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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

This day 30 years ago, a new employee at Netscape named Brendan Eich was hard at work creating a web scripting language called Mocha. It would soon be re-named JavaScript, in a dubious attempt to co-brand it with another new web programming language from May 1995, Java. https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/

p.s. according to @allenwb and Eich: "There is no known record of the specific dates but Brendan Eich believes it was May 6–15." https://zenodo.org/records/3707008#.X6XOHVMzbDo

#InternetHistory #JavaScript

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

"58 wallets have made over $10 million each from President Donald Trump’s meme coin, totaling $1.1 billion in profits, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said.

764,000 wallets of mostly small holders have lost money on $TRUMP, according to the firm.

The $TRUMP event, set for May 22 at Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C., includes a reception for the 25 wallets with the largest balance, along with a White House tour."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/trump-meme-coin-crypto.html

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

JFC, this is like the 1950s

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/tyre-nichols-state-trial-officers-acquitted.html?algo=combo%5Flda%5Funique%5Ftriton%5Fclicks%5Fdecay%5F96%5F50%5Franks&fellback=false&imp%5Fid=3251451610937849&pool=programmingnode%2F0dc6538b-a831-51be-a980-5597993fb6e2&req%5Fid=4079038392567526&surface=more-politics-news&variant=0%5Fonly%5Fvariant

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
gabz@social.lol ("gabz :verified_pill_bottle2:") wrote:

Pokémon because everything else is just too depressing these days

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

How do you cope with our American reality without feeling a rising need to kill?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/08/i-gotta-get-a-better-hobby/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
blinry@chaos.social wrote:

"Here, take a Lua ruler! It starts with 1!" #mch2022

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
UpCloud wrote:

If you have a valid VAT ID, you can sign up to UpCloud with the promo `eu5000` to get €5000 of free credits that expire in 3 months.

To an individual that might sound like a weird deal, but saying the quiet part out loud, the point of this is to entice small-medium (European?) businesses to use us while they build, then they go "wow UpCloud good, let's stay!" when the credits are used up :blobcat:

If you or someone you know is about to build out an org on the cloud, maybe they'll like this!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Peer-reviewed multi-year study gets published.
Top HackerNews comment:
haven't they considered it's a correlation not causation?
https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/114468389732761467

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
dorkbotbristol@assemblag.es ("Dorkbot Bristol") wrote:

It's Dorkbot again next week! We'll be having a #mayke special, so bring along your work in progress for all the lighting talks and demos. We'll also be having a talk about "Printegrated Circuits" from @oliverchild.
Credit: @jarkman for the picture of his sockbot mayke.

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

@heydon Ask me how I know we don't prosecute white-collar crime any more.

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

Yeah, man...it's cool you only sent 177K of JS (> 0.5MB unzipped), but, like, did you check to see if it was *actually* fast? What's that? It includes *React*. I'm sure it's fine then.

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250508%5FAiDcSS%5F3C8-r:1-c:0

/cc @heydon

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I was dunking on Figma before it was cool LOL

Boosted by jwz:
drahsturgis@universeodon.com ("Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖") wrote:

“I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.” #MonMothma

#Andor #StarWars #Resist #RebellionsAreBuiltOnHope

Boosted by jwz:
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

sneak level 💯

Boosted by jwz:
juliamon@kind.social ("Juliamon") wrote:

RFKjr: we're gonna make a database of autistic ppl
everyone else: *promptly calls him out for blatant eugenics*
RFKjr: ok ok we won't

1 week passes

RFKjr: ok so we decided to do it anyway but focus especially on the disabled ones bc they rely on us for help and can't fight back

https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-autism-medicare-medicaid-0507cd8117f299a50bc20b9ea8569048?utm%5Fsource=copy&utm%5Fmedium=share

#uspol

jwz wrote:

This just in! The CEO of Fiver says AI is coming for my job.

He's probably rich and Fiver is definitely a company whose name I have heard, so it's probably true.

Come sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak.

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Venjent: Alcatraz-a-Lago - Bacardi Chili Mango Rum, Soda, and a Fancy Lime!

Attachments:

• gifv: 66b43f2912936b15.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

read the latin correctly or you'll summon the tasty dead

jwz wrote:

This guy is like if meth, TikTok and Flash Player 2005 had a baby.

In the bathroom of a Sunglass Hut at the mall.

jwz wrote:

What fresh tiktok hell is this? @dnalounge

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
A11yAwareness@disabled.social ("Accessibility Awareness") wrote:

The best time to start thinking about and talking about making a website accessible is at the very beginning, before any content or code has been written. But the second best time is right now.

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

Just remember: It's never too late to tell fascism to go fuck itself

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

🎵 Disco, disco droid 🎵

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

Remote code execution vulnerability found in meshtastic, looks potentially bad enough that you might be able to make a worm.

yikes

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-24797/

#meshtastic #lora #cybersecurity #iot

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
deivudesu ("デイヴ") wrote:

If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.

Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.

The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.

#climate #climatechange

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

@N3VEM

Some people have free range chickens while others have free range atoms.

"Free-range atoms, roaming around without restrictions, have been captured on camera for the first time – enabling physicists to take a closer look at long predicted quantum phenomena."

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

WHY ARE YOU EATING IN THE BATHROOM

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mattleinartqb/post/DJVDFbohv6d

Boosted by jwz:
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Military expert here. All joking aside, Super Hornets only do this when they are under extreme distress. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-aircraft-carrier-red-sea-lost-another-super-hornet-2025-5

Boosted by jwz:
burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:

oh no something’s wrong

Attachments:

• gifv: f1855873f3aa42f9.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

Oops! All Prisons