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

Had a very enjoyable Pokémon GO Fest this weekend!

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Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

In a world of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, be like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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

My programming skills have gotten exceedingly rusty. I confess I kind of like Xcode 16's over-enthusiastic function completion, though. "Yeah? You hit tab to accept that line? How about a dozen more? Not bad, right? Hit tab again, I dare you!”

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

You know, “this” used to be a perfectly innocent word. Nothing special, but a solid citizen of the grammar ecosystem. Who could have predicted it would turn into a major clickbait villain, meaning “We’re not going to tell you what this article is about until you click on it.”

FWIW I think I’m not alone in consciously avoiding clicking on such links.

#enshittification

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:

maybe CERN should start demanding a 30% cut of all the revenue of businesses that run on the Web since they enabled it all.

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

If you liked the embedded WebPageTest.org traces in my latest blog[1], I cleaned up the code and wrote some docs for it:

https://github.com/slightlyoff/wpt-embed

You can grab it via NPM:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@slightlyoff/wpt-embed

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/06/conferences-clarity-and-smokescreens/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@oli
@jsonstein

[Tired sarcasm about multiple boxes, recursion, halting problem, and AI here]

Wait, that's tired, too. Dammit. Is there nothing new under the sun, Horatio?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Three hams working on making contacts on a Get On The Air (GOTA) station. The two girls are licensed ham radio operators! #hamradio

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info ("Michael K Johnson") wrote:

@housepanther @bolderbekah @catsalad @ai6yr I failed to learn Morse forty years or so ago, and gave up my dream of ham radio.

I became a ham at all (and a "no-code Extra" at that) only because the requirement was dropped.

Now I'm loving learning Morse, just because. I would absolutely never have done that with the stick approach, only the carrot would ever have worked. And I have heard that the numbers back that experience up — that CW is getting a lot more actual use on the air now that it is optional.

This isn't pressure to learn it. This hobby is full of rabbit holes and there are lots of right ways to do it. If this were pressure that anyone reading this should learn code after all, that would miss the point completely. Instead, I can celebrate learning morse for fun, and others can celebrate their favorite modes, and this is awesome.

The haters are wrong, and probably just jealous and angry.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Frontline report: Colombian fighters join Ukraine to dig Russians out of trenches in a brutal forest fight

Colombian vets stormed a Russian trench network near Ukraine’s border, clearing bunkers with drone support, grenades, and close-quarters combat.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/29/colombian-fighters-ukraine-russian-trenches-kursk/

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

omg.lol is entirely self-sustaining, whether we have 5 members or 5,000. It’s not a numbers game here. This is about maintaining a community that always stands up for what it believes in. That is always the priority here.

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

If you know that vertebrate embryos share deep similarities, wait until you get a load of insect embryos.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/29/a-conserved-genetic-signal-for-building-neuronal-pathways/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyk9uq0WJF4

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

My focus on building a community (vs. growing a company) is that I can live my values, intentionally, and speak my mind accordingly. People who hold opposing views can (and do!) leave, and when they do, it’s a net positive for everyone.

I don’t have to equivocate or remain silent on important issues. I can (and do!) openly talk about what I believe in. I can say black lives matter, protect trans kids, and fuck fascists. And the people who don’t like that can just… go away.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oli@olifant.social ("D. Olifant") wrote:

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euronews@flipboard.com ("Euronews ") wrote:

Ukraine to withdraw from anti-personnel mines ban treaty, says Zelenskyy
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/29/ukraine-to-withdraw-from-anti-personnel-mines-ban-treaty-says-zelenskyy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe News @europe-news-euronews

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattl@social.coop ("Dr. Matt Lee") wrote:

@neil you are lucky to have a decent ISP at least, but yeah it makes me sad to think that there’s all this noise and crap about just putting up a web page.

Webdev has become poisoned by its own ignorance and bullshit.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petersuber@fediscience.org wrote:

You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/civilians-impersonating-ice-officers

That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.

