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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as my Dad used to say: there are times when sitting on the fence just means that they will lay the barbed wire through you.
I hope Walz has learned from that experience, & that Harris also learned from Obama's futile struggles to find compromise with Congresscritters who were never going to do so.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've never heard a storm in Minnesota described as "unsurvivable", but hey, Florida, you do you.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Be like Sphen and Magic. Don't be like Abraham and David.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute:
"“It enables dominant firms to extract rents from consumers and small businesses dependent on their services, and creates systemic harms when systems fail or malfunction due to the creation of single points of failure. Most concerningly, it expands the economic and political power of the firms that have access to compute, cementing the control of firms that already dominate ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/09/26/computational-power-and.html
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DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:
I agree with every word of this.
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GuerillaOntologist@social.coop ("Josh Davis") wrote:
When the percussionist is the band leader, there are going to be three drum solos in every song 😎
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I've so far asked the IACR Board of Directors three times whether they're planning to write a statement expressing sympathy to the mass murder that's happening in Lebanon, with over 600 deaths (including 50 children) in the past three days.
I haven't received a response, despite the IACR having published a statement expressing support with Israel less than two weeks after Hamas's attack last year.
The IACR was correct in issuing a statement condemning what happened in Israel last October, but has repeatedly refused issuing a similar statement about Gaza, settling only for a minor edit, and now is outright ignoring all requests for a similar statement about Lebanon, a country that never invaded Israel or took any hostages to begin with.
Some IACR members expressed interest in signing a "well-worded petition" regarding this matter.
I've written one here and will be sending it to the IACR Board of Directors in a few days. If you're interested in signing, please either reply to this tweet or send an email to n@nadim.email.
Petition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2HDOC0K_K9v1BoycIg4sCeJbBWHOdfSmBTyz38RrIc
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
petition to rename the 'dark web' to the 'spoopy internets'. 100,000 signatures and i will personally battle Bari Weiss in Tekken 4
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
LinkedIn is out here with some s-tier trolling, y'all.
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NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:
in this time of great trial for the internet ecosystem, we turn to the sacred texts for guidance
(memes, i'm talking about memes)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Not WebFlow with the timely email lol
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chikorita157@sakurajima.moe ("chikorita157 🐰:unverified:") wrote:
The latest on Matt Mullenweg running WordPress into the ground by tinystepsforward (post viewable on Goblin Band)
autocrattic (more matt shenanigans, not tumblr this time)
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CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us ("Charlie McHenry") wrote:
So according to Zuck, #Meta is going to deploy its newly minted #AI to generate personalized images in our feeds on #Facebook and #Instagram. Uh-huh, it’s a thing people. But as Casey Newton pointedly observes: “…if Meta moves too quickly, pumping the feed full of cheap AI-generated content risks giving the company’s core products the feel of an abandoned amusement park.” #Brutal
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etherdiver@ravenation.club ("Ether Diver") wrote:
Insides and Outsides – “Sentient Sky”
Well-produced, atmospheric synthwave with plenty of drive and vibes to spare.
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deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org ("Sean Tilley") wrote:
Look, I’m going to be completely honest. Some aspects of today’s events, and some elements leading up to it, have given me bad vibes. I’m not trying to assasinate Evan’s character or make him look like a bad person, but I want to characterize some of the dynamic problems I’m seeing from coopting “The Social Web” as a term, and equating it, #Fediverse, and #ActivityPub as all one-and-the-same.
I might get flamed for sharing this, but I have to be honest about what I really think, and why I have some problems stomaching how things are happening.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
you don’t want “the old internet,” you want a space that hasn’t been colonized by capital
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Mark *needs* VR/AR hardware to be the next phone to escape Apple's hardware prison.
And it just occurred to me that the Apple Vision Pro is Cupertino's first "concept car," a muscle-flex that shows consumers that Apple is capable of leading them into a post-smartphone world. And that any other hardware is second rate.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo @owa And there isn't an install or sync button from `chrome://webapks/`. What is going on, y'all?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… they don’t like us much, either.”
“Whyever not?” said Lord Selachii.
“Well, because during our history those we haven’t occupied we’ve tended to wage war on,” said Lord Vetinari. “For some reason the slaughter of thousands of people tends to stick in the memory.”
“Oh, history,” said Lord Selachii. “That’s all in the past!”
“A good place for history, agreed,” said the Patrician solemnly- from “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo @owa And is prompted install broken? The only PWAs offering install in 128 after install + sync seem to be those that have custom `onbeforeinstallprompt` UI
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo Even with Chrome sync turned on, the only browser that can install real PWAs *still* doesn't offer one-tap restore. Why not?
/cc @owa
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@beverloo And so begins another round of "hunting for half my apps, then manually reinstalling them, because Android"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It is *wild* that, in 2024, PWAs do not restore correctly when setting up a new Android device.
@beverloo, is this *ever* going to get fixed?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@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
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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?"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
