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jwz wrote:

I feel like any email starting with "this is a friendly reminder" is actually a lawyer with knuckle tats that say "per my last email".

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

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• The fact that my landlord can call the police to enforce his property rights but I can't call the police to enforce our lease tells you everything you need to know about what the police's role in society actually is. (remote)

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

Is this a subtweet?

https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/w3c-statement-on-ethical-web-principles-guides-the-community-to-build-a-better-web/

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• There is one web The web does not cause harm to society The web supports healthy community and debate The web is for all people The web is secure and respects people's privacy The web enables freedom of expression The web makes it possible to verify information The web enhances individuals' control and power The web is an environmentally sustainable platform The web is transparent The web is multi-browser, multi-OS, and multi-device The web can be consumed in any way that people choose

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other_ghosts@kolektiva.social ("Wilson") wrote:

I know the etiquette is evolving around this so here's my quick guide to sharing the road with self-driving cars:

If you find yourself in a city whose political leaders are corrupt and vain enough to have allowed this scourge onto their streets, you absolutely do not owe them the basic courtesy you would extend to any driver.

Bearing in mind safety and basic physics, it's perfectly fine to, for instance, not let them proceed at a stop sign; not let them merge in traffic; take the lane and bike super slow in front of them; take your sweet time in a crosswalk; accidentally leave your personal traffic cone on its hood; etc, etc. Just remember that they are recording you, should you choose to escalate your discourtesy beyond the the obnoxious-but-basically-legal.

Self-driving cars do not deserve the right of way, because rights are for sentient beings, not roving death cameras.

If you are worried whether someone is riding in back, just imagine it's Jeff Bezos and he's on his way to a very important meeting. The more inconvenient these things are to hire, the more ordinary people will choose better options, the more swiftly these businesses will fail and disappear.

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• Photograph of a white "Waymo" car on a city street at night, outfitted with various cameras and sensors, headlights blazing. It appears to have been immobilized by the presence of an orange traffic cone placed on its hood. (remote)

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latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

#DCcomics

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• Closely cropped digital sketch of Starfire resting her hands on top of Nightwing’s head. It’s messily shaded in blocks of colour, with the blue background bleeding on top. (remote)

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

I’ll concede that killing a CEO on the street is bad but we should at least be allowed challenge them to a duel.

Like, I just learned that airlines pay TSA employees ten bucks for each bag they pull off the belt for being too big. That CEO should have to meet me outside a saloon.

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

Babe, just delete your Instagram already - by katie morley:

"And it was at this very moment, on that disgustingly warm day in July, as I panicked about what some random ass gal from a previous life may or may not think of me, that I realised how toxic my relationship with Instagram had become."

All the A E S T H E T I C girlies from 2012 IG are Substack writers now and honestly a lot of it is very engaging ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/14/babe-just-delete.html

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

I’m finishing a write-up on how Bluesky is a libertarian ecosystem based on libertarian ideals, and I’m fighting for my life not to title it “Don’t Skeet on Me Bro.”

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

Things are NOT good, if I'm correct above, as we make things more decentralized in the atproto-public-shared-heap model. The more self-hosting and indeed the more "full nodes" join, the more it gets expensive for each of the nodes and the network EXPLODES!

Truly self-hosted atproto is NOT POSSIBLE!

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

Florida Woman Charged With Terrorism:

"Class warfare against working people is when billion dollar insurance corporations can live by “Delay, Deny, Depose” for decades—even as their policies actually and knowingly enable tens of thousands of annual deaths—but when a working person denied healthcare merely says that exact phrase—it’s terrorism."

Free Briana Boston. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Why charge Briana Boston with terrorism? A Bug’s Life told us why:

“You let 1 ant stand up to us & they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life!! It's not about food! It's about keeping those ants in line.”
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism

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dale_price@mastodon.online ("Dale Price") wrote:

This is what the iOS contact permission prompt should be

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• Newer model iPhone mockup. At the top of the screen is a grid of contact pictures and the text “You have 579 contacts. Contact information includes names, emails, photos, phone numbers, addresses and more”. In the lower half of the screen, there is a header “Get permission before sharing contact info” with the text “We're not going to let you betray your friends that easily. You'll need to get their permission to allow ‘Flashlight+ Pro Free HD’ to access their contact info.” At the bottom are two buttons: “Request Permission From 579 Contacts” and “Don’t Share” (remote)

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

I miss the mountains so bad. I’ve been lucky enough to travel parts of the world but nothing has called me back as strong as Glacier National Park.

Here’s me being very classy:

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• Me in Glacier National Park eating cheeseballs with mountains behind me.
• Me in Glacier National Park with a big jar of cheeseballs with mountains behind me.
• Me in Glacier National Park eating cheeseballs from a big jar with mountains behind me.
• Close up of me eating cheeseballs looking sick.

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

consider also pandoc for a generalized solution: https://pandoc.org/

https://mastodon.social/@kepano/113647375997842213

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mcmullin@musicians.today ("David McMullin") wrote:

Almost everyone has decided that they would rather suffer permanent brain damage than the social stigma of being the only one around who doesn’t want brain damage. I don’t get it.

Please be that one masked weirdo who still cares. It will give the second, third and fourth weirdos permission to care too.

#CovidIsNotOver

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 14 Dec 2008 journalist @muntazer_zaidi threw his shoes at President George W Bush in protest at the US occupation of Iraq, shouting "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq." He resumed his activism after 6 months jail https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8557/muntadhar-throws-shoes-at-gwb

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• d55d786fccd1c5e0.mp4

jwz wrote:

Medieval Dick Pics Calendar.

This is a real thing that you can buy. I can't tell who made it, but it is available from your favorite sweatshop retailers.
https://jwz.org/b/ykev

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• Screenshot

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graste@vivaldi.net wrote:

„Mutation XSS: Explained, CVE and Challenge“
https://jorianwoltjer.com/blog/p/hacking/mutation-xss

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

At the top of your document, you'd have something like:

``

Or it could be done via feature/document policy, as in the NSM proposal [1]:

`Feature-Policy: allow-slow-dom 'none'; ...`

As for the programming model...

[1]: https://github.com/slightlyoff/never_slow_mode

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

The obvious solution is separate, single, read and write phases per frame. Saw it in action recently in a web-experience-inspired system:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/systemrunguide?view=minecraft-bedrock-stable#the-script-tick

The browser's problem is compatibility. We can't begin to enforce this model without developer opt-in as it would lead to tons of obviously broken content. And even if developers opt in, their libraries will have been written for the earlier era of non-pipelined execution.

This has killed many previous attempts.

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

A tricky thing for DOM events is providing nominally backwards compatible callback surface area for the right phases. I'm not sure how much of a problem this will be in practice. We'd need to live with it to find out.

The tricky thing for developers will be all the silent breakage of code that expects synchronous readback by side effect. But maybe breaking a bunch of bad 3rd-party scripts isn't such a bad thing? IDK.

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

So there's a bug a the core of the web event lifecycle: we allow reads and writes of UI state to be interleaved. This is, in part, why React's over-abstraction sounded like it could plausibly help[1]. This is something @arv and I noodled on when designing the nu-DOM for Dart...we still need to fix it.

[1]: The ideas was that only the framework would be allowed to do the expensive parts, but that wasn't true; as witnessed by every forced-layout infested React app I trace...which is all of them.

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

The middle points on the spectrum that enable partial opt-in are a muddle that don't do much to discourage continuing expansion of bad behaviour. But perhaps we could use it as a forcing function to increase use of islands of isolation (e.g. `contain` + Shadow DOM)?

How would all of that work? First, we need page-level opt-in (as the effects of readback are global, rather than local to the script doing the reading). This would *silently* change the behaviour of expensive style readbacks...

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

In code, that might look like:

```js
// Instead of rAF and double-rAF dances...

let width;
let foo = document.getElementById("foo");
// New read-only phase
window.requestAfterLayout(() => {
// Writing styles throws, but reads are cheap
width = foo.innerWidth; // Never forces layout!
});
window.requestBeforeLayout(() => {
// Like today, but writes don't take effect until later
foo.attributeStylMap.set("width", CSS.px(width * 2));
assert(width == foo.innerWidth); // true!
});
```

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

Needing new versions of all style read/write APIs seems daunting (would bloat the DOM interface...but maybe on Typed OM? Needs exploration), so one option might be to introduce new phased callbacks in which the existing APIs all exist, but work differently than today. In the read-only phase (conceptually "on-after-paint" in today's event loop), writing to styles would either throw or be silently ignored (or queued?). In the write phase, reading styles would never trigger layout.

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

UnitedHealth’s New “I Feel Your Pain” PR Blitz:

"The idea that Witty, who earned $23.5 million last year alone and is a Brit literally knighted by the UK, would “understand” the struggle of any ordinary person is of course laughable. But the kinder, gentler tone they’re adopting is interesting and maybe even hopeful because it suggests that even they cannot ignore how angry the public is."

Maybe I’m a cynic, but this sounds ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/14/unitedhealths-new-i.html

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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

you know you're a 90s kid when your vaccinations were mandatory and no one in your class got measles

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

Missed this by Joeri Sebrechts when it was posted a couple of months ago in response to Ryan's WC screed; *wow*:

*"I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn."*

https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-09-30-lived-experience/

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

Is there a noun for decentralized social media that isn't so clumsy or not affiliated with a particular protocol (Fediverse)?

When I write I keep wanting to use the word "platform" though I know that's incorrect. But there isn't a simple equivalent term.

Or even something more generic. Network? Ecosystem? "Protocol" isn't all encompassing.

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

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn’t ruling out advertising | TechCrunch:

"“I think the ways we would explore advertising, if we did, would be much more user intent-driven,” said Graber on stage Wednesday at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. “We want to keep our incentives aligned with users and make sure that we’re not turning into a model where the user’s attention is the product.”"

I think we’re shift into magical ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/14/bluesky-ceo-jay.html