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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

In my 19 full-time professional years in this business there have been many eras in which very prominent web developers have argued “don’t worry about it” in discussions of web performance and time has *never* proven those arguments to have merit, even with continually improving network connections and hardware.

The web is diverse. Let’s keep it that way!

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
considermycat@eldritch.cafe ("Jae") wrote:

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

Newsweek’s infamous 17 July 1995 cover: “Bisexuality: Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.”

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason I only learned of 11ty this week. Looks interesting!

But isn't it all about static site generation? Are you thinking of trying to add a traditional (heavy, browser-based) CMS atop that? Or something that just helps manage the source files (like what Bob linked to)?

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

You didn't really believe you could get anything useful out of the internet, did you? Thanks, Google.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/17/ai-slop-is-now-in-charge/

Shrimp Jesus

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

I was thinking of building a CMS for #11ty. Any recommendations? Point me in a good direction?

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

Clipse is firmly centered in what has been a Black art renaissance, of which I feel lucky to be alive to witness.

#ChainsAndWhips is cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIH-4RbbOk

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

https://eldritch.cafe/@considermycat/114867574582006049

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#RIP Singer Connie Francis, best known for her 1962 hit “Pretty Little Baby” and the 1961 song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” has died at the age of 87, her manager confirmed.

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/401774?load=1

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

Screenshot of the scam message, it says "Your account is currently suspended for verification purposes, action required, please proceed with the verification using the link below." followed by a link to a dubious website. This image has been overlaid with a red X and the caption "Fake, do not click!"

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive. #Media https://werd.io/senate-votes-to-strip-1-1-billion-from-public-broadcasting-in-blow-to-pbs-and-npr/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Shameful

Via Kyle Griffin:

At 2:30 a.m., the Senate passed Trump's cancellation of $9 billion in federal funding for PBS, NPR and critical foreign aid programs.

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted with all Democrats against the bill.

The package now goes back to the House for final passage.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CheRosach@mastodonapp.uk wrote:

It is easier to film than to do something

Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
donray@mastodon.online ("Don Ray") wrote:

#prairie #Iowa

Here’s my webpage about the Hillside Prairie. It’s a prairie planting (after decades of row-crop farming); but once I started managing it like a prairie, a natural process of restoration occurred, with other prairie natives showing up.
https://dray30yearfarm.webnode.page/hillside-prairie/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

If you run a large Mastodon instance, and have upgraded to 4.4, please turn on referer headers.

It is *so* important for the health of the Fediverse.

At the moment I have 4x the followers on Mastodon as I do on BlueSky - but my blog's stats don't show that. In fact, they show the opposite!

Yes, it is privacy preserving. Yes, it makes a difference to publishers. Yes, it will show how vibrant an ecosystem we have.

Referrers	Visitors	Page Views news.ycombinator.com	113,328	121,409 google.com	58,106	64,850 go.bsky.app	7,858	8,802 hackaday.com	5,877	6,446 duckduckgo.com	5,281	5,956 reddit.com	4,987	5,519 hckrnews.com	3,130	3,322 mastodon.social	2,255	2,689 yandex.ru	2,006	2,096 bing.com	1,642	1,853 facebook.com	1,503	1,797

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

seekrit recording of MAGA budget mtg https://youtu.be/jSrPlf4GBHc?si=VkOZZnG6gZdocUAj

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

omg.lol is an inclusive community of people who love the web. If you’re black or brown, disabled, homeless, LGBTQ+, a senior citizen, or a member of *any* marginalized group (there are too many to name), you are welcome here. We’re a wonderful little group, but we’d be even more wonderful with *you*. :prami_hearts_red:

If you can’t afford a membership, that’s not a problem. Our generous community has you covered!

https://home.omg.lol/info/sponsorships

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

I know Samsung's Bixby was always an also-ran, but after spending 5 years working on its documentation, I'm a little sad it's effectively dead. (No announcements, but the web site has remained unchanged since 2023.) It was ahead of its time in ways I don't think most people ever actually noticed.

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

No, Ken, Nathaniel Jeanson's bad science will not help you overturn Edwards v. Aguillard. A corrupt Supreme Court might do that for you anyway.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/17/lying-about-native-american-history-to-benefit-creationism/

Nathaniel Jeanson

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

Got my Jellyfin setup working last night. Really cool piece of software. Now I'm just tempted to get a home media server set up, rather than just running it off my PC.

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

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

r/technology  Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W... 4.3k upvotes + 442 comments | recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:neocat_floof_catmode:​​:cat_attack:​

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

🆕 blog! “We've got to stop sending files to each other”

Another day, another data breach.

the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.

ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach

Why are people still sending files to each other? I …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/weve-got-to-stop-sending-files-to-each-other/

#rant #skeuomorph #ux

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Using a stranger’s pre-sliced 3D model is peak trust.

Same energy as: "Yeah, I met this guy on Craigslist. He says it’s fine."

#3dprinting

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Humankind: advanced enough to land robots on Mars.
Also humankind: a bunch of idiots who need bottle caps fused to their bottles.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

Two astronauts over breakfast

1: I can’t find milk for my coffee

2: in space, no one can. Here, use cream

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:

Stop Killing Frameworks and Languages, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://archive.fo/E4572

#programming #java #python #django #flutter

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Boosted by jwz:
attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

How i turned a kid's toy from 1989 into a punch card driven computing platform:

https://youtu.be/XewX68F0JDg

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@box464 Some advice for the over-domained.

https://evanp.me/2024/11/16/how-to-register-just-enough-domains/

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
PaperG@photog.social ("Lars Fiedler :darktable:") wrote:

@isagalaev
AgX is a tone mapper that origins from Blender
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/19026

There is an ongoing discussion at pixels.us
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/blender-agx-in-darktable-proof-of-concept/48697

capture sharpening is an enhancement to demosaicing the sensor data
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/18909
@darktable

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

Are you an alumnus of the 2007 California TTBR or Ohio EVEREST voting systems study who will be at DEFCON? Please get in touch!