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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
janrosenow@mastodon.energy ("Jan Rosenow") wrote:
We continue to see misinformation about heat pumps being spread by parts of the media and on social media.
I debunked 18 common & largely misleading heat pump myths for Carbon Brief.
Don’t believe poorly informed commentators - listen to the evidence.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
Between this and the recent ransomware of a nonprofit organization tasked with removing children from abusive homes and supporting them, I'm getting the impression that maybe word has gone out that any and every US target is permissible and encouraged to increase the chaos and further precarize living in America.
https://therecord.media/columbus-ransomware-officials-warn-victims-after-data-leak
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The Royal Institution has posted Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures. I've been listening to them as I draw in the evening. So If you're into that kind of thing, here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZygWxt60aCWSgDcoazRdTY7
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andi@sciences.social ("Andi Fugard") wrote:
I have a conjecture about Mastodon users. Have you heard of xkcd? Boost for a large convenience sample.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
maphew@vmst.io ("matt wilkie") wrote:
Government, development, hiring, contracting, ownership
the truth bells
they ring in my head
me nodding and grinning, a madman.
The words below are not mine
/1
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Behold! The mexican restaurant theory of website performance:
MPAs/Progressive Enhancement: ordering guacamole & chips, and then a large-but-reasonable amount of each arrive in reasonable time.
SPAs/whatever-Next.js-is: ordering guacamole & chips, only to find out that it's "tableside service", which means they spend ages dragging a trolley full of uncut ingredients to your table, then waiter glares while you're expected to make the guac for your family.
In *theory* better. In practice? Hrm.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I had an AP Econ teacher named Mr. Bates (no, really) and he was *incredible*. One of the best lessons he taught was on monopoly pricing power and how it allowed segmentation. His lens? The "mexican restaurant theory of pricing", in which he pointed out to a bunch of bratty midwestern know-nothings how the description and presentation of the same ingredients created competitively unsupportable margins.
Tonight, I had a flash of re-application...(thread)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
You know how that one Jay-Z and Alicia Keys song sounds like she's saying "concrete jungle wet dream tomato"
Well, a couple years ago, when I was drunk laying in bed, I bought wetdreamtomato.com.
I don't know what to do with it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
digichelle@hachyderm.io ("Michelle Catherine Marcó") wrote:
This thread by @slightlyoff hits close to home. As someone who receives state benefits in California, I’m all too familiar with BenefitCal’s slowness and jankiness, because I have to deal with it on a regular basis.
Loading a website over broadband in 2024 should not feel like loading a website over a 9600 baud modem in 1995. We need to do better. We need to cut the bloat.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org ("technomancy (turbonerd aspect)") wrote:
so I knew google was fucking up ublock origin badly with the recent manifestv3 shitshow, but apparently that's not the only reason firefox is better at blocking: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Isaac Hayes estate sues Trump to stop using hit song 'Hold On, I'm Coming' at rallies
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hilarious: the FoxNews & MSNBC booths are next to each other at the Democratic National Convention
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
whit_whal@oulipo.social ("Valid Moby Dick Parts") wrote:
It was Moby Dick. “‘Moby Dick!’
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The difference between a secure products company and a security products company could not possibly be larger.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:
Ye Olde Too Many Tabs Open
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Here's one I'd never heard before. "Let's Get Digital" from What Fun!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
LMFAO, you can't even open this so called "web app" on an iPhone. It will just send you to the app. If you uninstall the native app, then open the link, it will send you to the App Store.
Even on Android, you can't install it. Adding to home screen just creates a regular bookmark.
This is not a web app. It's a website.
A website that doesn't run on iOS.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223811/apple-podcasts-web-app
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
🎵That’s me as a coder
That’s me with the (int)float
Losing my precision🎵
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:
our #32bitcafe back to school code jam entries are now displayed and available to browse! check out your available courses here to learn from folks around the cafe!
https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/
this was officially our biggest code jam ever with 30 submissions! 👏
thank you to EVERYONE for participating! you all did an amazing job with this prompt!! i’m so proud of our community!
#smallweb #indieweb #codejam #personalweb #webevent #webdev #cozyweb #internet #html #css #js
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:
Nebulae
6x8 in, Oil on panel"The notion that our atoms were once part of other people and will again become part of other people after we die provides a meaningful connectedness between us and the rest of humanity, future and past."
-Alan LightmanNew tiny painting on http://www.everydayoriginal.com tomorrow 8/20/24
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:
This is... good
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
calmeilles@mstdn.social ("Matthew Malthouse") wrote:
In France car parks with space for 80 cars or more are now required by law to be covered with solar panels.
- Parks between 80-400 spaces have 5 years to comply
- Parks with spaces of 400+ have 3 years to complyThis should be required everywhere!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Elon is just another Otto.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
For people asking what is it about, it's about #Python Steering Council (if I'm not mangling the title) suspending a core developer. Search around if you're really interested, but really, don't. It's not a nice story.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Because the normal Internet is dying (for many reasons), I'm getting a lot of information from YouTube these days. It kinda works, but it bears reminding myself once in a while just how inefficient it really is: a video about "my favorite way of focusing Fujifilm cameras" should not be 40 minutes long.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Trying to resist from posting anything about the current shit show in #python land is really hard, given what people are boosting into my stream. The only reason that's holding me back is that nobody is listening to anyone, so it's going to be in vain. I wish there'd be a tag to filter it out.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Should you use CRA? Not even once.
This has always been true, but only in the last couple of years have its creators acknowledged as much. And yet, they're pulling the same shit Facebook pulled when they failed to signpost to the community the scale of infrastructure necessary to keep their baroque JS in check.
Lies by omission are still material.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A point I buried in a footnote last week, but should probably draw out:
We know that frontend is wallowing in irresponsiblity because regretted approaches continue to spread (e.g., CRA, "CSS-in-JS", etc.) *even when their creators disavow them*. Why? Because those "leaders" do not put warning signs on their abandonware. They do not do the right thing and strongly recommend that users avoid those systems.
Don't believe me? Check out CRA's home page:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm not Irish, so I'm safe. I've gotta worry if JD Vance ever targets the Norwegians & Swedes, though.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/19/what-voting-block-will-he-piss-off-next/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
This tracks: years ago I saw a CS report on the prevalence of programming bugs in Excel spreadsheets that found about the same number of bugs per LoC-equivalent as in Visual BASIC written by low-proficiency programmers. Spreadsheets encourage spaghetti code and opaque variable naming: meanwhile spreadsheet debugging tools are stuck in the stone age (i.e. 1970s). The defect rate goes down in organizations where spreadsheets are developed by the IT department, not MBAs …
https://paquita.masto.host/@rinze/112959459848001627
