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

mhoye wrote:

The FBI has raided Cortland Management, apparently as part of their investigation into the massive real-estate price-fixing collusion facilitated by RealPage: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-fbi-raids-big-corporate

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Is Avigdor Willenz the Andy Bechtolsheim of switch silicon?

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

If your app ended up serializing multiple MB of JSON in local storage because of your "state management" tool, I've got bad news for you.

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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

Correct. I've started to tell people that, despite all of the complexity we have inherited with modern frameworks, state management is still a largely unsolved problem. There are many proposed solutions. But they don't really help once an application grows behind a certain point of data complexity. We're all trying to load entire databases into a web browser. And it turns out that's just hard to do.
https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112553688855732438

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

My hottest take might be that "state management" isn't a real class of either problem or solutions. Instead, it seems to cover a confusion of:

• intra-component data propagation
• a bad way to reinvent events and broadcast channels
• a missing data synchronization layer

Each of these have distinct solutions, and "state management" tools do none of them credibly.

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

We have the kind of crooks who think a big bag of cash will solve all their problems.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/03/minnesota-crooks-arent-particularly-sophisticated/

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• bag of cash (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm writing a fluid simulator as an excuse to learn more #shader coding.

I get now why people keep reinventing fluid simulators — there's some very clever math in the fundamentals, but also the problem has no right solution, so there's also lot that can be fudged and tweaked for different results.

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

mozilla@mozilla.social ("Mozilla") wrote:

Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾

Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/

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

Mexico & Iceland have elected women to run their countries!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/03/congratulations-to-iceland-and-mexico/

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• Halla Tomasdottir (remote)
• Claudia Sheinbaum (remote)

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

Anybody else notice it seems like *all* software has gotten *extra* buggy and unreliable over the last year or two?

I don't have an exact timeframe, but I'd say it loosely coincidences with when all the big tech companies started doing mass layoffs.

Weird.

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

Oh god. Creationists periodically rediscover Haldane's Dilemma and go nuts thinking they've disproven evolution, ignoring 70 years of work that show it's irrelevant. This year's bunch are notable for their cockiness and hubris, as well as their ignorance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/03/evolution-destroyed-in-5-minutes/

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• Creationists calculate the substitution cost of evolution. It's all wrong. (remote)

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

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hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

Making Is a Stance Toward #learning Combining Learner Agency with Tinkering, Debugging and Project-based Learning

"The tyranny of correct answers masks a vital and essential element of learning — the practice of debugging. When you make something, however, especially something that involves code and/or electronic or mechanical components, it is to be expected that your project will not work the first time you turn it on."

https://clalliance.org/blog/making-stance-toward-learning-combining-learner-agency-tinkering-debugging-project-based-learning/

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

shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

For all that it did right, Mastodon made a massive unforced error not realizing that the key to social media propagation was keeping journalists happy. Instead, it alienated 90% of them with grievances and brow beatings about how they were pesky interlopers. BlueSky and Threads merely had to toss them a handful of candy, and promise them others, and it was like flipping a switch that sucked them out of here like runaway ShopVac. But I am convinced that many can be brought back.

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

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

Please consider supporting my art and writing via http://patreon.com/howardrheingold

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Instagram, the photo sharing app for amateurs who absolutely hate photography.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I've moved to a new Mastodon instance, just FYI!

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butac@mastodon.uno ("BUTAC") wrote:

La cattiva Unione Europea https://www.butac.it/disinformazione-elezioni-ue/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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

sstephenson ("Sam Stephenson") wrote:

Today in “@NanoRaptor Or Real Life?”: medication for the therapeutic treatment of feline primary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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• Prescription medication packaging. On the box is a silhouette of a cat. The box reads: “HyperCard® 10 mg / Coated tablets for cats / Dilitazem hydrochloride / 30 tablets”

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

Hades is the perfect roguelike for lots of reasons, but one of the biggest IMO: unlike pretty much every other game in the genre, luck never singlehandedly ends a run.

You'll have good and bad luck, but you'll never lose immediately because of a bad spawn, or die over a bad draw, or meet a boss that's literally impossible to beat.

Hades perfectly gives luck sway without ever giving it control, and the more I die instantly/hopelessly in other roguelikes, the more I appreciate that balance.

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

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

I mainly know M83 from their excellent "Before the Dawn Heals Us" that I happened to stumble across in a Borders long ago and then promptly shared with everybody that I knew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Dawn_Heals_Us

I haven't kept up with what they've done since, but if this KEXP performance is any indication, the answer is they've continued to be excellent. So if you're looking for a blanket of thick sound to wrap yourself in, check 'em out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHNVQ2PHTr4

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

Saw my first Cybertruck in person today and I gotta say: it looks even more stupid than I expected.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, I went on the Changelog for an extended conversation with @adam:

https://changelog.com/podcast/592

On tomorrow's Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to turn the tables a little, and have Adam on to talk about the history and highlights of Changelog Media -- and the story behind creating one of the leading podcasts for software developers. Warning: our shared fandom of HBO's Silicon Valley is going to come up early and often! Join us, 5p Pacific, Monday:

https://discord.gg/tGNS9aGU?event=1246923482281939156

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

obtener@mastodon.world ("Georgiann Baldino") wrote:

#CorporateGreed

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• Billboard sign on the side of a rural highway reads: "It's not inflation when corporations are raking in record profits." (remote)

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

starfleetjobs@botsin.space ("Starfleet Jobs") wrote:

New job posting: Librarian, Cultural Exchange Group (Bajoran Time of Cleansing experience essential), located at USS Valkyrie NCC-2590. #StarTrek #JoinStarfleet #StarfleetRecruitment

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

yup

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

kathimmel@mstdn.social ("it's kat! 🍉🐝") wrote:

kids, clear out your email. you might stumble upon some gems, as i did with this link to an erik satie electronica playlist. it includes gary numan's 'trois gymnopedies'.
#music #musique #garyNuman #erikSatie #electronica
https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/gymnopedie-1980-1998/

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

adamconover ("Adam Conover") wrote:

Check out my video essay on how Google RUINED the Internet, out now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7NHABs76mg

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

punkpaleo@sauropods.win ("H. Pettijohn") wrote:

Art of the desert

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• A prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) bears three massive, bright pink flowers at the top of its pads. In the background, an orange sandstone cliff swoops up to the right of the image, green scrubby plants clinging to its surface. (remote)
• A blanket of purple hairy dewflowers (Drosanthemum hispidum) springs up from the top of tiny, green succulent leaves. Sunlight reflects off many white anthers, giving the flowers a soft glow. (remote)
• A single yellow desert evening-primrose (Oenothera primiveris) stretches out from orange sand, its yellow face directly visible. Just below the long anthers in the center of the flower, a yellow crab spider (Misumena sp.?) puts on a threat display, its first and second pair of legs raised high. (remote)
• A bright red desert paintbrush (Castilleja angustifolia) stands tall above a mixed array of scrubby desert plants. Further scrub and orange sand makes up the background landscape. (remote)

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

rc2014@oldbytes.space ("RC2014") wrote:

#RC2014 kits are back for sale again at the Night Market in Null Sector at #EMFCamp. Swing by to fulfill your #Z80 kit needs.

#RC2014onTour

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