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Browsers vs ScrollTimeline/ViewTimeline vs polyfills vs SVGs vs my poor, poor brain. Wake me when Safari and Firefox work properly. /moan

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Saw a post somewhere that the 18F victims should get together and form a consulting company. There will demand for there services to put together what the DOGE wizards break… https://18f.org

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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Oh wow. I don’t use it anymore but I’ve spent far too much time being forced to use it. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/microsoft-is-retiring-skype-in-may-encouraging-people-to-adopt-teams.html

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My favourite command line error message is and will always remain: tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive #linux

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Went to report a bug on the Parallels forums and I just gotta say: I am impressed. Take notes, website hosts, this is how you respect your users in a dark political time.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

UFW question because I'm an uncomplicated unit with an uncomplicated firewall. Is it possible to limit connections to ssh, except for specified IP addresses? e.g. like this, but works? ufw limit 22/tcp; ufw allow from 192.0.2.10 to any port 22 proto tcp; It turns out that a recursive git pull […]

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Reminder for those using the iOS Patreon app to support their creators: Apple is now taking a 30% cut for new donations through the app, plus whatever Patreon takes. Consider alternate donation methods (including direct to the Patreon website rather than the Apple mobile app). I’ve found, btw […]

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Ethan Marcotte, who is one of the most principled and thoughtful people I have ever known and also a dear friend, has resigned from his job at 18F after being asked to meet with shadowy gov-dismantlers. The whole post is worth reading. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Decided to sign up for #Codeberg, the #GitHub alternative that the Fediverse at large is insisting is worth a try and, in some cases, claiming will improve project contributions by avoiding some of the GH antipatterns. I expected to find some #accessibility issues; this is the modern web, after […]

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

TIL in WordPress, you can create a block (for the block editor) that saves some fields to block attributes and others to post meta (custom fields) 💪 So why would I want to do that? I want the block to render in place in the page content, but I need some information from the post that can be […]

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https://github.com/php-mod/curl/issues/108 #curl

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA https://journa.host/@w7voa/113979636920031167

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

/.well-known/avatar.png as a gravatar alternative

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve often made the point that generative AI is an amazing tech much like asbestos is an amazing material: they have qualities that feel like genuine miracles but at a human cost so high that broad adoption is only possible if human life is devalued beyond what has been acceptable up until now

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Programming languages train you to not want what they don't provide, which is why programmers should learn a wide variety of different styles in order to not take any shit from language designers

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and `echo`! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you […] [Original post on social.smallhack.org]

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

BackWPup has a new version, and… they've shit the bed. Don't upgrade willy-nilly, check it out in a test site. It's a complete rewrite of the admin UI, and for now at least it's broken. I recommend not upgrading this plugin at least until the dust settles, if ever. #Wordpress #WP #BackWPup #backup

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I'm once again asking everyone who got the order to delete or change stuff on their websites etc. pp.: Before doing so, ping us. Either at @SafeguardingResearch or me Also via matrix: @schoeneh:matrix.org We also got a forum to organize: https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/ And a […]

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

I don't just have ADHD, I have AD4K

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Award-winning

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

You can now see which value is the active value in min(), max() and clamp() - in Canary DevTools today - coming to Chrome stable soon!

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Is CSS nesting an exciting new feature or a potential disaster waiting to happen? I note down my worries and prior experience with one of it predecessors: Sass nesting, along with some gotchas native CSS brings with it.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

“WHO DARES AWAKEN ME FROM MY AEONS-LONG SLUMBER?!” “Yes, very good, nice delivery but you’re the sixth one today. You girls should have workshopped your jokes together before going into stasis” “Oh. Ah? How long have we got until the big 10k, and how are my investments doing? And do you still […]

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The threat of Trump EOs has caused the National Science Foundation to pause grant review panels. Critically for Python and PyPI security I spent most of December authoring and submitting a proposal to the "Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems" program. What happens now is […]

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

throwback to my particularly awful agency job, [checks notes], 8 years ago

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Which Large Language Model do you prefer? The one that thinks trans people don’t exist or the one that doesn’t want to talk about Tianmen Square in 1989?

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

Not a single week passes, without me writing an email to a website owner that need to unhook their site's RSS endpoint from Cloudflare's claws. Do it for the sake of preserving your reader's audience! https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users --- […]

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve done lots of work as a #DEI consultant, and heard all the associates complaints and fear-mongering, and the best response I ever heard was probably also the simplest: “DEI is not lowering the bar, it is widening the gate.” If you’re the best of the best, you’ll still rise to the top - […]

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/01/10/Be-aware-of-the-Makefile-effect What he said! (Sadly, they did not mention GNU AutoHell.)

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!) so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE) […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it. "The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND […]

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

GF Address Enhanced v1.32.0 • changed: the code for Indian state Odisha changed from OR to OD • changed: Croatia (HR) support for WooCommerce 9.6.0+ • changed: marked as tested up to WooCommerce 9.6 https://shop.webaware.com.au/gf-address-enhanced-v1-32-0/ #WordPress #GravityForms

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“The first paper recommending not to use MD5 hashing algorithm] for passwords was published in 1995, before PHP was invented, and yet ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ “ —Triss @nirya Healy #everythingopen [#eo2025

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after a rocket exploded, showering debris over the Caribbean. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/statements/general-statements

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

There are a lot of new people coming to the fediverse How about we be nice to them, this time ... They are learning a new platform, give them a chance Hugz & xXx

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I really want to be asking why people would be heading into the office at all if the train is an acceptable WFA environment...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Someone probably already made this, but it seems freshly relevant considering the latest news. https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/ #WPDrama #WordPress

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Adopting an abhorrent policy is - as we are now seeing - another way that a large tech company can institute a stealth layoff.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Amazon has added a new (to me) image/video gallery thing to product pages. For #screenReader users, it's a list of seven buttons that all say "Submit". Hope the team got a big bonus. #accessibility

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Is there any downside to having a non-breaking space character in a page title in HTML, e.g. in an H1? I'm thinking SEO, screen readers, anything? Client really wants something to wrap in a specific place, usual CSS tricks fail but having the non-breaking space (0xA0) keeps things together as […]

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

azureedge.net domain and related Azure services are expected to stop working very soon as Azure's provider, Edgio, has gone bankrupt. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/critical-dotnet-install-links-are-changing/

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

I don't disagree that phones might be harmful for kids' development. I just don't know if they're nearly as harmful as say, repeated covid infections, a collapsing biosphere, a justifiably bleak vision of their future, or even a prevalent lack of agency, independence, and spaces for […]

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment