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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In 2021, clang added this warning:

> Mixing declarations and code is incompatible with standards before C99

It's so sad that this has to exist, and people still need to bend over for 30-year-old compilers, or recent Microsoft compilers.

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

Wizard's tower. A colorful outtake from #BrickCon.

#darktable

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• An elaborate tower made out of lego, spanning the rainbow colors from red on the top to purple on the bottom, featuring a phoenix, a dragon and a wizard.

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

justafrog@mstdn.social ("JustAFrog") wrote:

The one thing which really surprised me about alt text is how many people without any visual impairment also read them.

People who don't "need" it still look for it.

It makes some sense, too. Often I include why I added the image, along with an explanation of what it means.

I'm sure that does help everyone understand faster and easier.

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stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:

Apple's whole App Store model, which defines a huge chunk of the modern world, relies on a chain of trust and safety based on individuals internal to Apple, with no external oversight. What happens when a future Apple CEO, or head of App Store, decides to act inappropriately, anticompetitively, or maliciously, or to put in place structures that disadvantage some developers in favor of others (or Apple)? This is why regulation and external accountability is essential

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/18/app-store-employees-fired-china/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

r i t u a l

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• Cartoon by War and Peas. A witch coven is surrounded a fire preparing a ritual. They're all naked. One witch is holding a big bowl of marshmallows and says, "Just because we're doing a ritual doesn't mean we can't roast marshmallows."

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

jonkeegan ("Jon Keegan") wrote:

Check out this weird "alpha angle code" that the Bureau of Land Management uses to "freezemark" wild horses and burros. They will pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse or burro, but the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.

🐴 Read more about this wild horse dataset in the latest edition of my @Beautifulpublicdata newsletter (and subscribe!): https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/wild-horses/

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• photo of a wild horse and its freezemark, and a page decoding the symbols from the BLM
• a sample freezemark code, which is a series of abstract geometric shapes

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@Mer__edith “We don’t have to be full of shit.” vs “People want a cryptocurrency wallet in their E2EE chat app.” ⚖️

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

sadly, everyone is in reactive mode & the actual data will probably not matter: fm NYTimes -

“American officials say they have multiple strands of intelligence — including infrared satellite data — indicating that the deadly blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday was caused by Palestinian fighters.

The intelligence includes satellite and other infrared data showing a launch of a rocket or missile from Palestinian fighter positions within Gaza. American intelligence agencies have also analyzed open-source video of the launch showing that it did not come from the direction of Israeli military positions, the officials said. Israeli officials have also provided the United States with intercepts of Hamas officials saying the strike came from forces aligned with Palestinian militant groups.”

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

The smart billionaires keep a low profile. Marc Andreessen is not one of the smart ones.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/18/where-has-techno-optimism-gotten-us/

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• Marc Andreessen (remote)

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

well worth a read; history matters

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2023/10/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-israel-palestine.html?referringSource=sharing

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

andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:

Our first edition of Reality Check is here. It's a new blog series where we take some work from Dribbble or Layers, then refactor the design into something that will work really well on the web.

Enjoy!

https://set.studio/reality-check-1-building-out-a-furniture-site-from-dribbble/

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

I learned a little Napoleonic history for the first time this past weekend. I am even more disillusioned now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/18/oh-so-thats-why-he-was-called-the-corsican-ogre/

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• Napoleon's disastrous march across Russia (remote)

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

[temps in F]

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

this mini runs so much cooler than my old-ish MacBook Air that it is astonishing to me.

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• 7f06819fff5f215e.jpg (remote)

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

Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

Where I speak some advantages Signal has over the bigger richer rest of tech:

“We don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality”

https://restofworld.org/2023/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-messaing-privacy/

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

kcarruthers wrote:

Russian sources disappeared after Trump declassified ex-spy’s evidence, UK court told

Donald Trump’s decision to declassify evidence given by a former British spy about the former US president’s alleged links with Russia led to the disappearance of two Russian sources, according to a court document.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/russian-sources-disappeared-after-trump-declassified-ex-spys-evidence-uk-court-told

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• 0763b5b6671ff903.jpg

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

abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

A very nice #hamradio article from #BBC Futures:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231005-eclipses-do-odd-things-to-radio-waves-to-learn-more-an-army-of-american-amateurs-will-broadcast-during-the-next-ones

It was a super nice experience to be able to contribute to this article.

