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

Now that I think about it, the platforms have all long migrated away from personal computing in any meaningful sense. The dominant paradigm is now a choice between "Yes" and "Remind me Later".

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Creating smiles, one drawing at a time! Here is one for my amazing dentist friend! 🐉🦷

#sketchbook

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• A photo of an open A4 sized sketchbook. On the page, a drawing made with a black pencil of a cartoony dragon, seating happily on the chair of a dentist. Meanwhile, a young woman with a medical mask his fixing one of his teeth in his large open mouth. It's signed "For Eva, Friendly" and with my signature and 10-2024 date. The Pencil visible for scale on the photo is a FaberCastel Polychromos black 199. (remote)

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

I wonder if we'll see another personal computing platform? What form would it take? History suggests you either need to invent a whole new hardware category or build yourself up on top of the incumbents. It seems unlikely something will rise up to the side of the Web, but maybe. Certainly, a new platform running on top of the web seems unlikely.

Anyway, just musing because I'm tired of monopolistic platforms. It's just ripe for abuse like we see today.

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

In the middle of all that, the Web came up and used the dominant platforms to establish itself, although it took decades to become a platform in its own right. It took a while but we ended up with one platform: Chrome.

(I call these dominant in the sense that even if you don't *want* to use them, you will usually have to one way or another.)

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

When personal computers arrived, it took a while, but eventually we ended up with two platforms: Mac and Wintel.

Nothing shook that up until mobile platforms became a possibility, and eventually we ended up with two platforms: iOS and Android. And now Mac and Wintel are almost irrelevant for most people.

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

Also, consider Captain Ahab, who was sucked down into the swirling depths by obsession and paranoia, a metaphor for conspiracy theories.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/04/please-tell-me-more/

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• Think about it. He’s called Captain Hook, but there’s no way he was born with the name Hook. He was born with hands. And what character 21 years earlier and was about 21 years younger? Long John Silver’s coxswain: Mr Israel Hands. (remote)

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

"If you think of a business as “something that one guy owns,” it naturally paves the way for acceptance of the idea that it is natural that the one guy who owns it will earn most of the money, and all of the rest of us will just earn what he gives us. But if you think of a business as “the collective effort of everyone who works for it,” it makes much more sense for everyone to earn a fair share of the proceeds of that business." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/your-money-is-on-the-table

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deshipu@fosstodon.org ("ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ") wrote:

In three weeks (and one day) I will be running a workshop in Zürich about making your own game consoles and writing games for them. It's free, and it happens in the Game Hub, where you can meet fellow game developers.

https://www.meetup.com/game-developers-zurich/events/303365523/

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

Pricked him right in his weak spot!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/04/oh-trump-is-going-to-hate-the-washington-post-even-more-now/

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• people sneaking out of a Trump rally (remote)

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dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:

It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of society. Of course, there's an alternative — various third parties, many of which are actively malicious and none of which are remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security, feature parity, or anything else.

Today this is about browsers, but the fact that I have to specify is its own problem.

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

Is there something wrong with Republican Dan Foreman's brain?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/04/was-he-intentionally-lying-or-was-he-just-stupid-its-hard-to-tell/

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• Last night, I entered what should have been a respectful and constructive public candidate forum. Instead, I was met with hateful, racist remarks from State Senator Dan Foreman, who screamed at me to “go back where you came from.” The question on the floor was about a state bill addressing discrimination. One of the candidates responded, claiming that “discrimination doesn’t exist in Idaho.” When it was my turn to speak, I calmly pointed out that just because someone hasn't personally experienced discrimination doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Racism and discrimination are real issues here in Idaho, as anyone familiar with our state’s history knows. I highlighted our weak hate crime laws and mentioned the presence of the Aryan Nations in northern Idaho as undeniable evidence of this reality. That’s when Sen. Foreman lost all control. His words to me: “I'm so sick and tired of this liberal b*lish*t! Why don’t you go back to where you came from?!” I stayed. I stayed because I wanted to show our community that I can, and will, handle difficult, unpleasant situations. After the forum, several members of the crowd came up to me and offered their support, apologizing for Sen. Foreman’s behavior. (remote)

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

I think we would know if they were going to be giants by now.

