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

Make no mistake, the web is in active and hard-fought competition with other platforms. On desktop, it's roughly winning. On mobile (75% of computers), the web is losing *badly*.

Mobile ecosystem duopolists telling you the web doesn't need to evolve as fast or get more competitive is a Not Great (TM).

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

And yes, there's a loud constituency for the transpiler/framework status quo. Is that constituency adding more value than it is extracting? Not in the traces I'm looking at. And engine developers have *always* wanted stasis; that's just their thing. But that's not a strong enough argument for "do less".

The idea that we should allow TC39 to *explicitly* fall into the same sort of disrepair as HTML and CSS have suffered is *bananas*.

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

Platforms are competitions along many coincident aspects. The role of language committees in the web platform is to reduce the price of common functionality by expanding syntax and library support. This was what we did with Promises and `async`/`await`, classes, and much else in ES6.

The idea that transpilers are somehow *good*, rather than a necessary evil whose use should be discouraged through a rate of progress that continually obsoletes them is *wild*.

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

Language committees that fail to use their monopoly on syntax and library richness to make things better for developers (e.g., CSS WG from '02-'20) are actively problematic and should either have specs forked out from under them, or have their membership fundamentally reformed.

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

It's hard to explain just how troubling what I'm hearing about an upcoming TC39 meeting is.

Language committees have one job: to make languages better for the people who choose to use them. Deciding that you're "done" and that that new syntax should happen via transpilers is *abdication*. Straight-up failure.

If you want the web to compete against other platforms, its languages need to evolve. Full stop.

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

CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:

By the way, THIS is how to write the headline for an article debunking lies.

"No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/04/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did/

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andrewdessler@mastodon.world ("Andrew Dessler") wrote:

I was asked by a reporter to comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement that humans control the weather. Here is what I said.

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• I have a few comments. First, by *area*, GOP support is far larger than Democratic support. Sparsely populated rural regions tend to support the GOP, while densely populated urban areas are democratic. So if you randomly push a destructive storm through a bunch of states, you’re almost certainly going to predominantly hammer GOP-leaning areas. Second, of course we can’t control the weather. Hurricanes are natural phenomena of enormous power that far exceed any possible human influence. There’s no mechanism to control a hurricane and no evidence that anyone was trying to modify it. This is just a crazy conspiracy theory. Statements like this are tragic. This is a real human disaster and Americans are suffering. Crazy conspiracy theories don’t help people recover. And they don’t help people prepare for a hotter future with more destructive hurricanes. MTG is in a position where she could actually make a difference, so it’s disappointing to see her spending time pushing sc (remote)

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I wrote about how there are radically different visions of success for the Fediverse - and how that might not be a bad thing. https://werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverses #Fediverse #Technology #OpenSource

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

pixelfed wrote:

You can now share up to 20 photos in a single post on https://pixelfed.social!

HDR, AVIF, HEIC and WEBP support will be available soon on pixelfed.social ✨

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velshi@mastodon.world ("Ali Velshi") wrote:

“If Donald Trump was President, there would have been no stand-up strike–they would have fired us all” says UAW President Shawn Fain. “He doesn’t give a damn about working class people, never has, never will.” #Velshi
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/-a-scab-uaw-president-says-trump-doesn-t-give-a-damn-about-working-class-people-220988997686

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Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social ("Dr. Brad Rosenheim") wrote:

Looks like it's time for another hurricane thread. Today we woke up to hurricane models realizing a storm they had been realizing when Helene hit us last week, but then in the beginning of this week the storm gradually disappeared from dynamic models. So, we weren't really paying attention anymore as it seemed to be becoming a rain maker but not a wind and surge event.

Now we are paying attention. The trend reversed and all of the models seem to be realizing a tropical cyclone ranging from Tropical Storm strength to Category 4 hurricane. Tracks are converging on central Florida's west coast. If it realizes full strength and hits slightly north of Tampa Bay, it will be an absolute disaster. It will kill many people and collapse Florida's weak, feeble insurance market (Thanks for that, Rick Scott and Republican kleptocrats!)

#Milton
#hurricane
#HurricaneMilton
#ClimateChange
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateDisaster
#Florida

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markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Revisiting a stone cold classic 👍

On 24 February 2007, ESA’s Rosetta made its only flyby of Mars & captured images of the Red Planet 🛰️

Several different colour composites were made & published at the time, but I decided today to (waste time &) see what I could come up with from the archival data 💻

So here’s my RGB image of Mars from 240,000km with a resolution of ~5km/pixel.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS team/Mark McCaughrean CC BY 4.0

More info in thread below 👇

#SpaceScience

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• An image of Mars taken from quarter of a million kilometres by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft. Mars is mostly red-brown, darker in the lower half, with clouds to the north and ice and clouds to the south.

