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

The Fabric preview site is here:

https://aka.ms/fabricux

And you can poke at the underlying FWCv3 components (which are compatible with the Fluent v2 design language) here:

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/tree/master/packages/web-components

They're marked as being in Beta, but we're rolling them out in Edge today. YMMV.

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

Teams that adopt these components in Angular and React apps get a lot of the runtime performance benefits of moving to Web Components: style isolation via Shadow DOM, shallower Light DOM, and cheaper styling via Constructable Stylesheets. At the size of our apps, this is a BFD.

This isn't the whole enchilada, perf-wise -- for that, teams need to move to an HTML-first approach + "raw" Web Components, like we're doing in Edge -- but one investment is now delivering wins for all consumers.

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

the public perception of AI has been permanently damaged by shitposting in training models

…we all understand what needs to happen next, right

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

This might be Peak $work Posting (complete with LI link!), but it really is exciting: Microsoft just launched the Fabric design system that works across Angular and React apps...because it's Web Components underneath!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonfalk_fabricux-microsoftfabric-designsystem-activity-7199802763717853185-nnTV

Fabric is building on Fluent Web Components v3, which is the same set of FAST-based web components that we're rebuilding Edge's WebUIs on too. Legacy React and Angular apps get many of the benefits and we all get to share. Hot damn!

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

A decade ago, Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter, an experience that I described in my 2017 GOTO Chicago talk, "Debugging Under Fire":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE

On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl we will be joined by folks who were at Joyent a decade ago, both to recall the fateful outage and to reflect on its ramifications, both at Joyent and beyond. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/dqUCRwsx?event=1243638578484088842

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

Those little yellow baby orb weavers popping up everywhere today,

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/spiders-blooming-everywhere/

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• Tiny baby spider (remote)

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

1. See "weird AI true believers".
2. Get disappointed it's not about Weird Al.
3. Use inspect element to change font to monospace family for the duration of this session.

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Mathematics

The shocking bonus panel is available here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/mathematics-2

#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #math

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• 13770ff6f39a431a.png

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

Green heron

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• Green heron standing on a rock in a lake (remote)

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vga256@dialup.cafe wrote:

to the russian shithead who stole my #328747 account 20 years ago: icq is shutting down in one month

https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows

😆

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sblaydes@bsd.network ("Scott Blaydes") wrote:

Sharing this with the world.

Wife got diagnosed with fractured vertebra. While look at it, they found cancer. A lot of cancer. Cancer in her breast, spine, rib cage, sternum, and pelvis. Waiting for the diagnosis of what cancer (appointment is the 30th), but the doc already stated that it is sta

We don't have insurance and are already working hand to mouth. This really bothers me to ask for help, but this is bigger than me.

My wife runs/ran a Home School Resource Center. She provided classes for home school families and resources to help them find a teaching method that works with each child. She had classes for the littles (Tall Tales, Cinderella in different cultures), to computer programming with the teenagers (sratch/blockly) with robots to program. She provided a safe place for parents socialize while the kinds can play. She has many special needs students and treats adapts things to allow them to participate in the same classes. She does this at no cost to the families.

We also run a (low key) animal rescue. Felt our city was not doing a good job, so we put our money where our mouth was. We currently house around 40 cats (do you know how hard it is to count a cat colony that are not in a cage?) and 12 dogs. We house and feed them not matter the condition. Recently we got some feline pathogens in our colony, so we are not taking any new animals, but we are maintaining all the ones we currently housing. Essentially we are running a cat hospice now.

I could go on talking about how great Bambi (actual name) is and the things she does.

We are accepting donations for bills/medical and final expenses.

I would like to be able to say that I am handling this well and taking good care of my wife, but that isn't reality. She is my rock. Hate seeing her in pain. Hate what the pain meds do to her mind. I am filled with rage that I can't do anything to help her. Have turned into a Karen.

Anyways, If you will help, great. If not, I get it, everyone is asking for money. If you don't have the money, I understand. Take care of your own people first.

cash app: $srblaydes
venmo: @sblaydes
paypal: bambi.petrillo@gmail.com

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laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

An article from a 1979 issue of Janus (a sci-fi fanzine) postulating on the future of electronic zine distribution; the marked section looks like a pretty good prediction of blogs and the blogosphere.

Man, I love crawlin' around the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/Janus_15v05n01_1979-Spring/page/n41/mode/2up

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• A scanned fanzine page from 1979; the selected text reads: "Another solution to the personalzine-scheduling problem will be the diaryzine. The author just up- dates it as she feels like it, and when you call, you get the update-to-date. (It is easy enough for your machine or the author's to keep track of what you received before, so time-wasting duplication doesn't occur.) Fanzines with lettercols could get interesting, especially if the editors provided an open file for locs on the current issue, which later readers would get when they called up for that same issue. Apas could become very odd. Think a bit about an apa which truly does become an N--dimensional conversation without collation dates or horrendous time-lags...and with everyone's file open to every-one else. Hmmm." (remote)

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

You know what you miss if you're not subscribed to my Patreon? Photos of the half-eaten carcasses of my spiders' prey.

