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daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:

The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The lens did not work correctly 🥲 The aperture blades must've not closed fast enough. Everything looks like it's shot on the most open aperture, even though I know that most of these shots were supposed to be f8 and f11.

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

Today in History: DEC announces PDP-8, 1965

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

Today in History: US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956

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pamelaoliver@sciences.social ("Pamela Oliver") wrote:

Big findings: Newswires more interested in violence & White-focused issues including Confederate symbols & White identity groups. Black newspapers cover more worker struggles, local struggles over defunding of public services, schools, community violence issues. #BlackHistory #Sociology

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

JFC

"After backlash, Trump pulls social media post with reference to 'unified Reich'"

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-backlash-trump-pulls-social-media-post-with-reference-unified-reich-2024-05-21/

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

this would have solved a number of my problems! https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/21/apple-wallet-app-transit-cards-paris-toronto/

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Painted the very best boi as an early bday present for @fpiatti

#boc #EldenRing #MastoArt #GouachePainting #illustration

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• Boc from Elden Ring painted in gouache and watercolor by Victoria Maderna. (remote)

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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Wrote a little blogpost about the NOVA documentary I appeared on https://dustycloud.org/blog/i-appeared-on-pbs-nova/

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• Christine being interviewed by Alok Patel and dramatically gesturing (as she does) (remote)

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poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club ("Poise Under Chaos") wrote:

If computers weren't a mistake, billionaires definitely were.

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mhoye wrote:

I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Every time I hear a "flirty" AI assistant voice, I feel a spike of revulsion. It's creepy. Seems obvious in retrospect, but I think I figured out why:

I'm very sensitive to manipulation. Not to say I always see it - I can, in fact, be quite gullible. But, when I do detect it, I take it as a deep personal insult and flag the source as never to be trusted again.

Apropos of that, a "flirty" AI assistant is not attempting to form a reciprocal social connection with me. A "flirty" AI assistant is manipulation.

A "flirty" AI assistant is an attempt at an emotional security exploit by a corporation in the hopes that I'll mistakenly grant the imperfect thing some empathy and give it a trusted place in my life. It feels very crass and dystopian.

Some folks describe this as a UI affordance to make users more comfortable with the machine. With me - and probably a lot of folks - it lands as sour as a door-to-door Comcast salesperson.

Ironically, the only assistant voices I tolerate tend to be very emotionally flat and matter-of-fact. Like, I know what you are, machine, and I'll trust you more if you stop pretending.

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nev@bananachips.club wrote:

just a quick reminder that tomorrow is #WorldGothDay on #kexp, tune in for a full day of gothiness

#np #NowPlaying #TootRadio

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snazzyq@threads.net ("Quinn Nelson") wrote:

The simplest tasks on iPadOS are either incredibly difficult and time-consuming, or they’re so unintuitive that even a 25-year Apple veteran can't figure them out. Frankly, neither reflects well on iPadOS.

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

I can still remember being in my 20s, and I would laugh at this preventive measure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/21/our-vigorous-young-athletes-will-not-be-discouraged/

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• Anti-sex bed for the Paris Olympics (remote)

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

A framing I think a lot of people miss is that when you're watching videos online, you are literally watching reality TV.

The medium may be different; the crew may be a different size (though maybe not). But at the end of the day, that's what online videos are; they're reality TV.

Which means you should approach anything from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. with the exact same (highly warranted) incredulity you might give to The Bachelor, House Hunters, Dr. Phil, etc.

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

Tax the rich! Even better than eating them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/21/picking-rich-peoples-pockets-is-profitable/

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• monopoly man with moneybags (remote)

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

The actual thing that happened here is: I posted something, for the first time after several weeks of no activity.

LinkedIn is masterful at spin for the sake of engagement.

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• LinkedIn analytics: "Your post impressions took off. They grew by 2900+% on May 20. View your analytics" (remote)

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

some of us come home and try to pick up our lives, some come home in a box. thank you Trooper Haggeryy, I just wish you’d had a little more time. 💦

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jimbob@aus.social ("Bela Lugosi's Dad") wrote:

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• Musical score with a large black rectangle over both staves. Text: (Both buttocks) Sit on keyboard and jump back to normal position without losing the tempo. (remote)

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

XKCD 927, but instead of standards we're talking about proprietary tooling that attempts to lock you in.

https://xkcd.com/927/

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

Vendor: Our new software eliminates all those competing, incompatible tools from vendors that locked you into their tooling.

Me: How does it work?

Vendor: Without getting into too many details, it's amazing. Here, look at these fancy animations and try our quick start. Just install it.

Me: How does it work?

Vendor: Without getting into too many details...

Me: [interrupting] What is your business model?

Vendor: We're mission driven to make developers happy.

Me: [walks away] 😠

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

Yeah, we've got silly creationist goons here in Minnesota, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/20/you-will-not-believe-how-ridiculous-a-minnesota-state-senator-can-be/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmKUH1uAZrY

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

Just read an *extremely* long blog post (with dozens of graphs and code snippets) about improving INP in react websites. Some good stuff for tamping down re-renders in the post.

