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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Finally went ahead and removed Daring Fireball from my RSS
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Stuff. Him. In. A. Locker.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Walz did not stiff him in a locker, and a nation mourns for an opportunity lost.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So this new little blog is turning into me cataloging the bookmarks I've collected over the years. I'm into it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
senator, thank you, to remind the audience, birds are in fact real
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kims@mas.to ("Kim Scheinberg") wrote:
JD Vance is correct that many professional economists have a terrible track record, but one of the only people with an even worse understanding of economics is Donald Trump
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Sources:
https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.
But only $50k of the One Million Dollars in funding for the #SWF came from The Ford Foundation, back in February of this year.
The other $950,000?
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- The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has some backing from Meta as well, alongside other major implementors of the ActivityPub protocol, including the social magazine app Flipboard, newsletter platform Ghost, Mastodon, and others. The Ford Foundation has also offered the organization a large grant to get the project started. In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support.
- An online grant summary from the Ford Foundation showing details for grantee Exchange Point Institute, including a total grant amount of $50,000, approval date, and start date, all set for February 2024.
- The Social Web Foundation is a fiscally-sponsored project of Exchange Point Institute, a US 501(c)3 non-profit. Tax-deductible donations to the Social Web Foundation will support our mission, help us execute on our projects and build a bigger, better fediverse.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by our colleague Ben Naecker to talk about OxQL—the Oxide Query Language we’ve developed for interacting with our metrics system.
“Another query language!” the comment sections responded, “why can’t you *just*… ?” So we explained why we can’t *just* …! Along the way we talked about metrics, ClickHouse, histograms, parser generators, and the beauty of domain specific languages.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:
Can we all take a moment and pour one out for all the DOJ & FTC attorneys that have to deal with Apple on that antitrust suit?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Maybe this old guy should retire and get out of the classroom at last.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/01/behold-the-worst-teacher-in-the-world/
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
1. Sleepy Hollow (1999). What a very odd movie. I can't believe this didn't flop. It actually made its money back by a considerable margin. There's a scene where Johnny Depp does a mostly off-camera autopsy of a pregnant woman and it's strongly implied that the Headless Horseman decapitated and stole both her head and that of her fetus in utero. It's played for laughs; the camera stays on Johnny just long enough for the corpse to squirt blood on his steampunk goggles like a grapefruit
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja (he/him)") wrote:
Y’all know that CNN has a text-only web interface, right?
If you want to experience how GODDAMN FAST the web can be without the tens of megabytes of adware tracking cruft and hundreds of npm dependencies, try this out:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
chris_gammell@chaos.social ("Chris Gammell") wrote:
I have been following Katerina Galitskaya on LinkedIn for a while, she posts really great animations and explanations of RF fields with antennas. I asked her to be on The Amp Hour to talk more about how she thinks about antennas and how listeners could benefit from her wisdom. It's a whole segment of the electronics field that is magical to me, so it was great to learn more myself!
https://theamphour.com/678-all-about-antennas-with-katerina-galitskaya/
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
OCT 2024 Daily Horror movie thread!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
so_treu@blackqueer.life ("Ra'il IK") wrote:
"'When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery' is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that enabled this violence are all explored and scrutinized. Enlightening analysis found that rape was not merely a result of sexual desire and opportunity, or simply a form of punishment and racial domination, but instead encompassed all of these dimensions as part of the identity of white masculinity. This provocative text highlights the significant role that white women played in enabling sexual violence against enslaved black women through a variety of responses and, at times, through their lack of response to the actions of the white men in their lives. Significantly, this book finds that sexual violence against enslaved black women was a widespread form of oppression used to perform white masculinity and reinforce an intersectional hierarchy. Additionally, white women played a vital role by enabling this sexual violence and perpetuating the subordination of themselves and those subordinate to them."
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0") wrote:
Eleventy 3.0.0 is now available!
