collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
An absolute banger on the ludicrous impossibility of colonizing Mars, as some billionaires fetishize.
"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
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lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:
I have received numerous requests for more Fishy pictures, so here's one from today. Please feel free to comment your favorite thing about Fishy and I will read it to him. He may not be fluent in English, but I believe he has a basic understanding of the language. He just chooses to ignore words such as "don't eat that", "get off the counter", and "please stop biting me".
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is hilarious
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an ugly time in our country
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
form the “Dealbook” email newsletter:
“Short sellers are circling. This month, traders have netted about $35 million betting against Trump Media — a big turnaround from April — according to S3 Partners, a financial data company.
On the flip side, some stocks associated with Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic agenda soared. Two standouts: First Solar gained more than 15 percent, and SolarEdge Technologies was up 8.5 percent.”
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Sincerely held, but extremely unimportant opinion:
Slippery surfaces in video games are lazy bullshit.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
just shut up geese
it is too damned early
Winter can wait it’s turn for a while longer
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I made today's NYT crossword puzzle! Hope you enjoy!
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
6th CAV was organized for the Civil War. they fought a hard War, then again campaigned hard in the Apache Wars. SGT Armstrong likely had an ‘interesting’ career
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Cavalry_Regiment?wprov=sfti1
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'd rather deal with the yellowjackets than Dave Rubin. Ick.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/12/can-we-cancel-this-weird-creep-now/
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badastro ("Phil Plait") wrote:
The BepiColombo spacecraft passed an incredible *165* km above Mercury's surface and took some truly amazing shots of the planet!
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/incredible-shots-mercury-bepicolumbo-steals-energy
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This goes hard:
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
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fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:
Web sites are so hyper-inefficient for the same reason C/C++ are so hyper-unsafe: When you have no guardrails — not even positive affordances, let alone bare-minimum Falling Rocks signs — you get people driving all over the place without even realizing they're not on the road anymore.
OOB accesses and UAFs everywhere? You need guardrails and affordances.
14 MiB of JS and 10 6 MiB JPEGs scaled to thumbnail size? You need...
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Ever since moderate liberals decided we weren't doing the defund the police thing we stopped acknowledging state-sponsored gun violence. 🙃
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Can we be mad at cops now?
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I Wish I Didn’t Miss the ’90s-00s Internet | rohan ganapavarapu
"I wish I was around when people had blogs or even myspace. This era was deeply personal and creative. Most writing on the internet was individual, not written in search of “SEO” or profit but driven by the need and want of people to share knowledge–pure curiosity." https://rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I couldn't resist. I poked a yellowjacket nest.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/11/flirting-with-danger/
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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:
proposal: instead of the fediverse we could call it tootyland.
and when you’re an admin of an instance you’re rooty tooty
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If you make a meal that involves cheese you are entitled to bonus appetizer cheese. Those are the rules.
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MOOMANiBE ("Aura/Moom") wrote:
if there's one thing I'm learning from a lot of the incredibly kind things people have been saying to me on cohost over the last day or two it's that it's worth doing things becuase you find them enjoyable even if there's no immediate, obvious reaction
we're so trained to only care about likes and reblogs but there's so many people who read, don't interact, but still have a positive experience, and that is valuable.
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impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:
Org chart of
Raytheon
https://theorg.com/org/raytheon-technologiesLockheed
https://theorg.com/org/lockheed-martinGeneral Dynamics https://theorg.com/org/general-dynamics
Northrop Grumman https://theorg.com/org/northrop-grumman
Bae Systems https://theorg.com/org/bae-systems
US tax dollars are enriching these executives amid the ongoing genocide.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Free market technocrats won't save the new social web. They broke the old one.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
In a digital community, metrics like happiness and safety among its members are important and prioritized because the decision-makers are also community members.
In a digital market, there are few metrics more valuable than "average time on site." So they prioritize posts with a lot of comments. Posters notice, so they make the type of content that gets the most comments. Rage bait.
Users are spending a lot of time in the markets, but no one is happy.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Caching headers still look b0rked, and did I mention 4MB (24MB unzipped) of critical-path JS?
But progress. Real progress. Thank hades.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
Think Substack is about writer freedom? Think again. It’s a VC-fueled race for engagement and controversy, and when the money runs dry, we’ll see the mask slip.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Was surprised at how fast benefitscal.com loaded [1] on one of my testing phones today ("only" ~15 seconds), so I ran the trace again...gzip is enabled!!! And the first load JS transfer is down to ("only") 4MB (still 24MB unzipped, natch).
Maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit?
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this should be a really interesting conference:
https://conference.blackgamestudies.com/
a friend is co-chairing
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
inside you are two wolves. this comes after the local wolf population had been extirpated from inside you for years. local conservationists are cautiously optimistic that in the years to come the number of wolves inside you could return to previous levels
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jdeisenberg@tech.lgbt ("J. David Eisenberg") wrote:
@rianvdm @simondlr
#AltText4You
Four-panel comic by skeletonclaw.comFirst panel shows a graph with X-axis labeled Bad / Good / Great . A horizontal bar labeled "Skill" goes across, and a man stands on it. Text: You can achieve true greatness if you focus fully on one thing.
Second panel shows graph with same x-axis,, y-axis has many bars labeled "Skill", all in the range Bad to Good. The man is looking up at the bars. Text: If you have too many interests, you'll never reach your full potential.
Third panel shows man climbing up the bars of the graph as if they were a ladder. Text: Wait, where the fuck are you going?
Fourth panel shows man at top of ladder, sitting on a wall overlooking a calm ocean with mountains in the distance.
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CurbsideShip116@mstdn.matthewmcgranahan.me ("Matthew McGranahan") wrote:
"Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law."
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I've got good news for those who want to use our new author bylines feature. It won't be necessary to e-mail us to request your website to be manually approved any longer. If you navigate to Edit Profile → Verification on the web, you'll find a new section called Author Attribution where you can control which websites can credit you in link previews.
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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:
Joe Biden literally promised to end the forever wars, tackle white supremacy, reign in police violence, end kids in cages and offer human immigration policies, do something about climate crisis, and stop/punish the nazis. He won that election because young people, brown people, poor people voted for him in droves.
Hillary lost her election trying to be Reagan in a dress.
What kinda campaign do you think Harris is running? Be honest with yourself.
So yeah, that's why I'm still worried.
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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:
I'm not saying he's unbeatable, I'm saying fascism is what it is and nothing at all is going to change about Trump's numbers. He pulled 46% vote share the last two elections and he's going to pull 46% again.
The question is whether or not you can turn out better numbers than that; Hillary didn't running a technocrat campaign that appealed to conservatism. Biden did running on promises he never intended to keep. What kind of campaign do you think Harris is running?
Right. So expect rain.
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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:
"In the late 40s, there was a rumor that there was a "hermit," disenchanted and disillusioned with the world, supposedly "out-of-sync" with society, living in California in a cave under one of the L’s in the Hollywood sign.
No one really cared about this strange man, until one night in 1947, when someone tried to enter backstage at the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles. Nat King Cole was playing there, and the man said he had something for Cole. Of course, the employees didn't let the strange man see Cole, so he gave whatever he had with Cole's manager.
What he had was a song sheet, which Cole would later take a look at. Cole liked the song and wanted to record it, but he had to find the strange man. When asked, the people who saw the man said he was strange, indeed, with shoulder-length hair and beard, wearing sandals and a white robe.
Cole finally tracked him down in New York City. When Cole asked him where he was staying, the strange man declared he was staying at the best hotel in New York - outside, literally, in Central Park. He said his name was eden ahbez (spelled all in lower-case letters). The song he gave Cole was titled, "Nature Boy." It became Cole's first big hit, and was soon covered by other artists through the years, from Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan to Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, most recently.
Of course, the media went crazy about the strange, mysterious man who handed Nat King Cole, one of the biggest hits during that time. Everyone went out to try to find out more about him.
What little they found was that he was once an orphan, who never stayed at one place very long, living in various foster homes. He explained he just never fit in and was always searching, for something.
["They say he wandered very far...
Very far, over land and sea..."They found out he would hop freight trains and walked across country several times, subsisting solely on raw fruits and vegetables, then one day he completely vanished.
["A little shy and sad of eye...
But very wise was he..."]He finally showed up again in the Hollywood hills. When a policeman stopped the strange, long-haired man with beard, sandals, and robe, ahbez simply replied, "I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are."
["And then one day...
One magic day he passed my way..."]He then showed up backstage at Nat King Cole's concert in Los Angeles, to present him with the song, "Nature Boy." No one seems to really know why he selected Cole, there were some rumors that he came out of hiding when he began to hear about the racism going on and trouble throughout the world, and he thought "King" was the best person at that time to pass his message along.
["While we spoke of many things...
