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

My son is 4. He's in pre-k at a religious school.

(We're not religious; it's just a convenience thing.)

His teacher flipped out a week or two ago because some of the boys were using the words "kill" and "dead" on the playground. Had conferences with all the parents. Tried to suss out which home this was coming from...

...And then our son tells us all about how he learned at school that God killed everyone on earth except Noah, and David killed Goliath.

🫠

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moanos@chaos.social ("Moanos") wrote:

Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

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

I kept seeing this article on my feed, so I had to dig in and figure out what everyone was talking about. Glad I did. The capitalism vs. feudalism aspect (summed up as profit vs. rent) is particularly interesting.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/

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

'the question isn’t whether Bennett’s plan is perfect or if there are gaps to fill. It is whether it’s better than the alternatives for achieving Israel’s core aims: destroying Hamas, exacting justice, protecting the innocent, deterring the wicked and, as David Petraeus once asked about Iraq, explaining to the world “how this ends.” By those counts, it’s a plan worthy of attention and respect.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/opinion/israel-hamas-strategy-bennett.html?unlocked_article_code=1.60w.XU0z.ZBd5dkJGMrcK&smid=url-share

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slothrop@chaos.social ("Tyrone Slothrop") wrote:

Hot damn, this NPR Tiny Desk Concert by Nile Rogers & CHIC is AMAZING.

So much joy - and absolute pros, playing like clockwork.

https://kottke.org/23/10/nile-rodgers-chics-tiny-desk-concert

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Doctor: I can knock out the patient using gas, or a boat paddle.

It’s an ether / oar situation.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

“Argument list too long” is such an archaic error.
Sorry, your computer can’t run this program, because somewhere there’s a buffer limited to one millionth of your RAM size.
#posix

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Friendly reminder that there are SPID providers (the Italian unique digital identity service) which claims that a 20 chars long password is "too long". Same for 15.
This is Lepida ones.

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• A password change form, with an "Password is too long" error. (remote)

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sjorsrijsdam ("Sjors Rijsdam") wrote:

The arguments made by @slightlyoff in this discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfjZV-aA_Y can basically be boiled down to https://youtu.be/c4WJsp16CpY #webdev #startrek

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The maker's curse is the inability to ignore all your work's flaws.

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bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

*This is one of Simone's most bizarre and harebrained Makertainment videos, but the camera work is really excellent for YouTube fodder

https://youtu.be/5eE8y-TJdl8?si=q5pRITF77rAUjzUc

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Software optimization was a mistake.

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

Whenever I manage to convince myself that someone is acting like a true idiot, I am seized with worry, largely because I’m solidly convinced that I myself am a serious idiot. The problem is: if I, of all people, am finding something stupid, then how low must the bar have gotten?!

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

30. Black Swan (2010). I was thrilled to see Winona Ryder in this, and Natalie Portman did a great job, but thematically it seems kinda insubstantial? I could see the start of a story about a woman struggling to achieve maturity and independence while under the microscope of her director, her stage mother, and the public, but then it was just like "what if dedication to the craft, but too much?" I enjoyed Mother! as just pure spectacle so maybe I'm asking too much from Aronofsky

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• Poster for Black Swan. A shoulders up photo of Natalie Portman as the white swan. The left side of her face has an eggshell-like crack.

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ptoothfish@mastodon.nz ("👻🦑🐙p-boo-thfish🐙👻") wrote:

“cruise ship season” my ass we should be allowed to hunt cruise ships all year round. they’re a blight.

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KarenStrickholm@mastodon.online ("Karen Strickholm") wrote:

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• A Lego in a helmut to the left, pointing to a board in center of frame with a picture of a foot with two "strike zones" in red, with several helmeted Legos to the right paying careful attention. Because we all need a laugh today. 💞 (remote)

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

I feel weird talking about reality TV here, but: this was easily the most garbage season of Love is Blind, and Vanessa Lachey still deserves whatever the opposite of an Emmy is.

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

Lazily evaluating options for a new laptop (the gap between body parts of my current one is getting larger by the week.)

