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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:
The patron
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The alien came to the library again, shortly before closing time, and quickly found a book."May this entity borrow The Complete History of Knitting?"
They always return the book they borrow after five minutes, but the ritual of checking it seems important to them.
"Of course. Did you bring your card?"
1/4
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"It's juts not realistic to expect people to use a sound from outside their own phonetic system."
Thank you Dr. Lindsey!
(from this pronunciation video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihLE-wh0xc)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's a UI crime that the "raise hand" button in Google Meet looks just like the waving emoji
(Source: once a week, somebody, sometimes me, raises their hand instead of posting the emoji they want and hijacks the whole meeting)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy’s quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and Democrats alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest. Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eating a dog after a friend shared a photo with Vanity Fair magazine showing Kennedy dramatically preparing to take a bite of a charred animal; Kennedy said it was a goat.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Let us read what we want in the library!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/republicans-weird-library-policies/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's always interesting to read about bootstrap projects. In some ways it's a little like speed running an alternate computer history and makes obvious the places where there are discontinuities. Or I guess I could look at it as how to automate rebuilding (computer) civilization. Of course, it takes as a given that rebuilding computer civilization as we know it is worthwhile. 😆
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
siliconundergro@ioc.exchange ("Silicon Underground (Dave F)") wrote:
In 1985, #commodore commissioned Andy Warhol to demonstrate its new #amiga computer. Jeff Bruette, the software engineer who assisted Warhol, was one of only two people who thought to keep copies of the original files. Last week, he came forward. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My appreciation of Destin Sandlin has now gone negative.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/i-coulda-told-you-so/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
In the Langdale valley.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Dementia: Healthier lifestyles could prevent it
The Lancet Commission on dementia said in its 2024 report that 14 lifestyle factors make up 45% of a person's risk — a guide to reduce your risk.
https://www.dw.com/en/dementia-healthier-lifestyles-could-delay-or-prevent-it/a-69836594?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There's a market for "I ❤️ my infuriating little fuckwit" bumper stickers, is all I'm saying.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
North Korea moves 250 missile launchers to southern border
Pyongyang staged a celebration to mark the deployment of the launchers. North Korea claims stationing more nuclear capable weapons on the border is a necessary deterrent to the US and South Korea.
https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-moves-250-missile-launchers-to-southern-border/a-69855788?short range “dirty” nuclear munitions for “tactical” use?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
(note that the suspect was born & raised in Britain)
“On Saturday, a library and a food bank were set alight in Liverpool as groups damaged and looted businesses, and in Hull, fires were set and storefronts smashed in the city center.”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Pet owners will really be like: "I just love this cute little jerk. 🥰 This awful little turd. ❤️ This adorable little gremlin wakes me up at 3am because it broke my favorite things and then ate the pieces and didn't shit them out when it had the chance. 💕 What an angel. 😇 What a sweet little fucker sowing relentless chaos into every aspect of my life 😍"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“When Harris’s parents immigrated here in the early 1960s, they entered a pre-existing racial caste system and the classifications that undergirded it. When the couple fell in love, so-called antimiscegenation laws prohibiting Black people from marrying white people still existed in 16 states.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Crap wins.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oops.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/thats-a-whopper-of-a-retraction/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web.
Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
*"the framework isn't the problem, Alex, it's only XXXKB"*
This is something I've been hearing from wealth-bubble apologists for *years* whenever I bring the JavaScript-industrial-complex in for critique. And you know what? They're right. It isn't the framework that's the problem, it's absolutely amoral behaviour of the folks doing the propaganda and the responsibility-free zone they want to expand within frontend culture.
So that can go. If it means they take their frameworks with them, fine.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I beseech thee, oh Manager! Banish this scripted pestilence! Free thine HTML from the shackles of JSX! Liberate the CSS to frolic in the fields of s, as of yore. Smite the CSS-in-JS and exile React from these lands!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If I seem prickly about the JavaScript-industrial-complex, it's because I've *seen* some shit, showed that shit to the folks most responsible, and they did jack to fix or prevent it from happening in the future. Now the whole web is covered in shit.
The post I'm working on now is a tour of a wee corner of a tiny smidgeon of what I've seen, as viewed from the relatively generous device and network budgets I updated to earlier this year[1]. I'm livid all over again.
[1] https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:
can we get the `EyeDropper` api in all browsers pls
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Tomorrow on Oxide and Friends, previous guest Nicholas Carlini ("Adversarial Machine Learning") will return to discuss his recent blog entry, "How I use AI" (https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html). As with our other treatments of the topic, this promises to be neither breathless hype nor doomerist fear mongering, but rather in the muddy middle where LLMs are finding real, practical usage. Bring your own real usage and join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhhh, yes
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dance-me-to-the-end-of-love/1440945503?i=1440945506
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:
I feel like actually, a grand bulk of how “front-end” works now is interesting workarounds for browser limitations that don’t exist anymore.
but because change is expensive we just kinda kept using the elaborate workarounds despite not needing them
and because institutional memory can’t exist in an industry with a 5 year 95% turnover rate, most people don’t remember that we don’t need most of this shit anymore
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I wrote some code to play an insulting rap track for anyone who knocks over the shelves in the grocery store:
A wrecked aisle diss function.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, well, thank you @CARROT
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I don't think the options are monster frameworks vs everything bespoke. I think the third option is better frameworks that are actually designed based on a) real needs, b) maintainability, and c) long-lived products.
https://mastodon.esmevane.com/@ironchamber/112905265598897110
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I didn't see the presentation, but this video shows the project, and it looks like a fun build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZFQDeBpHmg
(I could try to estimate the cost for that PCB, but nah. I'll just enjoy the result.)
