Mastodon Feed
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We're all fools together in the classroom this morning.
Mastodon Feed
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thegibson@hackers.town ("The Ghoulson") wrote:
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jnonfiction@social.coop ("Joshua Neds-Fox") wrote:
I had my 2024 list all locked down but this Kelly Lee Owens album just dropped and now I have to go back and cut something https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/dreamstate
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Via @brucelawson, this post highlights why the weak sauce that a lot of tech companies (particularly Apple) are selling regarding privacy is a mirage. The only thing that will fix the problem is for data at rest to be regulated like the toxic sludge that it is:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
As I wrote back in July, browsers are better for security than native apps, but that's not enough. Technical measures aren't enough:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:
Shout out to @davatron5000 for his view transitions post
https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/
I got back to trying these last night and the top few results in google were so confusing I couldn’t remember how to get started.
Then I thought “didn’t Dave have a good post on this?” Looked it up and it’s even been updated!
Still the best resource I’ve found if you just want to learn how to get started with css-only multi-page view transitions.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Borowitz Report:
“Giving up your rights is like riding in a driverless car,” Musk told a Republican rally audience. “Before you know it, you won’t miss having any control.”
[satire alert]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
💦
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
tregagnon@piaille.fr ("Thierry Régagnon") wrote:
GitHub Copilot is just a new way for developers to get small dopamine hit. Like social network scrolling.
Most suggestions are garbage, but getting a good one is satisfying. It nudges us to continue using it for another potentially good suggestion.
We are basically rolling dices every time we type code, hoping for a lucky result.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Side note, if you'd like us to help pay our bills for the 5 full-time employees and a number of freelancers we currently have working on developing Mastodon and bringing you new features, and potentially grow the team to do so even faster, there is a number of ways you can do so outlined on this page: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:
This makes me want to scream and pull out my hair.
"Reduce your vocabulary by 10-20% to prove you're a human."
Attachments:
- Dr. Damien P. William... Remember how i told y'all that text written by neurodivergent peeps would likely have a higher false positive rate on "Al" checkers because masking means they are likely to engage in careful and specific word choice and that that would show up in text as "unnatural?" This is more of that. Quoting Mike Masnick: Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "Al checker." Kid did not use Al. Al checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% Al written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-Al-ing" an essay that has no Al. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:
Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
#DevinTownsend's #PowerNerd album is out now. Time to listen to the whole thing...
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:
Undefined behavior consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be compiler developers whom the language standard protects but does not bind, alongside developers whom the language standard binds but does not protect
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Me: [holding basil plant from Publix I haven't killed yet] as a single father-
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:
Imagine coming up with a machine that effectively gets to decide how humans are "supposed to" write and speak.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
They really are going balls to the wall on hating trans people.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/my-political-dilemma/
Attachments:
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This is some mighty takedown of a propane shill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg81dHXEGMc
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
@zachleat Imagine if real engineers were like “yeah this bridge feels sturdy to me, ship it.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Just presented my latest paper "A case for feminism in programming language design" which was surely the scariest paper to present ever, as it is such a personal exploration of what it means to research programming languages, but I am very proud of it!
Here is the paper and blog post, a video will be available later!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
when repeated successful coding changes do not seem to have any effect upon the server after recompilation, consider the possibility that YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO RESTART THE DAMNED THING, IDJIT
https://tenor.com/view/not-again-frustration-gif-7054327450484496346
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:
But the point, regardless of how specific I'm able to get, is that people have not changed significantly for as long as we have records.
Our goals and hopes and studies and stories and diversions and play and rituals and all of that, the details change -- the specifics, the names, the methods even -- but the acts remain largely the same.
Thousands of years ago, the people we'd call Ancient Egyptians were studying and restoring the monuments of their ancestors thousands of years removed from them.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, people were writing stories about traveling to the moon and participating in interplanetary colonialism, and also engaging themselves in lampooning the popular culture of their day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story )
We were making toys and playing board games and just generally being people.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Breakfast is delivered.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/phase-2-complete/
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:
#introduction Heya! I'm a post doc fellow at Cornell in NYC studying how those creating ~“AI”~ think about the downstream harms their systems make possible, and the wider cultural, political, and economic logics which shape these thoughts. Ex NASA, Microsoft Research, and Intel. I was born in rural Oregon, grew up in Berlin and Singapore.
Follow me for AI ethics hot takes, academia nonsense, anti-surveillance and student labor activism.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is geography destiny?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/a-map-that-explains-so-much/
Attachments:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
I understand why the Depeche Mode cats don't dig "People Are People" as work output but the song has its placetimes, and frankly there are people who could benefit from hearing it far more often than they have, apparently.
Attachments:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Selling a house in a strike zone. I'm still cheering on the union.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/go-go-go-boeing-workers/
Attachments:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Hey JS framework vendors: you know the "showcase" part of your website is for things you're *proud* of, right?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
Remember: Trump was supposed to debate Harris tonight but chickened out.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
It's time for a fairer, more competitive app ecosystem. Enforcing the DMA is the quickest way to get there.
Together with many others, we urge MEPs of the ECON and IMCO Committees to hold the gatekeepers accountable for compliance with the DMA
Read More:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-time-for-a-fairer-more-competitive-app-ecosystem/