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moonrabbit@sunny.garden ("laen") wrote:

quiet magic, in case you need some.

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• a brown oak leaf covered in drops of water that look like glass or crystal. the sun is shining on them all, and they're perfectly clear and shining. the leaf is lying on the ground amidst brown sticks and other leaves. (remote)

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

I've seen many takes of the form, "The companies were all about copyrights clear up until they became interested in selling us AI slop services." Of course, there's some truth to that (especially with a company like Microsoft), but the reality is these companies have never been interested in respecting *your* copyright. They just wanted you to respect *their* copyright. As far as I can tell, this is still their position.

Entirely and infuriatingly consistent.

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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

Okay, here goes...

If anyone can help me with some #MutualAid to finally escape this country, I'd be more grateful than I can say.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tmvshek

I and my cat are packed and ready to go. But I'm short about $500 for some critical paperwork and starting to feel desperate.

I've been trying to make this work, living in a curtained-off corner of my abusive ex's living room for the past two years, while I put this plan to leave together. Obviously it just became more urgent than ever.

I know I'm lucky to have a part-time remote job that lets me work abroad, and a couple of safe places I could stay at while thinking about next steps. I want to get away, and then offer whatever help I could to other #transgender people trying to leave the US.

Please only help if you really can afford to. Boosts are tremendously appreciated. :boostRequest:

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

Me, explaining what it's like to do platform strategy for a living.

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• The kid from The Sixth Sense saying "I see deadweight losses" (remote)

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

Ban tracking and personalised advertising https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/tracking-verbot Chaos Computer Club calls for European Commission to propose legislation that would ban personalised surveillance advertising. "The advertising industry already has sustainable, proven concepts for effective online advertising that do not require targeted tracking and personalisation (e.g. contextual advertising)".

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

Writing a blog post about AMP. It doesn't quite fit, but the subhead *"Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts"* is double-dog-daring me not to use it.

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Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

What idiot called it a McDonald’s fish sandwich and not a quarter flounder.

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

a decent day’s work: got redis made & installed right & tested, switched from MemorySessionStore to RedisSessionStore, started to lock down a child-safe-output issue with a better set of invisible-to-user instructions, and tweaked a menu system. time for a pipe and snax

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

Seeing all this talk on my timeline about soundtracks got me thinking about "π – Music For The Motion Picture".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k02KIOUU8Hw&list=PLD141E36B4DAC5F13

I don't know if it's better than the movie, but it's just as interesting as the movie and could stand on its own in it's curation. I definitely listened to it much more than I watched the movie. 😆

In case you're not familiar with the movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)

jwz wrote:

I'm being informed that we are still fucked.

Everyone's talking about Bobby Brainworms and fluoride, and the other monsters he's appointing just to troll us, but here's what's been keeping me up at night: the Fox Nazi war-crimes-enthusiast Secretary of Defense...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdU

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• Screenshot

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

You don't need to imagine a conspiracy to suppress the web by slow-rolling important new features when the base-case is that the APIs that *are* implemented are indistinguishable from elaborate practical jokes.

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

This continues to be *extremely* relevant:

webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/

Just yesterday in the Web Performance Slack, folks were trading advice about how beat the keep-Safari-from-fucking-up-scrolling challenge (impossible)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday’s Oxide and Friends @bcantrill and I were joined by Piotr Sarna and @cynthiadunlop to talk about their forthcoming book “Writing for Developers”… for which Bryan wrote the forward. It was also a chance to reflect on our 20 years of blogging. It all started at Sun, and we were lucky to be joined by @timbray and Will Snow who did heroic work to kick off blogging at Sun.

https://youtu.be/5fYKYakP_f0

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

In terms of the decades of blogging, @bcantrill's recent post is a great place to check out some highlights. https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the-decades/

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

American car manufacturers need to learn the lesson of the Irish Elk.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/our-cars-have-cancer/

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• Irish Elk (remote)

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

No war but class war!

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• Satire on microsoft's virtual desktop assistant, the animated paperclip, only this is an animated guillotine, who says, "Hi, I'm Choppy! I'm the Revolution Assistant and my job is to help you purge oligarchs and their enablers. Do you need assistance?" (remote)

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i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

#ReactJS #DevOps #AppSec #Meme

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• Cat (ReactJS) boxing with it’s shadow (DOM). Original clip via: Posts Of Cats (remote)

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

As so often happens this time of year I have drawn another Krampus

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• A digital illustration of Krampus, a furry, feral blue man with fangs and horns and a long pink tongue and goat legs and a tail. He's wearing a fur-lined and belted tunic sort of thing, and is holding a whip in one hand and a chain and manacles in the other. He seems to be running or stomping, but he's definitely not in a good mood. He's drawn in chunky, squarish way with stumpy, cartoonish proportions. Under his feet is custom lettering reading 'Krampus'. (remote)

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

dahux@piaille.fr ("David Segonds :verified:") wrote:

Paged Out! #5

Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), #hacking, security hacking, #Retrocomputing, modern computers, demoscene, and other similar topics.

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_005.pdf

#PagedOut #FOSS #Linux

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, since upgrading to macOS 14.7.1 my Finder menubar "Scripts" menu is missing (~/Library/Scripts/). How do I get it back? Rebooting did not fix.

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dansalvato@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Dan Salvato :amiga:") wrote:

New blog post: Shattering the Magicore 8-color limit https://dansalva.to/shattering-the-magicore-8-color-limit/

#Amiga #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retrogamedev

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• A screenshot demonstrating the “color regions” feature in the game Magicore Anomala. The background is a vibrant moonlit mountainscape with trees. In front is a cyan-colored Boing Ball with a small character standing on top of it. (remote)

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vees@epistolary.org ("Rob Carlson") wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.

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

Snow, a squirrel, and invisible birds.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/it-really-did-snow/

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• Bird feeders (remote)

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bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `` and ``.

You can now use the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/styling-details

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• Recording of one of the demos from the post. It shows a horizontal exclusive accordion that gets animated. (remote)

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wj@ruby.social ("Will Jessop") wrote:

Goddamnit Apple https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

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

installed redis to handle SessionStore issues for my little seekrit service

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JanMiksovsky@fosstodon.org ("Jan Miksovsky") wrote:

Looking for people to playtest a programming language for making websites https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-20-programming-language-playtest.html

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If you've never read Worse is Better or the history behind it, it's worth reading https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

tl;dr: Yeah you think your tech is better designed and it may be but the Zerg Rush strategy works for tech (but with long-running consequences)

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

Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry:

"Elaina St James, an adult content creator who promotes her work on Instagram, said she and other adult content creators are now directly competing with these AI rip-off accounts, many of which use photographs and videos stolen from adult content creators and Instagram models." https://www.404media.co/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry-3/

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

Winter in Minnesota means we should welcome all the little creatures who would die in the cold to join us in our houses.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/20/its-snowing-2/

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• Pholcus (remote)