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Over a year of work, 22 pre-releases, so many contributors. Thank you to our entire community—y’all make this project possible. ❤️
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
After a shower.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
hey its that time of year to unplug your internet and shake the cable to get all the bullshit out of it.
lots of bullshit going on is what i'm saying.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers | TechCrunch:
"Mosseri noted that if you have connected your account to the fediverse, your Threads posts will be shared to the fediverse 15 minutes later, after the edit window is closed. "
For breaking news, you leave Mastodon and head to Threads or be ~~five~~ fifteen minutes behind. #Threads https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/threads-users-can-now-see-who-follows-them-from-other-fediverse-servers/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:
~personal news~ I'm going independent and launching my own media outlet on Substack called User Mag.
Please consider buying a yearly subscription to help me continue my work https://www.usermag.co/p/introducing-user-magazine
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Fuji bring back Superia X-tra 400 😢 I have only 3 left in the freezer, and ebay is not looking promising anymore.
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RenewedRebecca@oldbytes.space ("Becky") wrote:
You can tell how old a programmer is by mentioning “68k assembly” and seeing if they get all misty eyed.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
A great thread to show people next time they say "Mastodon's easy, just like email!"
RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/113233369726378601
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This ended up being a pretty solid essay overall. I think the arguments hold up well. I don't fully agree with the conclusions regarding AI assistants, but I apparently work in a subset of the industry where things like stack overflow et al. are usually not helpful to me, so I can't imagine a scenario where AI assistants are any better. Good documentation and well written textbooks *are* helpful, so I hope we continue with those things.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
doing cleanup on service mgmt scripts:
cleanLogs.sh (removes existing logs)
restart.sh (stops service, cleans logs, starts service)
start.sh (starts service, appends to log files if exists else creates them)
stop.sh (gracefully kills off service, kills off any existing log-watchers)split logfiles into:
storytellerErrorLog.txt
storytellerLog.txtcreated log-file watching script:
watch.sh
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Introducing User Magazine - by Taylor Lorenz - User Mag:
"User Mag is founded on the belief that the real story of technology lies with its users. Instead of focusing on corporate earnings and boardroom conflicts, User Mag will cover how people are actually using technology. "
I like Taylor Lorenz. I hope this works out. https://www.usermag.co/p/introducing-user-magazine
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm considering migrating my #MicroBlog somewhere else, or just scrapping it altogether.
The community is cool, the product is good. But now that the #fediverse is the Meta-funded social web, I don't know that I want my dollars funding it.
I see something like #cohost closing and I think, damn I could've been supporting that place with a monthly payment.
In short, I want the little disposable income I have going to a vision of the web I believe in. I won't be tricked by Zuck a second time.
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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:
Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and climate activist, was interviewed yesterday by Democracy Now about the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Here is part of what he said...
___________________________I was reading articles about the flooding in western North Carolina in The New York Times. The articles did not even mention climate change, not a single mention. This is what’s driving it. And then there’s the larger context of irreversible global overheating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry. They’ve been lying and blocking action for decades.
The planet’s overheating. It’s irreversible. It’s caused by the fossil fuel industry. And the reason I say “industry” specifically, not “fossil fuels,” is because this industry has been systematically blocking action for almost 50 years, for decades and decades.
This will get worse as the planet continues to get hotter. We’ll see even worse storms in the future. Every day that we continue burning fossil fuels and allowing this industry to continue spreading disinformation and blocking action, the planet gets hotter.
Hotter oceans fuels these storms, causing them to intensify more rapidly, to get much more powerful. And a hotter atmosphere holds more water, so we get these intense rainfalls, which cause the sort of flooding that’s happening right now.
I think that this is the most evil thing that's possible to imagine, that fossil fuel executives and lobbyists will continue to lie so they can line their bank accounts at the irreversible expense of our planet and the future of humanity.
___________________________LEARN MORE -- https://truthout.org/video/media-fails-to-link-hurricane-helene-to-fossil-fueled-climate-change/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:
@fromjason Weird. I thought there was "no causal connection".