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

Today in History: Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918

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

Today in History: Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925

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

Today in History: Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961

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rooster@chaosfem.tw ("Jessica") wrote:

Thank you for your interest in being judged after death. All the details of your life have been uploaded already but we need you to manually enter every detail in a terrible web form anyway

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GuerillaOntologist@social.coop ("Josh Davis") wrote:

PSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMtc30pSAsM

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mirlo@musician.social ("mirlo.space") wrote:

We're going to launch our kickstarter campaign in the next week or so and we're excited to share a preview!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo?ref=1exqh7

#bandcamp #fairplay #platformcoop #mirlo #music

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fluffy@plush.city ("fluffy 💜") wrote:

Mirlo, a co-op run Bandcamp alternative, is having a Kickstarter funding round coming up real soon. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo?ref=1exqh7

Check out Mirlo itself at https://mirlo.space/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

FCC restores net #neutrality (unless I'm misreading it?) https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402091A1.pdf

Another good news after FTC axing non-competes.

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I... oh... I love you too."
#TootFic #SmallStories #Microfiction

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

P.S. Since this is social media, and you don't know me: this is supposed to be lighthearted :-) I don't hate anyone for real!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I developed a dislike to another category of #photography, in addition to flowers. For context, I consider shooting flowers to be the cheapest way to look like you're doing something: they always come out good.

So another one is birds shot with a long focus. You don't need skill, you need a huge-ass, expensive lens and a bird filling up the entire frame right in the center. You're pretty much guaranteed sharp focus with terrific bokeh, and birds are pretty already. Not interesting!

(cont.)

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

FCC restores net neutrality.

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phos@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net ("Phos, the installation wizard 🧙‍♂️") wrote:

Compiling arcane incantations with the recursive descent into madness parser

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igd_news@kolektiva.social ("It's Going Down") wrote:

Report from #Atlanta, police brutally suppressed attempt to set up encampment at Emory college - a campus where protests have been ongoing against Cop City.

Atlanta Community Press Collective reporting that "Police have deployed tear gas. There are also reports of tazing and rubber bullets deployed against the protesters on the Emory quad." Reports of around 20 arrests.

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• Tweet from Atlanta Community Press Collective saying police in Atlanta have deployed projectile weapons. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I instinctually keep a mental note of all the writers I come across who blog unapologetically at and about Big Tech.

The past decade, blogging has become unbearably polite, as to not ruffle our gatekeepers' feathers. Devs and project managers for the largest platforms became our mutuals. Anyone who doesn't toe the line is quickly ostracized. So, we play nice.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I feel a shift. Shout out to all the #BlogPunks

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lupyuen@qoto.org ("Lup Yuen Lee 李立源") wrote:

#RISCV or Arm on the same board? That's super interesting 🤔

Source: https://milkv.io/docs/duo/getting-started/duos

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

Current status: need help, but in way too bad of a mood to accept it.

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tokyo_0@mas.to ("Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)") wrote:

@dizzy There's an impact to effective moderation, too, and its burden on users. Say you have a 1000-user instance. With the current system 10 users flag a problem instance. The admin looks, realises it's full of abuse, and blocks it. 990 users don't need to waste their time with that.

Under the pro-Meta talking point system, a harmful instance can still keep reaching users until all 1,000 of them encounter harmful content themselves and block it. And even when they do, the admin doesn't know.

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mcfly@milliways.social ("mc.fly") wrote:

Facebook gave Netflix all of your private messages in exchange for all your watch history.

#fediverse rocks.

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• Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages on Messanger in exchange for alll your watch history while Netflix paid them $100m+ for ads. Meta will sell your data at a heartbeat for profit. (remote)

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

Raise your hand if you're going to miss Gateway Pundit and the Dumbest Man on the Internet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/25/another-dishonest-website-down-in-flames/

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• "Gateway Pundit, where hope finally made a comeback." (remote)

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

Just had my first crash in blender, but thankfully I hadn't really started doing anything yet

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

The latest manufactured moral panic from Libs of TikTok: furries running amuck in a Utah middle school. Totally unbelievable, but probably won't damage Chaya Raichek's credibility at all.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/25/this-is-utah/

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• These are not Jr High school furries. It is Libs of TikTok, lying again. (remote)

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FrankenGraphics@mastodon.art ("FrankenGFX") wrote:

Made this.
It's NES displayable. 256 background tiles for the view, a scanline split allows for extra tiles for the car dashboard.
Carefully hand selected placement of sprite objects on top to bend colour attribute borders & add extra details.

Commissioned work for an unnamed, citypop/roadtrip themed music/art cartridge.

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• NES pixel art. View from inside a parked car right before a pedestrian/moped alley leading down a train bridge in a low density restaurant district. Trees and mountains hint at the end of the street on the other side of the bridge. There are 2 restaurants visible to the right and a street corner to the left, where a man is passing by a vending machine with leftovers in a plastic bag. Market stalls are placed on either side of the tunnel entrance of the bridge, but are unoccupied at this time of the day. (remote)

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

The death penalty is being considered for whoever decided to make the settings on this ISP-provided router only editable via app instead of a regular web interface

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ExtraFlauschig@chaos.social wrote:

Birds for freedom! ✊✊

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• Eine Krähe schmeißt Anti-Vögel-Spikes von einem Mauervorsprung herunter. (remote)

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thegibson@hackers.town ("The Gibson") wrote:

#nowplaying

One of the best songs ever written.

https://youtu.be/lOqVQPq8zm8

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Occasionally I see people posting about their clever tricks for getting accented characters like é or ü into a document, and I have to physically restrain myself from enthusing all over them about the glories of the compose key

https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/03/make-typing-special-characters-drop-dead-easy-with-the-compose-key/

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aardrian@toot.cafe ("Adrian Roselli") wrote:

@bkardell @brucelawson
I once lost a prospect because the marketing guy wanted infinite scroll for a non-content-heavy site to “reduce bounce rate.”

That frustrating interaction begat this post: https://adrianroselli.com/2015/05/for-infinite-scroll-bounce-rate-is.html

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

Well #JSNakedDay will continue for a few more hours but if I can share one quick story on how I became radicalized before the clock hits midnight.

Back during 2020 during the height of the COVID pandemic we needed to order stuff from Canadian Tire.

Aside: Canadian Tire sells more than tires just like Wal-Mart sells other things besides walls.

Anyway, because of the new reality of having to pick up stuff from poorly paid teenagers in a parking lot Canadian Tire revamped their website.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just learned you can download the entire Wikipedia site for offline use. It's about 100gb compressed, media included. 🤯