Fools and Kings..."]When he was asked about racism, he replied, "Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters."
It was that theme of love that he continued to talk about, what was missing in the world, and what would be needed in the future if we are to survive.
ahbez would eventually get his message out, especially after the counter-culture finally caught up with him and the hippie movement began, when other artists such as Donovan, Grace Slick, and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson sought him out. He also wrote songs for Eartha Kitt and had another song recorded by Sam Cooke.
In 2009, Congressman Bill Aswad recited the last lyrics of the song before the Vermont House of Representatives at the passing of his state's same-sex marriage bill in '09.
Author Raymond Knapp described the track as a "mystically charged #vagabond song" whose lyrics evoked an intense sense of loss and haplessness, with the final line delivering a universal truth, described by Knapp as "indestructible" and "salvaged somehow from the perilous journey of life."
["This he said to me...
The greatest thing you'll ever learn...
Is just to love and be loved in return."]
https://youtu.be/Iq0XJCJ1Srw?feature=shared
➖➖➖"George Alexander Aberle (April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995), known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the hippie movement.
He was known to friends simply as ahbe.
ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole.
Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Oriental mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruits, and nuts. He claimed to live on three dollars per week.
In the mid 1950s, he wrote songs for Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, and others, as well as writing some rock-and-roll novelty songs. In 1957, his song "Lonely Island" was recorded by Sam Cooke, becoming the second and final ahbez composition to hit the Top 40.
In 1959, he began recording instrumental music, which combined his signature somber tones with exotic arrangements and (according to the record sleeve) "primitive rhythms". He often performed bongo, flute, and poetry gigs at beat coffeehouses in the Los Angeles area. In 1960, he recorded his only solo LP, Eden's Island, for Del-Fi Records. This mixed beatnik poetry with exotica arrangements. Ahbez promoted the album through a coast-to-coast walking tour making personal appearances, but it sold poorly.
During the 1960s, ahbez released five singles. Grace Slick's band, the Great Society, recorded a version of "Nature Boy" in 1966 and ahbez was photographed in the studio with Brian Wilson during a session for the Smile album in early 1967. Later that year, British singer Donovan sought out ahbez in Palm Springs, and the two wanderers shared a reportedly "near-telepathic" conversation. In the 1970s, Big Star's Alex Chilton recorded a version of "Nature Boy" with the photographer William Eggleston on piano. The song was finally released as a bonus track on the 1992 Rykodisc re-release of the album Third/Sister Lovers.
In 1974, ahbez was reported to be living in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland, and he owned a record label named Sunland Records, for which he was recording under the name "Eden Abba." From the late 1980s until his death, ahbez worked closely with Joe Romersa, an engineer/drummer in Los Angeles. The master tapes, photos, and final works of eden ahbez are in Romersa's possession.
ahbez died on March 4, 1995, of injuries sustained in a car accident, at the age of 86. Another album, Echoes from Nature Boy, was released posthumously."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_ahbez
#jazz week #Reykjavik #funk #music
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Communities and markets. It was always communities and markets. #threads #mastodon
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loren@flipping.rocks ("Loren") wrote:
a nice little downy woodpecker to hopefully improve your evening, they always improve my day when i see them
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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
While we were not watching, the Voyager 1 spacecraft underwent another surgery.
In August, V1 switched thrusters used for orientation control, because the fuel tubes in the thrusters had clogged up with residue.
To perform the switch, the thrusters had to be warmed by turning on its heaters while turning off another set for an hour.
All very tricky and risky operations, performed from 22.8 light-hours away on 1970’s era hardware.
Kudos again to the Voyager team.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/09/10/voyager-1-team-accomplishes-tricky-thruster-swap/
1/n
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
representation is important. thank you unicode team.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Every autumn, when the heat breaks on that first day and I can feel the cold on my skin, I get the biggest dopamine shot of the year.
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world ("StillIRise1963 for HARRIS") wrote:
It wasn’t even a conceptual plan, rather, it’s a concept of a plan.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
A Very Bad Idea
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david@theblower.au ("David de Groot") wrote:
WTAF America??? There is no world where this is a right and proper thing to do, ever.
“Within the next several months, Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits. The system will be the first of its kind in the country and represents a significant experiment by state officials and Google in allowing generative AI to influence a high-stakes government decision.”
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Small businesses should get a tax break
Big corpo's on the other hand should be taxes to the moon and back
Call me evil :nkoShrug:
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LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social ("Leftist Lawyer") wrote:
My advice?
