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

The worst dads are the right-wing dads.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/bad-dads/

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• Stewart Rhodes (remote)

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

@osda is in a few hours and will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/live/Wd7_zF0B9Ks?si=F6Ev-2cijlxJAEh9

I'll be talking about Surfer, but there are much more interesting people giving talks too, like Claire, *the* yosys author

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Great video on (you guessed it) prototyping but frames the problem as a search algorithm. Lots of good takeaways about the business impacts of product exploration.

https://youtu.be/o5K0uqhxgsE

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I finally tried out The Crystal Project. It kinda reminds me of a pre-FF7 playstation RPG, but one that's heavily inspired by Final Fantasy V's class system. The PSX part comes in navigating a large 3D world with a fixed-perspective camera, and the FFV part comes in how you can customize your builds by mixing skills from different classes.

Hard to beat if you want exploration or combat, pretty dry if you mainly care about story

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macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:

Another banger by @pluralistic.

“an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology more expensive, in order to make it more accurate.”

We knew this back in 2011-12 when I worked at IBM. AI is a support tool, not a replacement for human beings.

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

You can wake up and decide not to be a cringe-fuck edgelord.

Or you can wake up and shit on the reputation of an entire programming language.

Choices are funny like that.

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• 6e78926d8a65a939.jpg

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

I have a feeling it starts with Silicon and ends with Valley. Or maybe it starts with Venture and ends with Capital? Or perhaps simply starts with capital and ends with ism.

https://draw-together.small-web.org

#WhoBrokeTheWeb #DrawTogether #Kitten #SmallWeb

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• A pixel sketch in Draw Together: “Who broke the web?” (remote)

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rantingsteve@pounced-on.me ("Steve [is AFK]") wrote:

I'm gonna build a gamified bootloader. When you start up your machine, if you wish to load the operating system of your choice, you're going to have to play a short fighting game to prove yourself.

It's a duel-boot system.

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kim@social.gfsc.studio ("Dr Kim Foale") wrote:

the irony of effective altruism is that probably by far the most cost effective thing to change the world is hiring hit men to go after billionaires

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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

Chances are high you know Samuel Barber's beautiful classical piece Adagio for Strings. It has been used in several films, including Platoon.

But not as many people know that there's also a choral variation, called Agnus Dei. Personally, I think that's even more beautiful. Listening to it always gives me goosebumps. Turn up the volume, close your eyes and enjoy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRL447oDId4

#music #ClassicalMusic #SamuelBarber #classical #beautiful #chorus #choir #moody

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

I preemptively blocked threads a while back because I do not wish to associate (or do business) with Facebook no matter what form it takes. I've never had a Facebook related account, and I don't intend to be part of it even passively.

For what it is worth, my opinion is that for-profit social media is bad for people and society no matter the underlying tech or "good intentions" of the engineers involved. Facebook has a history. Their influence here will not be positive.

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

"Mechanical psychics" is my new favorite term for LLMs.

"The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called *cold reading*. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic."

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

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

🍿🍿🍿

Apple's malicious compliance with the DMA is already Streisand Effecting them:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/apples-new-core-technology-fee-is-a-core-technology-fleece/

/via @brucelawson

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eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

#SilentSunday #Hanami #CherryBlossoms #florespondence

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• photo of bright pink cherry blossoms backlit by the morning sun. A single ray of light gleaming in your eye. (remote)

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

Think Kropotkin.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/24/classic-long-term-evolutionary-thinking-for-the-win/

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• BROS/ IT'S TIME/ TIME TO UNLEASH YOUR INNVER CAVEMAN Later, the men engaged in a cooperative system of social reciprocity in order to make good use of scarce resources in a hunter-gatherer society. (remote)

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exador23@m.ai6yr.org ("Hippy Steve") wrote:

seems legit.

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• photo of an electrical stub-out and breakers with green wires going to a plastic bag filled with dirt that has a "ground" electrical symbol on it. (remote)

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

This analysis of the web devoloper job market from Baldur Bjarnason is equal parts scathing and sobering.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-one-about-the-web-developer-job-market/

I'm not a web developer (although I've created several bad pages and web apps like almost everybody else who does software these days), but the web touches everything and clearly many people fill that role presently.

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans

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• Illustration showing clear difference between I, l and 1, high x-height and difference between letters often accidentally mirrored like "b" and "d" (remote)

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mcc wrote:

Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on

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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

I am not a psychologist or a terrorism expert, but I personally find it very hard to believe that anyone would agree to raid a concert hall and gun down random people just for a paycheck. This is the version of events gaining traction in the Russian media.

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

My Rust code runs faster on my iPhone (A16) than on my MacBook (M1 Max). How could this be? Can anyone explain this?

For information, it's single-threaded code that does a lot of intense tree search-type calculations.

Memory cache related, maybe?

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Walmart hiked prices on its Great Value food brands.

The result? Its net income spiked 93% to $10.5 billion towards the end of 2023.

Walmart rewarded shareholders with $5.9 billion in buybacks and dividends.

When I say price gouging is driving inflation, this is what I mean.

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FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ("fedipact.online") wrote:

not an instance admin? you can still block threads!!!

do note, however, that it won't be as effective as an instance-level block on a technical level (your data will still be sent to meta, etc.)

https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/

#FediPact #meta #threads

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

How to block Threads on Mastodon -- with screenshots!

https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.

But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!

https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/

#BlockingThreads #Meta #Threads

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

> A legal mandate for Zuckerberg to police his users is a legal requirement that he surveil and control those users. It's fundamentally incompatible with the new drive in competition circles to force Zuckerberg and his fellow tech barons to offer gateways that make it easier to escape their grasp, by allowing users to depart Facebook and continue to socialize with the users who stay behind

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/23/evacuate-the-platforms/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

About to go to Fogo de Chão for the first time. Any tips?

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

"Cozy sci-fi" means sci-fi where people spend a lot of time drinking tea.

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

Here’s the source code between the doctype and the for this site:

×26
×36 external
×91 external

This is not a nuanced point I’m making. We’re not debating the finer points of complicated web performance trade-offs. This is a very slow web site.

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• A huge screenshot of HTML with 26 preloads, 36 stylesheets, 91 external scripts (remote)

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

It should be fair to post screenshots like this for companies that tout “the fastest frontends” on their home page—especially notable that this is *not* a temporary regression. It’s been like this for a long time—why is no one talking about it?

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• Pagespeed insights for vercel.com, Core Web Vitals: failed LCP 3.1s (average) INP 862ms (slow) CLS 0s (fast) FCP 2.8s (average) FID 152ms (average) TTFB 0.8s (average) Lighthouse: 28 Performance (bad) 96 Accessibility 96 Best Practices 100 SEO FCP 5.4s (slow) LCP 12.2s (slow) TBT 6970ms (slow) CLS 0ms Speed Index 7.8s (slow) (remote)

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

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• Americans: we have lower inflation, lower unemployment, higher growth than you. We win again. Europeans: Thanks for your email. I'm currently out of office on annual summer vacation until 30th Sep. 2024