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

jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Don Hankey, Jr. is the billionaire behind the $175 mil bond filed in Trump’s appeal from the NY civil fraud judgment. Not only is that bond and the company that issued it now under serious doubt, a bank tied to Hankey is already knee-deep in Trump debt. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/hankey-panky-financing?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

The kicker to all of this is that these lies follow hot on the heels of Apple taking the UK's CMA to court to pause all progress on potential browser choice last year. This added ~9 months to the investigation, delay Apple richly benefits from.

They're terrified of a functional web and don't care who they have to hurt along the way to keep browsers from not sucking on iPhones.

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

Upsides of using 3D rendering software from 1997 to make abstract art: self-evident

Downsides: it all renders on a single CPU core

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

This, in particular, is rich af. In reality, Push on iOS is a useless parlor trick, broken by design and hidden behind a PWA install process that Apple *continues* to deliberately sandbag. These are *lies*.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/

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

And without saying things I'm not allowed to (because of the secrecy Apple demands regarding Interop development), I will simply summarize Apple's points regarding Interop '23 and '24 as *fucking bullshit*.

These are lies, and the goal of these lies is to keep regulators and developers from being able to press for real change. Parasitic delay designed to serve Apple's interest in preventing true browser choice.

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

OK, who (1) knows what this is and (2) is actually interested to see the result

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

Apple's gaslighting tour of web developers and regulators is a moveable feast for the eyes. Which jurisdiction will be next!?

Why the UK, of course. The gall to claim leadership on WebGPU *when it isn't shipped on any FruitCo browser* more than a year after Chromium launched it. And JFC..claiming leadership on Web Components? Taking the mick, and hoping CMA don't notice.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6617ba00086b9d4398b95b0e/Apple_Non-confidential_Supplemental_Response_to_Issues_Statement_.pdf

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

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

Social media doesn't want people getting their news from social media. Honestly they don't.

But the news industry continues to fail young people. Even when the news industry does get an influx of young readers, as with the bin Laden manifesto, they don't know what to do with it. They miss their own blessings.🤷🏿‍♂️

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Our working title is "The Butt-Eating Zombies of The Emerald Prince"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

He then said I should write a short story about zombies that take over a cruise ship. Honestly not a bad premise lol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I told my nine year old nephew I had a blog and he said "a vlog?"

No, a blog.

What's that?

😭

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

https://social.seattle.wa.us/@gglockner/112196284617843193

see also:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549

and of course

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6214

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans 2015

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1418680112

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

University of Cambridge, January 2015

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/computers-using-digital-footprints-are-better-judges-of-personality-than-friends-and-family

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The app used in the study in question was called myPersonality and was banned by Facebook in 2018 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

TechCrunch reports that there is no connection to Cambridge Analytica, but the app was suspended because it may have shared info with companies.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/facebook-bans-first-app-since-cambridge-analytica-mypersonality-and-suspends-hundreds-more/

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• Facebook suspended the app around then, saying “we believe that it may have violated Facebook’s policies.” That suspension has graduated into a ban, because the creators “fail[ed] to agree to our request to audit and because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place.”

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

TRUTH

https://sfba.social/@pinskal/112263864473583433

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pinskal@sfba.social ("Jon Pinter") wrote:

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

socketwench@hackers.town wrote:

Hard problems in tech:

1. Naming things.
2. Cache invalidation.
3. Convincing developers from privileged backgrounds that [their] experience is not universal.

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

kfury@mstdn.social ("Kevin Fox") wrote:

Before trusting an AI to tell you about stuff you don’t know, ask it to tell you about things you’re an expert in.

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

Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Me realizing that every AWS service I just touched to get an application up existed in 2014 and I’ve wasted the last decade of my life:

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

Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Ah, excellent; Google Gemini can also be bullied into ranking US presidents by absorbency.

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

Pastor Shane Vaughn:

"I still think she talks monkey talk. I still think that she's ignorant, dumb and should not be wearing a robe, and should be living in the jungle as Judge Jumanji, but her physical appearance—off limits."

the racist statements of this so-called "Christian" should make any American hide their head in shame.

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-doubles-down-apology-racist-supreme-court-justice-rant-1889962

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

black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

MAGA Pastor Doubles Down in 'Apology' for Racist Supreme Court Justice Rant https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-doubles-down-apology-racist-supreme-court-justice-rant-1889962

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

matrix@mastodon.matrix.org ("The Matrix.org Foundation") wrote:

We are thrilled to welcome @gnome and @kde who, like @EclipseFdn, have joined us as Associate Members 🚀

Associate Members are FOSS foundations, nonprofits, and other communities that share our values, such as: software freedom, open source, open standards, privacy, and decentralization.

Like our other members, we have allocated several seats on our Governing Board for Associate Members, and they get to be part of how Matrix is governed.

Learn more about membership: https://matrix.org/membership/

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

dopaulosilva ("Paulo Silva") wrote:

@futurebird
Is the cat a liquid?
French physicist Marc-Antoine Fardin was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his groundbreaking research in rheology, which is the study of how matter flows and deforms.
In school we learned that a liquid is the state of matter that takes the shape of its container, but not the volume.
The main point of the award-winning paper, "On the rheology of cats," is whether cats can fit the scientific definition of a liquid.
https://blogdopg.blogspot.com/2019/07/o-gato-e-um-liquido.html

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

lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Why does the U.S.S. Enterprise in the first Trek film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979) - ST:TMP - have silly ROUND screens on the consoles?

In a way, you can sort of blame me. Or at least, blame bad timing on my part.

When I was working on this film I saw production drawings showing the round screens, which I found ludicrous. I brought this up with the powers-that-be. I pointed out that the Enterprise displays should not emulate 1950s TV sets, and that round screens wasted display space unnecessarily. I also suggested that by the time of the film, displays would probably be holographic (the franchise eventually caught up to this idea in the more recent productions).

My criticism was taken seriously. It was agreed that the round screens would go and that rectangular screens would replace them. Mission accomplished!

Except ... a few days later, I was pulled aside and told that, unfortunately, the round screens would stay. Why? It turned out that they had already been cast in fiberglass by the Paramount set crews, and there wasn't sufficient budget to redo them. So the silly round screens are what you see in the film today.

If I had been able to move on this a bit earlier, this probably would have turned out differently. But I did try.

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

American “activism”

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

When the sun begins to set, you can see the buildings cast shadows on each other from really far away. View from Central Park, NYC.

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

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

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• A bush of purple flowers behind black benches together with a lit street lamp, yellow traffic lights hanging over a road, behind it, more trees; in the background, skyscrapers illuminated by the setting sun, and casting long shadows over each other.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The omitted hyperlink links to a NYT timeline of coverage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150202100519/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/proceedings_of_the_national_academy_of_sciences/index.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Comparing the article to the 2015 version, a hyperlink to the referenced study is no longer included.

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• From archive.ph without the hyperlink to the study: The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that computers could replace humans in practical settings that require personality analysis, said the lead author, Youyou Wu, graduate student in psychology at Cambridge.
• From web.archive copy from 2015 with the hyperlink to the study: The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that computers could replace humans in practical settings that require personality analysis, said the lead author, Youyou Wu, a graduate student in psychology at Cambridge.