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

Today in History: Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926

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

Today in History: Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888

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

Today in History: 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983

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

Today in History: Prinses Wilhelmina (1880 - 1962)

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

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

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jendrik@chaos.social wrote:

Venn diagram of date formats -
RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601 vs HTML
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

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• A Venn diagram showing the current time and date in over 100 formats. Most formats conform to ISO 8601, some to RFC 3339, some to both and a few to neither. (remote)

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TALlama ("Seth A. Roby") wrote:

This is your regular reminder that xScope from @Iconfactory is a must have for doing ay kind of design work. A nice little toolbox of stuff you didn't know you needed. I just pulled out the “Dimensions" tool and figured a tricky CSS padding issue in no time.

https://xscopeapp.com

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I wish more people understood that being able-bodied is just a temporary condition...

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

Judge sentences ex-Proud Boys leaders to 17 and 15-year terms for US Capitol attack

“The prison terms handed down by U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly for Biggs and Rehl, the first Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy to be sentenced for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, were below U.S. sentencing guidelines and far lower than the 33-year and 30-year terms sought by federal prosecutors.”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-proud-boys-leaders-could-face-longest-sentences-yet-us-capitol-attack-2023-08-31/

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

So far my biggest gripe is that most of the openFPGA cores I've tried don't support save states. The ability to suspend and resume games that don't typically have saves would be handy

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

digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

Ooooh great track by Rex Omar, originally recorded in 1997. Soundway is releasing a EP compilation of classic singles soon!

https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rex-omar #music #ghana

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

@slightlyoff that person is literally "ONLY in my backyard" rather than N.

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

Via @phae, this story might be peak SF '23. It has everything! Entitlement. VC money. Hypocrisy (obvs). NIMBYs. It's only missing a "historic laundromat", which would have made it unassailable. The year is young.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pickleball-court-presidio-heights-18336716.php

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

matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

CSS-Tricks is dying a slow and painful death. DO will either merge it into their own platform (like they did with scotch.io) or just let it run as is. Either way it's bad. Merging will hurt the brand and its integrity. If they just let it run, outdated content will eventually outweigh quality content.

Anyway, there is a gap to fill. I hope that we soon get another friendly, inclusive, high quality front end platform soon that makes you proud to contribute to and be part of it.

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kennwhite ("Kenn White") wrote:

Pour one out for your buddies in IT and incident response today. This one's gonna hit a lot of Fortune 500 companies hard. By @lorenzofb
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/logicmonitor-customers-hit-by-hackers-because-of-default-passwords/

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

tyalie@boopsnoot.de ("Sophie") wrote:

Somebody today dragged an old oscilloscope into our @cccac space. Of course we did the only logical thing first :D

I can't wait what others will do with it ^^

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• Old tube oscilloscope visualises music made for it. One can see 3D cubes, astroids, space shuttels and fire rings flying by (remote)

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

I just heard a song that I kind of want to share, but the message is a bit... dire? So instead I'll share this song, which has similar energy, but without the sense of the dire. Let's kick this day off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ

#ThursdayRock

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

“just because the Leopard 1A5 is old does not mean that it can’t be effective, once the decommissioned stock is refurbished. It is comparable with but superior to the Soviet-built T-72 tanks, which Ukrainian forces also use.

It has night-vision capability, a weapons stabilization system and it can drive backward, which cannot be said for all of the older battle tanks currently seeing action in Ukraine”

fire-while-moving is a particularly powerful capability

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/world/europe/german-tank-ukraine-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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guidol70@mastodon.online ("Guido Lehwalder") wrote:

#LokiOS a modern #CPM 2.2 replacement OS by #cj7hawk
https://github.com/cj7hawk/LokiOS

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• b23c240c4e9232e8.jpg (remote)

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

Kayla@geekstodon.com ("Dr. Kayla Iacovino 🌋:python:") wrote:

@ianbradbury @gulovsen @paninid @law in my experience this also occurs at very large institutions where the workforce is tech literate. Typically when the IT is so restrictive as to interfere with work. People stop asking permission.

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lori@hackers.town wrote:

Tunes for this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlugvcnuSA

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

Every year around this time, the Portland area reminds me of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFnYcIqj6I

Today's one of those days.

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r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

#illusion #CreativeCoding

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• Nested black and white triangles seamlessly alternating between growing and shrinking, tiling the plane. The animation is not perfectly synchronized, creating a circular moire pattern slowly going inwards. (remote)

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

Am I prepared? No, I don't think so.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/31/i-sometimes-wonder-what-would-happen-if-we-had-an-active-shooter-on-my-campus/

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• Front page of the daily tar heel (remote)

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michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:

@FeralRobots @pzmyers Geologists have found interstellar material mixed in with ocean sediment before.

That's how, for example, we know that there were supernovae relatively nearby to Earth 2.5 and 7.5 million years ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17196 .

Cool science. Not aliens.

And not at all what Avi Loeb is doing.

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tchambers@indieweb.social ("Tim Chambers") wrote:

Just in case anyone here having ANY buyers remorse at moving your social home away from X/Twitter.

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• post from bgrahamdisciple that reads: To those of you who have abandoned Twitter, well played. There is an attached image, a screenshot of an email from Twitter which reads: More information about your report. Hello, After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know GasTheMfJews hasn't broken our safety policies. We know this isn't the answer you're looking for. If this account breaks our policies in the future, we'll notify you. (remote)

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

Avi Loeb found "evidence" of something, we don't know what. Must be extraterrestrial intelligence!

No, it's not.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/31/avi-loeb-found-what-he-was-looking-for/

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• Tiny spherule found on the bottom of the ocean. (remote)

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cmzw ("celestialmaze") wrote:

ink-y flame process #b3d

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• 1209ab755d0cc4af.mp4

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

Mitch McConnell still deserves to get punched straight in the dick with enough force to turn the perpetual reverberation of his jowls into a new clean energy source.

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

Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “ChubbyCable USB-C Review”
★★★★☆

The good folk at ChubbyCable have sent me a trio of gorgeous USB-C cables to review. If, like me, your work colleagues always "borrow" your cables never to be seen again - these are a godsend. They're available in a range of colours - you can even design your own. You'll never have to say […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/08/chubbycable-usb-c-review/
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#gadget #linux #review #usb-c