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

so new books are like $40 now huh

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pomological@botsin.space ("fruit toots") wrote:

black diamond blackberries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914

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

“The fact that the couple was talking directly to General Helmy and his boss, Gen. Abbas Kamel, the chief of Egypt’s powerful General Intelligence Service, is a measure of how important Mr. Menendez was to the highest levels of the Egyptian government and how central the country’s spies have become to its interests.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/us/politics/menendez-egypt-intelligence-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🦣") wrote:

the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.

A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.

It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!

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• screenshot from apple showing reactions in online video, this one is fireworks (remote)
• "Apple devices may show emojis during video calls" warning from an online therapy provider (remote)

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

really wish there were a default dinner to fall back to if you don't elect a voluntary dinner in time

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marianods@mastodon.bida.im ("Mariano delli Santi") wrote:

Moderate U.S. Politician Believes Israel Should Only Kill Half Of Palestinians https://www.theonion.com/moderate-u-s-politician-believes-israel-should-only-ki-1850922234

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jalfro@mindly.social ("John A Rooke PhD") wrote:

The Onion nails it

https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505

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algernon@trunk.mad-scientist.club ("Gergely Nagy 🐁") wrote:

Are there any strong copyleft licenses that aren't the GPL?

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

allie@queer.party ("Allie!") wrote:

The Whole Earth Catalogs are all available online now:
https://wholeearth.info/

Probably the first place I learned about or saw anything about queer folks was in the Whole Earth Millennium Catalog. Also, at the time, it was the place to find out where you could get resources around being more self-sufficient.

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

This quote from Near Intelligence, which gathered and resold data from ad exchanges is as damning as it gets:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/how-ads-on-your-phone-can-aid-government-surveillance-943bde04?st=w9qbg10bsro62ft&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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thisismissem@hachyderm.io ("Emelia 👸🏻") wrote:

Meta / Instagram: “It looks like you're trying to prevent a genocide, this goes against our platform policy of enabling them"

AI's making content moderation decisions about very real and very important topics is very dangerous to society.

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• Screenshot from instagram: Your content can't be shown to people who don't follow you Learn more about why you may not be meeting our Recommendation Guidelines and how you can fix that by visiting Account Status. [ Review my content ] [ ОК ] (remote)

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

Getting hit with the Farmer's Tan Ray would fix me I think

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computerfact@botsin.space ("Computer Facts") wrote:

its probably not a big deal that giant corporations are building a world where programming the computer sitting in front of you is impossible without access to giant centralized data centers and subscriptions to centralized services this is probably what progress looks like probably

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computerfact@botsin.space ("Computer Facts") wrote:

there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your LLM

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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

I sometimes have ideas for co-ops that I'd like to create, mostly things that don't exist or would solve a problem where I live, but also some that are just fun. I don't know anyone interested in anything like any of this, so they're not likely to happen, but just for fun I decided to write some of them down and throw the list up on my website. #CoOps #PlatformcCoop

https://blog.samwhited.com/co-ops/

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asb@fosstodon.org ("Alex Bradbury") wrote:

As part of RISC-V entering the official Debian archive, a full rebuild has been underway. It's made rapid progress and recently hit the milestone of surpassing i386 in terms of % packages built. Hat tip to my Igalia colleague Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo (mafm) who's been contributing to this effort

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• Graph showing percentage of Debian packages built for different architectures over time. (remote)

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PIK_climate@wisskomm.social wrote:

“If food system emissions are not reigned in, we cannot reach the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreement,” explains PIK scientist Franziska Funke. Global trends in meat production are unsustainable, and taxes may be the most effective way to curb the world’s appetite, she and other researchers underline. Meats, including beef, pork, and chicken, are “significantly underpriced” compared with the cost of their environmental impact, they concluded in a study last year. ($)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/13/science/meat-tax-climate-change/

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evangreer@mastodon.online ("Evan Greer 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Next time you see someone drinking the "nothing bad has happened since the repeal of #netneutrality" kool aid, make them read this https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-10-12/fcc-seeks-to-restore-network-neutrality-rules-trump-era-deregulation

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dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

The SeaGL conference (https://seagl.org) talk list is up and it's jam-packed with good stuff if you're into Guile, Guix, reproducible builds, and/or WebAssembly!

