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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@joeri_s Some attribution is possible from HTTP Archive data (which tries to tag constituent libraries), but this is all confounded now because many 3p libraries and widgets pull in full copies, e.g., of React. It's *bad* out there.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
The best cruise ever. You should totally be on it.
(Source: Me, who is on it every year and DJs a nerd prom)
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
An entertaining day at the backyard. First, a very busy and dedicated squirrel was gathering nuts from around the area and storing them in a hole right outside my window. It's been at it for several hours! And then a raccoon came dug out the hole and ate all the nuts. All in ~10 minutes. A great show and a lesson to not apply the notion of humanity and fairness to wild nature.
(Being a weak, emotional human, I did throw some more nuts for the squirrel after the raccoon went away.)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Inspired by perfnow.nl, I've dusted off drafts of my network and device situation analysis. Good news/bad news: devices and networks are improving, but web page payloads are swelling.
The result is predictable: the web is usable for the wealthy, but less so for everyone else. This is an ethical crisis for frontend:
https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v4.0.0-alpha.4") wrote:
There is an active npm security event: https://socket.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-v2
At time of writing, Eleventy core and our official suite of plugins are unaffected.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Winter Sun and Cat in Chair
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Reposting for the writers who, sensibly, were nowhere near the Internet this last weekend
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
dismissed “without prejudice”, so DoJ can indeed try again
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Incompetence strikes again
Judge dismisses James Comey and Letitia James cases, finding prosecutor's appointment invalid - CBS News https://share.google/VR7Zc7fG6RxNFYXiU
Mastodon Feed"Le sigh."
Missed opportunity for GitLab, really. Federated git services would actually make me switch in a heartbeat.
https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/260#note%5F2910231358
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"Is the Union still massively against slavery or has it moved more towards acceptance?"
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
the big problem with that Adversarial Poetry versus AI paper is that they did half the work with chatbots and not humans.
they translated prompts into poems using chatbots.
then they judged how well the poems jailbroke the chatbots using other chatbots to do the judging?!
Looking over the work, I can see no reason it requires chatbots to do these jobs. This was gratuitous, lazy and should be a discredit to these researchers.
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nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:
I made my Luddite Inside sticker design into a t-shirt. Right now I have the only product on Cotton Bureau if you search "Luddite"
Mastodon Feedjoeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:
@slightlyoff
I wonder what the mix of technologies looks like over time. Are these pages growing because they’re jQuery sites being replaced by React, or because they’re React sites upgrading to newer heavier dependency versions? I would like to see a breakdown of page weight by technology stack.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
in the face of multiple civil wars raging in Sudan, we do this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/trump-somali-tps-protected-minnesota.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.3k8.OvqZ.6Jw5ySFjmTl6&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
20002ist@thepit.social ("Live, Laugh, Punch More Nazis") wrote:
“Someone left the cake out in the rain …”
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
#Karnivool - We Are
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Christians, do better. Your arguments are pathetic non-arguments.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/24/theological-wisdom-makes-me-roll-my-eyes/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
We have a mailing list that we put on our blog whenever we announce some new merch is being worked on. Roughly half of the plushies have been sold before we posted about it on #Mastodon, just from that mailing list (and people checking the shop manually, I guess). And those new sticker sheets got sold out fully (but are being restocked, hopefully within the week).
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
You may have seen it over on @Mastodon, but in case not: The new plushies are now live on the shop, alongside restocked and new mugs. Shipping to EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, and the US. We decided to allow orders from the US, but shipping is what it is (from Germany).
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
No declines in insect populations? I have doubts about that.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/24/are-insect-populations-declining-or-not/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:
Holy shit!
I don’t usually get a fire in the belly feeling from most politicians, but hearing Shapiro rip on Vance for a couple minutes here is the gas we need right now.
Starting about 30 seconds in.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:
Soaring #electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs nationwide, leaving more Americans in the dark as unpaid #bills pile up. Although there is no national count of electricity shutoffs, data from select utilities in 11 states show that disconnections have risen in at least 8 of them since last year, acc/to figures compiled by WaPo & the National #Energy Assistance Directors Association (#NEADA).
#economy #affordability #Trump #inflation
https://wapo.st/3Xb0mXI
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide #israel #BigTech https://mastodon.social/@daliarezk/115605152758308344
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:
“Service termination remains a last resort,” he said.
Still, the utility has reported 111,000 residential power shutoffs so far this year, up from 30,000 in all of 2024.…A majority of Americans — 6 in 10 — say they are spending more on #utilities than they were a year ago, & they blame #Trump for the rising #prices, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted in late October.
#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #electricity #inflation #recession #trumpcession
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
easytarget@social.makerforums.info ("Owen") wrote:
Well, that was quick.. #arduino bans reverse engineering its products. And seizes all your data.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/adafruit%5Fmakers%5Funhappy%5Fwith%5Farduino/Very fast #enshittification from #qualcomm there.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
absolutely crawling towards the finish line this year! 😮💨
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:
Linux is an operating system on which you need to type cryptic commands to make it do what you want.
Windows is an operating system on which you need to type cryptic commands to make it not do what you don’t want.
MacOS is an operating system that makes what Apple want, no matter what cryptic commands you type.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
BrynnLee27@tech.lgbt ("Brynn Lowden 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
I'm trying to stay off of Facebook because I keep getting depressed by all of the transphobic shit. For my own mental health, I really need to limit the amount of harmful content that I consume from the Internet on a daily basis. I could really use some solid follow recommendations. I'm looking for cool queer people, blind people, nerdy/geeky people, and just plain good people. If you have a follow recommendation… for my sake please share!