jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a very sweet story https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gay-dad-married-mom-death_n_66537775e4b09d0995d6edd0

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

jann@twit.social ("(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't Forget. - HuffPost

@lisamelton 😭😭🤔😊
https://apple.news/AM-7zODLIR3mwrTyle0y35A

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Hunter Biden is a convicted felon. That settles it--I won't vote for him for president. (See how easy that is, Trumpsters?)

Other observations:

Hunter Biden is facing more consequences for buying a gun than Kyle Rittenhouse has for using one to kill two people.

President Biden hasn't whined about how badly his family is treated, insulted judges, or tried to dox jurors.

The differences are profound. Make sure you vote in November!

Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

Good summary of #Project2025 from the Biden-Harris Campaign:

Attachments:

• Summary of Project 2025: (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ovid@fosstodon.org ("Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)") wrote:

I just want to say that @theory used to be my boss when he owned a company called Kineticode. Not only was he an awesome boss, he was also a fantastic person.

The fact that he's a brilliant geek is just icing on the cake. If you care about #PostgreSQL, listen to what he has to say. He's solid on all fronts.

https://fosstodon.org/@posetteconf@mastodon.social/112599787197692419

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:

How is Digital Ocean building/configuring their network such that planned maintenance as part of upgrades to their core routers still result in outages?

During the above window, our Networking team will be performing maintenance on core switches in our NYC1 datacenter as part of network upgrades.

Expected Impact:

We anticipate brief interruptions in network traffic from Droplets and Droplet-based services. This impact would be for a duration of 5 to 10 seconds and could occur a few times within the maintenance window. We will endeavor to keep any such impact to a minimum.

Didn't we figure out how to put two network cables into a server, each from a different router like... 2 decades ago? Ditto for incoming feeds and so on.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never wanna be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
I need a love to keep me happy
I need a love, baby, won't y'keep me happy
Baby, won't y'keep me happy
Baby, please keep me

https://youtu.be/1175axY2Vvw?si=bKiReJKtFFKYuqw8

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"I may attempt to stay alive until the year 2099, purely so that I can make an aggressively spite-filled horror movie about Peppa Pig."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/11/mickey-mouse-the-horror-movie-screamboat

yes!

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

Taotica@troet.cafe ("TaoTao") wrote:

Feel it, love it 🥰

Attachments:

• JOMO (noun) Joy of Missing Out. Feeling content with staying in and disconnecting as a form of self care. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

There was some concern the news regarding Lynn Conway's passing was incorrect, but unfortunately there is confirmation:

https://news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-legacy-of-lynn-conway-chip-design-pioneer-and-transgender-rights-advocate/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

TechConnectify@mas.to ("Technology Connections") wrote:

This again?

This again.

https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Four boosts and seven likes... This is getting even more traction than I imagined! :thonking:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

To the extent that Apple will not sell devices at every price-point, these statements are fundamentally incompatible:

• "Privacy. That's iPhone"
• "Privacy is a fundamental human right"

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

draco@sonomu.club wrote:

All the music I'm proud of that I published under the name the_emergent is now on #mirlo: https://mirlo.space/the-emergent

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I don't understand why it isn't seen as fundamentally offensive to self-styled "privacy advocates" that Apple's approach to privacy is to make it a luxury product.

Imagine if every dollar FruitCo spent to defeat right-to-repair had been matched to support real privacy laws!

Instead, the idea is that privacy should be for the rich ("buy your mom an iPhone"), nevermind the sloganeering.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ErisCaffee@masto.ai ("Eris :trans:") wrote:

Famous electrical engineer and trans woman Lynn Conway has died. May her memory be a blessing.

#LynnConway #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #transgender #computer #engineer

Attachments:

• Partial transcription of obituary. Lynn Ann Conway January 2, 1938 - June 9, 2024 Prepared by Dallas Denny June 10, 2024 Lynn Ann Conway was an electrical engineer, computer scientist, and an activist on behalf of transgender people. She died in Jackson, Michigan on Sunday, June 9, 2024 of heart trouble. Lynn was born in Mount Vernon, New York on January 2, 1938. She was a reserved but exceptionally bright student who attended MIT but did not graduate due a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful gender transition. She continuing her education at Columbia University, where she earned B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1962 and 1963, respectively. In 1994, she accepted a position as a researcher at IBM's facility in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, she worked with others on an advanced supercomputer project. She was fired in 1968 when it became known that she intended to transition. IBM later apologized for that action. That same year, Lynn consulted Dr. Harry Benjamin and became a patient. She completed her gender transition, also in 1968. In a divorce, she was denied the right to visit with her minor children. Using her new name, Lynn continued work as a computer research scientist, working at Computer Applications, Inc., Memorex, and, Xerox PARC, and DARPA. In 1985, she became a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan and, simultaneously, Associate Dean of Engineering. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

