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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

rustyshelf ("Russell Ivanovic") wrote:

China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”

China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”

China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”

EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”

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

GamingNews@meta.masto.host ("Gaming News") wrote:

PC Gamer just posted:

600 Activision QA workers just formed the biggest videogame union in the US

Quality assured.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/600-activision-qa-workers-just-formed-the-biggest-videogame-union-in-the-us

#gamingNews

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• Header image for an article titled: 600 Activision QA workers just formed the biggest videogame union in the US (remote)

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

Oh, real quick before I go to bed to have an hour stolen from my sleep by the DST fairy... If time travel ever was invented, and I had access to it, I'm pretty sure I'd waste a few trips to go attend some shows for bands I never had the chance to see live. Concrete Blonde would be one.

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

Balatro is the first video game I've ever played that made me feel jealous. I feel like I've been trying to invent a game just like this for like years, and then it just comes along and exists already.

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

That song hits differently decades later with certain decisions far behind me and far fewer now in front...

'Night, all. o/

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

Random song lyric popped into my head this evening. "I thought I'd be out of here by now..."

Concrete Blonde's "Still in Hollywood":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4joFZUPKlk

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I leveled up again, btw.

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• Photo of my ikenobo ikebana card stating that I am now an instructor of ikebana, 2nd grade (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

konstantindenerz@mastodon.world ("Konstantin Denerz") wrote:

@CodePen #Challenge: We all know the dark side of notifications, but this one is very tempting 🔥.

This pure CSS demo can also serve as an Easter egg within your app. ✨

✅ Chrome & Safari

🔗 https://codepen.io/konstantindenerz/pen/QWPyXwO

#css #gm #darkside #vader #notifications #bell #easteregg #codepen #codepenchallenge #StarWars #cssart

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• fc36da1066d7a143.mp4 (remote)

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

septicake@transfem.social ("septicake:verifiedtrans::verifiedlesbian:") wrote:

I was born a guy, I am now a girl, and according to my pasta cooker I’m also a family of four

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I have two very different drafts for my next blog post ready.

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

basically every time i'm reading a "standard" chatGPT passage I find myself slipping into the 7th grade student council speech cadence

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

Many people ask whether the standard ChatGPT writing style is intentionally built in to the model. Whether it's deliberate or not, the voice has surely made an impression on its readers. Some elements of its style have been compared to...

etc etc etc etc. it's the worst

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There is no bigger betrayal than when your music streamer adds songs to a carefully curated playlist.

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

one of the more depressing things about LLMs is that the "house style" is always some tedious anodyne blog voice and I am sure young writers are emulating it, consciously or not

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

gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I feel like we’re not being mean enough to people still using cryptocurrency.

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

did my usual Saturday AM dog-walking volunteer shift at the #ROC City Pound... there are some sweeties there, just waiting to find homes.

🐕

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

not much happening for me on wavelengths shorter than 40m w JS8 today... Tthe Band Gawdz B Fickle

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

prasoon wrote:

Incredible history of dance music by #mobi

DJ History and Turntable 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2H2KYWKcI

#disco #gay #homophobia #blackmusic #latinomusic

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

dillyd@allies.social ("val dillydallies") wrote:

Today's cactus flowers

#cactus #bloomscrolling

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• Closeup side view of three bright pink cactus flowers. The flowers have a cupped base and the petals are pointy at the end. The cactus itself is green with fine white spikes that look almost like hair. (remote)
• The top of a mammillaria cactus starting to blossom in a ring like a crown. Four bright pink flowers have fully formed and several more are starting to break the surface. (remote)

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

mikael@merveilles.town wrote:

The work of creation in the age of AI
https://perfors.net/blog/creation-ai/

This the most meaningful text about art and #AI I've read so far.

#LLM

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

martijnbraam@fosstodon.org ("Martijn Braam") wrote:

New blog post, more audio stuff :)

https://blog.brixit.nl/digital-audio-mixer-pt-2/

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

wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:

Anne Clark "Full Moon"

Inside my dreams they build business machines

https://anneclarkofficial.bandcamp.com/track/full-moon

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

APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

Comet Pons-Brooks in Northern Spring

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240309.html #APOD

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• 78ad72987764deed.png (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

And you wont change my mind.

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• Lisa Simpson meme with the text PASTE WITHOUT FORMATTING SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not a cat"") wrote:

Every single elder millennial who was online between 2000-2008 has a phrase from Homestar Runner that will activate them like the Manchurian Candidate and make them spout absolute gibberish for 40 seconds

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

This is how we celebrate my birthday today?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/09/in-my-prime/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7WDRLrMyvQ

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

I'll be giving an invited talk later this month at KU Leuven on how Apple's behavior is playing into a set of emerging threats to private and open computing.

Will publish slides and notes! For now, here's the abstract:

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• b3da0a0e9d00e1ae.png (remote)

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:

Apple's reversal on the Epic situation is all well and good, but it doesn't prevent this kind of thing from happening again to a smaller developer who doesn't have a ton of PR or the ear of the EC. And it does highlight that Apple still has *all the control* to do whatever it wants, with little oversight, under its proposed DMA plan. They have forcibly inserted themselves in between third party app stores/payment providers and those services’ users, free to turn the screws as they wish

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

bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

It is mind boggling how much JavaScript exists just to help people avoid writing CSS.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

In this thread I will explain why "the cloud" is just the privatization of the Internet, and the Internet, as we think of it, doesn't exist anymore.

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