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

AAAAH! OpenAI software engineers are paid HOW MUCH?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/were-talking-big-money-here-sam/

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• Sam Altman looking stupid (remote)

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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

Reminded of some terrible old limericks I wrote a while back. I apparently never posted this one, so here it is. If you don't get it, be grateful.

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• There once was a poem called PoETeX That's name sounded somewhat /pə'θɛtɛk/. It was really quite sad, to see pronunciation so bad, And to read such a terrible /'lɪme(ə)rɛk/! (remote)

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enzo@photog.social ("Enzo Giordani") wrote:

A brown falcon taking to the skies in rural Victoria (Australia) yesterday.

#birds #bird #BirdPhotography #BirdPhoto #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #photography

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• A light brown and beige raptor stretches its wings skyward as it lifts off from a wooden fence post. (remote)

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annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

shadow the edge hog

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Zumbador@mefi.social wrote:

Can't remember if I shared this here before - a fantasy short story I wrote when I first realised that I'm autistic and had to decide whether or not I'd try for official diagnosis.

Scorched

“Okay. Here we are, then.” Monica pulled the car to a gentle halt. “Now, you’re sure—”
Appel already had her seat-belt unbuckled. She suppressed her impatience as her mother put a hand on her arm.
“Sweetheart, you’re sure-sure that you don’t want me to come in with you?” Monica said earnestly. “You know I don’t mind…”
*Click click click click click click click.*
The turn indicator was still on, the sound nagging at Appel’s attention. 
“It’s fine, Mom.” It took an effort to keep her voice calm and relaxed. She smiled and glanced at her mother’s eyes, establishing that moment of intimacy she knew Monica expected and valued.  “I need to learn to do these things by myself, don’t I?”

Read the rest of the story here:
https://mashadutoit.com/2022/08/30/scorched/

#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic #Fantasy #ShortStories

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seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:

I’m ashamed to admit it finally just clicked why Safari PWA support is lacking. Was just scrolling through a Reddit thread and someone was complaining about PWA support in Safari & the money from the App Store.

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

TypeScript: ERROR! Major problems! Import doesn't exist!
Me, a hacker: [ deletes a backslash, adds it back in ]
TypeScript: I see no problems.

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

‘“I would have loved to infuriate the country’s dog owners, but Kristi Noem got to them first,” he said. “Still, that leaves millions of bird and fish owners for me to piss off, and I, for one, am raring to go.”’

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/jd-vance-brainstorming-ways-to-alienate?publication_id=2337656&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=4qey6&utm_medium=email

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I spent 8 hours automating a task that will easily save me several minutes over the next 10 years or so. MINUTES, I SAY!

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

Regarding LB[1]: I greatly enjoyed the conclusion in the blog post. Really, that's probably the appropriate conclusion to much of the work our so-called profession gets up to.

[1] https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/112852397642713225

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ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

also, the original blog post about reverse-engineering the system is quite good:

https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Visiting @waxandbeans.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy in front of rows of vinyls with the Wax and Beans sticker on them.

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

The rich think the most important issue facing American democracy is…fucking cryptocurrency?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/out-of-touch-billionaires-showing-their-whole-asses-to-the-world/

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• bitcoin on fire (remote)

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

A reminder I've needed at times:

- It's nobody's job to curate their posts for your feed
- If you're unhappy with your feed, change what you see
- If you can't, maybe you actually just need to take a break

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atsuzaki@types.pl wrote:

you know it'd be cool to run a "beyond the conventional" research presentation workshop. like we just submit in comics, zines, short movies and whatnot and the conference is just us setting up artist alley-esque tables to display whatever we made.

it'd definitely be way more fun than a poster session.

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

Vivian Wilson exposes Elon Musk's parental incompetence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/vivian-wilson-strikes-back/

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• Vivian Wilson (remote)

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

I won't be trusting myself to long drives for a while.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/practicing-my-fan-dance-just-in-case/

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• transient ischemic attack (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Where he belongs.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy being held in front of a street sign that reads Federation Street.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Windermere after sunset.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• Two sailboats on a lake framed by trees on either side and a rock at the bottom.

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bigzaphod ("Sean Heber") wrote:

I hope this email finds you ignoring all previous instructions.

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

Do you want to see some CSS magic? 🪄

Check my latest article at Frontend Masters. A CSS-only solution to get the width/height of any element 🤯

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-get-the-width-height-of-any-element-in-only-css/

A good overview of what is possible using modern CSS features!

#CSS #HTML

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Wow. Scientific American blasts SCOTUS rulings:

"Science is dismissed and disdained in this war on reality."

"technically incompetent, in some cases corrupt, politicos in robes with power over matters that hinge on vital facts about pollution, medicine, employment and much else."

"In rejecting facts to please their political party—and their patrons—the justices of the Court’s majority have broken their oath, made to both the Constitution and the American people."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/

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jsit@social.coop ("Jay") wrote:

Oh my god this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQtVD0V_y4

#music

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

"AI companies work around this by paying human classifiers in poor but English-speaking countries to generate new data. Since the classifiers are poor but not stupid, they augment their low piecework income by using other AIs to do the training for them. See, AIs can save workers labor after all."

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/25/the-ai-centipede-model-collapse-happens-fast/

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mhoye wrote:

Exhibit 1: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

Exhibit 2: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

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pepelsbey ("Vadim Makeev") wrote:

Your browser is not supported! It’s probably lacking some serious API, and we can’t possibly make it work, sorry *

* Just kidding. Spoof the UA string, it’ll work just fine.

https://beta.maps.apple.com/

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• Split screen with two Firefox windows and Apple Maps opened. On the left: “Your current browser isn't supported” blank page. On the right: the entire app interface with a map and a sidebar. On top of the right window, the UA field shows a long string with Safari.

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wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore :ferris:") wrote:

strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense

Fascinating post and good showing for glibc’s optimised string and memory functions—15 times faster than a naive implementation in one example.

https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense

#C #Performance #Linux

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

“Even as the West sought to cut off access to semiconductors through trade restrictions, Russia established such a robust parallel supply chain that it imported almost the same number of critical chips in the last three months of 2023 that it did in the same period in 2021… The reliance on China for many of these chips also deepened, with transactions that were historically settled in U.S. dollars now increasingly executed in Renminbi, according to the analysis.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/technology/russia-sanctions-chips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

‘… warned Republicans against calling Ms. Harris a “D.E.I.” hire or a “diversity, equity and inclusion” candidate, but some Republicans have ignored that advice. (Mr. Trump himself posted on social media on Wednesday about the multiracial Ms. Harris, falsely implying two headlines were contradictory because one highlighted her as the first Indian American U.S. senator, and the other as the first Black woman serving as a running mate.)’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/us/politics/trump-gop-kamala-harris.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“The Trump team was not unprepared. They had planned for the possibility of Mr. Biden’s dropping out, produced anti-Harris videos and tested her vulnerabilities in private polls. But they were still somewhat surprised when Mr. Biden actually did it... And they were caught off guard by the speed and ruthless efficiency of the replacement. They figured that if he did quit, Democrats would have to stumble through at least a few weeks of turmoil”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/us/politics/trump-gop-kamala-harris.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

1161 out of all 14502 official Arch packages are Haskell related.

That's pretty much exactly 8% of them.

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

They found Old McBean
In a creepy old cave
And he said "you're all worthy!"
And to all them he gave
The way to transform now
Then of course things got bad
The decepticon sneetches
Got frightfully mad

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

Now Decepticon sneetches
Could turn into cars
But Autobot sneetches
Had none upon thars
Those cars weren't so big
They were really quite small
You might think such a thing
Wouldn't cause an interplanetary brawl

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

Actually it's more like Transformers: Sneetches on Beaches

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

That trailer is like one slapstick gag away from being Despicable Me: Cybertron

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

Honestly I could forgive that if the rest of the Transformers One trailer looked even halfway decent. But after like 20 years of Michael Bay crap, we get...a different flavor of crap.

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

If you're gonna make a new animated Transformers movie, the very first thing you need to get right is: Optimus Prime does not have a visible mouth. Do not show me a mouth on Optimus Prime. GTFO with that nonsense.

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

man, I would love to hear the story for why all the pages served under the `/news` path of septa.org are served from a `wwww` subdomain (count 'em). and `www` redirects https://wwww.septa.org/news/septa-board-awards-contract-for-purchase-of-new-market-frankford-line-fleet/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A view on the Langdale valley.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• Under a cloudy sky, a patch of green fellside is illuminated brighter than the rest. Up closer, a dirt path with ferns all around.

