Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
Tentatively optimistic that for the first time ever, I am figuring out how to use a “getting things done” style task manager to get things done.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jardo@ruby.social ("Jared Norman") wrote:
Imagine believing this.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner. 🤡
Sorry y'all. Maverick is Black.
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- James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence. (remote)
- Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
claudinec@aus.social ("Claudine C :antifa:") wrote:
Postponed my #IndieWebCarnival post again because this one feels more important.
#IndieWeb
Mastodon FeedDaojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
These are the people who would have commented on Watergate breaking with “and you’re surprised by this??”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Apple using the retro rainbow logo in an Apple Music playlist. They’re so militant about their branding, have they used that logo inside of three decades? Kinda cool.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:
Here’s a bit of hope. Per capita carbon emission in the UK, now back down to 1859 levels. Work to do, but progress made.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:
Oklahoma Senator introduces bill to criminalize porn | Mashable
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cryptadamist@universeodon.com ("⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯") wrote:
Trump appears to be on the verge of making a deal with El Salvador's crypro bro dictator #NayibBukele to turn #ElSalvador into an immigrant detention camp for the United States.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-zeros-in-on-country-to-dump-migrants-from-all-over/
#immigration #immigrant #trump #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #crypto #bukele #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:
Too much work to reproduce here, but Colombian President Petro is letting loose on Trump over on the bad place. Anyway here's a translation, and also now we're in a trade war because your president is an idiot with oatmeal for brains. Enjoy paying $15 for a $8 bag of coffee though, this is only the beginning. I hope all world leaders treat Trump like the stupid dirtbag he is. Also, he's a rapist and a felon and should be treated like one.
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3lgohla5lek25
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:
If I can offer one bit of advice as a washed-up Bush era leftist it’s that getting smug over factually-wrong laws does nothing. Like the “he declared everyone is female” thing. They don’t need the justification to be real, they’ll do it anyway.
Being smug over getting to correct something feels good and can make you feel like you've done something, when you really haven't.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
#privacy #ExcessiveAppPermissions
https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/14/warning-issued-report-finds-air-fryers-may-spying-owners-22189597/
"The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is issuing new data protection guidance to device to manufacturer’s after a report by Which? revealed some air fryers collect information on their owners.
Three brands, made by Chinese companies Xiaomi, Tencent and Aigostar, wanted to record audio on their owner’s phone.
But the companies failed to specify why they wanted to do this"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It stinks to high heavens that widespread availability of this feature was delayed by 3+ years by Apple:
https://caniuse.com/css-content-visibility
And that it's *apparently* subtly broken. Naturally. This is Apple-quality software, after all (and no, you still can't get a functional iOS browser, because Apple):
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:
100.000 took to the streets in Berlin on saturday to stand up to Fascism.
This is the direct answer to the attempt to normalise Far Right forces in Germany and all across Europe.
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- A powerful nighttime image capturing a crowd of approximately 100,000 people in Berlin, gathered in front of the illuminated Brandenburg Gate. Participants hold glowing signs spelling "HOPE & RESISTANCE," with thousands of lights from phones and lanterns illuminating the scene. Protesters carry banners and signs, including one warning against the normalization of far-right ideologies, referencing historical parallels like 1933. The image symbolizes solidarity and resistance against fascism in Germany and across Europe. (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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 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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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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