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hausfath@fediscience.org ("Zeke Hausfather") wrote:

The carbon cycle has been close to equilibrium through the Holocene; we know this because we measure atmospheric CO2 concentrations in ice cores. But in the past few centuries CO2 has increased by 50%, and is now at the highest level in millions of years due to human emissions.

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

tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:

So is @slightlyoff writing satire now? https://theonion.com/nation-wary-of-suddenly-usable-website/

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

dracos ("Matthew") wrote:

@slightlyoff Obviously I like this :-) Interestingly, our services have recently been compared favourably performance wise to their previous solution – the slow third party backend is the same, we just have a much more "boring" frontend ;)

I am obligated to say, as always, as you mention “GIS systems”, that https://www.fixmystreet.com is a progressively-enhanced pan/zoom/click-able map on top of s :) Not perfect by any means, but still proud of it.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, Cockroach Labs has announced a transition to becoming an entirely proprietary software company. But where does that leave Oxide, which has used CockroachDB as the data repository for our control plane?

Surprising absolutely no one, @ahl and I are going to pick this up on the next Oxide and Friends, where we'll be joined by @dap to discuss our history and disposition with respect to CockroachDB. Join us: Monday, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1274122729993277470

Background:

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508

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

andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan :prami:") wrote:

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#free #badges #AI #humanmade #smallweb

https://ko-fi.com/s/4662b19f61

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

dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/donald-trump-insults-veterans-yet-again-217302085945

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

Independent@press.coop ("The Independent :press:") wrote:

Trump campaign adds once-fired Corey Lewandowski in effort to save struggling campaign

Lewandowski managed 2016 Trump campaign and was disavowed in wake of 2021 sexual harassment allegations #press

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-corey-lewandowski-campaign-harris-b2597099.html?utm_source=press.coop

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

that clown, again? hysterical, I yam…
🤡

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-corey-lewandowski-campaign-harris-b2597099.html

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

“become less likely to reproduce and more inclined to acquire a cat.”

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/study-people-exposed-to-jd-vance

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

There are circumstances in which book burning is perfectly fine.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/16/i-guess-im-a-bookburner-now/

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• imajazzbaby: I am in a quandary. I am currently cheating clearing out my late father’s house. His red neck MAGA house. It’s actually not too bad, flags, war eagles, “United We Stand” stickers on the windows. But there’s a huge stack of Dennis Prager books. Plus the complete works of Ayn Rand 🤮 I don’t believe in burning books. But I don’t want to donate that crap and send it out into the world either. Any ideas on what to do with them? pzmyers: Nothing is sacred. Burn the trash. You are not saying others can’t read them (although they shouldn’t) but that you are decluttering your personal property. I am sorry that your father had such poor taste in books. That does not mean you are obligated to propagate it. (remote)

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

I can't explain this but NASA is 1980s Transformers and SpaceX is Michael Bay's Transformers.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

For me, the important part is *not* using a Chromium based browser. I'm basically a "single issue browser user" in this regard.

Firefox still feels like the simplest way to do that. So that's what I'll keep using.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

I still use Firefox. It's still fine, uBlock still works on it.

I know Mozilla isn't perfect, but I still feel they're better than the alternatives on the whole.

I've also been playing with LibreWolf (a fork of Firefox) and it's got some strong defaults, but it's not packaged for all distros yet so it's hard to recommend it.

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

GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange ("Guillaume Rossolini") wrote:

@slightlyoff

Everyone in a site's production chain has agency to prevent disaster

The number of times I tried advocating for this at my previous job 🤷‍♀️ I didn’t always succeed but talking about it, repeatedly, is useful. “Isn’t that your job?” was always on the tip of their tongue, understandibly (to a degree).

The best argument I found was in the studies that show x% longer page load leads to y% loss of conversion (ie. direct correlation to campaign success, hence revenue).

And the best example for that was the home page, specifically the hero images in a carousel that was under the responsibility of the marketing team. They had tools to upload the images, set the links and alt text in the various languages the site was available in, set a schedule etc so there was no technical involvement at all. Sometimes there would be 6 or 7 images in that carousel, noticeably slowing down page loads on that most important page.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

sorin@toot.cafe ("Sorin Davidoi") wrote:

When you try out a new photo gallery application and it's maxing out all the cores for hours to generate the thumbnails, at least you can put the generated heat to good use by using it to grow a #focaccia.

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• Laptop resting on the monitor on a table, the fan pointing towards a bowl covered with plastic foil that contains a focaccia dough. (remote)

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

Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

People always tell me I look like Velma from Scooby Doo so I entered a lookalike contest and I would have won if it weren't for those medaling kids.

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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

not saying I'm a prophet or anything but stuff like this happens to me all the time

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• A store with shelves labeled "water" but actually full of bottles of wine (remote)

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

carpingdiem@med-mastodon.com ("Carpingdiem") wrote:

I love this time of year--the hummingbird babies have fledged and are constantly at the feeder, drinking and fighting. #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #hummingbirds #nature #HoosierMast

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• A female or juvenile ruby throated hummingbird hovering. It has a green iridescent back, dark wings and a white throat and belly. (remote)
• A female or juvenile ruby throated hummingbird stretches out its stumpy legs in preparation for landing on a shepherd's hook. It has tiny feet. (remote)
• A female or juvenile ruby throated hummingbird hovering next to the nectar feeder. It has a green iridescent back, dark wings and a white throat and belly. (remote)
• A neon yellow and black male American goldfinch and a brown and white female or juvenile house finch have landed on opposite sides of the ant moat on top of the hummingbird feeder. I keep the ant moat filled with fresh water and many birds prefer to get their water this way. Usually 2 birds of different species do not share the ant moat, and this detente only lasted a few seconds. (remote)

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

In this sense, progressive enhancement can be understood as *"let browsers help as much as they can, and only add what they fail to provide"*

This leads to simpler, cheaper solutions to common problems. First, because many of the problems you'll end up with are about letting the browser help *more*, and if you haven't YOLO'd your site off a bridge, that's easier to do.

Second, because you've minimized the amount of JS that might be defeating browser attempts to help in the first place.

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

This post includes recommendations for teams that are procuring websites, and I think they can be summed up as: *buy simpler problems*.

Every feature that gets added via JavaScript is more complex, more expensive, and harder to improve. That means that when things go wrong, they're treble costly to fix because JS is _"f-it! we'll do it live!"_ for web development. JS disables or routes around all the ways the browsers try to help.

Let browsers help!

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-way-out/

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

Little known fact is that song managed to tank consumer demand for blank floppy disks.

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

I'm so glad we've developed ubiquitous internet service and readily accessible video storage and streaming so that I can enjoy gems like this that I missed the first time around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy7ZBX9BTUA

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

RFD 508: Whither CockroachDB?
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508

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

The CW is true.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

kevinrns@mstdn.social ("Kevin Russell") wrote:

I love it so much!

Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.

Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)

You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)

Fancy that.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

#chrome #ublock #adblockers

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:

Got to bookmark this page and look at it every time I consider getting the 2019 Pro. Will just wait for the M4 Mini (assuming they don't hobble it) and M4 Studio Ultra.

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

It is *eternally* f'd up that the "DX" bait-and-switch requires both an acceptance of a heroic developer narrative as well as belief that developers are helpless to make things right when they (reliably) go sideways.

WHICH IS IT!?!

This nonsense is marketing. It's bullshit. And the opposite of bullshit is engineering.

Do engineering, or at least get caught trying.

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

Reckoning, Part 4: The Way Out

This series was a risk. I don't generally like to post traces without the permission of teams, but the situation has been *so* bad for *so* long, and the marketing nonsense from the JavaScript-industrial-complex is so pervasive, that more is needed.

That starts with acknowledging that everyone making sites is an active participant with agency. We all have parts to play in making them better or worse for folks at the margin.

Choose wisely

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-way-out/

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

Part 4: The Way Out

Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-way-out/

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

[This is not an invitation to tell me it's my fault, that I just need to curate my feed, etc.]