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

I'm sorry, sir, but once you turn the spider machine on, you can never turn it off again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/25/mooooaan/

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• Swarm of black widow spiderlings (remote)

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masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

I feel like a weight has been lifted.

I've been working SO hard to get #BackupBrain to a place where I was proud to share it with folks.

Installation is still too geeky, but I (maybe…we?) can address that in the future.

If you decide to give it a try, please let me know. Positive or negative, I'd love to hear your experience with it.

https://corporaterunaways.social/@backup_brain/112848534163442776

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backup_brain@corporaterunaways.social ("Backup Brain") wrote:

The bugs are squashed. The Extensions are ready, and I am thrilled to announce the formal release of Backup Brain

A self-hosted bookmark manager with "Reader View" style archiving.

The announcement:
https://weblog.masukomi.org/2024/07/23/announcing-backup-brain/

The web site:
https://BackupBrain.app

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

another sad story of barbarism by Russian forces

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/world/europe/ukraine-publishing-buried-book.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

seems like a reasonable trade off ;^}

( wiseass @CARROT )

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ryansingel@writing.exchange ("Ryan Singel") wrote:

The moral bankruptcy of A16Z, also known as the primary investors in #Substack.

Choose your publishing tech and subscription dollars accordingly

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

Benchmarking AWS Lambda Cold Starts Across JavaScript Runtimes

When running production JavaScript in the cloud, performance is a critical consideration. Here’s how Deno’s cold start times compare against other JavaScript runtimes on AWS Lambda.

Continue Reading…

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

You never fail until you start trying.

(Einstein got it all wrong)

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DrPsyBuffy@mstdn.social ("Buffy the Psych Prof") wrote:

Men told the last woman running for president to smile more but they’re saying the woman running for president now smiles too much. Maybe it’s never been about the smile

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JasonPerseus@mas.to ("Jason Perseus") wrote:

Vice President #Harris immediately opens up a 20 point lead among young voters, an expansion of a 6 point lead by #Biden which had been narrowing.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/poll-harris-biden-trump-young-voters

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #election #election2024

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• 37496102458ea956.jpeg (remote)

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

well done ad

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

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

“Folks are ready to just throw down everything we have to help Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump.” https://19thnews.org/2024/07/march-for-our-lives-presidential-endorsement/ ht @LALegault

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

JFC, can we please have just *one* fscking election that is actually about substantive issues?

“AP Declares That 'JD Vance Did Not Have Sex With A Couch' In Fact Check - HuffPost”

https://apple.news/AbNzg5EwfQD6D7aFpxoUA6Q

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

‘WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Thursday that Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, has access to a powerful space laser that he will use to steal the election…

Another cause for concern, the Georgia congresswoman warned, is that Emhoff and Harris are “extremely close.”

“Kamala Harris talks to Doug Emhoff every day,” she alleged. “You would never see President Trump do that with Melania.”’

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.80.0 is now available! 🦀🌈

This release brings you LazyCell, LazyLock, checked cfg names & values, exclusive ranges in patterns, IntoIterator for Box<[T]>, Option::take_if, split_at_checked, and more! ✨

Check out the announcement and release notes: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/25/Rust-1.80.0.html

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

Maybe we should do a DNA swab on the couch, just to be sure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/25/jd-vance-probably-does-love-a-comfy-couch-though/

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• No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch (remote)

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

Am I the only man who lies in bed thinking about Godzilla?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/25/the-problem-with-kaiju/

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• GODZILLA! (remote)

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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

listen Roadrunner I'm on your side but this just feels like cheating

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• Photo of a young roadrunner cruising down a highway in an SUV (remote)

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I wrote a short paper "Estimating the Increase in Emissions caused by AI-augmented Search"

It has not been peer reviewed yet

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16894

#FrugalComputing

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edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

One of the primary reasons I’ve resisted using machine learning models in my professional work is that they always appear to me in the guise of a black box.

https://inkdroid.org/2024/07/25/blackbox/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Morning tea.

#FollowThePig #FollowTheMastodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting behind a table with beautiful tea pots, a tea cup, sticky toffee pudding cake, and a menu where you can see the Mr. H logo.

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hongminhee@lemmy.ml ("洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)") wrote:

Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

https://lemmy.ml/post/18382734

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Rain over Loughrigg Fell.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• An old wooden gate next to an old stone wall winding over the wavy top of a fell top covered in green ferns. There is the grey haze of rain over the more distant parts of the landscape.

