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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
bitmaker ("Jason Martens") wrote:
If you haven’t seen any racism on the timeline recently *that is a part of the problem*. It remains invisible for people who are not targeted. Also go follow @timnitGebru or @Are0h or #TheBadSpace to hear from people who are both impacted by the racism and working to fix it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
MisuseCase@twit.social ("Misuse Case") wrote:
How the fuck is #Mastodon a worse place for black people than #Twitter #xitter which is owned and operated by an actual fashy techbro?
This is a major collective failure and instead of doing “well actually” at black users who talk about discrimination on here we should be working harder on community moderation, which may require adding new features to Mastodon.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
ah, the good ole :
THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE
school of business management
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I keep typing the phrase "4G is a miracle, 5G is a mirage" into my network and device baseline posts[1], but this is the sort of thing that will change the situation in a few years when current devices reach EOL:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
basus ("Shrutarshi Basu") wrote:
Is there a comprehensive resource (book, survey paper, website) covering known parsing techniques? Ideally, it would cover classical techniques like recursive descent, LALR, LL, parser generators, but also modern things like parser combinators and PEGs. If there isn't one single resource, are there a bunch I could cobble together?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Six months ago, when I suggested Meta is poised to pivot to infrastructure, the bootlickers laughed and said it was fantasy.
Now that such a pivot seems inevitable, they've suddenly decided it's a good thing, and that it will *help* users and decentralization.
This is weirdo shit. And it's the least surprising thing to ever happen.
Needless to say, #Meta taking over our infrastructure is not a good thing for anyone but Meta. Full stop.
From: @raphael
https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/112876395773839536
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I made the unfortunate decision to read multiple things early this morning that made me sad. But the video in LB[1] was a nice balm. Philip Achille's version of "Take Five":
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Dio9sys@haunted.computer wrote:
Sometimes you need to see someone absolutely WAILING on a harmonica.
Mastodon Feedrust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
Dark mode, RSS feeds, performance optimizations and more: read all about the ongoing development of crates.io on the Rust Blog. ✨
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/29/crates-io-development-update.html
Mastodon FeedI give it five more years until your browser is just a glorified wasm package manager.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That's a grocery bag she is lying on. I'm afraid I can never use it again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/every-day-same-spot/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That poem reminds me of my little post:
https://social.coop/@cstanhope/110248783091539248
I mean, imagine living through those unprecedented times.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Ranma Saotome") wrote:
Time to get fierce.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Apparently we have left the "you're stupid for thinking this" phase to the "of course this is what Meta is doing and it's good for users, actually" phase.
Cool.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The tech juggernaut is going to roll right over all of us.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/the-planet-is-so-screwed/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:
#Irdorath (BY) - Kryly. Крылы: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycB9RRQDtKc — wow (read the subtitles). #belarus
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You mean, I can admit that I am a white dude without feeling shame? It's going to take some adjustment.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:
"The song 'ZORAMI' was written in a colony. People like us have sung it many times, quietly and secretly, with tears in their eyes.." N. #Irdorath
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=5DjYddmyjNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DjYddmyjNMThey chose #art to express their experience in imprisonment and "a beginning of a new, bright chapter".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
I much enjoyed reading this informative page about the Amiga's Juggler demo, a landmark ray-traced 3D animation that amazed computer users back in 1986.
As a youngster, I took my first steps in 3D creation using the software in which the Juggler animation was created: Sculpt 3D.
🔗 http://etwright.org/cghist/juggler.html
#commodore #amiga #animation #3D #RetroComputing #retro #tech #technology #1980s #CGI #CG #RayTracing
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Jacek Wesołowski") wrote:
If someone told me 30 years ago, that the future involved getting tens or hundreds of letters a day, not reading 90% of them, and sending some of the letters twice in case the recipient didn't read the first one, then I'd say that's just silly and why would people do that.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple has the virtue of pointing at a better future, and the vice of holding the coats of everyone who doesn't share that vision.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't go there. But it does mean the idea Apple will transport us to it is a lie.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The real debate here isn't Apple vs. Google (who are universally worse on this stuff), it's Apple vs. the web.
And make no mistake, Apple is *extremely* threatened by a world where people spend more time in a browser-based, low-tracking environment.
It's why they've done all the nasty public stuff to suppress browser engine choice, as well as a boatload of nonsense they aren't blamed for (yet).
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
To spell this out in the most granular way:
- Apple allows FB to (ab)use `WKWebView` for an anti-user, pro-tracking in-app browser system
- FB uses this system to bypass both browser choice *as well as* any ad or tracker blocking you might have enabled within Safari
- Apple hold's FB's coat while it allows this situation to proliferate, one app at a time, while ignoring the impact of two-sided tracking (scripts in pages + host URLs).
Apple is Zucking you. No doubt about it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:
SERPENTINE…
IN…
SPAAAAACE
“Analysis of the Bennu sample unveiled intriguing insights into the asteroid’s composition. Dominated by clay minerals, particularly serpentine, the sample mirrors the type of rock found at mid-ocean ridges on Earth, where material from the mantle, the layer beneath Earth’s crust, encounters water”
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The difference between posturing about privacy and actually doing what's most effective to enable it is the difference between marketing and action.
Caring about the world as it actually is, and resolving to change it, is not something billboards are equipped to take on.
Never forget that.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I like to imagine that a lot of the smart people working on privacy and security at Apple understand this, but my general affinity for Hanlon's Razor suggests they don't which, frankly, is disqualifying for any company that wants to put up billboards selling privacy.
PARTICULARLY web privacy.
Clown show.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
People who understand some of the tech might say *"ah, but App Bound Domains!"*[1]
What those folks, and perhaps Apple's mgmt, have decided not to understand is that script injection is *no obstacle* for an entity that can both dominate the app market *and* cause most publishers to embed bits of JS within their pages.
ABD would work *if and only if* Apple also blocked tracking scripts from 3p origins associated with the hosting app, when loading a `WKWebView`.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Being a parent has lots of great parts, but one of the worst is: there's literally no such thing as a vacation.
Whatever you thought of as a "vacation" before? Yeah, that's gone. You don't get that anymore.
Your absolute best-case vacation scenario as a parent is: exactly as demanding and stressful as real life, just in a slightly different way and/or location that cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars more.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The reason you know Apple and Facebook are besties IRL is that the ATT kayfabe blew over and Apple still lets FB do nasty nonsense with ad-blocker-blocking via "in-app browser" shenanigans.
A FB that feared Apple would have shut that down a long time ago.
An Apple that cared about privacy would have done the same.
It's a real SV mutual-appreciation story. Heartwarming, in fact.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
one thing i learned from facilitating groups is that sometimes it’s much more effective to say “we don’t do that here” to invoke a community norm instead of saying “i’m personally offended” because that can be attributed to you only, or “that’s wrong”, because that invites some kind of debate.
