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

Are you curious how browsers work? I'm working up a list of essential web performance resources, and many of the talks from this 2020 instance of Chromium University ("internal" training for Chromies) are incredible:

https://code.sgo.to/2020/12/16/chromium-university-fall-2020.html

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Here's what I sent them:

I don't use generative AI. I have a computer science degree so I understand how large language models work, and I don't believe that they have any value. They are just stochastic parrots. That they so beguile their users with vapid statistically-probable output is distressing.

But LLMs have still changed my life, because the training models are forever scraping my personal web site, costing me bandwidth and money, violating the copyright on my original content without my consent. The datacentres that house LLMs consume vast amounts of energy and fresh water, an environmental disaster in the making.

I expect that in the future, LLMs will once again change my life as I'm called to cover for an entire generation of workers who lack important life skills such as composition and critical thinking. I'm not exactly looking forward to it.

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

Penguin is really good. I'm two episodes in and hooked.

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

"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.

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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

Hmmm....

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

I've only skimmed the words so I can't speak to accuracy, and it appears the project has barely started, but the illustrations are just beautiful:

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
suzannespirit@mastodon.art ("Suzanne") wrote:

Made this embroidered pendant! I bought 4 of these little flower pendant kits secondhand, just to get started and gain some confidence. Then later on I want to make some designs myself. But this was great fun already!

#embroidery #pendant #CreativeToots #handmade #jewelry #creative #flowers

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

shit

“Multiple people injured in series of shootings in Kentucky, governor says” - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/multiple-people-injured-series-shootings-kentucky-governor-says-2025-07-13/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Today the Israeli military hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp. They murdered 6 Palestinian children and injured 17 more people.

This will barely make headlines, because Palestinian blood is expendable and the Israeli government is apparently exempt from international human rights law.

Corporate media continues to fail in its obligation to report that this is genocide. Keep raising your voice against these atrocities. Be on the right side of history.

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

This essential post by @tammy chimes with my experiences; teams I talk with don't understand that there are huge gains to be had when they finally get perf under thresholds that they think of as "impossible" with today's JS-laden stacks:

https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-plateau/

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

The logo for Argentina’s postal service looks like a Pokéball and I love it. #pokemon #mail

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm Digaron lens and about 13mm of vertical shift to maintain the geometry (but several architectural features - setbacks and tapers in the building design - still make it appear to converge toward the top).

Pittsburgh's 42 story "Cathedral of Learning" houses offices and classrooms for the University of Pittsburgh. Completed in 1937, it took 11 years to construct. It remains the tallest academic building in the US.

The lobby is also gorgeous, and worth a visit.

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

Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the learning, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495

#photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

redesign!! anh(v7)

https://anhvn.com

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

Patron saint of insecure JavaScript

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

This is neat:

https://oklch.com/

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

I don't like the way #Siri says "Puerto Ricans"

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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Top 10 Most Educated OECD Countries in 2024 (% of adults aged 25-64 with tertiary education)

1. 🇨🇦 Canada - 63.3%

2. 🇯🇵 Japan - 56%

3. 🇮🇪 Ireland - 55.3%

4. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 54.5%

5. 🇦🇺 Australia - 51.4%

6. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 51.3%

7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 51.3%

8. 🇮🇱 Israel - 50.3%

9. 🇺🇸 United States - 50%

10.🇳🇴 Norway - 48.1%

Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2024

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

The politicians who visited the FL immigrant concentration camp and then made a big deal about the design of the integrated sink/toilets have apparently never been to a jail or prison where these are common. Standard piece of equipment available from many suppliers, designed to prevent vandalism and self harm. Is it gross to have your sink over your toilet? Yes it is. But this isn't a new thing.

The problem is that we have concentration camps, we are providing no due process of law, we have a private prison industry capable of building a concentration camp in the middle of nowhere in a week, and the likelihood that many politicians are invested in these companies and benefit from their lobbying and donations. I guess if it takes the design of a toilet to get people upset then by all means roll out that talking point but it's really just surface detail.
#fascism #DueProcess #immigration #ConcentrationCamps

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Miami Herald - Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the US are being held at Alligator Alcatraz. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310541810.html#storylink=cpy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HumanServitor ("Daniel Detlaf") wrote:

@DrALJONES @palestine

"Population transfer" doesn't have the ring of a euphemism for something horrible or anything. Not at all. 😐

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

I must admit that I did not see coming this immense blow-up within MAGA relating to Epstein. In retrospect, it makes sense, but claiming 20/20 hindsight isn't worth any prediction points. However, it is extremely telling in all sorts of important ways.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie ("Simon McGarr") wrote:

New Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail

On Bluesky's introduction of age verification, selling us to the Fortnite guys, and how the arrogance of Ireland's regulator has seen it deliver the very outcomes it once called "bonkers".

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age-verification-is-an-epic-fail/

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

Anti-immigration sentiment is a loser political issue. So fight it, Democrats!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/13/why-are-we-persecuting-immigrants-in-our-democratic-society/

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

As someone who studied modern history and lives in Germany while being Dutch, with a family history of resistance during WW2, make no mistake. The money Trump feeds to ICE means that he is creating the US version of the German Nazi SA, also known as #BrownShirts. Today they go after supposed illegal immigrants, tomorrow they will go after anyone who doesn’t fit to whatever weird version of supremacy The Leader wants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:

General reminder:

The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.

Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.

You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.

Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.

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

die, fscking scriptkiddie, die die die

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Ukraine says it has killed two agents behind assassination of its intelligence officer

#IntelligenceOfficer #Accused #Kyiv #Ukraine #Shooting

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3r7p117l0o

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
csantosb@sigmoid.social ("Cayetano Santos") wrote:

#Guix for #fpga talk accepted during upcoming #orconf 2025.

https://fossi-foundation.org/orconf/2025#guix-for-fpgas