Mastodon Feed
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Funding and spending will be public through the Linux Foundation, who is hosting the fund.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ironically, this map doesn't show any data.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/08/whats-the-best-and-worst-state/
Attachments:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The goal is to add a new stream of investment in the commons (expected to be a small part of total investments in the codebase), with governance by a steering committee and a governing committee.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Well *this* is legitimately great!
Shruthi S. outlining the new Collective to Support Chromium's committed contributors at BlinkOn 19
Attachments:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Let's ensure a Harris victory. Tell her to say #NoBootingKhan by sharing this petition.
Big Tech is at it again. FTC Chairman Lina Khan is in danger of getting booted by the Harris Campaign because of Big Tech greed. Multiple outlets reporting everything from Harris is considering it to Harris has agreed to it behind closed doors.
I went to make a change dot org petition to save her job but luckily one is already live. But it only has 35 signatures. Let's spread this
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@bramus @owa Yes, Google is doing nasty stuff to prevent the web from breaking out too (and it has the same "strategic inaction" flavour):
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-must-share-the-ability-to-install-web-apps-in-android/
But the difference in the landscape is night-and-day. Apple's suppression of the web is singlehandedly preventing browsers and PWAs from providing an open, interoperable alternative to app stores. And that's intentional.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
Also, Nilay when he learns that web apps can do bluetooth:
"It just feels like, Tim cook will be standing there, going like You shall not pass!".
Nilay is exactly 100% right about that.
Web Bluetooth works on pretty much every OS on every platform (as long as it can run a browser that supports it). In other words: This does not work on iOS.
Thanks, Tim Cook. #AppleBrowserBan
Snippet: https://pca.st/zc69u60j?t=5456,5470
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:
David Pierce, on the Vergecast:
"The new Google Pixel Buds web app is a web app! An app! On the web! [...] You can update the *firmware* on your *bluetooth* headset through a web app. That is a thing that is possible to do. That's good! It means you can do it anywhere and this is how it should work everywhere."
Snippet: https://pca.st/zc69u60j?t=5406,5514
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I may never travel again, if I have to go through Chrome River to do it. It's truly evil, and the clumsiest software I've ever dealt with.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/08/is-my-conference-from-hell-finally-over/
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:
For very good reasons, the
.ioTLD is going away.Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
(H/t @mwl )
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:
Hey #PortfolioDay ! I'm Denman an illustrator, art director, and concept artist. And I'm currently taking on client work, so hit me up!
Here's some of my work for Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: the Gathering, and the new Cosmere RPG / Stormlight Archive campaign setting.
Attachments:
- A man clad in heavy armour. His large sword thrust into the ground. He gestures to a group of men behind him. (remote)
- A goblin holding a golden amulet up from a skeleton pirate (remote)
- An angel with 3 pairs of wings clad in western cowboy like attire. A halo covers her face. She defended upon two men dueling. (remote)
- A large muscular Goliath woman welding a battle-axe. She holds up the mouth of a massive red dragon which she has just slain (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@bramus @owa It's easy to memory-hole, but Apple *really did* try to kill PWAs this year, and when it failed, they *really did* try to frame regulators for their dirty deeds:
https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-backs-off-killing-web-apps/
All of this is being done to protect rent extraction by app stores.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@bramus @owa When I say that "platforms are competitions", this is what I mean.
Requiring that every web developer accommodate their failson engine, while returning a pittance to engine investment, is profit maximizing for Apple.
The bugs you're working around? The polyfill you're adding? They have only one beneficiary.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@bramus @owa This forced monoculture of failure benefits only one party: Apple.
By requiring every developer to build native apps through a lack of features and reliability, the App Store maximizes rent extraction.
And by preventing real browser competition, Apple ensures that no competitor can ever displace Safari in practice. Turns out that's worth ~$20BN/yr:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@bramus @owa Apple's starvation of the Safari/WebKit team hasn't just meant that important features like scroll-linked animations remain AWOL for many years, but that the show-stopping bugs make "available" features a perpetual mine field:
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
This is a rolling catastrophe because of the #AppleBrowserBan
If FruitCo were *explicitly* trying to make the web irrelevant, what would it do differently? I struggle to come up with a better strategy.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:
Looking for a single provider that can provide email + nextcloud w/ onlyoffice or calibra office integration.
- I would like them to run on green energy. * I would like to be able to use vanilla imap+smtp so no Tuta/Protonmail sugestions.* Not interested in self hosting, no matter your recommended self hosting solution.
Recommendations please?
Boosts welcome.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Over the years I've had my differences with the Chrome team in Waterloo that eventually made this possible; I argued that tools to make this sort of thing possible should have shipped years earlier. And I still think that.
But that's not what's holding the web back; Cupertino is:
https://codepen.io/paulnoble/details/gOVPedz
https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_animation-timeline_scroll
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:
Wow, look at this AMAZING Scroll-Driven Animations demo by Paul Noble!
https://codepen.io/paulnoble/pen/gOVPedz
Go check it out (and hit the ❤️ icon).
Attachments:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Goodbye, good riddance, screw you, Alex Jones.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/08/act-now-everything-must-go/
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Stuart Langridge delivers a spectacularly entertaining history lesson, poetry and delves into the origins of OWA and tells us what we can do to protect the future of the web!
If you have a spare 30 minutes, it's worth your time:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/stuart-langridge-the-mazy-web/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Curious about deep genealogy? Look up your degree of relationship to the creatures you find in your house.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/08/another-fun-computer-game-you-can-play/
Attachments:
Mastodon Feed#Mastodon 4.3 is out! 🎉 We've made notifications easier to manage and improved the look and feel of the whole app across the board. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! See what you can expect once your server upgrades:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We can spy on those birds now!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/08/i-have-a-computer-i-dont-need-to-look-up/
Attachments:
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I AM BUYING THIS PAIR OF HELLO KITTY COUCH CUSHIONS FOR MY LIVING ROOM COUCH AND NOBODY CAN STOP ME. MY HOME COUNTRY IS AT WAR, I HAVE BEEN SLAVING AWAY AT THE ASYLUM COURT FOR TWO WEEKS FOR MY MOM TO BE SAFE, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, LIFE IS FLEETING, AND SO HELP ME GOD I WILL GET THE HELLO KITTY CUSHIONS AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT YOU CAN GO TO HELL
Attachments:
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
🇫🇷 FRANCE APPRECIATION POST 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 I came to France almost ten years ago and even an idiot like me was given a salary in order to undergo graduate studies for free in applied cryptography at the world’s best labs for that domain. 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 A few years later, I was given French citizenship and allowed to remain in France as a complete equal to the local French people, to vote in elections and to own my own house. 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 Today, after two weeks of work, France officially allowed my mother to stay with me beyond her short-stay visa and for the entire duration of the Israel-Lebanon war. If it weren’t for this, my mother would have had to go back and stay under bombing on her own with nobody to take care of her. 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 I love you, France! I love you!!! You have been so unfailingly kind to me. In spite of your suffocating bureaucracy, your insane taxation and your many other flaws, I love you, and I will never take you for granted. 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 I look forward to continuing to be the best French citizen that I can be. Through social contributions through my French company @symbolicsoft, through civic participation, the vote, and everything else that is within my power. 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 MERCI LA FRANCE! 🇫🇷
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial") wrote:
Attachments:
- meme. KEEP DOING IMPEDANCE CONTROL EVERYTHING IS A TRANSMISSION LINE. YEARS OF DIE SHRINKS and now NOTHING is lumped length. Want to go fast? We have a tool for that, it’s called a FIELD SOLVER. “Yes please let me transfer 800Gbps down a passive copper cable. Please let me run 8000MT/s DDR5 with open slots. Please transmit my files over the air using 60GHz radio waves.” - Statements we could only dream of a decade ago. LOOK at what Electronics Engineers have been achieving with little more than some copper foil glued to fiberglass and a fancy calculator. Images with exclamation marks under them. Left shows tabbed routing for controlled impedance. Middle shows an 800G QSFP-DD DR8+ network module, and the equations for Hammerstand and Cannonball-Huray foil roughness loss modelling. Right shows PAM4 and DB-PAM4 eye diagrams at 90, 96, and 100Gbps. They have harnessed the power of sand and metal to scream through the ether. (remote)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Good evening, my fellow dreamers. This morning, besides the Alaska Cello Intensive, I heard Willie Nelson cover The Flaming Lips. "Do you Realize?" I liked it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dosnostalgic ("Anatoly Shashkin💾") wrote:
Wait. The new episodic documentary about ReBoot is actually being released for free???
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmsFQF5CvPribGVmcSNRQGHmU33agz8BN
Mastodon FeedTo whoever is controlling this simulation:
we have reached a point where it is worth considering pressing the reset button.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
7. Coraline (2009). This was a pretty astounding feat of stop-motion animation. Given the year it was produced, I was genuinely unsure whether it was fully computer-generated or not until I looked at the wiki page. It's such a flex that in some of the later sections of the movie, they drop the frame rate of certain elements to something characteristic of older stop-motion works to produce an uncanny effect.
Also I immediately clocked the Other Dad's song as a TMBG thing
