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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

wholesomememes@mas.to ("Wholesomememes") wrote:

thnx so much (by u/Potential-Answer-565)
(AI Alt-Text)

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• A tweet from Max (@MaxSernie) reads: "hey can someone remind me to cancel my spotify premium in 3 months" with a timestamp of 11:36 PM, 23 Jun 18. A reply from Olly Smith (was) @ #EGX (@Ol...) says: "You should cancel your Spotify Premium." The reply received 1 like and 2 retweets. Max (@MaxSernie) responds with: "holy fuck thank you i completely forgot," which received 1 like. Both profile pictures feature dogs. (remote)

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

Bluesky evangelicals did what crypto and NFT bros couldn't—

They got ordinary people to buy into what is very much a libertarian worldview of the “social internet.” It's remarkable.

But for some, that's not enough. They _need_ the unquestioning praise. It's a 🚩 for sure.

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

React Native, in a nutshell.

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• Homer in the cult: "remove the stone of IE...and attach the stone of App Stores!" (remote)

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

The number of times over our Lost Decade I've heard people (men) confidently assert to me that they knew what they were doing with React as we casually perused the incontrovertible evidence that they did not, in fact, know what they were doing is unsettling.

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

So bsky's site is...what's the word?...bad, performance-wise. [1]

I pointed this out, and folks asked what I'd do differently. I had to preface the response by saying that you don't start any new projects with React in the 2020s because it was designed for the (early) 2010s and has aged like fine milk.

This drew out a reply by someone saying that *they* start with React, but *they* know what they're doing, and all I can think is "does your boss know?"

[1]: https://treo.sh/sitespeed/bsky.app?mapMetric=r&formFactor=phone&metrics=lcp%2Cr

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• bsky's web site is universally painful to use on phones, as seen by this INP chart showing no geographies with a green score. (remote)
• bsky's mobile LCP (how long it takes to load) and INP (how usable it is post-load) are not OK. (remote)

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

the national endowment for telling men that one credential doesn’t qualify you in anything else (NETMOCDQYAE)

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

april@macaw.social ("April King") wrote:

Handling Cookies is a Minefield:

inconsistencies in the HTTP cookie specification and its implementations have caused a situation where countless websites (including Facebook, Netflix, Okta, WhatsApp, Apple, etc.) are one small mistake away from locking their users out.

https://grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/handling-cookies-is-a-minefield/

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• (A @ A https://www.facebook.com . Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Help Center (remote)
• https/www.netflix.com Something went wrong Sorry, we're having trouble with your request. You'll find lots to explore on the home page. Learn More |Error Code NSES-500 (remote)
• okta.com: Bad Request Your request resulted in an error. Go to Homepage (remote)
• WhatsApp Error (remote)

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

It's a minor scandal that browsers added cbor formats but no JS APIs for encode/decode.

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

transmission64@c.im ("Transmission64 :c64:") wrote:

And Transmission64 is live. Head on over to https://t64.to/watch .

#c64 #demoparty #demoscene

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

simon_brooke@mastodon.scot ("Simon Brooke") wrote:

"When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”"

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

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

sereeena@infosec.exchange ("serena 🌙") wrote:

i got kicked out of new zealand because i was telling everyone that it was actually pronounced "jandalf"

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danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption, which eventually causes you to lose: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=135463.

In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to move down and to the left so I couldn't stop other missiles.

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• Video showing a game of missile command, as described in body of post.

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

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

The dangers of the situation are obvious and real, but it matters that we remember that the world’s big platforms are steered not by shadowy forces, but by teams of gold-rush-addled dorks whose sometimes-well-meaning employees are stuck frantically LARPing world government on internal forum software.

It’s equally important to remember that the patterns we’ve experienced on mega-platforms are not the only way to do networks but the result of specific combinations of under-thinking and malign commercial pressures—and that the currently ascendant systems are not inevitably annihilating forces, but legal and financial constructs that can be brought to heel, forcibly reconfigured, or just replaced. Keeping these basic facts in mind is oddly difficult, because there’s so much money involved, and money is a spell for blurring the truth.

