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

stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Happy spouse, happy house. It won't last if both aren't happy

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• Interviewer on street asks a couple some questions a out their relationship (remote)

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

arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

Commit snafu slapped an irrevocable Apache 2.0 license on confidential API Docs.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/google-accidentally-published-internal-search-documentation-to-github/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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

jk ("josef") wrote:

*me, hearing about a new game that takes up 300 GB of disk space* finally, a video game that’s 7 million times better than the original super mario bros

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

meganL@mas.to ("Megan Lynch (she/her)") wrote:

How many browser tabs do you estimate you have open right now?

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

ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

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• Large ad/mural on the side of a construction site. It reads: hey chat get, finish this building... Your skills are irreplaceable. Impact (remote)

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

neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

I'm not an AI-hater; there are valid uses, and some possible game-changing ones if we do it right.

@mozilla building in auto alt-text generation private and on-device is awesome.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112552008112665604

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

neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

This is a cool advance, but also some top-notch nightmare fuel.

Makes me think of the chemical the Panther Moderns pretended they put in the Sense/Net building water supply during Molly’s run.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/the-worlds-first-tooth-regrowing-drug-has-been-approved-for-human-trials-174423381.html

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

Frederick Douglass:

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

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

Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:

And for anyone who's like "PShh! no organization dealing with sensitive data is gonna allow machines that ship with this into their org's networking ecosystem!": You're wrong.

I *Just This Last Week* got a new laptop from my university and copilot was already enabled, and pressing the "copilot" (reskinned context menu) button overrides even the group policy editor-level fix to turn it off, immediately reactivating it and resetting the GPE toggle to default.

So. Yeah. Bad.

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

Debates suck.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/03/have-i-mentioned-that-i-dislike-debate/

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• Debating a guy who threatens to rain bones down on the wicked! Bone guy is defeated! Bones rain down, but now it's bad. (remote)

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

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.