pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
All I have for November is dread.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/11/i-am-burdened-by-pessimism/
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I've been told there's delays in delivering the stuffed toys to the US warehouse because of the hurricane. The EU warehouse is ready to go though. Should we open the shop now or wait for US fulfillment to be possible?
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fsfe ("Free Software Foundation Europe") wrote:
💥The FSFE submitted last month its arguments in the #Apple vs. @EUCommission litigation, arguing how interoperability is key for our digital societies
📎 Want to know more about this case? Check out this article by @heiseonline https://www.heise.de/en/news/FSFE-Apple-is-a-threat-to-free-software-and-a-DMA-rule-breaker-9785638.html
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattround@crispsandwi.ch ("Matt Round") wrote:
This is a good gentle intro to web dev https://htmlforpeople.com
(I do think a lot of people struggle with CSS because they partly skipped these HTML basics, so they don't grasp the structural/semantic/hierarchical aspects very well)
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
The crypto lobby has spent $129 million to elect industry-friendly candidates over the last three election cycles.
Crypto is now one of the largest campaign contributors since Citizens United — second to Big Oil.
For the sake of democracy, we must get big money out of politics.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We have quantitative confirmation that grad school is hell.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/11/my-personal-experience-matches-this-observation/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cmconseils ("Laura-ween :bongoCat: 🎃🧙♀️") wrote:
Someone said:
“Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves.
Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.”
And after looking into it, I think they’re 100% correct.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
"It's going to be awesome." Another lie from a ridiculous liar.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/11/do-you-believe-him-yet/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:
Leica’s #aurora photo bomb may just be the best picture I’ll ever take
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Moss@beige.party ("Mage Lich’en") wrote:
*Willie Nelson voice*
Frog and Toad again
I just can’t wait to read Frog and Toad again
The books I love are ‘bout those two amphibian friends
And I can’t wait to read Frog and Toad again
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tom Forsyth") wrote:
Master Boot Record just dropped a new album
https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/hardwarez
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social wrote:
Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails
While some residents in hurricane-impacted areas can’t send texts or make calls, #AmateurRadio enthusiasts are helping communicate requests for help and messages between loved ones.
Wired
9 October"Hurricanes have wreaked havoc on the United States over the past month. More than 200 people have been confirmed dead as a result of #HurricaneHelene and many more have gone missing, making it the most destructive US hurricane since Katrina in 2005. Nearly a week after Helene made landfall, #CellService #DeadZones plagued the Carolinas, leaving thousands of residents unable to reach their friends, families, and even emergency responders. As #HurricaneMilton builds in the Gulf of Mexico this week, radio operators in #Florida are also preparing to launch their net—a group of operators communicating live over the air. Scott Roberts, an amateur radio section manager for northern Florida, said that operators in his area started checking their equipment and making plans to deploy to shelters as of Monday.
"There are more than 1 million licensed radio amateurs in the US like Witherspoon and Roberts, according to a Federal Communications Commission spokesperson who spoke to WIRED last week. Some amateur radio bands are short bands, reaching only small communities of people, while others cover hundreds and even thousands of miles. When #CommunicationInfrastructure fails, like #CellularNetworks during a natural disaster, the FCC allows for amateur radio operators to assist in recovery efforts.
"Gordon Mooneyhan, spokesperson for the American Radio Relay League, said he knows of three main #repeaters being used to convey messages inside the disaster area from Hurricane Helene, including the #MountMitchellRepeater, which is located at the highest point in #NorthCarolina at 6,600 feet and boosts localized radio broadcasts to a wider network. This is where Witherspoon read off supply requests and #RoadClosures."
#HamRadioOperators #AmateurRadio #Disasters #DisasterAssistance #Communication #MutualAid
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AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:
Arizona Democratic office hit by third shooting in weeks. There were no injuries or arrests
https://apnews.com/article/gunfire-arizona-democratic-office-7707867b9421585576d9a42c4cc4cc9b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The cherry on this garbage sundae is this quote right here: "Meta did allow me to request to download my data before it gets deleted, but then the link it provided failed to load."
