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

The tech juggernaut is going to roll right over all of us.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/the-planet-is-so-screwed/

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• Nvidia data processing gadget (remote)

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ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:

#Irdorath (BY) - Kryly. Крылы: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycB9RRQDtKc — wow (read the subtitles). #belarus

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

You mean, I can admit that I am a white dude without feeling shame? It's going to take some adjustment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/30/dude/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnKXuYcDU0

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ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:

"The song 'ZORAMI' was written in a colony. People like us have sung it many times, quietly and secretly, with tears in their eyes.." N. #Irdorath
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=5DjYddmyjNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DjYddmyjNM

They chose #art to express their experience in imprisonment and "a beginning of a new, bright chapter".

#music #belarus #FreeIrdorath

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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

I much enjoyed reading this informative page about the Amiga's Juggler demo, a landmark ray-traced 3D animation that amazed computer users back in 1986.

As a youngster, I took my first steps in 3D creation using the software in which the Juggler animation was created: Sculpt 3D.

🔗 http://etwright.org/cghist/juggler.html

#commodore #amiga #animation #3D #RetroComputing #retro #tech #technology #1980s #CGI #CG #RayTracing

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jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Jacek Wesołowski") wrote:

If someone told me 30 years ago, that the future involved getting tens or hundreds of letters a day, not reading 90% of them, and sending some of the letters twice in case the recipient didn't read the first one, then I'd say that's just silly and why would people do that.

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

Apple has the virtue of pointing at a better future, and the vice of holding the coats of everyone who doesn't share that vision.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't go there. But it does mean the idea Apple will transport us to it is a lie.

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

The real debate here isn't Apple vs. Google (who are universally worse on this stuff), it's Apple vs. the web.

And make no mistake, Apple is *extremely* threatened by a world where people spend more time in a browser-based, low-tracking environment.

It's why they've done all the nasty public stuff to suppress browser engine choice, as well as a boatload of nonsense they aren't blamed for (yet).

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

To spell this out in the most granular way:

• Apple allows FB to (ab)use `WKWebView` for an anti-user, pro-tracking in-app browser system
• FB uses this system to bypass both browser choice *as well as* any ad or tracker blocking you might have enabled within Safari
• Apple hold's FB's coat while it allows this situation to proliferate, one app at a time, while ignoring the impact of two-sided tracking (scripts in pages + host URLs).

Apple is Zucking you. No doubt about it.

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burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:

SERPENTINE…

IN…

SPAAAAACE

“Analysis of the Bennu sample unveiled intriguing insights into the asteroid’s composition. Dominated by clay minerals, particularly serpentine, the sample mirrors the type of rock found at mid-ocean ridges on Earth, where material from the mantle, the layer beneath Earth’s crust, encounters water”

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/surprising-phosphate-finding-in-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample/

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

The difference between posturing about privacy and actually doing what's most effective to enable it is the difference between marketing and action.

Caring about the world as it actually is, and resolving to change it, is not something billboards are equipped to take on.

Never forget that.

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

I like to imagine that a lot of the smart people working on privacy and security at Apple understand this, but my general affinity for Hanlon's Razor suggests they don't which, frankly, is disqualifying for any company that wants to put up billboards selling privacy.

PARTICULARLY web privacy.

Clown show.

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

People who understand some of the tech might say *"ah, but App Bound Domains!"*[1]

What those folks, and perhaps Apple's mgmt, have decided not to understand is that script injection is *no obstacle* for an entity that can both dominate the app market *and* cause most publishers to embed bits of JS within their pages.

ABD would work *if and only if* Apple also blocked tracking scripts from 3p origins associated with the hosting app, when loading a `WKWebView`.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/10882/app-bound-domains/

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

Being a parent has lots of great parts, but one of the worst is: there's literally no such thing as a vacation.

Whatever you thought of as a "vacation" before? Yeah, that's gone. You don't get that anymore.

Your absolute best-case vacation scenario as a parent is: exactly as demanding and stressful as real life, just in a slightly different way and/or location that cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars more.

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

The reason you know Apple and Facebook are besties IRL is that the ATT kayfabe blew over and Apple still lets FB do nasty nonsense with ad-blocker-blocking via "in-app browser" shenanigans.

A FB that feared Apple would have shut that down a long time ago.

An Apple that cared about privacy would have done the same.

It's a real SV mutual-appreciation story. Heartwarming, in fact.

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lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

one thing i learned from facilitating groups is that sometimes it’s much more effective to say “we don’t do that here” to invoke a community norm instead of saying “i’m personally offended” because that can be attributed to you only, or “that’s wrong”, because that invites some kind of debate.

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dawngreeter@dice.camp ("Marko Vujnovic") wrote:

@Daojoan Speaking as a dev manager, and entirely putting aside that it is simply decent to ensure your team has a healthy work-life balance... death march to delivery is the only way to be certain you will fail.

Overtime in a bind will move the needle for about two weeks. After that, you are lucky if 12 hours gets you what a well rested engineer will do in 8. A month after that, measurably, demonstrably bad decisions are being made due to exhaustion.

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leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:

Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth.

Apparently, he was writing his masterwork “The Art of Computer Programming” and decided to take a few weeks to write a better typesetter.

Thus, TeX was born.

10 years later he returned to continue the writing of the actual book…

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AlgoCompSynth@universeodon.com ("Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷") wrote:

@ScottStarkey I think they have to broadcast via YouTube because Zoom doesn't have the literal bandwidth. Some of the calls last week broke Zoom.

A reminder: we have cool hats!

https://bit.ly/dudehats

#WhiteDudesForHarris

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Information a new Cyber Security Act is being dribbled out this week.

Today, “Cyber ransom payments will need to be disclosed by businesses under new laws” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-30/cyber-ransom-payments-new-laws-before-parliament/104113038

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

hmmm, that’s disconcerting @CARROT

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

ANCHOR: “….and for viewers in the twin cities you can expect rain later with a possibility of sleet. Just before we go, a human interest story.”

REPORTER: “I’m at Underwriters Laboratories, where products have been tested for safety and reliability for over a century and a half. Janine works in the important new division that tests alien products that have come to market since Earth was contacted by the Galactic Commons. Can you tell us a bit about what you do.”

INTERVIEWEE: “Yes Grant, safety and quality testing has a long tradition on Earth, for example you never need to worry about being electrocuted by your kettle, because such a product would not pass our testing. Fortunately the wider galaxy has similar safety traditions but we still re-test off-world products here at UL because sometimes there are risks peculiar to Earth”

REPORTER: “Can you give an example”

INTERVIEWEE: “Sure. Take this product. It’s an Aldabaranian beauty appliance for neutron-beam hair removal. Normally quite safe and easy to use; however humans have more fingers than Alda and we’ve determined that there is a risk of your pinky finger triggering turbo mode which can lead to unwanted limb removal.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

Some CEO somewhere peddling "AI" something something: "It's taken many decades of research, but we've finally managed to turn basic computing from something knowable and predictable into something mysterious and unpredictable... This is clearly very useful."

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

Oh gosh, here's another: "We are rapidly moving toward a world where the fundamental building blocks of computation are temperamental, mysterious, adaptive agents."

I do not think that is the great selling point you think it is, Mr. CEO of a startup offering "AI" "solutions".

