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

alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

New comiCSS cartoon: Framework Fans vs Framework Bros
https://comicss.art/comics/140/

It was inspired by a Pizza Cake Comic cartoon (linked in the source code).

Attachments:

• 4-panel comic showing a person who receives a message on their phone and says 'Oh! The developer of that framework you like is trending', a second person smiles, waving a flag with the text 'That Framework'. Then the first person looks shocked at the phone, which shows a message with emojis for fire and angry people: 'Oh... Oh no...' says while reading the developer's hot take. In the last panel, the second person looks shocked and ashamed and drops the flag. (remote)
• 4-panel comic showing a person who receives a message on their phone and says 'Oh! The developer of that framework you like is trending', a second person smiles waving a flag with the text 'That Framework'. Then the first person looks shocked at the phone, which shows a message with emojis for fire and angry people: 'Oh... Oh no...' says while reading the developer's hot take. In the last panel, the second person keeps smiling, and now they are waving more flags, with flags coming out of their ears and mouth, and even the t-shirt is from That Framework. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Finally, some pure #CSS, single element halftone patterned cards:

✨ https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/QWMRWRQ
✨ https://codepen.io/thebabydino/full/NWxBzRv

#filter #cssFilter #CodePen #halftone #filterEffect #cssGradient #blending #blendMode #code #coding #frontend #webDev #webDevelopment

Attachments:

• 4 cards that read "steal", "change", "polish" and "perfect", each having a different halftone pattern.
• 10 cards, each with a different halftone pattern.
• 10 more cards, each with a different halftone pattern.

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

I'm hoping to attend Skepticon 16 on 26-28 July. Not sure I can make it happen, though…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/13/skepticon-is-happening-on-26-28-july/

Attachments:

• Skepticon logo -- stegosaur with balloons (remote)

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

Roger Corman churned up a lot of cheese, but he did have a few camp classics I can watch over and over again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/13/roger-corman-is-dead/

Attachments:

• poster for "The Raven" (remote)

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

I am "the godfather, or grandfather, or one of the prime people that ended up actually killing the unity of the [atheist] movement." Aww, that's so sweet of Thomas Sheedy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/13/the-godfather-or-grandfather-or-one-of-the-prime-people-that-ended-up-actually-killing-the-unity-of-the-movement/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frp5irNyENw

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Musk claimed that Signal has unpatched security vulnerabilities. As a cryptography expert I’m not aware of any: instead Signal has top-notch state-of-the-art encryption which has been adopted by its competitors it’s so good.

Telegram isn’t end-to-end encrypted by default. It has no group chat encryption whatsoever. It uses a bizarre, badly designed “MTProto” protocol about which dozens of cryptography papers have documented myriad unfixed flaws.

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

anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

And here are two more pure CSS demos showcasing animated halftone patterns, while the elements they're on either fill the full viewport or are positioned in 3D.

✨ https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/gOpMeWv
✨ https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/RwQjpmQ

#CSS #cssVariables #filter #cssFilter #blending #blendMode #code #coding #frontend #webDev #webDevelopment

Attachments:

• Cube made up of 6 pyramids with missing bases (coinciding with the cube faces). The lateral pyramid faces inside the cube showcase an halftone pattern with a map that's a repeating radial gradient at the common apex of these 6 pyramids. Animating the stop positions of the map creates halftone ripples.
• Scrolling though a bunch of full viewport halftone patterns with varying gradient maps having stop positions animated via CSS custom properties.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

markmetz@sfba.social ("Ⓜ️Mr.MarkⓂ️") wrote:

Sigh..

Attachments:

• SCIENTISTS Yes, you all are Wrong A Man Who Saw A YouTube Video (remote)

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

taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

“It explains why you get pathologized and called everything from a doomer to a snowflake for caring about anything but yourself” https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

astrid@fedi.astrid.tech ("malevolent dictator for life") wrote:

Attachments:

• fractal cool S series. there are cool S's inside the tips of each cool S and this situation is iterated with each step (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

szakib@freeradical.zone wrote:

Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to _not_increase_ the CO2 level. And we need to significantly _decrease_ the CO2 level.

Carbon capture is a scam.

#ClimateCrisis
https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

darrenmorin@mstdn.ca ("Dareno Dareno") wrote:

#LIttleKittyBigCity finally dropped, so that's what I've been playing when I pick up the Switch lately. TBH I've mostly spent my time learning the controls & knocking over potted plants.

🐈 *crash*

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• A screen capture from the game. Here the black kitty with green eyes is walking along a road next to a puddle and some parked bicycles. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

With @mike

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

Attachments:

• Mastodon stuffed toy sitting in front of the steering wheel of a sailboat, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. He’s secured with a rope around his waist.

