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Thomas Steiner :chrome: (@tomayac@toot.cafe)

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"Ada Lovelace Day Live to end" https://findingada.com/ > The STEM industries, along with others, are pulling away from gender equality work specifically and DEI in general, defunding or closing programs and firing DEI officers. Indeed, Forbes reports that “Meta and Google have quietly dialed...

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There's now a Chrome Canary channel for Linux: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/chromium-dev/CADkEvJDLSOD62u1LOL3b47-9Osw3Vfcd66PA3CNd00FJYXOptQ%40mail.gmail.com. 🐧

#archlinux #googlechrome #arch_user_repository

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"Denmark: AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance and risks discriminating against marginalized groups – report" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/11/denmark-ai-powered-welfare-system-fuels-mass-surveillance-and-risks-discriminating-against-marginalized-groups-report/ > the...

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Christin White (@ChristinWhite@toot.cafe)

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Attached: 2 images At another cafe today with Devon’s book and am now nodding along to the bits about ableism and white supremacy. Choice quote: “It is impossible to address ableism or to be anti-ableist without also working against White supremacy.”

on Tue, 7PM

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It's been a terrible week, here's something small to smile about. https://triblive.com/news/world/harriet-tubman-posthumously-named-a-general-in-veterans-day-ceremony/

on Tue, 5AM

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The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/counterculture-switch/

on Mon, 3PM

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“Don't expect the tech platforms to help us this time.” https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/dont-expect-the-tech-platforms-to > We only got four years. And the tech barons, having gotten a taste of administrative competence, decided it would be easier to take their chances on an authoritarian who...

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Emigration is not a good way of avoiding authoritarian regimes. Sometimes its necessary, especially if the regime is turning violent But emigrating from one authoritarian state to another will usually leave you genuinely worse off and being a foreigner in even a progressive state is always...

on Nov 8

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Matt Campbell (@matt@toot.cafe)

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Like, Iceland is not an authoritarian state, but it's pretty darn xenophobic and the immigration system is outright hostile. I've had more than one friend tell me about civil servants who have outright lied to them about the rights they have, for example.

on Nov 8

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@polotek@social.polotek.net If we have more people than them, then did they not win the popular vote? Or did they win through voter suppression?

on Nov 7

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@piccalilli@front-end.social You may already know I take issue with using ARIA `menu` roles for navigation: https://adrianroselli.com/2017/10/dont-use-aria-menu-roles-for-site-nav.html This might also be a function of calling them “drop-down” versus what they actually are:...

on Nov 6

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David Chartier (@chartier@toot.cafe)

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Plan B it is https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/plan-b-it-is/

on Nov 6

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If there was ever a thing I did not want live and irrevocable on *my* home screen it is a play-by-play of tomorrow's nightmare Who in the absolute hell asked for this, who designed it, who greenlit it, and how do we make every single one of these people go away #Apple...

on Nov 5

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What happens in your computer when you do a "curl -v https://google.com" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw

on Nov 5

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A brief work interlude: we're hiring a lead Web Platform PM! A chance to work closely with Edge's platform (and Chromium) team in a strategic role, working closely with me and other PM leads: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1779414/Group-Product-Manager%2c-Microsoft-Edge-Web-Platform

on Nov 5

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Attached: 1 image Good thing ChatGPT warns us of dangerous behaviour…

on Nov 4

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Simeon.__proto__ (@dotproto@toot.cafe)

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“Don't Give Them What They Want - by Julian Simpson” https://developmenthell.substack.com/p/dont-give-them-what-they-want > This is an existential problem, because our job as creators is to put on the show and then to learn, both from the number of ticket stubs and the reaction of the...

on Nov 4

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@ceejbot@toot.cat do you have any recommendations for books on systems software engineering? I'm especially interested in responsibly evolving an existing platforms, balancing capabilities with security, making breaking changes, and other such

on Nov 4

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“AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias – GeekWire” https://www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-overwhelmingly-prefers-white-and-male-job-candidates-in-new-test-of-resume-screening-bias/

on Nov 1

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Nolan Lawson (@nolan@toot.cafe)

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Aside: I don’t think people realise just how fragile our political and economic systems are or how fast the chaos in our weather systems is escalating My personal assumption these days is that any major plan that’s scheduled to come to fruition in the mid to late 2030s is probably never going...

on Oct 30

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"We're forking Flutter. This is why." by Matt Carroll https://flutterfoundation.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/ This is fascinating. I'll be interested to see if this turns out like Node->io.js (projects eventually merge), Hudson->Jenkins (everyone moves to the fork), or...

on Oct 30

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I am bad at this game https://onesquareminesweeper.com/

on Oct 29

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Finally got the chance to dig more into this story ”Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said” https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/researchers-ai-powered-transcription-tool-hospitals-invents-things-115170291 What’s confusing is that it...

on Oct 28

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Isaac Lyman (@isaaclyman@toot.cafe)

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Saw a discussion on Bluesky about how web devs end up having no body of work as sites disappear, companies fold, and agencies shutter This first happened to me in the 2000s. Almost every project, large and small, I've worked on since has disappeared. Even most of the ebooks I made for a...

on Oct 28

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#50forFOSS Friday is this week! I’ve got my pledge picked out, but leading up to Friday, I’ll be shouting out some other projects that are doing great work. I’d love to hear about your favorite FOSS (free, open-source software) projects as well. Feel free to use the #50forFOSS tag, even if...