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

Headline: "Toward Software-Defined Vehicles"

Me: 😱

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niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

#TIL Kirchhoff already derived the original transmission line equation in 1857, nearly 20 years before Heaviside. Kirchhoff found a wave equation that makes a signal travel like heat (per Kelvin) but it also reflects at boundaries like a vibrating string, and this wavefront moves at the speed of light. Time to start calling transmission lines "Kirchhoff's third law"? It's mostly forgotten today because of its use of pre-Maxwell E&M based on Newtonian forces without fields (today called "Weber's electrodynamics" and remain on the fringe of research) https://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~assis/Apeiron-V19-p19-25(1994).pdf https://thepilyfe.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1.2238887.pdf #electronics

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• Eliminating i, one obtains: dE / dT = (8γl)/r (d^2 E) / (dx^2) which is an equation of the same form as the one which determines the conduction of heat in the conductor. Therefore, in the case considered here, the electricity propagates through the metal like heat does. With the assumptions made with regard to the resistance r' in equations (16) and (17), it is easily proved "a posteriori" that (16) and (17) are real solutions of (14) and (15). It is possible to convince oneself without difficulty that (4 / c^2)(di/dt) is infinitely small compared with dE/dx when i and E are taken from (17) and (16). The case in which the ends of the wire are separated from each other, and are subject to two potential values, can be treated in a similar manner as the case where the wire forms a closed loop. In the open circuit, and provided the resistance of the wire is large enough, one finds the same analogy between the conduction of electrity and heat. With Jacobi's resistance standard, a copper wire of 7.62 m length, 0.333 mm diameter, as shown in the previous paper, is: 32γ / (π sqrt(2)) = 2070 For a wire of the same material, the same cross-section, and a length of 100 km this quantity is 0.034, By way of an approximation, it can be treated as infinitely large in the first case, and as infinitely small in the second case. In the first case the electricity propagates like a wave in a taught string, and in the second case it travels like heat. Thomson has examined the motion of el (remote)
• III. THE RATIO OF UNITS AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT During the 1850s and 1860s Weber, Kirchhoff, and Ludwig Lorenz used the constant c_w and found situations in which electromagnetic effects propagate with the speed c_w / sqrt(2). In 1857, Kirchhoff studied electric currents in thin wires and extended media. He found that in media with vanishing resistance, electric currents propagate with speed c_w / sqrt(2). From the value of c_w, determined experimentally by Weber and Kohlrausch in 1856, Kirchhoff recognized that c_w / sqrt(2) is equal to the speed of light. Weber did similar studies and drew the same conclusion at about the same time but independently of Kirchhoff. However, his work was not published until 1864. Kirchhoff and Weber were not studying electromagnetic waves but electric currents in conductors. But it is interesting that, several years before Maxwell, they found electromagnetic effects that propagate with the speed of light. (remote)

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hadleybeeman@w3c.social ("Hadley Beeman") wrote:

After reading Google’s announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies, we the @tag wanted to make our position clear.

Third-party cookies have got to go.

We have updated our TAG finding “Third-party cookies must be removed” to spell out our concerns.

https://w3c.social/@hadleybeeman/112831916454116556

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-without-3p-cookies/
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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Bazaar vibes. Spent the day at a cultural festival run by the Indian community in Redmond, WA. A very colorful event, as you might expect!

Some more: https://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/albums/72177720319205390/

#darktable #anandamela

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• People sitting around a hot plate, on which a woman in sari cooks a couple of small round flat breads. A man in a very colorful turban looks on.

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cb@bleepbop.space wrote:

I'm working on a new album and I think this is going to be the cover art. It's big band #jazz but 100% #synthesizers similar to the music of Tomita and Wendy Carlos. I'm playing most everything on my #ewi from the 90's

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• in bold text: "JAZZ STANDARDS FROM AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE". below, a hand-drawn red abstract saxophone on an orange/yellow background, drawn in a loose playful style perhaps like Miró? the saxophone has abstract electronics components all over it, some in the place of keys. blue and red lightning bolts are coming out of the saxophone bell (remote)

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Jiminy Cricket! I ran through my daily anxiety allotment while reading this description of a Colombia launch. Machines, right?!
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/26/space_shuttle_columbia_near_miss/

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

‘The Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, posted on X on Sunday evening that the manipulated Harris video should be “illegal” and that he would soon sign a bill banning such media, in apparent reference to a proposal supported by California lawmakers to ban “materially deceptive” election deepfakes.’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/29/elon-musk-accused-of-spreading-lies-over-kamala-harris-video

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stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

This is pretty wild — our friends at "Read The Docs" saw file download traffic drop by 75% after blocking AI bots.

