The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.
— Avid Halaby (@AvidHalaby) December 12, 2022
Pixel Accurate Atkinson Dithering for Images in HTML.
Actually including dithered images on the web is fraught with issues. Dithering relies on a precise correspondence between the source image pixels and the display pixels – any attempt to resize a dithered image is going to be either blurry or covered in distracting Moiré patterns. The browser is actively working against us here – it resizes images in a way that makes sense for most images but totally destroys the sharp dithering effect I am going for.
“I” is for “Improvisation”.
Alphabetization aside, this should probably serve as the first entry in my “A” to “Z” series.
Die Reihenfolge, in der die Kerzen (zu Chanukka, ed.) angezündet werden.
Der acht- bis neunarmiger Leuchter, die Chanukkia, darf nicht mit der Menora, dem siebenarmigen Leuchter, verwechselt werden. Für das Entzünden der Kerzen in der Chanukkia gibt es unterschiedliche Traditionen.
taz-Datenprojekt zum Klimaschutz: Heiße Grüße aus Deutschland.
Wie steht es um den Klimaschutz in Deutschland? In einem Datenprojekt hat die taz alle Landkreise in den Bereichen Energie, Mobilität, Landwirtschaft, Abfall und Gebäude verglichen – mit ernüchternden Ergebnissen.
This is a fucking blog, and it’s wonderful. It’s perfect. It allows you to share your words, in your own voice, with no corporate fuckery to fuck it up for you.
Lightweight static analysis for many languages.
Semgrep is a fast, open-source, static analysis engine for finding bugs, detecting vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies, and enforcing code standards.
The Moment Is Me feat. Vella Lovell.
Relevant: The very real issues with ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’.
»Die Auskocherei« ist ein Verein der Unterstützungsleistungen für Hilfsbedürftige Personen in Form von freiem oder verbilligtem Essen anbietet.
Sie verkocht und verarbeitet schon gerettete und trotzdem übrig gebliebene und dennoch genießbaren Lebensmittel. Die daraus entstehenden fertigen Speisen sind dann zum Selbstkostenpreis erhältlich.
Treating Email More Like a Password Manager.
There is a natural tendency that communication tools, which never meant to be security devices, end up being used heavily for security purposes. This happened to both emails and mobile phones. You know, SMS to a mobile phone is still sometimes the only option for a second factor authentication, despite a lot of evidence that it's a very bad idea due to SIM swap attacks (…) And emails are almost universally being used to reset passwords.