⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Thats neat https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Oh gawd FireFox has started inserting adverts for other @mozilla services into forms.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1870661

#enshitification

A few last thoughts about Facebook and Threads.

Their claimed user numbers are obviously bullshit. Even taken at face value, millions of people clicking a new button is not millions of people using a new service.

Second, their business is serving ads only. They have as an organization proven, repeatedly, that they will accept any adverse human impact up to and including genocide as long as their graphs go up. Their stated intentions are irrelevant and believing otherwise makes you a mark.

The untold history of web development:

1990: HTML invented
1994: CSS invented to fix HTML
1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS
2006: jQuery invented to fix JS
2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery
2013: React invented to fix AngularJS
2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular
2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React
2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue
2019: React hooks invented to fix React
2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks
2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue
2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid
2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again
2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte
2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites

(by @fireship_dev on Birdsite)

What's wrong with you?

"The story of car bloat—the continually expanding size of the typical American automobile—is one of carmaker profit, shifting consumer preferences, and loophole-riddled auto regulations. It is also a story of hidden costs: to the planet, to taxpayers, and to the American families whose lives have been shattered by a crash that could have been avoided, or at least mitigated, with a smaller vehicle."

https://slate.com/business/2023/12/cars-trucks-suv-sales-electric-safety-risk.html

Batteries Not Included was released 36 years ago today.

"Aliens help a feisty old New York couple in their battle against the ruthless land developer who's out to evict them."

Directed by Matthew Robbins (Dragonslayer, 1981), it was the first movie written by Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles).

Poster art by Drew Struzan.

who wants to play Railroad Tycoon on Memory Uninitialized World?

@john380 @pluralistic Eh-yup.

I largely walked away from Facebook about 5 years ago, but I didn't nuke my account, because I have close family members who still post there, despite agreeing it's horrible, and every so often I go in there to check what they have posted recently. I refuse to post anything new or otherwise interact with it except for this one limited use case -- which *would* go away if my family would start avoiding it consistently, but they don't.

I once asked one of these close family members which of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix was the most terrible; my vote was for Amazon because of its absolutely atrocious labor practices, but his was for Facebook because Amazon at least has something that could be a socially valuable business model if the labor issues were worked out, whereas Facebook's model is actively fucking with billions of people's mental health and social stability. He still actively uses Facebook regardless, largely because of the network effects.

it's a win (so far - now to fit some pens...) #retrocomputing #penplotter #dxy1100

so we've got a function that should write 3 16-bit words to memory. where do we store them?
1. on the stack?
2. AX, BX, CX?
3. pass a pointer to memory?
4. FUCK THAT NOISE, we store 1 in AX, the other in BP (yes the frame pointer), and the third? it's a hardcoded memory location. Fuck you.

guess which one railroad tycoon picked?

#botany #venusflytrap #violence #science

🆕 blog! “The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - 60th Anniversary Specials”

Let's do the time warp again! If you're new to the blog series, this is where I attempt to identify all the mobile phones used by The Doctor and their companions. The 2023 shows were an absolute blast. Some classic stories and a whole lot of running around. But were there any phon…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/the-mobile-phones-of-doctor-who-60th-anniversary-specials/
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#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoPhones

As of 12:00 today, I'm on holiday until the new year.

For those of you who didn't ask for a hard copy, here's @decodedlegal's 2023 Christmas card.

Massive thanks to @JenJen for this most beautiful work of art.

#lawfedi #Christmas