bowser, king of the koopas @akorphan@code4lib.social

@sydneyfalk I'm a big proponent of Occam's Kitchen Razor: "Logic boards should not be multiplied without necessity."

me, joking: it's the future. why doesn't every object have am antenna poking out on top

me, seriously: why do we have to create the grand internet of every fucking object out of perfectly good appliances, drink containers, and lotion bottles ffs

parent: get out, it's time to go
kid: but i am out

Two of the most astute IP scholars I know also happen to be two of the best legal writers I know, and also happen to work at one of the worst IP abusers in the country: Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, of Duke University, the nation's leading academic trademark abuser.

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Dune (1984)

I seem to be in the minority here but a web page should be able to load its content without needing JavaScript. If your page only loads an empty wireframe without JavaScript, you’ve failed at the web. Bare minimum, load the fucking content. If it’s being pulled dynamically, do that server side and then generate a damn page.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.

A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violen

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

#/etc/ #html5 #web #weeknotes #work

Protip: if you style yourself to be a web "expert" ("maven", "guru", "ninja", etc), but still make your website so JS-heavy that it's basically unusable, you should reconsider your life choices.

No, JS-based parallax effect is not "cool" if it makes scrolling a slideshow on a rather beefy 2-year-old laptop.

Go to your room and think about what you did.

OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR hairless cat!

@brainwane The joke is its own punchline:

¿Que hacen las vacas cuando tienen tiempo libre? ¡Se toman vacaciones!

Australians: have you ever (gone to) put on an item of clothing and discovered a large spider inside it?

Pls boost for larger sample size

@Cyborgneticz Here's a recipe for That Gumbo I Was Making At #SummerSchool:

What you need:
Big dutch oven
Onion, garlic, bell pepper, celery, maybe a carrot why not
1 lb andouille or (GASP) similar smoked sausage
Flour
1 lb some sort of meat (shrimp good, chicken acceptable, whatever really)
2 qt Stock To Match The Meat, homemade if you can swing it
Diced tomatoes
Some okra, frozen OK
Salt
Pepper
Gumbo file
Thyme
Bay leaf?
Cayenne if you want, I'm not your boss

A group known as "fightbigtech" has been creating a ton of spammy instances full of rightwing agitprop.

Here's a list of the ones I could find:

- tweety.icu
- katiehopkinspolitical.icu
- voicenews.icu
- antivaxxer.icu
- theduran.icu
- censorship.icu
- political.icu

I would recommend general suspicion of any .icu domain, seeing as they're cheap — don't autoblock them, but perhaps check their content if they show up.

#FediBlock