Mark Malstrom

@markmalstrom
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Wake me up when the DEFCON levels have changed.

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Pronounsthey/them
LocationAustin, TX
Websitehttps://malstrom.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/markmals
This doesn't remove my own critiques of ATP or my concerns about what's going to happen in terms of if more and more infrastructure comes online. But Blacksky, and Rudy especially, *are* doing the work, and deserve praise and respect here for that.
About a month ago I went to Mexico City for the first time and it was a blast 🇲🇽 also… I’m blogging again!

A Week in Tenochtitlan
A Week in Tenochtitlan

Exploring Mexico City for the first time

It’s great to see Tailwind CSS V4 using OKLCH and wide gamut colours. Here’s a gamut test that shows which colours are within sRGB (shown as greyscale) and which colours require Display P3 (shown as their original colour).

now is a good time to remind folks that servo exists and is making good progress: https://servo.org/blog/

the next few years are looking grim without an independent browser engine like servo

RE: https://goblin.band/notes/a4sxb7w3nv5tkojz

Blog - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Servo

I respect content warnings but cannot abide—just does not line up for me with a voluntary publisher-subscriber model. I fundamentally can’t tailor my posts to the tastes of everyone who elects to follow me.

What drove this home has been layoff & looking-for-work posts. Each one of those that gets boosted feels like javelin being slowly pushed through my chest. That’s my problem. I can’t expect the network to adapt to me, or to weigh my anguish against others’ unemployment. Fundamentally.

Apple Lawyers: "are we sure it's OK to train our LLM on this code? The license says 'attribution required'…"

Apple Engineers: "no problem:"

Apple Silicon Inside Stickers

From the M1 to the M4 Max & everything in between!
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/apple-silicon-stickers

Apple Silicon Inside Stickers — Basic Apple Guy

Apple Silicon Inside Stickers - from the M1 to the M4 Max & everything in between!

Basic Apple Guy
User privacy & safety is a temporary luxury, granted to Apple during peacetime by the governments in the regions in which it operates. There's a whole lot that Apple says it stands for, that its marketing desperately wants us to believe, that won't hold up when push really comes to shove (as can be seen elsewhere in the world). It was always an illusion
Jake Wharton (@[email protected])

Well, I will simply self-host my own instance of the government for just me and my friends.

Mastodon

Perhaps nothing encapsulates Apple's decline in user respect more than the transformation of the Settings app on ALL of their platforms into an advertising vehicle.

Which is impressive, considering it's competing with App Store search ads and using notifications for marketing.