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

rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

🪲 An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers

TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in mobile ecosystems; frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native. Here are the receipts to prove it.

10 yrs of Safari showstopper bugs.

🙏 @slightlyoff for help drafting & edits

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Paralysis by analysis

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

RTO or GTFO? Last week, Amazon announced that starting in 2025, all employees will be in a physical office 5 days a week. While putatively to strengthen culture (as "the world's largest startup"), this is proving unpopular with many. Will other companies follow suit? On today's episode, @ahl and I are going to talk about remote work, RTO mandates -- and the physicality of both innovation and organization. Join us and share your perspective, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1287787453599584327

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

My wife and I have been going to the gym together a few times a week for a little over a month now.

I'm reluctant to report the rumors are true: it actually really does help. My mental health and general outlook are both the best they've been in a very long time. I feel completely different than I did a month or two ago.

Not all mental health is related to physical health, but if one suffers when the other's neglected, that might be a good signal to follow.

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

I think I'm getting too old for everything. Also, I'm 67 -- shouldn't I have outgrown imposter syndrome by now?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/23/weekend-whats-that/

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• college students partying (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Is the answer to every yes-or-no posed on the Internet "no?"

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

esther@strangeobject.space ("Esther is looking for a server") wrote:

I have said this several times but it bears repeating now:

A very large portion of the Fediverse values tone over substance. "Politeness" and "civility" over what people are actually saying.

This leads to a constant background noise of just rancid replies that are all phrased in a superficially "nice" tone.

Justified anger and non-diplomatic push-back however is heavily policed and dismissed as "bad habits" brought over from elsewhere.

Unless this fundamentally changes, it will never be a place that's safe for marginalized people who have to stand up for themselves and face a constant stream of condescension, dismissiveness, and outright hostility.

A lot of the time it absolutely does live up to its reputation as a place where middle aged white cis men tell you how your perspective and expertise don't matter, and where you better watch your mouth when talking back to them.

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

"The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer" from Johnny Cash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppa__7ZLAU8

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

It's all blasphemy, all the way through. Good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/23/incest-is-a-touchy-subject-for-ken-ham/

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• Gutsick Gibbon said the 'god' word (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

remoquete@hachyderm.io ("Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti") wrote:

There you go. A robots.txt that blocks all known AIs. Hopefully it's not ignored... https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.txt

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j91-18Kb4

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

Dolly Parton's classic "9 To 5":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4

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

It's Monday. Time for some motivating music. "Work to Do" by the Isley Brothers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w28W4Nh9tJM

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This thought popped into my head after watching a TikTok where a creator posed the question "which nepo baby deserves their fame?" and I immediately said "none."

There is no level of talent deserving of generational opportunity in a system built on exclusion.

And yeah, actually, I'm a blast at parties. Lol

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

trochee@dair-community.social ("Jeremy Kahn") wrote:

@fromjason

Yes, and conversely, how many of the fabulously wealthy attribute that wealth to talent rather than luck (often luck in choosing your parents!)

If elon¹-grade talent was enough to make one a billionaire, then half of everyone's high-school class should own private islands

Wealth is not correlated with talent!

¹ dude is _made_ of mid

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@fromjason

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

- #StephenJayGould

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The older I get the more I realize just how common talent is in the world. Knowing that doesn't make talent any less impressive, just that it makes you appreciate how rare opportunity is.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Bitter Lesson:

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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

Back in '22, regulators started peering over their glasses at Apple's indefensible [1][2] claim that forced monoculture was Good For Users, Actually.

To deflect, Apple introduced "Rapid Security Responses":

https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-launches-rapid-security-response-a-new-feature-for-applying-security-updates-on-the-fly/

How's that going?

LOL.

Apple tried one (1) RSR in '23, [3] and* never again*.[4] Prolly because **it didn't work**:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/apple-releases-quickly-pulls-rapid-security-response-update-for-0-day-webkit-bug/

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/27/safari_webkit_bug/
[2]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-through-project-zero-metrics.html#h.4ajnbffcm6lj
[3]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/121012
[4]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100

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• Apple's WebKit/Safari patch gap has historically sucked by comparison to other vendors, not so much because they're slower to accept patches, but because bundling the browser with the OS is a terrible idea, but one Cupertino can't shake. And it turns out, "Rapid Security Response" didn't work, either. The answer is obvious -- decouple, and spend what it takes to make security a priority -- but that's not The FruitCo Way. (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

hn50@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 50") wrote:

Uber charges more if you have credits in your account

Link: https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620304

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

dbaron@w3c.social ("L. David Baron") wrote:

Should this instance be renamed to w3c.socal for the week, for TPAC? 🤣

https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2024

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

I know I've fanboy'd about this before, but hot damn, color.io is incredibly well done. This is what 250KB of JS *for a good reason* looks like. If your site is slinging that much code but isn't attempting 3D color space conversions over images and video, doesn't work offline, and isn't basically instant every time you tap a button...maybe re-evaluate what's possible.

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

redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

*tips cap* m'shroom

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

janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

This is perfect and we should start using these immediately.
https://glasgow.social/@sue/113182808818755906

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

App Stores are a great idea that have no downsides and we should absolutely trust the future of computing to proprietary, unaccountable gatekeepers:

https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/113181384256449181

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

are0h@h-i.social ("Gorgeous Killer") wrote:

So basically, the state of Missouri is planning to carry out the public lynching of a brother that has been proven innocent.

This is an example of why I call the US a death cult. This is a straight up human sacrifice to white supremacy.

https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-marcellus-williams-an-innocent-man/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Sometimes, all I need is the air I breathe and a little treat

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Crowdfunded effort (led by the awesome Cards Against Humanity folks) bought a tract of pristine land in Texas near the Mexican border a few years ago to prevent development (such as a border wall), and to leave it in a natural state.

This year, Space X unilaterally started building on the tract, without anyone's permission, causing irreparable harm to the natural state of the land. Not cool, says the owner.

Hilarity currently en-suing. https://www.cahsuesmusk.com/

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

Phaethon wrote:

@arstechnica
NASA's first 4k video from the Lunar surface...

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

Phaethon wrote:

@jsonstein @TexasObserver
From the archives: Jan. 2021

How it started. How it's going

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