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

How broken is today's frontend culture?

@fugueish points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the P75 page is larger than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:

https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NorcalGma2@sfba.social ("Norcal Gma 2") wrote:

Summer has opinions.
Usually we agree.
Thank goodness.
Today she was helping me get dressed after a shower. I don't always get this level of attention but she helps her pal everyday. He keeps a basket of clean socks just so she can fetch a pair for him. She has skills and loves to help so it works.
Picking out the right t-shirt for me to wear is another important job.
Summer thinks about it for a minute and makes a choice. She doesn't even mess up the ones she leaves behind.
Helping her fulfill her need to be needed brings us all joy.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
aubilenon@peoplemaking.games ("Jesse Morris") wrote:

I knew you could launch sublime text from the command line with "subl" but today it occurred to me to try redirecting output into that, and OMG that works too! That will save me a lot of temp files!

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

I stopped watching Stranger Things like ten years ago and I'm only 2 seasons behind

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

Making strides in moving from Day One to Emacs's org-journal. This is not actually an easy transition if you have over 600 Day One entries that you'd like to convert. (Which I've done, sort of, albeit just as one huge honking file for the moment.)

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dansup wrote:

Dropbox is that ex who still thinks you're together.

"You've hit your storage limit"

Babe, we broke up in 2014. I've moved on. You should too.

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alexwinter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Alex Winter") wrote:

All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.

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alexwinter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Alex Winter") wrote:

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3m6cepyfa7c2v

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

In a better timeline, ARC became the standard and Thom Henderson is still remembered as one of the greats.

In ours, the SEA v PKWARE drama won out and we're now using ZIP files. Proof that the real compression algorithm was capitalism all along.

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

Shocked, shocked I am to discover the loudest right-wing voices on the former Twitter are bot accounts from outside the United States

RE: https://www.threads.com/@phil.lewis/post/DRZvxURDm7e

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
distractal@hachyderm.io ("Erik Johnson") wrote:

@fromjason I still can't believe that Dems still can't figure this out.

It's so fucking plainly obvious, people tell them exactly what the problem is, it feels like a huge chunk of democrats are really not even democrats, they are just pro-capitalist and throw the working class a bone now and again. Anything that keeps their idea of "compassionate capitalism" alive.

Just saw that some ̶3̶0̶-̶4̶0̶ 86 house democrats voted to denounce "socialism."

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/21/congress/house-denounces-horrors-of-socialism-00664412

This party is not at all ready for 2026.

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

It's Sunday, here, have a cat.

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

A lot of #liberals are celebrating but completely lost on them that so much of the egregious shit coming from the #MAGA movement is foreign influence.

I'm *not* saying MAGA are the good guys here, but maybe, just maybe, there are more poor people who were simply desperate for change so they voted for the only guy offering it (even though it was a lie), than we want to believe

Because if that's true, then #Democrats really fucked up with the "we're not Trump" strategy

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

you're **not actually having a back-and-forth conversation** you are feeding **the entire chat** into the model each time you prompt it, and the model just plays along by finishing the last bit. that's why it's called a chat completion model.

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

that's not how LLMs work. they are stateless. their "minds" are born fresh and new in this world with each prompt and cease to exist as soon as they stop generating. they don't think because they don't "exist" in the sense that a being with a brain that functions over time exists. Sam Altman wants people to **think** the LLM is "out there" somewhere, waiting to hear from you. it's a lie.

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SHODAN@mas.to ("SHODAN :nonbinary:") wrote:

@pluralistic I will never forgive the Lib Dem/Tory coalition parties who agreed to privatise our national postal service. This is all on them.

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

Real life targeted ads are diabolical

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Wrote about what kept me busy for the past few weeks, gratuitously overanalyzing grocery shopping.

https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/11/23/pet-project-restart/

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

got that? swastikas & nooses are just fine to this administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/coast-guard-hate-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

@henrisimons encoding_rs needs some maintainer attention

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

“By rewarding Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine based on his obsession with making it part of Mother Russia, the U.S. will be putting the whole European Union under Putin’s thumb. Trump’s message to our allies will be clear: Don’t provoke Putin, because as long as I am commander in chief, the United States will pay no price and we will bear no burden in the defense of your freedom.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/opinion/ukraine-russia-negotiations-trump-deal.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.3U8.LhEX.cR30%5FQo2lyAW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Savannah, I’m here. Made great time. Stopped to pee only once. I have the whole day to get into trouble.

First stop, the coffee shop across from the Savannah Theatre. Hope to get some writing done while I munch on this blueberry scone. All of this is my happy place—vibes, sweets, prose, I love it. https://galleryespresso.com/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So Safari on the iPad randomly and unpredictably reorders all its tabs and I can’t figure out when or why it does it. It’s incredibly annoying

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

Not every nurse is Ratched.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/23/republicans-must-hate-nurses/

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DarthPutinKGB@mastodon.world ("Darth Putin") wrote:

OTD in 2006 Alexander Litvinenko died from complications of saying Vladimir Putin is a corrupt peadophile ☕️ 🍣

One of the witnesses at the inquest later 'committed suicide by stabbing himself several times'

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JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop ("Juliet E McKenna") wrote:

UK folk, please vote in local elections whenever possible. Hereabouts, a Tory (formerly UKIP) County Councillor, elected with a 19 vote majority on a 42.7% turn-out, has been sharing quotes from Enoch Powell on social media, seemingly as valid points for discussion.

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

an incredible resource for studying the spread of tech as well

https://mastodon.scot/@tompearce49/115593695964514767

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tompearce49@mastodon.scot ("Just Tom...") wrote:

"All roads lead to Rome"? - well, according to this, they didn't even in the heyday of the Roman Empire... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z

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

An entire family of falcons watches from their house, keeping tabs on all who pass by.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen%5Fimages/ucg/1animals/falcons-family-photography.htm

#photography #birds #wildlife #falcons

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

“It is generally not a good idea, career-wise, to refuse illegal orders. It’s a better idea to find a way around them... But sometimes you don’t have a choice… a superior officer told me to stop signing up members of my platoon who had families for food stamps. It was legal for soldiers to receive food stamps. They qualified because of their very low pay, which put many of them below the federal poverty line. I refused that order”

https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/the-bill-of-rights-for-soldiers