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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Aw, bummer. It looks like makers and hobbyists are not buying enough Lattice FPGAs. Lattice is announcing layoffs:
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feeddansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:
doesn’t get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. https://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
insane
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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
https://bsky.app/profile/marionicolais.bsky.social/post/3lbg366uyuc2a
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mathiasx@mastodon.xyz ("Matt Gauger") wrote:
I may have asked here before, but asking again: can anyone recommend a VPS hosting provider, that is a worker-owned co op and ideally uses renewable energy?
Mastodon Feed@moh_kohn A lot of more-technical people are validating the "decentralisation" thing though – treating an (at best) vague aspiration as if it's fact, or giving a bit of a shrug and "no one's figured this out perfectly, seems like they're trying?" Which does play a role in offering people (false) reassurance.
Mastodon FeedThe thing with Bluesky is that people want to believe.
You can go blue in the face pointing out that the decentralisation simply doesn't exist, and people say "hmm, well, benefit of the doubt, seems like they're working on it..."
You can give lengthy chapter and verse about how this is not a workable design for a decentralised system and it just doesn't get much response.
That's because people want to believe it, and so they do.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Oh wow. Tim Laman's photo of an orangutan climbing a fig tree is quite amazing.
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theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:
for today's research poster session, I quickly released a website for my research project:
https://hack.cybersystems.engineer/
you may notice that this website sucks, but my task over the next few months is to make it not suck.
initial feedback welcome! :heart_cybre:
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moonrabbit@sunny.garden ("laen") wrote:
quiet magic, in case you need some.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Me, explaining what it's like to do platform strategy for a living.
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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)".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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:
Mastodon FeedI'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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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
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.
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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/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon FeedMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:
No war but class war!
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i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedAs 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)
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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.
Mastodon FeedDear 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/
