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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
f*ck nihilists, you can all sit there in your own isolated and inactive graves. that is fine by me.
I intend to think and act, not to surrender and rot.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But seriously, a 20% win for a one-line change? Incredible.
The "fix" (in addition to faster selectors and font fallback ordering) was to make footnotes *also* c-v deferred. Because a lot of my content is in footnotes (below the fold), this has a massive effect, cutting style and layout costs in ~half for first load.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/content-visibility
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS:
Tool-using murder hornets discover fire.
(Your turn …)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
De chaton à grande dame, elle n’a rien perdu de son charme. Toujours aussi adorable. 🐾✨
#Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #CatLover #Art #Canon #Creativity #VisualStorytelling #BokehPhotography #PhotoDaily #PetPhotography #Adorable #CatsOfTwitter #caturday
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KeithDJohnson@sfba.social ("Keith D Johnson") wrote:
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- Quote from Catch 22 by Joseph Heller: It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue & slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into wisdom, & sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. I merely required no character. A photo of Trump included as an example. (remote)
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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:
If someone told me pixelfed.social would overtake mastodon.social in MAU in early 2025, I wouldn't have believed them.
This could happen in the next week or two, assuming the growth continues (no sign of slowing down).
You love to see it! 🚀
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MAGA Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Sons Allegedly Committed War Crimes in Gaza. Trump May Be Able to Protect Them.
They are two of the U.S. citizens included in a landmark criminal complaint filed against Israeli soldiers, a Belgian legal group says
Gabb Schivone
Jan 24, 2025
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is part of why we need to support the @internetarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/20240115234616/https:/www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence
https://web.archive.org/web/20240115011715/https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Trump pardoned the January 6 convicts. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/january-6-justice-department-database/index.html
Mastodon FeedFediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:
I've had a lot of people ask how BlueSky compares to Mastodon and the Fediverse. I've tried to make the answer as simple and easy to understand as possible:
🦋 BlueSky is designed to give corporations and wealthy people full control of the network. All of its traffic has to flow through expensive-to-run corporate relays.
:Fediverse: The Fediverse is designed to give ordinary people control of the network. All of its traffic flows directly from one cheap-to-run server to another.
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- Diagrams of how BlueSky and its AT Protocol functions, compared to how The Fediverse and its ActivityPub protocol functions. BlueSky's traffic flows from servers to corporate-owned relays, and these relays communicate with each other before allowing traffic to flow to servers. The servers cannot communicate with each other at all. The Fediverse's traffic flows directly between cheap-to-run servers, with no need for any corporate involvement. While technically these are both forms of decentralisation, the BlueSky interpretation puts corporations, rich people and wealthy organisations in full control of the network. The Fediverse interpretation puts ordinary people in full control of the betwork. (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A PSA that `content-visibility` continues to absolutely rock. Some weekend spelunking on layout costs led me down several blind alleys about selectors and font IPC costs (which did help), but the big win was to expand c-v use, which was a one-liner:
https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250126_BiDcXX_2RM,250126_BiDcER_2V5,
Another takeaway for me is that we need much better tooling here. Needing a physical device and Perfetto to understand font costs is...not great.
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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:
existence of traits implies the existence of traitors (those who trait)
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
I don’t come from the tech industry. I’m not a famous developer, I’m not a prolific writer, and I’m not a podcaster. I’m just a guy living in Kentucky who thinks people should have a place where they can be real with each other, be vulnerable, and be cared for.
And yeah, as someone recently put it, I’m gonna be “rude and shouty” when I see people who claim they want that too but don’t live up to it. Because this is a space where where people matter, and where we can be better.
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Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
I want our community to always be a space where everyone can be themselves. Where everyone can talk openly about tough issues. Where people can share their pain about real problems, and get real sympathy and compassion in return.
Not where people are pressured to conform to a watered-down, phony standard. Not where you can be vulnerable only to be shut down by someone who thinks less of you because of your skin color or disability. Not where hate lives quietly beneath the surface.
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Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
When I started omg.lol, I wanted to build a thing where you could get a web page and email address tied to a fun domain name. That was all.
I didn’t set out to build a community. The community emerged entirely on its own. People came together and asked for a space to gather and share. So, we built one together.
Now it’s here. It’s a thing. And I want it to always be *good* thing.
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Mastodon Feednocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:
The egg is objectively both the funniest and the absolutely most devastating foodstuff to have its supply chain collapse in the first weeks of a fascist regime
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
For two decades, Silicon Valley’s strategy has been to subsidize massive losses in order to obliterate the market and become a monopoly i.e. Amazon, Uber, etc.
Now, China is doing the exact same thing with every market, and the US cannot do anything about it because regulating this type of strategy would necessarily also target US tech companies, making them slightly less powerful.
The American people, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/26/for-two-decades-silicon-valleys.html
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Excellent writeup. ❤️
> We’re in a time where staying above the fray, where tut-tutting people sounding the alarm for being so uncouth about it, is choosing a side. You’d better be damn sure it’s the side you want to be on.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Look at these DEI hires.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/26/anti-dei-is-another-word-for-racism-and-sexism/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
It’s interesting how all the people who adored Musk as recently as 3 years ago now say they don’t recognize the guy. I know two such people personally and now I hear that Grimes is shocked, shocked, shocked by his behavior. I have never been a good judge of character but I saw Musk coming 10 years ago. Damn, how dumb can smart people be?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
This pigeon-sized Merlin falcon came to say hi on the 12th floor.
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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:
"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."
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pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:
@sam_c I’ve always felt a place that stifles or frowns upon any political discussion is ultimately meant to maintain the status quo which generally benefits the privileged. We’re finding it firsthand how politics affects us all and how we cannot or should not stay silent. @adam @chipotle
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sam_c@mstdn.social ("samjc") wrote:
@adam @chipotle absolutely spot on and I think why I'm starting to look at moving on after hosting with them for a year. It's not the particulars of the incident that have made me disgusted at Manton or anything (though it was poorly handled), it's seeing what happens when the conspicuously apolitical platform where people gush over fountain pens, coffee, and Apple products collides with a genuine political grievance
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kiko@indieweb.social ("Kristof Zerbe") wrote:
I have spent the whole morning analysing the discourse between @adam and @manton for myself and I am now convinced that the days of appeasement are over. Like Sophie Scholl in the past, we have to take a stand, even though I know that dividing different opinion groups into extremes, inevitably leads to violence and suffering at some point. But unlike my own ancestors, I won't be blamed for looking the other way, because in the end all that remains is shame.
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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
"I was out buying eggs when I saw a video of Elon Musk giving a Hitler salute at the inauguration." Some thoughts on the current moment: https://werd.io/2025/in-the-face-of-this-who-do-you-want-to
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claudinec@aus.social ("Claudine C :antifa:") wrote:
Via @jayeless, an analysis of this week's tempest in the #IndieWeb. @chipotle's angle helped me see why I was initially taken aback by the tone of some of @adam's posts. I've always skewed 'genteel' and it's taken me nearly a lifetime to realise that's because I'd been domesticated by the colonisers. I'm probably always going to have that unconscious filter in front of me so I'm glad there are people like Adam who will be rude and shouty on behalf of his customers and community members who don't share his privilege.
https://social.lol/@adam/113886244329692234
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
Can’t argue with facts 🤣
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The man in the White House is a psychopath.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/26/its-genocide/
