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

this does not bode well for the future of Texas:

“McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities”

https://www.texasobserver.org/mccarthyism-texas-am-journalism-freedom/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-899290c3cf-34948690&mc_cid=899290c3cf

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

This is the reality of a boiling planet.

We are on track to overshoot our #EUGreenDeal goal to cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.

But we need to speed up the global clean energy transition if we want to limit the temperature rise to 1.5℃.

#COP28 will be our opportunity to do so.

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• A graphic showing the 30 warmest months on record globally by measuring the global average surface air temperature. All of them are between 1998 and 2023, with July (16.95℃) and August (16.82℃) 2023 as first and second warmest month ever. (remote)

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bramus@front-end.social ("Bramus") wrote:

Feels good to update an article from early 2021 to say that the problem described back then is nowadays solved by a single CSS pseudo selector.

Selector in case: `:user-invalid`. It represents any validated form element whose value isn’t valid based on their validation constraints, **after the user has interacted with it.**

Supported by Firefox 88 and Safari 16.5 before, and now also by Chrome 119 (current Chrome Dev, to hit stable in October)

https://brm.us/diy-user-invalid#v5

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• Recording of a form being filled. The form shows an error message about the e-mail address format, even though the user is still entering text. This is solved by `:user-invalid` (remote)

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

What are some good recent-ish tech-ish conference talks that work without video? I listened to @pluralistic's excellent DEFCON talk while on the treadmill today and would love to do more of that

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

I theorize Tailwind fanatics seem louder and more numerous than they are because many frontend developers either have never used it, aren't interested in it, and/or gave up on it.

It's pure anecdote, but the overwhelming majority of frontend devs I know have no interest in Tailwind. So they can't, and don't, participate in the discourse at all.

So yes, one side is loud. But it might seem more that way than it really is because the other side just isn't even interested.

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

Dang, for various reasons I didn't get to listen to this as much as I hoped. Oh well. One more time!

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

mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce says YES") wrote:

If I can sustain the patience to generate around 1 token per second, I can run a 70B parameter local LLM on my "gaming" laptop - the one that I got upgraded to 64GB of RAM a few months back _precisely_ so I could run these large models comfortably.

It's not as fast as GPT-4 - but then it doesn't require an aircraft hanger of servers and huge amounts of cooling. Using the sheep-duck-llama model it's getting close to as accurate on the benchmarks. And my prompts & completions never leave home.

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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce says YES") wrote:

AI chatbots are very powerful - but are we always using them safely & wisely? This fun article from Entrepreneur magazine looks at the 'gotchas' - the ways you could go badly wrong using an AI chatbot.

http://windowscopilot.news/2023/09/25/5-mistakes-i-learned-to-avoid-when-working-with-chatgpt/

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metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

Large-scale cyberattack reported in occupied Crimea
https://kyivindependent.com/large-scale-cyber-attack-reported-in-occupied-crimea/

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

br00t4c wrote:

HANGING REP: Arizona's Paul Gosar calls for Gen. Milley to be "hung"

#lynching #rep

https://occupydemocrats.com/2023/09/24/hanging-rep-arizonas-paul-gosar-calls-for-gen-milley-to-be-hung/

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

LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault") wrote:

*taps the sign

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• Andrea Junker: 1923: Hitler’s failed coup. No real consequences. No fundamental changes. 1933: Hitler takes power. I wish I could implant this into everyone’s brain. (remote)

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

jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

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• You know, there was another time when science wasn't taken seriously and religion ruled the world. We called it the dark ages. (remote)

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

AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club ("AlgoCompSynth by znmeb") wrote:

The dangerous philosophy of Ursula Le Guin https://youtu.be/vRC0cK_MSA0?si=TC6tjn9SzUTPb6JE via @YouTube

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

Tbsa@newsie.social ("onecaliberal") wrote:

https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1705738912818209266/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1705738912818209266%7Ctwgr%5E6763ed39bcc8a4df44f21ab4c6d577d93fdedf71%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100218298828

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• Vaccinate your kids, I’m. It running a day care down here. -Satam (remote)

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

‘Professor Pape, of the University of Chicago, said that while the numbers of people who felt violence was justified to support Mr. Trump were concerning, he would rather focus on a different group identified in his survey: the 80 percent of American adults who said they supported a bipartisan effort to reduce the possibility of political violence.

“This indicates a vast, if untapped, potential to mobilize widespread opposition to political violence against democratic institutions,” he said, “and to unify Americans around the commitment to a peaceful democracy.”’

