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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If I said a drill ruined my wall, people would say "you obviously don't know how to use a drill."
If I said salt ruined my meal, people would say "you obviously didn't season it right."
But yet, for some reason, any time somebody makes a meme about #css ruining something, everyone's like "ah, yes, the tool is the problem."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've acquired my grandfather's collection of 8mm film, recorded in the 1960s-1980s, and have converted them to digital. It's going to be a rough few hours viewing them.
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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:
#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:
Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
https://rys.io/en/171.htmlCalling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.
Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.
Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.
They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
josh@joshtriplett.org ("Josh Triplett") wrote:
Periodic reminder that *path dependence* is pervasive. Many structures and solutions we have today are artifacts of the paths we took to arrive at them, and of problems we once had and may not currently have, and are not what we might have had if we designed from scratch.
It's worth periodically thinking about how you'd design something from scratch. You can't always throw something away in favor of a rewrite, but you can think about whether you can incrementally work towards something better, and about which aspects the iterated embodiments of solutions to past problems are still important and which aren't.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Finally, I found a place that looks even more empty than a midwestern farm town.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/26/travel-the-world-see-exotic-foreign-places/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
People, the rules are simple:
No Halloween merchandising until October
No Thanksgiving merchandising until after Halloween
No Christmas merchandising until after Thanksgiving
like it says in the danged bible.
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kate@fosstodon.org ("Kate Morley") wrote:
Last week’s electricity generation in the UK had a record low carbon intensity of 58g/kWh. So far this year the carbon intensity has averaged 118g/kWh, representing a 76% reduction since I created https://grid.iamkate.com in 2012:
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marcan@treehouse.systems ("Hector Martin") wrote:
I'm all for Signal and E2EE and distributed systems and all that, but... Telegram is, by far, the least-bullshit most-fun messenger I've ever used. Everything just seems to work, it's lean, has native open source client apps, a big pile of features that are cohesively integrated and work, API/bot support, useful stuff like automatic translation (premium feature, but that's understandable since translation APIs aren't free), etc.
Other platforms would do well to learn from it.
Mastodon FeedI'm taking one for a spin #IONIQ5 N.
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Mastodon FeedWhen you google something and the first result is someone else asking the very same question on a forum... along with the only reply:
"Just google it."
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
A list of US State abbreviations won't pass type checking unless you disable the "no explicit N.E." rule.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
todayilearned@noc.social ("Today I learned") wrote:
TIL two families escaped East Germany in a home made hot air balloon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f16rz3/til_two_families_escaped_east_germany_in_a_home/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Another #amiga music mix/master. redruM redruM by Virgill. First place in Revision 2020 (online) executable music competition. Uses AmigaKlang - a 64k (or smaller) Amiga music system that's basically protracker w/ procedurally-generated samples.
https://demozoo.org/music/276981/
This is a beautiful, slightly haunting tune (fitting the name) with some fantastic samples. Structure was quite nice to work with. Most of the samples have a lot of reverb baked in, and stereo is created old-skool with a time-offset track in the opposing channel. Due to the 4-channel limit, this effect gets dropped a lot in the original mod. I have restored it in my DAW and the result is a beautiful stereo image throughout the track.
I think this mix might be good enough for release.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(Maybe it's just me, but that song was always a rush to hear play on my long drives. 😀 )
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You're fading fast, and so is the strongest radio signal. You start thinking you've pushed too far and should've stopped earlier. Then, just before the radio gives up on the FM station, this song thankfully comes on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4
Instant rush, and the memory of it carries you on until you can finally stop for the night at the next rest stop.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The radio that came with the vehicle was overly expensive trash that had stopped working long ago. So you replaced it with some radio torn out of a Honda. The tape deck doesn't work, but the radio does.
You passed the nearest town with services too long ago. The next place you could conceivably stop is at least another hour.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Imagine yourself driving on a dark road out in the southwest US. It's 1990 something. You're in a '78 El Camino that has seen much better days, but it was free (if you forget the repairs you put into it and the transmission you had to replace from junkyard salvage (and eventually have rebuilt) and the tires you had to buy). But the V8 is alright, and you change the oil regularly.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You know, Dion sure talks a lot of trash about Sue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyL1Z0Z5upY
But he's the one that brags about behaving like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbYa7NBYyRc
So I don't think he's very credible.
(Sorry. I was exposed to these songs long ago, and they still take up space in my head.)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:
My superpower is always knowing what's inside a wrapped present.
It's a gift.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:
Someone stole my copy of Microsoft office
... I will find you ... You have my word.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
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.