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

“The Convention Rules Might Decide” - POLITICO

“…the pledged delegates [have] become free agents. They are under no obligation to follow whatever preferences Biden may express — whether endorsing his vice president or calling for an open convention with a “mini-primary” to decide his replacement on the ticket.

What happens at this point is up to the convention itself, which always has the power to adopt, amend or discard existing rules.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/20/biden-democratic-convention-nominee-rules-00169821

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

A wise and selfless decision: Biden decides it's time to tend to his fig tree.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/21/biden-out/

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• Biden drops out of the 2024 race (remote)

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Two things are still true:

1. If enough Black people in swing states re-check their registration, and sign up for mail-in voting, early voting, or ballot drop off, then Biden can't lose.

2. The Dem party has spent significantly more time, money, effort, and attention, trying to get Kamala Harris out of the Whitehouse, than it has spent registering Black voters in swing states or telling them about mail-in voting or early voting. 🤡

The "despair" is unnecessary and self-inflicted.

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nonfedimemes@wetdry.world ("memes sometimes stolen from outside fedi") wrote:

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• A 4-panel comic based on a scene on The Simpsons. Marge: Cloudflare, no! Bart (Cloudflare): What? Marge: Sorry, force of habit. Marge: Crowdstrike, no! (remote)

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

thinking about my brother, who died on this date in 2017. RIP Maj. Larry Sonstein, VMI ‘66. we too were young, once upon a time.

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• (left to right) PFC Jeffrey Sonstein, 1/LT Larry Sonstein, Margaret Sonstein, 1968 (remote)

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

Bethdlindsay@social.coop wrote:

Cackle cackle cackle. Old tweet but just learned of it. #libraries

Image reads: forget STEM, now I’m all about STEAMED HAMS: science technology, engineering, art, math, humanities, anthropology, music, and such.

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combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

Here's my latest artwork, an artcade machine named "Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something." If you pay up, it shows you a cat picture on its bulbous, flickering screen, and plays you a silly song with meowing.

#MastoArt #interactive #artcade

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• A boxy blue vending machine with a coin slot and a bulbous screen, labelled "Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something. Tired? No pep? Feet hurt? 'Step Up' for a 'Pick Up'! A tonic - a real treat." All of this hand-painted lettering is a bit worn-looking, and the machine's paint job suggests it has been outside for a long time. In the video, a hand feeds it a quarter and a still photo of a mid-meow kitten appears, in flickering, projector-like fashion. A vintage song also plays, singing about kitties and making meowing sounds. (remote)

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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍") wrote:

Remember this, and all the outrage in the West at Putin's tyranny, and his authoritarian Russian state?

And yet today in the UK five people who on Zoom call discussed blocking a motorway for a few hours, were sent to jail for more than double this sentence.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Good morning.

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• Wife leaning on a large stuffed Mastodon toy with her eyes closed, in front of a table with tea pots and tea mugs.

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

fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

The urge to make a plain HTML, native widgets demo of the DoorDash order page is almost overwhelming. Can you imagine?!

* Accessibility for free
* Fast load (``)
* Fast interaction
* Scrolls in only 1 direction!
* Command+F and other browser affordances work for free

#CraigslistTheWeb

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/

This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying

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• A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees. (remote)

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girlgerms@infosec.exchange ("👩‍💻 Jess "GirlGerms" Dodson :ferdiverified: :donor:") wrote:

Microsoft Recovery Tool available now, with instructions to assist with the Crowdstrike issue impacting Windows endpoints.

This will require physical access & 1GB USB. You will need admin rights (+ access to the Bitlocker key, if Bitlocker is in place).

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-recovery-tool-to-help-with-crowdstrike-issue-impacting/ba-p/4196959

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

unintended consequences

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yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

When I say that COVID is on a technical level fairly easily solvable, we just choose not to - it's things like these that I'm thinking of:

https://www.mpg.de/16075350/1127-chem-ventilation-made-easy-152990

> A simple ventilation system removes 90 percent of respiratory aerosols which potentially include coronavirus particles, from indoor air […] The design is very simple and was implemented using DIY store materials worth about € 200.