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

Chew Chew

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• 2fb7d6256ba79ca6.jpeg (remote)

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herrprofdr ("John Aycock") wrote:

I'm looking for a student for an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. *This is a fully funded position.*

The project: building tools to help understand how "retro" video games were made under amazingly constrained circumstances. While it's a CS position, this is interdisciplinary work done in collaboration with archaeologists and others.

Needs: strong coding skills, good writing abilities. Ideally: low-level, reverse engineering, or compiler experience.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

3. Let the Right One In (2008). For like 70% of the movie I wasn't sure if this was set in the 70s or if Sweden was just Like That

(or really, if it was doing the art-horror thing where you can maybe see a computer or cellphone in the background but everyone dresses vaguely late 20th c and coincidentally listens to music released between 1965-1985 on vinyl)

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• Poster for Let the Right One In (2008). Eli the child vampire is seen in silhouette through foggy glass

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

The director's cut is so great

https://youtu.be/XwV111qKgeo?si=rC3rpdTNNnyB5O0_

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

never forget what they stole from you

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• circa-2013 smartphone booting Firefox OS (remote)

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

ordered a decent-sized “Ignore All Previous Instructions” caffeine cup for meself

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113165885088335874

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Finally got around to launching a store for my stickers and things! https://store.mollywhite.net

Some people really liked my recent "Ignore all previous instructions" linocut print, so I put a few things up on the shop based on that, too.

#merch

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StephenRamirez@universeodon.com ("Today's Top Quotes ✅") wrote:

Say what you will about the Cheneys, but at least they're not sitting on the sidelines of history like the Bushes — Jorge Caballero, MD #quotes #quote #RepublicansForHarris #USPolitics #USPol #Politics

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meidas.guy@threads.net ("Steve Leadingham") wrote:

This says it all.

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• Photo by Steve Leadingham on October 03, 2024. Ist möglicherweise ein Bild von 3 Personen, Personen, die stehen und Text. (remote)

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

I took a break from regretting my life choices[1] and was closing some browser tabs and stumbled on this one but decided to watch it before closing. I LOL'd. "The Coders' Guide To The Demoscene":

https://peertube.fenarinarsa.com/w/aVhpwuDzsFognip6rbNoQF

Now back to the regretting.

[1] Just the same ol' same ol'.

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zkamvar@hachyderm.io ("Zhian N. Kamvar") wrote:

Reminder that the #Git flight rules is a very good bookmark to have:

https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

they should stop making sequels to 2020. The fourth one especially sucks

#thinktober

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heycaseywattsup@social.coop ("Casey Watts! (he/him) 🌈🫧") wrote:

As of Oct 1, 2024

Employers in Maryland MUST include a wage range for job postings ✨

https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2226/2024-07-01-maryland-employers-amended-pay-transparency-law-requires#:~:text=Maryland's%20law%20requires%20employers%20to,await%20guidance%20on%20this%20point

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

I wrote a short note about Meta's toaster problem— toaster are impossible to make, digital platforms are easier. So Zuck needs a bigger more expensive moat.

#IndieWeb #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/meta-s-toaster-problem/

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🎃") wrote:

never forget what Ronald Reagan did to this country

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• NYT graph of productivity vs wages (remote)

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tojiro ("Brandon Jones") wrote:

Signs of life for WebXR with WebGPU! (Yes, the triangle is behind me... but at least it's not upside down any more!)

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• Video showing the first working WebXR+WebGPU demo. It displays a rainbow triangle in mobile AR.

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froztbyte@awful.systems wrote:

from this point (archive)

App developers think that’s a bogus argument. Mr. Bier told me that data he had seen from start-ups he advised suggested that contact sharing had dropped significantly since the iOS 18 changes went into effect, and that for some apps, the number of users sharing 10 or fewer contacts had increased as much as 25 percent.

aww, does the widdle app’s business model collapse completely once it can’t harvest data? how sad

this reinforces a suspicion that I’ve had for a while: the only reason most people put up with any of this shit is because it’s an all or nothing choice and they don’t know the full impact (because it’s intentionally obscured). the moment you give them an overt choice that makes them think about it, turns out most are actually not fine with the state of affairs

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

it is worth thinking from time to time about the virtues of deliberate simplification as against the unintended complexities arising from lashing together generic & disparate systems in an agglutinative fashion

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113243271541007803