#ICE #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

When Silicon Valley and New York Times pronatalists fret about declining birthrates, they're worried about declining *white* and *Western* birthrates.
https://www.statista.com/chart/16058/total-fertility-rate/

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

So... a fun and really exciting thing @cygnoir and I have been working on... A new podcast called Friendship Material.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/friendship-material/id1823544686

We've had a really fun time learning about each other and making a nice, wholesome, authentic show in the process.

It's on Apple Podcasts now, which means you can follow there, or on your favorite podcast app (that's not Spotify).*

*Also depends on how frequently your favorite podcast app refreshes its Apple Podcast database, BUT IT SHOULD BE THERE SOON.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NovaNaturalist@mstdn.ca ("@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE") wrote:

@paninid

Reminds me of Henning Wehn

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

If you’ve seen Democrats denounce Zohran Mamdani for allegedly saying he wants to “globalize the intafada,” you should know they’re shamelessly lying.

Here’s the clip of what he actually said. Watch to understand how reckless this smear campaign really is.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLfhcQWRssC/?igsh=eXZ5bXpoc2V0YmJo

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Ukraine's air defenses are losing the drone war as Russian Shaheds evolve beyond current countermeasures

What hunted drones last year — mobile teams, jamming, helicopters — now barely works against 2,500m altitude targets hitting 200+ km/h
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/29/why-cant-ukraine-stop-russias-shahed-drones-anymore/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

Well, there's some good news.

Four years after her passing ,the Nichelle Nichols Space Camp for girls 14-18 will open next year in Huntsville, Alabama.

Lt. Uhura will live on to inspire a new generation of space explorers.

Representation matters.

https://people.com/late-star-trek-actress-nichelle-nichols-honored-with-space-camp-for-girls-exclusive-11762359

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Demographics of the 2025 election: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2024

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mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

@cliffwade @thibaultmol @adam Who are you expecting to apologize? The guy that first said something 4+ days ago, dropped it and said he wanted to move on until someone else ( @danielpunkass ) kept bringing it up and tried to convince the mastodon creator to some how ban him from Mastodon and riled up a bunch of drama? Cuz that shit is straight up DARVO. No one has to apologize for wanting accountability. No one has to apologize for expecting people to be better. Good on Manton though for waiting half a week to say something and then promise to update his site because, yeah that’s the right thing to do.

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

A white guy in tech just suggested to me—with a straight face!—that I should apologize to another white guy in tech for pointing out that he had a Nazi dogwhistle on his website.

Not even the best LLM could make this stuff up. The stereotypes are entirely self-sustaining in the most comedic and grotesque way imaginable. 😄

I don’t apologize for sharing inconvenient facts, but I’ll definitely accept an expression of gratitude from the other guy, given that I did him a favor by pointing out the problem.

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

@cliffwade “If you have XX amount of posts on your website…” was never said.

“If your driveway is exactly XX feet long…” was never said.

“If you visited XX amount of countries…” was never said.

Those aren’t things in your control. Those aren’t dog whistles of racism/fascism/nazis/etc, etc

How hard is it actually to change something that *is* in your control, like a statement on a website or the like, when someone tells you it is a dog whistle? When marginalized people confirm it? It takes me finding a few minutes to get on my computer and ssh in, vi into a file and rebuild the site to get mine updated. Maybe 10 min if I forget the template I need to update max.

Is our privilege to use dog whistles mistakenly or in ignorance really worth fighting for? I guess I understand that desire if you agree with the dog whistle but if you claim to not??? Like how hard is it *really* to say “oh crap! I didn’t realize, thanks for saying something I’ll change it as soon as I can.” I have and will continue to but then I’ve been trying to turn in my white straight dude privilege card for awhile.

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

@danielpunkass @zicklepop I didn’t manufacture anything. I pointed out that it’s a bad look to have that number there. And the post where I did that auto-deleted a few days ago, and I moved on. But *you* decided to bring it up again, presumably so you could justify calling me a troll. If you don’t want me talking about the issue, then maybe you could, like, not keep bringing it up?

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cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite

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cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:

@USBTypeSteve