Comparing the AMD-based 16" ThinkPad P16v Gen 1 vs 17" System 76 Serwal WS. The Thinkpad is slightly cheaper and better (Ryzen 9, bigger screen). System 76 is Linux out of the box, so I want to support that. Don't know what to choose…

[1]: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/thinkpad-p16v-(16-inch-amd)-mobile-workstation/21fe001wus
[2]: https://system76.com/laptops/serval

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t_var_s@phpc.social ("Ricardo Tavares") wrote:

Kind of the current state of modern #webdev

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• Giants in power armor: Cloudflare, AWS. Little guy with a wooden sword: whatever SaaS we're debating this week. (remote)

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

‘even Republican rivals have sensed an opening on the age issue against Mr. Trump, who has maintained an unshakable hold on the party despite a political record that would in years past have compelled conservatives to consider another standard-bearer. Mr. Trump lost control of Congress as president; was voted out of the White House; failed to help deliver a “red wave” of victories in the midterm elections last year; and, this year, drew 91 felony charges over four criminal cases.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/trump-biden-age.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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pedrolopes@hci.social ("Pedro Lopes") wrote:

Super excited about our #UIST2023 paper "ecoEDA: Recycling E-waste During Electronics Design". Huge team effort lead brilliantly by
@xjasminelu / @xjasminelu@bird.makeup Come to her talk at
@acmuist : 4PM "Green Machine" session on the #sustainability of #electronics & #fabrication (Venetian Room) 1/7

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• e3ed7359d18aab39.jpg (remote)

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dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

A reminder that ALL browsers running on iOS are vulnerable to iLeakage, the attack that allows hackers to steal passwords and other sensitive data when you visit their booby-trapped websites. It's not just Safari on iOS, although that's the only browser affected on macOS. Currently, there's no patch available.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/hackers-can-force-ios-and-macos-browsers-to-divulge-passwords-and-a-whole-lot-more/

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requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:

Another Halloween in the bag! Time to find some food and defrost.

While we gather photos here’s an unedited walkthrough from about an hour before trick-or-treat.

https://makertube.net/w/2hAzmiVQcwytLwFGdzcm42

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

Truth

https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/111326079674771890

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acegikmo ("Freya Holmér") wrote:

here's an animation emulating what it's like to see motion on high-framerate monitors!

the video is 60 fps, but I've used temporal supersampling to add the frames you would see, if your monitor was of a higher framerate

it's not 100% accurate of course, it looks more like motion blur here than it would on an actual high-framerate display, but hopefully it gives you an idea of the smoothness of higher refresh rates

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• animation of 4 dots rapidly moving in an arc, capped at different framerates, with the 120Hz and 480Hz ones making use of temporal supersampling, aka smear frames

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JoshuaHolland ("Joshua Holland") wrote:

The #antisemitism directed at American Jews isn't only vile but it's also totally misplaced. Overwhelming majorities of us oppose settlements and favor the creation of a Palestinian state. Most of us hate Bibi and this Israeli gov. Israel ranks as our 10th most important issue, out of 14, in J Street polling.

It's fucking maddening. But I guess it's always the case that "dumb bigot" is redundant.

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MrmoTarius@mastodon.art ("Mrmo Tarius") wrote:

Testing a terrain generator.

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• e807cf962aa1bae1.mp4 (remote)

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

"Shani Louk had German and Israeli citizenship. She had never lived in Germany, according to German media, but she regularly visited the country to stay with relatives. Her mother Ricarda, who has roots in southern Germany, had emigrated to Israel after converting from Catholicism to Judaism.

Shani’s grandparents are reportedly based in the southern German city of Ravensburg."

https://www.dw.com/en/shani-louk-german-missing-since-hamas-terror-attacks-dead/a-67252968

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Mashup of my two favorite on-screen nerd-goofers:

https://youtu.be/4l16zI0sYRs

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jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

It's been a few years since I've done the Halloween costume thing but here's mine for this year

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• It's me, in my Halloween costume for this year. It's a steampunk look with emphasis on useless gears all over and goggles worn on my hat where they don't do any good. I'm holding a pocket-watch decorated with more gears (sadly blurry in this photo), my pinky finger is covered in even more gears, and my forearm has still more gears strapped onto it. I'm even wearing a tie, which is extremely unusual for me. (remote)