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

That's an awful lot of effort to show that zebrafish don't like french fries. I coulda told 'em.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/26/whoa-its-been-an-awful-long-time-since-i-had-a-french-fry-must-be-why-im-depressed/

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• Results of computer analysis of zebrafish responses to acrylamide (remote)

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

Python: The best C wrapper.

HTML/CSS/JavaScript: Because it won.

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

I've been musing on mixing Electron with a Python backend for reasons that have nothing to do with the merits of either technology stack, but it might be the least bad option in this moment, and it's a little demoralizing.

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janneke@todon.nl ("Janneke") wrote:

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• A graphviz-generated acyclic directed graph showing the root of the GNU Guix package tree, from gcc-core-mesboot0-2.95.3 down to stage0 and the bootstrap seeds. (remote)

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

Two losers having a perfectly normal conversation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/26/two-losers-having-a-perfectly-normal-conversation/

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• Carlson-Musk (remote)

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

I have just purchased an input switcher with a passive attentuation knob

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

The whole concept of "Chads" is warping reality. Don't fall for it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/26/how-to-turn-a-bad-relationship-into-a-click-baity-article/

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• That idiotic "virgin vs chad" meme (remote)

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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

@marcan I don't suppose you know a way to either disable high-impedance detection in an m1 macbook (OSX) or otherwise lower the output volume so I can have the volume higher than the literal minimum without it being too loud?

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Do I need a special cable??? I just want to listen to things at a reasonable volume ;_;

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Why is everything always too loud even on minimum volume settings, these are supposed to be 250 ohm headphones ;_;

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

checking out bluesky, where I am xor.blue https://bsky.app/profile/xor.blue

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bradeeoh ("Brady "Bivalent" Eidson") wrote:

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jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky Alciné") wrote:

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

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• A photographer along the edge of the water, setting up a view camera with a very long bellows on two tripods. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

getting set up for weekly local 6m USB net 📡

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shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

nice post by @micahflee on solving the #bsidessf CTF using gpt4! https://micahflee.com/2023/04/capturing-the-flag-with-gpt-4/

people who hire candidates using take-home assignments... are you worried about this

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

And once again I'm finding myself in a design review repeatedly saying "let's not do that" in different ways at different places :-) Really, YAGNI and KISS are the most important principles I have learned over my career.

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Saw ‘How to Blow-up a Pipeline’ tonight.

I have thoughts 🤔

Firstly, I hope the book lives up to that (but differently, obviously) as I started reading that last night.

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nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

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• Bluesky CEO posting on Bluesky : “update: we are debugging our political hate group labeler. once it’s working, if you set your moderation settings to “hide”, it will be hidden.” She attached a screenshot of a yet-to-be-released muting tool in the app that will allow to mute certain types of account. Among which: “political hate groups”, “impersonation”, “violent / bloody”, nudity, etc. (remote)

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antifaintl@kolektiva.social ("Antifa International") wrote:

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• thread: @goth-shitposts: New rule: ur not aloud to be a goth if youre transphobic @sexin-my-xbox: Additional rule: being transphobic is not punk rock @skoomapipe: also note: transphobia isn't metal either @unaccompaniedursaminor: You can't be counter culture while beholden to the toxic prejudices of the dominant culture that's not how it works (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

...I knew it looked familiar.. But the album "Noise Diary" from Rabia Sorda is from 2009, so... :blobthinking:

#RandomThoughts #RabiaSorda #Metallica #AlbumArtwork #music

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• Screenshot from Spotify showing "Heart Eating Crows" from Rabia Sorda playing. The album artwork is shown large. Next to it a preview of Metallica's "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct". Both album covers share similarities of a body with one head with multiple faces in different directions. The main face in both has a very similar expression. (remote)

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kateryna@toot.community ("kateryna_phototalk") wrote:

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• Female portrait in neutral beige colors, with dramatic look in the camera. (remote)

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

ah yes that magical time of year when the amount of time I can handle working from my back porch before getting too cold also happens to line up with the amount of time I can use my laptop before the battery runs out (50 minutes)

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greymatter@rap.social ("Grey Matter") wrote:

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noracodes@tenforward.social ("Nora Tindall, tech aspect") wrote:

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

Another rotten judge. I am unsurprised.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/25/another-supreme-court-justice-bought-paid-for/

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• Supreme Corrupt Justice Gorsuch (remote)

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esther@strangeobject.space ("Esther") wrote: