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

Errantus@mstdn.mx wrote:

OMG! Yes. Please. 🤣🤣🤣

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• Pitch: a muppet movie where the muppets play D&D, and it cuts between the muppets around the table and the fantasy being acted out, but instead of it just being the muppets dressed up in D&D fantasy costume, it's celebrity actors but the muppets do the voices, and actors have to act how those muppets would. Imagine a barbarian played by Jason Momoa voiced by Miss Piggy. (remote)

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

Dang webbed site: "Your password must be at least 8 characters long, have at least one number and at least one special symbol."

Me: [confused] But... Every symbol is special.

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

Sgt Armstrong was Regular Army

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• 0af331acc605b659.jpeg (remote)

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

ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

I've gone too long without posting #corvids. Here, a very fine #raven.

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• A raven peers out from sage-colored undergrowth with violet flowers. (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Thanks, but that wasn't necessary!

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• 81cdd1e76618ab1c.png

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

cwilcox808@c.im ("Curtis Wilcox") wrote:

@westbrook
I guess Apple's policy is "`is` for me but not for thee." 🤷

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

NorcalGma2@sfba.social ("Norcal Gma 2") wrote:

Watching the DNC this week made me think about what it was like to be 14 and pregnant at the end of 1972. Roe vs. Wade would alter all the rules a month later, but changes to my rural community would be slow.
I became an emancipated minor and did my best to adult.
I wasn't allowed to go go back to public school but was sent to a "school for young mothers." There, six girls, from 12 to 16 years old, learned to cook and clean in a small house made into classrooms.
Luckily for me, it was within walking distance of my house.
We took turns cooking and copied our recipes to give to classmates. I still have my box of recipes.
For over fifty years, I have been meaning to make these caramel sweet rolls. Today is the day.
I wonder what happened to all the other girls.
I also wonder how we could even consider going back.

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• Caramel pecan sweet rolls on a white plate with blue trim. (remote)

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

stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Improved touch input a looad, also added full support for controller and keyboard yay

Not bad for a mobile game so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAR0Yk5AbJ8

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

a good thread, thought provoking:

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/113019970349690401

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

heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

I’ve been thinking about the deeper meaning of the effort to bring in so many voices at the Democratic National Convention. In this tight election, it is clear on the surface that #Harris is simply trying to turn out as many voters for her as possible - disillusioned Republicans, Americans of all races, men and women, police and military members, younger folks. But I think something more ambitious is being attempted. 1/

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

toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

New documentary about Lee Felsenstein[1] (creator of the SOL-20[2], the VDM-1 video module[3] and key member of the Homebrew Computer Club) and the ethos of the early DIY personal computing movement...

The Daydreamer - Lee Felsenstein (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7BfeXaeuE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-20
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM-1
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club

#RetroComputing #Documentary

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

3kh0@defcon.social ("Echo 🦊") wrote:

Friend: What do you play games on?
Me: I play games on a switch!

#meme #shitpost #networking #tech #infosec

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• A person using a game controller to play Snake with the lights on a network switch (remote)

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

whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:

@slightlyoff https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112449515235528651

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

Every time something *seems* to work on the first try with git worktrees.

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• [ Ralph Wiggum ] (chuckles) "I'm in danger" (remote)

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

And it's just worth remembering how far behind the web on iOS is.

Android users have WebGPU *today*. And View Transitions. And the navigation API. And scroll-linked animations. And content-visibility. And Custom Paint. And Web Transport. And Web HID, Web USB, Web Bluetooth, Web NFC, Web MIDI, and Trusted Types.

Not to mention functional Web Push:

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/

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

The geofencing and legal angles aren't easy to parse, but here's the status quo. Apple:

• Delivered an SDK that doesn't work on developer phones outside the EU
• Proposed legal terms that are *bonkers*
• Doesn't use the same APIs for their own browser
• Is refusing to provide APIs to support PWAs and PWA capabilities
• Won't let anyone ship a real browser outside the EU, even if all of that was acceptable. Which it isn't.

These are defense lines. To defend what? The App Store.

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

The idea of an open, capable, interoperable platform that delivers high-functioning apps is *such* a threat that Apple is trying to undermine the web's potential from every single one of those angles. It's working in standards and quasi-standards bodies to keep the web less capable, using blocking position on iOS to prevent breakout of a capable web, and talking down the benefits of interoperability.

Glactic-scale gaslighting to protect profits, not users.

