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

Yo Yo Ma playing Bach in the great outdoors providing a soothing moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_IibJH4rA

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Metric album has some nice tunes on it. I like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckLnoc2JxKc

#np #nowplaying

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

This is terrorism on a grand scale.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/14/the-world-is-not-helping-my-depression/

Attachments:

• Map of Israel's plan to exterminate Palestinians (remote)

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

kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

The Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 line. Let's take a close look at the processor dies, seeing how Intel shrunk the chip, created new versions, and why the 386 SL jumped from 285,000 transistors to 855,000 transistors. 1/9

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

After various events around free email service providers that have occurred over the years, I have been slowly jettisoning email support on domains I have. I'm now down to two that I intend to keep. One of those has been using Gandi's "free" webmail service that they have decided to stop providing, and I'm not sure what to do with it yet, and I'm running out of time. 🤔

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

Isn't reality scary enough for you?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/14/well-probably-collapse-into-a-bunch-of-rational-explanations/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Se-zzvOia8

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

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

> 🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

> 🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

h/t @AstroKatie

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Not that it matters what a random guy like me posts on social media, but this is, above all, terrible, no matter what your views on Israel are.

Sneak attacks and acts of terror like this against civilians like this are wrong.

Hamas attack on Israel kibbutz Be’eri captured by mothers’ WhatsApp group

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67105618

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

tdverstynen@neuromatch.social ("Tim Verstynen") wrote:

Once again The Onion shows how it is somehow one of the most honest and insightful news outlets around.

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

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

Phyllis Latour: The secret life of a WW2 heroine revealed

“Of the 39 women agents who served with Special Operations Executive in the field in France, Phyllis Latour - Pippa Doyle - was the last survivor.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67100792

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

13. Onibaba (1964). It's striking how unsentimental about the past arthouse jidaigeki are. This starts off similarly to Kuroneko, (also directed by Kaneto Shindou!) with two women trying to ride out a war in feudal Japan, but it goes in a very different, mostly more naturalistic direction.

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• Japanese movie poster for Onibaba. The upper half of the older woman's face fills the top of the poster, overlooking a field of tall grass shown at a smaller scale. In the foreground, the younger woman and the neighbor laugh and fool around. In the middle distance, the samurai wearing an oni mask.

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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• 5544edfd59dfbe85.jpg (remote)

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

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

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.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

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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• 9fb8be31b5f4d192.png (remote)

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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

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

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

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

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)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

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

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

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