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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Science PhDs face a challenging and uncertain future
Smaller post-grad classes are likely due to research budget cuts.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/science-phds-face-a-challenging-and-uncertain-future/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joancarroll@photog.social ("Joan Carroll") wrote:

Golden light bathes dramatic pillar rock formations, highlighting their rugged beauty against a clear sky. Soft sand dunes in the foreground are dotted with sparse vegetation and create a contrast with the rocky structures in the distance.

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/rock-formations-and-sand-dunes-monument-valley-arizona-joan-carroll.html

#rockformations #dawn #sunrise #sanddunes #desert #dunes #shadows #nature #landscape #dramatic #monumentvalley #arizona #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #artforsale #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll

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

okay, this is amusing #HamRadio 📡

https://ars-qrp.com/FOBB/FOBB.html

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

Everyone knows that giving a battleship a fierce warrior name is the only way to make it strong.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/04/how-pete-hegseth-celebrates-pride-month/

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

I wasted too much time trying to puzzle out the math education evaluations from the NCTQ. It turns out that sometimes data is just noise!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/04/im-confused-about-math/

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

Every 5x5 Nonogram is now the featured URL on https://url.town! 🥳

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: POTUS Express: Orange Chicken - Tequila, Honey Simple Syrup, Orange Juice, Soda.

Attachments:

• gifv: 1e0a014dc9a1f84f.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
tek@freeradical.zone ("Free Teks for sale, cheap") wrote:

Just snagged some Nitzer Ebb / Front Line Assembly at @dnalounge tickets for the fam, and also a sweet Cyberdelia poster to hang in my home office.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Putin: What happen ?
FSB: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Putin: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Putin: It's you !!
Zelenskyy: How are you gentlemen !!
Zelenskyy: One-third of your heavy bombers are belong to Ukraine.
Zelenskyy: You are on the way to destruction.
Putin: What you say !!
Zelenskyy: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Zelenskyy: Ha ha ha ha …
Putin: Take off every 'MIG'!!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
stuffifound@pixelfed.social ("Stuff I found") wrote:

This is why we need #PrideMonth

#lgbtqia #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #queer #intersex #asexual #agender #nonbinary #pride #prideisaprotest

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
JohnAltringham@mastodon.online ("John Altringham") wrote:

Progress...

#WoodEngraving #art #wildlife #NaturalHistory #birds

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

I feel gaslit. It is hard to find a single news blog, particularly the usually suspects (the verge, tech crunch etc) who are opening asking what #OpenAI plans to do with all our data.

ChatGPT is quickly becoming a digital confidant pretending to be our friend so that we divulge our most intimate details and none of these motherfuckers have a single question?

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I shall start a public shaming list for mail admins who specify a report mail address in their DMARC records and then let those emails bounce. 👿

Boosted by jwz:
Haste ("EVHaste") wrote:

My doctor’s office just asked me if I consented to an AI scribe taking session notes. (Obviously I said absolutely not and over my dead body).

I am physically incapable of minding my own business so I asked for details. They confirmed that means the rooms are capable of recording now, but assured me that it is “completely deleted” in a “timely fashion”.

I’m with One Medical. So that means the steward of that data is AMAZON.

I am utterly horrified.

#tech #dystopia

Boosted by jwz:
nickknudsenus.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Nick Knudsen") wrote:

This honestly made me tear up. Not gonna lie. 💪🫡 Fuck fascists.

Attachments:

• video: 06207ce2b1d99881.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
Wrewdison@masto.hackers.town ("The Wrew (Ultimate Edition)") wrote:

I’m not saying you should call and ask about chicken tacos, but… you should call and ask about those yummy chicken tacos.

Remember - fight back however you can. You can make a phone call. Or twenty.

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

Boosted by jwz:
violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New Threat Model:

-A major AI company was revealed to be an Indian code sweatshop
-Trump’s massive CISA cuts signal retreat from defense functionality
-The Russian strategic bomber version of all my apes are gone
-Justin Trudeau’s cool spy phone
-An app to track urine tank levels on the International Space Station

More, always more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-3-130584011 #Cybersecurity

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

I’m totally hooked on this. https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, more HLS / mediamtx questions -- https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/rtmp-hls-segment-corruption/#comment-259790

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hipsterelectron@circumstances.run ("d@nny disc@ mc²") wrote:

legacy code? you mean the stuff that works to solve the problem?

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

It looks like mod #2 stepped down after being called out on that piece. That’s good, I guess.

What isn’t good is that Gina was aware of the piece and made him a mod anyway.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@YKantRachelRead/114614842498176337

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

Anyone paying attention to how the community was run, who ran it, and the person to whom it was passed shouldn’t be surprised by any of this.

And I’m sure all of the people who said “just give Gina a chance!” will find some way to explain all of this away, because they don’t actually care about the issues.

As for me, I’m just disappointed. Given a chance to start fresh, they simply reached for more of the same. It’s crystal clear that nothing will actually change.

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

Yikes. New Fosstodon moderation team is going *great*.

One mod has filtered out words like queer, racist, trans, and gender. Because that totally makes it easy to keep an eye on content that might affect marginalized members of the community. /s https://social.treehouse.systems/@YKantRachelRead/114621879782958297

A second mod wrote this whackadoodle piece during the recent meltdown: https://archive.is/vreBu

And a third mod is committed to rescuing people from “bad propaganda” in “militantly leftist places”. https://social.treehouse.systems/@YKantRachelRead/114621047572495288

Wow.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone S") wrote:

Migrating (or going back) to Linux in 2025, after 24 years exclusively on Mac:

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/moving-on/

Feels good.

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

If you would like to control styling and layout costs (in contrast to these folks), I wrote up some of what that looks like today in this explainer for a feature I hope we build soon:

https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/EventPhases/explainer.md#:~:text=a%20specific%20subtree.-,Note,-Recent%20additions%20to

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

And yet these people persist. Often from the commanding heights of organizations where they've chased out all the people that actually knew things (people who were/are proud to write HTML and CSS instead of resorting to JS to scratch every itch).

This is charlatanism. Organisational and budgetary terrorism. Errors accelerated by railguns to just-sublight velocity, such that they do fatal damage to any product they strike.

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

What this means is that when people who use React ask questions like *"but does X scale?"*, you can safely ignore them. They have literally no idea what they're talking about. They don't understand the scaling factors of the code they exert the most authority over, and so their reckons about adjacent systems might as well be an unholy mashup of entrails divination and dice rolls.

React doesn't scale in either CPU or DOM or styling complexity, and doesn't control *anything* about layout costs.

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

I spend a truly horrifying fraction of my time walking folks who have been doing frontend engineering in anger for many years through the fundamentals of how the browser actually processes content in order to explain just how deeply they've been duped. Everything most folks need to know is in this talk:

https://youtu.be/K2QHdgAKP-s?si=ToSngpfOu9tTxC1E

What *isn't* in the talk is that userland component systems like React don't encapsulate squat. They *look* like components in code, but are div soup post-compiler.

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

React: cheap, fast, good; choose none.