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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The slow and steady alignment of Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the Metaverse, and discourse around the future of the Fediverse, is in fact fascinating.

I mean, it's disturbing but interesting how little the similarities are discussed. It's like the fediverse has become a metaverse beta testing playground for both tech and hearts and minds.

Like, how do we think this ends?

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BBCWorld@press.coop ("BBC News (World) :press:") wrote:

Supreme Court says Texas can arrest, jail migrants

The decision paves the way for Texas to implement SB4, which critics have called unconstitutional. #press

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68609930?utm_source=press.coop

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sinvega@kolektiva.social ("Sin Vega") wrote:

none fighter with left beef

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• the same aeroplane again but with the right side blank (remote)

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ada ("Ada Rose Cannon") wrote:

I am very excited about this. You can use the gaze and pinch style interactions of visionOS in WebXR! This is a very natural feeling and precise way to interact with VR either up-close or at a distance whilst also being privacy preserving.

If you don't have a Vision Pro then you can test it on your sites in the Simulator via Xcode on MacOS.

https://webkit.org/blog/15162/introducing-natural-input-for-webxr-in-apple-vision-pro/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First scans of Silbersalz arrived. It's motion picture film (really, it's Kodak Vision3 in different packaging) developed in ECN-2. It is impressive how fine the grain is. But their lab processing time is much slower than I expected.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Silbersalz 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
💃 Wife

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35

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• A woman with long black hair, gold earrings, and a gold ring, dressed in an olive cape over a white shirt.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@captain_berserker

Now if you're asking me about the *community*? The jury is still out. Have found some friendly folks. But since most relays are just wide open, there are also some things that I'd rather not be associated with.

This might get better as I grow a social network w/ more follows there, and limit my feed to that. But when bootstrapping a network in a new system, reading the "new" and "trending" posts is a good(?) way to find folks to follow.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@captain_berserker

I started my #FeoBlog project (https://github.com/nfnitloop/feoblog/#feoblog) years ago because I saw Mastodon gaining popularity and thought that a distributed system would be better than a federated one.

I also later found several problems with Mastodon's (ab?)use of ActivityPub (https://github.com/NfNitLoop/feoblog/issues/42).

#Nostr is much more like what I had in mind for FeoBlog, so I of course prefer its model. And I've found a lot to like about its protocol.

I'm at:
https://njump.me/nfnitloop.com

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :verify:") wrote:

Banning TikTok shows the myopic vision of our lawmakers. The US needs comprehensive data privacy legislation that applies to *all social networks* and protects our data—and we needed it 15–20 years ago.

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

(Oh, and memes. Dune memes informs my understanding.)

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

(My whole understanding of Dune comes from being a mostly scared kid watching a movie back in the 80s with Sting and Patrick Stewart. Sorry not sorry.)

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

All this Dune talk all over the timeline, I finally understand that this song "Weapon of Choice" must be making a reference to it in the "walk without rhythm" part. (The line comes a few seconds after the part I link to. I just thought you'd enjoy watching Christopher Walken dance on a table.)

https://youtu.be/XQ7z57qrZU8?si=WBzn8b_2jGm1bcVS&t=108

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rustnl@fosstodon.org ("RustNL") wrote:

** Announcement ** All speakers for RustNL 2024 have been selected!

Check them out here: https://2024.rustnl.org/speakers

Get your tickets here: https://2024.rustnl.org/

@Mara @raph @dirbaio @unsafe @lulf @sophiajt

#rustnl2024

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

Teaching an eco-devo course will drive you mad -- you become aware of all the sneaky, nasty toxins we're bathing in all the time. DES was one of the nastier ones to creep up on us thanks to the pharmaceutical industries.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/19/endocrine-disruptors-youre-soaking-in-them/

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• Ad urging pregnant women to take DES (remote)

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

The best software tester I’ve ever known once said to me, “Whenever I start at a new place, I find out which teams hate each other. Where their systems interface with each other is the first place I look for bugs — because they’re not talking to each other.”

Software projects stand and fall on the relationships between the humans who create them. (A corollary to Conway’s Law.)

4/

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

A fun blog post on ~~cursed stuff you can do with FPGAs~~ unconventional uses of FPGAs

https://voltagedivide.com/2024/03/18/unconventional-uses-of-fpgas/

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

ssl installed, certbot installed, Let's Encrypt cert installed, https works, cert auto-update cron job installed, installed postfix & dovecot... phew

next up: torture the DNS records so mail moves around okay (daGoogles have made this difficult for indies, at best)

https://arghstudios.com/

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andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:

There is no EU cookie banner law
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law

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

Apache installed, initial welcome page (html/css/js) created & dropped into place, now time for a walk in the snow before installing ssl & a Let’s Encrypt cert. one plodding step at a time...

http://arghstudios.com

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Nostalgia time! Right now some Project Pitchfork.. :batcry:

Project Pitchfork - God Wrote
https://song.link/s/2gPf6K1NQ3Fo4Ne3wQYY9K

#NowPlaying #music #ProjectPitchfork #goth #electro

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

Crayfish & spiders -- I haven't seen that on a menu before.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/19/would-you-like-spiders-or-no-spiders-with-your-meal/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7IFDSWp8Q

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

server rented, provisioned, and set up. today, I’ll install Apache & LetsEncrypt & get a page up. tomorrow, Biz Plan Draft Day.

