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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I quit my job last week, and for the first time ever, I don’t have anything else lined up.

So: Do you know someone who needs a senior-level jack-of-all-trades coder and sysadmin? Who can also write well? And has thirty years of experience delivering robust, high-quality products quickly? In Los Angeles or remote? Send ‘em to greg@eod.com!

Please don’t make me have to use LinkedIn. Please.

#fedihired

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

What has you engrossed lately? No points for guessing what I've been doing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/11/this-isnt-my-hobby-its-my-life/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7HpIFSybDI

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

a cool thing about computer games is that every computer game that has ever been released was in high resolution 3d

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• Screencap of an Apple IIgs emulator. White text on blue background: APPLE BOWL The Apple Bowl is a 3-D, Hi-Resolution graphic simulation of a bowling alley. The computed motion of the ball & the pins is derived from the laws of physics. All conditions normally encountered in bowling, such as the direction, speed, spin, and weight of the ball and pins are included with the ball's position to realistically determine the correct fall of the pins, and resulting score. The ball can be thrown from any point across the width of the bowling alley. Its direction, speed and spin are set at the moment of release by the mouse and two keys on the keyboard - the Apple and Option keys. Need Instructions? (Hit 'Y' or 'N')...
• An actual game screencap of the Apple Bowl, depicting a blocky bowling alley in a very low number of colors.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

life is so very harsh for Oscar the Housepanther.

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• black cat relaxing in the sunshine from a window

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“[Disney] Company goes all in on growth program in Anaheim, California, after cancelling $1bn project and pulling plug on Star Wars hotel”

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

bigotry and authoritarian government have consequences

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/11/disney-ron-desantis-florida-california-theme-parks

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

It has such a distinctive look too

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• screencap of an apple iigs emulator running system 6. The topmost window is "About this Apple IIgs." Behind it, a window titled "synthLab" and another window with no visible contents behind them all. The desktop is blue pinstripe pattern and the screen border is solid blue.

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

Go go go go, #spiderhunters!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/11/harnessing-insomnia-for-the-greater-good/

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• Enoplognatha (remote)

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

William Deresiewicz seems to think the proper way to address misogyny is to validate it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/11/i-hope-william-deresiewicz-never-tries-to-defend-me/

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• Smug pretentious author with worms in his brain (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

It doesn't seem like there's much modern software development for the apple IIGS. At least compared to other early personal computers. There are decent emulators, a nice GUI operating system, a distinctive look and a fancy wavetable sound chip so there's promising raw material to work with

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

The only way to win is to not play.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/11/do-you-want-to-play-a-game-3/

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

Their egos prevent them from realizing that they are repelling clients. They're like the worst possible used car salesmen!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/11/rich-people-poison-everything-they-touch/

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• Musk proposes a "literal dick measuring contest" (remote)

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

UnitedSpaceCats ("United Space Cats 😻") wrote:

#CatsOfMastodon
#N1654

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

waiting for the contractor to appear to fix what they have incorrectly installed, almost an hour late (as usual), going to start referring to them as ‘Godot’

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

jf77@mastodonapp.uk ("James Forinton") wrote:

#cats #catsofmastodon

someone decided to help themselves😸

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• 5f96cea0bbcfc9b2.jpeg (remote)

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

I call it “green tea” but technically it’s just hot Mountain Dew.

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Emily M. Bender (she/her)") wrote:

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 ep 5 is up! @alex and I take apart Sam Bankman-Fried's "Future Fund" just days before FTX imploded.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/13199202-episode-5-sam-bankman-fried-s-future-fund-november-9-2022

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Since I'm seeing a new wave of people saying they plan to leave Twitter, you may like my browser tool that takes the zip file of your Twitter export and returns a zip file of a web site that lets people browse and search your tweets. You can just upload the files wherever you normally host html and it'll work just fine.

https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Example archive: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

The only good content left on Twitter is Musk’s former employees debunking his bullsh*t

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• Tweet from a woman named @ElaineF reading: It was my job *at Twitter* to track & announce metrics like this. When a brand new, convoluted metric is suddenly trotted out, it tends to mean the opposite of what they're trying to claim. (And not even claiming! Saying maybe they could claim it!) (Also, "since Feb" is 🤡)

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

New numbah. Like I could care less who this fuckin' guy is.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-u-s-ban-on-sale-of-cellphone-location-data-might-be-coming-fbe47e53?mod=djemalertNEWS

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptt7JEgrpD4

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

New #MapMen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVTsGaHirE8

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Almost done with my Master! One more week to go (hopefully). Just finished this today and started it last Wednesday. Was listening to Hocico, so it kind of influenced this sketch.

#sketch #sketchbook #art #cyberpunk #PenDrawing #ballpointpen #markers

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• Portrait sketch done with ballpoint pen and markers in grey, black and red. A woman with long wavy hair and a side-cut, exposing her veiny implants at the side of her head. She is wearing red lipstick and red eyeliner and is looking away towards the left with a pained and angry expression. A barcode tattoo is on her left shoulder. (remote)

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

paperswelove@mstdn.io ("Papers We Love") wrote:

Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones - originally posted on Mar 3, 2016

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U

#paperswelove #video

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

jaimeJ@social.seattle.wa.us ("jaja") wrote:

"Just Ducky" teableau for 07/09/23

#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #Summer #Ducks #VintageGlass #CarnivalGlass #OolongTea

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• A tea tableau with a porcelain duck in the reeds and carnival glass ware. The tea is Imperial Ti Kwan Yin oolong. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

thefool@octodon.social wrote:

@slightlyoff I often only read text.npr.org, especially on mobile with weak signal. Here are some others: https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

Building a new computer is much more than just the hardware and software in the artifact -- there is also an entire supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics operation that must be designed, developed and debugged. Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and @bcantrill will be joined by the Oxide operations team to hear of the many (many!) obstacles that they surmounted to get the Oxide rack shipped. Join live 5pm today!

https://discord.gg/6YP9v9Ne?event=1127996425435873323

Recorded, as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

parranganjr@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parranganjr") wrote:

just in Wakatobi island, in Kapota Beac Indonesia

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Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

charlesornstein@newsie.social ("Charles Ornstein") wrote:

A mysterious network called AdStyle is placing ads with fake endorsements from celebrities on conservative sites based in the U.S. and abroad. With names like Liberal Hack Watch, most of the sites in the network publish content with a pro-Trump bent. https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-websites-scam-readers-phony-celebrity-pitches @craigsilverman @ProPublica

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

n1ckfg@merveilles.town ("Nick Fox-Gieg") wrote:

@futurebird If I had to make a prediction--USB is about 30 years old, version 4 has kept full backward compatibility with 1-3 while finally ending the ancient Firewire design beef (merging with Thunderbolt, which adds emulation for other cables and power delivery for larger gadgets)...plus now it's got an EU mandate. It'll have _at least_ the lifespan of coaxial cable (invented 1880, standardized 1940)