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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
We heard from thousands of young people who don’t support KOSA: it will censor the internet but won't help them. Here's how KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:
#KOSA is a horrible bill, co-authored by a GOP anti-trans senator who wants to weaponize it against kids.
Anytime you see "bipartisan" legislation like this, alarm sirens should go off.
If you're in the US, calling your rep is one of the most effective ways to oppose legislation like this. The Stop KOSA site has an excellent calling tool that makes this easy. Please use it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gws@mstdn.social ("George Stagg") wrote:
Have you ever given a presentation and wished you had an #rstats or #python console right there in your slides with you? Based on a great suggestion from a webR user, Quarto Drop is a #quarto extension that adds a fullscreen interactive console and code editor directly into a #quarto reveal.js presentation. The console is powered by #wasm, using #webR or #pyodide, and can be dropped down from above or hidden away with the click of a button or a shortcut key.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-we-know-about-kamalas-climate-plan-1851601786
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a little afternoon reading material from @b0rk
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cool. Black widow spiderlings start out orangish, with white markings, and a solid black mask around the eyes. 🧪
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
I don’t think it’s appropriate to call the first Black woman presidential nominee by her first name. If you say Biden and Trump, you should say Harris.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Met a very good boy on the hike.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
All the creationists have to do is look beneath their feet.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's Spider Tuesday! I don't expect that to be as catchy as Taco Tuesday.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/23/i-know-what-im-doing-today/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:
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
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:
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
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.
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.:
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:
🤦😢
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/
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Takerufuji is back!!! That was a nice surprise!
