xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
thank you to @phire for this meme that GETS me
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Computers, networks, software, and a desire for easy, one click, third party access seem to be ingredients for unknowable complexity and a never ending parade of vulnerabilities. đ
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: The author was polite about how the vulnerabilities they found probably weren't the way their device was originally compromised. But let's face it, they got curious and pretty quickly found a way in. This new Cox system was apparently deployed without detecting these issues. What are the odds that the prior system didn't also contain similar problems? đ
[1] https://infosec.exchange/@jonathancare/112604951721836743
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jonathancare@infosec.exchange ("That Fraud Guy") wrote:
Whodunnit?
"An unknown IP address had replayed the exact same HTTP request just 10 seconds later.
"Wow, thatâs seriously weird," I thought. Somewhere, between my home network and the AWS box, someone had intercepted and replayed my HTTP traffic. This traffic should not be accessible. There is no intermediary between these two systems who should be seeing this. My immediate thought was that my computer had been hacked..."
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servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:
Ukrainian journalists made a spreadsheet of US opponents of Ukraine aid. It caused an explosion
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz đ¤") wrote:
Interesting read: Barack Obamaâs social media strategy for his first presidential campaign. https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/04/obamatechplan.pdf
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
This is *terrible.* Stanford buckles under to Jim Jordan & litigation, dismantling the Stanford Internet Observatory (retreating to safe subjects like child porn). Alex Stamos & Renee DiResta, both gone, call this "a quintessential example of the weaponization of government." h/t Casey Newton
https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Four generations of my family have, like many others, voluntarily stepped forward and taken the Oath: to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign & domestic.
this is a serious Oath, with no "unless it is unpopular or inconvenient or I do not like who was elected" clauses. there is no "sell by date" for this Oath.
let nobody who has taken the Oath forget: it is to the Constitution, not to a Person nor to a Party.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Happy 249th Birthday to the United States Army, born as the Continental Army on this date in 1775.
"...the oldest branch of the U.S. military... has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed on 14 June 1775... After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army."
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Amy_Hupe@social.design.systems ("Amy Hupe") wrote:
Todayâs joke I couldnât make on Twitter:
JavaScript is kind of like cocaine.
The more lines you do, the more confident and simultaneously insufferable you become, and the worse your performance issues will be.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The more I see what people who have power actually do with it, the more I think, yeah, actually, maybe I am an anarchist.
This new update simplifies programmatically managing custom domains, wildcard domains, subdomains for different deployments, and more.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
âThe military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Bidenâs presidency, Reuters found â even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation.â NYTimes
really really stoopid move
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers đŚ") wrote:
We only practice road resentment here in Minnesota.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/14/theres-something-to-be-said-for-minnesota-nice/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers đŚ") wrote:
It says something about a person when they get obsessed with symbols and flags. Not something good.
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mia@front-end.social ("Mia (CSS workshops available)") wrote:
I'm sitting with @andreu at Igalia, trying to find when the media attribute first appeared in #HTML. I'm fairly sure it pre-dates #CSS media queries, but by how much? Was it there from the start?
It seems like you (Mastodon) would be the best person to ask.
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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:
At the request of Russiaâs federal censor, the Mozilla Foundation, the entity behind Firefox, is blocking censorship circumvention add-ons for its browser, including ones developed specifically to help those in Russia bypass state censorship. https://theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mozilla-firefox-russia-censorship-blocked/
Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
On this episode of Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill and I were joined by @adam of @changelog for a ⌠wide ranging conversation! Something for everyoneâespecially fans of HBOâs Silicon Valley. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rLbDWGByeU
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The worst thing about having a brain that tortures you is being utterly unable to explain to anyone else why you seem to willingly put yourself through such misery, when it appears you could simply walk away any time you wanted to.
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nasa@social.beachcom.org ("NASA") wrote:
Voyager 1 Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments https://science.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-program/voyager-1/voyager-1-returning-science-data-from-all-four-instruments/ #NASA #Heliophysics #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Voyager1
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's *almost* like the pace of progress in the web is fundamentally gated by the staffing levels of the slowest, least-responsive popular browser?
And maybe we don't need to accept that trillion dollar companies are are skimming 95% profit margins from browsers? There might even be something better we could do with all that cash?
