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One day you're young and foolish and the next you're still foolish but you have CDs that are older than people you work with.
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
Do you know that #Freexian collaborators can spend 20% of their work time on the Debian projects/tasks of their choice?
We document these #Debian contributions done by our Freexian collaborators each month.
In 2024, Freexian collaborators contributed to Salsa CI improvements, the /usr-move transition, and the future live-patching of Linux in Debian and more.
You can read all about these at https://www.freexian.com/tags/debian-contributions/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There are so many teams and so many great engineers...Rick Byers' support of PWAs and animations and layout from Waterloo to the Devices and Storage and Layout teams in the Bay Area (with many helpers from around the world), to the 3D stack teams in SF and the Research Triangle area, to networking in Boston and MTV and elsewhere, to performance work spread around the world.
And that's not even mentioning PWA teams in Seattle, SF, MTV, SYD, and LON.
Chromium only works because we all give.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Lots of teams around the world have made Chromium's decade of feature leadership a reality, from the WebRTC experts in Stockholm to the security and VM crew in Munich to the mobile mensches in London to the perf boffins in Paris to the layout wizzes all over the world...nothing happens in real, bleading-edge browsers without a huge talent pool and incredible acts of self investment into the future of the web.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I think I need to start a series of blog posts on the engineers that have shaped the modern web from positions of relative anonymity.
The Google Tokyo office under the leadership of Kinuko Yusada and the Google Sydney office reporting to Mike Lawther were particularly productive groups that didn't get the spotlight.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:
Oh well thank fuck for that. Another one of humanity’s problems checked off.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Luke@typo.social ("Luke Dorny") wrote:
“It’s consumption. Its monopolistic control. It’s computing-hungry magic tricks thrown at the wall, hoping something sticks. The next iteration of the web by way of the internet is just one long infomercial of fifty-dollar solutions to fifty-cent problems.”
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
cogdog@cosocial.ca ("Alan Levine") wrote:
"In our current digital landscape, where a corporate algorithm tells us what to read, watch, drink, eat, wear, smell like, and sound like, human curation of the web is an act of revolution. A simple list of hyperlinks published under a personal domain name is subversive. Curation is punk."
I'm rawdogging all the time, digging around the far reaches of the long tail (wag)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The unrepentant exuberance of sneaking a new ingredient into your picky child's food undetected
Mastodon FeedI've reached an age where I don't need Head and Shoulders, I just need Shoulders.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com ("ErosBlog Bacchus") wrote:
@galacticstone @cstross @quixoticgeek
"Using this term without the proper context lets greedy corporations off the hook."
I agree wholeheartedly! And for readers who don't know, the proper context is the writings of Cory Doctorow(@pluralistic), who coined "enshittification" and has A WHOLE LOT to say about greedy capitalists.
https://locusmag.com/2024/05/cory-doctorow-no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:
The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
Mastodon FeedThis may be the most realistic game ever made:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167920/LowBudget_Repairs/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dale@toot.cafe ("Dale Harvey") wrote:
I had to go out to buy a specific version of the iPad in order for my kids to be able to do their homework.
Educational policies aside, it was a sad reminder of what we are losing when we let the web be displaced by propietary apps.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Dear National Trust members, this is your annual reminder to vote in the upcoming AGM. The "anti woke" Restore Trust, who are backed by The Tory Common Sense group are again listing 6 candidates. Although NT membership is over 5 million, only 0.5% actually vote. Restore Trust has a very active membership so don't let apathy give them a beach head for their anti woke vision. You can use the quick vote button to vote for NT preferred candidates. Voting closes 25th October. Please boost.
#NT
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
first one of the new academic year, but probably not the last:
“Georgia high school student, 14, shoots and kills 4 while wounding 9” - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/georgia-officers-respond-reports-shooting-high-school-2024-09-04/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
NickAEsp ("Nick Espinosa") wrote:
Yes, Your Phone Mic IS Listening!
#News #TechNews #Technology #surveillance #PrivacyMatters #Facebook #Google #Amazon #Meta
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My day went splat, literally.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/04/an-unusually-long-day/
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Who are your favorite #bloggers?
Drop their names and web addresses ⬇️
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa So if you want a future where HTML doesn't suck and where the warts in Web Components get ironed out and where we might be able to take on platform-backed data binding or SVG-custom-elements, then you need to support @owa.
Apple has continually demonstrated that it is functionally anti-web, including up to the present moment. The only solution is true competition.
I wish it wasn't so.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa All of this adds up to an assumption by competitors that Apple isn't up for expanding the web to solve important needs that come from frequent developer requests. The *massive* gap in capabilities that Cupertino maintains is just as apparent in DOM and HTML as in advanced features. They *still* won't implement `is`, and `elementInternals` was trench warfare.
It's painful to really push on expanding HTML and web capabilities because Apple will fight it at every step. And everyone knows it.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa But I'm sure that Apple spending more to defeat browser engine choice than to engage with developers [1], while materially misleading regulators [2] and leaving critical features in a totally broken state [3] and failing to keep pace in general [4] is just a giant misunderstanding. Could happen at any megacorp that makes $20BN/yr skimming off the web!
[3]: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple understands that the web is a reach platform, and that its Achilles heel is a failure to deliver everywhere. Maintaining a hard cap on web capabilities is strategic.
If developers could just build a single compelling experience from a single code-base, they wouldn't need Apple's distribution channel, which would mean they wouldn't need to pay Apple taxes.
And this is why Apple's fighting @owa tooth and nail, going as far as to fund astroturf "developer" groups and mislead regulators.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Because competitors know they can't ship new features to the wealthy developers and decision-makers that user the iOS products with their badges on the bonnet, the incentive to deliver new capabilities to developers on other platforms deflates.
Again, for Apple, this is working as intended. And they don't even have to put that much of a thumb on the scale. All they have to do is to "just ask questions" in standards conversations; muddy the waters in public and defuse progress in private.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The last point is really insidious: Apple and the Android team really, *really* wanted to keep the web from disrupting the cozy mobile duopoly, and through interlocking and reinforcing moats have made it nearly impossible for the web to break out and challenge the app store and native frameworks.
This is working-as-intended. Apple's attempt to kill PWAs earlier this year showed intent, and the fallback position they've taken since (that they don't have to open them up) is indefensible.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Folks are surprised to learn I put as much, or more, blame for the terrible state of frontend today on browsers as I do the JS community.
Browser vendors failed to put their money where their mouths have been on performance, paving endless open field to create induced demand with every JS engine tweak, rarely stopping to ask if what they have done has actually lifted the average.
Also, the last 15 years of neutered engine competition (thanks, iOS) has lowered vendor ambition for the platform.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
The Internet Archive lost its appeal in the Hachette case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/ Next, all AI companies should also lose access to copyrighted books and art. Why are tech bros allowed to breach copyright? The law should be applied equally to all.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@heydon And, indeed, we can see that even a *very mild* price on UI latency -- via the extremely generous INP thresholds that went into effect earlier this year -- are proving to be more than the "DX" narrative bait-and-switch can handle. If a breeze that gentle can topple your whole roadmap...maybe there wasn't anything there?
The whole sociotechnical edifface *can*, for most classes of site, be a hollow promise devoid of additive value.