cferdinandi

beep, 1 day ago to random

who among us hasn’t splatted a pre-alpha feature at the top of a trillion dollar company’s most valuable web page

chockenberry, 1 day ago to random

I’m calling it now: the slop feedback loop is going to ruin the Internet.

Look at the second toot in this thread: Google’s AI Assistant got the gasoline recipe from AI generated content.

We’re playing the shittiest game of telephone ever.
https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

JoeUchill, 1 day ago to random

Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

aral, 1 day ago to Israel

Given the developments this week it has become clear that:

• The International Criminal Court,
• The International Court of Justice,
• Ireland,
• Spain,
• and Norway…

…are all Hamas.

Yes, there is no other explanation and Israel is by no means an apartheid state engaged in genocide (how could you even think such a thing, you raging antisemite, you?!)

#israel #palestine #gaza #rafah #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #ICC #ICJ #ireland #spain #norway #internationalLaw #hamas

ayoub, 2 days ago to random

So what do you call this level of hatred? This fanatical desire to annihilate an entire civilisation?

Image description: Israeli occupation soldiers set fire to Gaza’s Al Aqsa University library and took photos of themselves doing it

homeboysapiens, 2 days ago to random

It's not #Inflation, it's #Greedflation

samhenrigold, 2 days ago to random

very cool thank you gemini

cferdinandi, 1 day ago to random

There are some EXTREMELY horny frogs in my backyard tonight.

mwichary, 2 days ago to random

Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.

ashur, 2 days ago to 11ty

#Eleventy means a lot to me, both professionally and personally. On paper it’s a static site generator, but it’s so much more than that:

🔨 It’s the best damn tool there is for building the kinds of things I want to see on the kind of web I want to thrive

🎈 It’s a community overwhelmingly made up of genuinely nice people doing cool things and helping each other out

💖 It’s led by someone who shows again and again he believes in the best of what the web can be

DrALJONES, 2 days ago to random

Interviews

“Collective Punishment”: Israel Raids Jenin Camp in West Bank, "Shooting Everything”

The IDF murdered at least eight Palestinians, including a doctor shot dead on his way to work & a teenager riding his bicycle."

About a dozen others were injured. A witness described the ongoing attack on the camp; "They are shooting everything."

"The raid began just as Spain, Ireland & Norway became the latest European states to recognize the Palestinian state."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/22/freedom_theater

#Jenin .

adactio, 2 days ago to random

On the web, JavaScript should only do what only JavaScript can do.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21154

zachleat, 3 days ago to 11ty

A blog post about what is likely the biggest @eleventy news in our project’s history — and we need your help!

https://www.zachleat.com/web/independent-sustainable-11ty/

#11ty

sandwich, 2 days ago to microsoft

#Microsoft Copilot

baldur, 3 days ago to random

Unless you have experience teaching or training a variety of web tech (HTML, JS, CSS, SVG, etc), you likely don't fully understand their relative learning difficulty

Basing your assessment of which is harder on your attempts to teach yourself is esp unreliable

It's hard for you to know if a tech is hard or if you were just unlucky in stumbling into a bad entry point. Getting into something with the wrong mental model means you have to first unlearn a bunch of crap before you can actually learn

scott, 3 days ago to random

Recognizing a Palestinian state and charging both Israeli leadership and Hamas leadership with war crimes is the most reasonable middle-of-the-road take possible.

Mainstream politicians have been calling for a “two state solution” for decades, and a big part of having a two state solution is recognizing both states.

Both have clearly committed war crimes at the direction of their leaders.

mattwilcox, 3 days ago to random

Man - I love modern HTML, CSS, and a tiny sprinkle of JS (purely for the AJAX here).

This is our Craft5 base project, with minimal styling - it's what we start all projects from. I've been working on the live search.

