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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

"We do not "use" the computer — we negotiate with it to try and make it do the things we want it to do, because the incentives behind modern software development no longer align with the user." https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Altman vs Musk is like Kendrick vs Drake but if they were both Drake

Boosted by jwz:
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Little acts of resistance. Do this. It takes 2 minutes

jwz wrote:

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF: Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don't like, which means that the word "women" is on the forbidden list while "men" doesn't initiate...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiA

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@Jeremiah ooh nice. Looking forward to teasing this out for editing code tomorrow.

jwz wrote:

"Any editor reverting this edit will be arrested. Do not try me." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gulf%5Fof%5FMexico&diff=prev&oldid=1274372322

jwz wrote:

Currently practicing self harm by reading the changelog on the Wikipedia page for the Gulf of Mexico. The best part is the ongoing weeks-long edit war over whether a subheading should say "Name" or "Nomenclature".

Wiki gonna wiki.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh-

Boosted by jwz:
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:

In Mumbai, they renamed Marine Drive (the road along the iconic coast) to…Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road after a freedom fighter, nearly seventy years ago.

Guess what people call that road today? Marine Drive.

#gulfofmexico

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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.

Boosted by jwz:
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?

Boosted by jwz:
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/

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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.