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

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

For so many years folks have asked me to sell @eleventy swag (stickers, mostly). Well, for the next two weeks it’s happening (and then I’m closing the shop again 😅)

If you are one of those people, the link is here: https://merch.11ty.dev/products/11ty-merch-bundle-2024-limited-edition

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Governments around the world have found exactly this every time they've looked hard at Apple keeping competing browsers at bay, but crikey. The DOJ is not playing around:

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• "Apple wraps itself in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct. Indeed, it spends billions on marketing and branding to promote the self-serving premise that only Apple can safeguard consumers’ privacy and security interests. Apple selectively compromises privacy and security interests when doing so is in Apple’s own financial interest—such as degrading the security of text messages, offering governments and certain companies the chance to access more private and secure versions of app stores, or accepting billions of dollars each year for choosing Google as its default search engine when more private options are available. In the end, Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract to serve Apple’s financial and business interests." (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The most galling part of Don Lemon's interview with Musk was when Elon implied that Boeing's safety issues are somehow due to diversity initiatives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsfjBpKiTw#t=47m28s

This is not just brazenly racist, it is factually wrong: the people to blame for Boeing,'s decline are the McDonnell executives that destroyed its engineer-driven culture, starting with Harry Stonecipher.

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

lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Trump has less than a week to arrange a $454 million bond. There are 331.9 million US citizens. If each American spends only $1.37, then we can all buy a cheap chocolate bar to enjoy while we watch the State of New York seize Trump's properties.

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

requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:

I know I say this every few months, but maybe it’s time for me to fix-up #preposterus .

https://github.com/jjg/preposter.us

As-is, it can do so much:

• Single or multi-author blog* Photo & video sharing* Podcast publishing

…with so little:

• A single Python script* Any static webserver (Apache, nginx, Poorman, etc.)

…and with almost no effort (just send it an email!)

But it is a little buggy and the code is very rusty and each time I try to fix it up I wind-up about half-way there and decide “bah, it’s good enough as-is”.

But if I took even a little time to make it right maybe it would be useful to others and not just me? It would be trivial to setup a server robust enough to host a few dozen or hundred users and not a lot more effort to host thousands. And it’s trivial to self-host if anyone decides they want to do it themselves.

The big question to me is whether or not anyone else appreciates the email-based publishing workflow. For me it is amazing because I can publish from any device, be it one I own or something I borrow, GUI or command-line, hell even a feature phone can publish a blog or podcast this way. And it avoids all the auth/login/password bs that adds one more layer of friction to publishing something. It’s also very well-suited for offline and intermittently-connected work.

Maybe this should have been a blog post 🤔🤔🤣

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

synlogic@toot.io wrote:

if Antirez benefits financially from #Redis adding the commercial license version then I'm all for it. He does good quality work and gave us all a great tool FOR FREE for over a decade plus by now. He and the Redis team owe the rest of us nothing.

One of the biggest challenges in FOSS is achieving sustainability because there are so many freeloaders

I allow people to use my LatLearn lib today for free only because I see it helping my career longterm, maybe helping to lead to more paying work

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

Man, this has been a depressing morning.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/21/if-i-were-a-young-man-today/

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• Nancy: Don't you ever think of your future? Sluggo: What future? (remote)

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

Retirement? What's that?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/21/i-guess-i-should-give-up-on-the-idea-of-retirement/

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• social security (remote)

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.77.0 is now available! 🦀🌈

This release comes with c"" string literals, offset_of!(), recursive async functions, stripping of binaries in release mode, File::create_new, Mutex::clear_poison, and more!

Check out the announcement and release notes: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/21/Rust-1.77.0.html

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

Follow the money. It isn't in the pockets of educators or students.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/21/cui-bono-it-sure-isnt-educators-or-students/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2_0WC7UfU

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Finally drew Andrea, an OC of my friend Alice. She has finally come back to doing art streams (in German). :D You can find her here https://www.twitch.tv/streamingalice and here https://www.instagram.com/dreaming__alice/

I hope to have done Andrea justice. Go visit him in the Rabbit Hole! :blobcat_tihihi:

#mastoart #sketchbook #watercolor #androgynous #pink #OriginalCharacter

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• Watercolor portrait of a cartoon character. Andrea is an OC of a friend. The image shows a young androgynous man with shoulder length blonde hair and striking green eyes. He is wearing a fluffy purple coat and bright pink eye shadow. He is looking sideways at the viewer and has the tip of his index finger lasciviously on his lower lip with a slight grin. Behind him is a bright pink square for contrast. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The quality of people FAANG folks have let go since Jay Powell said "but what if *some * interest rates?" has literally zero relationship to their quality.