It's a theory, anyway.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You, most likely a reasonable and sane person, would likely ask, "waitâyou deleted ALL your data!? For a game you've put over 100 hours into? OMG why? Why didn't you just stop playing that challenge? Or stop playing the game?"
Because my brain does not let me do that. I wish it did.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I just deleted all my save data for Balatro, because I've been compulsively spending all my time on its final challenge, for weeks on end, waiting for the perfect lucky run, and I finally decided I was never going to stop making myself miserable until I just didn't have the option anymore.
Ask me anything about the inexplicable way my broken brain fails to work
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
In 2022, Google settled a class action lawsuit for systematically underpaying 15,500 female employees.
Itâs now Appleâs turn in the hot seat as theyâve been hit with a lawsuit for systematically underpaying 12,000 female employees.
Apple bases pay on peopleâs previous salaries or pay expectations which creates a systemic disparity as women tend to have lower values for these than men.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Q: how did this 52MB JS file manage only a 2.2:1 gzip ratio (~19MB on the wire)?
A: *44MB* of:`//# sourceMappingURL=data:application/JSON;charset=utf-8;base64,...`
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agektmr@infosec.exchange ("Eiji Kitamura / ăăźă :verified:") wrote:
Ever wondered if #FedCM supports #authorization ? It's coming!
Starting in Chrome 126, you can sign up for an origin trial and try it on your domain with the Continuation API. Along with the button flow we've introduced in the previous announcement, FedCM based sign-in flow will become even more streamlined. There are a few more exciting updates as well.
Checkout the details in this blog post, try it yourself and let us know what you think:
https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/fedcm-chrome-126-updates
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
Just spray varnished another shark, out on the deck with the spiders. The biggest yet - 20x20â
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you can't be bothered to gzip hundreds of KB of JS, we shouldn't bother to run it.
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zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:
Prepare to tithe because this Kickstarter is surely religion. Over 40 stories and poems chronicling inner and outer spatial frontiers. Eugen Bacon, Maurice Broaddus, Linda Addison, Jessica Cage, S.A. Cosby, Wole Talabi, me and a galaxy more!
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potus@threads.net ("President Joe Biden") wrote:
I said weâd move heaven and earth to reopen the Port of Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge.
And as of yesterday, thanks to the work of our Unified Command, the Port is fully open for business.
Baltimore can count on us to stand by them until the bridge is rebuilt.
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EricLawton@kolektiva.social ("Eric Lawton") wrote:
Uber, Skip the Dishes and other gig workers in B.C. to make at least $20.88 an hour under new rules | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/uber-lyft-door-dash-minimum-wage-1.7233199?cmp=rss
> British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to provide a minimum wage and other protections for people who work through gig-based apps like Uber, DoorDash, Skip the Dishes and Lyft.
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I can easily imagine people, just at as brilliant as modern humans stumbling along for 100,000 years. You only get the tech your family knowsâ you are a rare endangered animal and very hungry and preoccupied with staying warm, finding foodâ other people from other groups are a mixed bag and huge risk. It must have been a slog.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
removing regulatory power from Federal agencies has long been a goal of the Right & itâs Big Business backers. history shows us lack of Federal regulatory power has generally meant things like labor relations injustices & tainted meat run rampant.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
if you write applications using JavaScript then this stuff is *super* useful:
https://github.com/humanwhocodes/humanfs/
h/t @nzakas
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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
What the Court says today is that the plaintiffs couldnât show any plausible potential injury to their consciences from the FDA making #mifepristone easier for doctors to prescribe and thus easier for patients to obtain. The FDAâs regulations do not require to the plaintiffs to do or not do anything. Not liking what others do is not an injury to their consciences. 4/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reading https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/tls-rustls/src/main.rs & https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/low-level-openssl/src/main.rs is helpful
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weilawei@mastodon.online wrote:
"Margaret Hamilton talks about her experiences over the last 60 years and how a âtheory of errorsâ was derived from the errors made along the way. [...] The pressing issues havenât gone away, largely because the traditional paradigm continues in force. With a preventative paradigm, most errors arenât allowed into a system in the first place, just by the way the system is defined."
