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

jenred@hachyderm.io ("Jennifer Redman") wrote:

My new project - working to bring a public broadband option to PDX. https://communitybroadbandpdx.org

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

This unwholesome abomination is part of the test to determine whether you are a real Midwesterner, or some alien interloper. I did not pass.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/i-am-a-fake-midwesterner/

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• deep fried ranch dressing at the Minnesota State Fair (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

https://make-firefox-private-again.com/

#firefox

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Who called it Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (#KCD2), and not Xtra Kingdom Come Deliverance?

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

What kind of demented weirdo would want this on their wall?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/who-is-this-for/

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• TrumpyTrout, a hideous talking decoration (remote)

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

What? JD Vance's semen is apocryphal?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/darn-the-jizz-cup-story-is-probably-fake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jWsQAEf8w

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

I'm going to have to join the crowd criticizing the ridiculous, petty fact-checking of Democrats in the news media. Glenn Kessler is a try-hard poseur.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/checking-the-fact-checkers/

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• "Mostly false" truth-o-meter (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There is no zeitgeist, only algorithmic trends and cheeky corporate mascots.

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

I was strongly opposed to Tim Walz in 2018. We both got better.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/i-was-against-walz-before-i-was-for-him/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtYcbH50ag

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I was at the right place at the right time.

📷 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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• An old telephone box overgrown by plants and covered in tags standing next to a pub. In the background, a banner across the street welcoming passersby to the St. Nicholas Market. A man with a cigarette in his mouth is walking past, with his dog wrapped around his neck like a fancy scarf.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.