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

The guy who ran our heat pump project gave me homemade rhubarb jam in exchange for some dishwasher tablets and this is the only kind of working relationship I'm interested in from now on.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Finally shipped a new release of xword-dl, my command line tool to make puz files from online crosswords. Lots of fixes to existing outlets, new support for Puzzmo and Daily Pop, a "preserve HTML" option for formatted clues, and more. https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2024.7.20

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

The argument for ineptitude is frustratingly strong. Remember when Apple took more than two months to close a cross-site tracking leak that it introduced into *every* iOS browser? Waaaaaaay back in

[ checks notes ]

...2022?

https://fingerprint.com/blog/indexeddb-api-browser-vulnerability-safari-15/

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

So the choices here don't have to include giving up on the idea of real online privacy, but we *do* have to understand Apple as either:

• inept re: privacy such that or should *absolutely* not be a sole arbiter of it for a large fraction of users in the web
• a capitalist trying to sell you an expensive new phone by virtue signal...er...marketing

Neither choice involves trusting Cupertino or taking it at face value; no matter how pretty the face it puts on.

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

So three things can be true at once:

1.) reducing collection can help, and in the short run it can disrupt some of the worst collectors and creepiest re-identification.

2.) reducing collection is not a replacement for privacy laws and will be long-term ineffective in *exactly* the ways Apple's blog post gets SO CLOSE to understanding.

3.) any firm that says "privacy is a human right" but only makes devices for the rich is *lying*

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

Apple is *absolutely* spending more in every state and government capital around the world to defeat browser choice than they are to push for real privacy. They're spending *boatloads* more to scupper right-to-repair than they are to make privacy a reality by *killing the model brokers rely on* and legally prevent re-identification without consent.

But boy howdy, those ads. They sure are purdy.

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

This is not to say that there aren't problems in the Topics API! Or that the folks who shipped it were fully open to feedback (a lot of good done, but also some fingers in ears). But as with Apple's own privacy-api-cum-tracking-vector, we can expect the first-pass issues to get fixed.

But *both* Google and Apple's efforts are mostly marketing; band-aids to distract from the lack of effective privacy legislation that would get at the real issue: huge pools of data at rest.

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

Apple markets privacy, rather than providing it. To provide it, they would need to spend the sort of money they splash out on billboards and ads *about* privacy to push for laws that *ensure* it.

They are not doing that.

Which makes chest-beating posts like this from folks that not-so-long-ago added high-resolution fingerprinting surface area to all iOS browsers in the name of "privacy"[1] *extremely* hard to take seriously:

https://webkit.org/blog/15697/private-browsing-2-0/

[1]: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/7450c395e2d3ca583b24f0b8fbf704aa3c781692.pdf

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

Once again, I cannot recommend enough that web developers fully internalise this blog post by @TheRealNooshu:

https://nooshu.com/blog/2019/10/02/how-to-read-a-wpt-waterfall-chart/

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

JD Vance, genetically damaged, if you believe as he does.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/20/another-reason-to-dislike-jd-vance/

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• JD Vance (remote)

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judell@social.coop ("Jon Udell") wrote:

"The broligarchs have made their move – and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means."

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

I'm listening to Portishead's "Roads" this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxWP9BhI7w

It's the song that turned me on to their work. I first heard it in the Tank Girl movie. Actually, I think there were a few bands I first heard of through that movie. (I grew up in a small, desert town before the information super highway paved over everything. It was easy not to know about things.)

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

The CrowdStrike developer who wrote the defective update knocking out computer systems around the globe proves that one person really can make a difference.

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

Jemma Forman, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex who has studied cats playing fetch: “When it comes to cats, normally the explanation is they’re doing it for themselves.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/cat-burglars-scientists-try-to-solve-mystery-of-why-felines-steal-random-objects

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xeraa ("Philipp Krenn") wrote:

apache arrow's streaming format is coming to ES|QL (elastic's piped query language). popular in data science and the de-facto standard for dataframe interchange with an efficient binary format that allows zero-cost deserialization
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/109873

this will also open the door to more cool stuff like going #elasticsearch -> #kibana server -> #kibana frontend without the JSON overhead in size and deserialization every step of the way (and more places)

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

dave_aitel ("Dave Aitel") wrote:

The song of the summer is about just one guy in New York City

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