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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"...they even re-invented the receipt with Web 3"
😂😂😂
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justinwolfers@threads.net ("Justin Wolfers") wrote:
ACT TWO
Economists: Nope. Not true. None of us think that. That at all. Nope. It's a non-starter.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We need an addendum to Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, which suggests that all message reading apps will evolve until they reach Thunderbird levels of inbound message routing.
This thought brought to you by podcast apps that don't allow you to filter by length and episode title text.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
you don’t want “the old internet,” you want a space that hasn’t been colonized by capital
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
👀 A customizable select you say...
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This, it turned out was a *major* "if". Nothing went smoothly, and there were many explosions along the way. In the end, it was the Android team's lust for more native app installs that allowed us to ship *anything*. But that's a story for another day.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The founding moment of Fuchsia was a crisis within the Chrome team as we realised the web was being locked out of mobile, even as Chrome was being made Android's default browser. One train of thought was that the web simply wasn't fast enough; this begat "Razor", a project to cut down Blink to a fast subset of HTML. The initial gains were pretty killer. HTML's cadillac error correction does, indeed, slow down HTML parsing by a lot. And you can clobber a LOT of code.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
...but I reckoned this wasn't the biggest problem; distribution was (and is). Mobile success is about being part of the tap-and-swipe ecosystem. If a service can't be on the homescreen or in the notification tray, it functionally doesn't matter on mobile. Having to type is orders of magnitude harder on a low-end phone than tap/swipe, and in '14, that was even more true.
So the efforts diverged.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Adam Barth and Eric Seidel and Rafael Weinstein and a few others went off to polish up Razor; Hixie joined a bit later, IIRC. My north star for it had been "strict subset". That held for a few weeks. The insight being, that if a Razor document *also* loaded in a full-fat browser, perhaps the subset stood a chance of taking off.
After coming back from a vacation, the siren song of features had won; V8 had been swapped for Dart, and non-subset features were sprouting. Fuchsia was born.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Meanwhile, on the "distribution is the main problem" track, we looked at many options. Store-delivered wrapped apps w/ new features (based on the Cordova extension work for Chrome Apps v2 for mobile) that we could introduce in parallel to the browser, etc. etc. But iOS was a nasty problem, even with UIWebView's ability to let us shim in network interception, and lack of real browser competition there meant no chance to deliver.
PWAs would have to be Android-only, if we could get them done.
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kkarhan@infosec.space ("Kevin Karhan :verified:") wrote:
@fromjason nodds in agreement
She should've told #Cheney to fuck off and undo the harm he caused first...
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The King - Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter
"Harris cannot control who endorses her. But her warm response to Dick Cheney’s approval should be greeted with alarm — particularly when war criminals are welcomed into the Harris fold while antiwar protesters are rejected." https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-king
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is a thoughtful piece; what Chris didn't see were some of the failure modes of Hixie's hubris when it came to inventing new elements in HTML5 (see also: "what we need is WASM and WebGPU" pipe dreams). But it's spot-on about how Google has turned away from the web, particularly on mobile, and empowered the Android team to facilitate a cozy anti-web duopoly:
https://cdibona.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-for-the-open-web-and-old
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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:
how come you can add more -vvv to get more logging but you can't add more w's to www to get more website
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Shout out to everyone smart enough to figure out that "They're eating the dogs and cats!" is just a lie that racists say, but not smart enough to figure out that "They're closing drug stores because of shoplifting!" is exactly the same thing.🤡
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/13/business/theft-retail-shrink-stores/index.html
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quillmatiq ("Anuj Ahooja") wrote:
At #FediForum, @ben called out that he linked to the @ProPublica donation drive on #Mastodon, and that yielded more donations than any other social media promotion on other platforms by the official account.
Huge.
We've seen hints of how the #Fediverse can have a positive impact on newsrooms, but this is the most tangible proof I've personally seen so far.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“A far-right activist known for her endless stream of sexist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-Muslim and occasionally antisemitic social media posts and public stunts, Ms. Loomer has made a name for herself over the past decade by unabashedly claiming 9/11 was “an inside job,” calling Islam “a cancer,” accusing Ron DeSantis’s wife of exaggerating breast cancer and claiming that President Biden was behind the attempt to assassinate Mr. Trump in July.”