So I traced the site.

Don't know why I expected the 5.7MB of JS served over H/2 to be gzipped. It's 2024. Up is down, down is left.

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yvonnezlam ("Yvonne Lam") wrote:

Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:

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• @yvonnezlam My theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing we call tech debt, but we can't use it because tech has been made up of people who don't do housework, or manage housework being done. @yvonnezlam - The point of debt is to package risk. The point of financialization is to package risk to make it more palatable to different markets, hence able to be bought/sold/traded. @yvonnezlam Most tech debt projects/conversations/discussions are difficult because the debt metaphor hides that the risk is not even for different actors. @yvonnezlam | think housework is a better metaphor because it allows you to ask questions like, "Is this 'not cleaning the bathroom' bad, or 'running out of toilet paper' bad?"
• Or even "we don't have guests, and the guest room bathroom is mysteriously out of toilet paper. Can whoever is using that bathroom please make sure it's restocked?" The thing with tech debt is that in order to have a useful discussion, you need to be able to talk about *who* is affected and how -- who is going to be woken up, be pulled off other work, be unable to perform some critical function, etc. You can't hide risk and have that talk. Right now, one of the failure modes I see in tech debt discussions is that everything has to be framed in terms of effects on the business. That is important, but if we take How Complex Systems Fail seriously, we know "catastrophe requires multiple failures". How Complex Systems Fail: how.complexsystems.fail I have seen people argue all sorts of things, up to and including syntax linting, is tech debt critical to business outcomes. This kind of rhetorical inflation is not helpful. You say "tech debt" and people zone out, because they assume it's some engineer going on about ... the evils of the ternary operator or whatever. And sadly, very often, it is.
• @yvonnezlam - As anyone who has ever argued about housework knows, housework arguments are disturbingly specific. It's always "Who minds the most?" and "l don't use that," and "Who's going to do the work?" and (rarely) "Who's going to manage getting this done?" @yvonnezlam - Bringing some of that uncomfortable specificity to discussions of tech debt could be really useful. We need to be able to talk about who minds and why and where the work should live. @yvonnezlam - We also need to talk about how what we do affects other teams/people. Team A can decide not to worry about concurrency right now, but they might be sticking Team B with that work down the road. @yvonnezlam - Right now, with the financialization metaphor, no one cares, because we know "down the road" might never happen. But: that means we don't think "Hm. We're not going to develop in-house expertise on concurrency in a hurry. Maybe we should hire/send people to training/support ... @yvonnezlam - ... people who are interested in this kind of thing doing some study?" or any number of other things to spread the load when the time comes. We don't think about what work Team B might need to put down in order to pick up the problem that everyone knows has been brewing forever.
• @yvonnezlam - We don't think "Team A took on this debt because they didn't know how to do the right thing and they had to do something. Not their fault, but...that wasn't good." @yvonnezlam - Whereas if we thought of it as more like housework, we could think "ok, the kids made this mess, now someone has to clean it up, can we get some of the kids involved since they have context for what they did, and it'd help everyone to get context for what to do next time?" @yvonnezlam -The debt conversation assumes a kind of statelessness, because that is the magic of financialization and financial metaphors. Anyone who has ever dealt with tech debt in an org knows that it's not stateless. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 Housework is stateful. You don't get a clean slate. You often end up moving stuff from Place A to Place B so that you can clean and tidy Place A properly. And people have state (feelings) about it. O boy do they have feelings about it. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 We picked a metaphor for "tech work that is about cleaning up old stuff instead of making new stuff" that *sounds* like something that would make sense to The Business, but (a) it's not clear it does, and (b) it confuses *us* thereby falsely constraining our options. /fin

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driusan@doomscroller.social ("Dave Mac Farlane") wrote:

Google (trans v.) (goo-gul)
1. To destroy a product while coasting on your reputation
2. To take a well liked product and cancel it
3. (Archaic, obsolete) To search on the internet

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loren@flipping.rocks ("Loren") wrote:

in case you ever need help telling what kind of drum and bass someone is talking about i made this handy little chart!

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• a fake punnett square of the two kind of drum (instrument and fish) and the two kinds of bass (instrument and fish). at the top of the square is a drum (instrument), then a drum (fish). on the left side there is a bass(instrument) and bass (fish). in every quadrant it just says "Drum and Bass" (remote)

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

"Oh there you are! We've been waiting so long we sent Email out to find you. Now we've got to wait for them to come back before we can leave..."

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

I was going to have FG say "It's the microplastics and forever chemicals." But that didn't seem as punchy.

Sometimes dark humor is all I've got. :(

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

Famous Host: And for our next guest please welcome my good friend, the fabulous and talented Famous Guest...

Famous Guest: [walks on stage to massive applause smiling and waving and gives the requisite hug to FH and then sits next to host's desk]

FH: It's great to see you again, and may I say you look terrific!

FG: [earnest] Oh thank you! It's the microplastics.

Audience: [nervous laughter]