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reading https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/tls-rustls/src/main.rs is helpful
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thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom :linux: :a_openbsd:") wrote:
And here's my occasional Fedi outreach about my dream retrocomputer - does anyone have a Sun Ultra 45 they are willing to part with? I'm just a sad, pathetic person living in Arctic Sweden who has been trying for more than two decades (!!) to get his hands on one.
Boosts are definitely love.
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freedomofpress@newsie.social ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:
𧾠Today marks 53 years since the New York Times started publishing the Pentagon Papers â the 7,000 page top-secret study detailing decades of official lies about the Vietnam War
It was, of course, given to the newspaper by the legendary whistleblower and FPF co-founder Daniel Ellsberg.
rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
Rust 1.79.0 is now available! đŚđ
This release brings you `const {}` blocks, more flexible bounds syntax for associated types, utf8_chunks, MSRV support in cargo add, and much more! â¨
Check out the announcement and release notes: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/06/13/Rust-1.79.0.html
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2024/
this seems misguided to me
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
how very cool:
ââŚextracting 4,500-year-old dormant yeast samples from ancient Egyptian baking vessels and reviving themâŚâ
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-bread-did-ancient-egyptians-eat
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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:
itâs finally here: my new website is launched! đ grab your nearest web browser or RSS reader and check it out. (built with @eleventy, among others!)
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz đ¤") wrote:
Obamaâs social networking was the real revolution NYT (2008):
"More profoundly, while many people think that President-elect Obama is a gift to the Democratic Party, he could actually hasten its demise. Political parties supply brand, ground troops, money and relationships, all things that Obama already owns."
Kind of sounds like what happened to the Republicans 8 years later with ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/06/13/obamas-social-networking.html
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Dear Pharrell,
Per your prompt to "clap along if you feel like a room without a roof": I don't really feel qualified to say what that feeling is, and it would therefore be disingenuous of me to engage in clapping. I also feel "happiness is the truth" is a little too vague to warrant an unequivocal answer. For that matter, I'm also not really sure what happiness is to me, either, so I think it's best I abstain from clapping for the time being until further clarity is achieved on my part.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I just remembered that part of the motivation for developing Starlink was that SpaceX needed customers.
"But the reverse is also true: SpaceXâs reusability quest depends on Starlink. The companyâs ability demonstrate rapid reuse of boosters requires a demand for launches of them that has come primarily from Starlink. Last year, when SpaceX performed 96 Falcon launches, 63 of them were devoted to Starlink. "
Which is cute, but perhaps circular?
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Of course, we're not even talking about the externalities. Like in my LB:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, I've said this before, but I'm still struggling to believe that throwing satellites into decaying orbits is a more cost effective way to provide internet access in the long run than a proper investment in fiber and related infrastructure. It feels like this makes sense only from a capitalist seeking returns on investment perspective assuming monopolistic capture of a market.
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nemeciii ("Matti Järvinen") wrote:
Megaconstellations like Starlink will increase atmospheric aluminum oxide amounts to 646% over natural levels ( +360 metric tons / year ).
It will take up to 30 years for the aluminum oxides to drift down to stratospheric altitudes, where 90% of Earth's ozone is located.
Once there aluminum oxide will act as a catalyst with chlorine harming the ozone layer.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.html
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
Who had that mighty arm? That split the stone, pulled loose the blade? For on a rocky shore, a crack describes this feat of strength.
The lichen split those rocks, my lord, & made the soils from the stone.
And where now is that blade? In this Lichenâs hand, our future king? Where now lives a hero who the ancient rocks must fear?
Seek the crustose crown of ivory foam, fruticose tendrils ring the domeâ in golds & greens:a regal mold.
1/
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leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:
A historical day for CSS đđ
If you write any components used and/or styled by others, you know how huge this is!
background: if(style(--variant: success), var(--green));
Even if you donât, this will allow things like:
padding: if(var(--2xl), 1em, var(--xl) or var(--m), .5em);GitHub issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10064
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers đŚ") wrote:
We have to hit them with a cartoon hammer. The real hammer comes later.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/13/the-time-for-subtlety-is-long-gone/
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lawprofblawg@mstdn.social ("Lawprofblawg") wrote:
Company: Pick a password.
Comp: No, a stronger PW.
