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

Spider sexy dances, all this week in my lab.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/14/spider-sex-orgy-coming-right-up/

Attachments:

• Cartoon diagram of spiders dancing sexily (remote)

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

The most beautiful sight on the internet is a plain, JavaScript-free web page, reached with just one single click, saying "you have been unsubscribed" in Times New Roman.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

it's sort of astonishing just how bad every piece of "kiosk" software is. bought a train ticket, checked in at the airport, using my seatback display, all on just the most eye-wateringly terrible UI and UX

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

Someday, I might be looking for a job again. If that happens, I *might* decide to finally click that LinkedIn Premium free trial banner I've been ignoring for years.

If I do, it'll go in the record books as a win for that design. I'll be part of some tiny boost in conversion in some A/B test, and it'll inform the next interation of that same ubiquitous pop-up.

But it never mattered.

I just clicked it when it was time to click it.

This is why I mistrust most analytics.

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

Cmastication ("JD Long ✅") wrote:

“Excessively perky but prone to confidently spew incorrect information”

Uh oh. I can’t tell if this is a description of GPT4o or… me.

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

Shifting climate zones have affected our garden!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/14/weve-moved/

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• map of plant hardiness zones (remote)

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

CopernicusECMWF@masto.ai wrote:

📢 You're still on time to register online 👇

Join us in the 7th #C3S General Assembly & listen to engaging sessions from #C3S service providers, EU representatives, & partner organisations.

🗓️17-20 June

▶️ https://climate.copernicus.eu/7th-c3s-general-assembly

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• 98c6c73e2212c387.png (remote)

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

raymierussell@mastodon.scot ("Raymond Russell") wrote:

@NanoRaptor
In some ways the only true offsite backups ever created are the golden discs on the Voyager probes

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

today would have been my Dad’s 106th birthday (he only got 57 years). I miss him still. 💦

Major Jack Sonstein lived in interesting times.

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• Jack Sonstein, in a photo-booth with a silly expression on his face and a hotdog sticking out of his mouth, 1939 or 1940 (remote)
• Lt Jack Sonstein, 1943 just prior to shipping out for England (remote)
• Lt. Jack Sonstein, at a showerpoint in Northern France, Summer 1944 (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

loved visiting paris and generally loved the metro. but the ticketing experience was beyond awful in several ways. I hope they're fixing some of that before the olympics 😬

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

ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

Thanks everyone! We closed the loop!

Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles.

No humans needed any more!

Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

Oxide- efficiency you can hear! It's unreal how much quieter 32 Oxide sleds are vs just two commodity servers. All that noise is your power and cooling budget being burned up by tiny, screaming fans in inefficient legacy servers, let us show you a better way!

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• 186adbf7984e7ca3.mp4 (remote)

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

megmac@treehouse.systems ("Meg") wrote:

It's kind of weird that over the next couple of decades, the stereotype of "grandparents don't know how to use computers" is going to have to give way to "grandparents remember when computers worked at all and won't shut up about it."

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

requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:

Any of you have experience/opinions on funding a #foss project with Open Collective?

https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/

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

LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault ✌🏻") wrote:

This means massacre, everytime.

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• @QudsN Full outage of internet and telecom in Gaza (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

viticci@macstories.net ("Federico Viticci :ticciseal:") wrote:

I couldn’t get an iPad Pro long enough in advance to publish a review today.

Instead, I finally took the time to prepare something else: a comprehensive story about all the problems of iPadOS.

Enjoy ☕️

Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/

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• 6e8592cbe70dcfee.jpeg (remote)

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

(including some of mine) 🙈

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

grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert") wrote:

Classic version control:

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• A collection of MI 3.5 floppy disks. (remote)

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

hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

It's still so wild to me that you can point out bad practices in javascript or whatever other language or point out a better way to write something and people go "yes of course, that makes sense now, I'll do it this way now" but for CSS those same people throw up their hands and go "I fear I need to reinvent CSS actually" instead of just learning the thing

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

hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

Is this a real thing people using Tailwind do because this made me actually lol at work
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72826605/how-to-style-nested-elements-based-on-parent-class-using-tailwind-css

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

Shout-out to that one random JavaScript developer, whose free confetti library bursts at the end of every user flow on every website nowadays.

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We have just published the 8 talks of the Web Engines Hackfest 2024: https://webengineshackfest.org/#talks

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• Screenshot of https://webengineshackfest.org/#talks With the titles and pictures of speakers. Content: * The Future of Source Maps by Jonathan Kuperman * Firefox Wayland post mortem by Martin Stransky * The journey towards stabilizing Chromium’s Wayland support by Max Ihlenfeldt * Nova JavaScript Engine - Exploring a Data-Oriented Engine Design by Aapo Alasuutari * Sustainable Futures: Funding the Web Ecosystem by Stephanie Stimac * History of WebGPU in Deno by Leo Kettmeir * Blitz: a truly modular, hackable web renderer by Nico Burns * LBSE - Status of the Layer-Based SVG Engine by Nikolas Zimmermann (remote)

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

Enthused for the ooze freethought = leopards eating our faces party.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/13/freethinkers-actually-are-bothered-by-people-being-digested-by-an-ooze/

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• Guy says he's a freethinker because he isn't bothered by an ooze digesting people (remote)

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

tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

The BBC is hiring 2x data-focussed Technical Architects ("senior" & "lead") for UK-based folks (due to boring tax/legal reasons).

Great & smart team (we work with them regularly) using mostly AWS-based tech. Flexible location (mainly remote by default but options to work from a number of offices). Solid pension & benefits.

Shares/boosts would be much appreciated. Closes May 16th.

Full details on the adverts:

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Glasgow-Senior-Architect-G511DA/794392302/

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Glasgow-Lead-Architect-G511DA/794389302/

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

tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

I am looking for some visual programming environment that allows not only small processing nodes (like NodeRED) but that also includes objects with state. Think NodeRED but with a another dimension that contains objects that the flows interact with.

Anyone knows something like this?

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

macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

AppleCare+ Extends $29 Screen Repairs to New iPad Pro and iPad Air https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/13/applecare-ipad-cracked-screen-repair-fee/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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

pray for me, for now I must figure out how someone else has installed postgres, & then figure out how to configure the sucker securely

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

Is this pithy complaining on my part? Sure.

But also, maybe we hold the most valuable corporation in the world to like, basically the lowest possible standard? Idk just a thought.

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

A large part of this is the multiple-display issue on M2 Macs, which you can easily find many threads, support requests and bug tickets on starting well over a year ago, and which has never been fixed.

Several times a day, I either have to disconnect and reconnect cables, or reshuffle my spontaneously rearranged windows back into my preferred configuration, or both.

Apple blames monitor manufacturers, despite the issue _only_ occurring with M2(+?) machines. 🙃

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

While I was restarting my iPad in order to fix an interminable FaceTime bug, so I could wish my mom a happy Mother's Day…

…It occurred to me that I literally never touch an Apple device without spending time doing something like that; working around a bug.

You should know: when I use the word "literally," I mean literally literally. I mean each and every time I use an Apple device, for any length of time, for any reason, I spend some of that time working around a bug.

What a state of affairs.