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jwz wrote:

Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 30 years ago today.

As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a 3.0 release based on the Collabra...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-2

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I just ate the worst scone of my life. It was war crime levels of terrible. It was as bad as the scone I ate in Copenhagen was good. That fucking scone brought back my suicidal ideations.

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dpsbot@mastodon.fixermark.com ("DPS Bot") wrote:

Take 1d12 website damage

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

if i sang "it's a monad" at you, which popular song is it mimicking?

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dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

I want a Firefox extension that knows how to replace every single "N months ago" label with the actual exact timestamp (using patterns for how the data is hidden in tooltips, click-to-expand, etc.).

That shit is SO unhelpful. Like if I'm looking back at git history, I don't care that a change was made roughly 3 months ago. I care whether it was made before or after an email I'm looking at that said something relevant to the change.

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JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

Imagine having a large enough budget that you can simply look at the database of ISBNs and say "buy ALL of them!" And what else could be done with a budget that sized.

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

At the MIT museum. "Can we trust an AI pilot to fly in aerial combat" the text frames the problem as a technical challenge like any other. Predicting a high dimensional state space of pilot actions. An interactive exhibit, but broken. Unresponsive touchscreen. The voice of an AI assistant inviting to start the display chatters helplessly. The horror of algorithmic war needs tech support. We can't trust AI to run a museum exhibit, but we've already given it missiles.

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

And to be clear, this is something I'm saying when what people are asking me to solve is just an entirely ridiculous and ineffective use of time, like "why would you sit with a patient and help them describe their symptoms better if you haven't solved the fact that physicians are all burnt out and overworked"

Because multiple things can have value and I don't always choose what I do based on your most cognitively accessible stereotyped concern

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Diffuse Universal Concern Vampires will really take you for all you're worth if you let them

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I've started just saying "I don't care about that, someone else needs to solve it, I'm working on THIS" and it's so powerful

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gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys." 2/3

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

The more I read about the circumstances surrounding Jason Arday's death, the more shocked I get.

WTF, British media????

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

🚀 I made a smol ~2kb syntax highlighter that uses the CSS `::highlight()` API.

- About 2 KiB compressed
- No runtime dependencies
- Uses `::highlight()` not ``
- Languages loaded on-demand
- Human readable CSS themes + light-dark()
- Editable code block support
- And a custom element for more features!

https://davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/

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

• Museum docent notices me looking at the fire exit map to see where the galleries are: "that's just the fire map, the museum map is over here"
• It's a framed QR code
• the map:

Begging the world to just print things out sometimes

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I am among my people.

https://status.mastodon.social/cmt078u8i008z0rpbvfs6qgv4

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49016@catgirl.cloud ("⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears: 🔜 evoooooooooooooooooooooooooooke") wrote:

we should just declare pixelfed as failed and redirect people to instagram at this point

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I feel like I am burning bridges with people who almost certainly don’t know I exist. Well, it’s not like I make money at blogging anyway!

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: “If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck”

If you return to Twitter/X after leaving it out of principle, do you really still have those principles?

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/new-people-on-x/

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aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.

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sjvn wrote:

Exactly so.

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

Memo to certain humorless nerds: For fuck's sake, stop whining about Strange New Worlds pulling some wild-ass shit. For one thing, it's too late; they already filmed season five and after that they're out. For another thing, god forbid a science fiction television show shoots its shot and tries something strange, or new. Not everything SNW tries works for me, but that makes it no different than any other TV show, Star Trek franchise or otherwise, and I appreciate they're making an effort.

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esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:

One for the record books 🏅

Our Very Large Telescope Interferometer has discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy. Named S301, it orbits Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — reaching speeds of 25 000 kilometres per second, over 8% the speed of light.

📷 ESO/GRAVITY collaboration

1/3

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Huh. That's a first. Followed a link to an article where the text in the body of the HTML was scrambled. So you could click reader mode (to get past the paywall), but the text is garbage after the first couple of paragraphs. It looks like a trivial scrambling, but definitely defeats reading. Okay, you got me random newspaper I will never subscribe to, I *won't* read it.

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gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

A friend is encouraging me to replace the phrase "I don't care about X" with "I am secure and affluent enough that I don't have to care about X" in both my own writing/speaking and that of others. It doesn't always fit, but it almost always makes me think a little harder.

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

And I mean like the creative weird Smalltalk edition version, not the Negroponte scam continuation

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

Could you imagine if the future we got for kids and computing was One Laptop Per Child rather than computer prisons

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bremner@mathstodon.xyz ("Do-re-mi-so-la-ti-do") wrote:

@sylvie I really miss the days when I found takes like this extreme. @cwebber

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firefoxwebdevs ("Firefox for Web Developers") wrote:

CSS text-box is newly baseline, and it's solves a common text layout issue. Here's how it works:

Attachments:

• video: a46278cd41a08b1c.mp4

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

One Dated Reference Per Child

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MrLovenstein ("J. L. Westover") wrote:

Secret Panel HERE ☀️ https://patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/sunspicious-48368895