Derek Martin

Dad. Web developer. Paranormal & cryptid investigator.

2025-06-20

This is baaaaad for the web, and the only way I see to fix it is for the law to stomp hard on those corporations that slurp up copyrighted works for free.

But will Chinese law follow suit, or would it prefer for DeepSeek to become dominant, copyright be damned? What about other countries?
mas.to/@carnage4life/114716225

2025-06-20

@grmpyprogrammer šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø

2025-06-20

Easy to say when you spend half your working days golfing on a golf course that you own.

The *only* reason workers wouldn’t want those holidays is that it might be harder to pay their bills on their sub-standard wages.

2025-06-20

@hollie back in the day, this site is where everyone turned for professional web dev advice. Here’s an article about semantic html5. alistapart.com/article/semanti

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2025-06-19

Remind me how many of Gaza's hospitals were destroyed by Israel?
Oh, all of them? Yes, war crimes.
Maybe they can share a cell at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

cbsnews.com/news/israel-iran-w

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Cabel Sassercabel@panic.com
2025-06-19

*kicks open your front door, breathlessly* the guy that wrote ā€œspooky scary skeletonsā€ also wrote the golden girls theme song

2025-06-19

The fact that this is happening for real is absolutely terrifying. It’s a new and very unwelcome kind of #firstworldproblems
fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

2025-06-19

@mhoye I saw them live in Toronto, and it blew my mind when they played a jazz/funk set right in the middle of the show. I had no idea that they played instruments or jazz/funk. 🤯

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Andrea Junker :verified:Strandjunker@mstdn.social
2025-06-19

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of these two facts:

1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.

Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

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iFixitiFixit
2025-06-18

The @frameworkcomputer Laptop 12 might be the most repair-friendly laptop we’ve ever opened. Seriously. It’s shockingly easy to take apart, and for a touchscreen convertible, that’s rare. It earned a 10/10 on our repairability scale thanks to clever engineering choices:

- Screwless SSD clip.
- Cable-free battery removal.
- Clearly labeled mainboard.
- QR codes on every major part.

We tore it down. You can fix it up.

Full article: ifixit.com/News/111201/tough-t

A randomly arranged flat lay of disassembled Framework Laptop 12 components, including the motherboard, cooling fan, RAM, battery, camera module, ports, tools, and lavender-colored case pieces. The scene is brightly lit on a white background.
2025-06-18

@mick pick (almost) any 6 politicians.

2025-06-18

@mhoye šŸ˜‚ that guy was so wrong.

2025-06-17

@baldur Maybe this will finally give someone a reason to pour loads of money into The Internet Archive / Wayback Machine. šŸ¤ž

2025-06-17

@viticci @gruber This made me smile

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2025-06-16

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/11

A stacked bar chart titled "Causes of death in the US: What Americans die from, what they search on Google, and what the media reports on". It compares what people actually die from versus what people search for on Google, and what the NYT and Guardian report on. It neatly illustrates that while people are most likely to die from cancer and heart disease, they search very little for heart disease, and focus too much on diabetes, suicide, and terrorism. Meanwhile, the media sources focus a wildly disproportionate amount on terrorism, homicide and suicide, while virtually ignoring heart disease.

Some number: In reality, people die mostly from heart disease (30.2%) and cancer 29.5%. There are much smaller shares for road incidents (7.6%), lower respiratory disease (7.4%), Alzheimer’s (5.6%), stroke (4.9%), diabetes (3.8%),. Suicide is only 1.8%, homicide only 0.7%, and terrorism is barely 0.01%.

The media are even more out of whack with reality: The NYT and Guardian devote 35.6% of their death-related coverage to terrorism and 22.8% to homicide, while devoting only 13.5% to cancer and barely 2.3% to heart disease. The media sources devote roughly 13% of their death-related coverage to cancer, about half as much as it occurs in reality.

Basically, the chart shows that while people and media perceive the role of cancer somewhat accurately in causing, people overstate the role of terrorism, homicide and suicide -- and media wildly overstate terrorism and homicide.
2025-06-16

@yogthos That’s both obvious and useless. Companies *only* care if it makes you more productive.

2025-06-16

LOL. WhatsApp better get ready to say goodbye to its more discerning users. 9to5mac.com/2025/06/16/whatsap

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Alex Rockpierstoval
2025-06-16

After years and years, I found out that having super empathetic friends who don't judge you, who are as objective as possible whilst defending you, willing to protect and support you, have good listening skills, and are informed about the issues you might have, is way more effective than having a therapist.

I try my best to be like that with my close friends, and some of them are like that to me, and it's one of the most precious things I've ever earned in life, I think.

2025-06-15

@tuomas_h I wish the entire left sidebar was a single section so I could mix and rearrange the icons exactly as I see fit. I don’t want it separated into Favourites and Locations. That’s not how I think about things.

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