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

I've been warning for years[1] that a web that sucks to use and isn't capable enough is one that loses. The data is unequivocal: between Apple's suppression of the web as a reengagement channel and Reactors making the web feel like tapping through molasses on most phones, we're losing. Badly.

[1]: https://vimeo.com/364402896

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• According to Statista, only 8% of time-on-device is spent in browsers on phones in the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1294586/global-time-spent-browsers-and-apps/ (remote)
• eMarketer reports the same, and there's reason to think (from data I no longer have access to) that it's worse, and trending down, world-wide. https://www.emarketer.com/content/the-majority-of-americans-mobile-time-spent-takes-place-in-apps (remote)

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thewritertype@mastodonapp.uk ("Paul Bassett Davies") wrote:

Please note: the civil war in the UK has been cancelled owing to a massive display of human decency on one side and the other side not showing up.

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evilpie@hachyderm.io ("Tom Schuster") wrote:

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly-firefox-labs-131/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

this was by the way a tinyletter newsletter! not some fly-by-night operation! they're all broken!

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

great system!

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

a very old newsletter in my email archive piqued my curiosity and i tried clicking a link, only to realize that the delivery service no longer exists and thus every link is wrapped in a redirect that was once privacy-invasive and is now just totally broken

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

alexwild@mastodon.online ("Alex Wild") wrote:

A narrow-waisted Mischocyttarus paper wasp nest, showing the foundress female and brood of different stages. I’ve never had any trouble approaching small wasp nests like this, they’re quite timid. Colombia.

#insects #wasps #nature #Hymenoptera

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• Photograph of a slender, yellow and brown-striped wasp standing alert on the side of a small paper nest with 20 hexagonal cells. The background is an evenly green banana leaf. (remote)

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

2. "Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American conspiracy theorist and author.[who never served] ... attributed Corsi's shifting stories to a poor memory and his well-established habit of picking "truthful facts woven in a way that you don't have to worry about the things that are inconsistent". Corsi quotes himself as telling investigators: "Sometimes I can't tell if I remembered or invented"."

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

who is running Trump's campaign?

1. Christopher Joseph LaCivita (born 1966) is an American political consultant and partner in FP1 Strategies, a national public-affairs and campaign firm. He is a senior advisor to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

LaCivita was a media advisor for the Swift Boat Veterans, an independent-expenditure group credited with a significant impact on the 2004 presidential election by lying about John Kerry's military record."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_LaCivita

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.80.1 has been released to fix two bugs that accidentally slipped into Rust 1.80.0: incorrect optimizations for NaN and -0.0 floating point values and false positives for the dead_code lint. 🐛🐞

See the announcement for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/08/Rust-1.80.1.html

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

It's International Female Orgasm Day. Shouldn't that be celebrated every day?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/08/how-do-we-celebrate-this-holiday/

Attachments:

• orgasmic woman (remote)

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MrCheeze@wetdry.world ("MrCheeze :retro:") wrote:

@Gankra On a related note, you might be amused to know:

The line `char.grit.gotoAndStop(char.grit.currentFrame+(1-char.grit.currentFrame)/6);` has a specific bug that led us to some emulation fixes in Ruffle. That line results in attempting to call gotoAndStop(62.666666666666664) and similar decimal values, which flash - for some reason - interprets as a STRING, looking for a labelled frame named "62.666666666666664". Nowadays going to an nonexistent label just throws an error, but in janky swfs from 2009 it instead silently goes to frame 1.

The result in flash was that the grit vial empties instantly instead of interpolating it for a few frames. The result in Ruffle is that the game locked up, until we figured out that old SWF versions had different behaviour and how to emulate it.

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/8954

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

grrrrr

wasted 9 days on a jury, because two of us admitted to doing outside research during the deliberations despite the repeated warnings by the Judge *not* to do just that. now we have a mistrial, due to ‘Juror misconduct’.

I’m kinda pissed off at this point…

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

Next.js? More like Swing.js, amirite?

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112927187784905806

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

It clicked for me this morning: the thing that sucks about frontend's lost decade's and the obsession with remaking every blog and marketing microsite "an SPA" (dragging MBs of JS in tow) is the same thing that sucked about Java Applets.

You can promise "richness" and "app-like UI" all day, but if the experience sucks in point of fact, then you're just gonna nerf your own ecosystem's potential.

The shame of the JS-industrial-complex is that the ecosystem they're doing it to is the web.

