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adoralaura@tech.lgbt ("Adora 0x61646F7261 :verifiedlesbian: ✨") wrote:

Ok, PSA:
Gravatar is going Web3/Crypto-Bro.

To delete your account, login to wordpress.com and delete that, it’ll take care of gravatar too.

https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/30/decentralized-identity-management/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Go is to programing what Brutalism is to architecture.

It's the basic materials laid bare and exposed for what they are, striped down to the functionality and almost free from any decoration."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Of course I feel like the photo lacks a subject, but you don’t get a lot of choice after hiking up rocks for two hours with a 3kg camera and a tripod on your back, and a smaller camera swinging from your neck, standing on the only flat surface you can find.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First time shooting Ektachrome! From our unfinished hike to the Grisedale Tarn.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Ektachrome 100
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• Fells.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I love how in iOS when I'm editing my writing it now will aggressively highlight a word and ask me "hey did you want to spell this word incorrectly, by chance?"

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Attention, world:

I have completed the jokerless challenge in Balatro.

That is all.

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

clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

Saw this thermometer cricket hanging out on our 🏳️‍🌈 today.

Its name comes from the fact that you can deduce the temperature by counting the number of chirps they sing.

For Farenheit the formula is

40 + number of chirps made in 15 seconds

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• A light green cricket with translucent wings perched on the pink and white stripes of a pride flag. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan's children represent the conflicting political sensibilities reflected in contemporary American politics.

Each child represents a political faction, and throughout the show will argue their case for their ideology to take charge to save the empire.

#succession

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• Photo of all of Logan's children. From left to right: Roman, Kendall, Connor, and Shiv.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan is a deeply broken man. His rags-to-riches story arc reminds us that the American Dream realized is not often fueled by hope, but rather the trauma endured by violent childhood poverty.

#succession

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• An older person with a bare back covered in deep scratches or wounds. A figure wearing white clothing is visible to the side. The background is dimly lit.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan represents the manifest destiny of the American Dream.

His last name "Roy," means "King" in Old French, and has become synonymous with the conservative wing of the American ruling class in the Succession universe.

(Nan Pierce serves as his liberal counterpart, but we'll get to her later.) #Succession #LoganRoy

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• An older man Logan Roy with a serious expression, wearing a black cap and grey jacket, sitting on a beige chair near a window in a private jet.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Let's start with Logan's media empire. Waystar Royco is conglomerate of businesses (perhaps fifty total?) united under one brand. While still powerful, the company is showing signs of decay and people are starting to take notice.

In #Succession, Waystar Royco is The United States.

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• Room filled with people in suites. Shiv Roy is standing at the podium center stage with the Waystar Royco logo behind her and two big screens at either sides of the stage.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My Roman Empire is HBO's Succession, and how the show, and all its characters, serve as an allegory for the United States as a dying empire.

That may sound obvious, but I don't just mean the show's themes. There are direct, knock-you-over-the-head parallels if you look for them. And I've been DYING to talk about it.

Thread? Thread 🧵 (Spoilers). #succession #waystarroyco

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• Poster for the HBO show Succession with the main characters standing in front of a painting hung on a dark wood wall. The painting in a gaudy gold frame depicts an epic fight with men, horses, tigers and other animals. From left to right: Kendall Roy, Roman Roy, Siobhan Roy, and Logan Roy. Bottom text reads "Succession Season One"

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

No, but seriously...why don't we have `` yet?

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Once again, mastodon's affordances (and missing affordances) are framing everyone's imagination. There are other options than simply allow list vs deny list federation. Personally, the one I want to see is multiple named federations:

Right now, there's just one federation, named public. There's absolutely no reason we can't have more than that.

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

The better answer, ofc, is to go back to the pre '90 situation: if you qualify, welcome in! That's the *much* better solution for just about everyone.

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

There's a lot of extremely cross-pressured ways to think about this, from the policy vantage point. OTOH, I've had friends and colleagues whose futures have hinged on this process, and to find out it has been so thoroughly gamed makes me livid on their (extremely deserving) behalf:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-h1b-visa-lottery-system/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyMjU0ODI1MywiZXhwIjoxNzIzMTUzMDUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSElBQzNEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3RjAzNTczNkJDRjE0NDg0QjY5MUUwODYzMjFERjBGNCJ9.uD8WrMWJEWn4e5QEu8d1dk-rIv2N_iGQYk7NmYil9so

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

trigonella@social.seattle.wa.us ("मेंथी") wrote:

Seattle voters have explicitly and loudly demanded social housing, but this reactionary city council is attempting to delay and destroy it. Right now they are trying to delay I-137 (despite it having the numbers) to a low-turnout special election next year instead of the November ballot, and trying to muddy the waters around it to distract voters.

Tell them to act without delay! Only takes 30 seconds.

Boosts appreciated!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-seattle-city-council-to-pass-i-137-or-at-least-put-it-on-the-november-ballot

#Seattle #SocialHousing #I137 #ShareTheCities

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

This is timely and useful:

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/patterns-for-memory-efficient-dom-manipulation/

On a related note, my colleague Seth Brenith has been hard at work making Edge DevTools better for tracking memory leaks, particularly for apps that use Custom Elements. "Raw" DOM is good, actually!

