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

Rule of thumb: if your strategy is ever to harm innocent bystanders to make your point, you're the bad guy.

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

"WP Engine clearly doesn't care about the WordPress community. Therefore, I have decided to carpet bomb the WordPress community."

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

Matt Mullenweg seems determined to commit career suicide.

What the actual fuck is this man-child thinking? How are there no other adults in the room to stop him from executing on these obviously self-sabotaging ideas?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fpeqn2/plugin_repository_inaccessible_to_wp_engine/

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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

I’ve spent a long time away from making art for myself. So easy to fall into survival mode and so hard to dig out of that

Time to FORCE myself to have fun by assigning myself cat wizard drawings! Everything is fine! Here’s number one 🔮

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• Black and white illustration of a pudgy cat in a wizard robe and hat, it’s holding a book and a wand and has big, twinkling eyes (remote)

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maxeddy@infosec.exchange ("Max "Sweaty Sunsets of September" Eddy") wrote:

Something has gone very wrong in the world that I am only just today finding out about Steely Danzig.

https://electrolemon.bandcamp.com/track/steely-danzig

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

Hyperscalers tying up the world in submarine cables • The Register:

"Over the past decade, the amount of international subsea capacity used by the four hyperscalers increased from 10 percent to 71 percent, causing the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) to conclude that their influence “hasn’t yet been fully recognized or seriously considered.”"

I like to call these four companies GAMM (Google Amazon Microsoft Meta) https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/aspi_hyperscaler_cables/

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BrentD@techhub.social ("BGDoncaster") wrote:

Private internet highways resulting from consolidation of subsea cables by USA hyperscalers. Good Read. https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/aspi_hyperscaler_cables/ #theregister #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Amazon #subseacables #internet #digitalnetworks #cloud

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• Digital Bit Sreams (remote)

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

MSG Pickels are ridiculously good. I'll never buy store bought again.

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yvonnezlam ("Yvonne Lam") wrote:

A great post from @jenniferplusplus about when you want to build a tool, and what everyone else wants you to build is a brand:

https://jenniferplusplus.com/named-things/

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• great. For a little while. Shortly after we discovered there were problems running these apps through CICD. We discovered the bundled design system components were from the wrong generation of the design system. We discovered that not everyone had access to one or more of the various git repositories where these things came from. We discovered lots of problems like this. And to be fair, that's to be expected. You don't know what you don't know, so you do the best you can and deal with problems as they arise. The problem was that they hadn't built any mechanism to enable responding to those unknown problems. In fact, they hadn't built very much of anything at all.

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stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, suggests that there is "no causal connection" between social media and teen mental health.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254044/mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media-teen-mental-health

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #MentalHealth #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg

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

As you read through @rgadellaa's exhaustive (and exhausting) catalogue of showstopping iOS web bugs [1], remember that Cupertino's position to regulators is:

• Safari is *so* good that allowing other engines would only ruin a good thing
• The web is a real substitute for native apps because Safari is so capable
• Safari is not behind on features
• Apple's approach "is working"

No, really.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644691

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

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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:

Verilog to E. coli compiler (feat. Yosys) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01730-1

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

The techno-libertarian discourse surrounding the #SocialWeb reminds me of this banger.

There's truly a dril tweet for every occasion.

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• wint @dril the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" 10:52 AM - Jun 2, 2014

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

Won't someone think of the billion dollar corporatations? #socialweb

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EvilBunnyPottymouth ("Evil Bunny Pottymouth") wrote:

from Kamala’s Wins

BREAKING: In a stunning new leak, this photo of Donald Trump and Kevin Roberts (the author of Project 2025) flying in Trump’s private jet has surfaced. Retweet to make sure everyone knows these two are inextricably linked.
#Project2025

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• fb94974801949c68.jpg

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

Do the people who put up this ad have a practical alternative?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/25/this-is-supposed-to-be-negative-ad/

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• When Boys in Minnesota need tampons in school Tampon Tim delivers! (remote)

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Going to the library to experience the socialist utopia

Doing some work there on the publicly available socialist sewing machine and not being alienated from my own labour to own the capitalists

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

There seems to be more racial diversity represented in this photo than in all of #Fediverse leadership, #SocialWeb groups and foundation.

So, I gotta ask, whose Black hands are these?

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• 1f90a00044ba3dec.jpeg

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"AI" is often said to be necessary to "save healthcare" and I don't think that that story holds water. In fact it's the opposite.

https://tante.cc/2024/09/24/a-choice/

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jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

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• "Jesus died for our sins." OK, but he didn't STAY dead, right? So what exactly did he sacrifice? Jesus gave up his weekend for your sins. [Evangelical Jesus art depicting Jesus stepping out of his tomb] (remote)

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joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org ("Joe Ortiz") wrote:

To follow up on this, you should read these two pieces from 2023 into why Meta/FB is a huge threat to the #Fediverse as a whole:

@fromjason https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/copy-acquire-kill-how-meta-could-pull-off-the-most-extraordinary-pivot-in-tech-history/

@ploum https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

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ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

@jon
Meta facilitates more crimes than it's possible to catalog. I know because I'm cataloging them

https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Nightmares

@fromjason

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

Robots as a proxy for our desire to own servants. It's depressing how easy it is for people to want that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/25/youve-all-read-the-murderbot-series-i-presume/

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• A murderbot of our very own (remote)

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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

truth

https://mastodon.energy/@jgkoomey/113198450665852788

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

@simon so, of course, I have a little "news.sh" script in my path that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

echo "getting news...\n"
curl -s https://www.nytimes.com/ | strip-tags .story-wrapper | ttok -t 4000 | llm --system 'summary bullet points'
echo "\ndone..."

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

okay, @simon 's little tools work together wonderfully:

curl -s https://www.nytimes.com/ \
| strip-tags .story-wrapper \
| ttok -t 4000 \
| llm --system 'summary bullet points'

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

Halide rejected from the App Store because it doesn’t explain why the camera takes photos https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/24/halide-rejected-from-the-app-store-because-it-doesnt-explain-why-the-camera-takes-photos/ "Halide may have been featured during the iPhone 16 keynote, but it seems that wasn’t enough to protect it from an over-zealous App Store reviewer" lol gatekeepers

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Webventures: An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers

"iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers [..] frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native."
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/webventures-an-abridged-history-of-safari-showstoppers

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

Recently I've taken to letting a local community radio station fill my ear holes on my early morning runs (KBOO). It's been a nice change from the nerds talking podcasts I tend to listen to. Anyway, I'm allowing the natural intelligence algorithms create a playlist for my listening pleasure. This morning "We're Unstoppable" from Jaune Toujours caught my attention.

"Make some noise!"

https://jaunetoujours.bandcamp.com/track/were-unstoppable