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abraxas3d@defcon.social ("Abraxas3d") wrote:
Since the NextNav rules proposal (reorganize 900 MHz band, invite broadband data 5G in) got traction at FCC (ORI comments are here: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10905692430822/1), I’m thinking that a proposal to renovate 219 MHz might just be in order?
If NextNav can get a proposal for rulemaking in front of the public, then we should be able to as well. 219 is a band with a spectrum management failure that has sided out amateur radio entirely. Last documented amateur activity was in the 1990s.
I presented about this band here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ds6RBufHI
@OpenResearchIns is on board, the ARRL counsel is receptive.
Can’t think of a better crowd of folks than this one that might want to see more spectrum for amateur, educational, and experimental work.
Amateur activity is restricted to point to point digital links in the current rules, but perhaps mobile digital amateur might be something to propose?
Get in touch if you want to help be the change.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Wow, ORconf are quick with the uploads 👀
Here is my talk on Surfer, a snappy and extensible waveform viewer for all your #asic and #fpga needs!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Of course, Ellen Ullman may have said it best:
"We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."
Also, old man yells at cloud etc...
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Did you know: the original Latin from which the term "liberal arts" is derived means "education given to free people"? "Liberal" here means free, as in freedom.
Liberal arts wasn't meant to be a niche degree; it was supposed to be ways we enjoy our freedom. We were *meant* to create art, study history, read poetry, and philosophize with our time. That was the point. That's what freedom was for.
Kinda makes you realize how much capitalism has put itself at odds with that notion of freedom, huh?
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feoh@oldbytes.space ("Feoh") wrote:
Happy Friday everyone!
Got kind of a special #electronica mix today. 1/2 of Orbital doing a private studio mix I just can't get enough of!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6PmQ_0ft0
Happy #friday and have an incredible weekend everyone!
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genxjamerican@hachyderm.io ("Scott 🇯🇲 🇺🇸") wrote:
If you read anything about Haiti or Haitians today, make sure it is this: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/racist-cat-attacks-against-haitian-immigrants/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Oh well, I suppose if I better understood biology, I would also be frustrated with how "terribly" engineered it is, and yet it's been pretty successful technology deployed on this planet for billions of years. Maybe that's apples and oranges, but then again... :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I mean, it's possible that this is just what happens to any technology that is widely deployed over time and has to interface with humans in multiple places with conflicting goals and requirements, and it's also possible that improvements are lost in the larger jank signal, but... it's so disappointing and... not enjoyable.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Look, I know we've been collectively pouring billions of dollars and possibly billions of person years building out and building on the web stack, and it works in that we're all using it, but it is just super frustratingly janky in multiple dimensions. Some sort of hypercube of jankiness.
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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
Y’all spending money on iPhones should send some to St Jude because you didn’t _need_ that new phone right? https://stjude.omg.lol
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
If you would like to bid on one of ten hand printed copies of this linocut print, all proceeds are going to the Internet Archive's Open Library.
https://givebutter.com/c/2cScHO/auction
#InternetArchive #OpenLibrary #libraries #linocut #printmaking
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- A 6x8" linocut print in black ink depicting a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”. The print is propped up against a shelf of books. (remote)
- A 6x8" linocut print in black ink depicting a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”. (remote)
- The lino block with the carving of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”. (remote)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I guess we've adopted some new pets.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/13/cozying-up-to-the-enemy/
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Mastodon FeedIf AI companies used a significant amount renewable energy, we'd definitely hear about it, and every piece of slop would have a green logo on it. The silence means they have nothing good to say.
When hardware uses a lot of energy, it can become instant junk when a more energy-efficient generation comes out, because the cost of (new hardware + less energy) can be less than (free hardware + more energy). The effect is so significant it even makes old PCs not worth using.