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

The sac spiders are out hunting! 🧪

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• Cheiracanthium (remote)
• Yellow sac spider (remote)

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

"What looked like a great background."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/12/i-wasnt-surprised-at-all/

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• Jonathan Stone, trumpkin. (remote)

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

Speaking in tongues is just the surface issue.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/12/the-apes-are-acting-funny-again/

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• Paul Gosar and Anthony Kern, fuckwits with power (remote)

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

Mastodon is so much better than both X and BlueSky! After using it regularly for a couple of months, I really like it.

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

eeeps@front-end.social ("Eric Portis") wrote:

h/t @Meyerweb

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• A TikTok reaction video that has had some text overlayed. A person (labelled "me watching React devs") watches someone else's hand put a series of shaped blocks into shaped holes. The holes and shapes are all basic and recognizable: square, triangle, circle, etc. The holes are labelled after HTML elements: "div", "button", "li", "table", "input" and "a". The hand takes a square block, which is labelled "generic block content"; The person excitedly says "square hole" (which is labelled "div") and is excited when that's where it goes. The hand then picks up a longer square block (labelled "element group"); the person also gets this one correct (also goes in the div hole), and is excited. The hand then picks up "tabular data"; the person wants it to go in the "table" hole, but no, the hand says it goes in the "div" hole as well. Person gets increasingly upset as blocks labelled "list item", "perform an action", "user input", and ultimately, "a hyperlink" all go in the "div" hole, and not the more appropriately shaped holes/elements that they are correctly calling out, each time, at the end – when "a hyperlink" goes into the "div" hole instead of into the "a" hole – almost though tears. (remote)

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

I found this to be a very fascinating, deeply informative read. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to better understand the choice we're all facing in the US in November, or who has friends/family buying into the "Biden's age" media malpractice.

Duty To Warn's John Gartner Breaks Down Donald Trump's Cognitive Decline
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hotel lobby. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

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• Red chairs surrounding red tables illuminated by morning sunlight, with green window plants casting shadows all over.

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

ray@goblin.camp ("hung solow") wrote:

my favorite meme of the day

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• a housecat and big wild cats typing at computers. the original joke is the cat is asking the big cats for advice. in this comic they are all keysmashing because they are cats and cant type (remote)

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

davidbisset@phpc.social ("David Bisset") wrote:

I’ve seen this meme too many times but this implementation is probably the best. #react #memes #webdev https://front-end.social/@eeeps/112254504694609906

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

“programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft… The analyst or programmer has to examine documents with an eye at once skeptical and alert, snatching and collating tiny fragments of truth along the way… sources of information all have their own agendas, overtly or covertly pursued. He or she has handlers and superiors, many of whom don’t know what really goes on at the sharp end... It’s a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don’t get out much, and when you do it’s usually at night”

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• d47654fb5948a44a.png (remote)

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

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

"That certainly feels like Apple making a design choice that just so happens to favor its own app—which is exactly what the DMA is taking aim at."

Six Color's Dan Moren covers Apple's dark patterns with Safari:

https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/04/report-dmas-browser-choice-requirement-benefiting-third-party-browsers/

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

noellemitchell@mstdn.social ("Noelle :verified:") wrote:

Facebook’s AI failure wiped out Kansas Reflector links. Even Facebook may not know what went wrong.

"Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a senior staff technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, said Facebook’s actions demonstrate the danger for society of depending heavily on a single communications platform to determine what is worthy of discussion."

#Facebook #Meta #SocialMedia #tech #news #media #press #journalism #AI

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/11/facebooks-ai-failure-wiped-out-kansas-reflector-links-even-facebook-may-not-know-what-went-wrong/

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

adamhill@hachyderm.io ("Gödel Escher Spock🦿") wrote:

Intro Time!

I'm am from Plano TX and have been a programmer since the days of LISP machines, NeXT Cubes & the Commodore Amiga

I am currently looking for work as a mobile app developer. My stack is dotnet and Xamarin, but I love some F# or Clojure when I get time to play.