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

ned@mstdn.ca ("Ned Yeung") wrote:

#gender

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• asexual-musings writes: things I have seen/experienced working in a toy store: « a customer asking me if boys like coloring « a customer telling her daughter she can't give out ice cream stickers for party favors because there will be boys there « an older couple laughing about how there’s a pink toy sword because a boy would never play with a pink toy sword (because i guess boys can't like pink and girls don’t play with toy swords. also it wasn't even pink it was red lol) « a customer refusing to buy a snail robot kit for his nephew because it was “too cute for a boy” « a customer sharply reminding me she was buying a gift for a boy when I suggested play food « a customer telling her daughter she needed ta pick a different birthday card for her friend because the one she chose had a pink envelope (her friend was a boy) « a customer asking what boy would like for valentine's day instead of the stuffed dogs she was getting for the girls « a customer getting upset when my coworker used blue ribbon on a gift bag because the present was for a girl « a customer saying a toy guitar was “too girly" for her grandson, based only on the fact that the box had a picture of a girl playing with it (the guitar was red with yellow music notes) but yeah, trans people have some real weird ideas about gender (remote)

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

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

I asked my university co-learners to co-teach in teams. Each team presented a mindmap of their session -- posted with their permission.

#learning #ToolsForThought

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s13/sh/9b31fe7b-a8c2-4d0c-8032-31af000a871c/e8de2b264d6fa5adc71ccb20e8a9ede0

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

brad_frost wrote:

This is very accurate. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/small-talks

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

Finally, the comedians are being deployed against Israel. They won't know what hit them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/18/world-class-sarcasm/

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• Bassem Youssef (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

That's a level 11 on the cuteness scale

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• Two frame video of a cat and dog interacting and snuggling on a pet bed in the sun by a sliding door... (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

UK National Grid: Live: https://grid.iamkate.com/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

This is quite positive. I'll bump the thermostat on my heat pump to celebrate.

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• 64% renewable energy + 11% nuclear in the UK

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

Last year, I went all in on a couple of quite exquisite PC-98 horror classics: Dead of the Brain and its sequel. It was an interesting time in discovering how Japanese adventures work differently from the Western ones, along with quite "specific" horror themes. Still waiting on the Dead of the Brain 2 english patch, but in the meantime, let's rivisit those deadites.
https://genesistemple.com/dead-of-the-brain

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• Zombie in Dead of the Brain 2 wanting more brain

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

what the fuck, 7-zip can open ELF files and show you all the sections??

EDIT: im not joking look at this hilarious bullshit XD

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• 7-zip showing a bunch of sections from an opened ELF file including .bss, .rodata, and .text (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Ronnierobins@mastodon.ie wrote:

Arresting the person who is trying to save our planet for protesting against the people who knowingly are destroying it seems ludicrous, but that's the idiotic world we live in. I'm a non apologetic supporter of #gretathunberg she is doing what more of us should be doing. #climatechange #climatecrisis https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67136772

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aurynn@cloudisland.nz ("Aurynn Shaw") wrote:

Patreon is just Stripe with blog posts, how on earth is it losing money

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

:ferris_wave: Hello World!

The Rust project now has an official presence on Mastodon! ✨

We'll be posting the same on our Twitter and Mastodon accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

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

17. Renfield (2023). Goofy fun. This kinda reminds me of one of those 90s SNL movies. It uses a lot of Stuart Smalleyisms set against a horror backdrop for comedic effect.

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• Poster for Renfield. Nicolas Cage as Dracula glares forward grabbing an apprehensive-looking Nicholaus Hoult by the shoulders.