wouldn’t offer support for Home Screen web apps for third-party browsers." No, it's not "understandable", it's malicious compliance.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-european-union/

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

rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

What. The actual. Faque.

"The EU made us do it"

It took them 10+ days to release this statement. And the amount of bullshit is astonishing.

1/n

Via X: https://x.com/mysk_co/status/1758196103470628983?s=20

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Sometimes when this stuff shows up I have a real Skinner-meme moment.

Is it me that's just out of date?

Do people really not care if the open web dies?

Why is everyone else so bloody calm?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'm shocked at Apple (but not surprised), but @theverge's coverage is a dumpster fire. Reprints Apple's lies verbatim, doesn't pull opposing views. Y'all OK, @nilay_patel?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24074182/apple-drops-support-iphone-web-apps-eu-dma