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

When I started the omglol interview series on my blog I wondered what I’d do if someone I interviewed left the omglol community and decided on “not much of anything” because the people in the community are open, welcoming, inclusive and sincerely worth knowing. Some links might go stale but I generally landed on “let it ride” so people can get to know some cool folks.

I am though going against that personal policy and unpublishing the second interview I did. To sum it up briefly, that individual heavily based (as in copied code) their personal site on another omg.lol members site. They got permission as the other member released it on a creative commons, attribution required, license. When that original developer tragically passed, the interviewee removed the attribution. When pressed about it, they refused (or "joked" about refusing while simultaneously not adding it back) to add it back because that person had passed away. That’s where it started. This refusal to follow the license agreement became a code of conduct violation.

These sorts of things matter. It would have mattered just as much if that original developer *hadn’t* been in the omglol community. There are many ways to maintain safety and security in a community; one of them is to make sure that people aren’t taking the work of others without accountability.

If you think that’s too far, fair enough. The beauty of a federated web is there are probably lots of places you can find to call home on it. I for one though don’t think it's to far and don’t really want to promote that sort of behavior so have removed the interview.

Anyways - go read some great interviews on my website if you want! I hope to get another round of 3 going soon!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Open Source to the rescue:

brew install --cask alt-tab

Honestly, everything on macOS feels like an ugly workaround.

Want to tab-cycle through all open windows? Need an app for that.

Want different scroll directions for trackpad and mouse wheel? Need an app for that.

Want to resize windows with mouse and keyboard shortcut? Need an app for that.

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
mhoye wrote:

"I’ve invested in a new odometer that will help my car go faster. Accountability is important, and as a driver, I believe in setting measurable, achievable and inspiring goals for the people pushing my car down the road."

I'm not sure what to say to people who don't quite realize they sound like this.

Look, I still think we can solve real problems. But we have to start by pointing at the real problems.

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

There are also ventilation structures for the various railroad and subway tunnels that cross the NYC rivers, but their smaller size makes them less prominent. (The electric trains that use these tunnels don't produce exhaust that has to be as aggressively vented as in an automotive tunnel).

Let me just mention that photographing buildings from across the major avenues during the day in midtown Manhattan is like playing a video game in "extreme hardcore" mode.

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

Manhattan boasts six large ventilation towers serving the four automobile tunnels that cross the Hudson and East Rivers: two each for the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and one each for the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels.

All sport an industrial art deco design reflecting their early/mid 20th century construction. Their large scale and lack of windows lends them an air of mystery; the exterior of the Battery Tunnel building was used as the secret HQ in the Men in Black films.

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

The Lincoln Tunnel, opened in 1937, is a multi-tube automobile tunnel that connects midtown Manhattan with Weehawken, NJ under the Hudson (North) river. To provide fresh air and remove dangerous car exhaust, three ventilation towers (two in Manhattan and one in NJ) exchange the air in the tunnels approximately every 90 seconds.

Infrastructure is heroic.

I didn't notice the "Camera Use Prohibited" sign until it was too late. I guess their secret is out now.

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

Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 32mm/4.0 lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 64), Cambo WRS 1250 camera, shifted vertically -5mm, horizontally -15mm. Cropped a bit.

This humble and functional, yet handsome, art deco structure is the easternmost of three ventilation towers for the Lincoln Tunnel and was completed with its first tube in 1937. The facade was refurbished about ten years ago. It also hosts a large array of cellular telephone base station antennas.

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

Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Avenue, NYC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the tolls, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54365775629

#photography

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

One of the standout bands from this year's #ArcTanGent to me was #Mew. I had no idea about them beforehand and caught them purely by accident as we were near the tent where they were playing. In the sea of post-rock, their clean vocals and distinguishable melodies clearly stood out. Sadly I learned it's their farewell tour.

