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Chewawo wrote:

#caturday

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nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

bonan matenon

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• artkritikisto (remote)

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

8. The Invisible Man (1933). None of the sites I checked listed this as a comedy, but this is definitely a horror comedy. The Invisible Man racks up a horrendous body count, but does it with manic glee in a world full of slapstick buffoons.

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• Movie poster for The Invisible Man. The Invisible Man, wrapped up in gauze and sunglasses, takes up the upper left corner of the poster. Title of the movie in big green wavy letters beneath him. At the bottom row, the supporting cast of the Invisible Man's former boss holding a fuming test tube, the boss' daughter, and his coworker at the lab.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

I muck about in KiCAD but I should really get properly trained to design circuit boards and other EE-ish skills because almost every project I want to do requires such things. If you've had a good experience with an online EE curriculum, ideally with human type instructors and certificates, then I'd love a recommendation.
In the meantime, check out this smartypants who made a RPi compute module swap-in that runs Linux on an ESP32-S3.
https://www.hackster.io/news/running-linux-on-an-esp32-s3-0d96c5a24081

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

intel is about capabilities *and* intentions. I thought Israeli intel had missed Hamas capabilities, and now realize they had misinterpreted Hamas intentions. for Israeli intel, misunderstanding the data (which they did) is an even worse failure than missing the data (which they apparently did not).

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

Opinion: "For the past few weeks, as anyone following the news from Israel knows, Hamas was conducting what appeared to be practice maneuvers for just this kind of attack all along the Gaza border — right before the eyes of the Israeli military.

But it appears that Israeli intelligence interpreted the moves as Hamas just trying to mess with the heads of the Israeli military and make commanders a little nervous, not as a prelude for an attack."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/opinion/israel-hamas-attack-friedman.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

JFC, a failure of intel *analysis*, not just “insufficient data”. that is a worse Israeli screwup than I had originally understood.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

They’re still at it.

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• Photo: A hummingbird feeder flanked by two spiderwebs with wolf spiders in them. (remote)

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

One of the main themes of adulthood for me has been realizing two otherwise healthy individuals or groups can be completely toxic together.

They can also, no matter how individually wholesome, push one another to a point where neither is defensible any longer.

We like stories with a good guy and a bad guy; reality isn't often that simple.

Most of the time, the best you get is a story where both sides brought out the worst in each other.

A lot of the time, there's just no good left anywhere.

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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

I blogged about why #Debian is the way it is.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2023/debian-reasons/

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

IT wanted to test how my computer mouse moves around onscreen.

They said it was just a cursory exam.

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doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens") wrote:

Today's #inkscape update is out: https://youtu.be/N4ACZkb0_-g

All about the new color management interface, and the documentation, the workflow and getting feedback.

Please do comment if you have thoughts on the designs.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

This account has been verified by fax.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

X, formerly known as the Internet's sewage system...

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I don't know how the Henson AL13 managed to get such good reviews. Either the people reviewing it have no idea what they're talking about, or I just don't know how to use it properly.

I'm going with the former theory: I was honestly very patient with it and eventually learned to use it with passable results (and very uncomfortable shaves), and the difference with the Merkur 34C was so huge.

What a horrible razor.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

PSA: the Henson AL13 is a very bad and highly overrated safety razor.

Impossibly narrow cutting angle. Much too little weight. Annoying to use. Terribly prone to nicks. It almost put me off safety razors entirely.

Luckily, I decided to try a few other razors. I just shaved with a Merkur 34C and it was a night-and-day difference. Smooth steel, actual cutting angles you can wield, great form factor, easy to open and switch blades... not a single nick despite a super close three-pass shave.

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• Henson AL13 (remote)
• Merkur 34C (remote)

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

Joe_0237@fosstodon.org ("Joe :fedora: :debian: :ferris:") wrote:

Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.

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orsinium@fosstodon.org ("gram") wrote:

@isagalaev A long time ago, actually. I'm pretty sure it was like this in Python 3.4. I don't remember about 2.7, though.

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jessica@mastodon.heavymusic.rocks ("Juke Joint Jess-ebel 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Now is as good a time as any to re-share the post I wrote on our #VoidConspiracy website about ditching #BandCamp and self-hosting your own storefront for digital downloads of your music.