[ for the 4th time today ]

Names and dates on docs. Every time. Don't forget.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Elevator pitch: It's the Emacs of social media platforms.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Worth your time:

https://patrickbrosset.com/articles/2024-06-10-my-analysis-of-the-state-of-html-2023-results/

by @patrickbrosset

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

It will never stop astounding me that, for all of our sophistication as a species and as a society, we still hold on to the primitive notion that a person's rights should be determined by *where they were born.*

We're somehow still stupid enough to think it matters where your mother was when you came out of her.

The idea is precisely as archaic as any prehistoric lizard-brained illiterate barbarism you can think of.

And yet...here we are, in the year 20-fucking-24, assigning rights on THAT.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's hard to get worked up about Hunter Biden's conviction.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/also-guilty-guilty-guilty/

Attachments:

• Hunter Biden (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

thisisjofrank ("Jo Franchetti") wrote:

Love using @deno_land in VSCode?
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tonybaloney.vscode-pets Deno is now an available pet in VSCode pets! Get your lil Deno code companion 💚🦕

Attachments:

• a4502b12f0990eb1.mp4

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I'm worried some of you may have stopped calling lawmakers about congestion pricing

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

kirb@hachyderm.io ("Adam Demasi") wrote:

Do you think they’re working on IP over Lithium-ion technology?

Attachments:

• Screenshot of the macOS Sequoia Settings app, the Battery item has mysteriously moved into the top section where networks are, between Network and VPN. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

When will the conspiracy theorists ever learn?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/let-the-lab-leak-conspiracy-theory-die-already/

Attachments:

• Lab leak? IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY! (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Meetup in London! I'll be talking about #RustLang's paradox of promising safety while allowing unsafe code.

https://innovateinteractcf.splashthat.com/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

Librarians and Civil Society push back. https://www.arl.org/news/libraries-civil-society-push-back-on-ndaa-copyright-amendment-based-on-pro-codes-act/ Standards people trying to sneak their amendment into the defense act. For shame.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

From Texas to Minnesota, the butts have been saved.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/weiner-saves-texas-butts/

Attachments:

• Michelangelo's David, rear view (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Richard Strauss born, Munich, Germany, 1864

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Greeks seize Troy, 1184 BCE

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

autumn@tech.lgbt ("Autumn Mahoney :sparkletrans:") wrote:

I'm so sorry to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She was an inspiration, and I had hoped to meet her someday.

Thank you so much, Lynn. May you be at peace.

Attachments:

• "If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there." — Lynn Conway (remote)

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Is there a worse software than #Discord out there about start-up time? Every time I open it, at least one update, which requires tons of time to be executed.

Attachments:

• A rotating Discord logo with text "Starting" blow, the classic start-up widget used by this software. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Any UI is terrible if you are not familiar with it and have no time to learn it while trying to put food on the table.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Let's assume for a second that all FOSS tools have terrible UI (taking an exaggerated position commonly seen online). Even if you "fix" these UIs, I think you will still see people locked into using proprietary software if the FOSS UIs aren't exactly like the proprietary ones and as long as proprietary tools have marketing budget and are taught in schools (an extension of marketing).

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

amigalove ("Amiga Love ❤") wrote:

Echoes of the 1984 commercial came full circle today

#Apple

Attachments:

• photo of Tim Cook on a gigantic outdoor screen presenting to people at Apple headquarters. There are hundreds of seats looking on - the only thing missing is a woman athlete running up the middle aisle with a hammer.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Bodie Hodge has a new gig.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/continuing-shake-up-at-aig/

Attachments:

• Bodie Hodge (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

Another concept of range slider using modern CSS features.

This time, the tooltip will adjust its shape to stay within the boundaries of the slider. Even the radius will adjust when the tail get closer to the corners.

Still 100% CSS magic.

Demo: https://codepen.io/t_afif/full/vYweZQa via :codepen: @codepen

Online Version: https://css-tip.com/range-slider-tooltip-2/

#CSS #HTML

Attachments:

• 63b56b3a8b77103b.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

boris@toolsforthought.social ("Boris Mann") wrote:

Announcing LOCALHOST: a week of tech, media, and other explorations of how to create things we can own together. https://writing.dwebyvr.org/announcing-localhost/

July 20th - 28th in Vancouver, community events around the #IETF120 meetings

The Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf is pretty unknown to many. It's one of the major Standards Development Organizations involved in the architecture and governance of the Internet.

