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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You know, libraries in the modern age are free to the public, and yet they somehow don't need to use targeted advertising on all their patrons. I wonder if there's a lesson there for other things. :thonking:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How not to ever teach genetics. I think I hate you so much, Alex Nguyen.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/12/when-genetics-teaching-goes-very-very-bad/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:
the biggest quality-of-life change i've made as a daily @github user is write a tiny userscript to remove their client-side navigation (turbo):
```
document.body.dataset.turbo = 'false';
[...document.querySelectorAll('a[data-turbo-frame]')].forEach(link => {
delete link.dataset.turboFrame;
});
```sometimes i temporarily disable this script to see how bad things are, and every time it's worse than the previous time. stale state, duplicated content, broken CSS, and just general sluggishness
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:
STAGGERING: Nearly all #ATT customers' text & call records breached.
An unnamed entity now has an NSA-level view into Americans' lives.
Damage isn't limited to AT&T customers.
But everyone they interacted with.
Also a huge national security incident given government customers on the network.
And of course, third party #Snowflake makes an appearance.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/12/business/att-customers-massive-breach/index.html
#infosec #cybersecurity #telco #cellular #privacy #security #breach
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I believe in budget scientific supplies.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/12/nobody-here-but-us-chickens/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
lenzgr ("Lenz Grimmer") wrote:
Great talk by @bcantrill : "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: A Decade Later"
Covering anti-patterns like:
- Conflating users with customers
- Conflating gross margin with net margin
- Relicensing
- Anti-competetive licensing
- FreeloadersGreat summary, I loved the passion! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Bryan.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
The latest Oxide and friends where @bcantrill and I are joined by @mipsytipsy is up on the pod! https://share.transistor.fm/s/db64d619
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:
Mr. Reznor is clearly trying to offload a tax burden on the unwary--imagine the ongoing costs of maintaining an empire of dirt!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tymwol@hachyderm.io ("Timothy Wolodzko") wrote:
#c - what if everything was a pointer
#lisp - what if everything was a linked list
#haskell - what if everything was a pure function
#forth - what if everything was a stack
#lua - what if everything was a hash map
#erlang - what if everything was immutable
#prolog - what if everything was a pattern to match
#java - what if everything was a class
#rust - what if everything was a memory allocation problem
#golang - what if everything != nil
#javascript - what if everything was everything
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:
alt text in #CSS generated `content` is now supported all modern browsers (as of firefox 128 and safari 17.4)
please hide your weird glyphs and icon fonts using an empty string like this:
```
content: "›";
content: "›" / "";
```https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/content#alternative_text
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io ("Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬") wrote:
#Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07500-2
There we now have an article to point to, in NATURE no less, that Hybrid, #Remote, and #WFH improve morale and retention without damaging the company's performance!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
A little pure #CSS 3D demo I made on @codepen last year: torus knot out of neon tiles https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/poqmrNg
I saw this @beesandbombs .gif https://x.com/beesandbombs/status/1497594041164185608 and got the idea I could CSS something like it, but then I never got to posting it publicly...
#torusknot #3D #geometry #topology #knotTheory #maths #mathematics #cssMaths #code #coding #frontend #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #cssTransforms
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've never been a fan of obituaries.
https://www.marlattfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Darlene-Lavonne-Myers?obId=32326985#/obituaryInfo
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:
The bathtub curve, but for tech literacy
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Preemptively muting this because I've learned this topic is catnip for reply guys ✌️
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Jesus fucking Christ, people, he misspoke a couple of times. Unfortunate, absolutely, but Trump's done this exact same thing at least a dozen times and nobody was reacting like this.
You are actively participating in the misdirection. You are helping to reinforce the double standard. Stop doing the enemy's work for them.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:
Ah, somebody help me out, here. There was a Web game that I played a while back -- black and white artwork, you had to insert a probe into this alien artifact and explore the sort-of mind or memory construct that was contained in it to reveal the story about some aliens who came to earth and ...parked their space ship in the bay near some major city, as I recall? I think they referred to humans as "bright ones" or something like that. Ringing any bells?
Mastodon FeedUsually I'm thinking "wow, the real world has really good graphics", but today I spotted real-world low-quality cloud setting: upscaled low-res textures, and gaps between raymarched samples!
#shadertoy
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
CVE-2024-5535 is an #OpenSSL problem that cannot be triggered by #curl
OpenSSL calls it it a low severity flaw. https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html
GitHub lists it as "critical" at 9.1 out of 10: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4fc7-mvrr-wv2c
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
❌ Spend 5 minutes cleaning my desk before taking a photo of it
✅ Spend 20 minutes photoshopping the picture
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
tech4palestine@infosec.exchange ("Tech For Palestine") wrote:
Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza
Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning.
Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - but will not say how - and the decision is final.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The fascists are proudly out in the open.
Who do you think the "Unhumans" are? What should be done with them?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
There are only two *appropriate* responses to Marc Andreessen pontificating:
(1) Roll your eyes until you leave yourself with a migraine.
(2) Point and laugh at the guy.
Today, for TechPolicyPress, I choose option 2. It's the healthy choice.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-little-tech-agenda-is-just-selfserving-nonsense/
Mastodon FeedWe’re hiring again! The Mastodon team is looking for a part-time #Finance / #Ops Associate to support @mellifluousbox + @Gargron.
This is a #remote position and requires working proficiency in #German. Ideally:
› You have experience in #accounting + #bookkeeping
› Understand German #legal frameworks + systems
› Are great with MS #Excel!Could also work as a long-term paid #internship. Can you refer anyone to us? More info/to apply:
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
If you're curious, this is what I used to look like:
https://social.coop/@cstanhope/109445303832901337
(Yes, that's my van in the back. It was cheap, reliable, and I moved a lot at the time. I had a rule that all my possessions had to fit in the van.)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
CNN - US intelligence discovered that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/us-germany-foiled-russian-assassination-plot/index.html
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good way to put it:
“… geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity.”
- T Pratchett
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
There was also this recent article on the essay and resulting song that was kind of interesting, if you're into early internet meme history or whatever:
