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

They have been able to downplay and divert attention away from these basic facts because the lie they were sold is one of endless computing abundance, and as long as that continued to be true at ~roughly the same price every year for them and their mates, the trick worked.

Mac price rises are popping the narrative, but do fuck-all to the situation on the ground. It has *always *been true that businesses couldn't afford to turn away customers who showed up with the "wrong" device.

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khinsen@scholar.social ("Konrad Hinsen") wrote:

New blog post: "Cultures of making and relating"

Comments on @tomasp 's recent book "Cultures of programming".

https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/06/25/cultures.html

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

Again and again and again, I've been gaslight and downplayed by frameworkists high on the fumes of always-false marketing claims by Facebook/VC-backed hucksters. We're a dozen+ years into the lost decade, and it absolutely guts me that I'm hearing folks in meetings still sell themselves and each other on the idea that the *next* great scheduling trick will fix a problem that boils down to 10 gallons of JavaScript bullshit in a 5 gallon hat.

The answer is (still) *less JavaScript*.

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

Nothing about this situation is new.

A rational business attempting to maximise sales and market reach would have been *entirely* correct to throw out the slow and unusable prescriptions of the frameworkists every single year since 2015 (at the latest). Such a business would forbid React, Angular, Next, and a dozen other frameworkist totems from the premises and *would have been correct to do so up until this very day*.

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

The MAJORITY of computers that can load the web pages you make are relatively inexpensive, absolutely slow Androids that cost < $400 (new, unlocked) when they were sold in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Volume in the "budget" segment of the Android market has been CONSISTENTLY larger than the total Mac and PC market for a decade, and relatively inexpensive Androids are >= 50% in almost *every* market, save Dubai and Switzerland:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

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

It's very, very hard for me not give in to cynicism about the motives and priors of wealthy tech (and tech-adjacent) folks when the news that seems to move the commentariat to notice stagnant computing resources is that *Apple* is increasing prices.

In no calendar year across the past decade has Apple sold more than 20% of phones or more than 15% of desktop/laptop computers.

And yet.

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bal4e@tech.lgbt ("arya dradjica") wrote:

are there any (pure) Rust GUI libraries that provide kinetic scrolling on Linux (Wayland), fully natively (i.e. not Tauri)? I haven't been able to find one.

#programming #rust

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

try 67 amps, directly into the goose.

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hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

…

It’s been 10 years since I was told 3 months: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/London-Oxidation#simd

Yes, floats are hard and future-proofing against RISC-V is hard. But it’s such a missed opportunity that we haven’t got this stuff incrementally on stable Rust and are still waiting for everything to be ready.

Abstracting over x86_64 and aarch64 for integer-lane and mask-lane 128-bit vectors was working in 2015. It’s frustrating that we still don’t have that part on stable.

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

One must never forget that every good thing in Gavin Newsom’s life came from having rich friends. It’s a lifelong bond he just will not break.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3mp5b65wjwk23

jwz wrote:

So excited about recompiling ffmpeg again
[ Dr. Manhattan dot gif ]

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

this wrinkle aside, i have successfully written 4 functions in 2 days.

why did it take 2 days? cross platform support and microoptimisation obviously.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i have completely forgotten what i have and haven't done on this c project i didn't touch for a while.

accordingly, i don't think i dare attempt to compile it just yet.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

this heat is just a con by big water to get you to drink more water

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

Lol, no it wasn't

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/reflecting-pool-national-park-service

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@ricci
@lina @aud @SnoopJ

Gooseholder value

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@ricci
@lina @aud @SnoopJ
We now also have a draft of automatic goose value recognition: https://github.com/dwebagents/AgentPipe/pull/115/changes

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

And the thumbnail of course.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

It's that time again, where me, Jenny, and Max chat about the latest episode of House of the Dragon.

https://oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260625-hotd-s03e01.mp3

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I hope Gooseworx gets a nice recovery now that TADC is over, sounds like being suddenly thrust into the spotlight took a toll on her

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woozle@toot.cat ("Woozle Hypertwin") wrote:

@cwebber Further reading: https://cwre.org/w/Myths/America%5Fis%5Fa%5FChristian%5Fnation

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nblr@chaos.social ("~n") wrote:

It seems like this printer is not only sleeping but having vivid dreams…

Attachments:

• gifv: A printer display that‘s not only displaying „Sleeping“ but glitches in individual cahracters

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grillchen@brot.eus wrote:

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

The US House of Representatives majority whip Tom Emmer at a town hall:

"It's never changed. The battle has been engaged since they left the garden. It has been the same battle and it just keeps getting more difficult. Because our founders, who were CHRISTIAN, they created a CHRISTIAN BASED NATION, and I come from the People's Republic of Minnesota which has been so mis-managed by criminals -- they're criminals! -- they lie they cheat and they steal. And by the way they let IMMIGRANTS, who come to this country not wanting to assimilate, lie cheat and steal from them! Our money!"

Hoo boy this clip has it all: racism, christo-fascist rewrite of history, and good ol' demon-fighting-our-enemies-since-leavin-the-garden talk: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mp53obq7up2g

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RonSupportsYou wrote:

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

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kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

Time to get freaky

🐾 Turbulence & Gonzofreak
✂️ @TwinkyArts

#BatPics #Fursuit

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

You probably know this, but @e18e's https://replacements.fyi/ is pretty slick.

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

The Dems lecturing the GOP that politicians don't get to choose their voters, and choosing your voters by gerrymandering is bad, when the proper way to choose your voters is to fucking whinge about the bad voters choosing wrong and shaming them to drive them out of the party. This is the right way.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Listen, a goose is just a Von Neumann replicator for eggs. Nobody specified that the eggs had to have shells made out of element 79! And anyway, freshly manufactured element 79 is ejected from neutron star collisions and most of its isotopes are radioactive. Better stick to calcium next time!

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

The omg.lol membership price is increasing to $50/year on August 1. I’ve written about the change here: https://omglol.news/2026/06/25/omg-lol-membership-price-increases-august-1

I realize this won’t be a popular change, but I think it’s an important one (for reasons I outlined in the post). One key short-term takeaway is that unlike other places with recent price increases, you can lock in your current omg.lol membership for as many years as you’d like at the current price.

As always, I appreciate your support! :prami_hearts_red: