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lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:

everybody who is migrating out of wordpress or tumblr: imagine receiving these news every damn day for something you rely on to keep doing your job. every time an asshole CEO decides they need to sprinkle some AI magic on their otherwise perfectly OK product we have to go back to review their new TOS and decide if it's worth migrating out if we can't live with it. this is my life now.

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

SPINMag@flipboard.com wrote:

Libraries (Yes, Libraries!) Are Leading the Crusade for New Music Discovery - SPIN
https://www.spin.com/2024/02/libraries-yes-libraries-are-leading-the-crusade-for-new-music-discovery/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into SPIN @spin-SPINMag

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

pressure cooker chili verde (Mexican-style green pork chili stew) on “keep warm” now… came out *goooooood*

;^}

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

It's so obvious, and pleasant when an app isn't trying to lock you in, or sell your data. It makes me fiercely loyal to it.

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

Especially any technology that requires vast resources and organized, coordinated effort to achieve.

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

No technology is inevitable.

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

The registrar for freethoughtblogs, bluehost.com, is more interested in pandering to an Islamist fanatic who filed a bogus complaint than in actually providing a service to their customers. Do not ever give your business to bluehost.

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

Wow. A lot more collateral damage than I expected here. I kinda thought my humble little PWA games would be mostly unaffected, since they barely use app features, but it looks like I was wrong.

“So, what exactly did Apple break in the EU?” by @tomayac: https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/02/so-what-exactly-did-apple-break-in-the-eu.md/

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

rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Okay so, with #WASM we can have pretty much any programming language in a browser, right?

So I could, say, come up with my own very special programming language and only use that client side on my website.

And you could come up with *your* programming language, and use *that* client side on *your* website.

We could have a different programming language for each domain even!

I will call these: domain-specific languages.

:blobcatpeek:

#Programming #JavaScript

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

@yayKM @ThermiteBeGiants 🎵
I've written a self-referential Major-Gen'ral parody
Though several other versions bear a striking similarity
Before you go complaining that it sounds like every other one
It barely was original when Gilbert wrote for Sullivan
To many other songs it will indubitably share a note
It doesn't list the elements, not like the one Tom Lehrer wrote
In fact you'll find this song is suited less to operetta than
A segment shown on Denton or on Carson or on Letterman

In all of God's creation nothing's quite so overkillable
As G&S's patter song in lines of 16 syllables
And so in my conclusion I'll reiterate for clarity
I've written a self-referential Major-Gen'ral parody
🎵

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

ahhhh, that first taste from my morning cuppa

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

rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

Not anymore, Steve. Not anymore.

Via X: https://twitter.com/firt/status/1762542254508437552

#PWApocalypse

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

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

With the administration now recommending memory safe languages, I'm assuming the RNC platform is going to talk about preserving our god-given freedom as Americans to overwrite the stack whenever and wherever we want.

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

Absolutely breathtaking run this morning. I am very fortunate.

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• cf69fe0958d04096.mp4 (remote)

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

thepoliticalcat wrote:

Fucking Arizona, man. They tryna pass a bill to let ranchers SHOOT TO KILL undocumented folks.

https://mastodon.social/@BurrLand01@mastodon.world/112006334812165352

Now, we ALL know what this means. It's open season on brown-skinned folks. I mean, you'd have to TALK to me to know I'm not one of THOSE BROWN PEOPLE YOU'RE ALLOWED TO SHOOT. And I don't think these people will be doing any talking. Fuckers.

H/t @BurrLand01

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

dredmorbius@toot.cat ("Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​") wrote:

Birdsite is now utterly unusable to search for current breaking events and news.

And the Fediverse isn't yet up to the task (though it has a few hits for what I'm looking for).

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

mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

From my perspective of running a campaign/little store, Apple’s Hide My Email is a source of so many problems.

People forget they used it, create multiple accounts, but most importantly *I cannot reach people who paid me money to send them stuff*. Not even automated emails – just 1:1 handwritten ones, too. More often than not, not even a bounce.

It’s really bad. Over a hundred of people for me, I spent so many hours dealing with this, and I won’t be able to resolve it all.

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

setting up for the usual local weekly voice net on 50.250MHz USB #AmateurRadio

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

permacomputer@retro.social ("People's Permacomputer Project") wrote:

# What is a permacomputer?

A permacomputer is a computer which attempts to embody the virtues of permacomputing.

Foundationally, permacomputing itself is set of community practices and traditions which shares a set of social and ecological values inspired by the 70s land management and settlement design of permaculture.

# What is the point of this project?

The people's permacomputer project is an attempt to physically realise a permacomputer.

This will involve not just the production of an actual model permacomputer, but also the development of a list of suggested social and cultural practices around computing that will, it is hoped, assist in the continued human practice of electronic computing.

There are many different dialectical approaches to making an introduction to the people's permacomputer. One thought experiment that has proved especially popular and easy to grasp sums up the mindset behind which we are functioning:

> Industrial society has collapsed. All semiconductor fabrication has ceased, society-wide electrification is no longer guaranteed. There is no longer any internet. Computing as it was once known in the early 21st century is impossible. You need a computer for a task. What do you do?

This project is a humble response to the challenge posed by the above problem.

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

Apple's trying to scuttle PWAs out of pique, blame regulators for their tantrum, and gaslight users, businesses, and developers about who is breaking their apps and why.

It's bullshit, and @owa is fighting back. Join them by signing the open letter:

https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

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

a vee of 30-40 geese just flew by overhead, gossiping away about the neighbors and how their day went

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Lobbying by the Big Borrow Checker is real:

https://www.regulations.gov/comment/ONCD-2023-0002-0045

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

@ia @reichenstein any desire to make a three hundred dollar word processor with a mechanical keyboard and sync to ia Writer/ iCloud?

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

There appears to be people impersonating me on the internet to discredit my husband.

If you happen to notice "me" doing things odd or out of character online, please do let _me_ (here, or by my known email addresses) or Josh know.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I can't afford a $500 "distraction free" word processor. But boy do I wish I could write on something that's not my work laptop.

Any clever recommendations?

#writer #blogger

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modrak_m@bayes.club ("Martin Modrák") wrote:

A nice little paper arguing that Chord diagrams are generally harder to understand than Sankney plots for the same data. Relevant for when people will next request the "nice circular diagrams" for a bioinformatics analysis: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3544548.3581119
#hci #plots #bioinformatics

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• A Chord plot showing the flow of loans and debts between a few nations. (remote)
• A Sankney plot showing the flow of loans and debts between a few nations. (remote)

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Catlynn@nerdculture.de ("squirrelygirl") wrote:

The salvia gave us a surprise second bloom before I could cut it back. The hummingbirds are delighted! The garden bed is a battleground ⚔️

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• A male Anna’s hummingbird darts through the red salvia blooms in my garden. The morning sun shines through his wings and there is yellow and orange iridescence on his gorget (remote)
• A male Allen’s hummingbird perches on a shepherd’s hook guarding his territory. He faces away from the camera, head turned to the right and tail fanned. Blurry reds, pinks and greens in the background. (remote)

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BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:

So are we going to mass block Tumblr if they decide to federate?

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

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

Marking the day of Leonard Nimoy's passing on 2015-02-27 by remembering his greatest moment.

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (Official Alternative Video) - YouTube

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

It should be literally illegal to make something opt-out instead of opt-in.