Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 6

@amigalove Windows blue screens 🫣

RIP Henry

I’m gonna be offline for a while.

Oh man the issues that people created on this 😂

If you use Chrome, you’re supporting this utter shit (tl;dr Google is moving to ban adblockers by introducing DRM for websites): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

Can’t warn about this—the greatest problem of our age—too often

@jesseplusplus @jonty this is why they’re doing a closed beta, to find and fix these issues.

do you think Mastodon etc never had bugs, even bad ones?

Did they accidentally launch a Tesla?

Once again: the actual child abusers are bible-thumpers, and all the hate and bullshit about trans people is projection https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/maryland-ag-releases-report-on-catholic-church-sex-abuse/ar-AA19vKn1

Someone at Twitter is trying to delete data from from a git repository

Please pass the popcorn

NASA’s crawler-transporters are amazing, they can carry a a whole moon rocket or space shuttle or even a part of a node_modules directory

Health insurance companies are trying to kill my friend Matthew.

The healthcare system in the United States is so extremely fucked up, it's hard to understate just how extremely fucked up it is.

There's literal death panels at insurance companies.

We all should demand change, because this can happen to you even with "great" insurance.

https://twitter.com/mattbc/status/1638932961667035136?s=20

@rysiek @jrozanski Yep! If you do use a CDN (which can be good for many reasons, among them loading larger assets faster because of geographical distribution as well as less attack surface on your application web server) keep it to a single CDN that’s under your control.

@dorigo Yes, this.

Incidentally using browser technologies as much as possible and not using frameworks when avoidable makes this a lot easier because the overall complexity of the markup, styling and code will be massively reduced.

To expand on the web fonts thing, serving yourself gives you:

- fine control over caching behavior
- ability to optimize file sizes better if you spend time removing glyphs you don’t need
- no leaking of private information to third parties (do you really want Google or Adobe seeing all your visitors/customers IPs?)
- self-contained development environments that always work even without a network connection
- ability to do automatic tests without any data leakage to the internet

3 things new web developers should know:

- You don’t need a JavaScript framework at all to make many kinds of perfectly functional web apps
- Chrome’s rendering engine is a fork of Safari’s rendering engine
- You don’t need to load web fonts from a service-use one of the many free converters to create a woff2 from any ttf or otf file

Repost and feel free to add/comment with what you think new web developers should know.

#webdev #web

“But we can’t do anything about big companies shipping lying AIs!”

Have you heard of laws

Fascinating to read from all the Silicon Valley libertarians how society should step in immediately to fix the private business they banked with.

They’re literally calling for “eradication”[1] of trans people now.

If you have Republican “friends” or family in your life and don’t break ties with them you’re supporting genocide.

Yes, you personally.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-trans-kids-eradicated-transgender-michael-knowles_n_64038d23e4b0c78bb7430b1c

I’ve threatened it before but I’m getting ready to sell the bulk of my #Retrocomputing collection. I love them all but don’t have the time they deserve, so looking for good homes.

If you’re interested buying something, please DM me so I can put you on my list to (eventually) invite you to the inventory; I want to give first dibs to other collectors before eBay.

There’s no hard date yet when the inventory will be available.

(Best of you can pick things up in Tucson, AZ but I can ship as well.)

There's a new generation of #COVID deniers now, who are not anti-vaxxers but seems to be well-adjusted "nice people".

I call them "centrist health chauvinists".

They'll tell you that "we don't need masks because we're healthy and it's largely over" but forget about the millions of disabled and immuno-compromised people as well as children and the elderly for which an infection can be a death sentence.

Even for them as healthy, vaccinated individuals the virus can cause life-long disability.