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

(Lapels are oddly convenient for that sort of dramatic action.)

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

Kim Wilde and Bryan Adams both released new tracks recently. I found out on the same day, and I had an urge to run out into the street and grab the first person I saw by the lapel and say, "Quick! Tell me what decade is this!"

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

Back when I first heard about the effort to get real-time patches upstreamed into the Linux kernel, I initially assumed it was this one:

https://www.yodaiken.com/2024/09/19/rtlinux-retrospective/

I was less interested once I realized the patches going in were more "real-time" than real-time.

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

2010's third-wave feminism was a wild ride.

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• Feminist Bakes Sourdough Bread Using Her Own Vaginal Yeast

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

mhoye wrote:

Currently listening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdHhfhLBZLw

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Sophie@dice.camp ("Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Ok so here’s something everyone should be aware of:

Computer mice are facing you.
The wire is the mouse’s tail, right?

That means those things you push down on aren’t buttons,

they’re buttocks.

LMB= Left Mouse Buttock
RMB = Right Mouse Buttock

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

fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

a really good piece by @polotek that nails the importance of investing in core web technologies at individual and business level.

i’ve seen epic spends of creating whole rewrite the front end teams. it didn’t solve meaningful issues.

“Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions.”

https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

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

fimion@notacult.social ("Alex Riviere") wrote:

Well, based on recent events, I'm gonna start releasing my future open source projects as GPLe, where it's copy-left but I reserve the right to extort you if you sell it better than me.

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

brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅") wrote:

An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/ - not the mere niggles, but the absolute cesspit explosions. By @rgadellaa, who has seen things you people wouldn't believe; IndexedDBs on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Scrolling bugs glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

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ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

1991— Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, emails some thoughts on what makes for a good website "home page" design.

#OpenWeb #InternetHistory

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1991SepOct/0005.html

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

(pls ignore, testing a #tailscale thing)

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ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

🧊 If you're looking for a rabbit hole to fall into tonight, start here.

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme is a masterfully curated list of programming-related links that progressively become weirder the further down the iceberg you go.

#openweb

https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

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lucylikeayourface@tech.lgbt ("~/Lucyyy 💙") wrote:

@Dee

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• Nintendo DS system menu displaying the message: Generating new private key… Please use stylus to draw an elliptic curve now: (remote)

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The Register: "Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops"

Apple claims they aren't being anti-competitive, but there isn't really any plausible deniability for that UI decision, so that might explain why they are trying to pretend it never existed.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/05/apple_safari_uk_cma/

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kellyromanych ("KellyAnn Romanych (she/her)") wrote:

We've swung from triple digits, to 10 below average, and now back up into the 90s.

Planting perennials is a lifeline for pollinators.

Today, the rosemary is hosting skippers, metallic green bees, leafcutter bees, and honey bees.

Don't give up on urban #bees and #butterflies

#gardening

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• A metallic green sweat bee stands in profile on rosemary blossom. The bee is just about the same size as the bloom. She's all green except for the yellow hairs on legs. Even her beautiful mosaic eye is green.

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

“The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.

From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period”

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

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

@rgadellaa /cc @pluralistic @owa

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

our country has far too many politicians like this

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/nyregion/anthony-desposito-affair-congress.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=B595F56E-475F-4E31-8F64-F5F07C71FE34

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

This is an incredibly important piece by @rgadellaa; it digs deep and outlines why the multiplicative effects of an unbelievable litany of showstopping WebKit bugs combines with Apple's prohibition on iOA browser choice to single-handedly destroy an interoperable competitor to the App Store. Every regulator needs to read it:

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

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

ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

Fellow geeks! Question time!

Anyone has got experience with StarLabs Linux laptops? Happy? Unhappy? Would you order again?

See here: https://starlabs.systems

(Boost very much appreciated) 🔁

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

I consider curating the web as my real job that my bank account doesn't know about yet.

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

They make such a delightful couple.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/23/only-a-fool-would-be-fooled-by-jared-taylor/

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• Jared Taylor (remote)
• Amy Wax (remote)

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

kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) is an unusual type of memory. It is fast and can store data for decades without power. I opened up a FRAM chip to reveal the tiny cubes of PZT, the ferroelectric material that holds the bits.

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• A closeup of the die of a FRAM chip showing the PZT cubes, transistors, and plates that hold the data. (remote)

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

TFW you look for a song from 2007, go to youtube to find a link to pass to others, see results that say "14 years ago", and you think, "Well, it can't be those. That's too far back." And then you remember.

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

Anyway, after you've exhausted yourself working, perhaps you'll have scraped together enough cash to splurge for a "Staycation":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4zXfLe4DY

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

Heard this song on my run this morning from some radio program, or maybe podcast, I've never heard of and isn't listed on the radio station's schedule. Anyway, this song is what got me thinking of songs about work, but it took me a while to track it down based on what little I could remember. Amerie's "Gotta Work":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA3n-KUe3j0

(I've listened to the song, but I haven't watched the video. So CW for unknown content that passes YouTube's low bar of available to the general public.)

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

Somebody dare us to make this one project

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• A photo of two books, covers up, side by side. The book on the left is "Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter" by libi rose striegl and Lori Emerson. The book on the right is "Run Your Own Mail Server" by Michael W Lucas. (remote)

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

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• [The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: comm n pr ble whe writin p ems in the shape of decid o s trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly ntil their letters loos n like leaves, an they d start to float down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.] (remote)

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

Let's go for some genre whiplash. Marie Davidson's "Work It" off her album "Working Class Woman":

https://mariedavidson.bandcamp.com/track/work-it

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nasa@social.beachcom.org ("NASA") wrote:

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Approaches https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240923.html #APOD

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• dd990f83f1f72110.jpeg (remote)