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/

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• By blocking these crawlers, bandwidth for our downloaded files has decreased by 75% (~800GB/day to ~200GB/day). If all this traffic hit our origin servers, it would cost around $50/day, or $1,500/month, along with the increased load on our servers. (remote)

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potus@threads.net ("President Joe Biden") wrote:

This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law.

So today, I'm calling for three bold reforms to restore trust and accountability to the court and our democracy.

1. No more immunity for crimes a former president committed while in office
2. Term limits for Supreme Court justices
3. A binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court

Read more about how these actions would strengthen the guardrails of our democracy here: wapo.st/4c9ertE

http://wapo.st/4c9ertE

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

Whatever you do, you don't want to look in JD Vance's basement.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/29/shall-we-get-ahead-of-the-cycle-with-the-next-jd-vance-weirdness/

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• "All right, what's the trouble this time," as he opens the door on a Gahan Wilson horror. (remote)

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

“These guys are just weird, that’s who they are,” says Gov Tim Walz. And he's right! He's understating it, if anything!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/29/shall-we-get-ahead-of-the-cycle-with-the-next-jd-vance-weirdness/

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

The most haunted street in Minnesota looks exactly like my idea of paradise.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/29/road-trip-2/

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• Colfax Cemetery on Timber Lake Road (remote)

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

I saw bats this morning! I shifted my run schedule a little bit earlier, and I saw bats flying around one intersection. Likely partaking in some of the same bugs that were hitting me in the face. (I guess from the bug's perspective I was hitting *them* with my face.)

Anyway, I hadn't seen bats in a while. I used to see a lot more of them towards the evening, but I'm glad to see they're still around.

I'm still keepin' my eye out for coyote. Just raccoons lately.

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

It was just too horrifying to draw a caricature of JD Vance with a beard made of burnt monkey testicles, so this is the next best thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/29/burnt-monkey-testicles/

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• JD Vance with a cat beard (remote)

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

Supreme Court reform? A good goal, but it's a bit like me aspiring to run a marathon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/29/frittering-away-the-presidency-in-a-lost-cause/

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• Cartoon of the expected Republican response: they have to favor the Federalist Society. (remote)

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

“dress respectfully” apparently means “wear a tee-shirt” to a lot of folks ;^{

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

reporting for possible jury duty today… so far, it is somewhat like waiting for Godot

What we got wrong about HTTP imports

Designing a module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. Here are some issues we encountered and how we solved for them.

Continue Reading…

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Running #rustfmt on a repository with open PRs is inconsiderate and annoying.

The code bulldozer will cause merge conflicts over the most unimportant arbitrary pedantism. Ironically, the "automation" of formatting requires many people to update their PRs manually.

Look at the massive fallout caused by a new option:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125443#issuecomment-2254961310

and it has destroyed the improved formatting I've added to a high-churn file to reduce merge conflicts.

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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

Garden State hit theaters 20 years ago today

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• Aging Matt Damon GIF

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

Well *this* is unremittingly grim:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/28/everlasting-jobstoppers-how-an-ai-bot-destroyed-the-online-job-market/

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Vyothric ("Darren") wrote:

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• Han Solo (Star Wars/Master System) smiling next to the text "What an incredible smell you've discovered."

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stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Hey, anyone running a WordPress site interested in helping me test a fediverse sharing button plugin before I submit it for review?

https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button-wordpress/

(EDIT: You can use the "Code" -> "Download ZIP" button.)

