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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

“Regulations are stifling us,” "The Government can't innovate," whine the billionaires tweeting on the internet ARPA invented

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Sorry but saying "most technological problems are actually human problems" and then never in any way attempting to understand or put rigor to the human problems is lazy and not cutting it in 2024

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css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

@kizu It's actually my new favorite "coding style" 😅

https://css-tip.com/css-variables-range-slider/

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• overview of the CSS from the linked article (remote)

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tobeB@climatejustice.social ("TobeB") wrote:

Records obtained by the Guardian show that lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

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

I don't understand how UIs this misleading are legal.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching#samsung

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

Before today, I'd been in a blogging slump since early summer, so thanks, Matt Mullenweg, for giving me something I was passionate enough to write about once again.

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rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

@Starfia @slightlyoff I (and many devs who know they could do more) are held back by what is possible on iOS. We can't afford to only build a web app for Android. It needs to work on iOS as well.

So iOS gets to set the ceiling of what the web can do

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agreenberg@infosec.exchange ("Andy Greenberg") wrote:

Hackers showed me (there's video) how a website vulnerability let them locate, unlock, honk the horn, start ignition of any of millions Kias in seconds, just by reading a car's license plate.

They found similar bugs for a dozen carmakers over the last two years.

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I don't know if this works for anyone else but this feels like a nice picture to me.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• Tea mugs, cake, empty bottle of lemonade next to a glass of lemonade, a used tea bag, a plate with some greens on it, on top of a black metal table. Sitting across, a woman (my wife) holding a pink phone.

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

My toxic trait is that I firmly believe that NPM is a backend technology that should vend no code you actually send to a browser.

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vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

The inventor of the World Wide Web is now on the Fediverse 👋 @timbl

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

You can now re-arrange media in the post you're composing and get an accurate preview of how it's going to be laid out. We've also made slight improvements to the media tab on your profile. And clicking the ALT badge will now bring up the alt text!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#DevinTownsend's performance of The Moth in Groningen is already sold out, both days. It only went up today. I guess I don't have to think about how to make the travel work now.

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

Another day, another iOS web showstopper:

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

Real question: if Apple was *explicitly* trying to hamstring the web (without getting caught), what would it do differently?

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sus@mindly.social ("Susan Going Incognito") wrote:

#crochet @crochet

Release the Quacken! 🤭

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• A crocheted red duck with a yellow beak and green tentacles and an evil scowl on its face! (remote)

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valhalla@social.gl-como.it ("Elena ``of Valhalla''") wrote:

I just stumbled on

archaeology.org/issues/novembe…

stories from random merchant-class people, their trade and their personal life, from the letters they wrote on clay tablets

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

*George Costanza's voice* I'm back baby!

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• Me in a car. Pink t-shirt, AirPods, disheveled hair, cigarette hanging from mouth. A superimposed image at the bottom is a screenshot from think piece. It reads " Earlier this year, an article in the Cut reported that the cool thing now is to have messy hair and smoke cigarettes again."

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TheSpaceshipper@socel.net ("The Spaceshipper 🚀") wrote:

RIP Dame Maggie Smith (1934-2024)

Among many other roles, the British actress was brilliant in Othello (1965), California Suite (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Gosford Park (2001), Downton Abbey, and of course, the Harry Potter series (2001–2011).

We'll miss her.

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• Othello (1965) (remote)
• Clash of the Titans (1981) (remote)
• Hook (1991) (remote)
• Downton Abbey (2010-2015) (remote)

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

Spotted in Florida.

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• Photo of a white car convertible sitting at Andes light with other cars around. There's a black and white bumper sticker on the back that reads "Die Yuppie Scum"

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

I decided to (hastily, probably clumsily, definitely verbosely) put down all of my thoughts on the Matt Mullenweg/WP Engine fiasco.

In short: I believe it's in the best interest of WordPress that Matt's powers be severely curtailed, if not entirely removed.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt

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

😢

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• d6d24ba0d1a1ef58.mp4 (remote)

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

okay, if this is in the dlang docs as an example

dt += 10.days + 100.seconds;

then I’m going to guess I can get a subscription expiryDate to happen easily/quickly/cheaply… yay

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

okay, I just *know* the D programming language *had* to have reasonable date arithmetic support… I wonder if this will work

auto expiryDate = Clock.currTime(UTC()) + 30.days;

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raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com ("Carl C") wrote:

Omeprazole (the acid reflux medication) sounds like it belongs in that Italian song of nonsense meant to sound like English.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" by Adriano Celentano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_EBFvzyje8

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jnl@hcommons.social ("JNL") wrote:

Mastodon nerds, this is an urgent message: please keep nerding out on things you are passionate about and then taking us along on your deep dives. Share your pics and discoveries. Muse. Show us dust motes and explain how you learned that no two are the same.

A passionate engagement with the beauty and weirdness of the world we have is a hope project. It is a meaning-making project.

It is a resistance project.

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

a wonderful place to walk

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/philosophers-way

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hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

Thru my tech podcast echo chamber I only hear about Apple’s bullshit and sometimes wonder why people would even develop for iOS but then I read reminders like https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite

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

How nice that evolution can explain how we get MAGA.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/27/a-nice-illustration-of-evolutionary-change-by-incremental-modifications/

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• Cartoon illustrating the step-by-step progression from old Republicans to MAGA (remote)

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:

https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/

And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/

eof/

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• adcb872f7d8818c1.jpg (remote)

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

Okay... This feeling is intensifying. Stevie Nicks and The Cure have new tracks out.