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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Every time my M2 MacBook sleeps, I have to reconfigure all the displays.

On my iPad, FaceTime calls just fail instantly with no given reason.

Apple Music just stops playing after one song in the morning and needs to be restarted.

AppleTV+ constantly loses track of where I am.

My AirPods constantly fall out of my right ear, no matter the size of the rubber thingy.

Safari's the only browser with a whole slew of rendering bugs.

The state of UX is dismal if *this* company is the best there is.

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

Even if it was genuinely accidental (hah), consider the message delivered.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/24/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-flaming-hot-with-lots-of-collateral-damage/

Attachments:

• Prigozhin's plane crash (remote)

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

AI isn't doing this:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/24/the-state-of-ai/

Attachments:

• Chart of adoption rate of various technologies (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Is anybody porting polymur hash to #Rustlang?

https://github.com/orlp/polymur-hash

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

IamHappyToast wrote:

Here we are now, all the lads

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• 540822239f0cdd74.jpg
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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

EdS@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ed S") wrote:

Oh look, a (small) community for Malleable Computing

https://forum.malleable.systems/t/freewheeling-apps/52/1

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

The Republican debate was a childish demonstration of the decline of democracy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/24/the-children-were-bickering-at-the-kiddie-table-last-night/

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• dolls around a tiny table (remote)

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

cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Welp that's quite the fad diet, isn't it? (Via bluesky)

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• Screen shot from phone view of Kenticky State Fair program. August 27 @ 10:30 am - 5:30 pm PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING August 27 @ 11:00 am - 11:15 am LIVE MILKING DEMONSTRATION August 27 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm FARM TO TABLE (remote)

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

dshinkle@esq.social ("Danl") wrote:

@Teri_Kanefield I can't figure out the ethics of dual representation. If clients stay in perfect alignment, no problem. But if Client A decides to testify against Clients B and C, obviously A needs new counsel, but if I have discussed the merits with A, and I have secrets from A, I'm going to have trouble continuing with B and C, especially when they, inevitably, start giving me dirt about A. How does this ever work out?

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

local reporters are central to American democracy:

‘Recounting the tableau at a coffee shop in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday morning, only hours after the indictment was made public at the Fulton County courthouse, Mr. Chidi said he wanted to dispel any notion that his achievement had been a fluke, like a journalistic equivalent of scratching a winning lottery ticket.

“It’s not like I just wandered into the Capitol that day,” Mr. Chidi said. “This was years of reporting.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/chidi-trump-indictment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

After almost a month in the countryside I'm desperate for more electic vechicles in Tallinn to cut the noise pollution from petrol engines…

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud 🚗

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

Spirit Hunter NG seems to unexpectedly have a lot of theming related to Japanese national myths, and not really the ones that are supposed to be creepy/ghostly. Non-spoilery details: early on you find a weird postcard that references Princess Kaguya and one of the first areas is a park with a bunch of things in it that use names from the tale of Urashima Taro. So it doesn't seem to be like, "Here's the ghastly truth behind the legends!!" or anything

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

I wish I could know how many gay boys in 50s Japan saw Toshiro Mifune tied up in Rashomon and had something awaken in them

The number was definitely more than zero

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

frankly I don't think i'll be voting for any of them

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

OK, but are you actually debating if you aren't having your fingerprints taken?

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jenn@pixel.kitchen ("jenn schiffer") wrote:

a *very* merry rudy giuliani mugshot day to everyone who celebrates

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

A good 35+% of the internal volume of this tiny, dense box is heatpipe, fin, or fan

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• A NUC 13 Extreme, which is veeery smol. (remote)

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

Built a new gaming box 🤩

It's 1/8th the volume of the boxes it arrived in, ~silent, and loooordy is it quick.

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• [New machine!

