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

Did you know your mortgage payment can just go up by $500 per month out of nowhere?

I didn't either!

Turns out, predicting the future is somehow a normal part of this system, and when somebody in an office somewhere does an oopsie guessing what your taxes and insurance might cost multiple years in the future, that's on you and not them!

The entire American housing system is such absolute garbage.

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

paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

🔥

“Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: stupidity."

- JB Pritzker

🫳🎤

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

I think I want to be excited about uv but man, idk

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our choice to go with CockroachDB was hardly hasty! @dap joined me and @bcantrill to talk about why we choose CRDB… and how Cockroach Labs' recent switch to a proprietary license impacts that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHMYp8M40k

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

You chumps keep dropping iron for the coming summer while I'm out here working on my bod for Sweaty Boy Autumn.

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

OMG, the hash closed captioning is making of the national anthem singer at the DNC is hilarious

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

TIL there's an on-device network link conditioner for Android, saving tons of time in helping people understand how slow the internet actually is for many people. Easiest $3 I've spent in a long, long time:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.twocities.throttly.paid&hl=en_US

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mnot@techpolicy.social ("Mark Nottingham") wrote:

Hey legal people:

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-w3c-director-of-legal-and-compliance/

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

When you need to debug something in:

CHROME:
Just install it for free on any platform

EDGE:
Just install it for free on any platform

FIREFOX:
Just install it for free on any platform

SAFARI:
Buy a $1000 Apple device or go fuck yourself

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

chessert@mastodon.online ("Chris Hessert 🇺🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

@mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

May I suggest adding the Meidas Touch live feed link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKPupCln3z0

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Yoav ("Yoav Weiss") wrote:

I think language negotiation on the web can be both better *and* more private. So I wrote up a few words https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/improving_language_negotiation/

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

AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

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mizblueprint@mastodon.online wrote:

Summertime, and the shady spot gets smaller.
#DogsOfMastodon
#BerneseMountainDog
#GoldenRetriever
#Blep
#BloomScrolling
#Hydrangeas

Attachments:

• A Bernese Mountain Dog and a Golden Retriever lie on the grass in the shade of a garage next to a blue, purple, and green hydrangea. (remote)

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

tonight's speech by Michelle Obama is much anticipated

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

🙄

Donald #Trump says he would be open to #RFKJr. playing a role in his administration if the independent candidate drops out and endorses him -CNN

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

surPRISE

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/harris-offers-10000-tax-credit-for

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Shader languages are nice, but I'm missing some sort of data-flow abstraction language for managing inputs and outputs of compute shaders.

For multi-step processes there's quite a lot of boilerplate involved in configuring bindings, allocating and selecting buffers.

This makes shaders harder to reuse, since the buffer-juggling pipeline-dispatching code is slightly different for every platform and engine.

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informapirata@poliverso.org ("Informa Pirata") wrote:

🔁🖼 Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso Il libro in PDF di Kenobit, liberamente scaricabile in licenza Creative Commons: https://cl...

Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso

Il libro in PDF di Kenobit, liberamente scaricabile in licenza Creative Commons:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/jmCZRro…
Informa Pirata: informazione e notizie

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a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

Niche #pdx request: anyone know of an all-ages place with a coin-operated jukebox?

4yo and especially 6yo are obsessed with Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, but neither has ever seen a real jukebox. I think it’ll blow their minds.

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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns.

AP reports: "The hacking and similar activities, federal officials said, are meant to sow discord, exploit divisions within American society and possibly to influence the outcome of elections that Iran perceives to be 'particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests,' officials said."

https://flip.it/ZEJ_ID

#Iran #Hacking #Politics #USPolitics #Disinformation #Trump #Harris #News

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mafeesh@kolektiva.social ("Mafeesh Moushkella :verified:") wrote:

Elon Musk called Trent Reznor a "crybaby" for deleting his Twitter account. Wil Wheaton then wrote this incisive summary of the man-child that is Elon Musk.
#musc #elon #billionaires

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• Wil Wheaton: I can not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience that is Elon Musk He's the richest man on the planet. You can't go anywhere or do anything without interacting with something he's part of in some way. There are literal millions of people who uncritically worship him, in spite of overwhelming evidence that he's a douchebag. Some number of them will come after me, as they come after anyone who points at their naked emperor. They'll spend entire days going after me and people like me, slavishly serving a man who does not even know they exist. They are his army of fools, uncritically serving his every whim. And it still isn't enough. He can have any material thing he wants, and he will *never* be happy or satisfied. He has no real friends. Every single person around him is either a viper, a parasite, or both, So what does he do? He bullies and threatens and harasses and trolls and behaves lie the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been. That's a tragedy for him, but it's dangerous for us. He doesn't care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he «can not ever have. YYou know the saying "hurt people hurt people"? He's a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people | care about less safe. The consequences of this one man's midlife crisis are global, and that terrifies me. (remote)

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

In modern CSS, if you find yourself applying margin to items based on their position in a list, you're probably still using outdated techniques.

Most likely, you actually don't want margin there; you want a flex box/grid with gap. No need to uniquely style the first/last item.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Groggy morning thought: A cosplay hotel like the now-defunct Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser but it's a 1971 training facility for new PDP admins based in Maynard, Mass.

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

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lumecolca@kolektiva.social ("Lúmëcolca") wrote:

@cstanhope
"Move slow and fix things."

"Repair and relax."

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

Cool. Banks are discovering that flirting with Elon because he has "allure" might make poor business sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/i-dont-often-follow-financial-news-but-when-i-do-its-to-giggle-at-asshats/

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• dollar bill on fire (remote)

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

So fucked up that exercise actually makes me feel good. Like wtf. Such bullshit. Unacceptable.

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

I guess Duane Gish has achieved a kind of immortality, as the personification of the dumbest, worst, most dishonest debate strategy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/the-ghost-of-gish/

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• Duane Gish (remote)

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

People who think this is how science works should not be trusted with science policy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/science-is-not-supposed-to-be-partisan/

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• Cartoon of an astronomer seeing a fly on his lens and assuming it means aliens are invading. Only a creationist would think this way. (remote)

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HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

Perhaps you have heard (or even believe) some or all of the elements of the following story about the past:

"Life in the past was crude and hard. People could not afford mercy or charity. People in primitive societies would leave the sick and weak behind to die, and even the ancient Greeks killed disabled infants through exposure."

I have frequently encountered this set of ideas, in various permutations. It shows up all over the internet in popular historical accounts:
"Infanticide was a disturbingly common act in the ancient world, but in Sparta this practice was organized and managed by the state. All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren't up to standards were left to die...If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside. Left alone, the child would either die of exposure or be rescued and adopted by strangers."

It is also quite wrong.

https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-it-wasnt-easy-being-spartan

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