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halva@wetdry.world ("haIva") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedRandom cat befriended (that's a cafe cat, not a cat cafe) #caturday
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Well *this* is interesting:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
I hope the media fully examines whether Trump's running mate is up to the job (willing to commit treason or be hung by a mob of Trump supporters).
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
This is all too likely to be true.
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Behold, a baby.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
fluffy@plush.city ("fluffy 💜") wrote:
Friendship is sufficiently advanced technology
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cuchaz@gladtech.social ("Jeff Martin") wrote:
Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there. :blobcatverysad:
Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.
Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.
But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.
Doesn't that sound great?
Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.
But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice? :blobcat_thisisfine:
Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.
UPDATE: The about:config setting for this is `dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled`. It's a bool. Set it to false to turn it off.
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- A screenshot from the Firefox "Privacy & Security" settings page showing "Website Advertising Preferences" with a checked-by-default option to "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement". The description beneath reads "This helps sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about you" with a link to "Learn More" that I copied into the text of the toot. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
spacegeck@astrodon.social ("Judy Schmidt") wrote:
Did this animation of the Crab pulsar nebula about a year ago. I used all of the data from the Chandra archive that I could scrounge up to make the most complete animation I could. Most of the frames do not overlap the entire image, giving it a patchy appearance.
A version of it is on the NYT today. They missed me in the credits, but I'm told they've been informed of that. Gift article link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/science/space/chandra-videos-supernova-explosions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.65Q6.bRjgEbMjyrCI&smid=url-share
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- A grayscale animation of a weird, swirling cloud sits in an otherwise blank, black sky. In the center, a pulsar, appearing a bright dot is causing the cloud to move in various ways. Encircling the pulsar are concentric rings that seem to be rippling outwards. To the lower left is another feature appearing more like a plume or jet and it is moving quite dramatically for the size and scale of an object in space. It seems affected by even the slightest force, like smoke in a closed room, but more or less moves straight out of the pulsar. There are actually two of them, but the other one, to the upper right, is behind the rest of the nebula and only faintly visible. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vertigo@hackers.town ("Vertigo #$FF") wrote:
Today, I learned that PC/GEOS has actually been open sourced under Apache license.
https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
Huh...
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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/
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- In high school, there are individuals who are cross-eyed like (the name of a student) and (another name of a student), which is a dominant trait. We call those individuals ‘weirdoes.’ So, if you crossed two weirdoes (the two students named again), that are heterozygous for being cross-eyed, what is the offspring that would result? (remote)
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
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I believe in budget scientific supplies.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/12/nobody-here-but-us-chickens/
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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:
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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
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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
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- A graph meme. The two axes are labeled "How much you know about technology" and "Likelihood everything in your house is broken". The line forms a U-shape. The left side reads "I deleted the Edge icon how do I internet?". The right side reads "The fan on my raspberry Pi broke causing it to overheat and turn off breaking pihole and our home internet while my wife was working and now I have to sleep on the couch" (remote)
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
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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