If anyone needs help with this, DM me and we can talk. I can offer help on a sliding scale fee.

Fuck over what fucks you over.

https://www.voidconspiracy.com/creating-a-self-hosted-music-storefront-using-aws-s3-and-sendowl/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Yesterday I learned #Python refuses to compare naive and aware datetimes:

>>> from datetime import datetime, timezone
>>> datetime.now() < datetime.now(timezone.utc)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
TypeError: can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes

Finally! Does anyone know when it was fixed?

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

I started up NES Tetris just for the sake of hearing 8-bit Korobeiniki

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

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.  — Henry Adams

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay (she/her) 🇪🇺") wrote:

There are Pop-Tarts but no Mom-Tarts because of the pastryarchy

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Miriamm ("Miriam 🇮🇪") wrote:

Palestinians have been occupied, murdered and denied their rights for decades. To call the events of today “unprovoked” is outrageous.

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• 4 pictures of the map of Israel/Palestine it shows the occupation of Israel into Palestinian land starting in 1947 to 2005

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

7. Witches of Eastwick (1987). I saw some of the grosser parts of this as a kid, a few years too early to be really into it. It probably would have been an old favorite of mine, just like Death Becomes Her, if it were a bit newer or I older.

Veronica Cartwright is kinda the MVP in this? In a movie where she wasn't playing against a quartet of household names her performance would probably be the main thing people remembered about it.

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• Movie poster for Witches of Eastwick. On a background of purplish storm clouds and lightning, Jack Nicholson raises his hands in a showy gesture. Seated in front of him are Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

From yesterday's exhibits in US v. Sam Bankman-Fried:

The prosecution shows that the "insurance fund" that FTX bragged about was fake, and just calculated by multiplying daily trading volume by a random number around 7500

#FTX #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency

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• Github diff showing addition of code: def _get_change()-> Decimal: daily_volume = current_session().query(func.sum(Trade.size * Trade.price)).filter( Trade.created_at > datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)).scalar() or Decimal() return f2d(numpy.random.normal(7500, 3000))* daily_volume / Decimal('1e9') @always_run_in_transaction(ro=False) def update_public_insurance_fund(): change = _get_change() sess = current_session() + public_insurance_fund = Public InsuranceFund.get(sess) sess.add(Public InsuranceFundChange(public_insurance_fund-public_insurance_fund, size-change)) public_insurance_fund.size += change sess.commit() (remote)
• FTX @FTX_Official The 5.25 million FTT we put in our insurance fund in 2019 now makes the fund worth over 100 million USD https://ftx.com/status Screenshot: Backstop Fund Size: 5,478,274.51613972 USD, 5,250,000.000000000 FTT Last updated: 14/02/2021, 08:05:00 (remote)

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ginny@spinny.city ("🏳️‍⚧️ Ginny Maive") wrote:

:boosts_ok_gay: my 8 year old wants you to vote and boost this. it’s really important to her. I am not joking and she sincerely expects at least, uh, 384 votes. and this is kinda her first ever fedi post, so do it for her!!!

what Barbie are you? :boosts_ok_gay:

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

I just realized I didn't receive a billing statement email from Patreon this month. I guess they were too distracted by that new logo. 🤔

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b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town ("it's B! Cavello 🐝") wrote:

Truly the darkest pattern.
#OneTrust is such a shady organization. I went to check the cookie settings on a site I was visiting, and it LOOKED like the toggles were set to off, but in reality, they were still active. Totally gross and misleading behavior!

#TagZone #Privacy #DarkPatterns #DataBrokers #DigitalRights

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• Setting for functional cookies labeled by me as "on, apparently" showing a toggle style digital interface with what looks like circular slider pushed to the left end of a bar (typically the off position). This is juxtaposed with another view of the same interface labeled by me as "actually off" which shows that the slider can actually go even further left and is grey when truly off. (remote)

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alilly@solarpunk.moe ("Athena L.M.") wrote:

computers are really fast and it's a shame on the software industry that they don't act like it

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

hmmm.

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• Photograph of a billboard for Vercel stating the line "The "Wow, this site is fast!" Cloud" (remote)