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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
When will a "tech" reporter dare to ask the question "why can't Epic just move to the web?"
It's a big story. But I guess the tech press doesn't investigate tech?
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johnnyryan@eupolicy.social ("Johnny Ryan") wrote:
Significant news, after many years of fighting...
This morning the European Court of Justice has ruled that IAB Europe is responsible for "TCF" consent spam popups the Internet
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Ok nerds, what are the best web conferences happening this year? Preferably in the US, UK, Japan, or Europe?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apparently Apple spends $1bn/yr on legal, but you get the sense that those folks are underpaid, what with having Apple executives as clients and all:
Mastodon FeedI love the Hellsing TV soundtrack. It has been a while since I listened to it, so let's go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KH-kpFKFU0&list=PLk_xwpTMJK22fJGLbCMMYTKBlrreutyU3&index=1
#NowPlaying #music #soundtrack #AnimeSoundtrack #Hellsing
I think the TV series got more hate than it deserved. Yeah, the art style sometimes changes from episode to episode, but the story isn't that bad. I have to admit, I only read the first volume of the manga, but after watching Hellsing Ultimate, which definitely has a beautiful art style, the story just was a bit too over the top. Still fun, though!
Mastodon FeedPlasma 6 landed on Arch main... and I'm not sure what to make of it, just yet.
My panels were pretty much broken after the upgrade, but resetting them to defaults seemed to do the trick.
The HDR support seems a bit weird, as all SDR apps now look completely washed out. Probably just a setting I need to tweak, tho.
Other than that, it's been a lot smoother than the 4->5 and (especially) 3->4 major version upgrades.
Good job, KDE devs.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
In calmer news, I now seem to have carved a consistent chunk of time in my evening routine to brew Chinese #tea for my family. Today we're drinking 17 year old puerh. Which I bought some 12 years ago.
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Yesterday I made a mistake. I tried to tell a joke about peeling weirdly shaped potatoes and was PRACTICALLY EATEN ALIVE IN MY OWN SKIN for even suggesting a possibility of wanting to engage in the activity.
So hear this. I stand by my principles and I do not apologize! You still want to peal the dreaded spuds if you want them pureed or used in a soup. I'm gonna fight y'all!
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gulovsen ("Grant Gulovsen") wrote:
Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding "before:2023" to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.
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snugug@mas.to ("Snugug") wrote:
Sometimes I feel cursed with the burden of knowledge™ that web apps don't need to be as shitty as they are.
For now the second time in less than a year, I've bee so fed up with the "new” digital companion tool for a #ttrpg _I've built my own from scratch_ just to not have to use the official React + clickable div solution that takes multiple seconds to load, has half a second of lag to change what shoulda been a radio input, and has a poor mobile experience.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
My 6y/o niece is running around asking people "are you a narc?" Lmao
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Does “finish the problem” sound a lot like “final solution” to anyone else?
#trump #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #us https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112050712540814305
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Doing that thing where I take care of myself and whatnot.
Just drank water with lemon slices. Might fuck around and do a push up later.
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
This madness is why we can’t trust Apple to be the sole arbiter of what apps users are allowed to install on their own devices.
Apple’s ridiculous malicious compliance means they need to be first in the DMA enforcement firing line.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
“What did the woke crowd ever do to you?”
Elon Musk:
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
React starts off really easy. Because it hides a lot of the complexity from you. "Easy to get started" is also at the root of a lot of dysfunction today in my opinion. Getting started is cool. But you know what's even better? Finishing the thing. Expanding the thing. Maintaining the thing as is scales. Changing the thing when the goals or requirements change. Improving the performance when users report that it's slow. All of those things matter way more than "getting started".
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shayz0rz@mastodon.online ("Shana") wrote:
@StillIRise1963 @ShiitakeToast Part of the problem is even journalists I respect a great deal saying he can end this by picking up the phone. That’s literally not how it works. If it was, the US would legitimately be a dictator over its allies — and, possibly, the whole world.
Is that…is that really what these people want?
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ShiitakeToast@beige.party ("Shiitake Toast-MAX 9") wrote:
@StillIRise1963 Biden is working behind the scenes, carefully managing a hostile and uncooperative ally, who is a sovereign state that won’t just do whatever we tell them and has a large base of support in the US, while going further to condemn the actions of that ally than any president since ever. And this at a time where rising explicit antisemitism has a lot of American Jewish Democrats feeling deeply uncomfortable in the US, even those who abhor Bibi’s violence.
The issue is not as simple as Biden snapping his fingers and Israel suddenly stopping
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
huh, this looks *very* interesting: https://guillaume-be.github.io/2020-11-21/generation_benchmarks
"Any Pytorch model trained on the Transformers’s library can be converted to a C-array format and used by the rust-bert library."
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dale@toot.cafe ("Dale Harvey") wrote:
Some legend lorry driver keeps parking in front of the forced birthers harassing people outside the family planning section of the hospital in Glasgow
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theluddite@assemblag.es ("The Luddite") wrote:
Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.
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xoxo@xoxo.zone ("XOXO") wrote:
One last time, with feeling. https://2024.xoxofest.com
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
every once in a while I edit some writing by somebody who doesn't use em dashes and it's like... it's so beautiful when foreign languages are mutually intelligible
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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:
Random question for aviation nerds:
Is it possible, if I knew the dates, route, and possibly the flight number, to find out the type of aircraft used on a commercial flight in 2003?
Boosts appreciated.
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natematias@social.coop ("J. Nathan Matias 🦣") wrote:
"Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design complexity was vastly increased, and their feasibility decreased, by Babbage’s insistence that they print out the results of their calculation throughout the process"
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was true of surveillance in the first computers, as @Mer__edith points out
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@mathewi you might find some of this interesting https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/112049995886879246
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the grim logic of the Russian War on Ukraine is leading humanity to some dark places. see my short post https://blog.ncoti.org/down-an-unexpected-rabbit-hole-or/
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ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de ("Nina Willburger") wrote:
A friend who is working on the Esna restoration project just sent me these stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. The colours of the reliefs and inscriptions in the building have been covered by a coating of dirt and soot for some 2000 years.
Since 2018, the original bright colours have been uncovered.Photo: D. v. Recklinghausen
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
This is my #ADHD playlist. Over the past six months, I've carefully curated a collection of piano-based songs with deep tones.
It works wonders for me. I listen to this mix whenever I need to sit in front of a computer for extended periods of time.
I hope it works for you as well as it has for me.
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/find-your-focus/pl.u-4lRGTam0WqY