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

mcc wrote:

I'm really stuck on this conspiracy theory I've got that Bluesky was designed from-word-Go to do something particular that furthered Twitter's goals. But now Twitter doesn't exist, and the sorta-Twitter thing that does exist doesn't have the same goals as the Twitter execs who spun off Bluesky. So the robot just keeps marching on and I do not know if the robot has enough self-awareness to interrogate its own goals

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Coworker: We need to $x.
Me: IIRC the common pattern is to $y or $z.
Coworker: It's not that simple...
Me:

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• A screenshot of a message in Slack, from user Cody (me): Quoted text: … useQuery hook, which a bit less straightforward. Reply: Struck-through text: The Aristocrats! Normal text: React! reaction emoticon: grinning face with squinting eyes

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

“US private spacecraft lands on lunar surface

The mission marks the first controlled descent to the moon's surface by a US spaceship since Apollo 17 in 1972.”

https://www.dw.com/en/breaking-us-private-spacecraft-lands-on-lunar-surface-in-a-first-for-a-private-company/a-68347218?

this is A Big Deal

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

anji ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

Robotic spacecraft with various scientific instruments landing on the moon in a little under an hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg2ffigGcYM

#space

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

Apple, probably:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

Attachments:

• Darth/Lando meme: "I have made a DMA compliance proposal. Pray I do not propose further." (remote)

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

breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

Strange, isn't it, that the values of real people — the things most of us truly care about — are not reflected at ALL in the values of our hegemonic capitalist consumerist culture...

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• Simple line drawings of 12 "real luxuries" with these captions: a good night's sleep listening to birds singing colorful sunsets slow mornings long walks freedom to choose time for fun and play a good book favorite home-cooked meal ability to freely express yourself day naps a good conversation (remote)

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

I am so very close to beating egui into submission, so I can finally get back to my actual original fscking project

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:

Finnish Bluegrass Band Covers AC/DC’s Thunderstruck. It’s the accordion player riding in on a lawnmower that clinches it for me. https://kottke.org/24/02/finnish-bluegrass-band-covers-acdcs-thunderstruck

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

some days I get the bear, and some days the bear gets me

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• fake O’Reilly book cover: a confused looking kitten, and the caption “Changing stuff and seeing what happens: How to learn any new programming concept” (remote)

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

brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

i've asked this before, but tell me your favorite single-serving / unitasker website of late and i'll do a little compilation of useful stuff.

:boost_requested:

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

He-Man is a magical girl anime

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

It looks like BlueSky blog authors were compelled to make the difference from Mastodon to look more drastic than it actually is:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

They made it seem like on Mastodon you're locked inside your server and accessing global content is somehow more difficult, which isn't true.

The actual difference, AFAIU, is that BlueSky offers curated global feeds, where Mastodon is purely follow-driven. (I know "global timeline" technically exists, but it's useless.)

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

brandkopf@mastodon.art ("brAnd") wrote:

The result of my train journeys to work this week. 🧜‍♀️ 🐊

#art #mastoart #pencil #bleistift #drawing #zeichnung #crocodile #TraditionalArt

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• Pencil drawing of a young woman under water. She is stroking the head of a crocodile which is wriggling around her. The woman smiles and looks to the side, the crocodile looks at the viewer. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I am prepared to cater to the diet of these guys.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/22/my-plan-for-when-the-alpha-males-take-over-sell-spiders/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD33rlVwXtU

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

edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

I took a look at one TIFF file through Google's new magika file format identification tool, and compared with file and siegfried:

https://inkdroid.org/2024/02/21/magic/

err, and I also tilted a bit at AI windmills... 🌬️💨🏭

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

hotkey@toot.lgbt ("Zoé (aka hotkey)") wrote:

(found on: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1ax0wf0/stop_doing_circuits_2/ )