on Oct 28

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Simeon.__proto__ (@dotproto@toot.cafe)

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As I see it, the web is the only generational software platform that has a reasonable shot at delivering a particularly potent set of software benefits to users. It is: - fresh - frictionless - safe by default - portable and interoperable - gatekeeper free (no prior restraint on...

on Oct 27

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I don't understand going outside. What are you supposed to do? All the stuff I like is back at my place. There are so many people out here too

on Oct 27

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“‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump | Alan Moore | The Guardian” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump > Unnervingly rapidly, our...

on Oct 27

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“Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said - ABC News” https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/researchers-ai-powered-transcription-tool-hospitals-invents-things-115170291

on Oct 26

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I was hoping to get this “Monarchy: The Farewell Oz Tour” t-shirt or tea towel (and missed the event on Sunday): https://republic.org.au/shop Sadly, the estimated ship time puts it to my hotel after I leave Australia. Anybody in #Melbourne know any shops selling similar? Ideally in or near the CBD.

on Oct 24

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It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are. The damage I'm seeing...

on Oct 22

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Nolan Lawson (@nolan@toot.cafe)

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on Oct 21

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New post: 'Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages' https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/20/why-im-skeptical-of-rewriting-javascript-tools-in-faster-languages/ Some thoughts that sprang from a recent Mastodon thread: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/113340900722953634

on Oct 21

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The ML in HTML is not "Machine Learning"

on Oct 21

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Wrote a bit about the historical roots of differing cultural norms surrounding authoritarian state violence. Not sure if I'll send this one out to the newsletter. I suspect it'd trigger a bunch of unsubscribes "Non-violence as a societal...

on Oct 21

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Nolan Lawson (@nolan@toot.cafe)

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Non-violence as a societal value: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/non-violence-as-a-societal-value/

on Oct 21

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Maybe this is why I'm a little skeptical of the whole "move everything to Rust/Zig/Go/etc" movement in the JS ecosystem. I like JavaScript, I understand JavaScript. If I have to debug some JS tool, I'm well-equipped. Whereas if I have to dip down into some weird error like "libfoo.so.42: cannot...

on Oct 20

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Attached: 1 image The decision tree for React adoption in The Year Of Our Lord 2024. (from an upcoming blog post)

on Oct 20

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Phel (@phel@toot.cafe)

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Attached: 3 images @geologydave@mastodon.social @harkank@chaos.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @metafunk@chaos.social So I checked out the spot! We couldn't find any suitable beech tree, though - only a two-trunk oak which might have had a third trunk a long time ago, and it was around 16.60m from...

on Oct 20

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Coding with Jesse (@JesseSkinner@toot.cafe)

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“AI” models are suffused with US values and, occasionally, those are quite shocking to us non-Americans An Icelandic police force used a generated image to promote a public notice People were absolutely horrified Why? Because the cop in the image had a gun, in a holster, AROUND CHILDREN...

on Oct 20

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Attached: 1 image Brutal but also realistic. #climatechange

on Oct 19

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David Chartier (@chartier@toot.cafe)

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More evidence and actual scans that reveal long #COVID can cause actual, measurable brain damage https://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-got-more-evidence-that-long-covid-is-a-brain-injury

on Oct 18

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Simeon.__proto__ (@dotproto@toot.cafe)

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“the secret ingredient to coming up with good ideas for a story | by Doc Burford | Oct, 2024 | Medium” https://docseuss.medium.com/the-secret-ingredient-to-coming-up-with-good-ideas-for-a-story-2b10ed4a1b5f > So, look, you wanna be creative? Well, it might seem scary until you actually...

on Oct 18

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🚨 PSA for folks building #webextensions 🚨 If you're building a Manifest V3 extension, you can have a single manifest.json file that works in all browsers! ```json { "name": "Demo", "version": "1.0", "manifest_version": 3, "background": { "scripts": ["bg.js"], "service_worker":...

on Oct 18

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David Chartier (@chartier@toot.cafe)

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A #MacApp for timers and reminders with a clever, gesture based UI for picking a time, like yanking on a rubber band. I can’t try it till later or tomorrow (jury duty), but just from the video this looks really interesting. I’ve always found popup/popover screens for picking times and dates in...

on Oct 17

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sudo beep (@xurizaemon@toot.cafe)

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@muhh@social.lol @zmh@micro.blog here's the update Acquia sent customers, FWIW https://view.marketing.acquia.com/?qs=16648f38e3035a005db220d0db88da64905b89327a24720eb24fccf55f5601f5866936dcce219bdf5b12d1446cabfc74a8da2fc8024d690c226f454f3aa2ff1598f825315e76e52d

on Oct 17

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Attached: 1 image I have failed to promote this very much. In a couple weeks I’ll be presenting at A11y Camp in Melbourne, Australia. On Tuesday, 22 October I am running a workshop: https://a11ycamp.com.au/workshops/#wshop2 I'm keynoting the talks on Wednesday, 23...

on Oct 17

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I very recently watched a pitch how an LLM was going to perform WCAG audits. I found it lacking (which is perhaps one of my larger understatements). Anyway, I tend to agree with Steve given the most recent evidence and for the reasons he links (back to me). “AI for accessibility conformance...

on Oct 17

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