We opened 5 recs for fundamentals-knowing folks, and I'm *gutted* we can't hore more. The fire sale on *real* (not FW-specific-nonsense) talent is real.

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

rands wrote:

Every meeting I've ever had titled "Quick Sync" has always been bad news.

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

mshelton ("Martin") wrote:

me scaring people by talking about why automated exploitation of connected devices is will make a huge proportion of the internet unusable and also, computers were a mistake

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• Screenshot from "Back to the future" the scene, where Marty McFly says, "I guess you guys aren't ready for that. But your kids are gonna love it" after playing rock in front of an unprepared audience

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

dim0kq@twiukraine.com ("Dimko Zhluktenko") wrote:

Unpopular opinion: there are good Russians.

In the last 2 years, I went from h@ting all russians to tolerating some of them and even working together.

Hear me out, a thread 🧵

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• 3683c31b59480a44.jpeg (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Winter grapes in my university's inner courtyard.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35

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• Dried up, dark blue grapes on a vine growing on an old stone wall.

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

micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

Some personal news: The Intercept laid me off 🫠, so I'm now in the job market! My current title is Director of Information Security https://micahflee.com/2024/03/the-intercept-laid-me-off/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Self-portrait, Brussels.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35

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• A white man with black hair, black rim glasses, and a ring on his finger is holding a Canon AE-1 Program camera, as seen from a mirror of a hotel room.

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

The first Web Engines Hackfest 2024 attendees are getting registered, you can check the list at https://webengineshackfest.org/#attendees (we'll keep it updated)
If you want to join us onsite, please register at https://forms.gle/6dv64Qs6eNBZgDq77

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

akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

I had no idea the Lua folks have been working on a system language with the explicit goal of living beneath Lua.

https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/Gualandi-2020-SCP.pdf

https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

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

And the same can be said for other tools we use, like social media. For tools that get widely adopted to the point that many people will be forced to use them even when they don't want to, I wonder if can do better UX-wise to accommodate more use cases.

I suspect the answer is yes, but I also suspect we'll have a hard time actually doing the work to make that happen.

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

I avoided git for a while (for reasons I won't get into), but eventually I caved into using it not for any of its merits but simply because not using git excluded me from participating in things I wanted to be able to participate in.

I'm not going to bash git here, but I think it's clear that many more people have to use git than have ever been included in the use cases for its design.

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

I was musing on something yesterday that this post reminded me of:

https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/112128561253228881

Tools that are essentially networking tools (e.g. git) that provide a set of affordances for people to communicate and collaborate, have a "network effect" that cause people to use those tools even when they would prefer to use something else.

For example, the question of whether many people like git doesn't really matter. Many of us have to use it.

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

Movies about the book of Genesis are so boring they need to throw in a T. rex to make it look mildly interesting.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/20/more-of-the-same-old-creationist-junk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ar0CZQSec

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

Kaya@photog.social ("Kaja") wrote:

Zum #MakroMittwoch gibt es natürlich wieder #BilderAusDemGarten. Diesmal blüht uns die Aprikose.

#photography

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• Obstbaumzweig mit weißen Blüten vor zartem, beigebraunem Hintergrund. Hell gehalten. (remote)

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

Wow! I accidentally timed this one right.

https://worldfrogday.org/

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

futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Today, 20 March, is World Frog Day. https://worldfrogday.org/

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

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

Regarding LB[1]: You can view the article here if you hit a paywall. "Women’s Household Work to Be Added to US CPI Consumption Survey":

https://archive.is/D9log

Here's a link to a PDF with more explanation. I haven't read it, but a quick look at the executive summary provided some answers to questions the article left me with:

"Integrating Nonmarket
Consumption into the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumer Expenditure
Survey"

https://www.bls.gov/cex/consumption/integrating-nonmarket-consumption-bls-consumer-expenditure-survey.pdf

[1] https://mastodon.world/@h_thoreson/112128143525372558

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

Everything medical and quantifiable says I'm a virtual Apollo, radiant in my ideal state. I just have to avoid looking in mirrors.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/20/nominally-flawless/

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• Apollo (remote)