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nelson@tech.lgbt ("Nelson Minar") wrote:

@kentbrew this drives me crazy about night mode. white text on black background needs wider strokes and more pixels than black on white. you can't just invert the palette.

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

georgespolitzer@monads.online ("The Skanky Tankie") wrote:

this has @pisscotheque energy somehow

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• 21cc46db31671e5f.jpg (remote)

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

sweet: https://people.com/gus-walz-learning-disorder-secret-power-exclusive-8691793

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

mistersql ("🥥Matthew Martin🥥☑") wrote:

The story of King Midas is a cautionary tale about adding the `async` keyword to a code base.

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

kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

LOL. Orenburg regional officials are in hot water for paying “patriotic entertainer” Shaman a fat $175,000 to perform at this month’s Russia Day festival. Big spending for a govt that still hasn’t paid promised compensations to thousands of flood victims. https://theins.ru/news/274068

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

philip_cardella@historians.social ("Philip Cardella") wrote:

@keraunos @Stone1glo @qkslvrwolf no one is Boomer bashing. Promise.

My parents were lifelong Dems and Boomers (didn't have the choice on latter, lol). My dad passed in May but my mom stays engaged and hates Trump.

She's indifferent to AOC. So what? The Dems did a great job of representing all Americans and most liberal perspectives.

AOC is but one piece.

Nobody on the stage was the favorite of every Dem. That's good!

They were all great. Tonight will be awesome!

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

artbyemilyhare@mastodon.art ("Emily Hare") wrote:

New Alien Reveal!

Name: Moltoaf
Height: 8' 10"
Wanted for: Hacking into the Intergalactic Broadcasting Station to transmit his latest podcast where he shares his love of growing and eating Zloppcumbers.
Bounty: 🄶7000 Gleknot.

Moltoaf and many other aliens are appearing in my new book, launching in October! Don't miss it...
https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/2b7c49b4-250f-4c03-9905-bf1272b92894/landing?ref+moltoaf-social-post
#MastoArt #crowdfunding #aliens #scifi

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• Watercolour painting: plain textured white background with some kind of tubing dangling in the top right corner. Alien creature is facing the viewer, it has three orange eyes with horizontal slit shaped pupils. It has three 'trunk-like' tentacles in place of the lower half of its face and a few other tentacles coming out of its head, but smaller. Each tentacle is red/pink tipped and the face of the alien is blue with the body of the alien purple. It has some leather straps around its body. The skin of this creature is textured and wrinkled. (remote)
• close up of first image - Watercolour painting: plain textured white background with some kind of tubing dangling in the top right corner. Alien creature is facing the viewer, it has three orange eyes with horizontal slit shaped pupils. It has three 'trunk-like' tentacles in place of the lower half of its face and a few other tentacles coming out of its head, but smaller. Each tentacle is red/pink tipped and the face of the alien is blue with the body of the alien purple. It has some leather straps around its body. The skin of this creature is textured and wrinkled. (remote)
• Close up of first image - Watercolour painting: plain textured white background with some kind of tubing dangling in the top right corner. Alien creature is facing the viewer, it has three orange eyes with horizontal slit shaped pupils. It has three 'trunk-like' tentacles in place of the lower half of its face and a few other tentacles coming out of its head, but smaller. Each tentacle is red/pink tipped and the face of the alien is blue with the body of the alien purple. It has some leather straps around its body. The skin of this creature is textured and wrinkled. (remote)

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.

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

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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."’