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

vees@epistolary.org ("Rob Carlson") wrote:

Developer tries to strong-arm WMATA into paying for deferred maintenance on their private roads because busses drive over them.

WMATA says "bet" and removes eight convenient bus stops from their development that currently serve 150 residents a day and have been around for 50 years.

https://wmata.com/about/news/Metro-discontinues-eight-P12-bus-stops-after-cease-and-desist-demand-from-property-owner.cfm

#PublicTransit #WMATA

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

w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

The W3C AC elected @hadleybeeman, @marcosc, @csarven and Xiaocheng Hu to fill four seats on the @tag. They join continuing TAG: @torgo, Matthew Atkinson, Dapeng (Max) Liu, @nitot, Martin Thomson and @jyasskin. Many thanks to the departing participants: @rhiaro, @peter, (who in addition held the role of TAG co-chair for many years), @hober and @leaverou
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-advisory-committee-elects-technical-architecture-group/

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• TAG logo (remote)

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

KC8JC@mastodon.radio ("KC8JC 📻") wrote:

Wrote up a few thoughts about getting on the air for ye olde blogge.

#hamradio #blog

https://www.kc8jc.com/2025/01/07/step-8-get-on-the-air/

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

CindyWeinstein@zirk.us ("Cindy Weinstein") wrote:

"One has to peel back so many layers of time to remember that a good percentage of corporate America announced at the time that it would stop backing members of Congress who had supported the effort by refusing to vote to certify the results of the election, a boast that required cutting off support to the bulk of congressional Republicans. Yes, if you don’t remember, that actually happened." -- Josh Marshall

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/four-years-later

#MAGA

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

We're going to talk about feminist/progressive/humanist parenting on Saturday!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/07/less-than-a-week-until-classes-start-againand-an-upcoming-podcast/

https://www.youtube.com/live/2dWBEo3l5y8

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

Attack ChatGPT!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/07/overthrow-the-technocrats/

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• Bob the Angry Flower wants to go on the offensive against AI (remote)

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

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

hey! i just published `html-alchemist`, an HTML templating library that can replace JSX. and it's tiny! 859 bytes, minified, before compression.

it's based on clojure's reagent library, which wraps react. html-alchemist is intended to pair with webcomponents, for a very sleek stack

check it out!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-alchemist

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

jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Jean-Marie Le Pen has died at age 96. I would lie if I say that makes me feel sad. I do hope he died peacefully, because every human being deserves decency. Even Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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

jeff@newsie.social ("Jeff (of the internet)") wrote:

That last little bit.... sheesh.

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-ends-fact-checking-program-community-notes-x-rcna186468

Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."

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

Today in History: Francis Jean Poulenc (composer) born in Paris, 1899

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

Today in History: First transatlantic telephone call, 1927

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

On Nikola Tesla’s death in the New Yorker Hotel, 1943

In New Yorker’s halls,
A bright mind dims with the night,
Dreams of power soar.

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

This is *so* good:

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/not-every-user-owns-an-iphone/

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

orangeacme@fosstodon.org ("Leon Brocard") wrote:

I've finally caught up on the wonderful 2024 Web Performance Calendar entries. Here are my top four:
@screenspan - How does Web Performance sound https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/how-does-web-performance-sound/
@boostmarks - Your website is a restaurant https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/your-website-is-a-restaurant/
Alex Hamer - Not every user owns an iPhone https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/not-every-user-owns-an-iphone/
Patrick Meenan - Getting Real (small) With Compression Dictionaries https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/getting-real-small-with-compression-dictionaries/
#webperf

jwz wrote:

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Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):

rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:

@sindarina With @freexian 's LTS/ELTS offer, we aim to provide security support for up to 10 years, alas it's a challenge that cannot always be met for all packages... in particular for packages that were a bit left aside during their time in unstable/testing (for example when a maintainer disappears).

To avoid releasing Debian with outdated software versions, and ensure all the packages used by corporate users are in their best shape and can be supported for as long as possible, we believe that pro-active monitoring of unstable is required. Freexian is going to propose something in this direction in 2025.