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Survey research from European streaming service Deezer indicates that music discovery peaks at 24, with survey respondents reporting increased variety in their music rotation during this time. However, after this age, our ability to keep up with music trends typically declines, with respondents reporting significantly lower levels of discovery in their early thirties. Ultimately, the Deezer study pinpoints 31 as the age when musical tastes start to stagnate.

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/when-do-we-stop-finding-new-music

Attachments:

• Chart: When do the strongest adult musical preferences set in? For women, it's age 13, for men, it's a bit later, 14. A chart showing breakdown by age groups.

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

randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

That thing where you can't get your tests passing and your frustration steadily expands to include cats and dogs and that neighbor and that other state and maybe the entire universe and the inevitable zombie apocalypse can't come quick enough and

oh wait i messed up an import

birds chirp flowers are bright happy bees buzzing everything is right and good again

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

inautilo ("Inautilo") wrote:

“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller

_____
#Business #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Website #Blog #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend #Quote

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

toor@citydweller.social ("TheCityDweller :verified_gay:") wrote:

@ben We all told everyone so. All of you. But you all dumped usenet news, public forums and other systems for fancy commercial ones. You all ran to Discord instead of continuing IRC. You all went to Reddit. You all went to Stack Overflow. Oh it was so "convenient".
Or back in time you all thought it would be cool to add information to IMDB without getting paid.

Now we have the fediverse. And what do people do? They sign up for Bluesky and Threads or stay on X "because the press is there, too".

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

That laugh makes it quite clear that Tucker Carlson has been consorting with Cthulhu.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/12/tucker-carlson-has-always-been-ignorant-nuts/

Attachments:

• Tucker Carlson caricature (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

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

It's interesting how contemptibly vile conformist, conservative, Christian thought has become that now "Satanic" is a compliment and stand-in for open-mindedness and justice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/12/oh-its-eurovision-season/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWAke4NPEU

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

mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:

Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was an auto mechanic, an aircraft mechanic, and a tinkerer of all sorts. One of the biggest things he tinkered with was a Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra (aka theatre orgran) that he purchased well before I was born and installed in his home. I've told plenty of folks about this but it's hard to convey the experience.

Recently, I've gotten everything put together to digitize VHS and one of the first I'm working on is a recording of him giving a demonstration. As he says in the video: "this is a demonstration, not a performance. This is about when these were built, why they were built, how they work, and a then a bit of performance to show how they were used." That video is going to take quite a bit of time to restore from the tape I have.

In the meantime, I found another tape that has a local news segment on him and his theatre organ. This is that tape straight from the capture.

Attachments:

• Local news segment from the 1990s covering Larry Evritt's theatre organ. It was installed in his home and he gave demonstrations of it including history, how it works, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the organ itself for many years. (remote)

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

phooky@octodon.social wrote:

Moving all my web content into "robots.txt" files on the presumption that they'll be ignored by crawlers

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

It looks like the book banning efforts we have here in the US are spreading to other places, but one publisher has responded by freely sharing their banned book as a PDF.

https://aus.social/@KathyReid/112425556083534847

Kathy Reid's statement:

"Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist."

Gives me strength.

If you're curious to know more about the banning, I found this story. It is so similar to the stories we have over here:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/cumberland-city-council-sydney-steve-christou-same-sex-book-ban

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

cmzw ("celestialmaze") wrote:

#MaterialMaker #b3d

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• fa483e5b9b649c0f.mp4

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

The dress is going viral again, for the wrong reasons.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/12/a-cynical-mothers-day-connection/

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• Is the dress blue & black? Or white & gold? (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

zhuowei@notnow.dev ("Zhuowei Zhang") wrote:

ShinyQuagsire (the main developer of ALVR for visionOS) is probably the foremost expert of the Apple Vision Pro's rendering pipeline outside of Apple.

His new write up of the Vision Pro's eye tracking/dynamic resolution is incredibly detailed and worth a read (even if some parts went over my head, since I'm not a VR/graphics dev.)

https://mastodon.social/@ShinyQuagsire/112424602385955769

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

NOTimothyLottes@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

It is not the amount of transistors, but rather what you do with them that counts ... C64 it on a real CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUmVdd_t2s

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

ipg@wetdry.world ("Emma") wrote:

My Despicable Wii got the Homegru Channel

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

I managed to finish this yesterday. I don't like the final result (I'd show you, but I'll keep my shame to myself this time), but the kiddo seems to. I nearly botched it at the end trying to mount it to some cardboard I had around with whatever adhesive I had around. Not the greatest job, but it'll get tossed after the party anyway. Onwards and upwards or some such.

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

Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

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• A female Anna’s hummingbird feeding two chicks in a nest among green leaves (remote)