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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

cssbasics@hachyderm.io ("CSS Basics") wrote:

Animating height with only #CSS: "The tl;dr version: add `interpolate-size: allow-keywords;` to your stylesheet… Then, you can animate the height attribute to auto like we’ve all wanted to for years!" https://gomakethings.com/animating-height-with-only-css/

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

Oh hai, HYD.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'd love to hear something that you like about #Mastodon 4.3. It's been a long time in the works and I think our whole team could use some dopamine 🙂

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

lazerwalker@xoxo.zone ("Emilia") wrote:

Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!

Attachments:

• An altered version of the shield of the trinity. A black-and-white line drawing diagram where "WP.com", "WP.org", and "WP Foundation" form a triangle, with lines between them all saying "is not". In the middle is the text "Matt", and lines from the three other nouns point to it with the text "is" (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So SpaceX remains the only Musk's enterprise that he - miraculously - hasn't fucked up. How long before he gets upset with Shotwell?

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

hmmm… my ‘root around in the fridge’ pseudo-chili is actually turning out okay a few hours later 🌶️

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• a pot with a lid & spoon 🥄 on top and a small bowl of discarded onion skins, both on a kitchen ’island’ countertop (remote)

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

Be willing to pay an artist or learn to embrace and celebrate your own artistic efforts challenge.

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

TheodoreKim@mastodon.online ("Theodore Kim") wrote:

There has NEVER been paper at #SIGGRAPH on Black, Afro-textured hair in its entire 50 year history.

UNTIL NOW.

We introduce CURLY-CUE: GEOMETRIC METHODS FOR HIGHLY COILED HAIR. When you STOP assuming straight hair is a universal baseline, lots of new science opens up.
1/

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• Computer modeling of the head of a Black man with medium-length, tightly-curled hair, black hinting to gray. (remote)

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

I got a glimpse of what my rural compatriots think is beautiful.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/13/rural-kitsch/

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• Truck stop art (remote)

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

ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

Pumpkins 🎃

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• 41203ffb1acc097f.jpg (remote)

Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

You may not like it, but this is what peak web design looks like.

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• Screenshot of Netscape Navigator on a GeoCities page that only contains the text "cheese is the best thing I have ever eaten wow" on a baby blue colored background (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Sometimes you win,
sometimes you learn.

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

TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show : NPR

"TikTok determined the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos. After that, according to state investigators, a user “is likely to become addicted to the platform.”"

This whole article is damning. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Made my own little robot friend.

#3dprinting

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• 3D print of a robot with articulated joints.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@graves501 @BlackAzizAnansi It's even worse in Win11. They auto-installed OneDrive and made it the system default Documents folder. Thankfully I'd never logged into microsoft services so nothing got uploaded. But I imagine lots of people's Documents folder got uploaded automatically. 😠

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

@NfNitLoop great minds. The headline to my first edition newsletter (coming soon?)

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• Elon's Mechanical Turk In 1769, a Hungarian engineer by the name of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen created an automated chess playing machine for the queen of Austria.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@beanclock It's like a URL shibboleth. Can't remember it? ... it wasn't for you. 😆

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason Mechanical Turks for the 21st century.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The number of web frameworks I've used that have routers that can't distinguish between `/foo` and `/foo/` is too damned high.

#webdev

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

@ricmac It's always hard to find the single thing that sparks a long project arc, but one input into the process was a doc I wrote that compared the performance of Chrome and Edge WebUI surfaces on low-end devices, *with video*.

It took at least another year to start in earnest, and a lot of switchbacks have been traveled since, but never, ever underestimate the power of a side-by-side video that can be forwarded with a link.

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

This project has been a long, slow build, enabled by people like Mohammed Mansour and Andrew Ritz and Lisa Klink amd Chris Holt and Justin Slone and dozens of others across several years.

The alliances necessary to put the user first aren't self-assembling, but with the right values and a little bit of "what if?", we can make better more and more possible.

https://thenewstack.io/how-microsoft-edge-is-replacing-react-with-web-components/

/via @ricmac

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

beanclock@jorts.horse ("Wilson "Beans Clock" Scraddock") wrote:

the number one thing you need to remember about setting up a website is thinking of a catchy url

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• extremely long and difficult to read URL written in Welsh that I'm not even going to try and transcribe (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

@polotek @slightlyoff @fvsch feels like the issue is as you say a lack of empathy and social awareness. The solution to which is almost always collective action.

No individual unless very very senior can change the environment in companies that aren't putting users first. Collective action from an entire engineering team can.

But collective action starts with empathy, and social awareness and openness, the lack of which in many engineering teams is why we're in this situation to start with!

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

AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) will be closest to earth later today, at a distance of ~0.47 AU (71 million km).

It will become visible low in the western sky after sunset and it will rise higher but become dimmer each day for the rest of October.

Let's get our cameras and telescopes out and let's take some once-in-a-lifetime pics 📷 🔭

See https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113203532178374641 for our coverage in late Sept. before the comet reached perihelion.

https://theskylive.com/planetarium?objects=sun-moon-c2023a3-mercury-venus-mars-jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-pluto&localdata=33.749%7C-84.38798%7CAtlanta%20GA%20(US)%7CAmerica%2FNew_York%7C0&obj=c2023a3&h=23&m=30&date=2024-10-20#ra|15.925383236364091|dec|-6.229499879936528|fov|80
http://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2023A3
1/n

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• 1. Skymap showing location of the comet 2. Graph of comet brightness - past and future (remote)

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

Tesla’s Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled By A Human The Whole Time:

"Robert Scoble, an AI enthusiast in attendance at the event, posted a video to Twitter of Optimus pouring drinks and waving to attendees. A second video, in which Scoble has a conversation with the bot’s operator and directly addresses the question of whether Optimus did anything autonomously at the party. The answer appears to be a resounding ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/12/teslas-beerserving-optimus.html

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

There is no solidarity without empathy.

One party is claiming to alleviate pain, and one party is saying the best they can do is not make it worse than the other guys.

Obviously, the former is lying. But that. Doesn't. Matter. We can expect at least some to buy into it.

When on fire, the person with waiving the hose at you looks more appealing than the person pointing out that they don't have a gas can.

It's been a decade since Trump. Maybe we try something new? #HarrisWalz2024

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

An ounce of good faith can make a world of difference.

Imagine, instead of scolding Black, Latino, and Arab voters for their hesitation in supporting Harris, white liberals all took to social media and said something like:

"My vote is for Harris, but I am not satisfied with the Democrats response to Police Reform/Immigration Human Rights/Palestinian Human Rights. So, I wrote a letter to the White House..."

Such a simple gesture would make the news. It would help us win. #HarrisWalz2024

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:

What product being enshitified pushed you over the edge?

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

it used to be, hackers would model trains. nowadays they train models

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

Ed Yong has a few good ideas.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/12/i-like-ed-yong-even-more-now/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddy5uMdzZB8

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• No arguing with strangers online Do not become a pundit Cultivate readers, not fans No savior complex Acknowledge & uplift community Act the part even if you don't feel it Use power well (remote)