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

Crucial Cover for May 22: Metamorphosis II by Lavinia Meijer

https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/neatnik/20250522

The haunting piano of Philip Glass, masterfully executed on the harp. Some pieces play well on the harp, while others—like this one—sound as if they were destined for it.

#CrucialTracks #Cover #Music

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yanone@typo.social ("Yanone Type") wrote:

Kelmscott Mono is the Blackletter programming font you didn’t know you needed.

https://github.com/seeddisperser/kelmscott-mono

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A building on the coast. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

With the next TC39 plenary less than a week away, Igalia’s Compilers team has just dropped a thorough blog post recapping April’s session. It walks through the standout proposals and discussions that will help steer JavaScript’s evolution in the months ahead. https://blogs.igalia.com/compilers/2025/05/20/summary-of-the-april-2025-tc39-plenary/

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DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

“Tech-Billionaire Historic District” sign at 24th and San Jose in San Francisco. #SFGraffiti #GuerrillaArt #SanFrancisco

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shlee@aus.social (":PUA: Shlee fucked around and") wrote:

Sinners is a high recommendation! 4.5/5

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signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop.

Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

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

Just discovered the first punchable web page: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

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

I think we should force tech bros to pay five dollars whenever they say "revolutionary" then take that money and fund universal healthcare with it

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

Okay.

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

Sam Altman and Jony Ive are poised to announced new hardware for AI. My guess is it’ll be the phone from the movie Her, with a capable speaker, and perhaps wireless earbuds. Or a Bluetooth headset of some sort.

Conversational UI will be at the forefront and screens will be declared secondary.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

I’m sorry — unfortunately we decided to go with someone that has been claiming web components are dead for 13 years and it says here on your CV that you only have 9 years of experience with that

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knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:

Democratic Congressman Is the Third to Die in Office in Three Months

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-congressman-gerry-connolly-is-the-third-to-die-in-office-in-three-months/

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program (WGAP) 2025 Call for proposals is open, for astronomy projects in Canada, the US, Mexico, the Carribbean, and Greenland that develop activities to promote, support, and uplift women and girls in the field

https://naroad.astro4dev.org/na-road-projects/women-and-girls-astronomy-program/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Pretty

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Third weirdest tandem I've seen.

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Good on Signal! https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Not only are they doing the right thing, they’re publishing a clear, forceful, and occasionally amusing write-up on how and why:

For Example: “Take a screenshot every few seconds” legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like “How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?”

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Engineers are supremely rational and value precision. That's why we use a unit called "decibels".

Well, it's not really a unit. It's a difference in magnitude for some other unit. We typically don't specify that other unit, but you can probably guess. We named decibels after Alexander Bell, but we misspelled that a bit.

Using decibels is just more intuitive than writing ×10 or ×1,000. That's why we define a decibel as an increase of ~1.2589. No, I mean, that's for power! If you're doing voltages, obviously use ~1.1220.

As for "0 dB", it probably refers to the other thing we talked about earlier in the text. But it could be one volt. Or a milliwatt, if you're doing radio stuff. Or maybe a threshold of human hearing. Or a really loud sound... I don't know, who's writing the spec?

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jvschrag@hachyderm.io ("John Schrag") wrote:

Listening to my husband calling out a play-by-play as he attempts to cancel our Microsoft Office subscription. (We’ve switched to free, open source LibreOffice). “They’re not making this easy!” he yells to me.

First, they tell him what a terrible mistake he’s making by listing all the services we’ll be losing. Like the AI we don’t want, and the OneDrive that we don’t use and have to actively fight Office to prevent it from storing stuff there.

Next, they beg by offering a lower price without the AI features — which means they are aware that those features are unpopular.

Finally, after much scrolling, there is the button that does the job. And we’re free!

Then it whines “but whyyyyy?”

It’s like breaking up with a toxic partner.

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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

woo—last looks (and fixes) on the print proof before final printing! IT’S HAPPENING

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

Wow, some #omgdotlol folks have made some amazingly generous donations to local organizations today! Our matching program runs through the end of the month, or until we hit $10,000 in matches (wouldn’t that be wild). ❤️

https://home.omg.lol/giving

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

AI is an eldritch horror. it is an incomprehensibly vast being but without physical form, not truly alive or aware of anything, though it consumes human knowledge and spits out a perversion of it. those who get too close to it are driven mad, and worship it as a deity that will lead them to salvation, even though it is not even aware of them and will lead them to destruction instead

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celesteh@lgbt.io ("Charles ☭ says trans rights") wrote:

Look, I can "know my rights" in say, airports to opt out of body scanners that tend to cause problems for trans people.

But, being honest, this is not remotely a good experience. In fact, it has on occasion been dire enough that I exercised my right to wrote a complaint letter.

Yay my rights.

And, indeed, by the time one has to know their rights, a violation has already taken place. The rights are already contingent on whiteness, passability, the mood of the person exercising power over me. Knowing ones rights is a situation of fascism - the rights are at best under threat and at worst fully suspended.

As a middle aged white bloke, I get to do this on easy mode and its still just fucking awful.

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

DC Comics cleared me to show our new cover for the Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen hardcover collection. "Labor of Love" doesn't begin to describe this. Ten days of work! I hope it's as fun to examine as it was to draw. And yes, the book will include a map key, identifying who is who.

It'll be in stores Jul 29, 2025
ISBN 9781799501879, and for collectors, I'll have some signed and sketched copies available on etsy.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

They’re harassing new vaccines out of existence.
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114546084743016031

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 21 May 1979 the White Night riots took place in San Francisco. LGBT people rose up when the killer of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials, was not convicted of murder. 500 people fought police and burned police cars https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9418/white-nights-riots

jwz wrote:

Incel Tortoise.

Natasha Jay: Carson Hill: I found video, June 2024: "The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping." There is no...
https://jwz.org/b/ykoR

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reg Braithwaite 🍓") wrote:

“I fight for the Right to Repair. Which is why the system wants to torture me to death. It’s about control, kid, and if we can fix what they break, the whole system collapses.”

—Harry Tuttle, rogue heating engineer

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mcc wrote:

Encountering a new reason this morning to be infuriated by Bluesky's combination of "overthinking everything" and "underthinking everything": the at:// URIs used by Bluesky https://atproto.com/specs/at-uri-scheme are literally not URIs, as they violate section 3.2 of RFC 3986 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2 through their reimagining of "authority" as a generic colon-separated list rather than a host which if followed by a colon is followed by a number. The Rust "URL" package, which RFC conforms, is unable to parse one.

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

Spice, up close and personal.