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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

Carry yourself with the confidence of a person who charges $500 to read a single paragraph.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

China’s internet is shaped by censorship and strict regulations – insulated from the rest of the world, but not completely isolated.

This is the second of three posts I’m publishing this week about China, censorship, and technology: https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web

#China #Censorship #InternetFreedom

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I've been putting this off for several years both because it's good to not buy unnecessary stuff but also because everything seems to have some huge bizarre inexplicable downside, or be mind-bogglingly expensive and depreciate at a rate of ten dollars a second. And why don't these things all have photovoltaics on their roofs yet?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I found gas for less than $6 today and felt a little thrill, which tells me that maybe it's time to get an EV. I am—obviously—not getting a Tesla, and I'd just like a reliable, regular EV that can fit a kid and a few friends. But the offerings in the US seem confusing and gimmicky. I don't want a big truck or an experimental mess full of panel gaps and slow charging. I don't want my feet nailed to the floor of some proprietary subscription HUD; I want to use CarPlay like a normal person

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116398465167508670

This argument is an abusive manipulation tactic. If you see it being made, the person making it is an abuser stoking fear to control others. Period.

They probably *also* fancy themselves the overclass, but don't concern yourself with that as much as the openly abusive behavior.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A retiree delivering DoorDash to the White House to pay for their spouses cancer would be a national embarrassment in a sane world instead of an opportunity to celebrate “no taxes on tips”

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Not even really fully out of the woods yet but the fact that I managed to get this written at all today is a good sign.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A somewhat dispiriting update for the last couple of weeks, as I have taken what amounts to some involuntary personal leave from coding, writing, and basically everything else too. https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-155475515

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Not sure what to say to someone who thinks software isn't political. It's like talking to a carpenter who thinks trees are a hoax.

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

A nice spot of good news for the day

https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-rainbow-flag-trump-lgbtq-historic-preservation-ac4ab59d3251476139700db6687828ca

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

This is how we can keep building a web worth wanting in the face of disingenuous veto players [1] and subversion of standards venues based on degraded competition [2]. The humility to admit your first idea is *probably* wrong (at least in part), combined with urgency to fix real problems for users and developers, puts a premium on responsibility in leadership. I'm proud of the team for taking that seriously.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/
[2]: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

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

In the end, this focus on developer needs dovetailed with the Blink Launch Process's prescriptive gates for launching before consensus, including:

- a strong spec (even if not yet a standard)
- good tests
- wide review (including the TAG)

These are calculated to allow other vendors to implement cheaply, without IP risk, should they change their minds later. And once again, the Project Fugu process design is working as designed; enabling Mozilla to join us without drama.

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Sal Mercogliano turns to our current “would anyone who is not blockading the Persian Gulf please raise your hand” absurdity

https://youtu.be/xddTUc14iOw

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

What does shipping responsibly mean when you're that far out ahead? A few things:

- requesting developer feedback at every stage
- making working versions available behind flags, then iterating
- asking for wide review despite disinterest by other vendors
- being honest and iterative about feedback
- shipping the "base subset", then iterating to solve follow-up problems

You can see that whole journey here:

https://chromestatus.com/features?q=web%2520serial

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

@firefoxwebdevs I would be remiss if I didn't also point out the role that Blink and the Project Fugu team (particularly @reillyeon, Josh Bell, Vince Scheib, Chris Mumford, and @kennethrohde) played in leading on this feature responsibly. Everything was built in the open, with invitations to all vendors to participate in development, and in a collaborative way. There wasn't much non-developer feedback, but it didn't keep the team from building and shipping responsibly.

Boosted by jwz:
alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116389911016512033

Operation dildo at ICE has reached Portland

#pdx #Portland #ICE

Attachments:

• gifv: DHS police officers kicking dildos away in the driveway at the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon

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

First Web MIDI, now Web Serial! Could not be happier to see Mozilla returning to an expansive vision for the web. The idea that we should download unsafe native binaries to get things done was always naff, and an abdication of the browser's role in the lives of users:

https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311

/cc @firefoxwebdevs

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Doesn't it look cosy?#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #yellow

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
balloob@fosstodon.org wrote:

WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !! 🎉

Enable it in about:config and it all just works as expected. Took a brand new ESP32 and had a new Bluetooth proxy added to Home Assistant within 2 minutes 👌

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
kaiiak@madverse.city ("Kaiiak ;(Ж)"") wrote:

would yall wear the elderly robot tail

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

101

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

Congrats to @jayrockin on funding their kickstarter for Runaway to the Stars in all of about... 18 minutes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/runaway-to-the-stars

I love this woke af sci fi comic more than words can express. Go check it out and get yerself a book.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style ("Renewable Guydraulic Menergy") wrote:

putting on RATM's Killing in the Name but when it gets to the "fuck you..." part i start singing:

thank you,
i'll take that under advisement!
thank you,
i'll take that under advisement!

jwz wrote:

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman's Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto.

SAN FRANCISCO: "I've been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn't think too much of it when the ingredients list included a...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6K

Boosted by jwz:
theonion@bots.defencegeeks.net ("The Onion") wrote:

Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball

WASHINGTON—Shocking Truth Social followers with a graphic insult to a nebulous opponent, President Donald Trump escalated a feud with an unclear adversary Monday by posting an AI video of himself fucking a basketball. “The president is clearly enraged at somebody, but the clip provid…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/trump-escalates-feud-with-unclear-adversary-by-posting-ai-video-of-self-fucking-basketball/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Feedback is also a limited resource and students don't understand this since they think teachers have infinite time.

Maybe the way that it's presented needs to make it more clear that this is something of value, not a punishment... which is how younger kids can see it.

eg. "Decide what you want me to read, I only have time to do this two times."

I think fewer students would give LLM content in that context.

It is, frankly, rude to give someone a bunch of LLM text to read.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network ("WEATHER IS HAPPENING") wrote:

@aredridel ITS A MEDIUM ROAST NIGHT COFFEE

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

Grunge.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/13/another-s-borealis/