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

I think I'm going to try and take a JOMO break.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I'm about to rewatch Fahrenheit 9/11 for the first time in twenty years. It's on Tubi. Why not.

If there's anything noteworthy, I'll write about it.

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

A nice trend, web components can be incrementally useful! No need to use all the specs if you don't need them (ht @sjorsrijsdam )

https://www.rijsdam.nl/blog/web-components-without-having-to-go-instantly-from-0-to-100

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

The problem with Apple is: the newest device is probably better than its peers, but any device more than a year or two old is probably way worse, because it's being bulldozed into artificial obsolescence.

My half-decade-old budget Android holds up better than my Apple devices from a year or two ago. And it certainly holds up better than whatever iPhone was being marketed back then.

(Not that Google doesn't do this, too. They definitely do. But not quite to the same extreme.)

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ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:

hi manmade horrors beyond my comprehension, im dad

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Well, this might work for a Desktop Computer Lab switch. So smol! So open!
https://docs.murexrobotics.com/elec/boards/networking/switch

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JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

I have a joke about legacy code but very few people understand it now

#HappyFathersDay #DadJokes

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

strongly agree with Dr. Arati Prabhakar (Director, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy): the criteria for evaluating AI technologies should center on whether it is safe, effective, & trustworthy.

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

The evidence that I wasn't an awful father is that I never lopped off any of my children's limbs? Finally, a standard I can meet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/when-you-dont-want-to-be-cited/

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• Book cover: There are dads way worse then you. Features Darth Vader looking at his son's chopped off hand. (remote)

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CptSuperlative@toot.cat ("Captain Superfluous") wrote:

I don't want my phone or laptop to generate images.

I don't want them to generate text.

I don't even want them to pseudo-summarize, or pseudo-search, or pseudo-answer questions, or have pseudo-conversations, or pseudo-meetings.

I want to be able to change the god-damned, fucking battery.

Hype that.

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

thanks for the oh so cheery greeting, @CARROT

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• 13cd987cab73e3ee.mp4 (remote)

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

awww… daKid, who is in her 40s now, called from London to wish me Happy Father’s Day

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rooster@chaosfem.tw ("Jessica") wrote:

@lisamelton eastern part of Oregon is Mountain time, Florida panhandle is central

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• A map of us time zones. (remote)

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

The web: Three languages and three runtimes in a trenchcoat.

(It's often more than three of either in practice.)

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Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

Boss: Why is your work only 80% complete?

Me: Oh, yes! There’s a very good explanation for that.

In my last performance review, you noted that I was exceeding all expectations, but that you were only giving me a 4 out of 5 because you “never give 5s” because “there’s always room for improvement.”

As a result, I’ve taken the initiative to deliver at 4/5 capacity to ensure I’m performing according to your expectations.

As we’ve already established, I’m easily capable of performing at and above 100%, so please let me know once you’ve adjusted my performance rating to a 5 and I will adjust my performance accordingly.

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

Firefox OS failed[1], but at least we still have Electron apps, right? 😅

[1] Yes, I know about KaiOS

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DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:

@TheBreadmonkey You might enjoy this cover of Psycho Killer, because it's incredible.

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

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their git repositories.

Here's a dump of this data (33MB compressed, 150K files): https://lib.rs/data/rust-repo-checks.tar.xz

The comparison algorithm and the JSON format is described here:
https://gitlab.com/lib.rs/main/-/blob/main/tarball/src/comparator.rs

#rustlang

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

So…this is the state of British journalism?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/%f0%9f%a4%ae%f0%9f%a4%ae%f0%9f%a4%ae/

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• “On cue, the sun broke through the showers to shine on her — and the whole world said in unison…it’s lovely to see you too, Kate” (remote)

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

It turns out that black widows can get pretty intense at mealtime.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/black-widows-the-most-boring-pet-ever/

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• Black widow lurking (remote)

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

I will always favor banning ads.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/16/a-brilliant-approach/

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• Ubiquitous billboard from the Minneapolis area: Kris Lindahl's "guaranteed offer" realty ad (remote)

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Jantar@mstdn.social ("Jan Thie") wrote:

@undeadbydawn @Shachihoko @duanetoops @aordover @elysegrasso @rdviii @bookstodon
Cryptonomicon is great but I will still always tell newcomers to start with The Baroque Cycle (if they don't mind really really long books) because these books show you both the mad magic of a storyteller who's always totally just in control *and* why the act of storytelling itself is the highest form of escapist truth-telling.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I've been obsessively watching through the in person #BloodOnTheClocktower games on the #NoRollsBarred channel, it's so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxsdMGy4XA

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

I hope this email finds you
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky

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

Watermelon Man (Remastered 2007) by Herbie Hancock

https://pandora.app.link/vd0bCzzJsKb

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

ahhhhhh… listening to Fran-Dance (w John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis

https://pandora.app.link/fgSzHdPIsKb

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

If you want to convert me from atheism, don't do these things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/15/foolish-evangelicals-you-cant-convert-me/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA35PblM2uI

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

(At least when I let myself do something like that.)

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

I was thinking that the cool thing about the 6yo is that I can get a few bucks worth of craft supplies, and they can be absorbed and entertained for hours. And then I realized the same is true for me. 😆

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jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:

Latest comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence

#ai #cartoon #comic #tech #technology #economy #internet #education

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• BILLIONAIRES FUND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE 1. BILLIONAIRE 1 - HMM... MAYBE NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE REDUCED TO PATTERN RECOGNITION AND THEFT BY ALGORITHM. BILLIONAIRE 2 - WHAT IF WE FUNDED H.I.? 2. BILLIONS ARE POURED INTO ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, AND WRITERS, SPARKING A NEW RENAISSANCE. ARTIST AT DRAWING TABLE - YOU MEAN... I ACTUALLY... GET PAID? 3. CLASSES ON CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE LAVISHLY ENDOWED. TEACHER HOLDING POINTER AT VIDEO MONITOR SHOWING AN OPINION COLUMN - WHAT LOGICAL FALLACIES CAN YOU FIND HERE? STUDENT - THERE ARE SO MANY! 4. EVENTUALLY... WOMAN TO BILLIONAIRE 1 - THANKS TO YOUR FUNDING OF H.I., I NOW CAN SEE THAT YOU SHOULD BE PAYING AT LEAST A 90% TAX RATE. BILLIONAIRE 1 - HMM... SHOULDA STUCK WITH A.I.