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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Huh, I'm interested in distributed social networking. I even wrote a protocol and implementation of one for myself called #FeoBlog

So I was a bit surprised to hear about #NOSTR for the first time today. https://nostr.com/

It has a lot of the same qualities that I'd designed into FeoBlog, but a lot more momentum behind it. I'm reading up on it today, but am curious to hear thoughts from anyone who's looked into it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

If you're following the #TiktokBan and confused as to why the US Government is forcing ByteDance to divest, check out my latest post.

#Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft, & #Meta (GAMM) own the lion's share of the infrastructure required to run the internet. They control 75% of the cloud market. Two of the 4 own 50% of the fiber optic cables connecting the globe. It's a monopoly similar to the telecommunications industry in the 90s.

The future of the web is consumption.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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

wow, i did NOT have b14 on my bingo card! wow, i did NOT have n32 on my bingo card! oh nice, i18. wow, i did NOT have i22 on my bingo card!

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

like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing

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

I'm giving up alcohol for…the rest of my life. I tell you, teaching a course on teratology & endocrine disruptors will simply wreck you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/13/you-know-alcohol-is-not-good-for-children-and-other-growing-things/

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• Alcohol is poison (remote)

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

for years I assumed that when encountered a completely user-hostile workflow I was doing something wrong. now I have the confidence to know that's often "working as intended"

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

s@social.lol ("sam") wrote:

Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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

tickets are now available for the half-day Crossword Con coming up in NYC. i think these are going to sell out, so if you're interested i'd move early https://www.crosswordcon.com/

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

Oscar the Housepanther loves lettuce

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servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Where do you see Servo going in a year, or two, or five? A robust embedded webview, a thriving gateway for the next generation of browser devs, the foundation of Rust’s web platform story?

With your help, we can make it happen!

https://github.com/sponsors/servo
https://opencollective.com/servo

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• “Inside of every web browser is a rendering engine, like Chromium, WebKit, or Gecko. “These primary engines all have their origins in the late 1990s, and are now supported by huge amounts of money from very large tech companies. “Other web rendering engines, like Servo, are not. “Servo is a web engine built to be robust and easily embeddable, with the memory safety and parallel computing support that comes from being written in Rust. “It’s been used in over 32000 GitHub projects alone, with over 1100 contributors. “And now, you can help us make Servo even better by donating to the brand new Servo collective. “For just 10 USD a month, or whatever amount you can sustain, you can help us cover the infrastructure costs and pay developers to work on Servo to make it better, faster. “Every dollar the collective receives, which is more than 94% of every dollar given, will be dedicated to those purposes. “At just 100 USD per month, we can cover the costs of our website and other core infrastructure. “By reaching 1000 USD per month, we can set up dedicated servers for faster Windows and macOS builds, better test coverage and reliability, and new testing techniques. “Beyond 10000 USD per month, we can pay a developer to make Servo their top priority. “The further we go, the more developer time we can fund. “To help us make all this a reality, please visit opencollective.com/servo to learn more and make a donation today. “And thank you.” (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He’s here! The prototype, anyway. He’s big, squishy, and friend-shaped. We’ll try to make him as affordable as possible. You’ll have to wait a couple more months to get one, but we might open pre-orders relatively soon.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon #Mastodon

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• A stuffed toy in the shape of a round Mastodon, beige, with pink cheeks. He looks large in my wife’s arms who is hugging him.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Remember folks, ChatGPT lies with total conviction about easily verified facts, like this claim that solar eclipses can't happen anywhere in our solar system.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/112088372260024798

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

People are really bad at purging garbage from their lives.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/13/people-are-good-at-producing-vomit-all-on-their-own/

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• Andrew Tate (remote)

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

Once you start seeing through the AI facade, you can't avoid seeing it everywhere.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/13/at-least-you-quickly-know-to-not-bother-reading-the-rest/

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• AI garbage in a scientific paper (remote)

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

All of us internet-addicted folk and humans in general ought to be dismayed at seeing how the AI companies are regurgitating our work.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/13/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/

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• Dog vomit (remote)

