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

Where party is defined as do things that bring you joy and do not harm others.

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

In my old age, I finally realized the Beastie Boys were correct when they said, "You gotta fight for your right to party."

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jswright61@ruby.social ("Scott Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@sam is starting a bike repair business in Smyrna, GA serving the Atlanta metro area. My wife just went on a 25 mile ride on her 15 year old Jamis road bike after Sam tuned it up and replaced the drive train. She said it road like new!

Great knowledge, superior workmanship, friendly service, and fair prices. I cannot give a higher recommendation.

The Fedi community is large, but sparse. I’d really appreciate boosts so that cyclists near me have the best chance to see this.

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conservancy@sfconservancy.org ("Software Freedom Conservancy") wrote:

FOSSY CFP and ticket sales are now open! Be sure to submit your talk to one of our many incredible tracks before June 14th!

Join us at 19:00 UTC in our XMPP/ IRC room for office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you have any questions. Or you can email conference@sfconservancy.org

You can find more information here as well: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

much respect to people who triage crasher reports in widely-used software like browsers. requires an iron belief that things happens for reasons and that you can find them out, all the while knowing the reason might be "the sun is particularly spicy at the moment"

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akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

@slightlyoff "A library you're ignorant of is a risk you're exposed to, a now-quiet frontier that may suddenly face assault from some bug when you're on a deadline and can least afford the distraction." -- https://akkartik.name/post/libraries (2012)

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History May 23, 1903: Thousands of children went on strike in the textile mills of Philadelphia. On July 7, Mother Jones began the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the deplorable conditions for child laborers. He refused to see them.

During this march, she delivered the “The Wail of the Children” speech in which she said: “In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills, they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?” It was also during that speech when she said, “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to get there. He had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him that if he had stolen a railroad he could be a United States Senator. One hour of justice is worth an age of praying.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #children #motherjones #childlabor #philadelphia #longisland

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• Mother Jones surrounded by striking child mill workers. Source: Library of Congress (remote)

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

sign of Summer

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• Vietnamese-style iced coffee dripping slowly into an insulated cup filled with ice & milk (remote)

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

One of these days, they won't be able to turn it back on again.

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

Whenever there's a service outage at Large Tech Corp™, I think (perhaps hopefully), "Maybe the machine stopped for good this time."

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

I mean Emacs has a lot of things but... a mouse-driven point and click vector tool?! That's a category of program I haven't seen before... https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw

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• Edraw being shown in use. A user embeds an edraw interface into org-mode and then draws some diagrams (remote)

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

You remember when you got to be an adult, and you suddenly realized nobody knew what they were doing, and everyone was just a bumbling idiot making it up as they go along?

That's the same with founders and CEOs and everybody else above you in your workplace, too, just so you know.

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

A blog post about what is likely the biggest @eleventy news in our project’s history — and we need your help!

https://www.zachleat.com/web/independent-sustainable-11ty/

#11ty

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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

Atarobot. 🕹️🤖

Modeled and rendered in MagicaCSG, post-processed in PhotoScape X.
Inspired by a Jim Rowden concept.

#design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #atari #Atari2600 #bot #robot #mecha #retro #gaming #gamer #illustration #illustrator #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #MagicaCSG #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

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• 3D rendering of an Atari 2600 joystick robot model. (remote)

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amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

Women tend to be more 'underconfident' than men & it starts early. Using data of UK twins born 1994-96, age 9 boys & their parents report boys math skill higher than girls when they have the same performance. The diff was even more pronounced for twins.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e8a8908-5462-40cf-bf9f-3c12eb2c0c30

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

a group of crows is having a confab, up there about 150 feet above me here in the cemetery 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

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gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

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• Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

New Blog: A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

This morning #Slack sent me a warning that my mobile OS will not be supported any more from Sep 1. This seems to me a big 🖕 to users (also: we are paying users!).

Stopping supporting desktop OS is tolerable because the browser version works well and you are still notified etc, but on mobile is a totally different matter.

My Android phone is everything but old, I don't waste money changing it every 6 months.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Descent to the coast. San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

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• Concrete stairs leading down a steep green mountainside towards the sea.

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changelog@changelog.social ("Changelog") wrote:

🕺 New Changelog interview!

@bcantrill takes @adam on his journey from Sun to @oxidecomputer…

🎧 https://changelog.fm/592

#opensource #software #hardware #podcast

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

I'd offer my own definitions, but:

1.) I'm horrible at language. Others will do a better, punchier job.
2.) nobody really wants to hear from "an old" telling the kids these days about how much better HTML used to be (it wasn't)
3.) any nascent movement for quality will need someone more thoughtful and engaged

Hey @nomadtechie, any thoughts?

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

A lot is going around right now about how we can achieve a better web, and I'm here for all of it.

What the optimists are not doing is enunciating how we got to the Bad Place. In addition to calls for thoughtful folks to rededicate themselves to fundamentals, I think we need a lexicon to describe, identify, and eliminate the shysterism of the JS-industrial-complex decade.

We're lacking in language for what failed, which makes me fear that what works will be co-opted all over again.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

DRAG THEM

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/technology/doj-ticketmaster-live-nation-antitrust-suit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE0.xLa5.nKFfnUmYgSAn&smid=url-share

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

If it's part of your build process or shipped bundle, no part of those dependencies are ever "unowned"; they're only temporarily disavowed.

IOW, all the code that can hand you a bad day is *yours*, no matter the up-front price.

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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

If you need to have calendars on your site and would like some pre-baked minimally-assumptive custom elements to help you do that, Nick Williams has something for you: https://wicky.nillia.ms/cally/

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joshmillard ("Josh "cortex" Millard") wrote:

All Dogs Go To Eleven

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The score on my current any% run suuuucks...

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Purely from a gameplay perspective, I think you should get to replay certain stages at the end of your life.

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phooky@octodon.social wrote:

the new ginger root is a bop and the video is solid gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiOdGpR0TdU