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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:
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Mastodon Feed@Vivaldi I couldn't convert my mum from Opera, because:
- you don't import open tabs. They're 99% of what is important to import.
- speed dial page is the other important thing, and the import did not enable it automatically.
- you don't deduplicate the imported bookmarks. Every browser imports from every browser, and then every import click in Vivaldi makes another "Imported (17)" folder. It's an off-putting intimidating mess of exponentially multiplied unsorted old dupe bookmark folders.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:
Hidden in deep darkness, there may be a trillion sunless planets wandering our galaxy -- including vast numbers of Earth-size worlds exiled from their homes.
The discovery of these "rogue planets" is one of most fun stories I've covered. Read it here:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rogue-planet #space #science #astronomy #tech #astrodon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EFF's "privacy badger" extension today expanded its effects on your Chrome settings to disable the Google "Ad Sandbox". This disables not just Topics (the worst of Ad Sandbox's features so far) but also the other two features— including "Ad Measurement", a feature that Apple copied a couple years back and Firefox adopted as an "experiment" this month.
https://mastodon.social/@eff/112831156838249955
The EFF here succinctly argues why all of these ad features should not be running on your computer:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
i_lost_my_bagel@mastodon.lilysthings.org ("number 1 rover fan") wrote:
fun fact: if you have a laptop or desktop that has an intel cpu with "vPro" on the sticker there's a chance the management engine in your CPU is just hosting a web server at all times.
It's at port 16992
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:
This is a disappointing (though hardly surprising) climb-down for Google Chrome. However, it reinforces what I've been saying for ages: don't use Chrome. Use a browser that respects your #privacy. There are many Chromium-based options that respect privacy out of the box, such as Brave and Vivaldi. Edge can be easily configured to respect privacy. Firefox and Safari are both great options that have better default privacy. And install @privacybadger extension. https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/news/privacy-sandbox-update/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:
"“I don’t think folks appreciate what we’re seeing from the Ds right now,” observes political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitcofer. “Newsom, Whitmer, Shapiro- every top tier Democrat- has put personal ambitions aside to come out and help the party coalesce around Kamala Harris.”
Political commentator Bob Cesca adds, “And they’re putting their ambitions aside for what could end up being 8 more years.”"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:
So, it seems like Elon Musk is engaged in election interference against Kamala Harris.
Perhaps today would be a good day for journalists, politicians and everyone else to vacate the Nazi bar and come over to open social media.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
WrenArcher@beige.party ("Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹") wrote:
I did some searching but couldn't find the original source of this graphic but it's just too good not to share. My apologies for swiping this without credit.
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- A collage of photos in the tri-tone style of former President Obama’s campaign when he ran for president. His portrait is on the left with the word “hope” underneath. Next to his is a photo of former president Trump wjere he appears to be yelling and the word “hate” is underneath his photo. To the right of his photo is President Biden with a word “heal” underneath his photo. And next to him, on the right hand side of the collage is presumptive Democrat nominee and current vice president, Kamala Harris with the word, “grow” underneath hers. (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Ft Knox, 1968
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… in interviews, Democrats were eager to make the race about character and experience, noting Ms. Harris’s law enforcement background and Mr. Trump’s litany of legal problems.
“She is a former prosecutor and he is a convicted felon,” said Marcia L. Fudge, a former housing secretary in the Biden administration who said she had spoken with Ms. Harris on Sunday. “If there ever was a huge choice, this is it.”’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Vance, in “Hillbilly Elegy”:
“We talk about the value of hard work, but tell ourselves that the reason we’re not working is some perceived unfairness… ‘Obama shut down the coal mines’ or ‘All the jobs went to the Chinese.’ These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance — the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.”"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
@slightlyoff hah. Yes. We recently added a Google login button just because we hadn't yet implemented proper auth and we wanted to throw together the account UX...
The innocent little JS import adds an iframe, and enough drag to make a noticeable slowdown to rendering even on a MacBook Pro M3 MAX. For a login button.
I am not kidding.
It's going to burn in fire.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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):
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
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.