Here's more about the project: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/

#wordpress #WordpressPlugin #fediverse #SharingButton #SocialMedia #webdev

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• A short recording of me using the fediverse sharing button, filling out various fediverse domain names, showing how the icon changes to match the software running on each server. The interface itself consists of an input field for the domain name and a share button preceded by an icon. An "https" placeholder text is before the input field to signal that this part of the URL is not needed. (remote)

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

Trump says he "will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate." But that's all of them!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/28/thats-a-cunning-way-to-defund-education-and-kill-a-lot-of-children/

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• Trump's promise to end vaccine mandates contrasted with childhood mortality rates before vaccines (remote)

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

Y'all are incredibly comfortable being racist on here in a way I haven't seen elsewhere, while lecturing us about how if we tweak this one thing the racism disappears.

I'm spending my time combing through those calling @KimCrayton1 the N word & those who reported her to us for essentially making white people feel bad. The best is the one who reported this post by her: "Good ol’ Mastodon I’ve NEVER been called NIGGER more than I have TODAY"

Find Black women talking about racism offensive huh?

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

You know how they say that by the time you feel thirsty, you're already dehydrated?

I say by the time the idea of taking a nap crosses your mind, you're already tired, and the best thing you can do is just stop what you're doing and go to sleep.

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bert_hubert@fosstodon.org ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺") wrote:

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tape” coming for your power grid.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar-power-is-going-to-be-huge
from The Economist

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Leprous time! #RadarFestival

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• Band on stage

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

Who needs a thermometer when your cat can tell you it is too darn hot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/28/the-cats-not-dead-yet/

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• This cat is too hot. (remote)

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

Trying to watch the Olympics through, pardon me, American television. Getting the same feeling I get whenever I happen to browse Internet without an ad blocker. I manage to avoid watching ads through my life in general, so this contrast is just *very* jarring. Subjecting people to this experience is undignifying and unhealthy. We should outlaw ads.

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Carol Cadwalladr is a hero. She was the reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica social media story, and has been subsequently hounded by some of the most powerful shady operators on the planet. If she is talking about something way beyond anything we have ever seen before pay attention. It's certainly coming. It will be sophisticated and infect every corner of media and social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/misogyny-emergency-huge-outpouring-kamala-harris-us-electionction

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Greetings from #RadarFestival! #Sungazer

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• Band on stage

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

Where are my natural born, lifelong atheists at? I know you're out there, you people who never ever fell for the nonsense of religion.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/28/random-godless-thought/

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• Nothing but stars and vacuum (remote)

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pixelkeen@mastodon.art ("Keen") wrote:

There once was a time when we had interesting phones with physical keyboards, shortcut buttons, and removable batteries. How far we've regressed.

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• A photo of the HTC G1 (aka HTC Desire). In landscape orientation, we can see the screen slides up from the phone's main body to reveal a small keyboard. On the right side of the phone (bottom in landscape orientation), it has 4 physical dedicated physical buttons and a miniature trackpad. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

One of my favourite shots.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• A seagull on top of a round orange container on top of a pier overlooking a body of water. Next to it is a small orange boat.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

French etymology is great:

« petit déjeuner » (breakfast): from Latin disieiūnāre (to break one’s fast)

« déjeuner » (lunch): from Latin disieiūnāre (to break one’s fast)

« dîner » (dinner): from Latin disieiūnāre (to break one’s fast)

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rlpastore@sfba.social ("Richard L Pastore🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Given the distance, I was lucky to get these photos.

The last one is blurry, but I’m including it because I rarely see photos of hummingbirds perching.
#photography #birds

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• Hummingbird heads towards fennel blooms (remote)
• Hummingbird sipping from a fennel blossom (remote)
• Hummingbird perches on a fennel branch (remote)

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cb@bleepbop.space wrote:

One of the most badass album covers I've ever seen. Thelonious Monk in some kind of underground bunker, rifle around his shoulder, a mess of wine bottles and detritus everywhere, and a nazi tied up in the corner. Like.. wow.