#LOCALHOSTVan #Vancouver #event
1/2

Attachments:

• A poster for LOCALHOST Vancouver with text showing dates July 20th - 28th, and a shot of downtown vancouver from the water showing Harbour Centre tower. (remote)

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

Kicking off @csswg face to face meetings hosted this week at @igalia 🎉

Attachments:

• Members of the CSS working group sat around a long U shaped table with a screen showing remote participants at the end (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Took the bus to work yesterday, so I had some time to doodle. Why do I always end up drawing Olivia all sexy, even though it’s totally out of character for her? 😫 …but it suits her so well… 👀

#mastoart #sketch #sketchbook #shadowrun #hacker #OrcCharacter #rpgCharacter

Attachments:

• Open sketchbook on a table showing a drawing done with pink and black pen. It shows an adult orc meta human woman hanging upside down, nude, but wrapped in different cables, covering her chest and arms. She has her arms above her head, one hand slightly touching her face as she grins and looks at the viewer. Drawn in black, shaded with pink and a black shaded background for contrast. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

"Yes, I *do* read all of the terms of every license I sign and avail myself of all available market and legal redress to the fullest extent, making only fully comprehended decisions, entering into binding contractual arrangements only when I have fully contemplated and priced the long-term consequences" is a hell of a drug.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's the same lie as libertarian notions of spontaneously self-organizing national infrastructure; viciously stupid, but wannabe rich people love to revel in dreams premised on always being young, wealthy, and able.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Silicon Valley privacy kayfabe is exhausting.

If you want privacy, vote in people who will pass a damned privacy law. If you don't care about privacy...I guess, sure? Let data collectors and ad companies (yes, that includes Apple) mislead you into thinking there can be a market clearing price for data at rest that individuals can meaningfully participate in.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

"but Alex, that's gatekeeping"

Maybe.

And maybe that's OK.

We are responsible for the predictable consequences of our actions, and inequality is self-perpetuating without counter-forces.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

you, dear reader, might ask "but Alex, *does* it need to be said?" and I must sadly...

[ gestures wanly at today's inbox of traces ]

...suggest "yes" and also that sending hundreds of KB of JS *uncompressed* should result in some sort of web license revocation.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I can't believe I have to say this, but....writing to disk, synchronously, is not free. Not even on NVMe flash.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:

“ok rudy the mugshot will be public so just look cool and confident”
“got it”
“like just a neutral face”
“yeah”
“nothing weird”
“ok”
“I guess I’m saying don’t look like gollum cumming into a dead frog he found in a cave”
“…”

Attachments:

• image description: rudy giuliani looking exactly like gollum at the exact moment he cums into a dead frog (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

— hi i'd like a machine that helps me do the things i want to do
— best i can get you is a machine that does things that are statistically likely

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

BritishKoalaTea@social.coop ("Alison") wrote:

New server #Introduction post!
I'm an English-American, born in the UK and immigrated to the US. I work in software, I love my two cats, and I live in the Midwest.

I'm a crafter, I #knit, #sew, spin yarn, #carve wooden spoons, I am experimenting with drawing and watercolour.

I'm studying #DataScience because I love patterns. Avid #FountainPen user because they make my writing better.

Third degree black belt in #karate (Sandan) with Tracy's Karate.

I love #PunsAndJokes!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

At which point YouTube, being a JavaScript SPA without any actual concept of pages cached for a short time gives me the middle finger by filling the home page with a completely different set of videos.

Stop trying to be smart, assholes!

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

You know what downright INFURIATES me about Modern Web Applications™? Broken browser controls. I go to YouTube, I see an interesting thumbnail and I want to open it in a separate tab, but I *accidentally* click a different one… So it navigates to that page, and then I want to do what the browser paradigm has been really, REALLY good at, and why it won over native apps in the 90s: I just want to go back. (cont.)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Listening to Alabama Shakes on Apr 5, 2012

https://wolfgangs.app.link/oczY7ymqkKb

Attachments:

• 4ddacf9b0ca91477.png (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

alcinnz@floss.social ("Adrian Cochrane") wrote:

The lifecycle of a tech bubble - Baldur Bjarnason:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/bubble-lifecycles/

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

fla ("Fla") wrote:

Google asks every app to have a Privacy Policy to be accepted in the Play Store. So, xScreenSaver had to write a privacy policy.

Here you go:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

nmann ("Nils") wrote:

iOS 18 supports dual language keyboards. So no more need to have multiple keyboards active, making it easier to switch between keyboard and emoji picker 🎉
I reported this as a feature request, great that it got added!