This uses <dialog> and CSS View Transitions for the UI behaviour, Sprig for the search itself, and Blitz to statically cache a ton of the site.

video/mp4

nixCraft, 4 days ago to random

Now, everyone is so furious about OpenAI stealing a beloved celebrity's voice. But what about the many artists, writers/authors, and creators whose copyrighted works OpenAI stole to create works resembling and replacing those people's products? Not famous enough to generate the same outrage, right? At least now, everyone knows how bad Sam Altman is. He thinks he is above the law. I'm glad someone is standing up to this bully and I hope something good come out of it.

GossiTheDog, 4 days ago to random

From Scarlett Johansson re OpenAI stealing her voice:

dpnash, 4 days ago to random

After a period of relatively restrained handling of "AI" topics, my division at work decided that all the developers, designers, engineers, whatever, ... need to "use AI more in our everyday work". (Oh, joy.) This included a series of workshops designed to introduce everybody to some representative examples.

One workshop involved Github Copilot, and the following things happened to one development team, all senior developers:

• Copilot generated a unit test case that was hard to get to pass.
• When asked to generate empty test cases, Copilot generated the same (irrelevant) code over and over again.
• Copilot stopped giving suggestions to one developer after a while.
• Getting useful information out of Copilot frequently required a lot of fussy or non-obvious prompt editing and tweaking.

I won't supply direct quotes without the explicit consent of the people involved, but there was a very clear general sense that Copilot was not fit for purpose -- even when it did produce something not totally wrong, it was not a useful timesaver for the types of work this team was doing.

It wasn't just Copilot that seemed half baked. The workshop's guidelines (which are themselves part of a fairly polished Github repo) were poorly proofread. One example had a prominent typo in some HTML you were supposed to generate: '<button class=""btn" ...>' (note the extra double-quote). A newbie to web development would very likely add the spurious double quote mark to otherwise ok Copilot output to make sure it matched the instructions.

Finally, our IT department disallows results from Copilot that come from training on "public" code, for what should be fairly obvious legal concerns regarding copyright and similar issues. For one developer, Copilot repeatedly started to generate a result but then stopped, with an alert that the result appears to match known "public" code.

If it wasn't clear before that Copilot's basic mode (no "private code" option) is a copyright-laundering and license-laundering tool, it's really obvious now.

QasimRashid, 6 days ago to random

Senators Rubio, Vance, & Scott, among others, refuse to say they'll accept election results
SCOTUS Justices Alito & Thomas are actively in support of insurrectionists
Speaker Johnson wants the Bible to supersede the Constitution

Fascism isn't headed to America—it's already here.

PatrickoftheG, 5 days ago to random

I agree with the #whitehouse on this one.

Hamas would need to kill at least 25000 more innocent Israeli women and children for there to be equivalence between what it did and what Israel did; oh, and they would need to grow Tel Aviv by about 4 times its natural population, and then starve it and thirst it for six months also. Also while eliminating all its civilian infrastructure.

t_l_wood, 6 days ago to random

Things I teach my kids:

• “No” is a complete sentence.
• If you’re not having a good time you can leave.
• Never make yourself smaller just to make other people more comfortable.
• It’s okay not to be okay.
• Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.
• Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.
• Speak as kindly to yourself as you would speak to others.
• Be your own greatest cheerleader, always.

It’s never too late to learn these things.
#SelfCare

aardrian, 7 days ago to accessibility

I have been reading through the State of HTML 2023 results site (https://2023.stateofhtml.com/) and I am so disappointed in the overall #accessibility efforts — both in the questions and in the code.

This may become a blog post.

I filed 3 issues today, have filed 15 since late 2022, and only 2 have been addressed:
https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/created_by/aardrian

But these surveys keep pushing problematic info in problematic UIs, giving the wrong impression of… everything.

#a11y #HTML

bw, 6 days ago to random

I've made it far enough into my HTML for People tutorial series that I felt comfortable enough to buy the domain name and throw up a landing page.

https://htmlforpeople.com/