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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ray Kurzweil makes the same silly predictions he always does. Publishers continue to publish it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/13/the-end-is-imminenter-maybe/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
From another social media feed
"A coffee shop in Singapore invented the "Sweet Little Rain."
This coffee or tea is served with a puff of cotton candy.The steam from the coffee rises to dissolve the cotton candy, and the puff begins to "rain" onto the coffee cup."
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The frontend community is in crisis. I know, because I could spend every waking hour helping e-commerce and productivity apps fix the *unbelievably* bad performance that is now the hallmark of contemporary, JavaScript-first web development.
But it's worse than that. This stuff has infected public services; the sorts of sites that have to serve *everyone*, iPhone or no.
Part 2 of this series is the hardest to watch, but essential to understand how far we've fallen:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Folks, if you're annoyed by the Apple/Patreon thing and are wondering what to do about it, go support @owa. The answer to App Store shittiness was never a slightly less shitty proprietor, it's true alternative platforms...platforms like the web.
@owa fought back and won when Apple tried to kill PWAs this spring, and now they're pushing to make web apps and better iOS browsers a reality so that Patreon and whoever is in line after them can flourish w/o 30% taxes.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, it's Texas that sucks.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/13/its-just-texas-they-wont-mind/
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Mastodon Feed"Stratasys looks like your nice neighbor you want to grill with, while BBL and others are silently setting up patent portfolios so broad, we, the 3dp community, will be lucky if we can fart, silently, in a few years."
-- Josef Prusa
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I didn't watch last night's clusterfuck, sorry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/13/i-did-not-watch-the-musk-trump-interview-did-you/
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:
Thank goodness it's inkfluenza, not tonervirus.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: There's some really telling anecdotes regarding the relationships between management and the laborers who do the work and keep customers happy.
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csepp@merveilles.town ("Csepp 🌢") wrote:
"The point of telling the customer what has happened is to establish that the problem was addressed in a professional manner, and this requires being able to tell what the machine is doing and being able to say what was done to fix it."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 2: Object Lesson
What hath we wrought? A case study of US public services and the JavaScript that broke them.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 2: Object Lesson
What hath we wrought? A case study of US public services and the JavaScript that broke them.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Kubo and the Two Strings is a fantastic movie! Watch it if you haven't.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This whole Apple/Patreon debacle reaffirms my belief that PWAs are actually the future.
With how much Apple skims (and Google), companies could boost profits by *over 42%* by just saying no to app stores.
It might sound wildly unrealistic right now, but the cracks are already showing.
No wonder Safari bends over backwards to undermine PWAs. It won't work forever though. It's too big a number for companies to ignore. Through migration or through mitigation (or both), the bubble will burst.
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Jo@social.sublingual.xyz ("Sublingual Multimedia") wrote:
"Cya later loser, I'm off to cruise ..... Utopia 🖕"
Jude Law as Johnny Utopia in "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity: The Movie"
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mattwilcox@mstdn.social ("Matt Wilcox") wrote:
Do Americans realise how absolutely insane the very concept of “purging a voter registration list” is? You have to *register to vote*? What are you even talking about?
Are you a citizen? Then you should automatically get a vote. There isn’t anything to administer. You live there. The government serves you; not you it. Voting isn’t supposed to be a privilege, or reward.
The obvious abuse vector that any system other than “all citizens vote” becomes is astounding.
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genehack@dementedandsadbut.social wrote:
Anybody aware of a federated Meetup alternative? #lazyWeb
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm listening to Blondie's "Picture This" and I hear Harry mention pocket computer, and I'm like, "A pocket computer? In 1978? What is she talking about? A calculator? Some sort of non-electronic computing device like a slide rule or wheel?" :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
That's what's on my mind as I listen to the album. 😆
Also, I didn't know there was some creepy background vocals on "One Way or Another".
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Debbie Harry's little growl in some of the songs off "Parallel Lines".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For the past few weeks I've been working on a post (now a series) that investigates what JavaScript-based frontend development has done to these, the least of our brothers.
Today, Part 1: The Landscape
https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape/
Subscribe to the RSS feed for the rest of the series as it comes out.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
A #blahaj cocktail for the boy.
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kwf@social.afront.org ("Kenneth Finnegan") wrote:
Fucking FINALLY. Admin local DNS namespace! https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
One thought I have is a memorial day where engineering failures are recounted along with the lessons that were extracted that prevents or mitigates future failures. Something to keep us humble, remind us of the seriousness of the work, and reinforce the hard lessons of the past.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Learning about the 1937 school explosion in New London has me thinking about ways people involved in engineering (using a *very* inclusive definition of that term) could build and maintain a culture of care and safety outside of laws, regulations, and professional societies as one bulwark against regulatory capture and capitalist greed.
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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:
"New preliminary data from major U.S. cities shows a sharp drop in violent crime in the first half of the year — more than 25% in some communities — as the COVID-era crime wave recedes."
@AxiosNews reports: "The drop in violent crime puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020."
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UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:
The 90th Anniversary of the 1934 Truckers’ Strike Honors Minneapolis’ Militant Labor History
Union members, labor leaders, and descendants of the 1934 Truckers’ Strike honor the 90th anniversary of the historic strike in south Minneapolis.
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theintercept@journa.host ("The Intercept") wrote:
The U.S. just resumed sales of bombs and missiles to the Gulf state, which still owes $15 million for jet fuel from its war on Yemen. https://theintercept.com/2024/08/12/saudi-arms-sales-yemen/
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
My #Flickr personal feed have broken today in a funny way: it's empty save for a single photo from one of about 50 people I follow, posted 7 years ago. The photo is a nude portrait of the account's author :-)
Thanks Flickr, I guess? :-)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The End. No more summer.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/12/doom-doom-dooooom/
