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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

A hero's obituary: https://archive.is/TZ2Hs

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

Back alley. Some designers decided to make a boring short alley a little more interesting. Nobody actually runs there (from what I saw), but it's funny :-)

#darktable

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Whoops! I told myself I'd worry about app pricing later when I set-up SKRIBBLOR on the Play store, and now it's in production and you can't change free apps into paid apps, so... I guess SKRIBBLOR is just a free app, now!

(I was considering doing that anyway, and setting-up a Patreon that people can join, or sticking a one-time donation link in the app, or whatever.)

THANK YOU to those of you who joined the closed testing program and gave feedback!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.alph.skribblor

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sir%5Fpepe/115923413113414435

This article provides the perfect view into React brain worms:

Instead of a native HTML input radio element

It’s somehow easier to import hundreds of lines of code, and implement a faux radio button (that’s actually a button with svg to LOOK LIKE A RADIO), and ARIA rules (to WORK LIKE A RADIO)

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

I want to say I wrote The Computational Web... almost a year ago, though the final draft is different than the original.

I was *really* into learning the history of the web. I realized that each iteration of the web starts with a promise and ends with a power grab.

The idea that big tech's end game is to kill local compute has been rattling in my brain for years. The Computational Web is just an attempt to contextualize it.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

I wrote Slop Is Everywhere... about six months ago while eating sushi with my sister. We had a long talk about why wasabi is secretly just horseradish and why so many foods we love are actually fillers.

That night while scrolling YouTube shorts I saw an AI generated video, it hit me: oh no this is fake wasabi. lol we're over consuming our FYPs!

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/

Boosted by jwz:
exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

pigeon

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mcc wrote:

Sometimes people on the Internet are talking about a politics thing and are like "this isn't my first rodeo!" and inwardly I am thinking "you have never been to a rodeo"

jwz wrote:

WP remember me.

Dear Lazyweb, as of recently the "remember me" checkbox on my /wp-admin/ login page is not clickable on iOS. It un-checks itself as soon as you click it. This does not happen on desktop. Any ideas?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2J

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

cool, so there's a whole new github dork people can do: claude chatlogs.

they live in .claude/logs/ and are full text records of peoples entire conversations with claude

and they're ending up in public on github because i guess people arent adding them to .gitignore

happy monday! ai is going great!

jwz wrote:

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

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

It has to be obvious to everyone by now that Trump is a mentally ill child, and it is well past time to evict him from office.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/19/trump-doesnt-get-a-consolation-prize/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

@quillmatiq I agree about that, and I'm all for telling people about fedi's advantages. I'm not making an argument against bridging in general, just a meta point about this specific argument in favor of bridging isn't a strong one.

Our debate is only over whether doing that from a bridged fedi account is in general an effective approach. Advocates of federating with Threads repeatedly claimed that the ability to do this would increase usage here ... but in the aggregate, it hasn't. Even though it's not a controlled experiment, it's a very strong data point.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
trwnh ("infinite love ⴳ") wrote:

@jdp23 @fancysandwiches @quillmatiq also, there are better strategies for getting people to move. you can make a separate bluesky account to advocate directly. you can host your own site and link to it elsewhere. why create free value which disincentivizes anyone from ever making a change? "why go to where the content is, when the content will come to me?"

people want better experiences and good people. bridging/federation/syndication isn't universally positive. reach can be bad if it harms you

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:

Yeah , this argument was tested with Threads and it didn’t work. “We don’t engage with fascists” is potentially a compelling position to people who don’t want to engage with fascists. “We’re engaging with a fascist server to tell people we’re better because we don’t engage with fascists” is not - and it throws away what’s potentially one of the stronger arguments for fedi

@fancysandwiches @quillmatiq

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

@quillmatiq this is such an absurd take. No one on Blue Sky actually wants a person from Mastodon (or elsewhere) to come preach to them about why Blue Sky is bad and why their platform of choice is better. Not a single person will be convinced this way. Stop encouraging people to be debate bros.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to opt out of federating with Blue Sky, stop acting like it's a moral obligation.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
SwanseaBayNews@toot.wales ("Swansea Bay News") wrote:

New Welsh movement aims to reclaim the social web with ‘pethau bychain’ digital campaign

A Welsh‑built social network is launching a new movement to reclaim the internet from global tech giants, urging people across Wales to take back control of how they connect online.

https://swanseabaynews.com/new-welsh-movement-aims-to-reclaim-the-social-web-with-pethau-bychain-digital-campaign/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:

#Winter #FruitTrees #Pruning Apprentice Workshop. At #WellandCommunityOrchard 😀

#LifecyclesProjectSociety #FruitTrees #CommunityOrchard #Nonprofit

Boosted by jwz:
JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Make People Happy*
Caveat Frog

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Based on this metric my personal opinion is that OpenSSL is the way it is because (waves hands), not because of the NSA

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
cocoaphony ("Rob Napier") wrote:

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

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

It's funny, I made fromjason.xyz to 1. Get away from corporate platforms. And 2. To write more. Writing was my 2023 resolution.

I think me from three years ago would be super happy that me today writes every morning without fail. And he would also be confused as to why I have like fifteen essays in the chamber and not published.

2026 is about publishing my work even if I don't think it's "perfect". So far so good! I have two essays out of my drafts and into my notebook.

Boosted by jwz:
jk ("josef") wrote:

every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111759677741315727

Happy "Most Dangerous Negro" day to all who celebrate!

If you survey US people and ask them if MLK Jr's assassin worked alone, or was part of a conspiracy:

* 66% of white Americans say conspiracy.
* 100% of Black Americans say conspiracy.

100%. Everyone.

Because *some* white Americans know about the group that Bill Sullivan ran, but almost all Black Americans know about it. 🤷🏿‍♂️

It's possible to study "US History" in an American school, get an A in the class, and have never even heard COINTELPRO. Because the term is not even part of the official US history curriculum.🤡

This in a country that claims to care so much about "free speech."

Boosted by jwz:
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Boosted by jwz:
Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk ("Steven Heywood") wrote:

Fun fact.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115922510414596115

If you’ve never read one of Jason’s essays, you’re missing out.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason Every single part of this. Yes.

> We'll see a mainstream politician and/or tech elite call for outlawing local computing. This is big tech's end goal—position AI (LLM, agentic, or whatever buzzword of the time) as critical infrastructure needed to run our software, leverage fear tactics into regulatory capture, then, the long game is to work towards a cloud-tethered world where local compute is a thing of the past. Thin clients with a hefty egress invoice each month. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta (GAMM) will become the Comcast of computational power.

The artificial scarcity of DRAM and skyrocketing hardware prices are serving this goal too; especially since this whole thing is Scam Altman’s doing. I was being facetious when I first started saying that we are seeing the end of affordable, powerful home computing, but I fear that this is becoming truer every day.

Web-based document editing, cloud file storage, and media streaming have made this the case for a number of years already for the vast majority of people’s use cases. The advent and (alarmingly quick and quiet) acceptance of usable, cloud-based game streaming is a terrifying sign of what’s to come. Why would you spend $1200+ on a gaming PC when you can stream one from the cloud for just a few bucks per month? AI is just the natural progression of this, particularly the forced usage and fear-mongering.

The “cloud-native” craze may be turning around, but I think we’re are so used to cloud-based tools that we won’t know what we’ve lost until it’s truly too late.

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

I mean, take a look at this:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/gpio-madness/#comments

(sorry @jwz)

All the suggestions are things you can try that make the problem go away. There's no "this is the issue, here is why it occurs and what you can do about it."

There's no comprehension.

Someone who doesn't read is no better off than somebody who can't. So how is a person who doesn't want to understand a problem before making suggestions any more useful than a machine that can't understand anything before making suggestions?