Comp: Stronger!
Comp: You used that PW 8 years ago.
Comp: Finally. Now do 2FA and select pics that don't show monkeys.*Five minutes later*
Comp: We regret to inform you your data has been breached and posted to the dark web.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers đŚ") wrote:
I hope Clarence Thomas and his adoptive son can be reconciled, they have so much in common.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/13/fathers-and-sons/
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leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:
Group photo of (part of the) CSS WG in A CoruĂąa, Spain, taken yesterday. At the front, its mascot, Zoe. đ
keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Just clicked on a link to a project and I ended up on sourceforge.net.
I was not aware this was still a thing - #Memories
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sio@livellosegreto.it ("Sio") wrote:
Che fortissimi i cani che parlano wow bau
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'm sick of roguelikes.
I'm sick of luck.
I'm sick of "challenges" that are just retrying over and over, waiting for the perfect combination of unlikely events.
I'm sick of situations where it's not possible to win; where no amount of skill or preparation will ever matter.
It's not fun. It's not interesting.
Just going through the motions, hoping chance lets you by this time. But it never does.
Another all-but-hopeless restart.
Maybe tomorrow.
Life shouldn't be so much of a roguelike.
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:
A monitor portrait on a portrait monitor.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:
Star probably go boom by September. We we can probably see it just by looking up in the right place in the sky at the right time.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
gemlog@tilde.zone ("Kermode") wrote:
Free portable air conditioners are in BC, Canada too.
https://www.bchydro.com/powersmart/residential/rebates-programs/savings-based-on-income/free-air-conditioner.html?gad_source=1Available for income qualified households and individuals referred by regional health authority programs
If you live in an income-qualified household and/or have received a recommendation letter from your regional health authority's Home Care Program you may be eligible for a free portable air conditioner (AC).
This program is available year-round. If you apply during the winter and fall, you'll have your evaluation completed and receive your unit sooner than during warmer months. Homeowners can also choose to self-install their units, which may help in receiving a unit quicker, during the summer.
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Lana@beige.party ("đżđśđđś "not your token"") wrote:
In 1978, a woman launched a global microchip revolution, and then disappeared from history.
Lynn Conway was born in Mount Vernon, New York on January 2, 1938. She was a shy and introverted child who did well in math and sciences. However, she was also assigned male at birth and struggled with intense gender dysphoria.
Conway entered MIT in 1955, earning high grades but ultimately leaving in despair after an attempted gender transition failed due to the medical climate at the time. After working as an electronics technician for several years, she went back to school at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, earning her B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1962 and 1963.
The following year, she was recruited by IBM and was soon selected to join the architecture team designing an advanced supercomputer. The project, called ACS, which stood for Advanced Computing Systems, has been described by historians as the world's first superscalar design, a computer architectural paradigm widely exploited in modern high-performance microprocessors.
In 1968, Lynn heard about the pioneering research of Harry Benjamin in healthcare for transgender women. And, realizing that gender affirmation surgery was now possible, Conway sought his help. Suffering from severe depression from gender dysphoria, Conway contacted Benjamin, who agreed to provide counseling and prescribe hormones. Under Benjamin's care, Conway began her medical gender transition. After the success of the ACS project, Lynn had hoped to be able to transition on the job, but IBM fired Conway immediately after she revealed her intention to transition.
So, in 1968, Conway restarted her career in computing, this time entering the field as a woman. She took a job at Computer Applications, Inc, then at Memorex, and then finally at Xerox in 1973. In her words, she was now in "stealth mode," under the not unfounded assumption that, should her past be discovered, she would be fired again.
In 1973, collaborating with Ivan Sutherland and Carver Mead of Caltech, Lynn co-developed a revolutionary new method of microchip design that allowed billions of individual components to be integrated into one chip with relative simplicity. Her design was called VLSI - or Very Large Scale Integration, and the importance of this invention cannot be understated in the modern world. Billions of digital devices worldwide, from iPhones to electronic cars to computerised coffee machines, were all made possible in part by her ideas. As the University of Michigan put it in 2014: "Thank Lynn Conway for your cell phone."
