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david@theblower.au ("David de Groot") wrote:
A sleeping Boyd's Forest Dragon, as found in the Daintree rainforest, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.
These iconic lizards sleep hugging a tree and are quire difficult to spot as their skin tone blends quite well with the bark.
#WorldLizardDay #lizards #reptiles #AustralianWildLife #WildOZ #BoydsForestDragon
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s0@cathode.church ("s0: Soldering Saboteuse") wrote:
I’ve been thinking about the “three Es” (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) of corporations to open standards & technologies, and how it’s somewhat similar to the way users are pulled in, squeezed and dropped in a cycle.
I hereby humbly propose a new “four Es” for the user-facing side:
“Entice, Entrench, Enclose, Expire.”
Step one, Entice, is grabbing users. Look how great and fun it is here on Flibber, the new social media! everything is free, your data is secure, there aren’t any ads, we’re adding features! Hype hype hype!
Step two, Entrench — make it the “place to be”. Get chummy with governments, press, influencers. Acquire competitors. Users are on Flibber without even noticing now. Heavily push Flibber integrations into all sorts of areas of people’s lives.
But you need to make money, too. Start selling user data. Introduce ads slowly like a frog in a pot. Start pushing exclusivity to your business partners so they push all their customers to you. You’ve stopped doing any R&D for users’ actual experience, now it’s about how to sell them on. And when you’re big enough, your competitors will starve.Step three, Enclose. “Snap” go the APIs. Sorry that’s deprecated. No longer available. Sorry that requires exorbitant access fees. Open this link in our app to view that page.
Users aren’t profitable anymore — selling them is. Lie harder to everyone, and charge more for the privilege. You’re judge, jury and accountant now. Jack up the integration and business license costs. What are they going to do, not use Flibber? That’s where their customers and constituents expect to get news now. Discontinue features that are expensive. Hell, strongarm your own infrastructure suppliers into exploitative contracts too — you’re too big to turn down.And the final stage: Expire. Eventually, the calculus doesn’t work anymore. Your investors want more money, but there’s nothing left to squeeze.
Dump Flibber on a private equity firm to rip out the guts, and let it crumble, scapegoating a new CEO.
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wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore :ferris:") wrote:
Some lizards from my photo library for #WorldLizardDay
I think these are:
1. Australian water dragon
2. Robust velvet gecko
3. Eastern water skink
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Disney has Satan for a lawyer.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/now-ill-never-sign-up-for-disney/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What should I bring to the first committee meeting of the semester?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/it-begins-again-2/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
vitaut ("vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
There is a bit from Emma Goldman's autobiography "Living My Life" (1931) which is frequently paraphrased as "if I can't dance I don't want your revolution," but I think Goldman's actual words are better.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life
Mastodon FeedAnd for those interested in figuring out the 2x vs 4x scaling mystery of the #RadianceCascades algorithm, https://kornel.ski/radiance
Mastodon FeedI've updated my #RadianceCascades implementation (2D GI shader). It's still a bit of a mess.
https://github.com/kornelski/bevy_flatland_radiance_cascades
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
I've wanted to cover this topic on Oxide and Friends for a looooong time. Pretty early on we knew we wanted a robust structure for roughly transactional, multi-service operations.
@dap took the lead in building Steno -- and he talked us through its evolution.
@bcantrill and I were also joined by our colleagues @mycoliza, Andrew Stone, Greg Colombo, and James MacMahon as they've encountered tricky problems, built out complex sagas, and extended the core concept.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This (by @louie, via @film_girl) is all correct, but it's also capitalism. The disciplining mechanism under capitalism is competition.
Disruption must come from within. Apple's preventing that by keeping competing browsers out of iOS while simultaneously f'ing over important features that would let PWAs compete.
So you can call them "evil" for screwing over users and developers, but under capitalism, the *effective* thing to do is to support @owa
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Every time I hear the “novelty and creativity is rare” line I get so angry I have to stand up and pace to calm down
Language, art, and media are massively combinatorial. We’ve barely been able to scratch the surface of what’s possible because we’re locked in economic systems built on uniformity and in industries that always choose the broken and bland to boost short term profits
The absence of novelty is down to economics and your mindsets. The media themselves are as unexplored as the galaxy
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:
More than 3500 year old Minoan Road, the oldest road in Europe.
This incredibly ancient road stretches for 50km from Knossos in Crete; Greece, through the mountains to Gortyn and Lebena.
The road had side drains, a 200mm thick pavement of sandstone blocks bound with clay-gypsum mortar, covered by a layer of basaltic flagstones and had separate shoulders.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jencmars@mastodon.art ("Jen C Mars") wrote:
City wildlife.
Raised from our garden (they like the golden Alexander), we still have a few more and loads of monarch caterpillars.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:
It's INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY and that's our olympics!
Give your cat an extra cuddle today and if you don't have one – have a heart – and go pet that shaggy stray alley cat! Lord Nibbles will be proud of you and might spare you from eternal damnation.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
A comparison to help understand the difference of scale:
A *million* seconds ago was early August.
A *billion* seconds ago was the early 1990s.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Take it from me, someone who spent a decade of his life in TC39 trying to make JavaScript better for people that want to write JavaScript (not some other language): your website doesn't need as much JavaScript as people want to sell you in 2024.
Not by a long shot.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
patrickworld@mastodon.online ("Patrick 🌎") wrote:
Sorry I'm late, there was a huge DDoS attack on my alarm clock
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
Minimal interactive before vs. after image comparison slider on @codepen
https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/MWMvxxX✨ a single element, no ::before or ::after
✨ under 20 CSS declarations
✨ JS only needed to update 1 CSS variable on dragCan you guess how I did it before checking the demo?
#css #frontend #imageEffect #code #coding #web #webDev #dev #js #javascript #webDevelopment
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Kamala Harris edges past Donald Trump in economic trust: Poll
“While Harris’s lead over Trump remains within the margin of error, her jump in the polls over President Biden’s July performance is statistically significant.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4823799-voters-trust-harris-economy/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“Companies fire workers who try to join unions, and hide behind toothless laws that are meant to protect working people but are manipulated to benefit corporations,” O’Brien said at the RNC in Milwaukee.
“This is economic terrorism at its best,” said O’Brien.’
and Trump applauds…
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
idiots, complaining about Harris giving a stump speech on the campaign trail.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: https://marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊
(If you read it, please leave a review on https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63291820-rust-atomics-and-locks)
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funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:
► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
#baby #girl #eyebrows #makeup #cute #funny #goofy #photos #meme #memes
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funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:
► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
#comic #cartoon #games #ouch #cringe #meme #memes
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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
If you were six years old when the original Rock Lobster came out, you’d B-52 now…
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:
On @embedded, we had a wonderful conversation with Professor Colleen Lewis about teaching computer science and researching the best way to teach CS. It included discussions of using stuffed animals to explain pointers (as well as polymorphism).
We also talked about self-motivation through stickers and treats.
We did not talk about the evolutionary biology of foxes.
Here is the transcript of the conversation:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange ("Guillaume Rossolini") wrote:
@slightlyoff I’ve wanted to get back to you for a while because you were a big reason for our e-commerce website being the way it was, technically speaking.
We took your earlier publications to heart, and we applied every kind of optimization we could think of, just to try and stay a little bit ahead of the competition. I think we did all right in that respect.
When the company was shut down at the end of 2018, I finally put together a document outlining our techniques. It’s not a tutorial and lots of things aren’t perfect, but I think a lot of this can still be used.
I was weirdly proud of the server-side cached pre-renders for several cohorts (at FRONTEND > web server > httpd in the link below), which we were continuously building for the 5 most viewed pages. These on disk static pages didn’t have a long TTL but this allowed us to reevaluate the need for a pricy CDN.
These Apache2 rules allow for high throughput of the pages that are cached in this way. Because of this, we have been able to withstand traffic generated through TV mentions and other publicity without the help of a CDN or any autoscaling.
Of course we eventually placed nginx in front of httpd and these rules became somewhat redundant, but not if you include brotli and other CPU-heavy compression.
Anyway I’m geeking out on a dead website. Here’s the doc:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:
@slightlyoff Having been on the inside I understand how this happens. Angular or React get mandated up front in contract requirements to make sure industry standards are followed. Then a team is assigned who is inexperienced with those frameworks, struggle to ship the actual featureset, and by the time they get around to fixing performance the budget is gone, or the customer is unwilling to go through UAT again. “Wrong tool or wrong team?” is then in the eye of the beholder.
