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

mcc wrote:

"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin/

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• A pile of Chromebooks

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

Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Gulf fritillary

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• A gulf fritillary butterfly on a leaf (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• (Corporate executives, as they watch the world burn) "Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly" (remote)

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

oh man a little bit ago I got to the point where Yao takes them to the site where the gold is supposed to be and they have their first undeniable encounter with Something.

I had to bounce when they sprung a timed-reaction decision on me, it's too late in the night for that kind of stress.

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

Hugops to all the SREs on call for podcast apps tonight. We hear you, keeping the series of tubes unclogged.

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

You know all this stuff about jacking off with/unionizing/scamming miners in the old west has me thinking about Mark Twain and this shirtless photo on wikipedia, which appears with the evocative but mysteriously unsourced caption, "Mark Twain spoofed sexual conventions in ribald ways during his stay in Nevada and California during the 1860s, but the avoided telling the 'queer secrets' of miners bedroom antics."

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• It's a shirtless photo of Mark Twain! If the estimated date is right, he'd be in his late 40s. He's got a hairy chest and he looks pretty toned

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

nekohayo ("Jeff Fortin T.") wrote:

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

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

sargasso@climatejustice.social ("Linus") wrote:

@breadandcircuses If global warming were a country at war with us, the resources devoted to its defeat would be unimaginable.

If only it could be viewed in that context by those that make the decisions.

Instead it is the opposite where we work every day to increase the donations of armaments to our clear enemy. An enemy that only exists because of our support but one that grows stronger every day and has openly committed to ensuring our destruction.

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

Trump impeachment day PBS segments really highlight how, as an industry, we failed to deploy reasonable webcams even though we had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic as a hook.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Can’t get over the fact that in the Dune canon, “Geoff” is a Fremen name.

(Geoff was Harah’s first husband who was bested by Jamis.)

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

Democracy Alerts - Former President Donald Trump Indicted for Efforts To Overturn 2020 Election - Democracy Docket

“This week’s indictment marks the third time this year that Trump has been indicted on criminal charges”

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/former-president-donald-trump-indicted-for-efforts-to-overturn-2020-election/?utm_source=Democracy+Docket+Newsletters&utm_campaign=35065ce0bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_18_06_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-9336cb8284-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=35065ce0bb&mc_eid=5c53c3b9ff

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

sadness, loss:

‘California's largest wildfire of the year continues to grow in the eastern Mojave Desert, burning Joshua trees and other vegetation across more than 80,000 acres. National park officials and ecologists are preparing for native habitat losses that are likely to alter the landscape forever.

"Recovery is really not a meaningful term here in the desert because of the global change going on," said Debra Hughson, deputy superintendent for the Mojave National Preserve.’

- LATimes

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

sjpalmer1994@genart.social ("Sam Palmer") wrote:

#Processing #CreativeCoding #Procedural #Generative #PerfectLoop #Art #Math #Mathstodon

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• Drifting light and dark purple squares switch between foreground and background (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

Just a note on the #BBC:

The BBC is not just the editors of The Today Programme, or Question Time. It is not just that Panorama about ADHD or Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall podcast

The BBC is also Yasmin Finney and Ncuti Gatwa on Doctor Who. It is Newsround. It is Horrible Histories doing the Bristol bus boycott. It is CBBC dramas for children about autism. It is a platform for new music of all kinds on radio. It has no ads.

Hating “the BBC” because of Tory news editors misses the bigger picture.

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

SuperSelena64@vmst.io ("Selena the Retro-Princess") wrote:

I don't want to shame anyone for shaving their pits obviously, but I just sort of feel like it's a strange choice for Donkey Kong.

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• Donkey Kong in the marquee of the original Donkey Kong and it looks like his armpits are shorn. (remote)

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

ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

This is a bit of fun ... a Theremin played well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0NVb25p1oU

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

renwillis@mstdn.social ("ren 🏳️‍🌈 (a they/them)") wrote:

"An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white, with lighter skin and blue eyes."

Super cool and totally not racist tech bro culture we got running our world, eh? PROGRESS!

https://www.businessinsider.com/student-uses-playrgound-ai-for-professional-headshot-turned-white-2023-8

#AI #tech #linkedin #photography

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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

qristy@xoxo.zone ("NextLevelBanana") wrote:

Zeno's guide to project management: break every task into steps. Break those steps into smaller steps. Continue in this manner until you realize you have an infinite number of steps and the task will never be accomplished.

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

Guess who is in charge of my chronic pain management?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/01/chronic-pain-sucks/

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• demonic insurance agent (remote)

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

SKleefeld ("Sean Kleefeld") wrote:

When your font choice is on point.

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• 0b544f8ea7f924ab.jpg

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

brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:

"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." --love that.

a cogent plea for keeping physical libraries available:

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/death-of-the-physical-library/

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

which style do you prefer, define-at-declaration or define-at-first-use?

#LearningRust

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

More #StableDiffusionXL images, this time of dystopian cities, Bladerunner-style

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

Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +58°F, 93%, ↗4mph, 1023hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 09:35:32-0400 | Dawn: 05:27:58 | Sunrise: 06:00:58
Zenith: 13:16:51 | Sunset: 20:31:59 | Dusk: 21:04:51
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

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

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

Today in History: Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on

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

Today in History: Herman Melville born, 1819

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

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

To be honest, quite happy with the results.

It feels like a step up from the last time I ran #stablediffusion locally ~9 months ago.

https://mastodon.social/@lloydmeta/109483388125738106

https://mastodon.social/@lloydmeta/109483389605995925

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Played around with the latest version of the "Diffusers" app that allows using the #StableDiffusion XL model.

Had to "hack" (s/macOS 14/macOs 13/g 😛) around the Swift app and the "ml-stable-diffusion" lib from Apple so that I could use the #SDXL model from my Intel mac on MacOS 13, but worth it to be able to run it using CoreML on my GPU.

Granted, it's a slow GPU and running it means everything is choppy (why doesn't CoreML run on the Radeon GPU and the UI run on the Intel built-in GPU :🤔 ?)

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• Stable diffusion running on custom "Diffusers" app. htop running on the side with low CPU usage and GPU history showing high GPU usage on the Radeon 5500M.
• Flying corgi with wings, generated by stable diffusion.
• Corgi in front of a Japanese shrine, animated style, generated by stable diffusion.