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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

I struggle with the notion that tech companies do not understand consent.

IMHO, they do understand consent.

They understand that seeking consent - freely-given, specific, informed consent - won't get them where they want to be.

To my mind, that's not a misunderstanding of consent, but a determination to avoid consent.

That's typically why one sees language of "choice" and "control" and "transparency" to describe an opt-out regime.

They're not confused. It's by design.

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

emma@social.emma.coop ("The Emma Coop") wrote:

new website just dropped 👀

https://emma.coop/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@collinsworth and sometimes it fires twice! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60618844/react-hooks-useeffect-is-called-twice-even-if-an-empty-array-is-used-as-an-ar

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I bought a cheap cd burner and some used CDs.

Fucking hate that Sony is snatching people's purchased media from their accounts.

I know the chances of Apple doing that are low but still. I'm gonna buy more physical media.

Attachments:

• Picture of cd burner and four cd cases. The top case is of a nirvana album Unplugged.

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

Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:

Every year, students around the world submit videos to a "Dance Your PhD" contest. The goal is to "explain your research through interpretive dance."

This year's fabulous winner, Weliton Menário Costa, explores kangaroo behavior & promotes diversity. It is, by far, the best I've ever seen.

Go watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSYO3fApEc #science #dance #art #animals

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

Yeah, I know SALAMI is not known to most of us:

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/

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

Thanks for the advice, CEOs of tech corporation selling SALAMI "solutions" (and less thanks to the people who go around parroting them), but I think I'll avoid deskilling myself and others for now.

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

Me: "When does useEffect fire?"

Google: "After every render!"

Me: "No, but initially."

Google "After paint!"

Me: "No, when does useEffect run the *first* time?"

Google: "After every render!"

Me: "What *event*? Is it after domcontentloaded? Will deferred scripts have run by the point useEffect runs?"

Google:

Me:

Google: "Look, I'm sorry, dude, nobody who uses React has any idea how browsers work. Here's twenty articles that don't answer your question. Care for a cookie?"

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a1ba@suya.place ("a9b6a509-a1ba-4b5f-bde4-f507c6529377") wrote:

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• Cat head pats passing by humans (remote)

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

fbuontempo ("Fran") wrote:

I received copies of my new #Cpp book today. I managed to keep it short and still cover lots.

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• Me holding a copy of my new book, showing it is no wider than my index finger

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

How do y'all feel about back-to-back "thats" in your writing?

#writing #blogging

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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.

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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/

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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

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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

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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.