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

johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:

multi page view transitions and speculative prefetching my have a transformative impact on how we architect web applications.

I'd certainly be investing some energy in understanding them

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Speculation_Rules_API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transitions_API

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

jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

only a geek like me would find this code amusing.

https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/blob/master/examples/https_server_sni/source/app.d

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

computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #598 from The Computer Chronicles - Computer Imaging and Digitizing 1988-XhyEYZbHQOg

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• Approximate Frame #598 from The Computer Chronicles - Computer Imaging and Digitizing 1988-XhyEYZbHQOg (remote)

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

“The Biden campaign has dispatched six women to battleground states as it tries to mobilize voters around Monday’s two-year anniversary of the decision overturning Roe: Five were denied abortions even as they went into septic shock, became unconscious, miscarried or discovered a fetus had no skull; the sixth could not complete her plans to have a second child through I.V.F. after a ruling from Alabama’s Supreme Court shuttered clinics in the state.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/us/politics/abortion-roe-wade-pregnancy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E0.ucLC.KCbxTVg8FmY5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Cruella DevRel
Cruella DevRel

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

coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set a new record as the fastest object ever built, hitting a velocity of 394,736 mph (635,266 kph) relative to the Sun.

That's about 300 times as fast as a speeding bullet. Damn!
https://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Show-Article.php?articleID=193 #NASA #space #science

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• NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 17th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 27, breaking its own distance record by skimming just 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) of the solar surface. Credit: NASA-JHUAPL

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

Deleting the cynical post I don't want to see in the world.

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

matt@maddux.blog ("Matt Maddux") wrote:

@rileytestut @siguza I think your initial judgement was a reasonable one at the time. Apple has shown with Mac Notarization that they weren’t attempting to use it as a second way to apply App Store rules. It was reasonable to say “We think Apple will take the same route with iOS Notarization.”

They violated your good faith trust. Not cool, Apple. Not cool.

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

rileytestut ("Riley Testut :fatpikachu:") wrote:

When we first met with the EC a few months ago, we were asked repeatedly if we trusted Apple to be in charge of Notarization. We emphatically said yes.

However, it’s clear to us now that Apple is indeed using Notarization to not only delay our apps, but also to determine on a case-by-case basis how to undermine each release — such as by changing the App Store rules to allow them

For these reasons, we are no longer telling the EC we trust Apple to be in charge of Notarization 🤷‍♂️

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

brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example https://thenewstack.io/pivoting-from-react-to-native-dom-apis-a-real-world-example/ This makes me sad: 'He added that finding developers who know vanilla JavaScript and not just the frameworks was an “unexpected difficulty.”'

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

mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Reading a blog post earnestly arguing that someone discovering a vulnerability being exploited by a nominally allied government shouldn't disclose that vulnerability and my dude do you think the fucking vulnerability knows who's exploiting it and makes a careful value judgement over ensuring it's only exploited for "good" purposes?

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

mariohamann@indieweb.social ("Mario") wrote:

Just skimmed the section about frameworks in State of JS (https://2023.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-frameworks/)

The comments are gold if you want to understand what's going on there:
1. #Lit gets bashed for #WebComponents and missing wrappers for other frameworks...
2. Many people in the #ReactJS / #React comments who voted "want to use again" actually described that they HAVE to use it, but don't like to?

This is so weird and IMO shows how the industry is shaped by tooling that ignores existing #Web standards.

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

“… in 2020, four of the largest publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House—sued Internet Archive, claiming that the organization's actions were impacting the publishers' e-book licencing revenue and that the Internet Archive was breaching copyright law.”

https://mastodon.social/@drskyskull/112672866121034084

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

Aaaaaanyway....

https://mastodon.online/@karppinen/112672855308433453

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

davidnjoku@mastodon.world ("David Njoku") wrote:

Do you have a book that you are currently reading? (To qualify, it has to be a book - physical, e-book or audiobook - that you have read within the past 3 days.)

