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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Inside a very old pub... (cont.)

📷 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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• Clipboards, glass mugs filled with cutlery and serviettes, a spray bottle of cleaning fluid, posters on the wall, all underneath a staircase.

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

A few quick things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/09/oddments/

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Today I was asked by a friend about the work I'm doing in specifying the AsyncContext stage 2 JS proposal.

I described it as something that will only be useful for incredibly specialized libraries, and that the typical developer won't give a fuck about. And my job lately is to make sure they don't have to give a fuck about it.

Which is way harder than it sounds.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

It's funny how much more generic "Labyrinth of the Demon King" sounds in Japanese.

My Japanese isn't good enough to judge the subjective impression that a phrase makes with 100% accuracy, but maou and meikyuu are both very common words in video game titles

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• Cropped steam screencap showing an image link to an upcoming game called "Labyrinth of the Demon King." The Japanese title (魔王の迷宮) is in large text and its English translation appears immediately below it. In both versions "Demon King" is in red and the rest of the text is in white. In the background is a dark figure with eyes sagging out of its sockets, drawn in the style of old youkai art.

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riley@fiera.social ("Riley") wrote:

This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.

Source: https://twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status/1820748563338637581

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• 89242915346ee34c.mp4 (remote)

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• (A cat taking a selfie with Kamala, her husband and 2 stepchildren) FUTURE 1ST FAMILY. (remote)

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anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

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• Black and white photograph of a young man with a hat holding a sign which is saying 'why is there no maximum wage?' (remote)

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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:

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• Sleepy washy on the couch (remote)
• Stretched out upside down (remote)
• Paw over his head (remote)
• Zoomed in on Washy the cat (remote)

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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

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• Photo by George Conway on August 08, 2024. May be a Twitter screenshot of text. (remote)

jsonstein@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"

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

thanks for being so encouraging @CARROT

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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/

pzmyers@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/

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• "Tampon Tim" meme (remote)

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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.

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

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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.

#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/

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• 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…