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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Found this playlist from @paulomalley with short tutorials on how to use various Mastodon features. I know some of these aren't as widely known as they should be! (via @elan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA0o_qntQk&list=PLzSa4MqrsYv6nhktXbYsz7Lb231U8XySy&index=6

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

It's really hard to find spiders in the total darkness of a state park.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/29/a-night-at-the-park/

Attachments:

• Juvenile orbweaver, possibly Nordmann's (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

The Gov.uk web service manual is like the polar opposite of browsing X (that’s a huge compliment!): “Do not build your service as a single-page application (SPA). This is where the loading of pages within your service is handled by JavaScript, rather than the browser. Single page applications rarely bring benefits and can make the service inaccessible…” https://hachyderm.io/@joelanman/113219619713124437

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Lovely idea: https://openfreemap.org - best of luck to them.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:

This is the thing: sure we should make developer experience smooth, but it should be at most our secondary concern.
From: @slightlyoff
https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/113219149345518235

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

We can square these circles. Doing better for users isn't just possible, in 2024, given the general browser landscape, it's *downright straightforward*. It only requires that we celebrate value to users, not value to developers, first and foremost.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

NoveltyBot@botsin.space ("A Most Amusing Bot") wrote:

Mammoth Comic Letter
only 15¢ from Johnson Smith and Co (1951)

Attachments:

• “Already written for you. Loaded with laughs.” (remote)

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

Today, on nearly every website, *removing* a KB of JS from the download of the first page load is the most consistent way to make things better for users. The way to make pixels dance more often is to put that logic in CSS (when possible) to re-evaluate the necessity of legacy dependencies.

All of this is in harmony with Aaron's goal to the extent that we agree the goal is to make interfaces better for users. And I think we do.

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

Every year I spend a reasonable fraction of my time documenting the state of devices and networks. Why? To document what I *hope* will be a turning of the corner; a crossing of the lines...the moment when CPU and networks get so much more generous than what web developers are taxing users with that an incremental KB of JS is *usually* something that can provide value, not a consistent detriment.

https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/

Spoiler: the lines have not crossed.

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

1.) sorry for the birdsite link, I don't know why Aaron's still there
2.) a lot of people will identify me with his critique
3.) I have spent the vast majority of my professional life trying to do exactly what he's lauding, and in making it possible for others to do the same
4.) that's only something worth celebrating in a contingent sense; i.e., are we making things *better* for *most* people?

https://x.com/aboodman/status/1839231481115455847

We have to get to "first, do no harm" for frontend for JS's value to unlock.

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paulhmason ("Paul Mason") wrote:

If a web framework can't work with a new HTML element then it's pretty useless. Custom Elements (Web Components) are just new HTML elements - framework authors need to sort out their shit and do things properly.

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

I wrote something. Its short.

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com/shadow-government/

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obeto@mas.to ("Biped Earthling") wrote:

"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals.""

Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no,"

He declined.

So, fuck him. And fuck his site.

I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon
https://gizmodo.com/substack-ceo-doesnt-know-if-should-ban-overt-racism-1850337647

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

I'm so tired of reading takes on moderation that begin and end with "decide what content I see". That's not even half the question.

It's not about what I see. It's about who can see me. I want to be in control of who has access to me.

For all of it's myriad flaws, activitypub does actually do that, somewhat. And other protocols just don't. Either they're 1:n, 1:all, or all:all. It's so baffling to me that this is the only option that even attempts to do 1:some.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

drmaddkap@meow.social ("Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist") wrote:

“YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE SAYS MALE!!”

Calm your tits, Karen. It also says 7 fucking pounds. A lot has changed since then.

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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

2025 will be the year of Black Caribeñas; and y'all better recognize 🧐

https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices/113218153166077832

#BlackMastodon #Caribbean #Barbados

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one wrote:

AI Bullshit. Good articles about how much AI fucking sucks on the fediverse over the past few months (?).

https://blog.arkadi.one/p/ai-bullshit/

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

I forgot about this:

"On June 22, 2002, six days after the cancellation of Politically Incorrect, Maher received the Los Angeles Press Club president's award (for "championing free speech")."

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

What sort of data would have cleared the bar? And how should an exception-based policy read? I might write a blog post on this, but the high points would be:

• observable (by measurement or proxy) interaction depth; i.e., how frequently do users or servers update the *same* data across a session?
• falsifiable claims about research into user devices and networks
• P90+ gates for latency across all critical user journeys
• ...which implies having defined what those journeys are

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

Literally every team I have worked with in the past decade would have benefited from having to use data to justify why this was the wrong advice for their service:

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

Few had that data, fewer still investigated it or did bakeoffs to make their case. All would have spent less time in JS purgatory for the effort.

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

Three cheese ravioli four cheese ravioli where does it end with you people

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

I'm currently on BuyMeACoffee but considering switching to ko-fi. Anyone using ko-fi like it there?

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

Archive— The Occult, Metaphysics, The Paranormal, Magazines, Journals, and Newsletters.

Here are a few cover arts I found interesting.

#OpenWeb #Occult #Websites #Archive #Archives

http://www.luminist.org/archives/OC/

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• Cover of "Mystic Magazine" featuring a woman with long dark hair adorned in jewelry, seated with a mystical atmosphere. Text includes "Will Your Romance Be Happy?" and "Ask Our Astrologer." The magazine is dated March and priced at (remote)
• Cover of "The Hidden World," Spring 1961, featuring a large, red-skinned humanoid figure sitting in front of computer screens. The title highlights the "True Story of the Shaver Mystery." The overall design combines retro sci-fi elements (remote)
• A vintage magazine cover titled "The Hidden World," featuring colorful cosmic imagery with a figure emerging from a planet, surrounded by swirling gases and stars. The tagline reads "Secrets of Time and Space." (remote)
• Cover of "Probe the Unknown" magazine from July 1975, featuring a woman with exaggerated goggles and headphones. The cover includes titles about various paranormal topics, such as astral projection, Ouija boards, and psychic photography, against a bold red (remote)

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

Today's rendition of the game "is this AI hype from 2024 or 1974"?

"In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after its powers will be incalculable."

Minsky ~1970.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I think this filament should be dry enough now!

#3dprinting

Attachments:

• Molten rolls of filament, fresh out of an oven.

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

I imagine our brains process hyper-tailored For You Pages as if you were a hunter in the forest and boar kept walking up to you and dying at your feet.

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

lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes") wrote:

"The microbiologist researcher trains bacteria by feeding them samples of the animal collagen glue that is stuck to the paintings. The bacteria then naturally produce enzymes to degrade the glue. […] After three hours, the gel is removed, revealing glue-free paintings." https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/bacteria-deployed-to-the-rescue-of-precious-church-frescos-20240928-p5ke78.html #bacteriology #artRestoration

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

UBBI (universal basic bitch income): $500 a month but you have to post "live laugh love" every day

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abundance@merveilles.town ("everest") wrote:

__ Handwriting your RSS feed __
A short guide for updating your RSS feed like you update your handmade website

Do you write your HTML by hand? Have you ever wondered if you could keep an RSS feed similarly - no management software, only a webhost and a text editor?

I've written a barebones guide to handwritten RSS. It's so, so, easy.

https://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/handmadeRSS.html

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Shocked, *shocked* to hear¹ that OpenAI was three VCs in a nonprofit trenchcoat.

¹ https://arstechnica.com/?p=2052614