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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Bruce Springsteen born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: US Vice President Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A small step forward :) #openweb
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ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:
Want to start exploring the great web beyond our algorithms but feel overwhelmed?
Start here.
The I ❤️ Websites Club helps us discover great writers, artists, game masters, and other weirdos with websites, to help you build up your RSS feeds and bookmarks.
We'll get started shortly, so follow us here, now, to stay updated.
Account managed by @fromjason
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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/
Mastodon FeedParalysis by analysis
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("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!
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@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.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Is the answer to every yes-or-no posed on the Internet "no?"
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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.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer" from Johnny Cash:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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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
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons":
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Dolly Parton's classic "9 To 5":
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's Monday. Time for some motivating music. "Work to Do" by the Isley Brothers:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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
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trochee@dair-community.social ("Jeremy Kahn") wrote:
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:
"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.”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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":
How's that going?
LOL.
Apple tried one (1) RSR in '23, [3] and* never again*.[4] Prolly because **it didn't work**:
[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)
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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
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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? 🤣
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
*tips cap* m'shroom