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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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

Some days I'm honestly amazed that colour screens on computers are not considered high-cost specialty items:

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/3912#issuecomment-2108338388

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

UAL 32, LAX-NRT squking 7700 and diverting to SEA. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL32/history/20250712/1755Z/KLAX/RJAA

#DontMakeMeTurnThisPlaneAround

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

The new issue of the relaunched COMPUTE!'s Gazette is out now. If that's something that interests you:

https://www.computesgazette.com/subscribe-to-computes-gazette-stay-updated-on-the-latest-retro-trends/

Edwin Nagle, the person driving the relaunch, gave a talk about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o19gcDIgUes

#retrocomputing

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

The dirty JS hacker in me loves this (ab)use of `PerformanceObserver` so much:

https://leanrada.com/notes/simple-live-reload/

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

this is EXTREMELY cool:

https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

via @kurtextrem

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

2022—Super fun read. To prove how centralized NFTs/blockchain has become, moxie made an NFT that changed based on the client you viewed it from.

#OpenSea then removed the NFT from their platform *and* his crypto wallet lmao holy shit.

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

#NFT #Blockchain #web3

So as an experiment, I made an NFT that changes based on who is looking at it, since the web server that serves the image can choose to serve different images based on the IP or User Agent of the requester. For example, it looked one way on OpenSea, another way on Rarible, but when you buy it and view it from your crypto wallet, it will always display as a large emoji. What you bid on isn't what you get. There's nothing unusual about this NFT, it's how the NFT specifications are built. Many of the highest priced NFTs could turn into emoji at any time; I just made it explicit.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ashur@pixelfed.social ("Ashur Cabrera") wrote:

Some good #posters and stickers around SE Portland #pdx

Black and blue poster: “Build a wall of resistance. Don’t talk to ICE”
“Smash racism” with a stylized photo of Elon Musk throwing a Nazi salute
A sticker placed below the “Push” of a “Push to walk” sign reads, “ICE out of PDX. Ching la migra”
Illustration of Elon Musk holding one of his young children. “Are you a spineless Nazi? Invest in Musk security systems today. Easy, lightweight, portable”

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

A good way to get out of a conversation is to take off one of your socks and hand it to the person talking.

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

TIL: https://ricma.co/posts/tech/tutorials/chrome-os-nerd-fonts/

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lina@vt.social ("Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live") wrote:

I scored 15/28 on https://jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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

I've been pretty lax about keeping up with the webperf slack, but this was in the scrollback from March, and I love that it shows so directly how understanding the rendering engine unlocks better experiences for everyone, not just folks on low-spec machines and networks:

https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

LLM-generated code is digital asbestos, and someday the companies lucky enough to survive the lost generation of expertise will be throwing bags of money at actual developers to come out of retirement and rip it all out.

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/114823507128035525

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OscarCunningham@mathstodon.xyz ("Oscar Cunningham") wrote:

'poly-' means many
'-est' means most
'-er' means more

'polyester' lots and lots and lots and lots

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz ("scmbradley") wrote:

Was reminded of this paper a minute ago, and I just read it again. Damn, Edsger Dijkstra weirdly relevant for a 40 year old paper.

"The question [of whether machines can think] is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim."

"if computers could amplify intelligence, they could amplify stupidity as well."

"The most crazy thing of all this is that, in all the more spectacular cases, the failure has been predicted, quite convincingly and well in advance. Apparently, the lure of the dream is still so strong that people become to deaf for warnings: the computer represents Babbage’s Dream Come True, and no one wants to hear that the Dream has deteriorated into a fully transistorized nightmare."

"I refer to the wide-spread, but in general unchallenged, belief that making something “computer-aided” amounts to making it better. Computer-aided design, computer-aided management, computer-aided composition, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-assisted learning, computerized examinations, you name it. Under no circumstances the dogma of improvement should be accepted without challenge: in no time we would have computerized jurisdiction."

