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cs@mastodon.sdf.org ("cseiler") wrote:

Via #TerribleMaps
#map #Cats #Caturday

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• Two cats seen from above. Cat on right is large black cat and is labeled Argentina. Cat on left is small thin light kitten stretched out. It is labeled Chile. (remote)

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

amusing conversing with Stanwood,WA on JS8 in one window and with Mastodon in another

#AmateurRadio

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

lurking on 20m JS8, just turned on HB/ACK/RELAY & will be interesting to see what evening hours are like... maybe I'll poke at 10m again too

#AmateurRadio

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

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/10/08/winnipeg-woman-reportedly-held-hostage-by-hamas

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

Vivian Silver

- Central Committee Member, Women Wage Peace
- Former Co-Executive Director, Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment & Cooperation; Negev Inst.for Peace & Dev

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-silver-b8a62614/?originalSubdomain=il

I think/hope she speaks some Arabic, I hope her captors see her as valuable/useful, she has worked for peace & equality for decades and now she is a prisoner in Gaza or dead.

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

just got news someone my wife knew as a kid in Winnipeg is one of the ppl taken hostage by Hamas… a leftie and peace advocate, a contemporary

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

limneticvillains@mastodon.online ("Limnetic Villains") wrote:

This month Mastodon gave me the most Bandcamp Friday sales out of any platform. I would like to think this is because the platform has a higher more brainy more arty and cultured user base than 4chan-lite 'X' and the other places, but in reality/addition it's because of certain lovely people here who shared my posts, and I appreciate that a lot. Bandcamp Friday has paid for my food shopping this week, that's pretty amazing, thank you.

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

The US needs to stop enabling the madness in Israel.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/08/can-somebody-explain-this-to-me/

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• Explosion in Gaza City. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Turns out that our statistics aggregator at joinmastodon.org severely undercounted Mastodon data between Oct 2 and today due to a network connectivity issue. This has now been corrected.

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

whalecoiner@indieweb.social ("Charlie Owen") wrote:

Looking to use “you’ve got the confidence of a much taller man” in a confrontation or meeting, whichever comes first.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

june@frfsh.plus.st ("strawberry :heart_trans::verified_slut:🦴") wrote:

can this be illegal

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• SSH'd terminal showing I am trying to display the version of the "caddy" binary using various arguments. full terminal output: [root@girlboss ~]# caddy -V Error: unknown shorthand flag: 'V' in -V [root@girlboss ~]# caddy -v Error: unknown shorthand flag: 'v' in -v [root@girlboss ~]# caddy --version Error: unknown flag: --version [root@girlboss ~]# caddy version v2.6.4 [root@girlboss ~]# (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Chewawo wrote:

#caturday

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• 6d4410de9b66a8cc.jpg

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?