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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
just ask Little Donnie
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
@slightlyoff you were one of the people that inspired me to pick and stick with web components (started with polymer 0.4). I wrote about it a couple of years ago https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/05/22/internet-of-things-and-the-modern-web/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
They used to live in a universe where Sonic and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were real, and they all worked together and had adventures. Then they got sucked through a portal and were born in this universe where they had to start all over as a baby.
Seems reasonable.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Summer really gets the toxic reply guys fired up, it seems like.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
TIL that the Home Assistant UI is Web Components all the way down; specifically, Lit and MDC.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
sound off with the your mascot names in the comments. I find a way to casually mention that the michelin man is named bibendum like, every 3 weeks
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
one beautiful thing about living and growing is noticing patterns in your own interests that you wouldn't have considered in advance. like after learning a few over the years i've discovered that I love when corporate mascots have given names that are not widely used
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Everyone remembers their first bicycle, I presume.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/first-bike/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is *so* important:
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/112617509552335398
The scale of value destruction I've witnessed from junior engineers and managers cosplaying the inflated titles they were given in the last decade is hard to describe. Hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, thrown on the pyre of burning ignorance.
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Let's be clear, I'm not suggesting this is strictly better and the answer to all of your problems. I'm suggesting this as an intentional business tradeoff that I think provides more value and is less costly in the long run. I believe if you stick closer to core web technologies, you'll be better able to hire capable engineers in the future without them convincing you they can't do work without rewriting millions of lines of code.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Royce White and the Drinking Fountain map: it worked for John Snow and the Broad Street Pump, you know.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/maybe-crime-is-spread-through-the-drinking-water/
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“On June 14, 1920, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie… were lynched by a mob of white residents in Duluth, Minnesota… in town working with a traveling circus when two white teenagers falsely claimed that they and three other Black circus workers had attacked them and raped a local white woman. Newspapers reported the alleged assault, and false rumors soon spread that the woman had died from her injuries… there was no evidence that an assault had occurred.”
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adredish@neuromatch.social ("Redish Lab") wrote:
Welcome back, Voyager 1!
Voyager 1 is sending full science data again!
This is an amazing debugging job, of a 1970s computer, done remotely over a distance of 15 billion miles (nearly 163 AU), and a lag time of nearly a day each way.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting to see a recommendation to use ChatGPT in a “JS8 For Newbies” document
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“…for years leading up to the attack, a Microsoft engineer named Andrew Harris repeatedly warned the company… beginning in 2017, he repeatedly raised his concerns… a product manager told Harris that addressing the solution in the way he suggested could risk alienating the federal government, harming Microsoft’s chances of getting one of the largest government computing contracts in U.S. history.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Every decision you have ever made, every setback endured and accomplishment achieved, every external force influencing the course of your path for the good or bad — the culmination of your entire life — has led you to reading this shitty post right now.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It was the ignorant cockiness of that last snide comment that made me snap.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/if-only-they-hadnt-made-that-last-comment/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Ruined a perfectly good joke. I mean... Okay, it wasn't a *good* joke, but it didn't even make sense with the wrong URL. *shaking fist* Blast those javascript jockeys!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
That thing where as you scroll down a page, the URL completely changes? Not cool, friend. Not cool.
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socialnetwork@mastodon.uno ("Fediverso e Social Network") wrote:
Il costante crollo di server nel #fediverso ha ragioni precise.
Dopo l'euforia iniziale molti hanno realizzato che gestire un'istanza non è un gioco, ma costa molto tempo e molto denaro.
Complici anche i molti attacchi hacker, siamo a più di 300 chiusure al mese, cadono le piccole istanze senza risorse (nessuna delle top 20 è stata chiusa) pleroma x il selfhosting ha perso più di #mastodon!
Pazienza, evidentemente avremo meno #istanze improvvisate e rimarranno le istanze meglio gestite! 👍
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Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:
@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_NeumannShe was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.
The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2
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ImpossibleUmbrella@infosec.exchange ("Impossible Umbrella :donor: :tux: :vim:") wrote:
This is a fascinating tale of #physics
#mathematics #spaceflight
& #retrocomputing - via @arstechnicaHow a 55-year old big was found in the first lunar lander game…
https://martincmartin.com/2024/06/14/how-i-found-a-55-year-old-bug-in-the-first-lunar-lander-game/
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sparrowsion@queer.party ("Sion [main]") wrote:
Article reminds you that (a) you can apply for free voter id and (b) this uses your current name, a current photo, and has no gender marker: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
gathering up my dog-walking gear… time for my weekly volunteer gig at the Pound. need coffee.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Opinion: "It is not difficult to see how the lawsuit against us could become part of a broader effort to dismantle press freedoms for journalists across the nation. If journalist freedoms are stripped from us in Mississippi or elsewhere, the corruption and wrongdoing of our government leaders could go more easily unseen. Every citizen — not just the journalists — would be harmed."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Should “The Apprentice” end up widely available globally but not, for political reasons, in the United States, it will be a sign of democratic decay, as well as an augur of greater self-censorship to come. After all, if anxiety about enraging Trump is already shaping what you can and cannot watch, it’s probably bound to get even worse if he actually returns to power.”
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
"Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the first time EU regulators have used new digital rules to target a Big Tech group"
Let's hope the fines are big enough to trigger a change.
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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
This is horrible. Reporting from Reuters revealed that the US military ran disinformation campaigns, including creating fake social media accounts, to sow doubt in the quality of COVID vaccines, masks, and tests produced by other countries.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
So relatable:
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-detects-heartbeat-message-from-voyager-2-1850696125