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

DO NOT EXECUTE THIS CODE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE LICENSE
DNE-1.0 - 2025-07-11
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https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/gpu-free-ai/blob/main/LICENSE

DO NOT EXECUTE THIS CODE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE LICENSE DNE-1.0 - 2025-07-11 ==================== THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT DISTRIBUTED UNDER ANY LICENSE RECOGNIZED BY THE LAWS OF MANKIND OR ITS GODS. (HENCEFORTH, "THE LICENSE", WHICH IS DEFINED BY ITS NONEXISTENCE). THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AS-IS, AS IN THE ESSENCE OF BEING, AS IN THE CODE IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE ONTOLOGICAL CATEGORY OF BEING CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY THE SOFTWARE AS IT EXISTS IN ITS UNDISTURBED PARTICULARITY. (HENCEFORTH, "THE PARTICULARITY") THE SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED BY THE MERE FACT OF THAT EXISTENCE, (HENCEFORTH, "THE EXISTENCE") BUT IS NOT BOUND BY ANY ENTAILMENTS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, THAT MAY EXIST IN THE SOFTWARE, THE OBSERVER PERCEIVING THIS MESSAGE, (HENCEFORTH, "THE OBSERVER") OR THE ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO.
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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

Prismatic dragon

A dragon with prismatic/rainbow colouring across its body

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Kitty@metalhead.club ("Kit-T :damnified:") wrote:

Looks like the "Verify your fedi account" scam is gaining pace, & evolving to look more real.

Your server admin will not ask you to click a link to verify your account. And no other admin from any other server will either, even if they do look like they could be part of the main Mastodon team. It's a scam.

Please report any post or DM that urges you to click any link to verify your account.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
triz@normal.style ("triz of online :verified_triz:") wrote:

remember riding in the bed of the pickup truck? remember when we didn't have seatbelts or unleaded gas? remember drinking the beer from the enclosure now obsolete? you drank the beer in the car with your dad, and he seemed impossibly strong and knowledgeable, the low dusk light glinting off his sunglasses as you sped onwards toward the location. remember the location. remember the location. the location. what were the coordinates of the location? you used to enjoy knowing them so well

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

This comedy routine was incredibly sweet and I recommend it, especially if you had or have any connection to the identity of being an American man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fsoWW%5FfZyM

And hey, goodnight, sleep tight, and sweet dreams

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I'm trying to help a family here in Boulder raise a bit of money to give their aunt/sister/daughter a funeral - if you'd consider chipping in, we'd all be grateful ❤️ https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-honor-cindys-memory-mssja?attribution%5Fid=sl%3A19d0010b-626b-4fe7-bcb0-858ff8a81586&lang=en%5FUS&ts=1752170017&v=amp14%5Ft2

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m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone S") wrote:

Tiny post using someone else's words to express something I've grown obsessed with: the inability of capitalism to accept that something might be good enough.

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/content/

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

So this was mostly a play on the concept of "street photography". The street is the literal subject, but everything about it - the absence of people or any depiction of street life, the use of a heavy, tripod-laden camera, the compositional formality - defies the conventions of that genre.

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

This is a high resolution stitch of three captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron lens, yielding a 230 MP image with roughly the angle of view of a 14mm "full frame" rectilinear lens. The high resolution invites you to look closely for signs of life, but they remain elusive.

While this is literally a photo of the street, it's not a "street photo" at all. The empty nocturnal streetscape is completely devoid of life and human activity, though it hints at sometimes being a bustling place.

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

2AM, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the street life, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52991590112

#photography

An urban street at night, devoid of people. Across the street at left, small apartment buildings. At right, a small restaurant with a mural reading "Bombay Street Food 3".

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Ok, this is a fun idea. It uses a PC storage LED to generate the sounds of older HDDs.
https://www.serdashop.com/HDDClicker

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jwz wrote:

Big Beautiful Bald Boarding.

Bald Baby J.D. Vance Meme Can Now Be Your Boarding Pass: James Steinberg has designed an app that allows you to change the background your digital airplane boarding pass to display a now-infamous image of the vice...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrL

Screenshot

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Some of you have never realized how cool you are, and it shows.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Tarzan stands at the edge of a deep elevator mine shaft, pointing upward and says, “YOU UP THERE… FAT MAN! We will not work! We DEFY you!“

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

I don't know why we're pretending this is complicated. ICE wears masks because we all saw what happened at Nuremburg when the Gestapo didn't.

That's it.