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

Endless loops of doom,
Syntax errors dance and spin,
Code a tangled mess.

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

Pathetic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/01/this-is-not-cool-or-edgy-its-just-stupid/

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• Elon Musk has changed his X profile. His avatar is now Pepe the Frog, a mascot adopted by white supremacists. His name is a Latinisation of “Kek”, a phrase used by neo-Nazis. Musk has also backed AfD in Germany, the political home for racists. The man is telling us explicitly what he’s about. (remote)

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

Catastrophe! Disaster! I neglected to perform the yearly ritual that keeps the US prosperous and stable, and may even prevent the dissolution of space/time!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/01/woe-i-failed-to-perform-the-ritual/

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• root beer float (remote)

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

It me.

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• A code comment that reads: "// linux user detected, hand holding disengaged." (remote)

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

We did it. We found the *one* place where developers tax themselves, and only themselves, in the name of "DX":

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ink

Is React fine there? Yep. 1000%. Go ham. Point that gun RIGHT at your foot.

Consenting adults on their own machines and all that.

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

Wooooooooooo

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• 14d5e79bebafc3c8.mp4 (remote)

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

It's pretty incredible just how far ahead of everyone else Cloudflare is with their workers platform, and how much they've OSS'd w/ Workerd.

This is the heart of strategy: knowing the minds of your competitors so deeply that you can predict they won't follow your lead until it's *way* too late.

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

ahhhhh, yeah

https://music.apple.com/us/album/illegal-smile-live-at-wfmt-chicago/1774249391?i=1774249808

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Happy new year, Mastodon!

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

[ via @simon ]

Anthropic’s Amanda Askell (responsible for much of the work behind Claude’s Character):

“The boring yet crucial secret behind good system prompts is test-driven development. You don’t write down a system prompt and find ways to test it. You write down tests and find a system prompt that passes them.”

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

Cleaning up the last bits of my mother's legacy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/31/brain-permanently-scarred-but-pennies-saved/

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• Two old silver dollars (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A hardened criminal… Always climbing the Christmas tree.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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• A white cat with orange patches and a pink nose (Peaches), sitting like a lady and wearing a bowtie.

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NSFVoyager2@techhub.social wrote:

1/ On this last day of 2024, I thought this might interest those of you following our progress in detail. Here is a summary of all the One-Way Light Travel Times of the Voyager spacecraft over 2024.

The first thing to note is that the plot lines have different vertical axes! While the times are _offset_, the scale is the same. If you plot both these times on a single vertical scale, you can barely see the sinusoidal shape. Remember: green with green, blue with blue.

OK, why is there this shape? Because the distance measurements are being made from a moving platform: Earth. The sinusoidal variance is because of Earth's orbit around the Sun. At certain times of year, the Earth is actually moving towards the Voyagers faster than they are leaving, so the distance _decreases_.

Continues...

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• Graph of the One-Way Light-Travel Times for the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft over the year 2024. It shows a wavy line that increases as time goes on, but with minima in the first half of the year. (remote)

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

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• A graffiti piece painted on a brick wall, featuring the phrase "CLASS WAR" in bold white letters outlined in black. Between the two words, there is a depiction of Oscar the Grouch, a character from Sesame Street, sitting in his iconic trash can and holding an AK-47 rifle. The artwork combines humor and political commentary, critiquing social and economic inequalities. The wall has some graffiti tags in the background, and the area in front is overgrown with weeds and debris, adding an urban, gritty atmosphere to the scene. (remote)

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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

Aren't timezones fascinating?

In Australia, it's already 2025

In Europe, it's still 2024

In the USA, we're entering 1937

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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• Close-up of Alpha Flight’s Talisman as she looks at someone off panel and says, “And the world enters a phase of darkness where everything that’s evil gets the upper hand.“ (remote)

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Stoori@polyglot.city ("Fairytale Loyola — بنت الليل") wrote:

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• ”what should we call our matches?” ”i dunno, something normal” under that there's a picture of an old match label that says ”impregnated goblin safety match, made in sweden” and a goblin transporting boxes labeled ”j.w.t.” on a horse cart (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have to watch my poor kittens flinch every time a firework goes off. Curtains closed to minimize noise and all. Fuck fireworks. No fucking point at all, just noise and pollution.

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tink@w3c.social ("Léonie Watson") wrote:

Right 2025, listen up!

If you think we're going to put up with another 2024, you can think again.

We want more kindness and less hostility; more thoughtfulness and fewer bros; fewer disagreements and more conversations; more curiosity and fewer assumptions; and if you can't manage that, we'll damned well have to do it for ourselves.

On reflection, who's with me?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I wrote about all the things I enjoyed in 2024. (Most of them were video games, but there's some other good stuff in there too.)

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/enjoyed-in-2024

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

Happy NY, y'all!

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• Fireworks from Taipei 101 (remote)

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

Nearly NY here in Taipei. The assignment for 2025 is the same: do good, respect everyone, leave it better than you found it. Pass it on.

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• Taiwan at NYE (remote)

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elizayer ("Elizabeth Ayer") wrote:

Turns out I really needed some @mipsytipsy energy this morning!

Her play-by-play analysis of Brian Chesky's interview on Founder Mode is a delight.

It's like an asynchronous watch party, where we all get to throw popcorn at the screen every time Chesky says something inhumane (hint: you'll need a lot of popcorn), but still cheer the good parts.

https://charity.wtf/2024/12/17/founder-mode-and-the-art-of-mythmaking/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Happy new year! All the best in 2025 :)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

White team wins! #紅白