In 1978, she left Xerox and took a position at MIT, teaching a now famous course on VLSI design. While there, she co-authored "Introduction to VLSI Systems", with Carver Mead - a groundbreaking work that soon became a standard textbook in chip design, selling over 70,000 copies, and appearing in nearly 120 university curriculums by 1983. Basically, if you are in IT, and got your degree anywhere in America during the 80's you learned your trade, and owe your livelihood, in part, to a trans woman.
Following up on this, Lynn continued to be on the forefront of new technologies. The problem she was now trying to solve was how to cope with the increasing complexity of chip design. As the number of transistors per chip doubled every two years, keeping up with this required new ways to design and manufacture new microchips. In 1981, she invented dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design, as well as a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid prototyping of new chip designs. This new infrastructure was called the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service, or "MOSIS", and was funded in part by DARPA. Only two years into its success, Mead and Conway received Electronics Magazine's annual award of achievement. Since then, MOSIS has fabricated more than 50,000 circuit designs for commercial firms, government agencies, and research and educational institutions around the world.
Leaving MIT for DARPA, she became a key architect of the Defense Department's Strategic Computing Initiative, which was a research program studying high-performance computing, autonomous systems technology, and intelligent weapons technology. Working under Dr. Robert Cooper, Director of DARPA and Assistant Secretary of Defense, Conway led the effort that produced the Strategic Computing Plan published in November 1983.
Conway then joined the University of Michigan in 1985 as professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate dean of engineering. It was here that, in 1987, Lynn met the man who would become her husband - Charles "Charlie" Rogers, a professional engineer who shared her interest in the outdoors, including whitewater canoeing and motocross racing. They started living together, and soon bought a house with 24 acres of meadow, marsh, and woodland in rural Michigan in 1994.
In 1998, Conway quietly retired from active teaching and research as professor emerita at Michigan, and four years later, on a beautiful bright day in August, Lynn and Charlie were married.
On June 9th of 2024, just 3 days ago, Lynn Conway passed away from a heart condition at her home in Jackson, Michigan, at the age of 86.
Lynn was a brilliant engineer and computer scientist, who never sought fame or recognition for her achievements and global contributions to the modern world. But, slowly, that recognition is coming to pass anyway. In 2009, she received an award from the engineering trade group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). In 2020, IBM finally apologized for firing her 42 years earlier. And, this past October, just 8 months before she died, Lynn Conway was inducted into the National Inventorsâ Hall of Fame as the co-creator of VLSI â some 14 years after Carver Mead received the same honor.
Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory
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So apparently the city of Portland is giving away free air conditioners this summer? You have to qualify under a household income threshold but it looks like you've got at least a 1 in 3 change of qualifying https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-free-air-conditioning-units-311/283-24361b3a-f195-4c31-82d6-481a6533345e
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clasticartistic@sunny.garden ("-clasticartistic-") wrote:
Noclip - Wipeout 2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack
https://youtu.be/-nwWpQJFGp8?si=vBk8WZ9dPW-Pj4gO
Also Tim Wright/CoLD SToRAGE's soundtrack on bandcamp
https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/album/wipeout-the-zero-gravity-soundtrack
#noclip #retrogaming #retro #ps1 #playstation #sega #segasaturn #music #gamedev #CoLDSToRAGE
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
I think the thing I find most frustrating about programming languages is that there is no standard way to refer to the length of an array.
Python, go: len(array)
Java, JavaScript: array.length
Rust: array.len()
C++: array.size()
C#: array.Length
PHP: sizeof($array)
Perl: scalar(@array) (lmao)
Swift: array.count
Kotlin: array.sizeLike, seriously? Can't we agree on just this one thing???
#programming #rustlang #golang #cplusplus #php #swift #kotlin #perl #java #javascript #python #csharp
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danmccullough ("Dan McCullough") wrote:
This Twig Mimic caterpillar, is doing a fantastic job of⌠looking like a twig.
I glanced down and exclaimed, âWhy is there a TWIG on my chair armrest?!â
It enjoyed the compliment so itâs been in this pose for nearly an hour.
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Meetup in London! I'll be talking about #RustLang's paradox of promising safety while allowing unsafe code.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers đŚ") wrote:
Spider "invaders"? You make it sound like that's a bad thing. đ§Ş
https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/40/4/article-p995D.xml
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
About time.
