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

Actually, I take it back: what Matt Mullenweg is doing is *even worse* than any of those examples, because in those scenarios, it's just two for-profit businesses going at it.

Matt, on the other hand, is wielding his power over the nonprofit #wordpress foundation (which should exist, in part, to *prevent* situations like this one) in order to directly benefit his own for-profit company, in a way that's impossible to retaliate against and an obvious conflict of interest abuse.

Fire Matt.

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blueghost@mastodon.online ("Blue Ghost") wrote:

WriteFreely is a blogging platform.

Google Blogger alternative.

Supports ActivityPub (fediverse).
Supports RSS.
Supports SEO.
Supports anonymous posting.
Supports Let's Encrypt certificates.
Supports hosted instances.
Supports self-hosted instances.

Host via Tor Onion Service.

No advertisements.
Minimalist design.
Schedule posts to be published at a future date.

Website: https://writefreely.org
Mastodon: @writefreely @write_as

#WriteFreely #WriteAs #Blog #Anonymity #Privacy #Tor #deGoogle

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• WriteFreely logo. (remote)

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

If someone has asked you to build them a component that is going to be embedded on someone else's web page, you have a duty of care to be minimally invasive to the performance, accessibility, and utility of that greater experience.

750KB/3MB for a totally optional chat widget *that doesn't do anything until you click in anyway*, is dereliction of duty. Including a full-fat copy of a heavyweight, legacy desktop oriented framework is *failure* from the word "go".

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

This chat widget is *absolutely* losing this Major Cloud Vendor money. I guarantee it. They won't know how much until they run the A/B, but it's more than zero, and likely more than they make from it.

And that's the least of its problems. Frontend, as a profession, needs to be better than this. We each can push back, dig into the use-cases, and ask "why is this good for the user?"

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

At a product level, this is malpractice. At an engineering level, it's enabling the worst instincts of our generation's "acceptable" PM class. It should be beneath any self-respecting engineer to participate in building something so horribly constructed, nevermind conceptually misbegotten.

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

This is not -- and I cannot stress this enough -- the content of the page. It is a thirsty-ass widget that appears after you have loaded the page (but competes with the page for wire and CPU resources) to show you a little "unread count" bubble that you did not ask for and cannot ignore.

At ~750K, this is almost 20% of the page's 4MB (wire, 18MB unzipped) payload. Rotten to the core.

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

Friend shared a chonky landing page for a Major Cloud Vendor's offerings...and y'all, I don't think anyone has internalised how high on their own supply the contemporary JS community is.

It takes some cirrostratus levels of disconnectedness to believe your `chatbot.js` is fine when it clocks in at ~750K (wire, 3MB unzipped) INCLUDING ITS OWN COPY OF REACT, lodash, every polyfill you've ever heard of, and 269 embedded `data:image/...` URLs.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

In less than 30 minutes I'll be running a breakout session about WinterCG in TPAC. You can join remotely if you're interested! https://people.igalia.com/abotella/pub/TPAC-2024-WinterCG/ #tpac2024

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

JFC, welcome to 1877:

“Injuries reported after explosion rocks California courthouse”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/explosion-california-courthouse-michael-jackson-was-tried-rcna172689

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javi@goblin.band wrote:

It looks Matt Mullenweg has ordered WordPress.org servers (managed by automattic) to block servers using the IP ranges owned by WP Engine.

That means that people trying to use wordpress servers installed in WP Engine servers can't no longer access to plugins, themes, or updates, for example

This is despicable.

This is breaking entirely with the principles of open source. It's ghoulish.

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

We love a good opinionated piece, especially if it's from the 90s by perhaps the best and most prolific ̶b̶l̶o̶g̶ weblog ever written.

1996— "Please stop using the term “web log” to refer to a chronologically-ordered frequently-updated website. The correct term is “weblog”. Furthermore, “blog” is not short for “web log”, it is short for “weblog”."

#blog #weblog #SocialWeb

http://www.kottke.org/03/08/its-weblog-not-web-log

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mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

You know what’s mad about the future? It’s likely you could swallow and shit 2TB of data in one go without any discomfort.

Yes that’s how I rationalise the increasingly ridiculous density of data storage.

Obvs don’t do this.

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• A SanDisk 2TB micro SD card (remote)

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

Imagine if Apple decided to block anyone with a gmail address from accessing the app store.

Imagine if AWS shut down your app if you used Shopify.

Imagine if Microsoft blocked GitHub for Macs.

This is the exact kind of thing Matt Mullenweg is doing in #wordpress, and it's utterly indefensible. No matter what you believe about WP Engine, their customers—members of the community Matt claims to care about—don't deserve this.

Matt needs to be removed immediately.

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whoisryosuke@threads.net ("Ryosuke") wrote:

TIL you can embed videos on GitHub if you use webm or mov files. Way higher quality and efficient than using a GIF.

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• Photo by Ryosuke on September 24, 2024. May be an image of piano and text. (remote)

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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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)