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

Figured out a neat thing where I was able to add a new "editor component" in the Decap CMS I have hooked up to my friend's Jekyll blog. He can now add nice captioned images through inline HTML blocks without having to know any code snippets. I think I'm going to write up how it works, because I couldn't find much when I was working on it!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

They were always going to target the small servers first. #Meta #fedimeta

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gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

They say that degrowth is utopian and delusional. But what could be more utopian and delusional than believing you can infinitely grow, consume, waste and pollute on a finite planet?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Like, how can Reddit sell our data for $60 million, but we as indie writers and creators have to accept that our work will be stolen because it's posted on the "open web"?

Which, by the way, my work is published on my private blog. I pay rent and everything. There's nothing public or open about it, other than as an excuse for corps and scrapers to steal my shit.

#OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Honest question— Reddit just signed a multimillion dollar deal with OpenAI to train on our data. Reddit's content license allowed them to negotiate this deal.

So where's the license for personal blogs to protect our writing? And why aren't any open web advocates vigorously pointing to such a license?

We can't have an independent web if we don't independently own how our published work is used.

#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #SmallWeb

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here is your #Caturday update. She loves a good box. And a bad box. Any box. #CatsOfMastodon

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• A white cat with orange patches and a pink nose sitting upright inside a small cardboard box, her eyes glimmering. Her name is Peaches and she wants your soul.

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Is Not A Wizard Tarr") wrote:

Why am I both people in this conversation?!

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• So it turns out a squirrel would need to fall about 4800 miles in order to die because that would give it time to starve to death because they can survive terminal velocity Rachel am begging you itis 2:30 in the morning . stealthboy: friendship is work (remote)

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blobcat@labyrinth.zone ("blobcat :blobcatpeekaboo: ") wrote:

apparently vice is shuttering for real for real this time
I’ll miss it, it really was peak journalism

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• "Are you fucking going to play "The Boys Are Back in Town' again?" asked a voice whenI reached the jukebox. absolutely, 100 percent, am not going to play "The Boys Are Back In Town' again," I promised, punching the buttons to select "The Boys Are Back in Town" which I had memorized. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Everyday's an endless stream of Netflix shows and podcast dreams, mmm — Simon and Garfunkel

#SmallWeb

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

I am not religious and I am definitely not Christian, and I am damn proud of that fact.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/24/i-am-proud-to-be-non-religious-and-non-christian/

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• “We are a religious state. We are going to fight to keep that (LGBTQ) filth out of the state of Oklahoma, because we’re a Christian state.” (remote)

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

Passionately writing software feels precisely like this

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

back from my usual Saturday morning volunteer shift walking #Dogs 🐕 at the #ROC City Pound... there are some real sweeties in jail right now.

care to foster or adopt one? they'll love you back, unreservedly, which is more than can be said for most humanoids

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randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

@somarasu I don't know if you know the song, like the style, or even need music, but it's definitely relevant.

THE GODS THEMSELVES - Tech Boys - YouTube

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madrush@cosmos.social ("Marco V Morelli") wrote:

I had the tab open for months, and finally bought my first book and signed up w/ Tertulia.com—a "co-op bookstore."

"Tertulia is co-owned by our co-op members, a community of avid readers. This means that we put the interests of readers, authors, and a healthy book ecosystem first."

It costs $25/year for free shipping & 20% off retail price. Which beats Amazon prime (if all you're buying is books).

I'm curious to see how this goes. Anyone else a member?

#co-op #cooperative #books #bookstodon

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

From 1987 to 1992 Xerox PARC ran the Colab (Electronic Meeting Room) project to study how computer technologies could support face-to-face-meetings. The researchers designed a conference room with specialized equipment such as networked Lisp Machines, a room-scale touch sensitive projection screen, and collaboration software in Interlisp.

This post by a Colab researcher summarizes the project and links to more in depth papers:

https://www.markstefik.com/?page_id=155

#meetings #retrocomputing #interlisp

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter Krupa") wrote:

Obama's pastor said "God damn America" and it was like a month-long news cycle that ended with him changing churches. Jack Posobeic says, at a **political conference**, at a **PANEL HOSTED BY THE FORMER CHIEF STRATEGIST AND AIDE TO A MAN CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT**, that the coup attempt didn't go far enough and he wants to replace American democracy with a theocracy. and that's, like, fine. a curiosity. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/23/jack-posobiec-cpac-remarks-democracy-cnc-vpx.cnn

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

Today I learned that Michael Shellenberger is a fraud and a phony. Stop citing him as an "environmental activist."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/24/are-wind-farms-killing-whales/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KfoH32p3GY

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

Learning how all these board game AI algorithms worked and implementing them in Rust was a a lot of fun:

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

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, check out my new strategy board game side project.

I had a lot of fun working on this throughout January and some of February. Give it a try!

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/runes-of-ardun/id6477489245?l=en-GB

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

Wayne LaPierre gets a tiny taste of justice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/24/another-conservative-grifter-gets-a-legal-slapping/

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• Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera (remote)

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

https://youtu.be/PWHFr9KJGBk

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• c7baed0e47ba57d7.jpeg (remote)

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.me”

This is obscene. JS payloads this big are just outright broken on low- to mid-range devices. Here I am, worrying about every K that ends up in the final project payload, and these assholes are just outright shipping a dozen MB to every visitor. https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

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

American political coverage is like:

[DEMOCRAT] This person is kind of old, or maybe they wore an outfit some people didn't like once. They also possibly had consensual sex with another adult at some point. How can rural voters trust them?

[REPUBLICAN] Tom Slaver believes women and Black people shouldn't be allowed to vote, and that we should give babies guns, abolish democracy, and imprison anyone who reads a book that isn't the Bible. Why do Democrats hate this kind, misunderstood man?

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chockenberry ("Craig Hockenberry") wrote:

douchebaggage | ˈdo͞oSHˌbaɡij |

noun

• being stuck with technology after a person or company reveals their true identity: My Tesla lease is some real douchebaggage.

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davidbisset@phpc.social ("David Bisset") wrote:

When you see a comment in the code and afraid to ask it's backstory. #programming #coding #memes

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• A single long bathroom sink in a public restroom with a clear sign above it that reads that urinals are further along and the below (sink) is for handwash only. (remote)

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

Just realized it's been several weeks since I've seen somebody answer an online question with "I asked ChatGPT, and it said...," which I'll take as a generally positive sign.

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eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

Don't have anything to do this weekend?

Love #scifi #fantasy and speculative genres?

Attend VirtuousCon 2024, featuring special guest, Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemison - as well as a panel of other very special guests + vendors.

Get more info and your tickets (there's still time!) here:

https://virtuouscon.com/

#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

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Deus@charcha.cc wrote:

Basking in the morning sun.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catsoffediverse #Cats #mastocats #Photography #Fotografia #Fotographie #Fujifilm #マストドン写真部 #NoEdit

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• Three cats enjoy the morning sun that has peeped through the door of the house. You see two of them cleaning themselves and petting each other. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

A thousand little threads coming soon #Meta

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/metas-new-llm-based-test-generator

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xkcd@mastodon.com.br ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

#2898 - Orbital Argument

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• "Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!" (remote)