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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

See, cookie banners are not allowed, they've never been allowed, they're still not allowed, and that's now been confirmed.
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

https://mastodon.social/@sil/112396061038338385

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

It occurs to me I can just keep the old reader glasses at the desktop computer as computer glasses for the time being. The new glasses work just fine, maybe a little better, for laptop/iPad distance when I’m out (and actual reading).

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, we are very happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0!

See the blog post and release notes for all the details!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/15/Rust-1.87.0/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PBSNewsHour@flipboard.com ("PBS News") wrote:

Walmart will raise prices due to tariff costs
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/walmart-will-raise-prices-due-to-tariff-costs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Headlines @headlines-PBSNewsHour

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

While we are at work they are also working hard.
#picaTheCat

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

I put on a black arm band when this happened, and my 1st/Sgt was "not amused". the Article 15 I got was worth what it cost me: some lost pay and confinement to the Company Area for a while... but at least I kept my 3 stripes.

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

Today in History: 1970, Mississippi Police open fire on crowd of Jackson State College students, killing two: Phillip Gibbs, 21, and James Green, 17.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So, the yokozuna continues to serve as a piñata this tournament as well. Such a shame…

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

New post: "Maybe the waiting is actually the easiest part" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/easiest-part/

The common wisdom seems to be that Apple is critically behind in AI, but that makes some 'AI triumphalist' assumptions that bear examining.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

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

They're all so young! Except for the geezer at top right.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/15/what-biology-looks-like/

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

Today's plans have been disrupted.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/15/disappointed-2/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sylvia_ritter ("Sylvia Ritter") wrote:

✨ Out of Space ✨ This is another artwork I created with Krita, al.chemy.org, and Blender within 24 hours minus sleep and breaks.💜 https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Out-of-Space-1195018123 #art #mastoart #fediart #krita #blender3d

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

Hm. My new reading glasses don’t work very well as computer glasses, while the previous ones did. But I’m not sure if that means the new one is wrong,or the old ones were…

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

Every attempt at using an Emacs “starter pack” has been a variant on “this is amazing, until adding a new package breaks everything in an inexplicable way”; this time, I am starting from scratch. Let’s see if I make it usable before Nova 13 finally ships.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Woah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ubC4bcgRM

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

I really don't understand how people can like NextJS and all of the black-magic inside it

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
luna@pony.social ("luna, only carbon now") wrote:

No means no*

*unless we determine that we have a legitimate interest

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
thisismissem@hachyderm.io ("Emelia 👸🏻") wrote:

I'm pretty sure me setting fire to $32M would be a more effective way to burn that much money and never see a return.

Let's be honest, this investment only exists because they probably use the services of another company a16z invests in and they want to make that other company seem more profitable than it really is. There cannot be actual consumer demand for this.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114511418130214445

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Curious to hear from the hardcore Apple devs / creators / users. People who make and love Apple only tools - Things, OmniFocus, Bear, Overcast etc. Considering how anti consumer and anti dev Apple has become, and how much it’s alienated the community, what’s next? Stay, leave or go cross platform?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

...we love a dad that shares his passions with his son

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Watching: Shogun Assassin on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/ShogunAssassin

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
andyn@social.lol ("Andy") wrote:

@adam there are so many weird and wonderful alternatives these days as well. All of this stuff in the photo combined cost about half the price of the iPhone as well.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

On the hardware side, how would yesterday’s Apple compete with the bland, sterile products that the company has been churning out for years?

We already know the answer to this one because we’ve already seen it happen. We’d have translucent pink plastic iPhones and we’d frigging *love* them.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

What would yesterday’s Apple do if it was competing with today’s Apple?

They’d flip the App Store commission model into a transaction support model. Maybe charge a Visa/Mastercard-like processing fee of 2-3% rather than assert a right to a third of your earnings.

That’s how you attract people to your “private and secure payment system”.

https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/114508525232458373

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

Love Death + Robots Vol. 4 is now out on Netflix, and I wrote two of its episodes: "The Other Large Thing" and "Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners," both directed by Oscar-winning animator Patrick Osborne. I hope you enjoy both, and the entire terrific new season.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Apple was at its very best when it was the clear underdog, fighting for scraps of relevance, making moves just to try to show that it might be able to compete with IBM.

That was the era of the Apple II in schools, the Human Interface Guidelines, genuine whimsy in their designs, and actual respect for developers and customers.

That’s all gone now, because Apple doesn’t have to fight for anything other than its own position at the top. And good stuff only comes from offense, never defense.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
josh@appdot.net ("Josh – (Cats Call Me “Thumbs”)") wrote:

@brentsimmons In fact, the App Store destroyed a lot of great shareware and even freeware.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Putting my Crucial Tracks page to use sharing Crucial Covers, starting today!

First up: Ça Plane Pour Moi by The Lost Fingers. https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/neatnik/20250515

#CrucialTracks #Cover