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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The greatest minds of a generation, etc. etc.:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I remember a Google that had not been consumed by JavaScript brain worms. A Google where high-traffic services had to be fast; where folks competed to see who could make the smallest 404 page; byte golfing to win latency.
That Google, it seems, is gone. In its place, a login page comprised of 380K of JS (1.2MB unzipped) *on top* of 125K of HTML (687K unzipped) generating seconds of main-thread blockage on low-end devices:
🤦😢
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Not for nothing, but Apple's bombast and triumphalism on Privacy is just as hollow, if not more so.
The only way to get privacy, rather than ads selling you a new phone with a privacy sticker on the box, is to lobby for legislation that makes data-at-rest toxic to sell or recombine.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The only way to get privacy online is, was, and remains legislation. At some level, it's good that Google has finally figured that out. At another level, I hope some of the folks involved that threw elbows instead of doing math can start to reflect on what (and who) they wasted:
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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:
Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online
Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/practical-svg-is-now-free-to-read-online/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In my house, there are many spiders.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/so-schon/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Takerufuji is back!!! That was a nice surprise!
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randulo ("Randulo.com") wrote:
This is fantastic, a beautiful moment with Norah Jones. The definition of musicality.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In their floundering for a line of attack, one tactic the Republicans are following is to mock her for laughing?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/laughter-humanizes/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Finally finding a few Monarch larvae in our yard.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/little-princeling/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
IABs that don't respect browser choice are a scourge. Shame on Google and Apple for allowing them.
ICYMI, a great post on them via @rgadellaa :
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-in-app-browsers/
And @owa's video explaining the problem(s):
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tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:
THEY DID IT!!!!
My local library built the seed library!
The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!
The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!
Free seeds for everyone!
#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid #seedLibrary #earthDay
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- An old card catalog is used to hold seed packets. (remote)
- A closeup of one of the card catalog drawers entitled "beans" with a seed packet with information. (remote)
- Books on seed libraries, harvesting seeds, and various fliers announcing the seed library. (remote)
- Various fliers announcing the seed library and other programs. (remote)
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
He’s all-terrain.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
people are posting this because it's funny and of course it *is* funny. but also, having non-critical fail-fast elements in your instructure (fuses, basically) is a legitimate path to resilience.
I'm hoping that there are computer scientists (or adjacent scientists) studying orgs that missed out on the worst of Crowdstrike and getting into the technical details of how that worked? I know it's way too early to see papers on this but are there maybe blog posts already??
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.
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jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:
Thought I couldn’t get surprised by CSS anymore, but then someone goes and builds a raytracer using `box-shadow`s??? https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-not-to-use-box-shadows
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Tea and cake with the boy.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Brace yourself for an openly racist, misogynist Republican campaign.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/nosedive-right-into-the-sewer/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The strong longing and wishing for ones’ children to have their own children and to be able to manifest the affection and express the feelings of endearment inspired by having grandchildren, mixed with the simultaneous fear of knowing the life your grandchildren will inherit will be radically different than the present one, and perhaps filled with untold suffering as climate change accelerates and drastically alters the Earth.
https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/portfolio/nonnapaura/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm home. I've decided that no one in my family is ever allowed to die again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/the-magical-misery-tour-is-over/
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'm thrilled to support Harris.
Just one thing: Trump isn't going to stop hammering on his opponent's weaknesses (real or imagined), and the media isn't going to stop unquestioningly parroting him in an obvious double standard.
So maybe we *don't* help them out so much this time, eh?
In November I want to see us standing behind our candidate—and I think we will—not wringing our hands over whatever MAGA talking point the NYT laundered into quasi-journalism.
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ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:
the Joint Statistical Meetings, a huge conference, will be here in Portland in _TWO WEEKS_. I finally took a look at the schedule, and I will be running around going to a million sessions starting Sunday afternoon.
(also the online schedule doesn't let you save sessions, so good luck trying to be organized)
Do I know anyone who will be there? Can you boost so that I might meet fedi-folk who should be in my professional circle?
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
The transition of virtually any code base in the world to safer, better languages, such as Rust, is not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of “when”.
Putting aside the White House recently identifying unsafe languages as a national security risk, there is also the fact that all software will become strictly unmaintanable in a decade simply because the most skilled people in the upcoming generation will not be competing for C++ jobs, they’ll be competing for Rust jobs!
This is why Linus Torvalds actually admitted that the main reason for introducing Rust into the Linux kernel is actually in order to enfranchise younger talent! Look it up.
The transition to Rust for all the world’s kernels, drivers, microcontrollers and more isn’t going to be just motivated by safety concerns (themselves already more than enough), but also by the fact that if you don’t transition, you won’t have the best engineers, today in their teens, willing to work for you in ten years to carry your stack into the future. You will therefore open up your entire empire to being replaced by the upstarts that will actually take these engineers in and let them shine.
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wolftune@social.coop ("Aaron Wolf") wrote:
I'm speaking at #fossy2024 in just under two weeks. First, I'm doing an updated co-presentation with my son about teaching #softwarefreedom concepts to children. Second, I'm co-presenting an updated overview of the economics of public goods to set the stage for a panel discussion on FLO funding dilemmas.
Mastodon FeedStarting to regret throwing away boxes of old IDE cables now 🫣
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alanferrier@mastodon.scot ("Alan Ferrier") wrote:
I'm definitely up for the series finale of the Donald Trump saga being the one where he loses to a Black woman.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
here i got you a copy of tomorrow's nyt
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris
https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198
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samhainnight@mstdn.social ("Samhain Night") wrote:
While I'm thrilled at the thought of President Harris, I am a bit concerned that the "donor class" got a sitting president to drop out of the race.
Getting rid of Citizens United has got to be a priority, folks.
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kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:
An interesting side note in all of this is that the Supreme Court has given total immunity to a guy with six months left to serve and no fucks left to give.