If that doesn't get people to sign up, I don't know what will.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/104856738?pr=true

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Short vacation in the Ardeche valley. Placed our car in the next village so we could let ourselves drift down the river in these blown up water tubes. As Komoot said it was only 10 minutes back by bike, we rode back to camp to get changed and jump in the river. Yeah.. Komoot was unclear about how big the gravel on the road downhill was.

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• Open sketchbook and pens in my lap. The comic shows in 4 panels how I check Komoot on my phone, then start the ride and get stuck at a steep downhill path with huge rocks. (remote)

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

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• A screenshot of the original Elite game, with a low poly spaceship in fro... actually it's just a bloody cybertruck rendered in more polys than it deserves. (remote)

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PythonLinks ("Forth Computer") wrote:

I will be speaking about the obvious advantages of 16 bit stack machines over 32 bit RISC-V machines as FPGA soft core processors at the @yosyshq
user group meeting.

May 27th, 18:00 CEST

Join via this link:
https://meet.jit.si/yosys-users-group

Slides:
https://pythonlinks.info/presentations/forth/YUG27May2024.pdf

#uxn #forth #mecrisp #j1 #riscv #swic

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bontchev@infosec.exchange ("VessOnSecurity") wrote:

Oh, cool somebody finally figured it out...

As you probably know, the Microsoft Security Center has an API that lets you query which AV is installed and whether it is up-to-date.

What is less well-known, is that it also has another, not publicly known API, that lets you tell it "I'm installing another AV now, please disable Defender". This is what all other AV products use. Microsoft has provided to them documentation of this API but under NDA.

Many years ago, I made a proof-of-concept - a small VBScript script that would use this API via WMI to "install" an imaginary AV, thus turning off Defender - but since it was based on information learned under NDA, I obviously couldn't make it public.

Now somebody has reverse-engineered the API from AVAST and has done pretty much the same (albeit a bit over-complicated) in C++:

https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender

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

Happy Birthday to Robert Zimmerman, born this day in Duluth Minnesota, 1941

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

Being tolerant & open-minded won't turn you gay, it'll just make you a progressive atheist like me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/so-thats-what-theyre-afraid-of/

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• Two middle-aged guys explaining why they need "don't say gay" laws while fantasizing that kids learning what "gay" means will lead to them becoming gay and lesbian commie witches. (remote)

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

Student evaluations are in. I guess I passed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/they-like-me-they-really-like-me/

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• Sally Field saying, "you like me!" (remote)

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vga256@dialup.cafe wrote:

this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

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• A woodcut style line art illustration of a soldier, bird and sailing vessel caught in a great gale on an island. Palm trees bend with the wind and everything is being blown away with tremendous force (remote)
• Islands Build a powerful Caribbean island empire while inciting unrest and revolution in your opponent's land. T he story goes that, on the orders of King George III, two aristocratic brothers left London in the spring of 1799 and set sail for the Leeward Islands in the West Indies. The king was determined to turn the newly appropriated islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher into profitable colonies, and the brothers, as governors, were given five years in which to do the job. They arrived in the West Indies in early January of the following year and, each assuming control over one island, set about the task at hand. To all accounts, those early years were tough, with famine, hurricanes and rebel uprisings constantly threat- ening disaster. Whether or not the governors met the king's expectations remains unclear, because records are fragmented. However, today the islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher are thriving members of the British Commonwealth. Welcome to Islands, an educational strategy game that puts you in the shoes of one of the governors, charged with building your island into a viable economic and military entity. This may be accomplished through treachery against the other island or honest hard work in nourishing your resources. Though Islands is meant to be played by two, you can also enjoy striving for a high score alone. Starting to Build Type in the following boot program: 10 IF A=0 THEN A = 1: LOAD" + ISLE ML ",8,1 20 SYS 32768 Then type in Listing 1 (remote)
• Two pages of BASIC code from a type-in program that make graphics for the Islands game. (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've been using https://DuckDuckGo.com as my default search for years now. It's fine.

DDG supports a special !g keyword that redirects the search to Google, so I can easily get a second opinion when DDG isn't finding what I want.

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

Late-stage tech sorted a basket of equally talented nerds by who could talk to people with money, not people with real problems, and that's why it has the soul of a mid-range hotel room.

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senj@cyberspace.club ("let's regular posting") wrote:

The notion that a text generator would reliably spit out facts if you trained it on enough internet posts is mostly an admission of how unfamiliar these dweebs are with Posting

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

Had the first school concert for the kiddo. Their cohort finished their set with Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World". Seems like a nice way to end the evening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q68PsBSRO_M

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

the American Promise is to everyone, not just for the few. that we still struggle towards realizing our noble potential as a society does not invalidate the goal. the Constitution which embodies this Promise is what four generations of my family have sworn to preserve, protect, and defend against all enemies foreign & domestic. that Oath had no must-use-by date, nor any exceptions in favor of any particular Party nor Fearless Leader.

that was part of the Promise.

https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C7VShlFgN7l

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potus@threads.net ("President Joe Biden") wrote:

Like President Ruto, I believe the future will be won by countries that unleash the full potential of their populations – including civil society, women, and young people.

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knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:

RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/robert-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-covid-pandemic-event-201/

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

I loved playing with PHP when it first emerged, and then like so many other nice things it was destroyed by “just one more feature” love… die Barney, die die die

(talk to John Resig about what jQuery has become some day)

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Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

The Waking
-Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.   
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!   I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.
[...]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315