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tomw

@tomw@mastodon.social

Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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tante, to random
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I miss native apps. Those snappy little motherfuckers that stated quickly, did the thing and didn't bring massive rendering engines and associated RAM cost with them.

tomw,
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@lazyb0y @tante @hannesdonel Too fast, no time to make coffee

tomw, to random
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Mastodon has two types of people: people who really want replies to their posts and people who extremely do not.

(I am in the first category, reply away)

tomw,
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The irony of this getting some boosts and likes but no replies

tomw,
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@tokyo_0 I can understand it on some level but it seems to escalate to increasingly furious screeds about how no one should ever reply to them. A bit mystifying

GossiTheDog, to random
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Pretty funny - Nintendo Network shut down today finally and Wii U and 3DS device support ended.

Pretendo, an effort to keep devices online via homebrew, kept quiet an SSL bug which enables them to spoof being Nintendo Network via just a DNS server change 🤣🫡
https://mastodon.pretendo.network/@pretendo/112238381209517548

tomw,
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@GossiTheDog This is interesting because I bet Nintendo would still want to patch this, but also just turned off its capability to do so

Edit: this is a little speculative though as we can't be sure that the online services and OS update mechanism was so tied together as that

baldur, to random
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'This shit's so expensive': a note on generative models and software margins: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/this-shits-so-expensive/

tomw,
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@baldur This particular set of circumstances – loads of money being spent chasing something that is plausibly somewhat useful but also over-hyped – is a recipe for an approximate replay of the dot-com bubble

(I don't like the ethics of AI but I don't think it's a cryptocurrency-level nonsense – and the rush to slap AI on everything is getting reminiscent of every company suddenly declaring itself a web company, funding for dumb ideas if they have AI, etc)

tomw, to random
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Spare me from people who think the answer to "Google sucks now" is a paywalled search engine that gets most of its results from Google anyway

tomw,
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I heard "if you're not paying, you're the product!" so I'll pay some guy to call the Google API for me

I have to log in to do it but he pinky promises not to associate my searches with that account

tomw,
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@datarama That aphorism (not paying/product) is doing so much work for people who are basically just resellers

tomw,
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@DetersHenning I haven't tried it systematically (because costs money etc) but I don't find their free example searches better than Google. Somewhat different, mostly in removing some spammy results it seems, not really better overall. Certainly nothing like the night-and-day of switching from Yahoo (or whatever) to Google back in the day.

gauley, to random
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IMPORTANT SCAM PSA
Theres a new scam going around that's not very obvious and can be easy to fall for! If you see a box with cheese in the middle of it, DONT GO FOR THE CHEESE!

tomw,
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@gauley And I suppose you have a better idea for how to obtain cheese?

I need cheese so I have to go where the cheese is, it's that simple.

billgoats, to solar
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A few folk were going 'blah blah blah your panels are at the wrong angle for your latitude blah blah blah it'l gonna be so bad blah blah blah’ when I showed the polycarbonate bins with a 10~15° angle that they would be installed onto.

Well, here we are with a clear day in early April and they're pumping out 3,500 watts out of a theoretical-maximum-that-will-never-actually-be-reached of 4,000 watts.

That's not so bad, I'd say ☀️

tomw,
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@billgoats @TonyJWells I think this is a general condition of early adopters – it's rare that people want to go through all that effort to get something that operates at, say, 90% of its theoretical capacity, even if 90% is perfectly adequate. Like telling an early computer user that they won't be able to use all their RAM.

tomw, to random
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Everyone just sort of casually agrees that "we live in times of crisis". This is seen as self-evidently true.

But I wonder: when were the times of non-crisis? Which was the most recent not-crisis year, exactly?

tomw,
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@tokyo_0 There was an economic crash that year!

tomw,
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@tokyo_0 Well, the continuation of the 1997 one

rmounce, to random
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My local public library is buying and loaning out AI-generated print-on-demand books, sourced from Kindle Direct Publishing 🙄

Honestly, there are so many good real books out there. How and why are these no-effort Kindle Direct texts are appearing in printed form in libraries - does anyone even look at what they are purchasing?

AFFILIATE MARKETING Experience a Paradigm Shift in Affiliate Marketing through AI-Driven Automation to Achieve Unprecedented Success AFFILIATE MARKETING FOR BEGINNERS BY REGINALD BARTLETT
TRAVEL GUIDE TO BENIDORM 2023 Discovering Benidorm: Your Ultimate Travel Companion For 2023 GREGORY SMITH

tomw,
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@rmounce I wonder if there's a second aspect to this where they produce the book and then put in some kind of lending request themselves that causes a copy to be bought by the library?

tomw, to random
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Oh no. These two things I care about just came together in the worst way:

Israel is USING AI for military targeting.

If a glorified autocomplete thinks you are a militant, you literally get a bomb dropped on your house.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

jsit, to random
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If you search Mastodon for “threads.net” you’ll see a bunch of people wondering why they can’t see President Biden’s account, unaware that they are on an instance that did a full suspend on the threads.net domain.

tomw,
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@samf @jsit But this is a complaint about how the situation displays in the app, not how it functions at protocol level, so "stop focusing on the app" makes no sense as an answer.

tomw,
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@samf @jsit Your position of solving UX concerns by solely focusing on the protocol still makes zero sense.

tomw, to random
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Saw my first ever Threads interaction on here and it was someone using a fedi account to reply to Joe Biden, who is on Threads apparently?

For all the discussion it's been a while and there's been no other sign of it.

tomw, to random
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xz is not a "trusting trust" attack, it is a "your build tools are too complex for you to understand all the input and output" attack.

And guess what: that's very relevant to web development...

tomw,
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People worry about backdoored compilers and undetectable exploits and then go and install 100MB of node modules that we assume someone out there is probably checking idk

tomw, to random
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Today's Google is to 1990s Google as today's Simpsons is to 1990s Simpsons

ocean, to random
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POV: You made the mistake of trying to track a package in 2024

tomw,
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@ocean I have never seen any good implementation on any website ever of those stupid "do a survey about our site" overlays

beep, to random
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You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg

tomw,
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@beep This is very noticeable even on a standard recent (not low-end) phone if you switch between a 3D game and a web page: the game might get 60fps while the web page seems to be reaching about 5.

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