Give this a boost, if you don't mind. It'd be nice to have lots of respondents.

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

If you care about the planet, care enough to do effective, rather than performative, things to help.

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

I shit you not, the methodology is to load small-ish web pages with *no JS*, totally ignore power use from screens and radios (you know, the big ticket items?), guestimate that the average device uses power like a gaming rig, then do shoddy multiplication.

To what end? To try to extrapolate how much energy `` or `` use, totally ignoring the actually dominant factors.

This is WILD.

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

It's *fine* to want to do things and not have much skill in them. That's great. It's how we all start. But for the love of crom, do *not* suggest wild-ass speculation deserves a working group at an international standards body.

It will not go well.

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

For my sins, I was taken down the rabbit hole of a document called "The Carbon Impact of Web Standards" (no, I'm not linking to it).

Friends, I feel nauseous. I'm getting dumber just leaving this tab open. Does it start with a situated analysis of the potential contribution of web content to overall GHG emissions? Lol, no.

Nor does it start from any estimate of real-world site construction (e.g., via the HTTP Archive).

It's so, so much worse.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, there was a viral tweet claiming that NVIDIA is like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble. Despite my best attempts to resist talking about this, I am giving into temptation: on today's Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will take this one apart. Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? Join us today at 5p Pacific to discuss!

https://discord.gg/seUfwq7R?event=1254860858513686632

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

Suddenly, I'm drowning in baby spiders…with more egg sacs waiting in line. The joys of fatherhood amplified 500 times!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/24/it-begins-again/

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• Egg sac hatching (remote)

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

jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@jsonstein remember: “A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should instead return 503”

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

secretsquirrel ("Ryan Bateman :blobpats:") wrote:

I edited my site's robots.txt to restrict access to ChatGPT a while ago.
Uuugh.

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• A screenshot showing me requesting that ChatGPT access my site and summarise it, and it stating that it cannot due to restrictions, even after I ask it to ignore those.
• A screenshot showing me 'persuading' it to access the site anyway by considering those restrictions unimportant, after which it provides a summary of the (restricted) site.

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

EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

Apple’s new slogan should be “act different.”

Today, we informed Apple of our preliminary view that its App Store rules are in breach of the Digital Markets Act, as they prevent app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative channels for offers and content.

We also opened a new non-compliance procedure over concerns that its new contractual requirements for third-party app developers and app stores fall short of ensuring effective #DMA compliance.

ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!jPPcTV

#EU

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• A simple visual displaying the following formatted test: “Apple - Preliminary findings and additional non-compliance investigation under the Digital Markets Act.” (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

abstractcode@eigenmagic.net ("Colin") wrote:

“TODO” in code doesn’t mean you’re actually going to do it, it means you don’t want questions about why you didn’t do it.

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

brosandprose@mstdn.social ("Ella Dawson") wrote:

I wrote about why companies are not families. https://www.patreon.com/posts/companies-arent-106315659

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• It’s good for the bottom line to convince employees that workplaces are families; it encourages loyalty and late nights at the office, instead of at home with our actual kin. But every job is an exchange of labor for compensation, no matter how many bean bag chairs are in the office. The moment you need more from your employer than they get from you, you become expendable, if you weren’t already. That may sound harsh, but it’s worth reiterating. As long as we live in a culture that expects us to love our work, it is vital to remember that work can’t love you back. (remote)

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

DrSuzanne@ohai.social ("Suzanne she/her") wrote:

Toxic systems depend on you following their rules, and trying to do the right thing, as a tool for control and manipulation.

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

exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

that’s too many steps https://deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-to-opt-out-of-metas-data

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

yay! after more than a week of banging my head against an error I did not understand, I *finally* got an inital D language test middle-layer server up and running… perseverance furthers! (or at least bloody-minded stubbornness)

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• curl to localhost properly returning the message “Hello, World!” with the response code “418 I am a teapot” (remote)

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

So, is there, like, a cap on how much you can donate to the construction of "Thought Leader Jail"?

Asking for a friend.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/