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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:
Someone stole my copy of Microsoft office
... I will find you ... You have my word.
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The Android evil-genie promise: You may have an open source phone OS. But if you actually compile it from source yourself, you will be banned from running any software. Or at least, they'll try as hard as they can to ban you from running software. Also, if you decide you want to build or even *download* the source, you're going to need to purchase a dedicated 1 TB SSD to check out the repo, and also download our forked version of git to check it out with
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
ronaldsvilcins ("Ronalds Vilciņš") wrote:
Tired of stumbling upon outdated, uninspiring websites? So was I! That’s why I created The Colophon — a curated hub for design enthusiasts who crave cutting-edge web design. https://thecolophon.com/
#design #webdev #webdesign #webdevelopment #css #html #programming #javascript #code #frontend #inspiration #blog
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Libs before the election: we can't criticize Democrats now, we must get them elected first!
Libs after the election: we can criticize the Democrats now, we must give them time to fix things!
Libs after time has passed: we can criticize Democrats now, we don't have enough progressives in office to pass legislation!
Libs after we demand more progressives candidates: we can't criticize the democrats now, we must vote blue no matter who!
Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Tracing my lineage all the way back to primordial soup.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/25/busy-day-2/
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straphanger@urbanists.social ("𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇") wrote:
"Yeah, but how are you going carry a real load with a damn bicycle? That's why we'll always need trucks in cities."
#Hamburg: We see your beer-keg delivery, #London, and raise you a refrigerator. Or three.
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vidak@mastodon.sdf.org ("'#vidak") wrote:
Masayoshi Takanaka - "Sexy Dance".
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Sandra@idiomdrottning.org wrote:
Great follow up to the man or bear story:
https://www.laurasstories.live/all-blog-posts/empathy-is-a-survival-skill
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jmechner@mastodon.art ("Jordan Mechner") wrote:
Prince of Persia 35th anniversary update: This week in 1989, I "finished" PoP. After three years of work creating the game (on an Apple II), it was time to let go.💾
I have trouble letting go. As my journal reveals, I went on secretly fixing bugs... Which is strictly verboten, after QA has signed off on a master disk. But I was confident my last little bug fixes wouldn't break anything, because my pal Roland and I would "test the hell out of them" ourselves.
You can guess where this is going.
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- Me at my Broderbund attic office in 1989, finally "finished" with PoP (remote)
- Journal page written in the final throes of finishing PoP, 35 years ago this week (remote)
- Journal page written in the final throes of finishing PoP, 35 years ago this week (remote)
- Almost-final Prince of Persia punch list (reproduced in the new German edition of my "Making of Prince of Persia" journals) (remote)
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Those with even passing familiarity with @oxidecomputer have run across our Request for Discussion system, which constitutes the backbone of our writing-intensive culture. Tomorrow, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues to discuss this system, its history, and its evolution. Join us at a Europe-friendly time slot: 9a Pacific/5p BST/6p CET.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Sgt Armstrong was Regular Army
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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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Mastodon FeedThanks, but that wasn't necessary!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged 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." 🤷
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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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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
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a good thread, thought provoking:
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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/
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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
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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!
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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:
@slightlyoff https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112449515235528651
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every time something *seems* to work on the first try with git worktrees.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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