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jwz wrote:

Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.

That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.

Mozilla is cooked.

https://jwz.org/b/yk2n

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

everything else is syntactic sugar, really.

[end_prof_rant]

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

iteration:

leading test

(BEGIN)
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while (condition)
do this
|
(END)

----------

trailing test

(BEGIN)
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do this
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until (condition)
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(END)

Boosted by jwz:
sysadmin1138@ngmx.com ("SysAdmin1138") wrote:

For your vicarious tech-crash enjoyment, Microsoft is down 11% in trading this morning after earnings yesterday drew a bold underline around how much they're exposed to OpenAI.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
koutropoulos@social.ds106.us ("Apostolos K.") wrote:

😂🧅Man Unrecognizable After Full 8 Hours Of Sleep https://theonion.com/man-unrecognizable-after-full-8-hours-of-sleep/

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

selection:

typically expressed as

(BEGIN)
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if (condition) do this
else do that
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(END)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xs4me2 wrote:

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/palestinian-journalist-bisan-owda-with-1-4m-followers-reports-tiktok-ban

It illustrates exactly why commercial platform like this should be avoided. Biased and undemocratic.

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Meanwhile, Schumer’s much-touted list of demands is (oh, shocker) pathetic weak sauce: “a prohibition on [ICE] wearing masks, the imposition of a code of conduct and independent investigations of violations.”

…which, like…

(1) Sure, that would be nice — comically insufficient, but nice

(2) DHS already ignore the very clear laws that are on the books; why on earth do you think it would help to have more rules for them to ignore?

(3) ICE+CBP right now are basically the KKK except with a budget the size of Russia’s military. Decimate that budget or GTFO.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/senate-democrats-deal-dhs-funding-bill

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

sequence:

(BEGIN)
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do this
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do that
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(END)

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

If you are a US voter, your Senator could perhaps stand to hear — again — that Schumer’s list is insufficient and abolishing ICE now has majority support.

Very soon the electoral stuff will become completely useless again, but for a hot minute here, until this budget fight ends and Schumer caves, those calls do help.

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

algorithms are made by stringing control structures together. there are really only three types of control structure: sequence, selection, and iteration.

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

data structures are just ways to organize stuff, like a list of ingredients at the beginning of a recipe for a chocolate cake. algorithms are just step by step instructions to do stuff, like turn those ingredients into a chocolate cake.

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

[begin_prof_rant]

in the end, all programs are simply data structures and algorithms to do sh*t.

jwz wrote:

Do you have experience implementing recurring payments using authorize.net? Specifically, I'm interested in gotchas with replaying CIM tokens; best practices for retrying declines; expired cards, etc. Email me.

IMPORTANT: If you have never created a "createCustomerProfileFromTransactionRequest" XML node, this question is NOT FOR YOU.

I'm not soliciting advice about what third party intermediary company I should pay rent to, and I don't ever want to hear the word Stripe.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2l

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

in programming, I have learned as a general Rule Of Thumb to prefer >= and <= as the safest way to do selection and iteration tests. [warning: minorly long thread a'coming)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@STPo/115977879479030822

Excusez-moi?! I'm still on Mastodon, still working on Mastodon--I love it here. Seems like the journalist has now removed the paragraph from the article, but has not published a retraction, and the false statement is still in the audio version. Where did they get this idea from?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blotosmetek@circumstances.run ("Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

Unsolicited Programming Suggestion (UPS)¹:
When you code a condition for executing some action every N days, think what should happen if your system is down at the time of scheduled execution. For example, this #Python example code:

if current_day == previous_day + N:
   action()
   previous_day = current_day

will fail miserably – your action will not happen ever again. Replacing == with >= will solve the problem – assuming you want your action to be executed as soon as possible if the scheduled time was missed. If, however, your preferred solution is to skip the missed event altogether, but execute the next event at correct time, the % (modulo) operator is your friend:

if current_day % N == 0:
   action()

Of course, this holds for intervals expressed in any units, not just days, you just need to calculate your current_whatever accordingly – for example, current_hour = int(time.time()) // 3600 or current_week = int(time.time()) // (7*24*3600) .

Now you may ask "What about cron, isn't it its role to handle such things?"
Well, yes, but cron doesn't allow you to specify, for example, "every other week", and if you think this crontab entry: 0 12 */9 * * something will run something at noon every 9th day, you're in for a surprise, and you haven't read man 5 crontab carefully – at least on Debian it says:

# Run once every 9th day, even across week, month, and year boundaries:
33 22 * * *     expr $(date +\%s) / 60 / 60 / 24 \% 9 > /dev/null || echo Wax the floor.

Yes, this is what is needed to have your action actually performed on every 9th day rather than on 9th, 18th and 27th day of every month.

¹ I'll probably be posting more such #UPS based on my own or my coworkers' real life experiences…

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

As annoyed as I am with the incomprehensible fawning of celebrities like Dean Cain and Nicki Minaj, I am bothered slightly more by the absence of criticism from so-called Libertarians like Kurt Russel and Woody Harrelson.

#USPol

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

Found mixtapes published to the web. Berlin (1994) is my personal favorite. Give it a listen, let me know if any spoke to you.

h/t @kottke

https://intertapes.net/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
khleedril@cyberplace.social ("Khleedril") wrote:

Had a lot of fun building this card enterprise.

https://khleedril.org/blog/2012-11--card-enterprise.html

#startrek #indieweb

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
springdiesel@spore.social ("Coach Spore Diesel") wrote:

It's annoying me that I can't find that quote from One Battle After Another where the member of the Christmas Adventurers Club says that the bounty hunter is probably Comanche, but he's definitely not home-grown.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mconley@fosstodon.org ("Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️") wrote:

Some good lunchtime viewing:

https://youtu.be/Ru4aqzjvplw?si=%5F5mH5Acx9PX0H%5FwO

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

Slopaganda

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZhiZhu@newsie.social ("Zhi Zhu 🕸️") wrote:

@aaron.rupar

"Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison.

The Nazis were willing to show their faces."
-Stephen Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5B7xrontY (at 4:34)

#ICE #ICEOut #CBP #DHS #FuckICE #Protest #Resist #Fascism #Trump #Nazis #Politics #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

News abounds of Schumer making a deal to fund ICE in exchange for... promises.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

Museum curator, 77, learns Gen Z slang and goes viral: ‘Honestly, she ate’.
The National Gallery of Art’s deputy head of sculpture stepped behind a 16th-century urn and began to describe it to the camera
https://archive.ph/sMEkR #globalmuseum #museums #GenZ #art

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AltAltNPS@noc.social ("Alt Alt National Park Service") wrote:

Thank you to everyone for making calls. The Senate voted 55–45 to block the spending package.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3mdld3nf3w22p
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From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc
500+ char posts not resent
Unaffiliated w/ AltNPS
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump

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

The only "negotiating" position from Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the Democrats should be: Get the fuck out out, murderers.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mralancooper@hachyderm.io ("MrAlanCooper") wrote:

"now that we're living with the tariffs we were promised we could avoid by passing an anti-circumvention law, why don't we get rid of that law? There is so much money waiting for us if we go into business disenshittifying America's defective tech products."--@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social wrote:

#Oglala President Bans #ICE and U.S. Border Patrol from #OglalaLakota Nation, #PineRidge, South Dakota

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 28, 2026

"Oglala Lakota President #FrankStarComesOut issued a Presidential Proclamation today banning both ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol from the Oglala Lakota Nation. The #OglalaSioux Tribal Council banned ICE, and rejected an agreement to work with immigration officials, on January 21.

"President Star Comes Out points out in the Proclamation today that the U.S. Border Patrol is working with ICE in its 'unlawful conduct against Native people in #Minneapolis' -- which is within the Aboriginal Territory of the Great Sioux Nation.

"Calling it 'egregious conduct,' the President's Proclamation states that ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are targeting minorities throughout the United States, and Native people are being detained and injured, in violation of Treaties and civil rights."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/oglala-president-bans-ice-and-us-border.html

#USPol #NativeAmericanNews
#ReaderSupportedNews #ICEOut #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NativeAmericansAreAmericans