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someone at work pointed out that if you use the crab emoji as a react on Google Meet, it scuttles across the screen.
ten seconds later the entire screen was like watching the Crab Rave music video as four dozen people tried it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270
Many have asked: "Ok, this sounds great, how on earth do we get there?"
From the few conversations I have now had: no single project believes they will ever have enough capacity to do browser dev v.s. patch work.
And no one will commit to exploration without some assurance that the base will receive long-term active development.
Absent some leap of faith, it's likely up to a new project to commit to building that base, and getting it to a stage where those projects feel like it can happen.
@sarahjamielewis angry that it's nbd to light a trillion dollars on fire in service of fake thinking for negative return, but writing a browser core that would help humanity is utterly unviable. Closest seems to be servo
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/7294baaf6ab389fd206899d68a1ad400ba2f4508
- (djm) Forgot to cvs add LICENSE file
first of all, what a remarkably specific commit description. second of all, that's not worth a ChangeLog entry. third, it's not named LICENSE?
i didn't peruse the whole contents of the LICENCE file because the file being 300 pages long and under a nonstandard filename without symlinks tells me that this is an incredibly politically motivated project. i wonder if that means they're left-wing!
As Bolts reported, Republicans changed the rules in late 2024 to give their party control of the board.
https://boltsmag.org/north-carolina-republicans-upend-election-administration/
Open source maintainers build the critical digital infrastructure the world relies on, and open standards define how that infrastructure functions across systems. When the people who implement these technologies help write the standards, this results in better, more secure, and more interoperable technology: improving both our daily digital lives and our ability to understand and adapt technology.
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Google has once again made enough money to continue operating for another quarter
ooof do I want to do a 1 hour live radio interview about dark and quiet skies for a radio station in Ontario? The catch is it's at 7am my time....
@sundogplanets Delegate!
I'm a grumpy misanthrope, and hate talking with anyone when traveling. To shut down any conversation on an airplane or in a taxi I pretend to be a surly Russian who doesn't speak English, I barely speak Russian. Worked great until I was sat next to a Russian on a plane.
Ken Paxton's salary as Texas AG for 20+ years: $153K/year. According to unearthed property records, he owns ~15 houses worth $10M.
If that math doesn't make sense to you, it's because it doesn't.
He also, allegedly, shared 3 different primary residences with 3 different mortgage lenders. That’s the kind of thing Republicans call “voter fraud” when it happens to regular Texans.
Let's Address Texas State Director Saadia Mirza paints the full picture of his corruption.
https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/ken-paxton-owns-15-houses-on-a-153000
Claudewind: The now-ubiquitous styling of vibe-coded sites.
That cream color background
Those fonts
Unnecessary pullouts and boxes
I'm just so tired of this nonaesthetic.
@mttaggart zomg I hadn't seen it before, it's millennial beige for tech
Couldn't have said it better myself..
I don't think that is the most efficient way of bootstrapping this thing - given the amount of effort these projects are already expending purging the same garbage functionality from Firefox release after release I think there is a world where a joint effort results in more-capacity (especially if committing to developing that base independently after a point)
But I have no way of proving that, and thus a new project might be the only practical way of bootstrapping this thing.
Based on the response to my thread yesterday, and the fact that I have been having conversations along this line for a year I really believe that there is demand for such a thing (and IME with doing non-profit dev work for the better part of the last decade: demand is not uncorrelated with the ability to long term fund a thing).
People want free and independent browsers, unencumbered with non-consensual bullshit, built by humans.
Whose bloody idea was it to force 2FA from your financial institute to make a freaking purchase online?
WHOSE???
That's a really good point, and it touches on Altemeyer: that authoritarians perceive a social norm as an aggression because it reminds them that they aren't the one who created that norm, and that suggests to them that they're the outgroup, which is intolerable.
Honestly I go back and forth on "cyberpunk media would be so good if it incorporated proper sociology" and "cyberpunk media would never be published if it incorporated proper sociology." Both are probably true. As a genre, possibly more than any other, it did not survive the audience's desire to identify with a powerful badass.
Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial
https://www.theverge.com/policy/969644/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-dropped?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Policy & Law @policy-law-theverge
LinkedIn where people come to proudly state that they have cooked their own brains and/or just really really love licking those boots.
All of these were in response to my post about the ACM's announcement that they've decided "Now is the Time to Give LLMS Access to the ACM Digital Library" and then requestd input on that decision.
@emilymbender yep all 3 of those were nauseating, looking like either bots or AIslop, or hired bootlickers
Growth is not good any more than greed is good.
Growth isn't bad, as usual, it depends.
The problem with people fixated on growth is that they are like those who run a business based on a spreadsheet. That's stupidity because no worthwhile endeavour can be modelled in a few numbered columns, people are involved.
Good growth improves everyone's lives, not just a few owners and those who see it as all about the bottom line.
Better than #growth is #sustainability, because it benefits everyone.
My five year-old is in a Nerf fencing camp. I was talking with her about it today: “I thought I was gonna get to hit people with swords but they say that you can’t hit people with the side of the sword. You can only poke them with the front of the sword. This sport would be a lot better if you could hit people with the side of a sword.”
@renee.diresta I, too, would like the ability to hit people with the side of a sword.
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