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

beckett@social.coop ("Old Tom") wrote:

Why not here?

“WaterBottle, a worker-owned cooperative, is one such example. It includes a property management division and construction service under its umbrella and spreads control of the operation among its employees, with no formal hierarchy and a one-person, one-vote system of governance. It owns 22 properties in West Baltimore, where it’s restoring dilapidated buildings and renting them out with first dibs offered to the workers.”

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/housing/baltimore-vacants-waterbottle-co-op-GMLSZKTVKFG43NMT25UFPKZLGU/

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

Every product manager should have a sticker on their laptops to the effect of "growth is a function of reputation, and reputation is the integral of quality"

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

SarahGordon ("Sarah Gordon") wrote:

Feeling a bit bad as I left these guys playing cards for [checks notes] 408 days.

Archived here: https://ragwortwood.com/comic/not-today-satan/

#webcomics #frogs #rats

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• A four panel comic depicting a white rat and his two amphibian friends. In panel one, they are sitting playing cards. In panel two: it's apparent that our rat friend has grown bored of cards - it's been over a fucking year in real time since we last saw these guys so I'm not surprised. In panel 3 he slaps an extremely good hand of cards to the floor in frustration. In panel 4 he gestures off-panel to his amphibious friends. It is time to get up and go.

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

Oooh... New alarm sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqBuoT_0zM

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

Reminder: there are dumb-as-a-stump astronauts who sully the reputation of those with scientific training. The commander of the Starliner launch is a creationist, and an insult to every biologist on Earth.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/06/my-opinion-of-astronauts-has-declined-precipitously/

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• Ham, the space chimpanzee (remote)

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

NO NO NO, NY Times, the lab leak hypothesis is patent bullshit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/06/the-ny-times-is-just-the-worst/

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• COVID (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

eris@akkoma.meows.gay wrote:

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• map of the us with the caption "map of tesla charging stations 1899 AD." there is one spot, in colorado springs, at the locaiton of nikola tesla's lab (remote)

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

Jury nullification in the wild in favor of fossil fuel protesters:

https://stroud.social/objects/76281fdb-61dd-4b58-b97d-b90b3fc7416a

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

freedosproject@fosstodon.org ("The FreeDOS Project") wrote:

Started in 1994, FreeDOS will turn 30 years old on June 29, 2024. And as we look ahead to a milestone anniversary, I wanted to take a look back and where things started.

“Looking ahead to 30 years of FreeDOS”

https://allthingsopen.org/articles/30-years-freedos

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

I am so very bad at color & typography… trying to get a simple viz design together, feedback very welcome:

https://arghstudios.com/test/

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• rabbit wearing over-ear wired headphones and round reading glasses, inhaling the vapors from a giant latte with narrowed eyes & a thoughtful look (remote)

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

The Republicans oppose birth control. How can anyone vote for them?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/06/republicans-are-the-forced-birth-party/

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• Democrat/Republican split on a bill to protect contraception (remote)

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

There are days I hate #TypeScript soooo much…

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

richardmedh@famichiki.jp ("Richard Medhurst") wrote:

A meaty metaphor from Emily Wilson in her translator's introduction to The Iliad.

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• Ideally, literary translators should not grind the beef, pork, and lamb of their originals into an unidentifiable hot dog. Instead, the distinctive stylistic features of each original should remain distinct in translation. Having published English translations of Seneca, Euripides, and Sophocles, I wanted to make Homer in my translations sound different from any of them—just as the originals are composed in wildly different styles of verse. In Homer, there is none of Euripides’ allusive, witty cleverness, Seneca’s rhetorical bombast, or Sophocles’ densely metaphorical, riddling phrasing. Homeric Greek has a limpid clarity and freshness that needs to sparkle in the English, like the clear, almost painful brightness of sunlight on bronze. My task was to make this ancient poem about death feel vividly, unarguably alive. I wanted to echo its rumbling, regular musicality, its proto-dramatic array of characters, and its noble simplicity. (remote)

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

Nothing about that process is improved by React denying teams of experience with the platform they're *actually* programming to.

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

The solution to these issues is always the same: learn the event loop, learn the DOM, learn what causes recalc and layout. Then apply discipline in your codebase about who's allowed to do what, while moving as many instances of these things to modern APIs that avoid layout (Resize Observer, Intersection Observer, etc.).

