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The_Icarian@federated.press ("The Icarian") wrote:
DonOld's ghostwriter Tim O'Brien understands him best: "Inside his mind, there's a putter, a cheeseburger, someone else's credit card, and a porn video. And the rest of it is just an empty space where he's trying to figure out how to occupy center stage."
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Like my little boii here it’s time to get some sleep :nkoSleep: :stux: :sleep:
Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :blobcathearts: :blobcathugyou:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
charges: murder 2nd degree, attempted murder 2nd degree, assault, illegal firearm, deadly weapon
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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:
petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thanks for being so encouraging @CARROT
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Humane Ai Pin returns are now outpacing sales
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/08/humane-ai-pin-returns-are-now-outpacing-sales/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Doesn't Tim realize that you're supposed to treat women's sanitary needs with shame and disgust? Chaya Raichik does!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/08/oh-no-weve-lost-chaya-raichiks-support/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just to spell this out explicitly: when your platform falls below 10%, you're not getting invited to dinner, you're *what's* for dinner.
Fixing capabilities and perf are the worthy causes for browser vendors that want the web to matter, but they got nerdsniped by Apple's privacy kayfabe.
But Apple also put its thumbs on the scale re: features, and webdevs seem happy to live in the wealth bubble while their futures are being quietly smothered.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Meanwhile on desktop, where browser choice is alive and well and CPUs can more regularly handle the nonsense that Vercel spews out, time spent in browsers is *far* north of 50%, and growing.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
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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
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
this was by the way a tinyletter newsletter! not some fly-by-night operation! they're all broken!
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
great system!
Mastodon Feedxor@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
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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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
- "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"."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
who is running Trump's campaign?
- 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."
Mastodon Feedrust@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
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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/
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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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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…
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Next.js? More like Swing.js, amirite?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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!
Mastodon FeedGargron ("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
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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/
