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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Fucking Boeing
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kdvncm@techhub.social ("Keith 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇮🇪🇺🇦") wrote:
Gift Article
Opinion Please, everyone, welcome the Joker to the Gotham news team!
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ringods@hachyderm.io ("Ringo De Smet") wrote:
@slightlyoff in the same line:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/03/12/nobel-laureate-economist-angus-deaton-capitalism-power/
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ColleenDoran ("Colleen Doran") wrote:
HOW COMICS WERE MADE. This looks brilliant. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/description?fbclid=IwAR1i4PJImB4DAPzsoJhtgkndjOkBmbYdeCbLneavlCgqSGT2Bt_uzz5MIt8_aem_AcTQFjal6m5UISLz2pZItFoYqJkS8SgYixU0zAHv3P1NnkyIAb6sA4LZvREkeAbpTjFevVYEprPcOZyZjzrQRlmU
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Thinking about launching a newsletter where I search for the best of the old web— articles, posts, PDFs and other oddities.
Does that sound interesting?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm working in an old scientific field, one that's been writing papers since at least 700BCE.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/26/wilsons-principles-of-teratology/
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me desperately trying convincing myself not to launch into a 30 minute rant about the internet at a dinner party
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️
In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎
👇Read our regulatory submission
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
A new Ani DiFranco album on May 17th!
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The new #picotron seems to confirm my theory that desktop GUI programming is now #retrocomputing
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I was part of an acquisition at Flywheel, almost exactly five years ago, by WP Engine. "Nothing's changing," they repeatedly assured us.
Today, I can't even find a reference to Flywheel in a cursory search of the company's website. I hear most of its office space has been leased out, and they just went through another round of layoffs.
"Nothing's going to change" might be true in other, less short-sighted industries. But in tech, it's always a lie.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
While looking for a subject to draw, I came across a black-winged stilt. A bird with cartoonishly long legs. They're so unbelievably long that I realized after I had complete most of the sketch that I had made my bird's legs too short even though I was trying to be mindful of their length. 😆
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There are few things in the world you should trust *less* than a CEO in an acquisition, promising "things aren't going to change."
Yes they fucking are. You just took VC money. That's how it works. VCs buy things to extract money from them. Change is a VC's goal, and they will fire everyone in your organization and strip mine it down to the copper in the bathrooms without a second thought if it gives them the ROI they want.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was going through my notes looking for a different video and came across "Godzilla vs Mito Komon"
"The classic student film by Osaka Art University student Shinya Takeshita from around 1991. See the most amazing one man Godzilla film ever made as Shinya Takeshita plays everyone and everything in this movie...!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0NQX6bSp4A
Seems like something that y'all should play just before a #Monsterdon movie. 😆
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Pixelfed was my first real open source project, I didn’t know what I was doing or getting myself into
I was working in the automotive industry at the time, I dreamed of doing web dev full time, and because of Pixelfed I was able to get a full time job which I still have today, and y’all helped make that possible!
I’m forever grateful to the #fediverse for helping me grow to become the developer I’ve always aspired to be!
I promise I’ll make it up to you 🚀
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Gemini is claiming a context window of up to 1M tokens… that would be A Big Deal
Mastodon FeedI'm a firm believer in Inbox Zero.
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Mastodon FeedOnce upon a time I sent in a Linux change that fixed hundreds of typos in the kernel's sources & documentation.
Guess how that worked out.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I should probably mention, although it all belongs on the blog, that I’ve approved a 1,000 of these to be produced based on the polls I posted here. It’s a conservative number based on the amount of votes, but better sold out than wasted! It’ll take 20 weeks and we’re going to work with a EU and a US warehouse to keep shipping costs lower for most.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Not traveling alone.
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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:
"You get more conservative when you get older" only really worked for the generations that got RICHER as they got older.
The real truth was always just "You get more selfish the more money you have".
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
For Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta ( #GAMM ), the old cloud sync-and-share business model wasn’t working anymore.
So what did they do?
They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away. That's the future they've made for us.
#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #ActivityPub
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Is there a psychological term for self-bias?
Like how we rate our own suffering as greater than that of others.
Or how we think it's probably fine if we fudge a little, but judge others for it.
Or, how we think we'd be doing better if we were in other people's situations, but rarely the opposite.
Or how most of us have a much higher tolerance for inconveniencing an unknown stranger than for the inverse.
Does this have a name? (Or am I just looking for a fancy term for self-centeredness?)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Then again, I quite honestly don't have any idea how many levels of tech nonsense it took, that I happened to have rolling around in my noggin, for me to pull that off in my spare time between when I thought of the idea to when I gave the talk.
Anyway, yeah, that's my favorite web app that I created. And I threw it all out after the talk. Ha!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
For the talk (at the library), I ran it off of a dedicated laptop, and brought in a WRT54G router that I had people connect to. So we had our own little LAN.
Like the thing was not "web scale" by any stretch of the imagination. But it worked, and people seemed to enjoy being able to try out all the things I had just talked about. In that moment, I felt a little power of the web stack allowing me to cobble together a thing to meet a need.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Instead I crafted an appropriate IPython Notebook environment on an LVM volume (Linux). I then used bottle (Python) to create a simple web page where there was a single button that said something like "Launch IPython Notebook". When you clicked it, behind the scenes it would create an LVM snapshot from the IPython Environment I had setup, launch a container with LXC, and redirect the user to the fresh containerized IPython Notebook instance. Each person got their own personal IPython Notebook.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Speaking of web development, my favorite "web app" that I've developed was my first one. I was giving a talk about IPython Notebook to a local group of nerds like one does. I had come up with some "fun" demos showing off some things, but I also wanted people to be able to try it for themselves.
I wasn't going to try to walk people through installing it on their computers. That just seemed like a recipe for pain and sadness.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
legal beagle lined up to review incorp paperwork
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
(Don't worry, I'm not signing up for Facebook.)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
At all moments of the day I am torn between two thoughts:
1. Social media is an unnatural abomination that keeps us in psychotically toxic relationships with people who used to mean something in our lives for far longer than we'd ever tolerate under any other circumstances; and
2. I should really do a better job of keeping in touch with people. Maybe I should get a Facebook account again.