Ah, looks like Elon just finished his first Blender tutorial.
Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
Find out how Freexian Collaborators contributed to Debian this September - read about Packaging Pydantic v2, Reworking of glib2.0 for cross bootstrap, Python archive rebuilds and more!
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-09-2024/
These contributions are made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/).
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Sitting at Peter Shor's public lecture on #quantum computing. Feeling very dumb :-)
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials | The New Republic:
"Carmack’s arrival at Meta also coincides with the company’s restrictions on “political content” on Instagram and Threads instituted earlier this year, which limit the reach of accounts that post about politics and social issues."
Project 2025 bad. Meta guiding the social web, good? Okay. https://newrepublic.com/post/185306/project-2025-dustin-carmack-meta
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anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:
"Why do so many people believe the Electoral College protects 'rural' interests when it demonstrably does not? I believe what’s happening is that these people are using 'rural' as a euphemism for 'white,' and 'urban' as a euphemism for 'Black.' The Electoral College protects white interests and sensibilities from being overrun by the emerging non-white majority in this country, and the people who defend the EC are desperate to keep it that way."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-electoral-college-is-bad/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
Does anyone with a background in electrical engineering/electronics etc have any references or other information for how datasheets became a standard thing, or something that is expected of a manufacturer to produce?
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JoshuaHolland ("Joshua Holland") wrote:
“Gaslighting” is badly overused but how else could we describe the press covering this as a normal horse race—and bitching about Harris’s interviews and policy details—when we have a candidate constantly cribbing from Hitler while his goons threaten anyone who pushes back on his alternate reality.
#Election2024 #media #trump #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/springfield-ohio-haitians-threats.html
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
How people think AI is going to kill them: terminator robots.
How AI is actually going to kill them: by destroying their habitat and drinking all their water.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Interop 2025 must drop secret vetos! 🚨
The voting process for Interop proposals is done in secret and every browser vendor can veto any feature without any transparency.
We need your help to change this and more. Read the article. Spread the word ❤️🌐
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/interop-2025-must-drop-secret-vetos/
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
/me during a standup meeting and other people are talking...
don't forget to mention X, Y, and Z and how that impacts A, B, C.
don't forget to mention X, Y, and Z and how that impacts A, B, C.
don't forget to mention X, Y, and Z and how that impacts A, B, C./me when it's my time to talk...
not much just working on X
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
One of my favourite artists just died. 100!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/arts/richard-mayhew-dead.html
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zachariah@mas.to ("Zac") wrote:
“This keyboard layout is called a QAZ/35% layout, where the Q, A, and Z keys are gone.”
“My friend always said my 35 didn’t have enough keys so I designed this layout as a joke but enough people liked it that I decided to actually make it.”
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mhoye ("mhoye but spooky") wrote:
My fellow parents: what do you say we make the first week of December about cleaning up and clearing out.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Looks like #ubuntu 24.10 will be the first one I won't be upgrading to, despite it being the easy path. I'm just fed up fighting and make living with the myriad of snap paper cuts. Will sit on the latest LTS release, while working up courage and making time to switch to something. Probably #Fedora, as one of the most supported alternatives.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:
Cosmic Perspective is using the insights of modern science to see the big picture of the world and our place in it with a sense of belonging and connection. It’s understanding our scale within the universe - being humbled by a grand and awe-inspiring expanse of space and deep time. But it’s also seeing the very small with a sense of wonder for the staggering complexity of biology, chemistry, and quantum mechanics.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
The wait is over. HTML for People is OUT NOW!
I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This web book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.
And it’s free for all. 🚀
Reblogged by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈"):
I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loke@functional.cafe ("Elias Mårtenson") wrote:
What if... LORD OF THE LOST did a cover of Roxette's "The Look".
No, hear me out... Dress them up in 80's outfits... And let's get Blümchen in there.
