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

(I blame myself really. I just need to sit down and grok the various layout models CSS support now while I hopefully avoid the compulsion to delve into the history of why everything is the way it is.)

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

Just kidding. It really means "fuck around and find out" to me.

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

For me CSS stands for: Can't underStand behaviorS.

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edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

#PSA from a juice bar in Waterbury, Connecticut:

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• A small, multicolored poster above a spackled black and white formica counterfop that reads "Be kind to one another". (remote)

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

I need this machine really badly.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/aug/17/tom-gauld-on-how-to-manage-your-unread-books-pile-cartoon

#books #reading #comics #humour

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• A cartoon with woman holding a book next to a Rube Goldberg contraption. If she puts that book on a shelf that is already full of unread books, the shelf will slide down, activating a set of gears, rods and pulleys that will switch off an internet router and hide a credit card, library card and bookshop loyalty card. Below the cartoon a text reads: "When the quantity of unread books reaches a specific weight, the mechanism restricts the reader's ability to add to their stockpile until the backlog has been reduced." (remote)

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

I woke up with this song stuck in my head for some reason. I guess my brain was rummaging around in the attic or something. It's much meaner than I remembered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6h3whLUiI

(I remember the Mad magazine spoof of Grease better than I do the actual movie. I'm sure both are problematic in ways I forgot and will be happy to continue to be ignorant about.)

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

Why are these aliens so slow and stupid?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/17/did-they-really-need-to-remake-alien/

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• Alien xenomorph taking its time (remote)

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

interesting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/fbi-raid-dmitri-simes-trump

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

no! really? they wouldn’t do that, would they?

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• bda257ab1700c46f.gif (remote)

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

In case you're curious how you connect that to the wall...

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• A plug in a wall socket. The outlet has two US-style two-prong outlets, except under them there is a ground screwed with the aforementioned ground wire screwed in (remote)

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nealcurtis@mas.to ("Nihil Curits") wrote:

An excellent summary of contemporary anxiety from Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth.

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• Sarah Firth in her wonderful comic Eventually Everthing Connects has a chat with her partner about all the shit that's going on and her need to do something about it. He says: 'If your sphere of concern is much bigger than your sphere of influence, you're gonna feel totally overwhelmed'. (remote)

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t_l_wood ("Tee Wood") wrote:

Well, shit 😂

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• An illustrated scene featuring a bird resembling a magpie stirring a pot over a fire in a cozy kitchen. The caption states, "I don’t need a recipe for disaster. I usually just eyeball it."

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cosmicray ("Raymond Francis") wrote:

MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. They’re saving $2 million/year:

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/

#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing

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joshmillard ("Josh "cortex" Millard") wrote:

first three Kool-Aid commercials I ever saw all seemed pretty narratively conventional, but then the Kool-Aid Man broke the fourth wall

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

I don't really know what Apple's own device simulator is good for when it doesn't even behave the same as an actual iOS device half the time.

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

I've got 99 problems, and Safari is approximately 83 of them. #webdev

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

missed it again!
https://shakedown.social/@helpingfriendlybot/112974256277635691

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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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tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:

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

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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

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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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• Preview of 8 colorful site badges on a blue background. (remote)

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dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

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

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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.

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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.

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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.