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

Why is this the biggest salient? Because browser choice can *end* App Stores. Thoroughly and totally. And that's why Apple continues to fight real choice so damned hard. They're pulling out every stop -- including funding astroturf groups -- and risking every possible fine to keep true choice from emerging through a mechanism they don't control.

Small reversals like this are helpful, but Apple continues to geofence and degrade the potential of real browser choice. And that's a scandal.

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

The tech press continues to miss the biggest iOS anti-trust thrust: browsers. The press, that is, with the exception of The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/24/apple_eu_browser_defaults/

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

slcw@newsie.social ("SLCW💥") wrote:

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (#NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 #DredScott #SupremeCourt decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice President #KamalaHarris is ineligible to run for president according to the #Constitution.

Just, wow.

cc: @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

#GOPfascists #GOPracists #RepublicanRacism #RepublicansAreTheProblem #electionsMatter #EndOfDemocracy #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-president-supreme-court-b2601364.html

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

bhcompy@hachyderm.io wrote:

@funnymonkey
If policy mattered, the DNC protestors would've been protesting at Trump rallies

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

yup

https://hachyderm.io/@bhcompy/113018385670687238

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

oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:

After a legacy of environmentalism and a demand the US stop oil exports, RFK Jr. just endorsed Mr. “drill, baby, drill.” Just like Elon Musk, they don’t give a fuck about clean energy or the environment, it’s a grift.

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

eliezyer@neuromatch.social wrote:

Early this week someone mentioned the lack of education/scientific resources in Mastodon (compared to twitter pre-musk), and that we have to start somewhere, so here's my contribution for this week:

A comprehensive list of grants (public and private opportunities) assembled by Johns Hopkins University https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/

That's the largest and most detailed grant resource I know of, if you know other ones let's contribute :)

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• Picture of a spreadsheet with early career faculty grant resource (remote)

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

simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

Imagine a version of my dumb little "write a haiku about a photo you take" page which used OAuth, harvested API keys and then racked up hundreds of dollar bills against everyone who tried it out running illicit election interference campaigns or whatever

https://tools.simonwillison.net/haiku

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Over 60 billionaires have now publicly endorsed Trump, hosted a fundraiser for him, or contributed to Trump aligned PACs.

Why are they rallying behind him? Tax cuts, mostly. But there's more.

The more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.

Be warned.

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

ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

This is a PSA. Thank you for your attention, and have a great weekend!

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• A wooden table, with three frogs seated around it, in humanlike positions. All the frogs are dressed like wizards, complete with pointy hats and long flowing robes. The caption of the picture is "The council has decided that you are smart, beautiful, and worthy of achieving your goals". (remote)

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

The kiddo has been following some youtube videos where they make fold out images. Or maybe fold-in? I'm not sure the right term here, but you get two images. One when the paper is folded, and another after you unfold it. Anyway, I've been riffing on the idea with the kiddo. I think the second one would make a good valentines. :thonking:

#yaombaaa

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• A cartoon dinosaur on top of a hill. It seems to be yelling in alarm. It's tail is straight out and it has an exclamation point above its head. (remote)
• The image is now folded out to reveal that the top of the hill the dinosaur had been standing on has just been blown off as a volcano exploded beneath its feet. The bottom and top of the hill is separated by a column of lava with two dinosaurs joining the scene as they are tossed to either side of the hill turned volcano: a triceratops and a T-Rex lookin' fellow. Both dinosaurs eyes and mouths opened wide in fear. The kiddo liked this one but asked me, "Where did the other dinosaurs come from?" :/ (It is all cartoony and not nearly as horrific as it would be in real life to have a volcano explode under your feet.) (remote)
• A simple stylized red heart. Awwww.... (remote)
• Opening up the heart picture to reveal a green monster head with pointed years and perhaps a bat nose. The bottom of the heart forms its neckline and the top of the heart its head. The monster's mouth is open revealing many sharp teeth. The monster is saying, "Sorry. I'm a monster." I think this has potential to be a valentines or maybe an apology card. (remote)

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

username@labyrinth.zone ("allie") wrote:

i think the internet would be better if "web designers" were banned from having internet faster than train wifi

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

The kids looked pretty uncomfortable about Bill Maher grooming them. An 8 year old is more aware of how creepy an old drunk guy making sexual innuendo is than Maher is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/24/keep-bill-maher-away-from-kids/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giBhwQnuy9k