Boosted by jwz:
leafygreens@meow.social ("Leafy Greens") wrote:

@denisbloodnok @EndorNim @davidgerard I saw someone on fedi say one time that the statement "people who use AI at work feel like they're more productive" and the statement "people who do cocaine at parties feel like they're more entertaining" are virtually indistinguishable

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

@cliffordheath @duncan_bayne I said what I said. Take it or leave it. I don't presume to speak for anyone else.

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

@duncan_bayne If you want to know what I look like my profile photo here is a reasonable likeness.

I'm sharing my own personal experience. Sorry if that doesn't meet your expectations.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's nice that the big news today was about two people getting engaged.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
alecaddd ("Aleca") wrote:

It really sucks that culturally we're wired to only give feedback to developers or projects when things are broken.

A product with 15M users gets 100 complaints and only 1 nice "good job" message per month.

It's really demoralizing that we accepted the fact that "if you don't hear from them it means things are good".

People need positive reinforcement and to know that folks are happy about their work.

I understand it's fashionable to bitch about everything because hate brings views

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

All this said, while I find their (now armed) presence unsettling and dangerous, the Guard troops have been so far in my experience approachable and friendly. This is in sharp contrast to the DEA/ICE/etc federal law enforcement now patrolling around the District, who are generally masked, standoffish, and seem to be looking for trouble.

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

Interesting. On the way home, there were far fewer Guard troops around Union Station than usual, and none of the heavy vehicles (though there were several troops outside the Metro escalators), but I also noticed troops posted at several Metro stations that I'd not seen them at previously.

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

Kind of wild that this guy doesn’t understand why he’s been blocked. The person to whom he’s replying *does* have the full story; he just doesn’t know who she is, and this is how he talked to her.

It’s also interesting that he removed the required attribution within *minutes* of discovering that the person whose design he was using had died.

The whole situation is sad, but watching guys like this openly lie in an effort to gather sympathy online is just kind of pathetic.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Israel could kill Bambi on live TV and some of you fuckers would still be cheering from the sidelines. No, actually, scratch that, what am I thinking? Some of you racist pieces of shit would probably feel worse for a cartoon deer than a real-life Brown person.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

We have gone from “did Israel bomb a hospital” to “Israel says it double-tapped bombed a hospital to destroy a Hamas camera”

https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3lxcw7itrto2w

This is fucking unbelievable.

#HamasCamera #WarCrime #DoubleTap #IDF #Propaganda #Media @apnews @afpfr
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Ooooh, burn!

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

Three days later, and the CDC still hasn't resolved whatever technical issue prevented last week's update of the National Wastewater Surveillance System data. I hope it's corrected before this Friday's update. (I really hope the "technical issue" isn't an excuse for this administration to stop reporting this vital data!)

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-national-data.html

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

Make mine dark chocolate.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

@cstanhope Hah, I guess two monkeys had the same thought. I prefer your execution though :)

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

Had to dig into some scroll and memory issues last week, and cannot stress enough how much of a godsend Edge's 3D devtools view continues to be:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools/3d-view/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org ("Michelle") wrote:

Smile like
The blade
Of a knife,
Let them know
You are not
Like the others,
You won’t have
Joy taken from
You.

#poetry

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The calico foster kitten knows how to relax.

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

Update. Here's a great example of reusing older #data, this time for the original purpose. Scientists retrieved unpublished data from the 1977 "Wow!" signal captured by the #Arecibo radio telescope as part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (#SETI), reanalyzed it with modern tools, and improved our understanding of where it came from and what might have caused it.

* primary source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657

* summary
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wow-stronger-thought.html

#Reuse

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

I have come to the conclusion that while I love technology I despise corporate technology and those two things are not the same thing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
soop@wetdry.world (":spinny_cat_trans: HyperSoop :spinny_fox_trans:") wrote:

"sideloading" is digital "jaywalking". you're still just crossing the street but the corpos have made up a word to make you look bad for it

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's 2025.
Cars drive themselves.
AI writes novels.

And I still need three fingers, a prayer, and a crystal ball to cycle through windows in one macOS app.

Get your shit together Apple.