Recent case where we helped to avoid this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/12/msg00004.html

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

From child prodigy to village idiot: the ChatGPT biography.

jwz wrote:

Definitely did not have "finding an actual bug in Perl's regular expression matcher" on my 2025 bingo card, but it is certainly not going to be the weirdest thing I experience this year.

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

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/06/winter-vibes-i-found-this.html

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

Winter Vibes
I found this cool archive site of Japanese woodblock prints, today. Here’s some of my favorites with a winter theme.

Unknown by Yoshida Hiroshi

Early Winter in the Mountains by Kohei Sasajima

Higashi Honganji Temple by Kotozuka Eiichi

Camellia in Winter

Almost There by Rome Joshua

Beauty and Children in Winter by Kikugawa Eizan

Mt. Rainier by Yoshida Toshi

44 Akasaka by Utagawa Hiroshige II

Snow at Matsuchiyama by Utagawa Hiroshige https://ukiyo-e.org

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• A girl pushes a baby in a sleigh while a crow flies overhead. Behind a woman leads a horse pulling a sleigh with a load on it. Light snow falls on the shore line of a lake with snow-covered mountains on the far shore. At the lower left a small dog looks back at the girls.
• Early Winter in the Mountains
• Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto in winter.
• The red Camellia flowers and the winter landscape form a sharp contrast.

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mattrambles@t00t.cloud ("Matt Stein") wrote:

Next free idea: e-reader with bellows, so you can roughly feel when you’ve got one of those long ones to get through.

Since I know you’re going to ask: yes—it makes a wheezing, honking sound if you collapse it quickly for travel and/or amusement.

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• Crude marker drawing of an e-ink reader with bellows attached to the back, along with illustrative side views of Murderbot (flat) and Moby Dick (expanded). (remote)

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

Seems my perf.now() talk is now un-paywalled:

https://youtu.be/0XwWVjQOmyg?si=47K_hMsMJssonxLi

I've come to the conclusion that all of my punch-pulling for the past ~decade has only served to aid and abet folks selling lemons. This is a gloves-off enunciation of why making websites that feel good to use isn't charity, and why those of us who make a living on the web need to care.

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

I rediscovered "Super Cartography Bros." in my collection this afternoon. It has been a refreshing listen on an otherwise subpar Monday.

https://cartography.ocremix.org/

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: House Chamber of U.S. Capitol sign "Number of Presidential Elections Since Last Attempt to Use Violence to Impede the Certification of Electoral Votes" is changed to "1."

Reblogged by jwz:

GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Exactly one week between these two tweets.

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• 6d70e2fe3b53f588.jpeg (remote)
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jwz wrote:

Lazyweb, why doesn't this regexp match in Perl 5.32.1, 5.34.3 or 5.18.2 but does in PHP and JS:

perl -le 'print 0 + ("ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C(G)/);'

Changing nearly any character, including the C before the G, or removing the parens, makes it match.
https://jwz.org/b/ykfv

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

RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:

Cunk should host every political debate.

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• Philomenia Cunk: Since light travels faster than sound, people may appear bright until you hear them speak (remote)

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

skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

If you need a judge or panelist on anything civic tech / public interest tech and AI ethics related, let me know! I'm also happy to be on a podcast, or to sit down for a longer conversation regarding any of those topics.

I led the product management team for one of the US's largest municipal digital teams (SF) through Covid-19, built systems that helped residents and businesses, provided access to vaccines; made decisions on infrastructure and hiring.

Now I do the same at Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I'd like to share what I know, in whatever medium works best. I know many people are curious about product management work outside of the usual.

Email me: skinnylatte [at] gmail.com

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriannatan/

A recent feature: https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/adrianna-tan-founder-future-ethics-united-states

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

carpingdiem@med-mastodon.com ("Carpingdiem") wrote:

The winter bird that got me interested in birding was the Northern cardinal. (Description in ALT.) #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #HoosierMast

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• The male Northern cardinal is a medium-sized bird who is red all over except for a black mask. Here, he is taking off from a feeder, wings spread. A small American goldfinch is still on the feeder, showing the difference in size between these 2 birds. (remote)
• A male Northern cardinal flaps his wings while trying to hang onto the feeder. His wing feathers are red at the base and become almost translucent near the tips. (remote)

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

grheavyroller ("gregg r") wrote:

Appropriate for January 6.

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• "This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher.