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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So I'm in #Florida. On the east side of the peninsula. The rain has been wild. Hoping we keep the lights on through it. 😅
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anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:
As a big Maiden fan, I declare the HU did a killer job on this cover of The Trooper
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The blogosphere and just tech voices on the web are so very libertarian slanted.
Is there one popular tech pundit making the rounds with a more leftist lens? Cory Doctrow possibly but I'm not sure he'd describe himself as a leftist.
Technology and the web are so inherently political and it feels like the left is completely absent from the discourse. Maybe I'm blanking?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
For the love of Alan Turing, can we please not use twitter (or any other 3rd party service, especially of the trashy kind) as our service status page?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Is Matt Mullenweg okay? #WordPress
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The end is in sight.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/i-had-the-talk-with-my-chair/
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BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange wrote:
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
yojimbo@hackers.town ("CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂") wrote:
I think this deserves a wider audience :-)
How about an official public submission to the #NZ government's current proposal to say "new oil and gas exploration is currently illegal but we love money more so we are going to get personally rich by letting them do what they want".
The submission came live from a city that was under a state of emergency at the time, due to flooding caused by climate change.
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seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:
What happens when companies pay to fund web platform features? The whole web community wins.
The latest from Igalia & Bloomberg: Inheritance changes for CSS selection styling
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/selection-styling
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hah! my wife just texted detailed instructions for pre-heating the oven & placing the baking dish of veg which she has so carefully prepared… but sent them to someone else
;^}
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
baked up some “elephant garlic” (drizzled with olive oil & sprinkled with fresh-ground salt & pepper, then into a 350°F/177°C oven for 35-40 minutes), peeled off “skin”, spread on crackers…
as Tom Robbins has a character say: “There are two basic principles in the Universe, Yum and Yuck.” trust me, this one is Yum.
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w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor @timbl 🎊
We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet.
(It is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0TfUBuIZkmQ )
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:
I am not seeing enough support from men for Harris out there. I'm a cis, het, 50+ white guy with 2 kids and a mortgage. I support Harris not only because she is … I don't know … not a fascist, but also because she has the requisite experience, temperament and leadership qualities, and she has articulated a policy platform that I support: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ It's that simple.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
"Consortium Members elect Board of Directors"
We are pleased to announce that W3C Consortium Members have elected the following seven people, listed in alphabetical order, to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors:
Koichi Moriyama
Chris Needham
Florian Rivoal
Eric Siow
Léonie Watson
Chris Wilson
Hongru (Judy) Zhu
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
Meanwhile, at a site I visit daily
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
This works right?
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Is phlegmingly a word? I'm making it a word
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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:
But this is time for celebration.
I just launched a television network!
New Ellijay Television is live on cable, online, and on Roku.
We're powered by free software! We're creating creative commons media. We're improving public domain media.
We're broadcasting originally produced material and public domain videos. Most of our work is produced on recycled and upcycled equipment.
We're re-defining what it means to do Broadcast Television in the 20s.
The future is here, and it's a bunch of weird nerds in the north GA mountains.
We need your help! https://newellijay.tv/sponsor-us/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
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- The Twitter account @WordPress, replying to @WPEngine's lawsuit tweet, saying simply "Please stop attacking us 🙏" (remote)
- The meme where a person puts a stick into the spokes of their own bicycle as they're riding it, causing them to crash to the ground. The person is labeled "Matt Mullenweg," the stick is also labeled "Matt Mullenweg," and after crashing, the person is saying, "Please stop attacking us 🙏" (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
Poll: should the new Social Web Foundation (SWF) be transparent about their funding?
@socialwebfdn recently launched with a mission of "a growing, healthy, financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse”. In TechCrunch, @Sarahp reported that SWF has "some backing" from Meta as well as Flipboard, Ghost, Mastodon, and others as well as a "large grant" from the Ford Foundation. "In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support."
But there aren't any details about the funding , and the only grant from Ford Foundation to SWF's fiscal sponsor anybody's found so far is for $50K, which is a lot less than $1 million. So there's a lot of speculation -- and considering that Meta's involved, a lot of suspicion.
Transparency about funding could potentially be helpful here. If there is indeed a larger Ford Foundation grant, good to know, and what's it for? Also, maybe Meta's just chipping in a bit to get things off the ground. Even if Meta's contributing a lot more, far better to be up-front about it.
Then again, transparency about funding could also have its downsides. In a thread on SocialHub, SWF advisor @ben (who's worked in non-profits for a while) noted that there are quite a few reasons why making finances available in real-time (as opposed to the legally required annual Form 990) "may not be desirable - not least because it may impact ongoing fundraising from other groups." And it's certainly true that different non-profits take different approaches here, there isn't any one right answer in general.
So ... what do people think?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
also, accompanying AI-generated podcast is amusing
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
new blog post up about system design choices
https://blog.ncoti.org/application-or-webapp-a-basic-design-choice-2/
@torgo may enjoy it
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:
Today is the LAST day to submit proposals for the Interop 2025 project.
But also, it's a great time to review the existing proposals and upvote the ones you care about!
Unleash your thumbs-up emojis at:
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afocus-area-proposal
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
deno_land@fosstodon.org ("Deno") wrote:
4 years after Deno 1.0, the next generation of JavaScript is ready for production at scale.
Deno 2 is out today
🐢 Fully backwards compatible with Node and npm 📦 Package management and node_modules and package.json
📅 Long term supportdeno.com/2
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coopartisans@social.coop ("Artisans Cooperative") wrote:
Join the Artisans Cooperative as an Artisan or Supporter to take back control from big tech marketplaces!
We are currently running a Membership Drive this month, so check out how to join for as little as $10!
Check it out here: https://artisans.coop/pages/membership
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- Flyer with the text: "Artisans Cooperative, Become a Member! Become an owner/operator of our handmade marketplace! We're looking for: Artisans, Supporters to take back control from Big Tech marketplaces! Benefit: Ownership and Financial Rights. Artisan Members = Lower Fees. Join us for as little as $10 with our payment plans and/or points!" There is the Artisans Cooperative logo on the top right, and on the bottom is a banner saying "Join Us! hi@artisans.coop, artisan.coop/pages/members and a qr code." Throughout the flyer, there are drawings of Brook the chicken mascot (remote)
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infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:
Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the the Mercator projection
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
After verifying my Firefox settings hadn't changed, I noticed that my other programs may have also been affected. So I went to GNOME's accessibility settings, and toggled the "Large Text" switch you see below. Meaning, I flipped it on, watched all the text embiggen, and then flipped it back off, and watched all the text get smaller, but not *as* small. Now the text in everything looks the same as before, as far as I can tell.
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- Screen capture of the "Accessibility" settings on GNOME. The "Large Text" option is highlighted. That's the one I flipped on and then off. (While I Was in there, I went ahead and turned off "Overlay Scrollbars" because having scrollbars that entirely disappear until you make the right movement and then they're too heckin' skinny is not cool.) (remote)