I enjoy eating & cooking new foods, photography, retro computing & making music. I'm gamedev adjacent & co-run our local Global Game Jam every year

#Introduction #Foodie #Xamarin #Dotnet #PenPlotter #GenArt #FediHire

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

downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🇺🇳") wrote:

@mozilla @tlodato

Why exactly are you using and promoting Figma when @penpot exists?

What happened to the #Mozilla Manifesto?

"Free and open source software promotes the development of the internet as a public resource ... promote the Mozilla Manifesto principles in public discourse and within the internet industry."

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

#enshittification

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

I played it so many times I broke Bandcamp's heart. Welp, I guess I have to buy it now...

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

Came across this track, and thought of you all. "Protect Your Mind" from Feint Young Son and Roland Clark:

https://largemusic.bandcamp.com/track/protect-your-mind

Found thanks to this mix from Lilicay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sePewgzVfU

"Shine bright in the darkness," friends.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I really like @tinylytics as an alternative to Google Analytics. I especially love the Kudos feature.

It was important to me that my site had as little tracking as possible, and Tinylytics helps to achieve this goal. So I just wanted to shout them out.

https://tinylytics.app/

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

Privacy? That's iPhone.

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/keeping-your-data-from-apple-is-harder-than-expected

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

cray cray:

"Section 702 is set to expire on April 19. But the program can continue operating until April 2025 because the FISA court last week granted a government request authorizing it for another year. Under the law, the surveillance activity can continue so long as there are active court orders allowing it, even if the underlying statute expires."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/politics/fisa-trump-johnson-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

It's still not about OJ. Please don't try to say anything about OJ today if you don't know everything in this thread. Not a word.

Because what you say will almost certainly be wrong.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109900521172091738

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

I was today years old when I found out that a good chunk of the CGI sequences featured in the Lawnmower Man were also featured in Jan Hammer's 1992 technically exquisite music video compilation Beyond the Mind's Eye.
It is also available officially on YT in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zMtCvWhG0&feature=youtu.be

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• Two figures done in early 90s CGI embracing and "kissing" with their faces melting into one another

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

I am a bad person… this made me larf so hard the cat left the room in disgust

h/t @CARROT

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• 02d25ab530134345.mp4 (remote)

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

JavaScript
Stop installing so much shit
What the hell is JSX
Why can't I write CSS?
But it's just the price we pay
Must React all of the things
Homepage is twelve megabytes
Cause I'm Mister Website

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

hasanhaja@fosstodon.org ("Hasan Ali") wrote:

I've been having too much fun clipping things on YouTube to share with my colleagues. Here's a clip with @slightlyoff on questions you should ask yourself when considering React:

📽️ https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxpA_MMNjLtPCvuG1BJO3ShotN5AWiIlw4

#react #html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hotel lobby. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

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• A corridor with a dotted window at the end that is made almost entirely opaque by diffusing the morning sunlight.

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

binarydigit@social.lol ("BinaryDigit (Liz) :prami:") wrote:

I've moved my website over to Eleventy 🎉 I've learned a lot already and hope to customize the site even more. Hugo was great but I wanted to try something new and more customizable for my knowledge level 🤓

https://binarydigit.cafe/

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• A screenshot of BinaryDigit's new personal homepage with a colorful background (remote)

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

Trapdoor Memory-Hard Functions: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/312

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

Still assessing social media options. Mastodon & BlueSky make the cut so far.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/11/too-much-social-media/

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• The Art of Social Media War The general who wins the battle makes many plans before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few plans beforehand. (remote)

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

Nicole Brown Simpson & Ronald Goldman preceded him in death. There was no justice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-is-dead/

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• Simpson/Goldman crime scene (remote)

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

The end of the semester is hurtling towards my face!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/11/the-end-is-nigh/

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• Sign: The end is near. Person: can you be more specific? (remote)