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• (warning: lots of word in all caps) STOP DOING CIRCUITS * Wires WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES * You wanted to find a DRAIN??? | think you need to check your bathroom * “Transistor-Transistor Logic” BUT | thought transistors DO NOT HAVE LOGIC * “Yes please give me RT0402BRD073K3L/ Please give me STM32F407VGT6" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged * ADC, AC, VDD, DC, DAC, AVDD, CAD, VCC??? the alphabet has other letters SEE what electrical engineers have been asking you to respect all this time, with all those oscilloscopes and Butterworth filters (This is REAL circuits done by REAL Engineers): Image 1: A textbook circuit with resistors, cap, inductor, current source, etc. caption: ???????? Image 2: A chip in a TQFP package caption: ??? This black square contains THOUSANDS OF TRANSISTORS???? Image 3: A circuit with 3 op amps and resistors caption: STUPID TRIANGLES “Hello do you have some pure sine wave inverter?” They have played us for absolute fools (remote)

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

simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

No persistent storage for websites on iOS in EU:

https://twitter.com/dannymoerkerke/status/1760239235762663735

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Speaking of bad algorithms...

GitHub Copilot just recommended I sign my code comment as this user, for some reason.

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• GitHub Copilot recommending adding a GitHub username that's not mine to my code comment. (The name in question is @jacobwgillespie) (remote)

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

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

What I’m listening to today: "The Sequence - Funk You Up."

This is one of the earliest rap songs to get released commercially. As with the origins of a lot of musical genres, history is somewhat murky, but for some context, this was the second rap single ever issued by Sugar Hill, in 1979; the first was _Rapper’s Delight_. This song isn’t the invention of the genre, but it’s certainly the dawn of it. It’s also the first rap record released by an all-woman group, and was produced by a woman — Black women were a critical part of the formation of rap.

The song is both great on its own, and an interesting historical artifact. It’s charming and infectious, with a terrific funky bassline and catchy hook. It’s unmistakably rap, but the influences of funk, soul, and disco are crystal clear. It sounds like they used session musicians for the backing, rather than drum machines and samples. The extended version (which was the B-side) emphasizes these aspects even more.

Going to share both sides of this single, because they’re interesting to compare and I just can’t get enough of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flG4hOD3wZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBuAH68G8Q

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Watched a couple of YouTube shorts making jokes about fonts this morning.

The very next video recommended–which YouTube *began to autoplay immediately*—was Tucker Carlson interviewing Vladimir Putin.

What

The

Actual

Fuck

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

Web Engines Hackfest 2024 will be happening in June 3-5 in A Coruña. Registration form for onsite participation is now open: https://forms.gle/6dv64Qs6eNBZgDq77

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

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

It’s 1980 in Australia. 6:55pm on a weeknight. You just watched an episode of The Goodies, and then Tom Baker did battle with a giant mutant plant. The news is in five minutes, but first: https://youtu.be/QgbgUrp1a70

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The man who made that anti-science judgment in Alabama turns out to be a QAnon zealot. Are you surprised?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/22/how-to-get-a-demented-judicial-system/

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• Judge Tom Parker (remote)

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

The Rust project will be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024!

Check out our blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/21/Rust-participates-in-GSoC-2024.html

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

protonmail ("Proton Mail") wrote:

🎉 We have a new feature for you this week on #ProtonMail.

Now, you can swipe between messages on the Proton Mail #iOS app. Stay focused as you quickly move from one email to the next.

If you haven’t already, download the app here: https://apps.apple.com/app/proton-mail-encrypted-email/id979659905

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• The image shows the hand swiping between emails on iPhone.

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

yes, this actually is A Big Deal for our political economy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/technology/openai-sora-videos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU0.NXOE.FaYMD5uAdwIf&smid=url-share

https://vp.nyt.com/video/2024/02/14/115631_1_15OPENAI-VIDEO-3_wg_720p.mp4

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

wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

a "safe c" compiler and run-time by filip pizlo: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/deluge/Manifesto.md

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

"Rust is an amazing language. Unfortunately, safe Rust is quite limiting. For example, you cannot introduce code that could corrupt the program's memory. Now, with cve-rs, you can corrupt your program's memory without corrupting your program's memory." https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs

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

bennett@assemblag.es ("Bennett") wrote:

this has been making the rounds for a while now, but if you haven't yet, read the whole thing, the problem is probably deeper and shittier than you know

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

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

passle wrote:

Im so annoyed, Ive built a bunch of pwas mostly for myself that I use quite a bit (games, reddit, other stuff) and it all looks like ass now because of the safari ui >:(