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

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Breaking 🚨: UK regulator considering significant remedies inc #AppleBrowserBan, Choice Screens, Defaults, Hotseat, and In-App Browsers!

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• A table containing all of the potential remedies the CMA is considering. Due to alt-text character limits please see page 21 of document listed in the first reply to this post or visit https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming and open WP7

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Inside a very old pub...

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Manchester

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• A little table lamp standing on the sill of a multi-lite window. Besides it, there is a sign that reads, over multiple lines, "Bar, snacks, now". The rest of the sign is obstructed by a piece of wood.

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

“Vance’s firm, Narya Capital, is one of the top 10 investors in the video platform Rumble, and reportedly its initial purchase of 7m shares in 2022 gave it a seat on the board. According to his disclosure statement, Vance has invested a total of between $115,000 and $200,000 in the company.

… Rumble came to prominence as a haven for rightwing and conspiracy-minded users during 2020, when more mainstream platforms were cracking down on those promoting falsehoods…”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/jd-vance-financial-investments

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

“A groundbreaking University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), study last year found 90% of the unhoused population was living in California before they fell into homelessness; nearly half of unhoused adults were age 50 and over; and many older residents were experiencing homelessness for the first time due to high housing costs.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles

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

You know, all of us weirdos will lose the right to vote or run for office if the Republicans win. They're planning it right now. They've been dreaming of this for decades.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/08/how-bad-could-republican-control-be/

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• “The Case for Christian Nationalism is a carefully reasoned case for an approach that our nation had at our founding and should never have abandoned. We are today living in the wreckage of that abandonment. Stephen Wolfe is to be thanked for having the courage and learning to show us our way back.” Douglas Wilson, pastor of Christ Church (remote)

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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

A878.3.6
Golden cock
in earth-tree.

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #165 from The Computer Chronicles - Windows Enhancements - Software 1992-93qjf290Mfw

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• Approximate Frame #165 from The Computer Chronicles - Windows Enhancements - Software 1992-93qjf290Mfw (remote)

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

adamgreenfield@social.coop ("Adam Greenfield") wrote:

#Portland! This here’s your reminder of our Lifehouse event at Powell’s tomorrow night at 7! For this event I’ll be joined by representatives of Portland Street Medicine and the People’s Store, talking a little bit about #mutualaid – what it is, how it works, why we do it – and I’ll tie that back into the unfolding reality of #climate system collapse. I hope to see you there. https://everout.com/portland/events/adam-greenfield/e182533/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Never beating the weirdo allegations, I fear

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• Woman sitting in a tattoo chair with the word TRUMP freshly tattooed on her forehead.

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tenzochris ("Chris @ 🦣") wrote:

The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.

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• The computer “Deep Thought”, as depicted in the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. An enormous golden figure sits atop a ziggurat, as a crowd of people eagerly await the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

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

ieure@retro.social ("past oral no mad") wrote:

I'm a polite guy prone to extended conversational digressions. A tangentleman, if you will

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

KeithDJohnson@sfba.social ("Keith D Johnson for Kamala") wrote:

On the UK riots, Joan Westenberg suggests: "Think about it this way: if someone broke into your house & started smashing your belongings, you wouldn't describe them as an "interior design critic." You'd call them what they are: a criminal. So why the fuck are we bending over backwards to find polite terms for people who are, quite literally, advocating for the destruction of entire communities?
When we use euphemisms like "protestor" to describe rioting, rabid, dogshit neo-Nazis, we're not just being inaccurate – we're actively contributing to the normalization of their ideology.
This tendency to soften our language when it comes to extremist ideologies isn't evenly applied. We don't hesitate to use harsh, condemnatory language when talking about other forms of violent extremism. We don't call ISIS members "religious freedom activists" or refer to cartel enforcers as "pharmaceutical distribution protestors." So why the kid gloves when it comes to neo-Nazis?"
https://joanwestenberg.com/nazis-arent-protestors-theyre-wankers

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I think this might be Steel Fell.

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

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

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• A massive green fell in the distance under a blue sky and white clouds. You can clearly see the shadows of the clouds on the ground.

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

He thinks he's so irresistible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/07/you-do-not-have-the-right-to-not-listen-to-nazis/

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• Elon Musk as Pepe LePew, forcing an advertiser to sniff his reek (remote)

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

Children of Republicans vs children of Democrats. This is enough information to make my choice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/07/look-whos-smiling/

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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a child labor law (remote)
• Walz signs a school lunch law (remote)