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kohnzn@chaos.social ("KOHN der baba") wrote:

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• daa6dfbfca8f76b7.mp4 (remote)

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

matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

Another day, another audit in which I have to explain the difference between links and buttons.

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FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

Okay, the results of the screen reader survey are in:

"People who use screen readers, do you prefer hashtags to all be at the end of a post, or do you prefer hashtags to be mixed in with the main text?"

• 100 votes prefer hashtags all at end

• 42 votes prefer hashtags mixed in text

...so, it seems to be that hashtags at the end have a lot more fans, but it's not unanimous.

(Link to survey: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112977620571623981)

#Accessibility #ScreenReaders #VisualImpairment #Blindness #Blind

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

gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

I've found a lot of conflicting and confusing reports about the #SecureBoot issue caused by a Microsoft update, so here's my relatively informed take about it.

Spoilers: this isn't an issue with GRUB, but with another less known bootloader called shim. GRUB can also be affected though. So let's talk about how the bootchain of a #Linux distro works and what happened to it. 🧵 1/11

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

The UK tech regulator has published a set of remedies for ensuring browser diversity and competition across platforms. They're pretty good! But I, and @owa, think that there are a few bits they should have included. The CMA wants to hear from web developers on this, and so here's some detail about why, and how. Read, then send an email by August 29th!
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/08/21/the-cma-wants-your-comments-on-web-apps/

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

The most cursed business words in tech today:

• "ideate"
• "innovate"
• "performant"
• "learnings"
• "asks"
• "actioned"
• "AI"

"Metaverse" and "crypto" would be on the list, but they died of VC-related injuries.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Evening sunlight under the Yohkai tent.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol #ArcTanGent #ATG #LLNN

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• A crowd, facing away, illuminated by evening sunlight, while the stage in the distance is dark with clearly defined stage lights.

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

Plastics aren't just in our gonads anymore:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

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mia@void.rehab ("tetnicolor") wrote:

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• picture of two weevils one of them is bigger than the other the smaller one is labelled "lesser of two weevils" (remote)

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

Also, @doramatadora's talk is a much more accessible intro to these ideas:

https://youtu.be/t3smBkiGUWw?si=sV1zATojVa8EWEzY

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

Related: https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/

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

worth watching

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009644712/why-kamalas-mom-is-more-brat-than-she-is.html?smid=url-share

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

‘CHICAGO (The Borowitz Report)—In the latest sign that Kamala Harris is expanding her coalition, on Wednesday Melania Trump announced that she will speak on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Explaining her decision to speak, Mrs. Trump said, "None of us can stand another four years of Donald Trump."’

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

drwho@hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

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• One of many examples of why an 80's kid will never trust AI. It's a screenshot from Wargames listing all of the games that Joshua knows how to play: Bridge Checkers Chess Poker Fighter Combat Guerrilla Engagement Desert Warfare Air-To-Ground Actions Theater-wide Tactical Warfare Theater-wide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare Global Thermonuclear War (remote)

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

TheTempleMom@pagan.plus ("Laura Perry") wrote:

One of the most delightful aspects of gardening is going out to the vegetable garden very early in the morning and finding bumblebees still asleep in the squash blossoms. ❤️🐝❤️🐝

#bee #bees

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• Closeup of the center of a bright yellow squash blossom, with two bumblebees fast asleep, curled around the pollen-bearing parts in the center of the flower. (remote)

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hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

“However. VC money is like rocket fuel, and you don’t get rocket fuel just to continue grocery shopping every day. You have to get to space.” https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/

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

eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

Songs like this make me wish I could sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPa7bsKwL-c

#music #ladygaga #brunomars

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esa@squeet.me ("ESA (unofficial)") wrote:

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.
Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

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

The most important thing about a performance remediation effort isn't making the system faster, even though that's the most visible outcome.

Remediation is a chance to learn *why*, and then teach the team.

*Why* was this system performing the way it did? *Why* was it designed that way? *Why* wasn't there observability in place to catch this? *Why* will these changes make the system faster? *Why* will we avoid regression in the future?

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

Names and dates on documents. Every time. Don't forget.

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

mattbors@mstdn.ca ("Matt Bors") wrote:

A lot of people forget, or are simply not taught by their parents or health care providers, that they can listen to Parliament/Funkadelic and instantly feel better. Immediate effect. Results do not vary.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I want a version of MIRI (the #RustLang interpreter/checker) that makes noise whenever it executes undefined behavior. So I can listen to the silence... of soundness.

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5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

I'm learning that a hard thing for folks to accept about web components is that they are just codifying *existing web capabilities*

We've been so conditioned that framework components twist things to fit invented APIs that we've genuinely lost touch with how the web actually exists 😫

This leads to unwarranted fear that to adopt even one web component is equivalent to taking on a burden equivalent to a new JS framework, including performance hits.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Losing it over this title/poster combo

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• A poster for "Bullets Don't Argue" (1964). Clearly something cobbled together pretty recently from a cropped film still. The title has cheap-looking gradient and dropshadow effects applied. The image is of a man and woman leaning out of a covered wagon. The man is grinning and pointing a pistol at something offscreen. The woman is wearing a gingham shirt, overalls, and has her red hair in an extremely 1960s bouffant. She's smiling and plugging her ears, anticipating the gunshot.

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

Day 1 of the 2024/25 school year.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/today-is-the-start-of-claaaaaaaaarghh/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEcvSq4SDkc

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

I am so jealous. Nature didn't make me pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/i-wish-my-butt-was-this-pretty/

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• Maratus lobatus, a jumping spider (remote)

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

I do believe this is the epitome of the US approach to medicine and health:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/as-hospitals-failed-and-patients-died-ceo-reportedly-netted-250m/

(Reading until the end, I see I Bernie Sanders agrees with me. 😆 )

Doctorow previously wrote about this situation as well:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5000-bats/#charnel-house

I hope those places facing pressure from assholes to privatize their healthcare systems pay attention to this sort of thing.

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

So many crabs…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/21/crabby-destiny/

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• Summary of phylogeny and divergence time estimates for Brachyura (88 brachyuran families, 263 genera, 333 species, 338 individuals plus 6 outgroups). Posterior ages were estimated in BEAST2 using a fixed topology resulting from the concatenated ML analysis in IQ-TREE, 36 vetted node calibrations, a birth–death tree prior, and relaxed lognormal clock model. Shaded circles at nodes represent ultrafast bootstraps. Pie slices are colored by superfamily, with the outermost ring colored by taxonomic section. Line drawings, one representative per superfamily (numbers corresponding to taxa in Supplementary Table S7), by Javier Luque and Harrison Mancke. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love the look of dusty glass.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

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• A windowsill with two framed artworks facing inwards. The dust on the window reflects sunlight in an appealing way.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Kids in _Terminator 2_ are a bunch of fucking narcs.

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• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, leans out of a patrol car to talk to two girls. One is saying, “You just missed him.” (remote)
• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, shows a photo to a teenager in an arcade, who responds by pointing toward John Connor. (remote)
• Movie still from Terminator 2: The T-1000, disguised as a cop, shows a photo to a two boys in a shopping mall. One of them responds by pointing across the mall. (remote)