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

Today I again stumbled upon this beautiful explanation of what Free licenses and Free culture means, by Mark Pilgrim. I think it's still very pertinent, and this is what formed my own opinions some years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091102023737/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point

A choice quote:

> If “others profiting from my work” is something you seek to avoid, then Free Software is not for you.

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migtorr@mastodon.org.uk ("Miguel Torrellas") wrote:

I don't understand how did we moved on past this

#google #degoogle #facebook #meta #whatsapp #amazon #apple #twitter

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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

This is not a joke. It’s a look at the future.

#Capitalism #Enshittification

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

It's too soon to hope that the fever of frameworkism is breaking, but folks are risking apostasy more readily. If you're hoping for a world in which building UIs isn't a transpiler-ridden hellscape, and the results for users improve, give folks making this turn some support:

https://x.com/mjackson/status/1926043954266406912

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

We can rescue the American electronics industry by paying everyone less and recruiting little kids with tiny fingers, but NOT by training more engineers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/24/racism-in-the-ny-times-say-it-aint-so/

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pahoittelemme@mastodontti.fi ("Lentävä Kalakukko") wrote:

Turbo Pascal vs. Pedro Pascal.

#Pascal

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

For most of the past decade, the Chromium animation team in Google's Waterloo office has gotten an earful from me about about how the we *had* to get to a point where scroll-based animations were not only possible, but reliably offloaded to the compositor.

And they did it, despite *constant* stop-energy from Apple (who still can't do scrolling right 🙄). The results speak for themselves:

https://codepen.io/spark/448

https://codepen.io/HejChristian/pres/VYwEVPO

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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

5️⃣ 850 ♥️ No SVG, no image fluid slider https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/qByGqOm

#JS used only for
a) feature support detection
b) updating slider value in --val

Uses only
1 × input[type=range] for actual slider
1 × output for current value display
1 × datalist for ruler

One of my best sliders on @codepen.

#CSS #slider #rangeInput #coding #web #dev #webDevelopment #webDev #code #frontend #cssGrid #cssMask #cssGradient

Attachments:

• gifv: Fluid vertical slider. Dragging the thumb bends the track and ruller around it. The ruler markings also dynamically fade the further away from the thumb they are. On the right, there is a DevTools panel open to show that this is made with a range input, an output and a datalist with options, all inside a group wrapper.

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

This was made with a DSLR and a swinging lens to provide selective focus on the milepost at left. This moved the plane of focus to be non-parallel with the sensor, yielding only a sliver in focus.

Image was was captured at "Park Junction" in Philadelphia, where the former Reading Railroad once met the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. What caught my eye was the old school graffiti moniker on the base of the milepost, in a style traditionally used by yard workers and hobos to tag freight cars.

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

Park Junction, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4472088022

#photography

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sydscauldron@mastodon.art ("Syd's Cauldron") wrote:

My version of “meet the artist”

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rjkwon ("Kwon") wrote:

added a bunch more small / personal / handmade web articles to the stack here: https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/

with excellent pieces from @nora @Jayhoffmann @nazhamid @anildash @robin and others

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

The sedentary lifestyle is not good for you in the long run. You eventually have to pay.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/24/getting-old-sucks/

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

Wow. Answers in Genesis found 3 astronauts who are ignorant wankers. They are so proud.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/24/astronauts-can-be-total-dumbasses-too/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKBi2OyHIXo

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

simple truths

https://universeodon.com/@Swede1952/114551465108035872

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ElenaLonergan@aus.social ("Dr Elena Lonergan") wrote:

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It wasn’t easy to choose, but I voted for Loribelle Spirovski’s “Finger painting of William Barton” in the Archibald Prize this year.

I love this painting for its looseness and freedom, the way it lets the light in.

#ArchibaldPrize #AGNSW #painting #art #Sydney

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

If you are married or in a long term relationship living with someone for years how did you meet your partner?

(Pick whatever fits best)
(Not everyone needs or wants this kind of relationship but I'm curious about how those who did and found it paired up.)

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

Colleges are canceling affinity graduations due to anti-DEI policies. Here is how students are preserving the traditions
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/us/affinity-graduation-college-dei-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US News @us-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

With (not just) AI companies and their ignorance of copyright/authorship rules and laws, digital distribution of works becomes less and less attractive for creators and artists. So I am going back more and more to physical artefacts, which is also not ideal, seeing how artists are squeezed by publishers. But at least there is no DRM (Digital Rights Management) that turns ownership into licensing. I buy books, vinyls, CDs, DVDs and sculptures, paintings. Brings me closer to the artist/creator.

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

some hacks are historical

https://mastodon.social/@jockr/114562488582081193

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jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

In Memory Of Ed Smylie, Whose Famous Hack Saved The Apollo 13 Crew | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/18/in-memory-of-ed-smylie-whose-famous-hack-saved-the-apollo-13-crew/

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

ditto

https://masto.hackers.town/@X00001/114560022353224147

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X00001@masto.hackers.town ("Radio Wave Girl🗼") wrote:

no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on mastodon.

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uk@pubeurope.com ("UK") wrote:

https://www.europesays.com/uk/126692/ SDSC Launches Societal Computing and Innovation Lab #Computing #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here's another one. Croatia.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Y'all—stop donating to Harvard. Just Stop.

Harvard has a $53 BILLION dollar endowment—the largest in the world.

THEY. WILL. BE. FINE.

If you want to donate money, donate to orgs defending immigrant rights & representing those the Trump regime has disappeared. Donate to reproductive rights orgs who provide women the critical healthcare they need. Donate to food banks as 1 in 6 Americans are food insecure.

Donating to the wealthiest University on Earth is not "resistance," it's just stupid.

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

Aligned with the core argument here, the iPhone will be a *better product* when competent and capable browsers are finally allowed – something Apple continue to fight tooth-and-nail to prevent:

https://hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover

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

Drink Special @ Exploration of Bass: Luci -- Habeas Corpus is Woke: Tequila, Tropical Red Bull, and a splash of cherry

Attachments:

• gifv: 30f2ef349e7d4ec2.mp4

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kabootie@oldbytes.space ("Kabootie computey!") wrote:

I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.

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cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

📝 A clarified stance on blocking AI crawlers #Development #Webdev #Ai #Tech

My clarified stance on blocking AI crawlers is this: block all of them. I won't speak for everyone on the matter (I can't), but feel ok walling them all off.

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/a-clarified-stance-on-blocking-ai-crawlers