I think our failure to remember that the mega-platforms are just intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted but very human weirdos is a failure of accountability, but our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve.

Great piece from @kissane
https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

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

nimbledave ("NimbleDave") wrote:

Here is my process of doing a Chine-collé photogravure print. Chine-collé Is the process of using an extremely thin tissue type paper (in this case Japanese gampi) between the plate and the base paper. This adds the texture and color of the tissue as well as a subtle relief and sheen effect due to the smooth, polished finish of the gampi tissue. #art #printmaking

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• 68e8a9912fa5e92b.mp4

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

We can say no, and not just on an individual basis. We can collectively say no, and considering the power dynamics in the world, that can be a better way to go in many cases.

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

I admit that when I see nuanced takes on technology that rest on the defeatist assumption that technology is some sort of inevitable force of nature, I have a hard time paying attention to what is being said. Technology is built by humans for human motives. If we don't build it, it does not happen. We don't have to accept that the only thing to do is gratefully swallow whatever is being forced down our throats.

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

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/23/using-biology-as-a-cheaply-made-poorly-understood-label-by-bigots/

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• Nancy Mace gestures at her cheap, stupid sign: "biological" women (remote)

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

The performance panel's trace providers don't connect elements to CSS animation-driven events, either on the compositor or main threads... Same for animation and place monitor panels. And perfetto didn't help.

Which makes sort of thing impossible to debug without 3D View + squinting.

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

The offender was a loading spinner, hidden by other elements, above the fold but off screen.

We clearly have work to do on compositor logic re: power use, but this (high profile) site would have been impossible to fix without the 3D View panel in the interim.

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

Today in History: Thomas Tallis (English composer) dies, 1585

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

Today in History: First edition of Life magazine published, 1936

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

Today in History: First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963

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

helenleigh@chaos.social ("Helen Leigh") wrote:

It's official! Teardown will be returning to the mall in June 2025 and @crowdsupply is still letting me run it.

Keynotes will be Cory Doctorow (author, activist), Kate Stewart (VP of Embedded at Linux, Zephyr, RTOS) and bunnie Huang (hardware hacker, author).

We have talks, workshops, hacker art, soldering, synths, SDRs, VR, machines galore, local food, after parties & A+ dying mall vibes.

Early bird tix are on sale and calls for proposals/volunteers are open!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025

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

Surprisingly relatable content in the middle of this action packed music video from Salvatore Ganacci's "Fight Dirty":

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

(CW for a minor spoiler if you haven't seen the video before.)

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• A cartoon Salvatore Ganacci standing outside, surrounded by cherry blossoms, looking back over his shoulder at the camera he says, "Sometimes I cry when I'm alone." [A still from the music video for "Fight Dirty"] (remote)

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

good morning fediverse. :cofepats:

the Red Hot Organization has released their latest project, "Transa", a six LP collection (!!) in support of our trans family and friends who have always been part of our society.

https://redhot.org/project/transa/

(includes the first new Sade song in a long long time, "Young Lion")

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

Jennifer Pahlka (from ‘Code for America’) has some interesting things to say

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000677890883

jwz wrote:

Just so you know, the next fash flood is scheduled for Jan 20

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

lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Leonard Ritter") wrote:

How it's going:

AWS will pay devs to verify Rust standard library because of 7,500 unsafe functions and enormity of task https://devclass.com/2024/11/21/aws-will-pay-devs-to-verify-rust-standard-library-because-of-7500-unsafe-functions-and-enormity-of-task/

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I wrote a fully functioning SAT solver in Rust (been working on it on and off since March). It now works well enough to pass a few hundred tests, but probably needs more polish before I throw it on GitHub.

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

maybe I do need to implement 2 factor authentication at the get-go after all

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113529814475704255