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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

I cannot emphasize enough the degree to which what's happening is the shittiest of all bond movie villain plots

jwz wrote:

Nazify.

Shopify still wants that sweet, sweet Nazi cash. Shopify says they only closed Kanye West's store because they thought he might not actually *ship* the Nazi t-shirts, not because they *were* Nazi t-shirts.

Truly a principled stand...
https://jwz.org/b/ykh8

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orci ("J.R. Orci") wrote:

And thus was born the super STD that ended humanity.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-boebert-and-kid-rock-spotted-getting-a-cab-at-230-am/

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Look, I'm only going by what I read in legitimate, trusted news outlets, but, given all the information we currently have, based on the evidence publicly presented to us, there is not a single person in this new administration that has ever, at any point in their lives, successfully satisfied a sexual partner, intentionally or otherwise

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

From two of the most knowledgeable digital security experts in the world:

"The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history."

And the perpetrators are being rewarded.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/?utm%5Fcontent=gifting&tpcc=gifting%5Farticle&gifting%5Farticle=ZG9nZS1jeWJlcmF0dGFjay11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLXRyZWFzdXJ5&pid=PNILoiIJgqmxsxl

jwz wrote:

LexipolLeaks. A hacker from the puppygirl hacker polycule said the group targeted Lexipol because there aren't "enough hacks against the police. So we took matters into our own paws." ...
https://jwz.org/b/ykh6

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

A lot of popular technologies benefit from a sort of conscious forgetting; a presumption that because they came *after* something else, they must have been *better *than what they replaced.

The React ecosystem is a forceful example of how wrong this can be.

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

It wasn't the 4th, 5th, or 7th copy of React embedded in the simple page that made me put the work laptop down, it was the left-to-right hover animation that rendered at an eye-stabbing 15fps.

But there was nothing going on in the main thread to explain it. Or the compositor.

WTF?

No, turned out, it was a background...video. A 60fps video of a 15fps animation.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
grigs@front-end.social ("Jason Grigsby") wrote:

While I wasn’t looking, loading=“lazy” was updated to no longer download images hidden in menus and carousels. I’ve uploaded my article to note the new behavior and update the recommendations:
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/stop-lazy-loading-product-and-hero-images/

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

I went to make a meme, but somebody had beat me to it by weeks:

https://imgflip.com/i/9i7isp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Nerd Reich in 5 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ

If you're unfamiliar with the "dark enlightenment" playbook that Curtis Yarvin / moldbug wrote out well over a decade ago, well, it's what you're seeing happening RIGHT NOW in the US. 5 minute video explainer.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Associated Press White House reporter blocked from attending this afternoon’s Oval Office event covered by the media after the wire service was warned to adhere to usage of “Gulf of America,” according to AP executive editor Julie Pace.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli Bot") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Want some?

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dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

The New York Dolls' David Johansen having to crowdfund medical care is so sad and cruel. This country just chews up everyone eventually. https://deadline.com/2025/02/new-york-dolls-david-johansen-cancer-diagnosis-fundraising-1236285126/

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matthew@matthewreynolds.net ("Matthew") wrote:

It’s a drop in the bucket, but may the Maps team’s bucket overflow

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

I want to move to Canada. It's embarrassing to be an American.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/11/these-people-are-infantile-twits/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Jeremiah@alpaca.gold ("Jeremiah Lee") wrote:

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019.

It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight.

They’re free for personal and commercial use.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/?ref=activitypub&utm%5Fsource=activitypub&utm%5Fmedium=social

#a11y

jwz wrote:

The Nerd Reich in 5 minutes.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh4

jwz wrote:

Electronic Genital Verification.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh2

jwz wrote:

"A tracking cookie farm for advertising profit masquerading as a security service."

Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2: Given the blatant vulnerability, ease of implementing large-scale automation, and usage of...
https://jwz.org/b/ykh0

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

A continued reminder that blocking referrers on Mastodon means that nobody can measure how many visits they're getting from the platform, so publishers don't know how much to invest in it (and therefore don't). It's such an own goal for the platform.

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ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

look I know it is trivially easy to find footage of Elon Musk and Sam Altman in the same room but nevertheless it is funny to imagine that Sam is what emerges when Elon takes The Substance

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judell@social.coop ("Jon Udell") wrote:

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

#GeorgeOrwell #1984

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

This needs to be repeated over and over: they're lying. Nothing about what they're doing is either what they say it is, or for the reasons they claim. The destruction is designed to facilitate kleptocracy, nothing more:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/musk-promised-government-transparency-doge-delivers-maximum-secrecy/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cfbolz ("CF Bolz-Tereick") wrote:

Til about the structured program theorem, which shows that it's possible to express arbitrary control flow graphs in a structured programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%5Fprogram%5Ftheorem

(I've used the 'folk version of the theorem' that the wiki page explains a bunch of times to generate code when I was too lazy to do something more advanced like relooper or https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3547621 )

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

Chúpalo, pendejos.

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

[Hampton] “Dellinger, whose appointment by Democratic President Joe Biden to a five-year term was confirmed by the Senate in 2024, alleged his firing violated a U.S. law that only allows for him to be removed for neglect of duty or misconduct.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/head-us-whistleblower-office-alleges-trump-improperly-fired-him-2025-02-10/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
johnvoorhees@macstories.net ("John Voorhees") wrote:

We've made no bones about the fact that we don't think the way LLMs have been trained is right.

So naturally, people have asked if and how we intend to cover AI-based tools on @macstories.

This week's @appstories takes on those questions and more.

🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thoughts-on-covering-ai-our-way/id1227872143?i=1000690813942
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5tBP74cQg

Attachments:

• video: Clip from AppStories explaining how MacStories will handle AI coverage

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I feel sorry for the guy bringing back The Onion as he’s been basically being made redundant by current events. https://buddycarter.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redwhitebluelandact.pdf

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Omega_Scribet@mementomori.social wrote:

@harld Ja, daar lijkt het sterk op.