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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

As immigration angers a Alabama town, residents seek solutions ‘without all the racial slurs’ - https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/as-immigration-angers-a-north-alabama-town-residents-seek-solutions-without-all-the-racial-slurs.html

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Giuseppe Stromboli Tarr") wrote:

I'm going to be honest, they had me in the first half.

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• It looks like the dark shadow of some kind of demon cat but as it walks closer you realize it's a black dog with googly eyes on it (remote)

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

undead@hackers.town wrote:

A person, K, who supported our Ops team in Purchasing confided in one of us that K was undergoing chemo and was at a point where K needed to shave their head. K didn't know what to do about this because we were all onsite workers, and K didn't need the whole building to know that K was going through chemo. And the usual worries that even though Management knew about K's problem, what may happen if that became office gossip.

Ops member said, "Don't worry, just be yourself tomorrow, and if anyone asks, just say 'talk to Ops'."

Our Ops team decided to collectively shave their heads. Ops then came up with a story about Ops & K going out bowling, getting really drunk, and losing a collective bet where we had to shave our heads.

K didn't know this. People kept going into K's office asking what happened, and K just looked mildly embarrassed and said, "Talk to Ops."

Everyone in Ops made up a wilder story than the last. It became a competition. Every anecdote had some kind of praise or regard for K. K eventually walked over to Ops, and found out what we did.

By the end of the day, the following was accomplished:

• K didn't have to tell anyone anything.* Ops developed a reputation for mild insanity and a lack of regard for social consequences.* Nobody was going to cross Ops to gossip about K.* Management had a private aside with an Ops member, who made it really clear where the entire Ops team stood.* K had no issues with any private requests to management, aside from the occasional question about how Ops was doing.

K is doing just fine.

#HowTo #Ops #FuckCancer

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

Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:

Mitch McConnell issued this "dire warning" to republican state legislators...

"Let's assume our worst nightmare: The Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they'll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster."

Weird how he didn't have any problem eliminating the filibuster on SC nominations in 2017.

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

oh, that’s why he retired from the Guard to run for Congress. good.

‘… in 2006, Mr. Walz ran for Congress.

By now the parents of 3-year-old Hope … both Walzes were upset with the course of the war in Iraq.
“We just asked ourselves, like, What can we do?” Ms. Walz said on the podcast. The rational thing, she said, was for her husband to run for Congress. “We felt the way you stop the war is stop the money, and the way you stop the money is the United States Congress.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/style/gwen-walz-tim-walz-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C04.QJTJ.-DeJhayiUec4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

this is good to see

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nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Exciting news for all cryptography enthusiasts and engineers! The new Hax Playground by @cryspen is a game-changer, making formal methods in cryptography more accessible than ever.

With Hax, you can write in a subset of Rust and seamlessly compile it to F*, ProVerif, and other powerful tools. This isn’t just another IDE; it’s a browser-based platform for experimenting with formally verified cryptography.

Whether you're diving into complex protocols or just starting out, Hax Playground makes high-assurance cryptography tangible and practical.

Check it out here: https://hax-playground.cryspen.com

#Cryptography #FormalMethods #Cybersecurity #Engineering

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

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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• A grey, green and yellow lizard, approx 50cm long, with dragon like spines down its back, clinging to the side of a tree and clearly asleep (closed eyelid). (remote)

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

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

#AustralianWildLife #WildOz #lizards

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

Disney has Satan for a lawyer.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/now-ill-never-sign-up-for-disney/

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pzmyers@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/

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• "Oh, the box of dead flies? Ramone gave them to me Saturday night during his courtship display. ... Of course, they were already sucked dry.” (remote)

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vitaut ("vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦") wrote:

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Reblogged 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

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• I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to became a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal. (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

And for those interested in figuring out the 2x vs 4x scaling mystery of the #RadianceCascades algorithm, https://kornel.ski/radiance

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've updated my #RadianceCascades implementation (2D GI shader). It's still a bit of a mess.

https://github.com/kornelski/bevy_flatland_radiance_cascades

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYSlOhpSRNQ

slightlyoff@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

https://pdx.social/@louie/112957260416880610

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eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xzN8Nt0Pok

#TuesdayMotivation #music

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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

Reblogged 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.

#archaeohistories #road #history #Minoan

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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.

#insects #butterfly #CityLife

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• Photo of a black swallowtail butterfly perched on my hand before it flew away to glorious freedom. (remote)

Reblogged 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.

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collinsworth@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.

slightlyoff@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.

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patrickworld@mastodon.online ("Patrick 🌎") wrote:

Sorry I'm late, there was a huge DDoS attack on my alarm clock

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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 drag

Can you guess how I did it before checking the demo?

#css #frontend #imageEffect #code #coding #web #webDev #dev #js #javascript #webDevelopment

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• Comparison slider. Shows an image that is made black and white after (on the right of) the slider thumb vs. its original version before (on the left of) the slider thumb.

jsonstein@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/

jsonstein@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…

https://flip.it/h-gwIW

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

idiots, complaining about Harris giving a stump speech on the campaign trail.

https://flip.it/4DL82s