 NUC 13 Extreme i9, plus:
 
  - 64 GB of 5600MT DDR5 (2x 32GB SO-DIMMS)
  - fast and capacious NVME storage
  - Noctua replacement case fans for extra quiet
  - Windows 11, because games][3] ([remote][4])

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

SteveThompson ("Steve Thompson") wrote:

"The goal of Death Star is simple. The deeply conservative Texas Legislature wants to effectively deny cities—the state’s large Democratic-leaning cities, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin in particular—the ability to pass local laws and regulations in eight major policy areas: agriculture, business and commerce, finance, insurance, labor, natural resource law, occupational law, and property law. And it does all this in a bill that is 10 single-spaced pages long..."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/greg-abbott-texas-attacks-austin-with-death-star.html #GOP

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LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

Past Socialist Plots:

1776 - Veterans Benefits
1790 - Public Schools
1812 - Veterans Spousal Benefits
1853 - Public Fire Fighters
1905 - Public Parks
1921 - Public Roads
1929 - The Weekend
1933 - Farming Subsidies
1935 - Social Security
1938 - Child Labor Laws
1938 - Minimum Wage
1940 - 40 Hour Work Week
1955 - Handicapped Accessibility
1956 - Federal Highways
1965 - Medicare
1970 - Clean Air Laws
1972 - Disability Benefits

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Also for what it's worth I don't think he has any concept of inheritance or anything; I think he just knows that money can buy toys, and has decided that if we're not around he gets to take the jar of change on the dresser.

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

lizardllama@shakedown.social ("Mike Says No") wrote:

Mick is 80. Mitch is 81. It’s time we acknowledge the benefits of sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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• 49202170eb76e76f.jpeg (remote)

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

Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:

One way to tell the true believers: They want Trump to pay for their lawyers. Some of the people who want Trump to pay for their lawyers (like Ellis and Giuliani) are lawyers so they know exactly what it means to have a co-defendant pay your bills: Your interests can't diverge.

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

c_9@mstdn.ca ("Cameron MacLeod") wrote:

Entire private jet accidentally falls out a window near Moscow.

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

now *that* is RAM

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/110941015038167754

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

kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Each disk platter was 39 inches in diameter and had 12 heads reading it. A complicated hydraulic system moved the heads. The edge of the platter moved much faster than the center, so the disk was divided into 6 zones, writing at higher frequencies as you go toward the edge.

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• Cover of the brochure for the Bryant Model-2 Series 4000 Disc Files. It says "more of everything you need and want in a random-access mass memory". The disk drive is a massive unit, tinted blue. A woman is leaning against the disk drive, which is about the height of her shoulders. (remote)
• A diagram showing the disk drive's hydraulic system. (remote)

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

look at those gorgeous platters

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/110941014603425569

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

rlmcelreath@nerdculture.de ("Richard McElreath 🦔") wrote:

I told a colleague that logistic regression is AI and they got mad at me, so I made a chart. Find yourself. I am "Tinder is AI".

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• Table with 3 rows and 3 columns. Rows: (1) Algorithm purist (mimic human cognition), (2) Algorithm netural (learns & generalizes), (3) Algorithm rebel (method irrelevant) Cols: (1) Ability purist (exceeds human ability), (2) Ability neutral (makes task easier), (3) Ability rebel (usefullness questionable) Cells: [1,1] "Terminator is AI" [1,2] "C3PO is AI" [1,3] "WALL-E is AI" [2,1] "AlphaGo is AI" [2,2] "XGBOOST is AI" [2,3] "Tinder is AI" [3,1] "A metal detector is AI" [3,2] "Bubble sort is AI" [3,3] "Magic 8 Ball is AI" (remote)

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

hah! yah think?
;^}

https://mastodon.world/@mrbadger42/110941051566246025

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

briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

The FBI says it continues to see Barracuda email security gateway devices actively compromised via the flaw that caused Barracuda in June 2023 to offer to replace (not patch) a broad range of its ESG devices. The FBI confirms Mandiant's China attribution, and says just unplug the damn things already.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2023/230823.pdf

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/barracuda-urges-replacing-not-patching-its-email-security-gateways/