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• Thelonious Monk in some kind of underground bunker, rifle around his shoulder, a mess of wine bottles and detritus everywhere, and a nazi tied up in the corner. (remote)

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

translation: I’ll say whatever I have to say in order to get elected, because I have no core beliefs

‘Mr. Vance, who has described himself as “100 percent pro-life,” has supported a federal abortion ban and opposed exceptions for rape and incest.

Now, as a vice-presidential candidate, Mr. Vance has tried to modify his past views.

“You have to believe in reasonable exceptions because that’s where the American people are,” Mr. Vance told Fox News this week.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/us/politics/jd-vance-kamala-harris-childless.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

Absolutely stunning posters for a Korean Macbeth. Designed by Yuni Yoshida.

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• Woman's back of garment unzipped, revealing flesh in the shape of a sword. (remote)
• Man facing woman, leaving cleavage flesh shaped like a crown. (remote)

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

‘Backstage, Ms. Healey introduced Ms. Harris to a friend’s young daughter, who had been at basketball camp.

“She said, ‘Tell me about basketball camp, and what’s your favorite position?’” Ms. Healey, who was a college basketball captain at Harvard, recalled. “And the little girl says to her, ‘Anything but defense.’ And the V.P. just burst out laughing and said: ‘Me too. I like offense.’”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/kamala-harris-vice-president-attorney-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Have you seen the new description Mastodon has on the Play Store? What do you think?

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marcan@treehouse.systems ("Hector Martin") wrote:

Facts about hardware are not copyrightable.

People tend to ascribe magical properties to copyright, as if any kind of information whatsoever is copyrightable. That's not how it works.

Copyright is intended to protect creative works. Hardware devices are not considered creative devices, they are functional. They are protected by patent rights, not copyright – and patent rights only protect the ability to reproduce the device, not describe it.

This means that PCB layouts are not copyrightable. By extension, nor are circuit netlists (i.e. the "information" within a circuit schematic). (Yes, this has interesting implications for open source hardware! You can attach licenses all you want to OSHW, but they only protect the actual source design files - anyone can just copy the functional design manually and manufacture copies and ignore the license, as long as they change the name to not run into trademark issues/etc., any firmware notwithstanding)

IC masks are protected under a very explicit law in the US. They weren't before that. By extension, nothing else about the chip design other than possibly firmware is copyrightable.

If you go and make an x86 clone or an unlicensed ARM core, Intel and ARM won't go after you for copyright violation. They will go after you for patent infringement, because the ISAs are patented. Talking about the architectures and writing code for them and any other research is perfectly fine. The only thing you can't do is reimplement them.

This is why projects like Asahi Linux can exist. If somehow just knowing how hardware works were a potential copyright violation, none of this would be possible.

What this means is: it is entirely legitimate to inspect things like vendor tools and software to learn things about the hardware, and then transfer that knowledge over to FOSS. You may run into license/EULA issues depending on what you do with the source data specifically (think: "no reverse engineering" type provisions), but as far as the knowledge contained within is concerned, that is not copyrightable, and the manufacturer has no copyright claim over the resulting FOSS.

This includes copying register names. I have an actual lawyer's opinion on that (via @bunnie). I tend to rewrite vendor register names more often than not anyway because often they are terrible, but I'm not legally required to.

The reason why we don't just go and throw vendor drivers into Ghidra and decompile all day, besides the EULA implications for the person doing it, is that the code is copyrightable and it can become a legal liability if you end up writing code that drives the hardware the same way, including in aspects that are deemed creative and copyrightable. This is why we have things like the clean-room approach and why we prefer things like hardware access tracing over decompilation.

But stuff like register names and pure facts about the hardware like that? Totally fair game.

Fun fact: Vendor documentation, like the ARM Architecture Reference Manual, has no copyright release for this stuff in the license. If register names were copyrightable, then anyone who has ever read ARM docs and copied and pasted a reg name into their code would be infringing copyright. They aren't, because this stuff isn't copyrightable.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"One day we'll leak entire data centers"

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/ex-twitter-dev-reminisces-about-finding-700-unused-nvidia-gpus-after-takeover-forgotten-cluster-was-powered-on-and-idle

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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

If the nazis are howling that you're a bad person, or you went too far, or trying to make the argument that you're not playing fair - you're winning. This is their whole schtick. "You better not make us angry or we're gonna rage/go nuts/do violence" and every single person in history who has said "okay we better listen to them" has lost.