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

This toot brought to you by the letter "Y" and a pile of code that can charitably be described as "confused".

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

The handwavey sales pitch for React was that "DOM is slow" (it's not; never was).

This was always a bad summary of a real issue: when you don't understand which DOM APIs induce the costs of layout, it's easy to find yourself with "weird" performance, and DOM API names don't make that clear.

But React didn't solve the problem, it only made it *look* solved until a codebase gets large enough, simultaneously depriving teams of the experience they need to diagnose and solve these issues.

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

let us never forget these brave French citizens, who stepped forward and fought and died for their freedom while many sat passively waiting for others to liberate them.

Long Live France! 🇫🇷 America’s first ally

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/world/europe/dday-france-resistance-wwii.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU0._1vk.WpCCpOjrzz_t&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Devilstower@mstdn.social ("Mark Sumner") wrote:

Many of the "institutes" and "think tanks" publishing papers denying climate change were just a couple of (quite nice, actually) women in an office on the sixth floor of Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company. They make all those "CO2 is good for plants" products, too.

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• 3a007f994370d12d.png (remote)

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

Spider destroys winged pest!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/better-than-a-cat/

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• Salticus scenicus eating a chironomid (remote)

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

May a thousand egg sacs flow into my domain.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/oh-look-egg-sac/

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• Parasteatoda with egg sac (remote)

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

jollyorc@social.5f9.de ("JollyOrc") wrote:

I did not know I needed this in my timeline. You certainly should have it in yours!

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• The actor J. G. Hertzler (General Martok from Star Trek) holding a gay bat'leth. (remote)

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

anthrocypher@hachyderm.io ("Ana Hevesi") wrote:

Last week I got to prove one of my longest-held convictions:

it's still possible to have constructive, prosocial online experiences. It just takes work, planning and imagination.

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/internet-we-want/

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

evilchili@linernotes.club wrote:

New Illuminati Hotties album august 24! woooo!

https://illuminatihotties.bandcamp.com/track/didnt-feat-cavetown

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems ("Asahi Linux") wrote:

To answer one question that keeps coming up: No, our GPU driver work cannot be ported to macOS in a useful manner.

While it is theoretically possible to run our Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on macOS, doing so would rely on an undocumented and unstable low-level GPU kernel API. This API changes with almost every macOS release, therefore making this a non-starter for production use. Your apps would break with every OS update.

There is, however, one entity that could take upon this effort: Apple themselves. As the drivers are permissively licensed, nothing stops them from integrating Mesa into macOS, and keeping the kernel API integration up to date with macOS releases.

So, if you want conformant OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.3 on macOS, look in Apple's direction. We're doing all the hard work for them, they just have to take it and use it. 😉​

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

Saw someone comment "AI is a tool being marketed as a solution," and yeah, that sounds like maybe the most accurate summary I've read so far.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jacqueline@chaos.social wrote:

using linux will save u from microsoft recall, but only in the sense that microsoft's best engineers can't work out how to record your screen in wayland

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

The FtB Podish-Sortacast on Saturday will be all about the compatibility of skepticism and woke thought.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/05/can-skeptics-be-woke/

https://www.youtube.com/live/JLtvD3q742c

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

j2@tech.lgbt ("Jeroen :verified_gay:") wrote:

@justafrog @breadandcircuses
I really think of this one a lot.

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• Social media posting cartoon. @KetanJO: "Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology" Picture 1: "oh: A fossil fuel!!" Picture 2: "I'll just leave it there...." (remote)

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

🚨 New very cool public cryptography audit!

I'm very excited about this one. Big collaboration between Symbolic Software and 3MI Labs to audit a novel threshold ECDSA protocol by dWallet Labs geared towards MPC.

We conducted a functional correctness assessment, tying the paper to the specification. Our assessment provides higher assurance for code correlation to spec and acts as groundwork for future engineering.

We also security assessment which identified a small number of security vulnerabilities, including a critical nonce reuse vulnerability in the protocol's presigning step. Findings were shared with dWalletLabs and addressed prior to publication.

Read more and download the full audit report: https://symbolic.software/blog/2024-06-04-2pcmpc/