Attachments:

• dbc4fc9588d1727b.jpeg
• d065f148b5ae789b.jpeg
• 13c1843c3b1b83eb.jpeg

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

checkervest@laserdisc.party ("there might be owls") wrote:

I met a friend as I was leaving the office!

Attachments:

• A gorgeous Luna moth clinging to a rusty chain link fence (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

nafnlaus@fosstodon.org ("Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

Kudos to the #BBC for following up on this.

#Ukraine #NAFO #Russia #Crimea #CrimeaIsUkraine

Attachments:

• 9910142a52da9bf7.png (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

No, thank you. Not gonna read Tablet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/10/i-dont-need-to-know-what-tablet-is/

Attachments:

• Sinai Award: given to some of the most godawful bigots I've heard of (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky (is looking for work)") wrote:

I need to read more Ursula but this looks like a great turn of events for her home (and such a generative one): https://apnews.com/article/ursula-k-le-guin-home-writers-residency-8a119efb584b4446056c12405186f4fd

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mhoye wrote:

Look, it's not so much that the failing and ML-containerization of search keep you from finding the answers to problems you care about. It's that they keep you from finding the people who share your problems or care about the same things you do.

In a world of forums, whether it's reddit or discourse or phpbb or anything, search is a soft path to social discovery, in the way view-source was once a soft path to collaboration. This isn't going away by accident. This is being taken from us.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mhoye wrote:

"Mexican Computers: A Brief Technical and Historical Overview":

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04912

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Damn, they brought the calculator to the iPad. Unbelievable #wwdc24

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We eagerly await her due date.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/10/the-new-family-has-been-efficiently-transferred/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlgZL-8sTU8

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:

the Amaranth simulator documentation is now live! https://amaranth-lang.org/docs/amaranth/latest/simulator.html

The stabilization process of the Standard Library has begun

The Deno Standard Library is going to reach 1.0.0 shortly. We hope you try RC versions of the packages and give us feedback!

Continue Reading…

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Ernest Chausson dies in Limary, Seine-et-Oise, France, 1899

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Judy Garland is born, 1922

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: First Apple ][ shipped, 1977

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

scy@chaos.social wrote:

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

Attachments:

• XScreenSaver for Android • Privacy Policy Unlike Google, XScreenSaver collects no user data. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver uses no user data, having collected no user data. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver shares no user data, having collected no user data. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver has no need to process requests for deletion of that user data, having collected no user data. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will honor deletion requests if you email us asking to delete all none of your user data that does not exist. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never share user data with anyone, as it has no user data to share. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never build an un-auditable personal profile of you. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never use cookies. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never track your location. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never track your location even if you asked them not to. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never track your location and lie about it. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never prevent you from running an ad blocker. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never restrict your ability to extend the software to protect your own privacy and security. (continues off screen) (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

The we're about to witness the one of a kind alignment of Apple-prefixed product naming scheme with the iProduct naming scheme:

Ai

i

#cicadas

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

-- Stan Kelly-Bootle

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

"WE ARE THE SPIDERS OF THIS HOUSE" is my official blog anthem.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/10/and-now-i-have-an-official-blog-poem/

Attachments:

• happy face spider (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

My policy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/10/my-new-motto/

Attachments:

• Bob the Angry Flower thinks about "What would Conan do?" and throws someone who has annoyed him off the castle wall. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

yuanchuan@vis.social wrote:

Here's css-doodle code of the second image. It may freeze your browser so I didn't create the CodePen link.

Attachments:

• css-doodle code for second image: @grid: 5 / 432px ^8 *50deg ~ -1.5% 1.9%; @seed: 1717968675285; :container { filter: @svg-filter(.013, 20, 10, seed=@r900); } background: conic-gradient( from @r(360deg), @m10.@P( #F5D700, #003A59, #00609A, #6E746E, #E2E0B8, #1E272B, #468495, #E1E0CA, #666F75, #84A16A, #413B4E, #98AEC7, #979DA4 ) ); border-radius: 50%; mix-blend-mode: overlay; transform: rotate(@r(360deg)); filter: contrast(1.15) @M10.@svg-filter(.013 .001, 100, 10, seed=@r90) @M10.@svg-filter(1.013, @r100, 20, seed=@r90) @svg-filter(dilate=@p(0, 0)) (remote)

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Apple WWDC keynote leaked in full just hours before!!!!1

Attachments:

• The words AI drop like an anvil on a black screen. (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

rachsmith ("Rach Smith") wrote:

“Children see magic because they look for it” - Christopher Moore

Daily #handlettering no. 10

Attachments:

• “children see magic because they look for it” in watercolor calligraphy

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Remember, electricity killed the shark in Jaws 2.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/10/the-great-shark-vs-electrocution-debate/

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• Shark in Jaws 2 meets its demise (remote)

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

I suppose I should post something introductory now that I'm on my own instance.

