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

Anyone have things to say about PeerTube? I'm thinking of joining an instance.

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

fauxpen source:

"A description of software that claims to be open source, but lacks the full freedoms required by the Open Source Definition."

I thought I invented a new term, but when I searched “fauxpen source” I found this cool little website dated back to 2009. This term seems to meet the needs of the moment so maybe it’ll catch on. https://www.fauxpensource.org/

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

@mausmalone I don't think most rational people ever really think about it. Other than as a means to separate front-end work from other work from a compensation purpose.

Folks on the internet like to make a fuss about it but they literally couldn't design their way out of a paper bag so there's that.

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

The question of "is HTML a programming language" is never about definitions.

It's about excluding a group of laborers from receiving equal compensation to others, as well as a means to justify not teaching engineers how to center web content without several frameworks.

I will not be taking questions.

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Adding to this thread because a bunch of people are asking: newsletters are expensive to run because of mailsending, not because of hosting costs. ~70% of my cost is for bulk email. A plain old static blog can be hosted for a couple bucks a month.

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last week @oxidecomputer hosted our (mostly) quadrennial DTrace conference, dtrace.conf. As an unconference we never know quite how it's going to go, but I'm not sure why @bcantrill and I were worried: it was terrific! A huge thank you to all our presenters! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaakI37KgzsE98Tp-8wV-1MKXw4qm5Y1c&si=Maf1bEgFWCIFn8RG

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knowler@sunny.garden ("Nathan Knowler") wrote:

Happy birthday #CSS! This year, I have the pleasure of participating in @5t3ph’s 12 Days of Web. I wrote about CSS `content-visibility`. A bit of a longer piece which I guess is fitting because we also touch on the DOM event with the longest name!

https://12daysofweb.dev/2024/css-content-visibility/

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

Memories of Christmas past…all sold now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/17/i-think-i-just-sold-a-house/

Attachments:

• My mother's house in Auburn, WA (remote)

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brianstorms ("Brian Dear") wrote:

@pzmyers

This is why all the QElons celebrating “full self driving” piss me off: the only way to successfully add autonomy to vehicles is to subtract human agency. For Tesla for example, FSD is about letting a corporation take over a new chunk of your life but you don’t just “enable” FSD you have to surrender to it. Screw that. Anyone trusting a corporation to that level is ultimately gonna get what’s coming to them.

“Al is not about technology — it’s about power over you.” Trvth.

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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

A "centrist" is just a conservative who wants to be invited to better parties.

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alex@deuill.org wrote:

@fromjason How lazy, they haven't even bothered to change your name on a number of pages, including the "About" page...

Attachments:

• A screenshot of a doppelgänger version of https://fromjason.xyz, complete with incomplete plagiarism of a heading reading "Jason Velazquez". (remote)

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eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

#ArtAdventCalendar - Dec 17th: #Ice (3/4)
Hoar #frost early last January. Ice needles up to 6cm long.

#frostodon #TextureTuesday #eis #winter

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• photo of a wooden fence post. Sharp ice needles have grown on it indicating a harsh wind the night before (remote)
• Close-up of those ice needles. They look like weathers got angry and grew spikes. (remote)

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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

What idiot called it “Edge of Tomorrow” when “Groundhog D-Day” was RIGHT THERE

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

"All words written by me"

What type of author would participate in naked theft of someone else’s words and design? This dude not only stole my website design—graphics and all—he republished all my writings and claims he’s the author.

Motaz Matar, my guy, author of five self-published novels, what are we doing here? I’ve put hundreds of hours of free labor into my design and writing. Could we maybe not steal it?

Attachments:

• M H&10;MATAR&10;FABLES&10;AND SCRIBBLES OF THINGS & STUFF&10;ALL WORDS WRITTEN&10;BY ME...
• Encinitas, California&10;Why do we confine ourselves to a handful of apps? We look to M. Night Shyamalan's The Village for answers.&10;LATEST POSTS&10;Dec The Computational Web&10;Nov Bluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-Aid&10;Oct Meta's Toaster Problem&10;Sep Data Piggy&10;Aug Raw dog the open web!&10;53 more posts can be found in all posts.

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lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Gribouillis du midi

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• Photo noir et blanc de trois post-it alignés l'un après l'autre près d'un stylo, sur le premier est dessiné le bout d'un bec de corbeau, sur le deuxième la partie principale du bec, sur le troisième un bout de tête et l'oeil du corbeau

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

I played this damn game a lot in 1975, totally unaware of what a poisonous asshole Gary Gygax was.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/17/if-youve-ever-wondered-where-all-those-sexist-gamers-came-from/

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• _— GARY GYGAX (USA): "I have been accused of being a nasty old sexist-male- Chauvinist-pig, for the wording in D&D isn't what it should be. There should be more emphasis on the female role, more non-gender names, and so forth. I thought perhaps these folks were right and considered adding wo- men in the 'Raping and Pillaging_ section, in the 'Whores and Tavern Wen- ches' chapter, the special magical part dealing with 'Hags and Crones', and thought of perhaps adding an appendix on 'Medieval Harems, Slave Girls, and Going Viking'. Damn right I am a sexist. It doesn't matter to me if women get paid as much as men, get jobs traditionally male, and shower in the men's locker room. They can jolly well stay away from war- gaming in droves for all I care. I've seen many a good wargame &and war- gamer spoiled thanks to the feir sex. I'll detail that if anyone wishes." (remote)

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

Some straight jacked my whole website and mad a worse version of it.

