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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

At last, Hoot 0.5.0 has been released! This time around we've got an interpreter, fibers for lightweight concurrency, more Guile compatibility, backtraces, and more! We've even got a simple little Scheme REPL embedded in the blog post for fun. Check it out!

https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v050-released.html

#scheme #lisp #wasm #spritely

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• The hoot pixel art owl mascot with the text "new release v0.5.0" (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

once upon a midnight dreary
while I wandered, weak and weary
to a quaint and curious icebox door
when I spotted what I had been craving
the plums that you were probably saving
for your breakfast, I am sure
forgive me please, I do implore
I ate those plums and nothing more

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

skypunch ("Marcus :welp:") wrote:

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• Colossal Stone Head on Bluesky: “the alt text field is where you imagine what guybrush threepwood might say if he examined your image”

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The Trump family’s latest crypto scheme, “World Liberty Financial”, has the makings of the biggest clusterfuck in Web3 is Going Just Great history.

#CitationNeeded #crypto #cryptocurrency

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• What better time to launch a transparently grifty “high-yield” cryptocurrency business than two months before your presidential election? Donald Trump, and especially his sons, have been teasing an upcoming cryptocurrency project that seems to be rapidly shapeshifting. First, they were all teasing something called “The DeFiant Ones” (a play on decentralized finance, or defi), with hashtags #BeDeFiant and tweets warning people to not “get left behind”. Then Eric Trump said something about the project involving “digital real estate”, though its unclear if he was speaking metaphorically or was actually referring to the metaverse “land” fad that more or less came and went. He did immediately follow up this statement by saying “It’s equitable. It’s collateral anyone can get access to and do so instantly,” leaving me to wonder if anyone in the Trump family has ever set foot near an average person trying to buy a house these days. Now the flim-flam family is all talking about “World Liberty Financial”, with a website promising access to “high-yield crypto investments”, a statement that should immediately set off alarm bells in anyone’s head. (remote)
• The project hasn’t even launched yet, and it’s off to a bumpy start. First, Donald Trump Jr. had to issue a statement to try to stop people from buying up all the fake tokens purporting to be associated with their murky project [I64]. Then, Twitter accounts for Lara and Tiffany Trump were both compromised and used to send tweets announcing a supposed token launch. “This is a scam!!!” tweeted Eric, himself retweeting the tweet from his wife’s account containing the scam token address. Now, CoinDesk has gotten hold of a white paper for this supposed World Liberty Financial, which they note appears to be a clone of Dough Finance, a crypto lending platform that was hacked for around $2 million just a month and a half ago [W3IGG]. The hack was not a sophisticated one, and instead exploited sloppiness on behalf of the development team. The four people who built Dough are all listed as members of the World Liberty Financial team, as are Trump’s sons (including 18-year-old Barron, who they list as a “DeFi visionary”). Zachary Folkman, a Dough Finance creator who is now listed as the head of operations for World Liberty Finance, previously ran a pick-up artist advice platform called “Date Hotter Girls”.25 You should really just read the piece by CoinDesk, they did some great reporting here. (remote)
• The project is making even the Trumpiest people in crypto nervous. Nic Carter, a crypto venture capitalist and outspoken Trump supporter, tweeted: is there something that we, as crypto twitter, can collectively do to stop the launch of world liberty coin? i think it genuinely damages trump's electoral prospects, especially if it gets hacked (it'll be the juiciest DeFi target ever and it's forked from a protocol that itself was hacked). it's also an obvious target for the SEC. at best it's an unnecessary distraction, at worst it's a huge embarrassment and source of (additional) legal trouble. so are we signing a petition or what? Commenting on the hack of the two Trump family Twitter accounts, he added: “can't secure twitter accounts but i'm sure they'll be able to protect an (already hacked) defi protocol from hacks”.26 All I can say is that if he launches this before the election and it gets hacked, it’s a strong contender for biggest clusterfuck in the history of Web3 is Going Just Great. (remote)

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

AI not even good at the accessibility thing it's supposed to be good at

https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/accessibility-specialists-warn-against-ai-for-alt-text/

(Be sure to click through to the original post to see the details of the experiment.)

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

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

next post in my series: I replaced htmx with a tiny web component and was happier for it: https://dev.to/zkat/i-replaced-htmx-with-a-simple-web-component-4bnh

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

Do you ever wonder what you were thinking when you made a decision you can't even remember making?

Like, at what point in my life did I decide: "yes, LinkedIn is an app I'd like to install on my phone."

Why did I think that was a good choice? Who was I back then? Can I even really say I'm the same person at all?

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

Back in the 1990s, I played the heck out of a little game called "Hellcats Over the Pacific". It's a bit dated now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/06/retro-gamers-ahoy/

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• Hellcats Over the Pacific (remote)

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

jkohlmann ("Joseph Kohlmann") wrote:

If anyone knows of a PDF to rich text (i.e. Markdown) conversation tool that preserves strikethrough annotations, please let me know!