If the nazis are mad that you're throwing punches, you're winning. In politics and in the streets.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Dunmail Raise pass.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• A green landscape.

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

The moon appeared inside the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower, in breach of the Olympic Brand Guide.

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

The things you need (and deserve) to build better, lighter, less vendor-lockin-based UIs for users are possible. And they should be deployed widely *today*.

Why aren't they?

Go ask. Then tell @owa what those vendors say when you do.

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

Anyway, you should ask your favourite non-Blink-based browser vendor why they're holding reasonable architectures back. And ask them if they're willing to support transparency in the Interop process to give web developers a sense for why they can't count on reasonable approaches next year.

Hint, it's related to why we felt we had to build this based on the *crystal clear* feedback we're getting:

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

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

This, in turn, gives rise to both a totalising logic for frontend frameworks (THOU SHALT BUILD IT ALL IN REACT!!!!) for anything that needs to be animated to/from, even more (theoretically and practically incoherent) nonsense about "state management" to deal with the consequences, and also a fight over "routing libraries".

All of this is barmy.

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

The relationship between these two things is sort of oblique for folks that haven't built a lot of front-end UI.

See, first, Apple hasn't implemented multi-page View Transitions (or any sort of View Transitions...or Scroll-linked Animations, or....you get the idea).

This means that the only way to reliably get animations between app states is to do it all inside a single page. Which means that you then have to capture every link and turn it into an internal route change *inside* a single page

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

Do you ever stop and think "this client-side routing stuff is Not Great(TM), and holds the SPA-tech monoculture for frontend in place?"

I do; usually when I'm looking at traces of public services that have fallen for Reactor nonsense.

And then I pull up this page and wonder why anyone would fail to vote for the Navigation API as part of Interop 2024:

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_navigation

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

"data lake" it's an ftp server. just call it an ftp server

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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

holy shit!!!!! a paper on autistic burnout!!!!! among other things demonstrating that it's a real phenomenon and not the same as depression or job burnout

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2019.0079

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weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:

At latest update, #ParkFire has covered >240,000 acres (~375 square miles) in <60 hours. A line from point of ignition to northernmost front currently stretches ~45 miles. Astonishing. If you receive an evacuation order, even if fire seems far, heed it. #CAfire #CAwx [1/2]

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queerfemmedyke@strangeobject.space ("jade") wrote:

Just keep growing. 🌱

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• A four panel comic in black and white, cartoony. A person stands in front of a gift. “A gift from the universe.” They open it to a black ball. “Difficult life lesson.” They persons says: “Ohhhh…Another one…” Then they throw it on a pile of black balls and say “…Thank you…”. Artist: Sarah Anderson (remote)

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

The one, only, and best Altoids.

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• A picture of a tin of Altoids Surströmming flavoured mints on a white background. (remote)

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stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:

Draw an iceberg and see how it will float! We often draw icebergs vertically, with a little tip above the water, and a giant part under the water. This doesn’t work, it wouldn’t float, because of mass distribution. If you want to have fun, draw your best iceberg, and see how it would actually float!

https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

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• A drawing of vertical iceberg that needs to be horizontal to float (remote)

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

To be absolutely clear, no one can prove that JD Vance keeps dolphin porn in his spank bank.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/it-has-not-been-proven-that-jd-vance-is-a-dolphin-porn-fetishist/

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• Editor's Note: This headline and story have been updated to reflect that there's no definitive proof Sen. J.D. Vance searched for "dolphin porn."” (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Greetings from #RadarFestival! #TesseracT

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• Band on stage

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

There are many theories to explain this paradox. One especially good theory came from the late David Graeber (rest in power), in his 2012 essay, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit":

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

Graeber proposes that the growth of IT was part of a wider shift in research approaches. Research was once dominated by weirdos (e.g. Jack Parsons, Oppenheimer, etc) who operated with relatively little red tape.