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bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

I have deemed the Lulu.com printing of my *Calculus Made Easy* revised edition to be good enough. So, I am making it available to order here at cost:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/silvanus-thompson-and-blake-stacey/calculus-made-easy-third-edition/paperback/product-84zdpvr.html

It is available electronically (PDF and LaTeX) via my blog:

https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=3194

#mathematics #calculus

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First attempt with two continuous tunsgten lights. I've used the second to accentuate the hair with a pink gel, but in hindsight, maybe should've used it for fill to reduce the contrast on the shadows.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Takumar 105mm/2.4
💃 Wife

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

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• A beautiful woman with dark hair, wearing blue lingerie and a beige blazer, sitting cross-legged on a lounge chair while holding a black cat in her arms. The cat is giving you, the viewer, a side eye.

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• irwin @irwin I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My post is up and it's doing okay. Can y'all just tag me every once in a while and remind me not to read the comments

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Remember when it came out that #Meta was planting fake stories about TikTok in the news? Which implied that journalists lied, editors, published the lie, and then nothing at all happened about it?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

A day late and a dollar short, I wrote about the #cloud.

Silicon Valley enjoys mythologizing its technologies because it creates the illusion that no one's in charge. They breathe sentience into their chatbots, and gift autonomy to their algorithms so that they may toy with our mental health and set fire to the planet without ever having to hold themselves accountable.

#Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Meta

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden ("Michelle / The Giddy Stitcher") wrote:

Nine years today, I actually can't believe it's been so long already.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for your solidly, relatably flawed characters.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for making me laugh every single time no matter how many rereads.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for writing strong women.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for my inability to ever pronounce "pun" correctly.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for teaching me what sort of human I wanted to grow up to be.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for The Hedgehog Song.

Thank you Terry Pratchett for everything, you are very much missed.

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken"

#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld

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

finished usual local voice net on 50.250MHz USB, then ran Zoom mtg with parallel weekly @ROCDIGI #JS8 group on 14.078MHz

fun to play on radios

#amateurradio

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Okay, enough of this nonsense. I'm going to run a bath.

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derwinmcgeary@octodon.social ("серафими многоꙮчитїи") wrote:

Wait... True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994).

Did Quentin Tarantino spend his early career in a bookshop and did we miss out on Science Fiction & Fantasy (1995) and Gardening (1996)?

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

Whisperwind@kind.social wrote:

@fromjason wild thought: at least in terms of hardware and usage, BlackBerry (specifically the Bold 9000) had the best mobile keyboard solution and we’ve never truly recovered from that loss.

I love my giant candy bar screen but I want that keyboard back, too. Then maybe I could get some damn work done.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

How the folks at Apple aren't just completely embarrassed by the state of the iOS keyboard is beyond me.

Hardware start-ups: you want to make a billion dollars? Make a mobile device we can write and edit on.

For the love of God almighty.

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Devils_Rancher@octodon.social ("Your name no is Blackstone") wrote:

Fuck it, we’re doing five wolves.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Oh, the things I have seen! Oh, the stuff I perceive!
I've seen things that you people wouldn't believe.
Some tall and some small, and some medium-size.
Oh, if only you saw what I've seen with your eyes!

I saw attack ships burning, off the shoulder of Orion.
(If you see Orion ships for sale, think twice before you buy 'em.)

Near Tannhauser's gate one night I waited in the dark
and when I squinted carefully I thought I saw a spark.
What made the spark, you ask? A designated spark-emitter?
I think I know what made it: I was watching c-beams glitter!

The off-world colonies are where they say new lives await you:
A chance to have adventures and begin with a clean slate too.
"More life? Yes, please!" said I, though I suspected all along:
The light that's twice as bright can only burn for half as long.

Those moments will be lost in time, like teardrops in the rain.
It's time to say goodbye; I won't be seeing *you* again!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#HTTP content negotiation has some unwritten rules for images. `Accept: image/png, */*` technically allows image/avif, but that’s not a wise interpretation.
Except what a caching proxy is supposed to do when the origin only sends AVIF?