OK, now we're talking.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Interesting history which I did not know
NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Why are people still posting to #twitter? Not only is it sketchy to be hanging out with fascists, but the site's functionality keeps getting worse.
Today I'm trying to follow some thread of replies. I can see A quote-tweet's B, who has replied to C. I click onto B's tweet, and … there's no reply-to available there for me to see C's tweet. Literally can't follow a conversation, which is the whole point of social media. 🤦♂️
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Tryna wake up this morning, but my get up and go must've got up and went. So I'm reaching for some musical get up juice. "Knights of Cydonia", one of the better 80s sci-fi films with an awesome soundtrack.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm working on a doodle, and there's an aspect of it I decided to troubleshoot off the page (instead of my usual practice of just doodling harder). So I went looking for some paper, but I didn't want loose leaf. After a brief search, I found a pile of my old sketchbooks. I'm pretty sure this is the last drawing I made prior to taking an unplanned five year art break. Huh...
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webstandards@mastodon.world ("London Web Standards") wrote:
Folowing on from @sil talk at #SotB2024 check out these github issues an vote for them if you feel inclined #OWA #interop2025
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/interop-2025-must-drop-secret-vetos/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
For those of you who have been wondering what the face of a 2.5meter long millipede might look like, you're in luck: the fossilized head of Arthropleura has been found.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/10/bring-me-the-head-of-arthropleura/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
flatwhatson@functional.cafe ("Andrew Whatson") wrote:
It's time for an update on the Pre-Scheme Restoration project!
TL;DR: The compiler is approximately 75% ported to Chibi, Sagittarius and Guile, with Unsyntax expander integration underway. We've also got a new R7RS compatibility layer for Scheme 48, and a bunch of tooling written with Scsh.
Thanks to @nlnet for supporting this project under the NGI Zero Core program.
See my update post for more details: https://prescheme.org/posts/first-report-on-the-pre-scheme-restoration.html
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
may be interesting for radio operators:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… has repeatedly referred to immigrants who commit crimes as “animals.” At a rally in Ohio in March, he was even more explicit. “I don’t know if you call them people,” he said of immigrants accused of crimes. “In some cases, they’re not people, in my opinion.”’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“I think this whole situation and the way that it’s been handled on my campus has absolutely no eye for nuance,” said Bellajeet Sahota, a Barnard senior, who added she was “a little meek when it comes to campus protests.”
“I also think my fellow students, as much as I love them, also have no eye for nuance,” she said.’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this situation requires more than ‘hundreds’, ppl
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC:
“Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there”
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
New Runes of Ardun update introduces a Hint Button! If you’re stuck against the AI opponent, you can now ask it for help.
I like the sound effects and think the UX works well.
Get Runes of Ardun for free here: https://runesofardun.app
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Bonus 1: J'Accuse (1938). A wrenching bit of wish fulfillment in which a traumatized WWI vet calls up the spirits of the Great War dead to put a preemptive halt to WWII.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Meanwhile on threads, they're using #HurricaneMilton as a rage bait opportunity 🙃
Like I truly think that specific algorithm does something to people's brains.
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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
Instagram and Threads Moderation Problesm out of Control
"On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics. Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri is directly replying to some complaints and said he’s “looking into it.” And I’m one of many people who’s had their account deleted for allegedly being a child — which I am not."
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Some Threads users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266096/instagram-threads-moderation-account-post-deleted-limited
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:
Wonder how many are outside on Pokémon Go? 🌬️:pokeball:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
of the things I love about Harris as a politician is that she says ‘I believe’ and ‘I think’ and so on, not the royal ‘we’ like so many others (not just The Fat Orange One, nor even just Republicans) https://youtu.be/6eZw3GzmPGc?si=7IOhIRbBXU0qMRPa
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Wowwww meditation app, you trying to get me killed? #HurricaneMilton
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root@possum.city ("Ashley Graves") wrote:
domains should be free
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
antijingoist@hackers.town ("Abbie 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
WordPress is dead to me but this really drives it home
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)") wrote:
hacking the internet archive is an asshole move, up there with kicking puppies while shitting on the floor of the library
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So I'm in #Florida. On the east side of the peninsula. The rain has been wild. Hoping we keep the lights on through it. 😅
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:
As a big Maiden fan, I declare the HU did a killer job on this cover of The Trooper
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The blogosphere and just tech voices on the web are so very libertarian slanted.