Via Kyle Griffin:
Senate Democrats are increasing their scrutiny of Jared #Kushner's business activities.
Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden has asked Kushner's firm, Affinity Partners, for details about its investors â including the $2 billion it received from the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund in 2021. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia_n_6669906ce4b01bc0ceedf831/amp
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@neurovagrant thank you for tending Our Little Garden here đ
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
slowly remembering how to properly modularize so I can just manage content sandwiches...
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison, 1964
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This pleases me: https://xorvoid.com/forsp.html #forth #lisp
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
âHow to help someone use a computerâ
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html
> Whenever they start to blame themselves, respond by blaming the computer. Then keep on blaming the computer, no matter how many times it takes
Yes!
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down
Selling "hard braking event" data seems less lucrative after public outcry.
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northstarfutureworks@mastodon.art wrote:
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matthewvenn@chaos.social ("Matt Venn") wrote:
What if we could save energy by doing a memory copy without the CPU? RowClone does exactly that by deliberately ignoring the timing requirements in off the shelf DRAM modules - saving 10x latency and 100x energy.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
90's computing: documentation is a waste of time, learn to read code.
2000's computing: we value working software over comprehensive documentation.
2010's computing: SAAS API RPC CLOUD warrgarble
2020's computing: You have more CPU in your lap and maybe your pocket than existed in the world in 1990, an impossibly powerful math furnace at your immediate disposal, at a whim. Learning the details of how to put it to your purposes is a sheer cliff face for some mysterious, indiscernible reason.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Dads in The Sims bid farewell by saying "welp, sim you later!"
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The conviction also means Trumpâs gun permit in New York will be revoked. The New York police department suspended Trumpâs concealed-carry permit last year after he was indicted, and collected two of the three guns he was allowed to carry; Trump lawfully moved the third gun to Florida."
The Guardian
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Trumpâs conviction may have also rendered him ineligible to hold a liquor license in New Jersey. State law bars liquor licenses for anyone convicted of a crime âinvolving moral turpitudeâ. The office of New Jersey attorney general Matt Plakin is looking into whether the former presidentâs recent convictions make him ineligible to hold liquor licenses at his three New Jersey golf courses, according to a spokesperson for the attorney generalâs office."
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"... the things that happen to felons are starting to happen to Donald Trump.
Trump appeared by video conference with New York probation officials on Monday, a routine and required step before his expected sentencing hearing in July for the criminal hush-money conviction. Officials spent a half-hour asking Trump questions about his personal history, family obligations and criminal record in preparation for the probation officeâs sentencing recommendations."
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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
https://www.theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022
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Do you remember back when 404 media reported that Automattic was mass-selling user data to openAI and the Automattic CEO responded with this?
It's been a month and... *Crickets*
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TFW you get an infuriating series of captchas because you've disagreed with whatever poorly trained dataset they're measuring your responses with.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers đŚ") wrote:
Now I want to take a Spanish vacation. It looks beautiful, and everyone without a spine agrees. đ§Ş
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/12/everyone-likes-to-vacation-in-spain/
Nike shoes I bought in 2005? Still in nice condition!
Nikes I bought 2 years ago? Falling apart.
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Dark mode isn't the default in OSes for a reason folks. It's one of those accessibility aids that's grossly inaccessible to a ton of people.
Respect the OS settings if you're making an app!!!!!!!
If a user has chosen light mode and reduced motion, don't fucking launch with dark mode and swishy animations!
Don't be an asshole!
Too many devs are being absolute assholes!
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A goose drives this car.
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knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:
US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads | Colombia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/11/chiquita-banana-deaths-lawsuit-colombia
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keithamus@indieweb.social wrote:
This seems to happen all too frequently:
Me: âplease donât do X. Bad things will happenâ
Them: âoh youâre just a naysayer. Weâre doing Xâ
*some time later*
Them: âThe bad thing is happening!â
Me: âcan we revisit X then please?â
Them: âoh no weâre committed to X, that ship has sailed!âIs it my delivery? Am I not stern enough? Am I destined to repeat this?
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Willingness to look things up is a superpower
Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):
Local Meetup setup by @igalia during @w3c @csswg face to face week in Spain - @rachelandrew giving a nice talk about how it all works
