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

this is a good story, a humanizing piece

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2024/08/19/podcasts/the-daily/kamala-harris-dnc.html?referringSource=sharing

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Need to remember to forget you.

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

(void *)0

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• You wouldn't dereference a null pointer (remote)

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brianstorms ("Brian Dear") wrote:

Wow, that didn’t take long.

#Starbucks hires former CEO of Chipotle, home of the We Make Money The Old-Fashioned Way: We Keep Raising Prices While Streadily Shrinking Portion Sizes policy, and voila… a Venti at Starbucks is still a Venti cup, but with the smaller Grande serving secretly inside. 🤷‍♂️

Hmm. You’re going to piss off a lot of customers, Starbucks, if this is now a thing.

(photo taken before consuming even first sip of beverage)

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

hah!
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/harris-offers-10000-tax-credit-for

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

I think every small town has a religious crank who spams the local newspaper with pious bullshit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/bad-grandpa/

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• Lee Walter posing with a dinosaur display he resents (remote)

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

If there are evolutionists, why are there still creationists?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/where-have-all-the-creationists-gone/

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• What if the creationists are just scientists trolling us into learning? (remote)

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

Somebody please ask Trump what JD stands for though, because there's a very strong chance he doesn't know either and it would be hilarious.

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

It occurred to me that I have absolutely no idea what JD stands for, and at this point, I think it's kinda funny and I'd actually like to see how long I can keep that going.

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

eevee@queer.party ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

i have updated the doom text generator. pray i do not update it further. wait, no, don't

https://c.eev.ee/doom-text-generator/

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• Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz. (but in a cool bitmap font) (remote)

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njoseph@social.masto.host ("Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:") wrote:

I maintain an Android app that doesn't get any new features. I still have to keep upgrading it once in a while. The amount of deprecations I have to deal with is crazy. It takes a day each time I touch the app to just get it working with the latest Android Studio. I am not even fixing any bugs or adding features. All this running just to stay in the same place.

Now ask me if I will consider using cloud platform services from the same company that's responsible for Android.

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cryspen@ioc.exchange ("Cryspen") wrote:

We are thrilled to share that we've teamed up with Google to create formally verified implementations of NIST's post-quantum algorithms. These open-source solutions will offer robust security guarantees, high performance, and are designed for widespread adoption.

Read the full blog post here: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6038863069184000/formally-verified-post-quantum-algorithms

#cryptography #postquantumcryptography #opensource #cybersecurity

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fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

Google adopts @cryspen's formally verified libcrux Rust implementations for ML-KEM and post-quantum algorithms.

“These implementations will be AVX2-optimized, verified in F* and translated into C." for use by Google, and beyond.

Congrats @franziskus & team!

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6038863069184000/formally-verified-post-quantum-algorithms

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

Backend dev doing layout go

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CyberpunkLibrarian@hackers.town ("Cyberpunk Librarian") wrote:

I firmly believe that handling your own data, running your own services, and housing it all on your own hardware is a radical act of anti-capitalism and personal expression.

I’m back with a brand new episode of Cyberpunk Librarian! You can have it your way, on your hardware, with the software you prefer. Let’s get into the philosophies and basics of self-hosting!

https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/podcast/cyberpunk-librarian-episode-66-the-radical-act-of-self-hosting/

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

I notice I've been hearing a lot of stories that begin with "I started out hosting my app on Vercel, and then it grew...," and none of them end with that person happy with Vercel.

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

There was an oversight the previous iteration of the guide.[1]

We regret the error.

[1] https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112985059632403588

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• "Should you use a frontend framework?" "No" or "Maybe, but not React or Angular" (remote)

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

Does your team need to adopt complex, expensive, and hard to operate JS frameworks for your frontend? A handy guide!

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• Should your team adopt React/Angular/etc.? Only if your site needs to be an SPA. (remote)
• Does your site need to be an SPA? Only if data gets updated many times in the same session (either by the user or the server) or in cases where access to underlying hardware is critical to the experience. (remote)
• One helpful way to think about these tradeoffs is through the lens of session depth and data model locality. It only makes sense to move your components to the client if you're also moving your data to the client. And *that* only makes sense if sessions are so long that you can amortize up-front costs based on subsequent use. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

A setting that allows me to choose which platforms open its app from the web

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

scroll snap + scroll driven animation carousel

💡 in the mobile size it looks a lot like the iOS app switcher eh?

try it!?

https://codepen.io/argyleink/pen/MWMQJQy

↪ https://nerdy.dev/container-query-carousel-with-scroll-driven-animation

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• bdf31d49ffd06e69.mp4 (remote)

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phonner@mathstodon.xyz ("Patrick Honner") wrote:

In 1903, mathematician Frank Norris Cole gave a silent, 1-hour "lecture" that culminated with him multiplying the following two numbers out by hand. His work earned a standing ovation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_Cole

#Math

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• A multiplication problem: 761838257287 times 193707721 (remote)

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

Thanks to the magic of WASM, I can now confront my graphviz inadequacies from the comfort of a browser tab.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Haven't published anything since April, but I'm writing almost everyday.

I think I may start publishing shorter "notes" to www.fromjason.xyz rather than wait until I have a full essay.*

*I've said this before

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Changed my pfp. Everything is okay. Everyone relax. It's fine.

Are you mad at me?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

You know how email is walled off to the control of like four mega corporations?

Well, we were thinking social media doesn't suck enough, so...

#threads #fediverse

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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:

this is an absolutely fantastic license and i will certainly use it for some of my software https://github.com/meithecatte/bashfuck/blob/master/LICENSE

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

You can tell that a lot of the frontend community misses Flash and Shockwave and Applets and Silverlight because they just can't help re-creating them in JS.

What else could possibly explain needing to load megabytes of code just to show a loading spinner, then a different loading spinner, then a third loading screen?

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/object-lesson/

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

I went to find a video that scrolled down my timeline yesterday, but could only find the source of the pressure washer techno:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/teTiW4zUktY

Then I realized Klangphonics were the same people that gave us German folk techno:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H8qrbwfhtn4

And this wonderful set from a forest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bixtQAq2LzE

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jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Zillions spent on generative AI development and not a single thing produced that's anywhere near as novel as this https://www.boze-style.com

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• 3 bald Japanese-looking guys and a couple of mannequin heads, all wearing sunglasses and some kind of buttons on their heads. The guys tap the buttons to play the song “Wind Scene” from “Chrono Trigger”. (remote)

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

jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/three-of-the-strangest-paradoxes-in-mathematics/