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njr@mathstodon.xyz ("Nick Radcliffe") wrote:

@fromjason - Tim Bray, Ongoing, https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/, ( @timbray)

• Molly White, Citation Needed, https://mollywhite.net & https://www.citationneeded.news (@molly0xfff)
• John Gruber, Daring Fireball, https://daringfireball.net, ( @gruber)
• Michael Tsai, https://mjtsai.com ( @mjtsai)
• Rachel (“by the Bay’”), Writing, http://rachelbythebay.com/
• Manton Reece, Microblog, https://manton.org, @manton
• Tina Roth Eisenberg, SwissMiss, https://swiss-miss.com
• Craig Hockenberry, https://furbo.org
• Dann Luu, https://danluu.com

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

vantablack@cyberpunk.lol (":FediPact: vanta, the fedipact girl :FediPact:") wrote:

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• "billionaires should not exist" and there's a guillotine and molotov but with like legs and arms and faces the artist signature is just a pac-man style ghost that says 2023 (remote)

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

catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Visual representation of me getting the fuck out of Florida.

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• Art by curioscurio of Hatsune Miku running down I-4 away from Orlando while wearing a Micky Mouse baseball hat, sunglasses, bikini top, jorts, knee banage + bandaid on her shin, and blue & pink crocs. She is slightly sunburn, carrying a plastic Publix bag, and eating a Publix subway sandwich while firing a pistol blindly behind her. You know, normal Florida shit. (remote)

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

Today in History: First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, 1774

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

Today in History: St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980

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

Today in History: US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 (so-called "missile gap" was false interpretation of the data)

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

Today in History: Raquel Welch born, 1942

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

torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

Got something nice in the post from @letsencrypt. Want one, or just want to support encryption on the web? Donate at https://letsencrypt.org/donate/. 🔒👕

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• A black t-shirt featuring the Let's Encrypt logo with the words “Let’s Encrypt” on the sleeve.

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

Today in History: King Louis XIV of France born, 1638

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

‘Trump is facing four federal felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A federal grand jury returned an indictment alleging that Trump knowingly lied about the 2020 election by spreading claims that “were unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing.” Trump has indicated his lawyers will enter a not guilty plea on his behalf during a hearing on the case on Thursday.’

https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C_iaxLnxfpZ

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

‘Fuentes noted that if Trump knows that he lost the 2020 election, then he “deserves to be charged” by special counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the results of the election.

“That actually vindicates the DOJ charge against him!” Fuentes declared. “Because the charge is that he knew he lost but he lied to defraud the people.”

“So, why did we do Stop the Steal?” Fuentes demanded to know.’

https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C_iaxLnxfpZ

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

once upon a time, I too was a Regular Army Sergeant… although of the Signal Corps and not the Cavalry, and perhaps one or two years later than Sgt Armstrong

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• cdab9d521a585fa6.jpeg (remote)

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

Small town newspapers are a treasure trove of ignorant creationist nonsense. My local paper is relatively free of it (thanks to the horde of collegians living here), but Marshall, Texas gets the worst of it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/05/i-expect-better-of-retired-professors-jerry-hopkins/

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• Creationism Billions of years plus natural selection? Impossible. Six days plus Magic Beard Man? YES! (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

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.

Reblogged 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/

Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):

freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support - https://www.freexian.com/lts/ and consulting services - https://www.freexian.com/services/

#deblts #lts

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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.

Reblogged 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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• An article headline from The Verge discusses Samsung's upcoming feature allowing users to create AI-generated wallpapers for their touchscreen refrigerators. (remote)

Reblogged 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/

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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)

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/raw-dog-the-open-web/

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

The unrepentant exuberance of sneaking a new ingredient into your picky child's food undetected

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I've reached an age where I don't need Head and Shoulders, I just need Shoulders.

Reblogged 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/

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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.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

This may be the most realistic game ever made:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167920/LowBudget_Repairs/

Reblogged 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.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Hesperalis wrote:

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

jsonstein@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/