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

When will the conspiracy theorists ever learn?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/let-the-lab-leak-conspiracy-theory-die-already/

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• Lab leak? IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY! (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Meetup in London! I'll be talking about #RustLang's paradox of promising safety while allowing unsafe code.

https://innovateinteractcf.splashthat.com/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

Librarians and Civil Society push back. https://www.arl.org/news/libraries-civil-society-push-back-on-ndaa-copyright-amendment-based-on-pro-codes-act/ Standards people trying to sneak their amendment into the defense act. For shame.

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

From Texas to Minnesota, the butts have been saved.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/weiner-saves-texas-butts/

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• Michelangelo's David, rear view (remote)

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

Today in History: Richard Strauss born, Munich, Germany, 1864

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

Today in History: Greeks seize Troy, 1184 BCE

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autumn@tech.lgbt ("Autumn Mahoney :sparkletrans:") wrote:

I'm so sorry to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She was an inspiration, and I had hoped to meet her someday.

Thank you so much, Lynn. May you be at peace.

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• "If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there." — Lynn Conway (remote)

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

Is there a worse software than #Discord out there about start-up time? Every time I open it, at least one update, which requires tons of time to be executed.

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• A rotating Discord logo with text "Starting" blow, the classic start-up widget used by this software. (remote)

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

Any UI is terrible if you are not familiar with it and have no time to learn it while trying to put food on the table.

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

Let's assume for a second that all FOSS tools have terrible UI (taking an exaggerated position commonly seen online). Even if you "fix" these UIs, I think you will still see people locked into using proprietary software if the FOSS UIs aren't exactly like the proprietary ones and as long as proprietary tools have marketing budget and are taught in schools (an extension of marketing).

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amigalove ("Amiga Love ❤") wrote:

Echoes of the 1984 commercial came full circle today

#Apple

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• photo of Tim Cook on a gigantic outdoor screen presenting to people at Apple headquarters. There are hundreds of seats looking on - the only thing missing is a woman athlete running up the middle aisle with a hammer.

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

Bodie Hodge has a new gig.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/continuing-shake-up-at-aig/

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• Bodie Hodge (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

Another concept of range slider using modern CSS features.

This time, the tooltip will adjust its shape to stay within the boundaries of the slider. Even the radius will adjust when the tail get closer to the corners.

Still 100% CSS magic.

Demo: https://codepen.io/t_afif/full/vYweZQa via :codepen: @codepen

Online Version: https://css-tip.com/range-slider-tooltip-2/

#CSS #HTML

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• 63b56b3a8b77103b.mp4 (remote)

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

boris@toolsforthought.social ("Boris Mann") wrote:

Announcing LOCALHOST: a week of tech, media, and other explorations of how to create things we can own together. https://writing.dwebyvr.org/announcing-localhost/

July 20th - 28th in Vancouver, community events around the #IETF120 meetings

The Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf is pretty unknown to many. It's one of the major Standards Development Organizations involved in the architecture and governance of the Internet.

#LOCALHOSTVan #Vancouver #event
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• A poster for LOCALHOST Vancouver with text showing dates July 20th - 28th, and a shot of downtown vancouver from the water showing Harbour Centre tower. (remote)

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bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

Kicking off @csswg face to face meetings hosted this week at @igalia 🎉

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• Members of the CSS working group sat around a long U shaped table with a screen showing remote participants at the end (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Took the bus to work yesterday, so I had some time to doodle. Why do I always end up drawing Olivia all sexy, even though it’s totally out of character for her? 😫 …but it suits her so well… 👀

#mastoart #sketch #sketchbook #shadowrun #hacker #OrcCharacter #rpgCharacter

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• Open sketchbook on a table showing a drawing done with pink and black pen. It shows an adult orc meta human woman hanging upside down, nude, but wrapped in different cables, covering her chest and arms. She has her arms above her head, one hand slightly touching her face as she grins and looks at the viewer. Drawn in black, shaded with pink and a black shaded background for contrast. (remote)

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

"Yes, I *do* read all of the terms of every license I sign and avail myself of all available market and legal redress to the fullest extent, making only fully comprehended decisions, entering into binding contractual arrangements only when I have fully contemplated and priced the long-term consequences" is a hell of a drug.

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

It's the same lie as libertarian notions of spontaneously self-organizing national infrastructure; viciously stupid, but wannabe rich people love to revel in dreams premised on always being young, wealthy, and able.

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

Silicon Valley privacy kayfabe is exhausting.

If you want privacy, vote in people who will pass a damned privacy law. If you don't care about privacy...I guess, sure? Let data collectors and ad companies (yes, that includes Apple) mislead you into thinking there can be a market clearing price for data at rest that individuals can meaningfully participate in.

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

"but Alex, that's gatekeeping"

Maybe.

And maybe that's OK.

We are responsible for the predictable consequences of our actions, and inequality is self-perpetuating without counter-forces.

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

you, dear reader, might ask "but Alex, *does* it need to be said?" and I must sadly...

[ gestures wanly at today's inbox of traces ]

...suggest "yes" and also that sending hundreds of KB of JS *uncompressed* should result in some sort of web license revocation.

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

I can't believe I have to say this, but....writing to disk, synchronously, is not free. Not even on NVMe flash.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:

“ok rudy the mugshot will be public so just look cool and confident”
“got it”
“like just a neutral face”
“yeah”
“nothing weird”
“ok”
“I guess I’m saying don’t look like gollum cumming into a dead frog he found in a cave”
“…”

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• image description: rudy giuliani looking exactly like gollum at the exact moment he cums into a dead frog (remote)

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

aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

— hi i'd like a machine that helps me do the things i want to do
— best i can get you is a machine that does things that are statistically likely

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

BritishKoalaTea@social.coop ("Alison") wrote:

New server #Introduction post!
I'm an English-American, born in the UK and immigrated to the US. I work in software, I love my two cats, and I live in the Midwest.

I'm a crafter, I #knit, #sew, spin yarn, #carve wooden spoons, I am experimenting with drawing and watercolour.

I'm studying #DataScience because I love patterns. Avid #FountainPen user because they make my writing better.

Third degree black belt in #karate (Sandan) with Tracy's Karate.

I love #PunsAndJokes!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

At which point YouTube, being a JavaScript SPA without any actual concept of pages cached for a short time gives me the middle finger by filling the home page with a completely different set of videos.

Stop trying to be smart, assholes!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

You know what downright INFURIATES me about Modern Web Applications™? Broken browser controls. I go to YouTube, I see an interesting thumbnail and I want to open it in a separate tab, but I *accidentally* click a different one… So it navigates to that page, and then I want to do what the browser paradigm has been really, REALLY good at, and why it won over native apps in the 90s: I just want to go back. (cont.)

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

Listening to Alabama Shakes on Apr 5, 2012

https://wolfgangs.app.link/oczY7ymqkKb

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• 4ddacf9b0ca91477.png (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

alcinnz@floss.social ("Adrian Cochrane") wrote:

The lifecycle of a tech bubble - Baldur Bjarnason:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/bubble-lifecycles/

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fla ("Fla") wrote:

Google asks every app to have a Privacy Policy to be accepted in the Play Store. So, xScreenSaver had to write a privacy policy.

Here you go:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html