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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Fully expect to get kicked out of somewhere tonight on Chappell Roan's internet
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Anyway, I'm not interested in "beating" those social media giants. I think it's the wrong goal and will lead to the wrong conclusions and actions.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, I think we really underestimate the power of marketing and advertising. I don't know if it's because we're all swimming in it so much, or if it's because we all overestimate our ability to not be swayed by it (probably a little of both plus other things I'm missing), but marketing and advertising are power. To the extent you can wield them, you can wield power. Advertising doesn't always work as intended, but it's difficult to defeat something that wields it or has wielded it effectively.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
When I hear people ask or wonder about how mastodon or the wider fediverse can "beat" Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, it often feels to me like asking, "What will it take to make a better casino?"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:
Does anyone remember Google People?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
i’m extremely pleased to tell you that the first cybertruck in costa rica (paying 52% import tax!) got immediately stuck in the mildest of rural road conditions
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
adwright ("TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️") wrote:
So it was only a hundred years ago - 1924 - when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts.
She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.
At the time the consensus was stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.
It took 4 more years for a man to confirm the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.
It's all hers now.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
after basically *walking* across Europe with the infantry (note her boots), here is Lee Miller taking a bath at the end of the road… in Hitler’s bathtub just after the a$$hole killed himself.
https://www.artbook.com/blog-featured-image-lee-miller-hitlers-bathtub.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
such evocative photography https://www.leemiller.co.uk/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
OMG, I *must* see this movie… she’s been a hero of mine for many years
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:
Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, "cut 21,000 jobs, including in trust and safety and customer service, over multiple rounds of layoffs", leading state and local officials "puzzled by what to expect from Facebook" around voting misinformation.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
The entire BBC sound effects library is now accessible. https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Currently listening, currently feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KACt6YhOyY
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:
Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:
Doesn’t matter who’s right in the WordPress/WP Engine battle.
The damage to the open web has already been done. It took five days.
https://tedium.co/2024/09/25/wordpress-wp-engine-open-web-negative-effects/
new @tedium
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
digiphile ("Alex Howard") wrote:
Today is another good day to download your archive of tweets & make sure you don’t have any apps or services that depend on X to log-in: How to download your X archive https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-x-archive The owner/censor of that service can & will change any policy to ban accounts or block a URL if he doesn’t like them. I just experienced getting hacked, in a way that’s still unclear. Caveat creator.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank pierside in the spring and the Chinese Navy tried to conceal the loss, according to two US defense officials."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/politics/chinese-nuclear-powered-submarine-sank/index.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
are0h@h-i.social ("Gorgeous Killer") wrote:
Honestly?
Minibosses still goes hard.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But remember! Next.js and React deliver *incredible performance*.
In that it is *incredible* how bad the performance is:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:
look, I get why y’all like the “supply chain” rhetoric, it helps you continue pretending that software security can be solved through capitalistic means
here’s the thing: I’ve run a manufacturing business before. I’m getting a second one going. Supply Chains are defined by an exchange of money for goods, with value-add steps in between. That’s it
Where’s the money, Lebowski?
Software packaging security is a social trust problem, which can’t actually be “solved” in a capitalist framework
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
@jalcine @janl @slightlyoff Gruber: "Because native-to-the-platform apps are inherently better [than web apps]. They look better, work better, and adhere to platform design and functional idioms far better."
https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@gruber/113199820516483796
His website on a mobile phone:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The timelines have been obscured to protect the guilty.
Needless to say, this is not working from a CWV perspective.
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- "0 days since last 600+KB critical-path JS Disaster via React + Next.js" (remote)
- pixelated waterfall showing a cloud vendor's landing page, pulling in 600+KB (wire, 2.2MB unzipped) of critical path JS which then camps out on the main thread for *4 seconds* before putting up an LCP frame on an emulated slow Android. (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@rgadellaa Maybe Gruber would change his mind about the web not being for apps if he had a decent browser on his phone? 🤔🤔🤔
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I keep tooting this post, but that's partially because @rgadellaa keeps updating it as the history of Apple's uniquely colossal iOS web #fail gets more richly reported.
Storing data in an iOS PWA has been a particularly unreliable thing to try:
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--updates
Apple alone can fix this, but won't, and won't let better browsers try. Which leaves only native apps.
Conclusively anti-competitive no matter how you slice it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:
"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"
How can this possibly be legal?
Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
7⃣ 545 ❤️ Cycling gradient glow - no text duplication https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/rNPOpJK
A simple #SVG filter trick.
We create the gradient text.
The filter creates a blurred copy of it and places it underneath.
We then animate the gradient stops... magic! 🪄✨
#css #svgFilter #filter #filterEffect #glow #text #textEffect #textGlow #cssGradient #code #coding #frontend #web #webDev #dev #webDevelopment
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:
My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.
We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics in #Firefox: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers, etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.
And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:
People in the U.S. can get free COVID tests again.
I just ordered mine! Get yours here.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Even if it's written in Rust, don't do it.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, stop connecting non-lethal machines to the internet. It's probably not necessary to have connected fridges, coffee makers, toothbrushes, shoes, sweaters, whatever else we're thinking about.
I mean, if you want to make a one-off hack and connect your hoodie to the internet allowing strangers to control the drawstrings for a laugh, cool. But if you're thinking about mass producing them, providing "where is my hoodie" services, and monetizing the data etc. Just... don't.