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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's release day! #Mastodon 4.2 will drop later today. I'm very excited for all the improvements we've been working on since January to become available to all server operators and their users.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Interesting map of pollution. Coal-loving Poland is an embarrassment.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/sep/20/europes-pollution-divide-see-how-your-area-compares

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

gotime@changelog.social ("Go Time ⏰") wrote:

It's time once again for Unpopular Opinions! 🎸

@carlmjohnson thinks XML is better than YAML 🔥

👀 https://changelog.com/posts/xml-better-than-yaml

After hearing him out, do you agree or disagree? Vote and reply with your thoughts! #golang #xml #yaml #unpopularopinion

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mia@movsw.0x0.st ("miacelium") wrote:

😬 U+1F62C FACE WITH USB TYPE-C CONNECTOR

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craftamap@chaos.social ("Fabian") wrote:

new duolingo update just dropped 👀
#golango #go

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• UI similar of duolingo. At the top the text says "finish this code snippet". Below, there is a image of a golang gopher. Below that, buttons are displayed, each showing a tokens of a go program. (remote)

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stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("jan Sukajala 🦉🏳️‍⚧️ :lisp:") wrote:

@NoraReed

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• Writing on notebook paper made of cutout letters, words, and phrases from other documents. Goblin Time It's time to talk about goblins. You know, a little wild, a little green, kind of like Muppets? Well, they need your help. Goblins in our community are suffering, exhausted by the internet, and want to snuggle in for their holiday hibernation. Your support is crucial in helping provide them with year-round access to their daily needs: cuppa joe, weird radish waffle, a cedarwood candle. Please donate today. All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. $15 can help feed and vaccinate a goblin. $25 can purchase them a cozy flannel nightie. $50 can help them receive a lot of weird new bugs. Any amount helps! Wrap a bit of cash in brown paper and place it in any garden on a crisp morning. We'll find it. (remote)

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opal@ioc.exchange ("Opalescent") wrote:

@ian

8675309 (as in, Jenny's number from the Tommy Tutone song) is a prime number. What's more, it's the bottom half of a twin prime pair: add 2, and you get 8675311, which is ALSO prime.

If you're writing software that implements number-theoretic algorithms, it can be problematic to test it using small primes like 7 or 11, because small primes tend to have a lot of weird properties tend to trigger exceptions and edge cases. Having a pair of easy-to-remember, "big enough" prime numbers like the Jenny primes is really useful.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

It’s an A and B tier sort of day

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• Energy label sticker with a - g levels of walking, biking, train, car, boat, plane and a hell tier with a tank (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

USB-C cables showing power consumption are cool, especially when powering a laptop. Doubles as a CPU load indicator.

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• Cable with LCD screen showing 25W, plugged into MacBook

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

my brain simply cannot reclassify LGA as "a nice airport," physical evidence notwithstanding

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bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

I'm just so sick of this idiot country and its idiot slide into fascist kleptocracy.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks emigration is a viable personal solution to fascism, that was exactly what I had in mind when I left Norway in 2013 after the local Tories formed a coalition government with the local Nazis. And I even made sure to emigrate to an EU country so I could eventually get the EU citizenship my idiot countrymen voted to deny me in 1994, hash tag lol sob

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

TFW you rush through the morning and barely get the kiddo to the school on time only to realize it's a late start day.

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

This candelabra.

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• 12966d8b9c04cc02.jpg

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

My least favorite thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/20/grading/

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adamchainz@fosstodon.org ("Adam Johnson :django: :python:") wrote:

🕺 From #Python 3.13, virtual environments created by `venv` will come with a #Git ignore file, thanks to @brettcannon ’s PR merged yesterday. There’ll be no need to add `.venv` (or whatever) to your `.gitignore` file then..

FYI the `virtualenv` package already does this 😁

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e218e5022eef369573808a4f8dda9aeeab663750

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EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

🌐 Did you know that Europe is home to 3 of the world's top 5 supercomputers?

And guess what? They're about to become accessible to AI start-ups!

Their use already brings new opportunities to:

🔸 improve quality of life of Europeans,
🔸 advance science,
🔸 boost industrial competitiveness,
🔸 ensure Europe’s technological autonomy, and
🔸 help SMEs develop.

Thanks to our investment in the last years, Europe has now become a leader in supercomputing!

#DigitalEU

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• LUMI, the European Union supercomputer in Finland, at JRC - Photo credit CSC Fade Creative (remote)
• SUPERCOMPUTER - Getty - Barcelona Supercomputing Center Photo by Adri SalidoAnadolu Agency 2 (remote)
• SUPERCOMPUTER - Getty - Barcelona Supercomputing Center Photo by Adri SalidoAnadolu Agency (remote)
• SUPERCOMPUTER - CINECA - Leonardo photo CINECA all rights reserved (remote)

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mrundkvist@archaeo.social ("Martin Rundkvist") wrote:

#books #reading

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• eac41942eeb7347f.jpg (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Making people pay to tweet should be the nail in the coffin for #Twitter; but then again I thought turning it into a glorified Parler would've been that nail already. As they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

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

dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

Happy 41st birthday :-)

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• 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-( (remote)

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

wow I was just looking at old texts and remembered that in 2021 we briefly called post-vaccine infections "breakthrough cases"

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

You should blog because if you do, someday you'll get a message from a total stranger somewhere else in the world, telling you what it meant to them and thanking you for it, and it will mean more to you than you have any hope of expressing.

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openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

⚠️ The Online Safety Bill has been passed in the UK Parliament. ⚠️

The threat it poses to our right to privacy and freedom of expression will soon become law.

It'll make us less secure, including the children and young people that the law is supposed to protect.

Find out more here ⤵️

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression #e2ee #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-warns-of-threat-to-privacy-and-free-speech-as-online-safety-bill-is-passed/

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Loukas@mastodon.nu ("Loukas (they/them)") wrote:

Hey, if you've started lurking here on Mastodon again and are wondering whether you should stick around, this post is me saying I hope you will. 🌈⭐

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

I got to write production code using the `:has` CSS selector today. It's a good day.

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

I love this new book by @scalzi - listening in my earbuds while walking, I keep larfing aloud and startling folks

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C6FPMDGV?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

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

Semen, cerebrospinal fluid, they all look alike to me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/19/pardon-me-but-is-my-brain-leaking/

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• During intercourse the woman absorbs the literal cerebral fluid and essence of the man, the fluid that contains the nutrients the man chooses to feed his brain; so don’t ever “it’s just sex, im free and liberated” me. (remote)

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carotte@tech.lgbt ("Chloé 🥕") wrote:

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• [Tumblr post by @prokopetz

 One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
 1. It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
 2. Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.][5] ([remote][6])

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

The "barren corn ocean of death" is accurate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/19/am-i-turning-into-a-midwesterner-scary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71vT3jSgXE

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

Admittedly, I overheard this in my head, but still...

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

OH: "Don't forget to practice good internet hygiene..."