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KamalaHarrisWin@newsmast.social ("Kamala Harris News Group 2.0") wrote:

📣 Attention residents of Alaska, Rhode Island, and South Carolina! 📣

You have until TOMORROW, October 6, to register to vote online!

Don’t wait. Make sure YOU and your community are registered and ready to make your voice heard! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Http://iwillvote.com

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

FYI

Via Sharon Yang:

Incredibly proud to be working for Kamala #Harris once more and joining the talented team at KamalaHQ for the final home stretch.

With one month left, there's no time to waste -- let's go win!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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• FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — The Harris campaign is announcing a slate of new hires this morning. On the national press team, Sharon Yang will be national spokesperson, Christyna Thompson will be spokesperson and Andres Correa will be comms manager. On the states comms team, Natalie Adams will be regional comms director and Olivia Davis will be state comms booker.

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

Instagram stories be like:

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thirst trap by a girl i met at the beer garden seven years ago

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

Perpetually tapping sign until fingers turn to dust

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• @negaversace Is [pop starl a feminist? Is MasterCard a queer ally? Is this tv show my friend?

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brianvastag@sciencemastodon.com ("Brian Vastag") wrote:

Just saw someone say the only news they trust out of western North Carolina is personal stories from TikTok. These folks say they saw FEMA arresting people.

Then I immediately saw and read a story about how so many of the vids purporting to be from the region are deep fakes. Probably from China and Russia, which sees every US natural disaster as an opportunity to sow more division and strife.

Hard not to feel like disinformation is literally going to destroy the country.

#Helene

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dramypsyd@ohai.social ("Dr. Amy, Psy.D.") wrote:

I’m just a psychologist standing in front of a record request begging you not to just put the name of the hospital as where I should send the records, do you have any idea how many departments there are?!

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dramypsyd@ohai.social ("Dr. Amy, Psy.D.") wrote:

There’s this sculpture downtown and it’s called Imposter Syndrome, and I love it.

Even if the queen is secretly a pawn, she still does all the queen things. 💜

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• Sculpture of a queen chess piece splitting open to show a pawn on the inside (remote)

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

fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=C5ywbp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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• c8d2ea97123c78dd.png

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

unlike the penetration of SCADA by ‘Volt Typhoon’, apparently focused on depositing capabilities to be utilized later, ‘Salt Typhoon’ seems to have been actively exploited. & no, I do not know enough to make any definitive statements.

some of us began grousing about the dangers of designing surveillance routing into switching systems post-9/11 & about the near-complete lack of SCADA security *a very long time ago*

basically, nobody gives a $hit until it hits the fan 💩

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b

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

Kamala Harris Keeps Cozying Up to Big Business | The New Republic:

"Two finance executives who spoke to the Times said that Harris told them that they expect her to make appointments to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission who weren’t as tough as the agencies’ current respective heads, Gary Gensler and Lina Khan."

This is fucked. Khan is the only one holding big corporations ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/05/kamala-harris-keeps.html

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paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

Life really was better 50 years ago.

Here's proof.

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• A series of headlines from each decade in reverse order from the 2020s to the 1890s, each declaring that life was better 50 years ago. (remote)

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elhackernet@infosec.exchange ("elhacker.NET") wrote:

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• e2474917ebd791ca.jpg (remote)

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jalcine@todon.eu ("jack(y) or treat!") wrote:

Time to sit outside, be thankful for the lack of obligation I have right now and read Animal Farm.

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dabeaz ("David Beazley") wrote:

A handy guide to Python style:

import typing # This code would rather be C++
import enum # This code would rather be Rust
import abc # This code would rather be Java
range(i, j) # This code would rather be Fortran

I'm sure there are others...

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

I should eat more hominy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/05/posole-morning/

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• bowl of posole (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

When somebody else takes a picture of you vs when you take a picture of yourself.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat (Jiji) with a very goofy expression.
• The same black cat (Jiji) looking like a supermodel cat.

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notypes@discuss.systems ("Rachit") wrote:

Saddened by the lull b/w ICFP and SPLASH?

https://theforkjoin.com is back today @ 10am PT with the wonderful @mpmilano!

Mae recently started a Princeton as a prof. and has some awesome work on PL + Distributed Systems: https://www.languagesforsyste.ms/

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JimsPhotos@ohai.social ("Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos") wrote:

Oh, my feed might get a bit Glossy Ibis heavy today 😂

Here is another photo of the stunning beauty

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

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• The glossy ibis is a heron-like bird with a long, curving beak. (remote)