Block and report.
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michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:
@pzmyers I find some reports suggesting that Donald Trump may be confusing Brittany Mahomes with Britney Spears (who, so far as I can tell, does not like Trump either).
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There are far more and better examples in the book of our brains tricking us into thinking we know things for certain when we actually don't (including, but not limited to, a wild story of a blind woman with a condition that made her swear she could see. She would even respond to questions like "how many fingers am I holding up?" with sincere belief in her abilities).
Definitely recommended.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
One student, when shown her original report, even went so far as to say “I know that’s my handwriting, but I couldn’t possibly have written that.”
Our brains really don't capture photographs like we think they do. They store divergent pieces of info and reassemble them over the years, and that reassembly is tremendously error-prone and subject to change as we do.
This is from the book "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error," which I'm currently reading and which I find fascinating.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Interesting fact I learned recently: there's a high chance your memory of where you were on 9/11 is wrong.
In a 1986 experiment, a professor asked his students to write their memories of the Challenger exploding the day after it happened. Three years later, he asked them to share their memories again.
Less than 7% of students were right. More than half were mostly wrong; a full quarter were entirely wrong about every detail.
Yet every one swore they remembered it "like it was yesterday."
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icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:
The Interim Computer Festival FALL edition is October 5th and 6th in Seattle at INTRASPACE. There are currently 10 exhibitors, 2 demo/speakers and 3 volunteers. We have tables available for this FREE event (donations welcome) sponsored by @SDF #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrogaming
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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
@poundquerydotinfo Huh. I did not know about the 4-bit ALU on the Z80. Faskinating.
https://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-how-it.html
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Plane crashes in to the word trade center. | MetaFilter:
A sobering forum from September 11, 2001 where people from around the world discuss 9/11 as it unfolds. https://www.metafilter.com/10034/Plane-crashes-in-to-the-word-trade-center
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mastodon don’t take everything so seriously challenge level impossible
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ya think?
“Mr. Trump’s… policies matter more for the way they create and sustain… [his] persona than they do for their substantive impact… [his persona] is intimately bound up with his anti-institutional posturing, his claim to be the one man who can defeat the system… some of the most institutionally destabilizing aspects of populism — its resort to demagoguery, its threats to liberal norms and its association with corruption — may be inseparable from its core appeal.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Since all models are wrong the scientist must be alert to what is importantly wrong. It is inappropriate to be concerned about safety from mice when there are tigers abroad.”
- George Box
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"All models are wrong. Some models are useful." - George Box (paraphrased)
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@argv_minus_one
Craftsman homes were not your modern prefab. They used quality materials & were built from interesting, well-thought-out designs. Basically, only the concept was carried forward to modern prefabs.
If you get the chance to see one that's been well-maintained, I recommend it. They've got a lot of charm if one likes the homes of that period, & were influential to boot. (Back add-on of our house has [poorly-executed] Craftsman-inspired elements.)
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@paninid ...which is especially ironic given they were mass produced.
(There's a lot more to be unpacked about that than fits in a toot. When built well & maintained they're very fine homes, by contrast with the vast majority of prefab homes marketed since.)
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eaton@phire.place ("Eaton") wrote:
For the comic/grain lovers among us, "Captain Cornelius," the Illinois Corn Marketing Board’s 1995 comic book. In PDF and CBZ format for your reading pleasure.
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macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:
Amazon Introduces Big Savings on Portable Power Stations From Anker and Jackery https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/11/amazon-savings-power-stations/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:
“Man who got $15 billion in spaceflight subsidies and contracts from mostly Democratic administrations complains about not being able to bullshit people with infeasible Mars colony plans unless a fascist dictatorship is in place”
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mmohr ("Matthias Mohr") wrote:
📢 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐂 1.1.0 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝!
The focus has been the addition of a common band construct to unify the fields `eo:bands` and `raster:bands`. Item Asset Definition - formerly a popular STAC extension - is now part of the core specification. Various additional fields have been made available via the common metadata mechanism. Links support additional HTTP mechanisms, and we generally did some "house-keeping" to keep things organized and clear.
