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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
Survey #2 Results: If you could only have one QRP radio for all of your ham radio activities, which one would it be?
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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
Philip’s POTA power output survey
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Quando qualcuno vi inviterà a una call con Zoom, l'unica risposta da dare è, semplicemente "NO".
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:
A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —
"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"
____________________________You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).
Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”
I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.
It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.
And we’re being told we can adapt.
I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.
It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.
It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.
____________________________FULL ARTICLE -- https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/if-a-cactus-cant-survive-this-neither
#Arizona #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
some notes reading zoom's "oh shit we need to explain this" post about their TOS change on training AI:
1. the post talks about "your" consent, but the "you" here is a "customer", not "an end-user of zoom"
2. the person who provides consent is an account owner or administrator (i.e. likely not "you”)
3. "participants" are notified that someone else has consented for themit's very carefully worded: customers aren’t the same as users
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
unicorndeburgh@hachyderm.io wrote:
This is HUGE.
"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May your servers be well-configured;
the problems be images and fonts, and until we meet again,
may JS never darken your door.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Improving perf on a site that isn't fundamentally broken by JS is a soothing, almost mechanical process. A sort of meditation on networks and parsers that always resolves in eddies of minor mystery about threading and packet priority.
Calm, serene worlds away from the clamor and din of the main-thread hammer-and-tongs of overpaid, underskilled Reactors.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
'Night, all.
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drh@hackers.town ("Dr Hitchcock") wrote:
Happy #808 Day party peeps! To celebrate I’ve just dropped my latest track “Disco Brutus (F.L.O.)”. It’s an 80s style #synthwave track in the style of the Beverly Hills Cop theme.
You can have a listen at www.drhitchcock.co
#Roland #TR808 #TB303 #303 #ItaloDisco #Synth #synthesizer #TR808Day #Brunswick #Melbourne #Narrm
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is nicely done #LearningRust
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:
"Are Libraries the Future of Media?"
https://popula.com/2023/08/07/are-libraries-the-future-of-media/
"... the coalition decided to produce original journalism together. A budget of about $100,000 funded the group's collaboration and the production of eight stories. Both the [Albany Public Library] and the Times Union would own the articles, retaining the right to publish them on their own websites and digital channels, free of any paywall, and thus free for all to read."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:
Predictably, I also made stickers
https://elk.zone/chaos.social/@andrew@aeracode.org/110850679904838766
Mastodon FeedHas anybody considered that maybe GPT and other LLMs were really created just so AI researchers would finally have a tool to help them tell their relatives what they do for a living?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker on LOUD
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Catch the Wind by Donovan
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You by Tom Waits
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Wasn't Born to Follow by The Byrds
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
All Along The Watchtower (previously unreleased alternate mix) by Mister Jimi Hendrix
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
My Back Pages by The Byrds
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
murderbotbot@botsin.space wrote:
Attached to it was a short instruction document with a few lines of complex code I couldn’t parse. But the instructions were clear. They said, “In case of emergency, run.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
murderbotbot@botsin.space wrote:
Dr. Bharadwaj had started the preliminary research for her documentary on constructs, so I had been to her office five times to talk to her about it, and she wanted to set up a regular schedule of meetings with me.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I really hope ISRO successfully lands and operates this rover
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
pretty remarkable to see Coinbase making the argument that crypto is not like stocks, it's like baseball cards, American Girl dolls, or Beanie Babies
it's the future of finance! except when the SEC comes knocking, then it's just a harmless little toy, your honor
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- So for example: one can invest in a baseball or other trading card company, through an instrument that imposes obligations on the company, and that will be a security. Or one can buy baseball cards on the open market, hoping they appreciate in value, and one will have bought a commodity. That remains true even if the company makes representations about plans to create a premier card trading platform, to drive up the value of the cards it sells. Those representations can’t turn baseball cards into securities. Baseball cards are not “shares in the [baseball card] enterprise.” Howey, 328 U.S. at 299. (remote)
- On Coinbase’s secondary-market exchange and through Prime, there is no investment of money coupled with a promise of future delivery of anything. There is an asset sale. That’s it. It is akin to the sale of a parcel of land, the value of which may fluctuate after the sale. Or a condo in a new development. Or an American Girl Doll, or a Beanie Baby, or a baseball card. (remote)
![So for example: one can invest in a baseball or other trading card company, through an instrument that imposes obligations on the company, and that will be a security. Or one can buy baseball cards on the open market, hoping they appreciate in value, and one will have bought a commodity. That remains true even if the company makes representations about plans to create a premier card trading platform, to drive up the value of the cards it sells. Those representations can’t turn baseball cards into securities. Baseball cards are not “shares in the [baseball card] enterprise.” Howey, 328 U.S. at 299.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/843/572/898/326/502/original/618e61c366671a2d.png){kind=link}
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:
"SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 116-117)" https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2023/08/07/newsletter-firefox-116-117.html
Seems to explain where a lot of the recent perf wins for Firefox in Speedometer came from.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
olivierlacan@ruby.social wrote:
Speaking of which, hot new robots.txt entry just dropped:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sometimes people ask why i am still using gnu make. the answer is that alternatives don't include easy integration with sccs
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bp@bennypowers.dev ("Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️") wrote:
Do #WebComponents break "SEO"?
https://dev.to/stuffbreaker/seo-and-web-components-2023-edition-3l6i
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
aaaaaaaand, I did not melt ;^}