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keithamus@indieweb.social wrote:

The world if engineers didn’t spend so much time rewriting native web platform features in JavaScript.

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• A sci-fi utopia. The horizon is replete with flying cars and glassy sky scrapers with wide ranging architectural features. The foreground is a verdant green well manicured lawn. A futuristic person with extending bionic arms walks their robot dog around a moat, a monorail moves overhead. This looks like a peaceful, advanced society. Perhaps they live post-scarcity. Perhaps a better life. (remote)

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trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :verified_gay:") wrote:

Anyone got ethical privacy respecting zoom/webex alternatives, outside jitsi.meet and jami?

(These have failed hard for me on #ttrpgs in the past, with 5-6 people and large differentials in the connection quality amongst the players. Not interested in trying again, ive tried in the past calendar year.)

I pay for Meet.Coop access, but it's North American data center has been down for 32 hours with no status message in it's forum. It honestly failed me pretty hard in an embarrassing way tonight.

I get regularly asked why im not using Discord by my players, and it's starting to feel like I should throw in the towel.

It is a weirdly bitter comfort, me and my sister can't webcam this week; while I spin my tires on this.

Solutions need to work in macOS linux and windows.

Boosts welcome.

#linux #floss #privacy #zoom #webex

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

New blog post is up and online

Self-Hosting Whatever, Wherever

https://blog.reclaim.technology/2024/03/18/self-hosting-whatever-wherever/

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cory@social.lol ("Cory :prami_pride_demi:") wrote:

📝: Lightweight search in Eleventy #WebDev #Eleventy #JavaScript https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/lightweight-search-in-eleventy/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Completely obsessed with The Banshees of Inisherin. I can't stop watching it

I'm in love with every character

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• Movie poster for "The Banshees of Inisherin" featuring two men standing on a beach, facing the sea, with a dog sitting nearby, with dramatic cloudy skies above.

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

For several months, my tool to allow people to scrape crossword puzzles from online solvers has not worked for WSJ because the paper has enabled some anti-bot tech.

Is there a good resource for learning what the options are here? Even if it involves solving users solving captchas or whatever? As you can imagine, a lot of the online expertise around circumventing automation blocks is pretty spammy.

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ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social ("ChurchHatesTucker ☑") wrote:

“My Cat is Such a Weirdo” by Tamako Tamagoyama

It’s a #Manga about #Cats. You already know if you want to read it.

Despite the title, it’s about Tamagoyama’s TWO cats, Ton-chan and Shino-san. Both are rescues; Ton-chan (full name Tongari) was adopted from a shelter and Shino-san (Shinonome) from a private cat rescue. (There are also some anecdotes about Tamagoyama’s parents’ cats.) The stories are mostly about the amusing behaviors and contrasting personalities of the duo.

This originated as a webcomic and it’s in full color. It’s mostly four panel, although it adjusts its format to fit the stories. A fun touch is that photos of the actual cats are frequently included as bonus panels, often of them doing the very thing the story is about.

Ongoing (I think) with three volumes in English (Seven Seas.)

#MyCatIsSuchAWeirdo

ETA: #MangaMonday

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• Page 11 of “My Cat is Such a Weirdo” by Tamako Tamagoyama Panel 1: Ton-chan is sitting on a pile of fresh laundry. Panel 2: Tamako pokes Ton-chan. “Hey, don’t rub your butt agains them!” Panel 3: Ton-chan walks away, dejected. Shino-san approches from the other side. Panel 4: Shino-san sits on the pile of folded laundry. Tamako, from off-screen, “I told you no.” Bonus panels: Tamako notes that “They eagerly rubbed their butts against my fresh laundry.” Two photos show the cats doing just that. (remote)
• Cover of “My Cat is Such a Weirdo” by Tamako Tamagoyama Ton-chan and Shino-san are lying down, with Ton-chan digging his paws into Shino-sans face and belly. (remote)

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elly@front-end.social ("Elly Loel ✨🌱") wrote:

Okay, Color Spaces — ericportis.com
🔖 https://ericportis.com/posts/2024/okay-color-spaces/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/okay-color-spaces-ericportis-com/

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lukasa@hachyderm.io ("Cory Benfield") wrote:

@jacob @glyph What I have loved about this is the discovery that absolutely everyone feels this way about the networking layer right below them. The kernel networking folks are like "look, I hand it off to the NIC driver and then some magic happens, I dunno”. The NIC driver folks are all “there's just some bitbanging and then I flip an MSR and then this whole other computer in the computer does a thing". The NIC folks all go "look the IC has a data sheet, I just prod it and hope”.