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/111122444249593891

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metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

Uprising till Overthrow claimed they gained control over 500 servers of Iran’s Ministry of Science, revealing a trove of classified documents on protests and academia dissidents.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202309244311

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

heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

The prosecutors seeking to bring Trump to justice are amazingly brave. They now require round-the-clock protection due to threats of physical violence from Trump supporters. Important reporting on this and other political violence stoked by Trump here, gift access, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/us/politics/trump-prosecutions-threats-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=tglcZLARKAn9S1t0w-CGvB3OxAr112XNIBHso6wBWpv5r6TzeoNR_ZNepUzOTVk5GVywIvjAmniVaX-E8XVrN2lFdN_JjnrfAqeU_p2GsANaT75caEu5NWjloJep2sNn6rFfft5IHjp7ka2b0AGsEP6tRN_B8kov7rbDEeojuSqPR6ZVx8fy1n_rHkg2YI1aPauwnTBkyWMMk9AQ7ZouQ8fqjg0P7etgxqYZ5K9eQ75izS82tC9V99Q5vux_aGjbIH6LxOWaVtPen9aVPbXp3ywVnNJ9sX-Tsn_u5er-UNCUvrKz2empLqQTPrkkYQl1HuSqNbfFN_ioxxsrC7CkArlxgjZcdGoFrELztTC6OTcW&smid=url-share #FaniWillis #JackSmith #AlvinBragg #LawFedi

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

‘The US has become increasingly uneasy over Chinese-built infrastructure because of Mr Xi's emphasis on dual civil-military use - what China calls "military-civil fusion" - in its economic planning, and the official requirement for Chinese overseas projects to meet military standards.
"The PRC has used UDG's projects in Cambodia to advance its ambitions to project power globally," said the statement accompanying the sanctions.’

https://c.im/@BBC/111122841949465487

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anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social wrote:

No one looked at this prior to printing it.

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• bb35e227f7923834.jpg (remote)

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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~ Michael Jordan

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da5nsy@social.coop ("Danny Garside") wrote:

Impeccable work everyone.

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• Screenshot of a Mastodon post with a poll saying "Bisexual:" where the choices are "Twice per sexual" and "Once every two sexuals". 375 people have voted. The results are split 50/50. (remote)

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openstreetmap@en.osm.town ("OpenStreetMap") wrote:

There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org! The Tracestrack Topo map from @tracestrack.

It's a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap. It has many improvements: more tag support (busway, embankment, cuisine, solar plants, aquaculture, pitch, sea, tree etc.), CJK fonts, etc. There is
also better internationalisation: country specific road shields, peaks
using imperial system in the US, hierarchical place rendering in China, etc.
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #maps

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• A screenshot of OSM.org showing the map layer sector open and showing tracesstrack Topo map selected and that as a map shown (remote)

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

there's a small joy in sharing an NYT gift link in Signal, which does no link shortening. the token makes the URL soooooo long it loops back around from annoying to funny

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• incredibly long nyt link in an outgoing signal message (remote)

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obster@mastodon.sdf.org ("Rock L") wrote:

#Columbo meets #StarTrek #mashup

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• Columbo runs his hand through his hair and Spock stands with his hands on his hips as they look at a dead Enterprise crewman sprawled on his back on a rock. (remote)

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

NASA capsule carrying asteroid samples lands in US – DW – 09/24/2023

https://www.dw.com/en/nasa-capsule-carrying-asteroid-samples-lands-in-us/a-66908391

(full disclosure: I worked on a comet lander project at NASA Ames Research Center in the 90s, so this sort of thing becoming an actuality at last makes me smile)

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

US Rep. “Paul Gosar Demands Mark Milley's Hanging in Homophobic Rant”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/republican-congressman-calls-for-general-mark-milley-to-be-executed-in-shockingly-homophobic-screed/

insane

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

inquiline@union.place ("alt dot media dot studies") wrote:

This is a HAUNTING photo series, well worth clicking thru

https://www.nickbrandt.com/sink-rise/photographs/?imageId=0

HT @nspugh
cc @betsyvr @hugo I think you'll like what this is trying to do but be warned it's unsettling

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• An adult and a child underwater, on a see-saw on the sea bed. They are wearing street clothes and facing away from the camera. Nick Brandt, Sink/Rise (remote)

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nedraggett@spaceballs.masto.host ("Ned Raggett") wrote:

BTW, I really can't recommend #Elisapie's new album #Inuktitut enough. The simple summary is that she translated and adapted a slew of nostalgic faves (#Queen, #Metallica, the #RollingStones, #Blondie, #FleetwoodMac etc) into Inuit. But it's a really cohesive and remarkable series of overall transformations. #music https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/album/inuktitut

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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.

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

if we met or didn't meet at #strangeloop this week and you'd like to keep in touch, please say hello here