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

verge ("The Verge") wrote:

A watchdog for corporate climate commitments is cracking down on carbon credits https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210744/climate-goals-corporate-watchdog-carbon-credit-offset

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

seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:

Blogs are still a thing, and blogs have always been a thing. They didn't go anywhere. My technical blog is thriving.

People come back to old posts constantly.

Something I posted 10 months ago is still my top performing post. Social media posts are ephemeral & if something happens to your content - it's gone.

Host your own blog, control your content. My social media posts may max out at 500-1000 views but my page views have a consistent baseline of 30k/a month. And I haven't posted in a bit.

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

keyboardsmash@tech.lgbt ("nino") wrote:

i googled "owl baby" bc i love owls and i wanted to look at a baby owl, and-

i, personally, relate to the middle one on an emotional level

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• a photo of three baby owls. the background seems to be some kind of conifer tree. the babies sit on a branch, that's sticking out from the bottom right of the photo. description of the owl babies from left to right: the left one os very fluffy and light grey, and kinda looks grumpy and sleepy. the middle one is almost falling off the branch, hanging onto it with its tiny owl feet. the right one is a bit darker than the others, you can already see the typical brown pattern adult owls have in their feathers. it's head doesn't have feathers, though, you can see the skin. it looks a little angry. (remote)

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

pixelfed wrote:

Everyone deserves to feel safe and respected online.

That's why we're introducing new comment controls to Pixelfed next month.

This new safety feature puts you in charge of your interactions, creating a safer and more welcoming space for everyone.

#pixelfed #commentControls #safety

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• Pixelfed Comment Controls

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

ekuber@hachyderm.io ("Esteban K�ber :rust:") wrote:

If you've updated your #rust version to 1.80 and are getting inference failures on the time crate, update its version. It is a known issue, it was caught with crater and there has been a new release of time with a fix since April. I'm saddened that there is customer impact regardless (which was foreseen).
#RustLang

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

“Some GLAAD employees were upset when they encountered executives’ globe-trotting Instagram photos and as word spread that Ms. Ellis often flew first-class — especially since employees said they faced scrutiny over minor violations of the group’s expense policy. One employee who expensed a cup of coffee was chastised for taking money away from the L.G.T.B.Q. cause and had to reimburse GLAAD, according to a former employee.”

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

briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

For what it's worth, I've always been confused by Cloudflare's official position on abuse, which is that they are not a hosting provider, but rather a pass-through, so it's not up to them to be arbiters of what's fine and not so fine.

But if you think about it, by that definition Cloudflare is the world's largest proxy network. Probably they don't use this term to describe their business because proxy providers are -- at least historically -- somewhat strongly associated with abuse.

Either way, if Cloudflare decides to stop proxying traffic for a particular customer, they are not being arbiters of free speech, as the CEO constantly claims. Because that customer's site will still be reachable. It simply won't enjoy the protection from DDoS attacks that Cloudflare offers for free.

Underneath all of these concerns, a lot of people in the security industry seem to believe that if Cloudflare were to somehow start clamping down on the rampant abuse of their services for cybercrime, then those bad actors will just move to someplace else where Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies have less visibility, like Russia's DDoS-Guard. That may be. But I say let's burn that bridge when we come to it.

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

I love these so much:

https://ffoodd.github.io/chaarts/

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

self-dealing, like the Trumps and LaPierre:

‘The overall pattern of spending represents “a potentially abusive use of charitable funds that would be surprising and insulting to a lot of their donors,” said Michael West, a lawyer who advises charities at the New York Council of Nonprofits. “It appears she may have fallen into the trap of excess.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/business/glaad-ceo-spending.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

“New data released… by the FBI reveals that both violent crime and property crime have dropped precipitously this year. The data, which is subject to revision, compares crime in the first quarter of 2024 with crime in the first quarter of 2023. It shows substantial drops in every category, including murder (-26.4%), rape (-25.7%), robbery (-17.8%), and property crime (-15.1%).”

https://popular.info/p/the-most-important-crime-statistics

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

realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:

A central argument of Trump's campaign is that there is a violent crime wave fueled by undocumented immigrants

The DATA shows the opposite is true. Violent crime is plummeting.

So Trump fills his stump speech with anecdotes of crimes committed by migrants, pinning the blame on Biden and Harris.

Trump claims if he wins in November, those crimes will stop.

But there were similar crimes committed during Trump's presidency.

Trump blamed Democrats.

https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-migrant-crime-during

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

FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

Here is a thread of all the US news organisations I could find on the Fediverse:

US National News:
➡️ @ProPublica
➡️ @NewsDesk
➡️ @TheConversationUS
➡️ @Salon
➡️ @Vox
➡️ @time
➡️ @csmonitor
➡️ @AxiosNews
➡️ @TheRoot
➡️ @damemagazine
➡️ @19thnews
➡️ @lawfare
➡️ @WAMonthly
➡️ @Votebeat
➡️ @NewsLitProject
➡️ @themarkup
➡️ @sludge
➡️ @Forbes
➡️ @bloomberg
➡️ @foreignpolicy
➡️ @VOANews
➡️ @ErinBrockovich

Midwest US:
➡️ @IMidwest

Alabama:
➡️ @AlcomNews

Alaska:
➡️ @AlaskaBeacon
➡️ @AK_OK
➡️ @AKNativeNews

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