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

eklektikos@mastodon.uno ("🖖 εκᴧεκτικός :fediverso:") wrote:

Il primo equipaggio che partirà per Marte tra 4 anni is the new entro il 2018 Tesla sarà dotata di guida completamente autonoma. 😆

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• Post di Elon Musk su X: "The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will grow exponentially from there, with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years. Being multiplanetary will vastly increase the probable lifespan of consciousness, as we will no longer have all our eggs, literally and metabolically, on one planet." (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

Total Replay v5.2 is out. It features 502 Apple II games (200 new since v4), all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v5.2

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, Kris Kennaway, @ladyailuros, and everyone else who contributed to this project in the past five years.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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• title screenshot from "Ether Quest" by John Carmack and Peter Rokitski
• title screenshot from "Fido" ©1982 by Pat Montelo
• title screenshot from "Mutant" by Steve Waldo ©1983 Universal Software
• title screenshot from "Pick N Pile"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Brands commenting under viral videos made by small creators feels like... theft? It's an advert without payment.

Imagine your painting displayed in an art gallery, then some executive walks by and slaps a Taco Bell logo underneath it with a 👍

Reblogged by rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips"):

timClicks@mastodon.nz ("Tim Clicks") wrote:

A new #rustlang tip is live on my site https://timclicks.dev/tip/how-to-accept-a-file-as-a-command-line-argument-in-rust

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

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The federation concept is dope. Big fan. But this emerging worldview that "all connection is good connection" regardless of implementation or even an ounce of thoughtfulness, is bizarre.

To me, it feels like VC growth-at-all-cost religion repackaged. Big Boz memo vibes. It's giving "your safety is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

Where's this weird urgency coming from? What deadline are we trying to meet that demands such thoughtless action, and subsequent unabashed defending?

#fediverse

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• Leaked memo from Facebook executive 2016: So we connect more people That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

i think both sides are to blame here

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• A silver SUV has crashed into the side of a brick building marked "Drive-Thru Pharmacy." (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Browser benchmarks used to be much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT7thTxyq8

#vivaldi

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

a good night to listen to Mr Prine

https://music.apple.com/us/album/bruised-orange/285601729

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

"They" don't deliver your service, *you* deliver your service. "They" aren't going to be in the room after the contract is over, *you* will be. And any procurement plan that doesn't provide simple-to-execute change of vendor at *any point* in procurement is TBTF, and should be verboten.

Residual capacity to change systems comes from owning systems in a "can we make changes and deploy them?" sense. And that requires control and continuing technical capacity.

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

A good (the best?) first step is to build a mandate and a budget for in-house service development and delivery, then prevent omnibus contracting in any form. Hire in-house talent to integrate and run services that will be continuously delivered, then start small and iterate. Success breeds success.

From there, tools like OSS can have a big impact on breaking up this sort of boondoggle contracting.

Procurement *is* policy; treat it that way.

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

I wrote a series a couple of weeks ago [1] that highlighted the destructive role of too-big-too-fail govt software procurement practices in the US, saddling the state of California with a benefits portal so slow that many struggle to use it.

This sort of thing is everywhere when you start looking; monopsony requires solutions that don't allow predatory vendors to treat each municipality as prey:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-05/tyler-tech-s-odyssey-software-took-over-local-government-and-courts?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyNTgzODc5NywiZXhwIjoxNzI2NDQzNTk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSkMxMFZEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3RjAzNTczNkJDRjE0NDg0QjY5MUUwODYzMjFERjBGNCJ9.la23SPmGgIFJQS5a1IZIO0pjQuBgrWwsMHDT6jSZhTo

[1]: https://infrequently.org/series/reckoning/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Wouldn't it be cool if we had an annual blog awards?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Can't wait for sweaty-boy autumn.