13/

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Today's artist: Ferenc Pintér (1931-2008)
#FromTheInspirationFolder

Another big favorite (yes I have many!).
I'm always blown away by his masterful work. The bold shapes and carefully crafted compositions, the fantastic combinations of organic/geometric and textural/flat, the moods. Just so unique.

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• Illustration by Ferenc Pintér. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

In Grasmere, on a bridge over the river Rothay.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• A woman with dark hair, wearing a beige trench coat, leans on the stone edge of a bridge, sticking her tongue out mockingly to the camera man.

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

‘… an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government’

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

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

nut-jobs and rewriters of history:

https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video

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

How not to acknowledge a professional colleague: "I am adding your name not because I think you deserve it or are entitled to it, but because it is the noble thing to do."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/dont-be-that-professor/

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• Charles Conteh (remote)

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

Starting my morning reading about vacuum decay because fire and ice aren't the only ways for the universe as we know it to end.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/vacuum-of-space-to-decay-sooner-than-expected-but-still-not-soon-20240722/

Fire and Ice:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice

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ShaulaEvans@zirk.us ("Shaula Evans") wrote:

I'm trying to track down a specific song to share with a friend, and I am blanking on both the name and the band, so I'm asking Mastodon, here goes:

Does anyone recall the name of the song by the contemporary Mongolian folk/rock band about a guy who loves his tractor?

Update: Thank you to @cassana! It is Shono with Kolkhozoy Traktor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFn8HvUJW0

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

Do you want to watch two invulnerable, bloodless superheroes stab each other with sharp objects over and over again, for two hours? Then you'll love Deadpool & Wolverine.

I didn't.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/someday-ill-learn-to-ignore-marvel-movies/

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• Deadpool and Wolverine movie poster (remote)

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fafo@fa-fo.de ("FAFO Updates") wrote:

Hello, world!

We are FAFO, a non-profit semiconductor and analytical chemistry research lab in Munich.

We exist to bring together people and tools necessary to advance not the cutting edge of manufacturing, but the cutting edge of making bathtub semiconductors and other Weird Hacks in your local hackerspace.

We've just rented out our first location and brought in a gorgeous 1980s JEOL T330A SEM. Restoring it to working condition is our first project, and this is where we'll keep you posted.

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• A Jeol T330A SEM (two pallet-sized modules: a column and a control module) standing in a mostly empty room. Panels from the column module are missing, and cable harnesses are still tied up with painter's tape. (remote)

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

Skepticon 16 is happening today!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/im-missing-skepticon/

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• Skepticon logo (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Windermere in the morning.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #Windermere

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• A large body of water with a red boat in it. Behind, a landscape.

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

This sounds like it will be a fun presentation. "Joe Grand, Creating The World's Thinnest Boombox":

https://calagator.org/events/1250481171

#pdx

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setiinstitute ("SETI Institute") wrote:

#PPOD: NASA's Juno captured this unusual and extraordinary view of Jupiter from the gas giant's southern hemisphere during perijove 32. The white storms are the so-called "strings of pearls". They are about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of Earth each. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / AndreaLuck

#jupiter #space #science #communityscience #scicomm

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• Picture of Jupiter taken from the southern hemisphere by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Five white storms can be seen tracking across the planet, with four in one row farther south and the fifth a band above.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Lily Tarn. Currently occupied by exactly two friendly ducks (not pictured).

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

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

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• A small body of water filled with water lilies.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A note on #Plushtodon. The stuffed toy isn't a representation of "the one" Mastodon. It's "a" Mastodon. When you get yours, you can pick their name and pronouns! Mine is a boy 🙂