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

jscholes@dragonscave.space ("James Scholes") wrote:

Amazon has added a new (to me) image/video gallery thing to product pages. For #screenReader users, it's a list of seven buttons that all say "Submit". Hope the team got a big bonus. #accessibility

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

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

From a UCLA scientist 💔

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• The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Was about to listen to the recent interview Zelenskyy gave to Lex Fridman.

Fridman, from the get-go: "People like Donald Trump and Elon Musk *really care* about fighting corruption…"

Me: Okay, I think I heard everything I needed from this interview, bye.

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

ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:

it's a good internet, if you can keep it

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

Folks who pay $1K for an iPhone have to put up with some extractive, authoritarian software nonsense, but they get a lot of what they pay for when it comes to hardware.

Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung Semi, and Google OTOH...woof. The very latest, very-top-end parts (Snapdragon X Elite and Dimensity 9400) are maybe worth the cost (finally)...but the rest of the market? Ouch.

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

Apple continues to lead on top-end chip frequencies, in part because it pays more for access to the smallest process nodes...but that's not what's really going on. The big story for the past 10 years is that Android SoC vendors (Google very much included) have *sucked* at keeping their chips fed with enough data to retire work quickly.

Why? Because they were afraid to trade cores for cache, no matter how much it hobbled their phones.

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• CPU frequencies are stagnant at the low-end, but not enough to explain the size of the perf gap between high-end iOS and mid-tier Androids. (remote)
• The mid-tier is finally getting some die-shrink, but because the SoC vendors keep cheaping-out on caches, that isn't turning into faster phones for most users. (remote)

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

I've been banging on for years about how the low-end of the mobile market has been just totally f'd in terms of the properties that make chips *actually* fast (process shrink + aggressive memory hierarchy optimisation; not core counts), and for this year's PIG post, I'm making EVEN MOAR CHARTS:

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• iPhones continue to run away with it in terms of single-core perf, although the latest Snapdragons and Dimensity chips are starting to make a dent at the very high end...but things are still dire at $350 and below (remote)
• Top-end Androids are nearly caught up on multi-core benchmark perf, but that doesn't help most workloads. (remote)
• Why? What changed? Well it sure as shit isn't CPU count. Every Android sold over the past 5 years has had 8 cores. (remote)
• What could it *possibly* be? Maybe it's Apple spending huge amounts both to secure smaller process nodes (next chart), but...mostly...actually spending money on cache! All these high-end Androids have been cheaping out on the the thing that will keep the beast fed, all while running interpreted or JIT'd runtimes that sorely need the help. What a debacle. (remote)

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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

If you contribute to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now would be a good time to stop fucking doing that.
https://mastodon.social/@eff/113789440544631242

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

so, am reading about the history of Warner Brothers Cartoons, and found out DUCK AMUCK was never nominated for an Oscar.

do you know what did get nominated in 1954 for an Oscar in short format animation? National Film Board of Canada’s short titled “The Romance of Transportation in Canada 🤨

if you have never watched one of the finest collaborations of cartooning powerhouse led by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and voiced by Mel Blanc, here it is:

DUCK AMUCK
https://youtu.be/OnpWNL7XjXU

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arrrg@kolektiva.social ("Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog") wrote:

Please for the love of Jesus don't impact my favorite a-listers.

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• 1f17bff0468e88d2.png (remote)

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hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

BEHOLD! The beautiful & bendy JOANNA ANIMAL, last week at Monday Night Hubba!

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🍸 💓

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• ec948692defdac82.mp4

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jkottke@saturation.social ("Jason Kottke") wrote:

not a big fan of the new logo tbh

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• the Meta but it says “Maga” and the brand mark is red (remote)

jwz wrote:

Haven't gotten to use the "killdozer" tag in a while.
https://jwz.org/b/ykf7

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• Screenshot

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I have a few takes about copyright and generative AI that I think would make feuding factions unite in being mad at me, and maybe I owe it to them to express these opinions

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kenSwinson@indieweb.social ("ken Tucky Swinson") wrote:

I'm super excited that Osa Atoe @potterybyosa just joined #Mastodon !!!!!

She's a well known and super talented #artist, teacher, activist and leader in the USA (and international) #pottery and #craft circles.

Having someone like her on Mastodon is a big deal.

She just joined and doesn't have many followers (yet), but hopefully you will give her a follow and boost her profile so that she feels welcome on this platform.

@potterybyosa
Welcome to Mastodon, Osa!!!

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• screen shot of Pottery By Osa's mastodon profile (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Buchhandlung_am_Bruehl ("Buchhandlung am Brühl") wrote:

We are a small independent bookshop in Chemnitz, Germany and were told that we have to do social media. We decided that if we had to do social media, then our first account would be with Mastodon. :) Hello Mastodon!

#books #EuropeanCapitalOfCulture #ecoc #chemnitz #booklove #ctheunseen #Bookstodon

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

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• A crazed man with long white hair and a tight red sleeveless bodysuit with red boots has a white aura surrounding him. As he decks one of the members of the New Guardians, he says, “Challenge ACCEPTED! I am SNOWFLAME! Every cell of my being BURNS with white hot ecstasy. COCAINE is my God – – and I am the human INSTRUMENT of its will!“ “UHHHHH!” the Guardian grunts as he’s hit. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Wormsign.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 1600
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
🐱 Jiji
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black and white photo of a black cat with a goofy face, lying on the bed in a way that the paws are not visible, resembling a worm somewhat.

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

The default (and usually correct) answer for anything with an A77, A73, A55, or A53 core is "as little as the architecture will allow", but that's not the same thing as an accurate answer. It's really frustrating.

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mantissa@mastodon.art ("Midge Sinnaeve") wrote:

reset-0x01

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• ca4c13b48fa6454f.mp4 (remote)

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eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

Saw a post on bsky that bsky harbors transphobes, twitter is a nazi bar and meta is doing carve outs specifically so it's OK to harass queer people and lamenting "where are we supposed to go"

It's fedi. You're supposed to go to fedi. It's right here. I know it's full of smelly nerds* but you can either have a slick corporate interface with bigots or the Linux of social media without. Maybe it's time to put up with the smelly nerds and the jank

*bsky user words not mine

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

Mediatek likely sold a LOT of Helio G99 chips in, e.g., the the Samsung Galaxy A24:

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a24_4g-12176.php

Can anyone tell me what the sizes of the caches are? Lol, no:

https://www.mediatek.com/products/smartphones/mediatek-helio-g99

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

One incredibly dispiriting thing about the low-end is that most of the chips that make up the volume segment of the market are basically undocumented. No public product data sheets, and the coverage in Wikipedia is...perfunctory. *sigh*

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

annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

Need some climate hope today? @Grist has just published stories from the 12 winners of the "Imagine 2200" climate fiction contest. I was a judge, w/Omar El Akkad, and we loved these brilliant stories from around the globe. They're full of memorable characters and inventive scenarios for humanity's long-term survival on a healthy planet. Free to read! Enjoy!
https://grist.org/imagine2200-climate-fiction-contest-2025/

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

yassie_j@labyrinth.zone (":baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: ") wrote:

Our forebearers fought for the right to fly these flags, to have them accepted and seen as a symbol of our people. To reduce the transgender flag to “candy floss” is an insult and a mockery of the hard, tough work that our people have done. This theme has existed on Facebook for years and years and years. Suddenly, one president in one country changes and apparently it’s the rest of the world’s problem?

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

brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

As an antidote to all the horrible US Tech Bros in the news, what are some nice, encouraging stories about thoughtful/ slow/ kind/ humane tech catching on and doing well?

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

Researching 228 data points on 38 devices, plus reading dozens of market analyses for this year's Performance Inequality Gap post to try to make it clearer for the folks in the back why it is that their iPhones aren't the real world for most users.

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publicdomainrev ("The Public Domain Review") wrote:

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are very excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse.

Our aim is to offer a platform that will serve both as a practical resource and a place to simply wander — an ever-growing portal to discover more than 2000 years of visual culture.

Start exploring here: https://pdimagearchive.org/ @pdimagearchive

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• Webpage showing tiled grid of old images

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

autumn@tech.lgbt ("Autumn Mahoney :sparkletrans:") wrote:

2025 music sketch #2

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• A few live synth tracks over a nice comfy drum groove. 82bpm. (remote)

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

Preparing for the fin de siécle with the appropriate level of despair.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/08/mano-has-posted-the-right-take/

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• 1899 art by Lautrec (remote)