Is there one popular tech pundit making the rounds with a more leftist lens? Cory Doctrow possibly but I'm not sure he'd describe himself as a leftist.
Technology and the web are so inherently political and it feels like the left is completely absent from the discourse. Maybe I'm blanking?
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
For the love of Alan Turing, can we please not use twitter (or any other 3rd party service, especially of the trashy kind) as our service status page?
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The end is in sight.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/i-had-the-talk-with-my-chair/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange wrote:
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
yojimbo@hackers.town ("CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂") wrote:
I think this deserves a wider audience :-)
How about an official public submission to the #NZ government's current proposal to say "new oil and gas exploration is currently illegal but we love money more so we are going to get personally rich by letting them do what they want".
The submission came live from a city that was under a state of emergency at the time, due to flooding caused by climate change.
Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):
seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:
What happens when companies pay to fund web platform features? The whole web community wins.
The latest from Igalia & Bloomberg: Inheritance changes for CSS selection styling
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/selection-styling
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hah! my wife just texted detailed instructions for pre-heating the oven & placing the baking dish of veg which she has so carefully prepared… but sent them to someone else
;^}
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
baked up some “elephant garlic” (drizzled with olive oil & sprinkled with fresh-ground salt & pepper, then into a 350°F/177°C oven for 35-40 minutes), peeled off “skin”, spread on crackers…
as Tom Robbins has a character say: “There are two basic principles in the Universe, Yum and Yuck.” trust me, this one is Yum.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor @timbl 🎊
We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet.
(It is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0TfUBuIZkmQ )
Version without audio description:
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:
I am not seeing enough support from men for Harris out there. I'm a cis, het, 50+ white guy with 2 kids and a mortgage. I support Harris not only because she is … I don't know … not a fascist, but also because she has the requisite experience, temperament and leadership qualities, and she has articulated a policy platform that I support: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ It's that simple.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
"Consortium Members elect Board of Directors"
We are pleased to announce that W3C Consortium Members have elected the following seven people, listed in alphabetical order, to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors:
Koichi Moriyama
Chris Needham
Florian Rivoal
Eric Siow
Léonie Watson
Chris Wilson
Hongru (Judy) Zhu
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
Meanwhile, at a site I visit daily
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Is phlegmingly a word? I'm making it a word
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:
But this is time for celebration.
I just launched a television network!
New Ellijay Television is live on cable, online, and on Roku.
We're powered by free software! We're creating creative commons media. We're improving public domain media.
We're broadcasting originally produced material and public domain videos. Most of our work is produced on recycled and upcycled equipment.
We're re-defining what it means to do Broadcast Television in the 20s.
The future is here, and it's a bunch of weird nerds in the north GA mountains.
We need your help! https://newellijay.tv/sponsor-us/
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
Poll: should the new Social Web Foundation (SWF) be transparent about their funding?
@socialwebfdn recently launched with a mission of "a growing, healthy, financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse”. In TechCrunch, @Sarahp reported that SWF has "some backing" from Meta as well as Flipboard, Ghost, Mastodon, and others as well as a "large grant" from the Ford Foundation. "In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support."
But there aren't any details about the funding , and the only grant from Ford Foundation to SWF's fiscal sponsor anybody's found so far is for $50K, which is a lot less than $1 million. So there's a lot of speculation -- and considering that Meta's involved, a lot of suspicion.
