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

vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Victoria, Argentinian illustrator & gouache wrangler. Looking for new illustration projects!

Also open for animal painting commissions:
https://victoriamaderna.com/animal-painting-commissions

hi@victoriamaderna.com
https://victoriamaderna.com

#PortfolioDay #MastoArt #illustration

Attachments:

• Cover artwork for Adventure Time: Beginning of the End (Boom! Studios). (remote)
• Brujita de la Puna, illustration imagining a South American kolla native witch. She holds a mulita, a condor and vicuña can be seen in the back. (remote)
• Illustration in ink, Hematite the vampire writing on her journal. (remote)
• A pig in a dress paints the portrait of a goat smoking a pipe in a fancy outfit. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

janrosenow@mastodon.energy ("Jan Rosenow") wrote:

When people think about leading countries in renewable energy they rarely think about Lithuania.

The country has now reached a whopping 60% of wind + solar as a share of total electricity generation making it number 3 in the world.

In 2012 gas still supplied 64% of Lithuania's electricity. It's now down to about 10%.

Attachments:

• 0bea9492721b4597.png (remote)

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

bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #worcester. fall ’84, show #3.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd84-10-08.sbd.wiley.14450.sbeok.shnf
steve rolfe audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1984-10-08.nak700.rolfe.miller.94303.sbeok.flac24 [1/6]

Attachments:

• Grateful Dead mail order ticket on yellow ticket stock with illustration of jester (remote)

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

GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Cyber Toufan launched a massive cyberattack* on Israel by sending 2500 faxes (yes, faxes) via an online website. I've verified Cyber Toufan sent them.

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001491204

#threatintel #cybertoufan

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• f120029041467156.png (remote)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

"Now that 4.3 is done, our focus for the next release will be on implementing the highly requested features of quote posts..."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

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

wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Veteran meteorologist and hurricane expert John Morales breaks down in tears on an NBC Florida broadcast as he warns what's happening with Milton:

"This is just horrific. … You know what's driving this. I don't need to tell you. Global warming, climate change leading to this and becoming an increasing threat."

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXBRoP_rzWw

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

sps@historians.social ("Steve Schwinghamer") wrote:

"The federal government has no legal duty to ensure First Nations have clean drinking water."

I don't care if this is a flawless legal approach.

Setting aside the whole ethic of reconciliation and good faith (!), you can't take the paternalistic and controlling stance of maintaining the Indian Act on the one hand, and refuse responsibilities on the other...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/shamattawa-class-action-drinking-water-1.7345254

#CdnPoli

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

Funding and spending will be public through the Linux Foundation, who is hosting the fund.

pzmyers@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:

• Basically every map of the US that shows data (Minnesota is the best) (remote)

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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:

• Shruthi outlines the founding (funding) members of the Collective (remote)

fromjason ("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

https://www.change.org/p/save-lina-khan-s-job?signed=true

slightlyoff@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.

Reblogged 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

Reblogged 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

#webapps #pwa

pzmyers@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:

• Chrome River logo (remote)

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

mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

For very good reasons, the .io TLD 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 )

Reblogged 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)

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/google-s-payments-to-apple-reached-20-billion-in-2022-cue-says

slightlyoff@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.

Reblogged 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.

#Nextcloud #Email #AskFedi #AskMastodon

slightlyoff@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

/via @bramus
/cc @owa

Reblogged 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:

• Recording of the demo (remote)

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

Goodbye, good riddance, screw you, Alex Jones.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/08/act-now-everything-must-go/

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• InfoWars set, up for a bankruptcy auction (remote)

Reblogged 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/

pzmyers@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:

• Screenshot from TimeTree showing divergence time for humans and spiders (remote)

Mastodon wrote:

#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:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

pzmyers@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:

• Screenshot of Birdcast's observations of bird migrations last night (remote)