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

Working on this next post has finally crystalized something for me: the excuses that advocates of SPAs (and the frameworks they justify) make are functionally identical to the C/C++ apologist's approach to memory safety.

In both cases, no amount of long-documented failure seems to move them, and so we must move ourselves away from them.

SPA architectures and tools must simply be banned for most kind of work, *PARTICULARLY* in the public sector.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Segments I have hiked on the John Muir Trail over the years, as visualized by Google Photos

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• A heat map of the High Sierra, showing the location of photos that I have taken over the years while hiking on the John Muir Trail

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beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("tranny demon hacker") wrote:

I was listening to @spiralganglion and @jimmyhmiller's Future of Coding again (go support them on Patreon!), specifically the episode Worse is Better, and something struck me about how nerdy folx think about "why" questions

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davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

New post "The Fear of Making Bad Art (or whatever) https://davebauer.art/the-fear-of-making-bad-art-or-whatever/

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.

https://github-roast.pages.dev/

this thing is brutal

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sixcolors@zeppelin.flights ("Six Colors") wrote:

Existential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/existential-thoughts-about-apples-reliance-on-services-revenue/

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

a very sweet stroy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/style/sammi-cannold-safi-rauf-wedding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.PBjJ.FfE5y7P0cYmi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I don't mind being called "weird" because I'm not trying to pass myself off as the model American everyone else must conform to. Do your own thing, even if it isn't my thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/04/you-can-call-me-weird-i-dont-mind/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMZ80N4_Zg

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aliss@outerheaven.club wrote:

ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ʜᴀꜱɴ’ᴛ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀʟᴍᴏꜱᴛ 200 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴇᴅ ɪᴛ. ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴇᴅʏ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴏʀꜱ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴇᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀɴᴋ.

ɪ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɪɴ 705 ᴀᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ᴡᴀꜱ ꜰᴜɴ. ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇʏ ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴀᴅᴅɪɴɢ ꜱᴛᴜᴘɪᴅ ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ “ᴄᴀꜱᴛʟɪɴɢ” ᴀɴᴅ “ᴇɴ ᴘᴀꜱꜱᴀɴᴛ” ɪɴꜱᴛᴇᴀᴅ ᴏꜰ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀʏᴇʀ ꜰᴇᴇᴅʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰɪxɪɴɢ ɢᴀᴍᴇ-ʙʀᴇᴀᴋɪɴɢ ʙᴜɢꜱ. ɪ’ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟɪꜱɪᴏɴ-ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ɢʟɪᴛᴄʜ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʀꜱᴇʏ. ᴛʜᴇ “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ” ʙᴜɢ ʜᴀꜱ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴀʙᴜꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴢʏ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʀᴇꜰᴜꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪx ɪᴛ.

ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴀᴡꜰᴜʟ ʙᴇʜᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴏʏᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏ.

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bram85@emacs.ch ("Bram") wrote:

New #Emacs package: elfeed-export, which exports your elfeed database to JSON or Emacs Lisp Data. I wrote it as a (readable) backup and to allow other tools to process the news entries in my feeds.

Still under development and refinement, and a bit underdocumented.

When you're interested, clone a copy of the package at:

https://codeberg.org/bram85/elfeed-export

#elfeed

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A little photo shoot around the Northern Quarter.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Manchester

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• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, standing in the shade of an entrance of a red brick building, with one hand holding her chin.
• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, leaning against a bus pole, with the sunlight illuminating her from behind.
• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, sitting atop a red street planter, with a pair of blue tinted sunglasses tucked into her front pocket.

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

Working on a blog post covering some of the most heartbreaking performance disasters I'm seeing and the cultural forces that broke the web with JS.

Seeing 10s of megabytes of critical-path JS, served with no compression or caching still shocks, but no longer surprises.

Frontend is now failing in spectacularly performative ways. We stopped teaching the basics, and now all of society is paying the price.

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ryantownsend@webperf.social ("Ryan Townsend") wrote:

👏 more 👏 developers 👏 need 👏 to 👏 hear 👏 this

I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course 😉).

You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.

(screenshot excerpt from https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet)

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• Screenshot from Tailscale's blog post with the following text highlighted: "I read a post recently where someone bragged about using kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that's 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spend most of its time asleep." (remote)

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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

I’m not sure how to say this but WASM isn’t a cheap way to avoid “needing to” write javascript. You use wasm when you need to optimise a slow core loop (most commonly, bitcoin mining); or when you have an existing codebase you are trying to port.

If starfing with no wasm; and add wasm, you’re adding the complexity of a build targeting an unstable api surface, to create opaque blobs that more likely than not will wind up unmodifiable in 3 years as the build tool chain used to create it bitrots

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DamienMarieAtHope@kolektiva.social ("Damien Marie AtHope") wrote:

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bojacobs@hcommons.social ("Bo Jacobs") wrote:

The "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago

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• Quote: “Mel Brooks was once asked how he, as a Jewish man, was able to make so many silly jokes about Nazis. He said that evil people enjoy being portrayed as villains, but they detest being made out to look like fools” (remote)

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

Bitsavers seems to have a copy of the schematics and PCB from the university's now defunct ftp server.

https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/bits/Indiana_Univ/

And you can find on archive.org acceptable scans of the issues in question:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701215405/http://pestingers.net/pdfs/other-computers/circuit-cellar/1997/

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

This tickled a memory for me, and I couldn't let it go until I confirmed it. Thankfully somebody had an index of Circuit Cellar articles, which I could easily search once I used wget for a local copy.

Back in the early 90s, Ingo Cyliax of Indiana University developed an MC68030 based workstation, which was documented in 3 part series in issues 86-88 of Circuit Cellar Ink. It had an ISA bus and could run NetBSD. I had those issues for a long time, but never did attempt building it.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ivan's one easy rule to resist the spread of misinformation online:

Before automatically re-sharing a social media post telling you what some linked source says, *go read what the source actually says*. Then make an informed decision.

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

yes!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804

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

the sounds of my yute

https://music.apple.com/us/album/tom-trauberts-blues-four-sheets-to-the-wind-in-copenhagen/1485074801?i=1485074802

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

it is a good night for some Byrds

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

it is building, and the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are *hot* (and thus full of energy for that system to gobble up)

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

overactive fail2ban banned *mah* sorry a$$ from my main server just now... what wuz *that* about?

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a group in Melbourne called the Australian Soldiers' Legion (ASL) helped the Wagglens family, which included a homeless, wounded WWII veteran, his wife and children, squat a empty house in Bell Street, Hawthorn https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10160/wagglen-family-squat?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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MikeSaccone_@mastodon.online ("Mike Saccone") wrote:

A sunrise great blue heron flyby over the Potomac River.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f6.3, 1/500s)

#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

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• A great blue heron in flight in profile. The bird has dark blue wing feathers on the bottom half of its wings and lighter gray-blue feathers on the top of its wings, back, and throat. It has a long beak, yellow eyes, and a cap of dark blue feathers atop its head. The background is out-of-focus water. (remote)

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

Troopers Koehler and Haggerty almost made it all the way to peacetime… but in war, unlike in horseshoes, almost just does not count 💦

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

TIL about the doodle grid method of scaling and transferring drawings. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5A_9vylrQ

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jgeorge@oldbytes.space wrote:

LOL what the everloving heck is this, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen an IBM logo on. Spoilers: it's legit. I have it, it works, it does precisely what it says on the tin, and I love it.

Takeapart thread coming soon.

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• 8d5ff25839de20c1.jpeg (remote)

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mhoye wrote:

[dad voice] We have panic at home.