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• Home page of persons website that is a clone of mine but with worse fonts. Has the same illustration of a guy puking blog and similar title
• Same intro with the letter cap "W" that starts out with "what's up weirdos".
• All the posts are mine too. A list of latest posts.

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

Every word is true.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/17/i-do-love-a-good-spleen/

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• Why these fucking bozos piss me the fuck off 1 was drafting stuff for this book and it kept turning into short historics where I kept adding “[TK add detail]” and it felt like giving myself homework. That makes for text that bores the reader ‘cos it bores the author. So no. I'm writing from the spleen here. It's the only way this can work and have power. What I hate about AT hype is that it’s by the same shitty bozos who fuck up everything clse. They have no approach to the world other than fucking stuff up with money and power via technology. As a technologist myself (a Unix/Linux system administrator for a few decades), I'm even more pissed off because the technologies are actually interesting, They do things! You could do good things with them! Even the gencrative stuff, you could play with it and make interesting things! But no — these bozos being who they are, all they can think of is how to turn it to abuses. Machine learning is for systemic bias. Generative Al is for reducing artists’ labour conditions. And the power consumption, my God! These bozos were bad enough when they were pushing crypto, and in Al they've even managed to replace the ghastly power waste! Al is not about technology — it's about power over you. (remote)

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

Don't try to tell me I'm happy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/17/i-guess-im-supposed-to-be-happy/

Attachments:

• Map of America's presumed happiness (remote)

jwz wrote:

Happy Holidays, everybody. Except to apartheid fascist billionaires.

jwz wrote:

Sweaty Peter Thiel.

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• a7efed2372c13986.jpeg

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Death Guild: Sweaty Peter Thiel - Herradura, Honey, Lemon, Soda Water.

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• 66e994d9484dadf4.mp4 (remote)

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moh_kohn@mastodon.scot ("Alistair Davidson") wrote:

Mastodon should ask you to pick a "moderator" not an "instance".

The latter is obscure technical detail. The former is about people, and power, and explainable to anyone.

"You pick which person or organisation you want to decide who and what is banned. You can change it later."

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

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code:

"Ever use a de-Googled Android phone? Here’s a de-Googled Google, or as close to one as you’re going to get on the google.com domain."

Search Google from this site and it gets rid of everything—AI answers, dropdowns, etc.—and just shows you web results. It does this by appending Google’s search results link with &udm=14. https://udm14.com/

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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:

"Well, for better or worse, Mastodon doesn't "ask" you to pick anything since 2023"

Looking at the numbers since you made this change, it's really hard to see it as "for better" from a decentralization perspective.

* mastodon.social now has 32% of active Mastodon users, so the ecosystem is less decentralized than it was

* overall active Mastodon usage has decreased, so it didn't address that problem either.

As I wrote in A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness

"The biggest strength of Mastodon (and the Fediverse) is that people with niche interests and from marginalized identities, cultures, and communities can find (or work with others to create) an instance that match their priorities and preferred norms. Why not lean into that?

But no."

The biggest strength of Mastodon (and the Fediverse) is that people with niche interests and from marginalized identities, cultures, and communities can find (or work with others to create) an instance that match their priorities and preferred norms. Why not lean into that?

@Gargron@mastodon.social @moh_kohn@mastodon.scot

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nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

techno-yodel is real https://youtube.com/watch?v=luUb_nVyPHE&t=85

#eurovision

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

If the government were worried about civil unrest to the point they thought uprisings could happen, I’d guess they’d try to ban drones outright.

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hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

THIS THURSDAY, at @dnalounge

WHAT COULD BE BETTER than a Nightmare Before Christmas movie screening? How about a Nightmare Before Christmas *SING-ALONG* movie screening!

T I X: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/12-19.html

Doors 7:30, Movie 8:00. Dance party with DJ Starr & DJ Melting Girl 10PM. COSTUME CONTEST at 11PM! 💀🎅

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

Hey hi hello! Guess what? I launched my new freelance website today. Very happy and excited and happy.

https://www.pixelriot.digital/

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

need a remaster of the Lain DVD release that doesn't change anything except every episode has text scrolling along the top talking about how 9/11 just happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xt5WG7tt0