Check it out! https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024/09/stac-1.1.0-released/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
srsly difficult choice here, for surely the life-long sheepdog & the life-long coyote would each deal equally well with keeping us all safe… amirite? so hard to choose
[satire alert]
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jgkoomey@mastodon.energy ("Jonathan Koomey") wrote:
On the one hand we have a very nice meal. On the other hand we have broken glass mixed with dog poop. It’s so hard to choose! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/us/politics/undecided-voters-react-debate.html
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In the war of celebrity endorsements, it's a childless cat lady vs. a soccer team owner.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/11/game-over-man/
Me entering an IPv6 address into my terminal...
For a programming language that is definitely not a religion, this looks suspiciously like a church:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I knew it! it wuz @CARROT who ate Floofie!
Reblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):
I am looking for a new job opportunity as developer and/or linux administrator:
* location flexible
* 10+ years professional experience
* languages: DE, ENFOSS references in my GH profile.
CV on request via mail.
Boosts welcome :)
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I suffered through hours of Trump staring at a camera bitterly. He had nothing of substance to say.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/11/i-watched-the-debate/
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."
-- Neil Postman
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Printed and framed one of my recent photos. I honestly miscalculated the size of the passepartout a bit, it would probably look better without the inner margin. I’m still just kind of trying it on. Wish this was a darkroom print, but it’s not. Don’t have access to one at the moment.
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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
Our blog post on Debian contributions by Freexian Collaborators in August is now available - read about the contributions on Python 3 patches, OpenSSH GSS-API split, rebootstrap, salsa CI and more.
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-08-2024/
These contributions are made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-08-2024/) and consulting services(https://www.freexian.com/services/).
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Turning your party conservative to beat fascism is like starting your fireplace to put out a house fire. #debate
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
[ spoiler ]
It was.
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
kyleve@mastodon.online ("Kyle 🏳️🌈🥥🌴") wrote:
“I have concepts of a plan” me when someone asks me for a status update on my JIRA tickets
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
galoisghost@aus.social ("Dylan") wrote:
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
MODERATORS FOR PRESIDENT
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"...but THIS............"
The ellipsis heard round the world.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Rough night in Moscow, and thank goodness for that.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
These moderators are taking no shit.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Cooked. He's absolutely cooked. She got under his skin and now it's going to be *this* for the next 45 minutes.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
To watch these two debate who's the bigger conservative is surreal. #debate
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinFLA@lounge.town ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:
@tofugolem
As a kid during and after the Vietnam War Era, rumors were flying that the refugees in our neighborhood were stealing and eating pet dogs.
Same shit, different day.
Even as a seven or eight year-old, I had strong suspicions about these racist rumors, and actually had school friends from these families.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White") wrote:
Here we go again…
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every new React project you start is a shrine to browsers you don't support, don't test on, and barely remember.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org ("YRabbit") wrote:
#Apicula has learned how to use the ARM processor built into the #Tangnano4k!
I thought that to demo a whole processor of a simple LED would be kinda uncool, so this bitbang SPI to E-inc display!!!
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
If populist political parties campaigning against immigration genuinely wanted to limit immigration, they would make climate change one of their top priorities - as climate change is 100% going to drive migration.
A portion of our planet is going to become uninhabitable in the lifetime of our children, which will drive people to migrate.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
I have some simple suggestions for how the American Political Science Association can solve its Claremont Institute problem. #APSA2024
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
like ideally none of this worked this way and I appreciate the public backlash to his boss's ineptitude is probably a bummer for him. still, of course! complaining to the governor is my civic right and duty! and yet. this is such a funny way of telling me to get a job
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
twice now, when I've called the governor's office to leave a comment urging her to move forward on congestion pricing, the aide who answers the phone "mistakenly" "misunderstands" and offers to transfer me right over to unemployment services
regrettably, i have to concede it's a great bit
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
I'm getting word from activists at City Hall this morning reporting an excessive deployment of police by SPD and the city council.
During this morning's city safety council meeting council members held public comment about SOAP/SODA legislation which aims to jail and fine sex workers and homeless people $5k for existing in major parts of town.
CM Cathy Moore's loitering laws have caused significant community resistance so council members cut short public comment.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
philipwalton@toot.cafe ("Philip Walton") wrote:
📢 New post: The State of ES5 on the Web.
For years, we defaulted to transpiling to ES5 in order to support IE. But is that still necessary?
I took a look at the data to find out, and I'll just say that the results were *actually* quite surprising! 🙀
https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-state-of-es5-on-the-web/
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
“Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month.”
Don’t buy Ford cars.
https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:
The first image of what would become known as a tardigrade was published in 1773 by a German pastor, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, who called them kleiner Wasserbär, “little water bears”. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tardigrade/
