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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Getting set up on Mastodon is kinda hard, and there's a lot you have to understand about instances and stuff like that.

But once you get past that initial hurdle, THEN you get to move on to the part where it's just constant, nonstop reminders of everything that's wrong with the world 24/7.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Anybody else playing Arco on Switch?

Is the performance terrible for everyone else, too? It's not just lag and framerate issues; seems like it's so bad even the music gets distorted and can't keep up. :(

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

carefully invigilating each bite taken of that cheese sandwich ;^}

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• 743e5bc930f79924.jpeg (remote)

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

These kaiju are really kind of stupid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/16/you-need-some-more-weird-tales-from-ruben-bolling/

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• Comic in which giant Trump/Vance attack, and are repelled by a woman saying "they're weird." (remote)

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

It would be a good time for us all to mask up again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/16/bring-back-the-mask/

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• child with a mask (remote)

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

Don't let robots explain science to you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/16/soyou-wanna-be-a-science-communicator/

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• Ugly graphic saying "How artificial intelligence enhances personalized communication." (remote)

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

'Apple doesn't oppose regulation; Apple loves regulation, so long as they're the ones doing the regulating. They want to be able to shape and define the digital market, backed by the power of the state, but without any input from the state. In modern corporate orthodoxy, the state is an enforcer for corporate will." https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig

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

zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

I made a quick little tool for figuring out how the heck flex layouts work.

https://tools.yip.pe/flex-experimenter.html

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

wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Hi everyone, I am organising LOCO 2024, 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing

It's hybrid and will be held 3 Dec 2024, in Glasgow (Scotland) and on line.

You can propose a regular talk (20 minutes) or a lightning talk (5 minutes)

Please consider submitting, whether you're academic or not, and please spread the word.

https://locos.codeberg.page/loco2024/

#FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

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

the bees seem happy with the catnip flowers this morning

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

This morning I've been enjoying this new track from Andrew Huang, Tom McGovern and Gabi Rose: "Julian".

https://andrewhuang.bandcamp.com/track/julian

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

thanks, ChatGPT

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• Assistant: Certainly! Here’s a smoother transition to tie your points together: [TODO: smooth transition] (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Tomorrow's post is in the tube, ready to launch. Some folks find this series hard to engage with. If you don't want to wade through all of it, know that one, single, solitary thing that matters in software: giving a toss about users. Particularly folks at the margins.

Care about users, make their lives better, and the rest will explain itself.

Care about yourself and comforting abstractions ("DX", "frameworks", "SPAs"), and you'll only orbit minor asteroids.

https://infrequently.org/series/reckoning/

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/nationalpublicdata-com-hack-exposes-a-nations-data/

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• A screenshot of the imdb.com profile for National Public Data owner Salvatore Verini Jr. says: Salvator Verini started his acting career in the 6th grade with the stage play "Annie." While continuing doing theater projects, Salvatore landed his first national television role on Burt Reynold's Night Train in 1989." The profile features photos of roles Verini has played, including several of him holding a semi-automatic weapon. (remote)
• The homepage of NationalPublicData.com says: XML-API Data Service Criminal Records, Background Checks and more. Our services are currently used by investigators, background check websites, data resellers, mobile apps, applications and more. Join now and enjoy quality data with low fees and no monthly minimums. (remote)

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stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:

Apple and Google are two sides of the same abusive relationship; where do you even go if you want to participate in the modern world without their influence? What if you want a great smartphone with a high-end camera? Tablet computing? What ecosystems are left?

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

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• A still of then-61 year-old Linda Hamilton holding a rocket launcher playing the part of Sarah Connor, in 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text

#pollution

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kalleboo@bitbang.social ("Karl Baron") wrote:

I recalled a few more fantastically handy Japanese power strips

#Japan #ElectricalSafety

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• A power strip with all the US-style pins but they are all the same spacing from each other so you don't know if you're connecting to live or neutral (remote)
• A power strip with just two long slots (remote)

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gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

This is so goooooood

https://youtu.be/P9Qp72ThQrM?si=zWXqLHst_X07C4N4

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser

It controls and looks great, though the game was outshined by its sequels.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08/behold-diablo-is-fully-playable-in-your-browser/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Dear young (<40) people, who exercise a habit of starting sentences with lower-case letters. I don't know what kind of social position you're trying to convey, but the only net result is it's *really* hard to read what you write. Accessibility matters.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If the framework partisans found parts 1-3 rough going, they're gonna *hate* part 4 (out tomorrow).

A small spoiler: one outrageously effective technique is to stop hiring for framework expertise.

https://infrequently.org/series/reckoning/

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sayrer wrote:

@sangster @slightlyoff as it happens, someone just wrote this, which probably sounds familiar: https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy/112966152364902922

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Jamessw@mastodon.cloud wrote:

After seeing how @zachleat and @mia have used Web Components, I'm super excited to chat with them about it on Winging It Live.

Tuesday, Aug 27 at 1pm ET

Select "Notify Me" on YT or subscribe to get an alert for the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9l-01cySkQ

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Yeah...IDK...maybe don't *"experience seamless integration, optimized performance, and reduced bundle sizes"* from folks that can't even get their own marketing site out of "needs improvement" purgatory?

https://treo.sh/sitespeed/vercel.com?formFactor=phone

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• Vercel.com's CWV scores, according to treo.sh/sitespeed. It's a sea of "needs-improvement" and _barely_ passing metrics (aside from CLS, which isn't about performance as much as page structure). These are not people that know what they're talking about. (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Did you know you can just drag an SVG file into the HTML field of a CodePen?

Feels magical every time.

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Medicare is negotiating Rx prices for the first time thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Biden-Harris admin announced today that prices for 10 of the most used drugs will be cut by as much as 80%, saving seniors and taxpayers billions.

Project 2025 would eliminate this.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you liked @scottjehl's incredible free course on Web Performance with WPT[1] -- and who doesn't? -- it's great news that his new paid course on Web Components is up:

https://scottjehl.com//learn/webcomponentsdemystified/

This is the tech we need right now, particularly as we abandon the JavaScript-industrial-complex's addiction to language forks, compilers, bundlers, and user-land complexity. Moving back to the platform could not be more timely.

[1]: https://www.webpagetest.org/learn/lightning-fast-web-performance/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

There are basically only two kinds of keycaps:

- Normal, boring key, but in a slightly different color than usual
- BRO THESE KEYCAPS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE FROM THE COCKPIT OF A MECH IN A SCI-FI ANIME DUDE LOOK AT THESE SICK JAPANESE LETTERS FUCKIN LEDS BRO

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argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:

learn how the author (Heikki Lotvonen) accomplished this in this blog post

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/