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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

#Dillo release size over time, constrained by the size of a single #floppy disk. We still have some room left.

I suspect the big increase in 3.1.0 is mostly caused by adding a screenshot in the readme (136 KiB).

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

The status.log app is by @jmj and remains one of my favorite iOS apps ever. If you haven’t picked it up yet and are looking for a fun way to enjoy omg.lol’s Statuslog and picture sharing stuff, check it out! https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6444921793?pt=242757&ct=jmj.omg.lol&mt=8

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

Finally getting around to customizing some app icons. 💛

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Most recently, I've been trying to make some REST APIs available via an OpenAPI spec. My company has chosen a code-first approach, with a framework that:

* Requires that you use annotations to add type information to *classes*
* Does not check that the TypeScript types match the annotated types. (Because, AFAICT, you can't.)
* DOES NOT DO ANY RUNTIME TYPE VALIDATION based on all of the types you have had to meticulously, redundantly annotate.

So for runtime validation, redefine everything! 😭

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Most of my recent #TypeScript experience has been with #Deno where handling of TypeScript/types is built-in to the runtime itself.

But now that I'm delving into NodeJS-centric ecosystem a bit more, I am *constantly* surprised at how loosely people will use the term "type-safe".

In that realm, "type-safe" apparently means… has some types. But it doesn't mean the types are accurate, useful, or even validated at runtime.

The number of <T = any> generic params I've seen is … disappointing.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
pirateradiomap@toot.community ("David Goren") wrote:

Hey, it's the 7th anniversary of my crazy project: The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map...

#brooklyn #pirate #radio #sound #map

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/mapping-brooklyns-diverse-pirate-radio-scene

If you'd like to help support the further development of the map, I've popped in my Ko-fi link below. With gratitude I'll send you a custom BPRSM post card suitable for putting on yer fridge and an hour of the some of the best station IDs and jingles!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jaz@toot.wales ("jaz :twt: :wales_flag:") wrote:

#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #4

Three countries that consider #Rugby their national sport also have dedicated Mastodon services, supporting those three nations' local culture and communities:

#Madagascar #Madagasikara
#NewZealand #Aotearoa
#Wales #Cymru

Correlation is not causation, but we might be on to something here. Do the shared values of teamwork and community extend from the pitch to the Fediverse?

https://jaz.co.uk/projects/startheresocial/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ThreeOhFour ("Ben Chandler") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:

The Highlight API is now Baseline Newly Available since Firefox 140!
No more spans to highlight bits of text.

Took 3 yrs since we shipped in Chromium (short by web platform standards). Stocked that it's supported across engines!

https://css-tricks.com/css-custom-highlight-api-early-look/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS%5FCustom%5FHighlight%5FAPI

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

The space grog is flowing freely at this pirate shack. Another edition of the Infinite Thread is open.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/02/infinite-thread-xxxvi/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

The US cutting the delivery of essential weapons to Ukraine confirms that the US is no longer a reliable NATO-ally, shortly after the NATO-summit where continuing support of Ukraine was agreed upon. The Baltics states are rightly worried, no way Trump will risk war for defending them.
#usa #nato #ukraine #baltics #geopolitics @geopolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs and more

https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-summer-school-english-language-grants-fac670e8f60fab397fbd68dfed866ea1

jwz wrote:

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqi

Boosted by jwz:
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

Strong Password Policy 101

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

$ run-simple-tool

“Hi! Let’s set up your profile, connect your contacts, and gamify your clipboard!”

$ kill -9

Boosted by jwz:
feliks@chaos.social wrote:

yarrrr

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

@inthehands All three proposals are acceptable.

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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

Attachments:

• video: Zohran Mamdani summarizes the primary victory one week after the election

Boosted by jwz:
ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com ("ErosBlog Bacchus") wrote:

Folks, never miss a chance to reframe "Alligator Alcatraz" as "Alligator Auschwitz". Don't let MAGA yuck this one up in contested spaces.

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

This is a strong indicator that the app is worth your time.
https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/114784753277343173

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

imagine what it's like to be someone that survived a Japanese internment camp in the USA watching the USA build new internment camps for housing "bad outsiders"

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E12
🎥 Episode: Landscape
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: September 21, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1283

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
abbynormative@mstdn.social ("Abby") wrote:

Hail O'sha!

#covid #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
seachanger@alaskan.social ("wet forest moon folklorist") wrote:

day 3 of city worker strike in philly

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/dc33-strike-afscme-union-philadelphia-parker-trash-20250701.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.

Proved my point excellently.

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

This was an opportunistic capture from a hotel balcony, made with a small camera and 90mm lens. I made several exposures, waiting for good light, which came out briefly for this one.

The wrong gear is definitely better than nothing, but still not as good as the right gear. This is a perfectly acceptable image, but I can't look at it without wishing I had used a view camera, a higher resolution sensor, and a slightly longer lens. But if I had insisted on that, I'd have no image at all.

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

Marina, San Diego, 2012.

All the pixels, barnacles not included, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/8270972060

#photography

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
KathyReid@aus.social ("Kathy Reid") wrote:

Are you a top US-based scientist looking to relocate to #Australia?

The Australian Academy of #Science is now offering generous relocation packages and guaranteed #research funding.

https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/are-you-a-top-us-based-scientist-wanting-to-relocate-to-australia

#FediScience

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
tveskov wrote:

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