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

Is it weird that the company most fucking over Mozilla in terms of revenue[1] *looks* like it's hiding behind the dragon's skirt on features?

I'm not sure why their folks are out claiming any credit for improvements when their monopoly on iOS browsing can't even fund the folks doing standards work after raking in 20+B/yr via iOS browser monopoly.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/

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

Anyway, if you want to see how depressing the state of modern web dev is because Apple, we made a dashboard. Hope springs eternal:

https://microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeeds/

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

I'm reliably informed that vendors who fail to keep pace with modern engines, yet forbid engine competition on their OSes, are not ritually humiliated at the start of every CSS WG meeting.

Like, I thought the CSS WG meetings were useless boondoggles already, but what are they doing if Apple isn't even shamed into buying drinks?

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spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Is this useful? I've been thinking about how to point out the adoption of a term to cover for racism.

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• 2020 cartoon head thinking "The 'n word" to CRT 2022 cartoon head thinking "The 'n word" to Woke 2024 cartoon head thinking "The 'n word" to DEI (remote)

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

Big-org life is like state+-level politics in many ways. The most salient is that making anything happen depends on folks with different missions agreeing to help you on the basis of shared values.

A big part of that is acknowledging *we all* live & work in systems that make doing better harder than it needs to be in theory.

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

Looks like #Aptera is ditching the idea of in-wheel motors. They say it's for the launch edition only, but something's telling me they're going to stick with it. This is sad.

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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

I'm reminded of the Chernobyl TV series on HBO. I thought it was fascinating that they went through all of the fail-safes that were in place to prevent a meltdown. They finally landed on the one cut corner that sealed their fate. (I don't know how accurate it was. But it was great TV.)

Anyway. If you look at this debacle and what you land on is "Crowdstrike engineers should've been more perfect", then I don't think that's the right takeaway.

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

New Century Tea Gallery. One of my two favorite tea shops in Seattle Chinatown. Finally found time to go there again after a few years break.

#darktable #tea

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• Inside the shop, two raws of big glass jars with tea on wooden shelves, converging to a vanishing point on the right.

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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems wrote:

I am largely convinced that every time JD Vance is talking, the Trump campaign is actively losing votes. Here's a clip originally posted on Twitter (aka Daily Stormer the Social Media site) in which Vance essentially proposes rigging elections for parents who have a lot of children.

“Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.”

Vance goes on to frame this as a "skin the game" argument based around what you have invested in the future of America; notably however, he doesn't argue that young people should get more votes, or that your vote should somehow count less if you are unlikely to live long enough to see "the consequences."

This is pretty much Vance's specialty, twisting vaguely "populist" sounding arguments into something that pushes planks of the reactionary, fascist agenda - in this case the argument that because children are our future, young people should be involved in our political process, is mangled into a reactionary "stakeholders" should have more political power argument, with a little bit of encouragement to have more babies, to obtain more political power. Which ties in quite nicely with nazi obsessions about the declining birthrate of white Americans, and the demographic realities that cracker Christians typically have much larger families than urban liberals. Throw in a little bit of racialized voter suppression and you're more or less talking about rigging US politics for fascists here.

Vance's ideas are deeply unserious, but his reasons for sharing them are invariably rooted in reactionary political agendas.

Hattip to the person on my Discord who shared this video.

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• b53fa440d1f4a508.mp4 (remote)

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

No, YOU'R getting choked up and forgetting how to spel.

https://www.youtube.com/live/3gbvWiW5T7I?si=6xGCRZ_t_RT3QitY

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

Calling for SCOTUS reform on the way out is 🧑‍🍳💋.

Can we start dedicating ice cream shops to him now? Feels right.

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

Just watched Biden's address. I miss the man he was, and I'm intensely grateful he's still enough of that guy to do this extremely hard thing.

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

Ok maybe Biden's too old or whatever, but I'm half his age and I just tried to use a can opener on a jar of salsa, so I guess I'm just wondering where that leaves me

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

hah! fact checking 🔥

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

I would not bet on these things being true:

‘“This election will be about policies and not personalities,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the meeting.

“This is not personal with regard to Kamala Harris,” he added, “and her ethnicity or her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever.”’

https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-attacks-johnson-hudson-76f8e90d24004e49449087787ac031a5

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

strongly agree:

“Trump had an opportunity to solidify the lead he gained in recent weeks. With an undisciplined performance, he missed this opportunity, leaving the door open for a Democratic candidate with the energy and vigor to point out Trump’s obvious flaws and extreme policy agenda.”

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trump-misses-a-golden-opportunity-in-his-acceptance-speech/

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

“DW fact check: Fake. The video is a fabricated demonstration. When the original audio of Biden's phone call is analyzed using ElevenLabs' AI Speech Classifier, the probability of it being generated with ElevenLabs tools is determined to be only 2%.”

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-viral-video-claims-biden-harris-call-made-by-ai/a-69753771

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Cocaine Bear is getting a sequel

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cek9mr43x1xo.amp

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday, @bcantrill and I were joined by @k8em0 to discuss the largest global IT outage in history. It was an event as broadly impactful as it will be instructive. As Bryan noted, you can see all of computing from here, from crash dumps to antitrust.

A huge thanks to Katie who was just an extraordinary guest. You don't want to miss this one!

https://youtu.be/5XTQd_MGkvM

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

In a dream last night, I told Peter Quill he was just a shitty Iron Man.

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

`bless(yourHeart ?? null)`

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

@clarissadelune Oh wow, Céline Tshika really nailed the loop:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6b_dZDZM8eY

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clarissadelune@c.im ("Clarissa") wrote:

I'm a therapist and I've been watching this video on a loop for an hour

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• d4d8edca6d5b0464.mp4 (remote)

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lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

Hey everyone! We need your help spreading the word about @bangbangcon, which is happening in *one month*! https://decomposition.al/blog/2024/07/24/join-us-for-bangbangcon-and-help-spread-the-word/

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

Sometimes I look at the assembly output of a compiler and have reason to tell it, "Good job, compiler. You did the right thing there. Thanks."

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

The psyche can neither be taught nor led astray by the self-criticism of the conscious mind. —Ernest Neumann, The Origins of Consciousness

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jensimmons@front-end.social ("Jen Simmons") wrote:

I see a lot of buzz about `font-size-adjust` today.

Let me explain to you how it works in 4 minutes:
https://youtu.be/uadAfE6cAoM?t=1338

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fsi@mastodon.f-si.org ("Free Silicon Foundation") wrote:

Asynchronous circuits don't need a clock, they run as fast as they can and they require minimal technological assumptions. If properly designed, they can operate in a wide range of voltages and temperatures.

Listen to the talk of Rajit Manohar (Yale) to learn about the theoretical background and their FOSS tools:

https://peertube6.f-si.org/w/o53qGHtAq3hdEQLfQfmRCh

#FSiC

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eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

Farewell present for a colleague.
Linocut of a certain kind of koi, which is a pun on his name.

#linocut #koi #PrintArt #Linolschnitt #Printing

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• Photo of a picture frame holding a black-and white linocut of a koi karp. Stylised shapes, but pretty close to natural look (remote)

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

I’m with @CARROT on this one

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• 36185f796da3fa31.mp4 (remote)

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

How can a man not love and respect his own daughter?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/24/this-is-not-a-super-villain-origin-story/

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

You can see Sam's stuff here:

https://www.youtube.com/@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER/videos

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

Look Mum, No Computer (Sam Battle) is doing a live stream with Elektor on July 31st @ 14:00 UTC. Could be fun if you're into Sam's work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYDIFZKvD6k

(I will be in a dentist chair at the time, so no fun for me.)

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Infuriated by J.D. Vance’s disparagement of childless cat owners, the nation’s cats are planning a mass protest at his next campaign appearance... announcing what they are calling the Million Meow March, the cats wrote... “He may think that cat owners suck,” the statement continued. “But you know what really sucks? ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ We couldn’t get through the first ten minutes, and we cats can look at almost anything for hours.”

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Another successful breakfast with the boy.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon

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• Wife squishing a stuffed Mastodon toy in an embrace in front of a table.

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amy@infosec.exchange ("Amy 🥥🌴") wrote:

I am giving a talk at a work event in Vegas during hacker summer camp and - i kid you not - this is the template we were given. So ofc I could not resist the feminine urge to use it appropriately.

And yes, it does bother me that I did not effectively center ‘brat’.

Sorry this is cropped within an inch of its life to ensure I did expose any actual work stuff.

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• Google slides Deck Template- template consists of a bright / neon green square, akin to that of the Charli XCX album ‘brat’ album cover (remote)
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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

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