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

ayo@ayco.io ("Ayo Ayco") wrote:

Walled gardens result to bad opinions, and often stream toward disbelief in the power of standardization. Ironically everyone benefits in the open web standards regardless of opinions

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

Today in History: Gene Autry born, 1907

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

How many of you consume articles and blog posts via some sort of text-to-speech tool?

I almost exclusively use Safari's "Listen to Page" feature for all long-form content. Even if I'm reading along. It helps with the ol' adhd brain I got.

Throughout any give day I may read five to ten articles while going on my daily walk, washing the dishes, cleaning, etc.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

P.S. Feel free to use as a wallpaper!

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

Good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Westport jetty. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Westport+Jetty/@46.8963515,-124.1300292,13z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x549244ec1c4f2d15:0x870f9fb392467490!8m2!3d46.9060252!4d-124.1475018!16s%2Fg%2F11g81s4731?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

#photography #darktable

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• A jetty consisting of big boulders and driftwood, shot along its length, converging to a vanishing point between the blue skies and the blue sea. A surf is visible on the left side, and there's a couple of people on the jetty far away.

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

researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

If you're about to lose your job at 23 And Me anyway now that the company is dying and selling off its assets

Have you considered

Intentional corporate sabotage on your way out?

Do a little $ sudo rm -rdf /*

On a couple servers with customer data that's about to be sold

Depending on what absolute snake of a buyer is on the way, you might even save some lives

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

hankg@friendica.myportal.social ("Hank G ☑️") wrote:

Stolen from a Matrix chat room :) #humor #GeekHumor #DevHumor

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• Nginx's 502 Bad Gateway page,
But at the bottom there's a photo of a guy pointing at his router, making an angry face (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My latest New Scientist cartoon. Based on a true story. Well, the first panel is true, anyway.

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• Panel one. Caption: On the 28th of June 2009, Professor Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time-travellers, but he did not send out invites until the day after the party… no-one came. (This is entirely true) Panels 2-9. Images of various aliens, robots and other beings, all holding invites. Below each is an excuse for not attending the party: Babysitter cancelled, Had to work late, Timeship being fixed, Didn’t feel great, Had to be up early, Wormhole closed, Diary mix-up, Dog ate invite. (remote)

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

a thoughtful piece, a useful read on the externalities resulting from US firearms laws & Court decisions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/briefing/america-guns-crime-border.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU4.sDFv.3I6vK-7MOEpM&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

‘New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”… the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees … in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” Richard Corcoran as the new college president… [who] makes a $699,000 salary.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

In the Boston Tea Party cafe, Bristol.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @NotFrauKadse
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

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• A black and white photo of a woman with long black hair, wearing shorts, a tanktop, and short boots, with tattoos on her arms and legs, sitting cross-legged in front of a cafe table and reading something on the phone.

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

JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:

Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.

Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.

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

Beautifully pithy summary of Chris Rufo.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/29/this-summary-of-chris-rufo-is-tight/

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• In case anyone forgot Chris Rufo posted a $5,000 bounty for a video of Haitians eating cats in Springfield then posted a video of unknown people with chicken on a grill in Canton then we remembered he was married to someone who came to the US illegally then it turned out he had an Ashley Madison account and he threatened to sue @lawindsor about it and said it was a lie but then @stevanzetti showed how the Ashley Madison database has gps coordinates for Topanga where Rufo lived at the time and then Rufo started deleting tweets about Topanga and wowza. (remote)

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/

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• 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

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

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)

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• “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.

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

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/

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

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.

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

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