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

A deep and important piece by @rgadellaa that documents the gobsmacking history of showstopping bugs on iOS Safari:

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

Normally, a browser sucking would be a problem just for that vendor, who would lose share. But because of the #applebrowserban, Apple has nothing to fear. Instead, Apple continually breaks essential functionality it would *never* break for native developers.

The result? A web that can't compete, even when Apple *finally* gets around to adding features.

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

anubiarts ("Anubi") wrote:

moo deng, pixelated

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Animals #MooDeng #Hippopotamus

Attachments:

• A Pixel Art Redraw featuring Moo Deng, a Pygmy Hippopotamus from a Zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng has her eyes and mouth wide open in shock, while standing on the ground. Palette used is a slightly modified version of na16.
• A Picture featuring Moo Deng, a Pygmy Hippopotamus from a Zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng has her eyes and mouth wide open in shock, while a zookeeper is trying to pick her up from the ground. You really thought I wouldn't redraw her?

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

P Diddy + SBF, sittin' in the pokey, K-I-… no, I can't go on. Pass the brain bleach.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/is-this-justice-or-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/

Attachments:

• Sean Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried (remote)

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

deadblackclover@functional.cafe ("Kellerman Raynberg") wrote:

Hy 1.0.0, the Lisp dialect for Python, has been released

https://github.com/hylang/hy/discussions/2608

#lisp #hy #python

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Happy to be a launch partner of the Social Web Foundation (@swf). Excited to see other organizations being built to push the fediverse forward!

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

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

ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

good #tzag and strong #coffee dear fedizens Have a nice day https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_mkiGMtbrPM

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

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

On Every Noise, I input an artist I like, find the micro genre Spotify has associated with it, then search that micro genre name on the Spotify app to discover more like that artist.

This process is one of my favorite ways to discover new music. How about you?

#Spotify #Music

https://www.everynoise.com/

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

I need a filter for my own posts. For instance, I could set a filter for "uspol", and then every time I compose a toot with that in it and hit "Publish!", it ill be dutifully placed on my timelines so only I can see it but otherwise it is not actually sent anywhere else. And not even visible publicly or in rss feeds.

Actually, if it didn't even show up in my timeline it would be fine too. Just send that stuff to /dev/null, mx. computer. Save me the effort of filtering myself.

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

Huh. I did not know Maemo was an active project:

https://leste.maemo.org/Main_Page

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

The real pet-killing monsters are the ones making the accusations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/do-they-just-hate-animals/

Attachments:

• dog cartoon with x's for eyes (remote)

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

benbyrne@avantwhatever.org ("Ben") wrote:

#NowPlaying this beautiful new record from Seaworthy and Matt Rösner, made on the NSW south coast https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/deep-valley

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

okay, this is wonderful… and reinforces my desire to never eat an octopus

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/science/octopuses-punching-fish.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE4.BQlE.Gb8PLMApOI1B&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp

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

makethecatwise@digipres.club ("Leontien Talboom") wrote:

Last week, Tyler Thorsted, @archivist_Liz, Chris Knowles and I did a workshop on imaging obscure floppy disk formats at #ipres2024
As part of this workshop we produced a guide, which is available on Zenodo!

https://zenodo.org/records/13828372

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• f6fb9648dc82f5cd.png (remote)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

💪🏼👠 Via #Harris spox Lauren Hitt:

#Georgia Teamsters endorse the Vice President ahead of Trump's economic speech in Savannah today.

1.5 million active and retired Teamsters have now endorsed the VP, including more than 500k members in battlegrounds of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada

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

GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Cybersecurity explained

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• 2248e57abd15ed1d.png (remote)

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

if
carpenters built buildings
the way programmers build software
then
the first woodpecker to come along
would destroy civilization

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113193255642012581

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

from “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett

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

“Swamp dragons tended to explode in the air, imps ate the messages and the semaphore helmets had not been a success, especially in high winds. And then Corporal Littlebottom had pointed out that Ankh-Morpork’s pigeons were, because of many centuries of depredation by the city’s gargoyle population, considerably more intelligent than most pigeons, although Vimes considered that this was not difficult because there were things growing on old damp bread that were more intelligent than most pigeons”

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manton@manton.org ("Manton Reece") wrote:

Social Web Foundation:

"The Social Web Foundation works to grow this new ecosystem in an open, healthy, and sustainable way—working with technologists and the public to build a new global town square that works for everyone."

This looks very interesting. I’m going to be honest, though, even though I know this is petty: I’m insulted that Micro.blog wasn’t given a heads-up about this before launch. We’ve only supported ActivityPub since 2018. 🤪

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

pixel perfect is the enemy of pixel good

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

ieure@retro.social ("Boosty Collins") wrote:

When you already own most of the Funkadelic discography, and assume you have to buy the entire Parliament discography too... that's the Funk Cost Fallacy.

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

We have these guys mucking up academic research, too!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/the-bad-actor-problem-in-academia/

Attachments:

• "Not me" from the Family Circus (remote)

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

amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Sebastian Witowski explains why and how he still uses Make for Python projects and other tasks.

https://switowski.com/blog/i-like-makefiles

#make #makefile #python

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

druskus@chaos.social wrote:

Today on no one should ever use yaml for anything:

Attachments:

• Github issue: Toolchain version 1.70 is parsed as 1.7 #112 Happens in this pr: tokio-rs/mio#1806, workflow: https://github.com/tokio-rs/mio/actions/runs/9514447708/job/26226798660. Relevant GitHub Action config: - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master with: toolchain: 1.70 (remote)

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

thank you, CAPT Tully… the Union still stands

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• a3da1412aeff9534.jpeg (remote)

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

edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

A good quote to start Kill it With Fire:

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• [We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

 Ellen Ullman][5] ([remote][6])

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

The best Halloween spider ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/the-official-spider-of-halloween/

Attachments:

• Vampire spider, Evarcha culicovora (remote)

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

jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

In retrospect, it's kind of crazy that the two biggest developments in CPU technology over the last 20 years were "use much less power, for mobile" and "use much more power, for AI", and Intel managed to miss both of them

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

Also, Adams' version of "War Machine" is worth checking out (the song he recently released). I was unaware he was involved in writing that one.

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

It just blows my mind that the abbreviation "WP" is explicitly *not* covered by copyright, and yet, Matt Mullenweg still tried to extort millions from WP Engine to "license" it.

He even updated the WordPress license page after the fact to try to throw shade on WPE and make his utterly baseless claim look better (even though *tons* of other businesses and products also use "WP").

Really sucks watching a once-respected figure in open source devolve into a petulant, borderline-criminal man-child.