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• Me outside. I'm very sweaty. I'm wearing a red t-shirt and yellow bandanna. I'm staring into the camera.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Me: *in the wilderness alone and scared*

CVS: *from behind a tree* you want me to ask your doctor to refill your Adderall subscription?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The funniest thing my mother ever said to me happened after I trapped a spider in her house and let it free outside.

She said to me, as a stranger would, "oh you're one of those."

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

tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

@bendelarre @slightlyoff @jensimmons And we have an update: François Beaufort, DevRel for WebGPU, just let me know: "It's actually shipping in chrome 129: https://github.com/blurbusters/testufo-public/issues/4#issuecomment-2333689442".

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

A friend tipped me off that a Major American Sporting League's website had, from a low, low point (which I had traced in years prior due to a partnership engagement with the Chrome team) descended to the depths of JS excess. The names have been obfuscated to protect the guilty.

Folks, this is how you break a digital business: a legacy site teetering on the edge of usability, suddenly sunk by hundreds of KB of Reactor overconfidence and "works fine on my $3K laptop and $1K phone"

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• 11 seconds of main thread script work...on an i7 laptop, plugged in, on the tip-of-tree Chromium. It's "only" 4.2MB of JS (14.8MB unzipped), but it's really punching above its weight. (remote)

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

mia@front-end.social ("Mia (CSS workshops available)") wrote:

"Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control seventy-five percent of the cloud computing market. Meta and Google own half of the fiber optic cables supplying internet services across continents."

…

"So what did GAMM do? They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away."

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

This post is making the rounds but I can't pinpoint from where. Anyone know where the traffic is coming from?

Anyway, I'm never not excited when I notice someone is reading something I wrote. No better feeling, truly. So, thank you. It makes my day.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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

RecoveredExpert ("Recovered Expert") wrote:

»The old sync-and-share business model wasn’t working for them anymore, so they turned the internet into a network of expensive, gas-guzzling computing power.
…
The reason why GAMM … are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate.«

It’s essentially taking old IBM concepts and applying it in today’s world.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
#AI #Blockchain #Cloud

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

andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:

“The reason why [the Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Meta oligopoly] and all its little digirati minions on social media are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate. That fact may be devastating for the earth, indeed it is for our mental health, but it’s wonderful news for the four storefronts selling all the juice.”
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Next Friday, @lewis is getting an omg.lol Prami tattoo, and he’s letting *you* choose where. For real!

1. Visit https://stjude.omg.lol
2. Click "Donate now!"
3. Click the "Polls" tab and choose a body part.
4. After you click “Checkout”, you can change the amount if you’d like.

How often do you get to help end childhood cancer *and* influence where someone gets an adorable smiling heart tattooed onto his body? This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, folks! 😄

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Our definition of violence is too narrow. We reserve the phrase "violence is never the answer," for when poor people act out, but never for the state-sanctioned violence they're acting out against.

I wonder why that is.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/crescendo/

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

Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:

Artist Chelo depicts what we see - and what we don't see - on social media. I like the full-circle nature of this comic.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/monero_chelo/related_profiles/?hl=en #art #socialmedia

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• Various characters sharing photos from their lives on the Internet. Each person shares something that the next feels is missing for them. It goes full circle where the last person is missing. Source: monero_chelo | IG https://www.instagram.com/monero_chelo/related_profiles/?hl=en

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

mxbck@front-end.social ("Max Böck") wrote:

✏️ New post: Remember when the code in your editor was exactly the same code delivered to the browser? Now there's usually a build process in between, and that can get ... complicated.

Do we still need that? Can we do modern web development completely #buildless?

https://mxb.dev/blog/buildless/

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

oh well, we all make these little mistakes @CARROT

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• ba0a268bcf909e2b.mp4 (remote)

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

exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

perfection doesn’t exist, but better does

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

Y'all know JS doesn't get cheaper by the MB, right?

There's no bulk discount.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A perfect loaf of bread.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A white cat with orange patches (Peaches) is shaped like a loaf of bread on top of a cardboard box, looking out of a window. Her tail dangles playfully over the edge of the box.