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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Smithsonian "Castle", National Mall, Washington, DC, 2021.

All the pixels, even the ideologically impure ones, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51221570481/

#photography

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
joannalamblooby@federate.social ("Joanna Lamb Looby") wrote:

The blusters of “5D chess,” from the cognitive dissonance set, wear thinner every day.

It feels to me like we are in a very large Jenga game.

I’m getting, “I wonder what this button does?”

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

Okay, 'nuff of that.

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

Petition to change "Hello, world" examples to "It's hell world!".

Or just:

s/Hello, world/It's hell world/

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

One of the most impactful things that non-US people can do to protest what the US is doing is to NOT TRAVEL TO THE US. Have family meet you elsewhere. Change your vacation destination. Don’t attend conferences and conventions here (go virtual instead). Vote with your wallet and your feet: don’t bring your Euros, Yens, or Pesos here.

Passenger tallies don’t lie. Hotel occupancy numbers don’t lie. Conference attendee totals don’t lie. YOUR ABSENCE WILL BE COUNTED and you will be missed.

Your withholding of your presence and your money will motivate business owners to pressure the administration to change their tune.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/airline-demand-canada-united-states-collapses/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
uep@timeloop.cafe ("Daniel Carosone") wrote:

@mhoye like the Huygens probe sonification as it descended through the atmosphere of Titan..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ukDbPi%5F0Gw

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

"In February, the White House announced that the WHCA would no longer be allowed to decide which journalists were assigned to cover the president on a given day. The White House itself now assigns reporters to the pool, which has raised concerns about the opportunity for the press to cover the administration without fear of retribution."

just ask the @AP

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("freddi futch") wrote:

This, too, is game design

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

[insert large yellow chicken icon ]

“As a first step, I wanted to share that the WHCA board has unanimously decided we are no longer featuring a comedic performance this year,” wrote Daniels, who is also a political correspondent for MSNBC. “At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

Trump getting the White House Correspondents Association to fire Amber Ruffin should end NerdProm.

They told her to target both sides, but she told the Daily Beast podcast that the administration is “kind of a bunch of murderers” and both sidesing “makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way, cause they’re not." And that got her fired from the gig.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wh-correspondents-fire-comedian-after-insult-on-beast-podcast/

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

"The Snarky Cat Adventure"
[ courtesy https://arghstudios.com ]

https://arghstudios.com/support/ZiggiAgain.pdf

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org ("Safeguarding Research/Culture") wrote:

The first (of many) safeguarded material from the #Smithsonian:
All 217 episodes of the Sidedoor podcast
https://sciop.net/datasets/smithsonian-pod-sidedoor

https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/

#SafeguardingResearch

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kate@fosstodon.org ("Kate Morley") wrote:

The beauty industry: Are you happy with your skin? Really? Have you thought about what it looks like to insects?

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

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• video: 0127d9cf051fb0dc.mp4

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

Anyway, you might look back on Frontend's Lost Decade and ask _"who were the influencers that seemed willing to go along with this?"_. Your regular Wes's and Addys and Maltes and Theos. They all had their reasons, and each undoubtedly expressed mild reservations at various points, but none of them told the truth reliably enough to counter the overwhelming marketing behind the lie. And that's why you should never trust them now.

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

The (narrowly defined) success of React spawned many imitators that rolled out the same playbook: active denial and suppression of critical engineering discussion, heavy marketing, and bloated, slow products in their wake (looking at you, Apollo). That this axis of untruth has condensed into Next.js and marketing by Vercel about speed should teach us a lot of lessons; one that I take now is that lies spread without active opposition, and that I was too quiet. I knew better; and yet.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

we whipped up a bittorrent swarm that has 200TB of proven storage in like a month by cobbling together everyone's random hard drives. storing 200TB on s3 would cost at least $4.5k per month and would cost $10,000 to download it one time.

why is the cloud good

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

React was frontend's introduction to Big Lies. The React team themselves were talking a book they didn't fully understand (else Pete Hunt would never have been able to get on stage and say "it works like game engine!" with a straight face), and were serially unwilling to tell the full story as they knew it.

So the implausible proposition that a system that *obviously* doubled up work and didn't defend against layout thrashing would somehow be "faster" was projected and uncritically accepted.

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

It was accelerated by people who sold all of this on the back of "better UX". And that's still the right yardstick: does this technology, in general, lead to better user experiences?

Obviously not. The less React (and Angular, etc.) there is in your stack, the better the UX is for *most* types of products, *most* of the time. Not a hard and fast rule, but a useful proposition to work through to understand a specific case.

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

WHY was it so uncritically accepted? JSX + weekend projects.

The promise of not having to think about how data and UI interact over time, wrapped in nice-looking forks of HTML and JS syntax, meant that the 1-10 hour project got "simpler" (assuming you ignore the hundreds of MB of NPM crap lugged in tow). Nevermind that serious teams were reliably finding themselves neck-deep in perf remediation quicksand almost as soon React got popular.

So the lie curdled: you weren't holding it right.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mapache@hachyderm.io ("Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻") wrote:

And I know I am talking from my privilege rn, so do it if you can. We still need to protect labor rights, increase wages and modify govmt taxation.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
PagedOut@infosec.exchange wrote:

Paged Out! #6 has arrived! And it's jam-packed with content!
You can download it here:
https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php

jwz wrote:

Great moments in autocomplete.

Last night I tried to type the word "obituary" and my phone completed it to "ovipositor", and somehow I feel seen.

And yet, because of Apple's cowardly prudishness, somehow when I type motherdkxije it is of not hello at all
https://jwz.org/b/ykld

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

Kids, brush your teeth, because if you don't, well

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/health/fluoride-tooth-decay-partner-kff-health-news/index.html

jwz wrote:

Upgrades.

We have now reached the point where iOS 15 on my 9 year old phone has been "upgraded" sufficiently that when I am typing at speed, characters show up on screen nearly half a second later.

We went to the moon. We used to be a society.
https://jwz.org/b/yklb

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noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.

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• video: be0f8075025ee00b.mp4

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

We think the US is falling apart because of Trump's reelection. But Trump is just a symptom of a bigger problem:

The US is falling apart as a result of the US allowing an insane wealth distribution, where the rich pay no taxes, because their companies are offshored and now have revenues larger than countries.

This has allowed the malignant to buy both media and social media, which has allowed them to hack democracy by polluting the minds of the uneducated, which THEN has gotten Trump elected.

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tef wrote:

historians are going to note a marked increase in a overly defensive writing tone around the early 2010s huh

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jimfenton@infosec.exchange ("Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦") wrote:

Props to whoever on this plane is advertising the WiFi network “Houthi PC small group”

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: Man who wants nothing more than to be liked set to lose hundreds of billions of dollars as a direct result of being despised.