Transparency about funding could potentially be helpful here. If there is indeed a larger Ford Foundation grant, good to know, and what's it for? Also, maybe Meta's just chipping in a bit to get things off the ground. Even if Meta's contributing a lot more, far better to be up-front about it.
Then again, transparency about funding could also have its downsides. In a thread on SocialHub, SWF advisor @ben (who's worked in non-profits for a while) noted that there are quite a few reasons why making finances available in real-time (as opposed to the legally required annual Form 990) "may not be desirable - not least because it may impact ongoing fundraising from other groups." And it's certainly true that different non-profits take different approaches here, there isn't any one right answer in general.
So ... what do people think?
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foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
also, accompanying AI-generated podcast is amusing
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
new blog post up about system design choices
https://blog.ncoti.org/application-or-webapp-a-basic-design-choice-2/
@torgo may enjoy it
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:
Today is the LAST day to submit proposals for the Interop 2025 project.
But also, it's a great time to review the existing proposals and upvote the ones you care about!
Unleash your thumbs-up emojis at:
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afocus-area-proposal
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
deno_land@fosstodon.org ("Deno") wrote:
4 years after Deno 1.0, the next generation of JavaScript is ready for production at scale.
Deno 2 is out today
🐢 Fully backwards compatible with Node and npm 📦 Package management and node_modules and package.json
📅 Long term supportdeno.com/2
Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coopartisans@social.coop ("Artisans Cooperative") wrote:
Join the Artisans Cooperative as an Artisan or Supporter to take back control from big tech marketplaces!
We are currently running a Membership Drive this month, so check out how to join for as little as $10!
Check it out here: https://artisans.coop/pages/membership
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:
Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the the Mercator projection
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
After verifying my Firefox settings hadn't changed, I noticed that my other programs may have also been affected. So I went to GNOME's accessibility settings, and toggled the "Large Text" switch you see below. Meaning, I flipped it on, watched all the text embiggen, and then flipped it back off, and watched all the text get smaller, but not *as* small. Now the text in everything looks the same as before, as far as I can tell.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I think it's even affecting the size of the browser tabs... Huh.
(Yes. I'm wearing my glasses. 😆)
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I updated Firefox on my Fedora system, and now nearly all sites text size seems smaller than it was. I'm having to bump zoom to 120% to get things back to the size they were. So it's like everything has an 83% zoom applied? Weird...
BBC's #Ludwig is great. A short whodunit series with Monk vibes, and a perfect cast:
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Based on new data, I've changed my mind about the belief that "People don't change their minds based on new data."🙂🙃
My previous belief was based on the great research on the "backfire effect," done by Brendan Nyhan in 2010. But in 2020, Brendan did new research, showing that he was wrong about people not changing their minds.🙃🙂
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912440117He showed that presenting the right data the right way, does cause people to change their minds. This was the right data and way for me.
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When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.
While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.
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rougier@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Nicolas P. Rougier") wrote:
Reviewer Manifesto, with some explanations: https://github.com/rougier/reviewer-manifesto
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
random weird stuff like this was a big part of why I loved working in Sillycone Valley in the 80s & 90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U
"I'm not going to serve you any coffee, I don't want you to short-circuit"
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't know about you, but I always want to get my climate science from a Trump-worshipping Texan in a cowboy hat.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/this-is-why-the-republicans-want-to-ban-noaa/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In all the time I've lived in Minnesota, I've never received a general evacuation order. I don't understand Floridians.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/hey-florida-you-still-there/
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
My experiences running a failed VC-backed startup a few years ago, preceded by my experiences getting grants from government agencies, have made me incredibly allergic to seeking project financing. This has come to the detriment of my potential, and I wish I had solutions.
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
8. The Black Cat (1934). A strange collage of science fictional and gothic elements. Boris Karloff lives in an Art Deco mansion in Hungary built on the site of a WWI massacre and the movie treats the mansion as the 20th century's equivalent of a gothic manor. But the conversion from 19th to 20th century is incomplete so you have servants in peasant blouses wandering around in rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and bakelite alarm clocks