I'm a Linux lady who used to work in COBOL development and assorted legacy systems management gigs.

Nowadays I make videos and occasional blog posts about Linux and vintage/retro tech. Entirely supported by viewers like you (no sponsors as of writing). Links in bio.

Are we still doing hashtags?

#linux #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #amiga #commodore #homelab #unix #peertube #youtube

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Busy morning -- I've got to move my preggers black widow into a safer box with no openings small enough for a spiderling.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/10/uh-oh-4/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hah! truthfully, @CARROT

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

This week I'm helping organize a CSS Working Group Face-to-face meeting at @igalia's office in A Coruña, Spain. It's been a bit hectic, but it seems like almost everything is ready now for the event to start tomorrow.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

These thoughts brought to you by the kiddo struggling to learn to read and write, and they're running head long into how irregular the spelling is for most of the language.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

It's the least of this language's problems, but I'm still kinda mad that zh is not an acceptable digraph, despite the sound existing in words like "vision", "collision", "precision", and "coercion".

Also, "of" should be spelled "uv" like I did on my first writing assignment in 3rd grade after returning from summer break.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If you think about it, the object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Follow up to LB[1]: Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul's set on KEXP is a delight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9poMU5bcE14

In particular, this "HAHA" is something else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzR6Y0rcTCc

[1] https://ravenation.club/@etherdiver/112588909136912553

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etherdiver@ravenation.club ("Ether Diver") wrote:

Jeremy Blake/Red Means Recording is maybe the most vital creator in the synth/electronic music YouTube sphere, and his latest video essay is not just a brilliant defense of politics in electronic music, it's also a great intro to a ton of cool-ass acts you might not have heard of. Go give it a watch!

https://youtu.be/inoQYzzuIgM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Anyway, it's as good a time as any to re-read The Open Society & Its Enemies.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's a sallow thing that the 20th century gave us Bertrand Russell, Arendt, Orwell, and Popper only to have their mountain of clarity torn down by the very forces they documented and warned against.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Whoops. One of my black widows made an egg sac. My wife is going to freak out & make me kick that hussy out of her house.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've made a #shadertoy!

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MXGGR3

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've noticed that when #rendering using raymarching adding a random start offset creates dithering, and makes rays look contiguous even with very few samples.

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• a shadertoy scene - crepuscular rays with harshly dithered edges, but no discontinuous patches

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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inkscape@mastodon.art ("Inkscape") wrote:

We can't believe we need to say this, but…

your files are yours.

The #Inkscape project will never peek at your files, and what's yours stays on your computer.

#floss #ArtWithOpenSource #freesoftware

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

My version of Easter. The spiders have risen, hallelujah!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/09/maybe-we-can-call-it-dark-easter/

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daniel@social.dhelonious.de ("Dr. Daniel Dizdarevic") wrote:

Some fun facts:

(1) Antimatter is currently the most expensive material in the world. Its production at CERN costs over 62 trillion USD per gram! In second place is actinium at a mere 29 billion USD.

[🧵 9/11]

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RedCyberPandaz@zoner.work ("Pandy") wrote:

Stolen and posted to add alt text.

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• An image if a tweet from "Custard Smingleigh @Smingleigh" It reads "I remember when email was useful. Now its all. Confirm your email address for Slorp. Thank you for creating a Slorp account. Slorp is now BONTO! BONTO!'s terms and conditions have changed. BONTO! misses you. BONTO! is shutting down." (remote)

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

If you could watch an individual water molecule, about once in 10 hours you'd see it do this!

As it bounces around, every so often it hits another water molecule hard enough enough for one to steal a hydrogen nucleus - that is, a proton - from the other!

The water molecule with the missing proton is called a hydroxide ion, OH⁻. The one with an extra proton is called a hydronium ion, H₃O⁺.

This process is called the 'autoionization' of water. Thanks to this, roughly one in ten million molecules in a glass of water are actually OH⁻ or H₃O⁺, not the H₂O you expect.

And this explains why protons can move through water much more easily than larger ions can. Let's watch how it works.

(1/n)

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• Two water molecules bump into each other, and the one at left steals a hydrogen from the one at right, producing a hydronium ion at left and a hydroxide ion at right. Manuel Almagro Rivas - Own work Self-ionization of water as an animation. Made with Avogadro and GIMP. This file is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoionizacion-agua.gif and it's licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. (remote)