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If you think about it, any text-file, any image or video, any executable on your machine is just stored as a series of 1's and 0's, and can simply be interpreted as a very, very large integer.
You're not running Excel, you're just running a number. You're not watching the latest episode of your favorite show, this is 180983984839912343232899016056542024...
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
And this is my haul this evening from our creeping raspberry plant. The others don't seem to like them, so they're all mine.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
I am having difficulty driving this interface this evening. I should probably pull over and get some sleep.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
With much help from @nev, I believe I've identified this as an argiope aurantia, or yellow garden spider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
Cool.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
At least I think it's cool. I came across this one while pulling weeds on my team's landscape day at work (the company has been running an experiment with doing our own landscaping at work). Anyway, I'm not from around these parts, so the species is unfamiliar to me. I didn't see it at first because its web was placed right in the middle of some weeds with yellow flowers I was pulling. I nearly grabbed it accidentally. Whatever it is, it seems to be a chonky, happy one.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
trekkies@botsin.space ("Deep Space 90210") wrote:
Worf: I’m pretty sure you’ve been wearing that uniform 6 days in a row Ezri.
Ezri: Or I own 6 identical versions of the same uniform.
Worf: No you don’t. There’s an old piece of carrot that’s been stuck to your back since Thursday.
Ezri: That’s... the style now.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Hey Jude (Jean Dude)
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Owls: What a luxury, working with fixed hardware. You can play to its strengths and really make it sing.
Corporations: Haha, garbage collector go pause.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
How do corporations manage to make TV UI janky?
Mastodon FeedI’m in 🇨🇭
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Trying to create a Samsung account and it just won't let me.
Whatever randomly-generated password I put in, it says it contains my email address or phone number, and that's not allowed.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
...and create a Samsung account.
Why are corporations like this.
I don't need any account or credit card or anything on my laptop.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Oh, it has that already, if I agree to iffy corporate shit so I can use App`s.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Should just get SVT Play on there somehow and send this stuff back.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
What if it was like internet. Plug ethernet cable into wall jack, and into router. Now you can internet. But no, every corporation needs their own junk with essentially DRM cards and shit.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Got the digital TV set up. I haven't had that before, so it's fascinating to see how much complexity they were willing to put in. Which provider do you have, which digital box (extra cables and remote,) or do you have a CI+ card in your TV, if your TV supports DVB-C that is, now enter the network ID for your region and some other gobbledygook… (my brain has checked out and my eyes are looking at the old outlet where you used to plug in the cable to get TV.)
Mastodon FeedWe've also submitted it to Product Hunt 😃
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
If you love dithering and indecision, oh boy, you are lucky to be alive in the 21st century.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/30/please-stop-dithering-cdc-and-everyone/
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Her face when she doesn't get to follow us outside 💔
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The flaming wasteland of the gender wars.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/30/waking-up-to-haze-and-smoke-again/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That is one vision of humanity, true enough.
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aw@merveilles.town ("alex") wrote:
we need an equivalent of the national park system for the internet
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Recursive¹ looks really nice on a high-DPI phone screen.
Using it on postmarketOS.
And right before I'm supposed to get an Android phone from my employer, I read that Google is doing the Apple/MS thing to Android and making it hard to change the font.
Everyone's Brand® is more important than users' ability to read text on screen.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
iOS forecast: rainclouds every hour except for 14:00 where it's just a cloud.
iOS description of it: cloudy weather expected at 14:00
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
It was raining heavily at night and cat was in the window, behind the curtains, until it lit up with lightning. Then she peeked out and jumped over to the bed. Now she's unusually calm. Normally she will sing at us at this time because she wants to go out.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Maybe it's not considered "serious" enough. You can get a little bit sick, it's fine.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
"However, in some European cities air pollution still poses risks to health."
https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/urban-air-quality/european-city-air-quality-viewer
If it affects people's health negatively here, and this was the cleanest city of those measured, then actually pollution poses a risk in all of these cities?
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
Maybe it won't make a difference for city politicians who are fine with being at 2 × guidelines if they're at 20 × guidelines instead.
But for those who want their air quality to not negatively impact the health of people, they really should lower those guidelines it sounds like.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla") wrote:
The WHO guidelines on air quality seem very lax.
Their recommended target levels are several times higher than they are here.
Local scientists say it's not actually good here, it's just that other measured EU cities are worse.
They can see the effects that it has on people's health.
Why are the guidelines set for like 4-5 times more pollution than that?
I guess it would be a big improvement for e.g. Berlin to meet those levels but come on, aim a bit higher.
