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

It's #BandcampFriday, and I decided to pick up a couple of items.

"Pull the Rope" from Ibibio Sound Machine, which released today:

https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/album/pull-the-rope

"What Makes the Red Man Red" from Frank Waln. As a pale-faced savage, I probably shouldn't enjoy it as much as I do, but it's fierce and true.

https://frankwaln47.bandcamp.com/track/what-made-the-red-man-red

To check how much time you have to maximize your contribution to artists on Bandcamp:

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

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

liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

The #Radicle project has set up its own fediverse instance, @radicle , as part of the ramp up to the 1.0 release.

Radicle is a local-first, peer-to-peer, sovereign collaboration platform built on top of git. In other words, a "git forge", with git for version control, but adding patch management (what GitHub calls Pull Request), and a ticketing system for issues, all stored in the git repository.

Radicle home page is at https://radicle.xyz/

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

Of all the awful takes in development, none grinds my gears more than "silly JavaScript devs JavaScripted too much and now everything's a mess but they got themselves into it haha."

Right, sure, everything was great before, and we just made it complicated because we were silly, bored little dummies who didn't know any better. Our jobs were so easy! Everything is actually so simple!

Fuck off with that reductive bullshit.

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

long-time viewers may recall that in 2020 I volunteered for the campaign of his pro-choice primary opponent

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

lol, lmao, etc https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567

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

Climate change is bad. Really bad. Now explain all the secondary causes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/03/a-frustrating-news-article/

Attachments:

• Sea level rise along the Gulf Coast since 2010 (remote)

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fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

A short story of today’s web.

„A billionaire got mad, bought your favourite social media site and ran it into the ground. A different billionaire got mad, bought the magazine site you liked to read on your lunchbreak and shut it down completely.”

https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Google went from you have to be in Mountain View at least three days a week to do this job to you can do it from India and Mexico in less than a year.

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• 03754a93b589890e.jpeg (remote)
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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Worst retirement plan ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/03/ad-agencies-should-watch-star-trek/

Attachments:

• Billboard that says "retire the redshirt way" (remote)

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

University of Minnesota achieves a temporary resolution.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/03/the-university-of-minnesota-stands-down/

Attachments:

• University of Minnesota grad student Taher Herzallah’s family is from Gaza, and he has lost nine family members due to the violence since October of 2023. “We are prepared to disrupt,” he says in reference to the university keeping its promises. (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Oh man, the `diagnostic::on_unimplemented` attribute seems to be the thing I've been waiting on for years so that `transmogrify` or `transform` in frunk can be less freaky...

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/02/Rust-1.78.0.html#diagnostic-attributes

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rust_discussions ("Rust Weekly 🦀") wrote:

Announcing Rust 1.78.0 | Rust Blog

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/02/Rust-1.78.0.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/02/Rust-1.78.0.html

#programming #release #rustlang

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fluffypaws@cooltrans.men ("golden retriever boyfriend :verifiedtrans: :verifiedmlm: :verifiedpolyam_tricolor: ") wrote:

god bless our troops [the people at ublock origin who keep updating the filters to keep working on youtube]

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

Oh.

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• 2524d2f9bd537c32.png (remote)

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iramjohn ("Ian Ramjohn") wrote:

This is brilliant. And tragic.
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

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

The Austrian village of Fucking may have changed its name, but I can still pay it tribute in videogames

Attachments:

• Screencap of the game Littlewood. In the village of Deluca, a girl named Willow says, "Maybe we can find some materials that will help us with Fucking."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A very cool friend let me take a picture. I feel like this series is my best work so far. Switzerland.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 @NotFrauKadse

#BelieveInFilm #MediumFormat #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography

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• A woman with black hair that has a gradient towards the ends and a septum ring, wearing a large round silver pendant, black tights, a black faux leather skirt, and a black off-the-shoulder top, with tattoos peaking out from underneath the top on both arms, sitting on the windowsill and dipping a cigarette gently into the ashtray next to her.

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

@Edent This is a great scam, and probably effective a good percentage of the time.

It reminds of a story I wrote about a tech expert who got scammed b/c he refused to hang up when the scammers called. Instead, he put the scammers on hold and called his bank and asked them if they were in support call with him already, and they checked and said yes. Feeling better, he went back to the original caller and proceeded to give them what they needed to take over the account.

What he didn't count on was that the scammers were also on the phone with his bank at the same time --- pretending to be him! So the bank was answering truthfully, from their perspective.

This wrinkle just seems to add some app magic into it, which is brilliant.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-look-up-call-back/

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

Note to self: You haven't listened to OK Computer in a long time and you should do that.

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

Going swimmingly for the Tories so far:

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prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

react mage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic

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• Girl is reading the article you just sent her. She looks at you questioningly. Girl: "This is corporate propaganda." (remote)

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esther@strangeobject.space ("Esther is mostly AFK") wrote:

Heat Death of the Internet

https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

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

dennyhenke@social.coop ("Beardy Star Stuff") wrote:

It has begun! I found this year's cicadas in my garden this morning. Magicicada septendecim, sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada or the 17-year locust, is native to Canada and the United States and is the largest and most northern species of periodical cicada with a 17-year lifecycle.

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• A black bodied insect with bright orange eyes and clear wings folded straight back covering part of the body. (remote)

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rjkwon ("rachel") wrote:

I added some more wonderful personal website “manifestos” to this list! https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/

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

This is the first time I've so much as glanced at Haidt's book…and it's so much more stupid than I imagined.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/02/bad-books-2/

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• coddling of the american mind book cover (remote)

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hn50@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 50") wrote:

Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterprise AI tool

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/microsoft-bans-u-s-police-departments-from-using-enterprise-ai-tool/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40240037

#microsoft

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paul_irish@toot.cafe ("Paul Irish") wrote:

Web pages! 🥰 New Yorker piece highlights how the humble homepage offers sanctuary to social media overload. Some excerpts:

> Surrounded by dreck, the digital citizen is discovering that the best way to find what she used to get from social platforms is to type a URL into a browser bar and visit an individual site.

> The longevity [...] hints at the possibility that giant social platforms may ultimately seem like an aberration in the history of digital journalism.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-revenge-of-the-home-page

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We can have a different web:

> And those who cultivate those plots outside of these walls face pressures to conform to the whims of the businesses in hopes that the pathways remain open.

To gain the web we want, we have to pry it from the hands of our for-profit gatekeepers. They won't just let us have the weird, quirky web we long for because its existence proves we don't need them.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#SmallWeb

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

Somehow I am both the cat and the human in this comic.

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• Four-panel comic. A cat loudly demands "I want!" Its owner asks "what do you want?" The cat looks confused for a moment, then returns to loudly demanding "I want!" (remote)