So far I know of one viable workflow, using Microsoft Word for macOS, an Office 365 subscription, and its remote service to convert a PDF to DOCX. This correctly translates strikethroughs. Pandoc’s DOCX to Markdown conversion also preserves strikethrough formatting.

I’d prefer a free, open source PDF converter, preferably one with a Node.js API or a general CLI.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I made an IG and threads account dedicated to the old web. Because what better place to share the treasures, histories, and lores of the #oldweb than the places that are trying to kill it?

IG: https://www.instagram.com/imisstheoldweb

I also made a website. Check it out: https://imisstheoldweb.com

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

I've been trying to forget the atheist 'community' that once existed. Thanks, Lauren Chen, for reminding me that you were there. Now go away.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/06/im-getting-flashbacks-to-the-internet-atheism-of-yore/

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• Lauren Chen, Liam Donovan (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

oh hey, bandcamp friday?

check out the catalog of Analog Revolution, our scrappy indie label led by @ajroach42 and @DoctorDeathray and get yourself some good, wholesome, oppression-busting tunes whilst supporting a group of leftist media rabblerousers in a battleground state!

https://analogrevolution.bandcamp.com/

#BandcampFriday

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

I think this cartoon is more a comment on media bias than on the makeup of the prairie population. Lots of progressives here, but they're outnumbered by the MAGA-hat wearing, truck driving, gun-toting nitwits.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/06/i-wish-i-had-more-prairie-progressives-around-here/

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• Cartoon mocking how reporters go looking for MAGA goons in midwestern diners when there are also progressives here (remote)

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

Resister@radicalsocial.work ("Radical Social Worker") wrote:

Have a radical Friday! 💥💥💥

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• Photo of a woman holding what looks like a marijuna joint in the passenger seat of an orange car. She is holding a sign that says "sex is cool but have you ever fucked the system?" (remote)

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

I love this piece, I love Michigan

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/style/michigan-i-voted-sticker-werewolf.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik4.Cb1l.YWsxPe_6CLgg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

I like CSS.

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• 2024 State of CSS survey results: 435 total points. Of the 60 features mentioned in the survey, I've used 34 and heard of 19 more, which puts me in the top 10% of all respondents. (remote)

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

holothuroid@rollenspiel.social wrote:

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

barometz@tech.lgbt ("dominic") wrote:

@mcc it doesn't help that strstream is in and stringstream is in so it's easy to just pick the wrong abbreviation that matches either option

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

mcc wrote:

(What I'm referring to is that the C++ standard library has a class named "stringstream" but also a class named "strstream" and they're basically the same except "strstream" crashes when you try to use it, and "strstream" isn't supposed to even *be* there it's just an early mistake that got replaced with "stringstream", but it's *still there* so if you accidentally mistype "stringstream" you will unknowingly call into existence this Thing That Should Not Be by the act of naming it)

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

gulovsen ("Grant Gulovsen") wrote:

I think I need to get a t-shirt that says “I’m voting for the cop”

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

I love this piece:

“The mystery of the cover letter” - The Economist

https://apple.news/A7hg3eEooSmqN3-rsp3ff3w

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

just please don’t elect them

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• e98d978145ded79a.mp4 (remote)

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

If you torture the text hard enough, you might be able to squeeze modern space science out of the Bible, according to Rob Webb.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/06/rocket-science-is-in-the-bible/

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• Ghosts rocketing up out of their graves (remote)

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

John Cage - 4'33" - Nightcore mix

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

https://masto.ai/@rbreich/113087445219458160

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• 159879c1d4e4984e.png (remote)

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

RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Jorkin Depeanus Tarr") wrote:

I would say this is pretty charted territory:

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• Europe | Schicksalwahl The hard right takes Germany into uncharted territory The parties in Olaf Scholz’s coalition are crushed in state polls (remote)

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

aftunion@threads.net ("AFT") wrote:

WATCH 🎥 Educators React to JD Vance's Attacks on Educators "Without Kids"

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• c7173b78a7afebbd.mp4 (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've compiled 100K #RustLang crates, and collected all the lints and clippy warnings:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/ive-ran-clippy-on-100k-crates/117127

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

anildash@threads.net ("Anil Dash") wrote:

Hey, today’s my birthday! I am so fortunate, I want for nothing, so I’m asking for something simple: take a moment to show gratitude to someone in your life whom you appreciate, and give what you can to support the most vulnerable people in your community. One more gift for me: forgive yourself, we are all trying our best! 💜

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

emma@orbital.horse ("Emma Builds 🚀") wrote:

Shouldn't that be an opt-in, and not an opt-out?

I guess Jeff needs more yachts.

https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/113087488324450819