@lispwitch and I will be giving a talk on behalf of @spritelyinst called "Opening up the World of WebAssembly with Guile Hoot" https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/977

@abcdw has a talk called "Programming an OS distribution" https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/941

Vagrant Cascadian has a reproducible builds talk called "Beyond Trusting FOSS" https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/939

Timothy Sample has "GNU Guix: The Other Functional Package Manager" https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/1007

And if you want more WebAssembly, there is "The Future of WebAssemby: Revolutionalizing Computing Across Platforms and Industries" https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/931

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kristoferjoseph@indieweb.social ("Kristofer Joseph") wrote:

You could import less dependencies... OR you could add a new compiler that you manually configure to not import things you told it to import

https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-optimized-package-imports-in-next-js

Seems pretty apparent what the actual issue here is.

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enhance_dev@fosstodon.org wrote:

When you sit down to give Enhance a look over, it's handy to review this doc from MDN. We take advantage of the order in which browsers populate the page to reach our performance targets.

#webdev #browser #enhance

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/How_browsers_work

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

Look I get you want to write your software in C, and it's also understandable that it needs networking support and other modern features, but can we please stop putting all this stuff into one underpowered, underresourced microcontroller with a big loop of nested state machines and no memory protection just because that's what you're used to? Please? 🥺 It doesn't have to be Linux. I'm cool with an RTOS. C'mon, pal. We can do better. 🙏

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schizanon@mas.to ("🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸") wrote:

#webDev #javaScript #shitpoast

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• ¢ DOCUMENTS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TURING-COMPLETE ® YEARS OF WEB TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for doing more than HTML FORMS ¢ Wanted to do more anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “ADOBE FLASH” e “Yes please connect the Redux thunk to a Suspense. Please instantiate WebAssembly streaming.” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Web Developers have been demanding your Respect for all this time with all the computers & compilers we built for them (This is REAL Javascript, done by REAL Web Developers) aeslack © 0 R nodre:modules 1 22727 2272777 27777777772777777 £ 2 ” Hello | would like undefined @pples please They have played us for absolute fools (remote)

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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

For #Newstodon Friday, here's some great #news and #journalism-related accounts to follow on the #fediverse:

@MAD_democracy
@FAIR
@Chron
@TheConversationUS
@damemagazine
@restofworld
@ProPublica
@NewsDesk
@gbhnews
@thetyee
@TucsonSentinel
@longreads
@insideclimatenews
@mnreformer
@UnicornRiot
@dw_innovation
@Windspeaker
@thexylom
@RollingStone

⬆️ No bots on this list 🤠

Just a few of our favs. What are yours?
#FollowFriday #feditips

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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

Psyche (the spacecraft) is headed to Psyche (the asteroid). Not just any asteroid, but a strange, metal-rich one.
It might be the exposed core of a protoplanet that was destroyed billions of years ago. But we won't know for sure until we get there.
Much more info about the mission here:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/ #science #NASA

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• NASA's Psyche spacecraft takes a spiral path to asteroid Psyche, as depicted in this graphic that shows the path from above the plane of the planets, labeled with key milestones of the prime mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

So many people seem unable to comprehend why families may have difficulties packing up all their belongings and evacuating south through a war-torn city that is actively being bombed without any food or water or electricity in a mere 24 hours.

Buddy I am sitting in my apartment right now and I could not even tell you which direction south is.

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Dogzilla@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

This is the first explanation for the Hamas attacks I’ve read that offers a believable explanation of why they and their sponsors would start down this path.

If The Atlantic can figure this out, the diplomats in every relevant country have also figured this out. We can only hope that everyone is smart enough to make the best choices possible - it’s not too late to avoid restarting the same depressing and violent cycle we’ve seen for decades.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-iran-trap/675628/

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

yup, strongly agree: a prolonged confrontation within Gaza would be an outcome Hamas & Co would love.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Dogzilla/111228423365081854

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

watch the sequence, listen to the civilians on both sides beg for a route to peace, and remember that a cease-fire requires both parties to cooperate.

now think about a raid plan aimed at killing or taking hostage as many civilians of a particular religion as possible, and a "now what?" after action defense plan that uses hostage and "friendly" civilians as shields.

the theory was that the burdens of actually governing Gaza would help Hamas mature to the point of being amenable to negotiations. this theory has proven to be absolutely wrong.

https://c.im/@BBC/111228420406877188

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x4nw@cathode.church ("xan but witchy 🧙‍♀️👻🎃💜🖤") wrote:

let's say i wanted to use verilog to write a controller for some oldschool DRAM (EDO SIMMs specifically) for Reasons

let's also say i wanted some sort of verification model i can use in a testbench that will verify all my timings and throw an assertion if i violate any of a huge table of datasheet timing rules

does anyone have any good resources for how to actually approach this? I see a lot of really deep like journal article type things on verification technologies and not much else. how do people do this in a practical setting?