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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

This is the ideal web design. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/pizza-hut-in-1995

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• Pizza Hut's website "PizzaNet" (pizza.net) in 1995. It's just a small Pizza Hut logo, two lines of text explaining that "this Electronic Storefront is brought to you by Pizza Hut and the Santa Cruz Operation," and then an HTML form for ordering pizza that only asked for your name, street address and phone number. (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

They’re not trying to improve the world with AI.

They’re trying to kill accountability.

#AI

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Closing a Browser", 2024

White ASCII on transparent canvas.

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• A screenshot of the "free" CLI util showing 45GB RAM being freed by closing a browser.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

My first day as a software developer: “I am going to change the world.”

Ten years later: “I am lost and difficult to keep up with the current trends. I want to keep it simple.”

Fifteen years later: “I am tired, lost faith in the world and now want to work as a carpenter.”

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place ("nolen") wrote:

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

#Elasticsearch is now AGPL-licensed.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

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

@ricmac The fact that you get roughly functional a11y out of HTML-first approaches, and that the difficulty in keeping things functional for everyone scales with the amount you offload to JS, is pure win for both constituencies once they focus on the user, rather than their tribe.

And that's why responsibility in engineering matters. What we make either expands or contracts the world for other people and, eventually, ourselves.

The half-life of thoughtful work is a good measure of achievement.

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

Love how @ricmac is connecting the threads here:

https://thenewstack.io/developers-rail-against-javascript-merchants-of-complexity/

If I'd add anything, it's that the HTML-first approach serves Big Enterprise and Small Startup well for the same basic reason: maximum reach.

For govts, that's duty of service. For startups, it's maximizing product/market fit potential. In both cases, turning anyone away is one of the dumber things you can do, even if all of your direct stakeholders carry iPhones and MacBooks.

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

scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

CSS/Fonts: It's really unfortunate that the typical patterns for loading web fonts from providers (Google Fonts, etc) start with a render-blocking third-party request just to get the @font-face CSS rules (note: not the actual fonts yet) which should ideally be in our own CSS from the start. I should blog about the reasons we can't do that reliably with many providers, but it's such a shame we can't because leading with a performance anti-pattern transfers the cost of the service to the users.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:

BIG: Russia caught reusing phone exploit strikingly similar to NSO Group's #Pegasus #spyware.

How did #APT29 get it after NSO used it?

Google isn't sure.

Ditto reuse of exploits from Intellexa.

But I warned Congress this would happen.

It says something about who NSO sourced it from, or that they can't control their code, or..

Whatever the case, the mercenary spyware industry is accelerating global cyber insecurity.

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/state-backed-attackers-and-commercial-surveillance-vendors-repeatedly-use-the-same-exploits/

#infosec #cybersecurity

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

Good, red panda is in. Let's do this.

#RedPanda

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• hand placed on top another hand. red panda places its paw on top of hands and looks at camera (remote)

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

ah well, I feel so much better now @CARROT

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• 1ce5a1719841c370.mp4 (remote)

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

samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“R.I.P. Journalist, Editor and Counterculture Enthusiast, Steve Silberman”

https://relix.com/news/detail/r-i-p-journalist-editor-and-counterculture-enthusiast-steve-silberman/

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

Today in History: Michael Joseph Jackson born in Gary, Indiana, 1958

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

Today in History: Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809

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

Today in History: 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction

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

stevesilberman@newsie.social ("Steve Silberman") wrote:

Incandescently brilliant piece by Tina Brown on her autistic son and Gus Walz. We must BURY Trump and Vance at the ballot box and shovel dirt down the throat of the zombie corpse of the former Republican party. Please spread this gift link. #HarrisWalz2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/opinion/tim-walz-son-gus.html?unlocked_article_code=1

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

bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

anybody flying a freak flag today, real or internal, would be advised to raise it at half mast for @stevesilberman.

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

TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

From Thomas Jefferson flip-flopping on presidential power to George HW Bush flip-flopping on taxes to today, accusations of inconsistency are nothing new in American politics.

A scholar of the presidency reminds us: "People evolve. Information changes. Hard choices have to be made for the good of the country. I think that we should all reserve the right to get smarter and, hopefully, better."

https://theconversation.com/all-politicians-change-their-minds-and-have-been-flip-flopping-on-positions-for-hundreds-of-years-237302
#USPolitics #Election2024 #Politics

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• In front of a background of voting pins, the graphic reads "All politicians change their minds - and so can you". (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

My feelings on sloppy code that works fine but needs refactoring vary widely depending on the following important factors:

1. Was I the one who wrote it?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Thank you for your argument. It's thorough soundness is matched only by its exhaustive uselessness.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I may be bringing some personal baggage into this take, but: the Linux penguin is creepy and off-putting.

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

“The 4 percentage point advantage among registered voters was wider than a 1 point lead Harris held over the former president in a late July Reuters/Ipsos poll. The new poll, which was conducted in the eight days ended Wednesday and had a 2 percentage point margin of error, showed Harris picking up support among women and Hispanics.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-widens-lead-over-trump-with-boost-women-hispanics-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-08-29/

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

camerondotca@mastodon.nz ("Camerondotca") wrote:

Can someone explain to me how NASA's capabilities got so degraded that their options are now "fascist crackpot nutbar" and "military/aerospace assclowns who seem to be whacking whistleblowers and can't build anything for shit"?

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

I like purple.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/29/purple-is-always-nice/

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• Blazing star (remote)

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

The horror of war does inspire some amazing art. Too bad it doesn't dissuade the war mongers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/29/visualizing-the-destruction-of-new-york-didnt-stop-the-nuclear-fetishists/

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• NY getting nuked, by Chesley Bonestell (remote)

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

Walls caked with decaying meat and insects scurrying everywhere is what I think of when I hear the words "high quality deli meats and cheeses." Mmm-mmmmm. Makes me glad to be a vegetarian.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/29/if-i-werent-a-vegetarian-already/

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• Boar's Head product recall notice (remote)

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

jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

There's no "dispute." Trump exploited veterans for his campaign. #MurdochJournal
Dispute Grows Over Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit as Vance Says Harris Can ‘Go to Hell’
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-arlington-cemetery-visit-harris-walz-542a91b3?st=31ttrotm6go6mzw

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

dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

So would Trump’s - no indicted ex-president who incited violence against his own vice president’s certification of a free and fair election has ever been elected since the US was founded.

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Kamala Harris’ election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836 – Baltimore Sun https://sun-sentinel.com/2024/08/28/kamala-harris-election-would-defy-history-just-1-sitting-vp-has-been-elected-president-since-1836/

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

BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Trump uses “Marxist,” “communist,” and “socialist” interchangeably, and when he and his allies accuse Democrats of being one of those things, they are not talking about an economic system in which the people, represented by the government, take control of the means of production. They are using a peculiarly American adaptation of the term “socialist.” - Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-28-2024