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

JamesGleick@zirk.us ("James Gleick") wrote:

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• The last yellow leaves on a small tree before a dark woods. (remote)

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

Ohbejuan@a2mi.social ("John Corey 🫣") wrote:

Ok, if we can hit $10,000 by the end of the month, we can send the notifications out to the recipients in time for the holidays. How great would that be? That you get a letter saying that you no longer have your medical debt. Let's do it! Dig deep. Text your mom!

https://ripmedicaldebt.org/campaign/eliminate-medical-debt-in-michigan/

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

this is totally creepy

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/111377035254497979

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

Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

@evacide

If this "practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law",

And the practice is "infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system",

Then the state law urgently needs to be improved.

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

capibarabot@lile.cl ("CapibaraBot") wrote:

#Capybara #Capibara #Carpincho 346

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• Imagen de un capibara (remote)

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

Motherboard@federated.press wrote:

After Elon Musk refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement, Swedish Tesla workers are on strike, and dock workers are refusing to let Teslas into the country in solidarity.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9jvn/tesla-strike-europe-elon-musk-uaw?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Tesla #elonmusk #strike #teslas #Sweden #UAW

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

Crell@phpc.social ("Larry Garfield") wrote:

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• A picture from the movie 2001, showing two men seating food while watching video on flat tablets. The caption reads: If you look carefully at the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, it envisions a future in which people eat meals while staring at images on flat, portable, rectangular screens. Nice bit of prediction. In the next bit of the movie, AI takes over and kills everyone. (remote)

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

I was watching one of this guy's videos but I had to pause and rewind to make sure I was hearing him right when he mentioned his wife.

This guy has a wife and two kids.

At the beginning of most of his videos, he mentions his "partner, Shawn Coyne." But apparently Shawn's just a BUSINESS partner!

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• Screencap of a Youtube video thumbnail: "Write a perfect protagonist" in large text. To the right, a picture of the host, a guy with short hair, a graying beard, hairy forearms and a tight t-shirt giving two thumbs up. Video's title is "7 Steps to Write the Perfect Protagonist", channel is Story Grid.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Building the rustc compiler:

#M1 Max: 3m32s
#M3 Max: 2m17s

M1 has 8+2 cores, M3 has 12+4. Not a scientific benchmark, I just ran these once.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Current on loop work music. :partyparrot:
https://faircamp.radiofreefedi.net/contol/secondwave/

#music #NowPlaying #faircamp #noise #RythmicNoise #electro #IDoNotKnowGenres

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

kevinmgill@deepspace.social ("Kevin M. Gill") wrote:

Today's hummingbirds. One (that I've named Fergus) has amazing shiny red plumage and I just need to catch him at the right sun angle...

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• Hummingbird sitting on a feeder (remote)
• Hummingbird hovering over the feeder (remote)
• Hummingbird hovering over the feeder (remote)

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

wesruv@tech.lgbt wrote:

Been using grid for years, felt like I knew all I needed to, then Kevin Powell blew my mind:
https://youtu.be/c13gpBrnGEw?si=F8B3StTl20AzhmYw

#css #cssgrid

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

… also, could we please collectively give up on ligatures in code fonts? I get it, they exist and it's a fun technology to abuse, but aesthetically they feel more like plastic air spoilers on cheap city cars, and they do make things less clear.

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

My first reaction to https://monaspace.githubnext.com/ was "wow, shiny!" My second reaction was, wait, a font requiring some active support from an editor? It may be my lasting shell-shock from the 90s, but it immediately feels like yet another step in Microsoft's E³ strategy[1]. Just yet another reason for young impressionable devs to stick to GitHub and vscode. Yet another feature for competitors to catch up with[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish
[2]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

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

polalotta@mastodon.com.br ("Dé") wrote:

Lançamento em PDF do zine CÖSMOPÜNX n°2

Dedicado e em apoio ao https://www.facebook.com/groups/342866843928742/?__cft__[0]=AZUQp_7_misI4kAyLNHMTT5NzLU4R6B3lQL-fj6N_T2Y5SjucoryhUYP8ztWv8bCmb7cNYvR0y92xanUYC4RwXmdaqTZq-QK2LmCW-8ZCDZbG_vUAbwUibEtqpGnnewz4ccgKASDuHsTwL_wMkpykVBO&__tn__=-UK-R

Vasculhe nossa zineteca online e encontre-o...

https://alvoradadonadaedizioni.noblogs.org/zineteca/

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• Lançamento em PDF do zine CÖSMOPÜNX n°2 Vasculhe nossa zineteca online e encontre-o... https://alvoradadonadaedizioni.noblogs.org/zineteca/ (remote)

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

alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:

On the one hand, mathematics is an exact science, but on the other hand, it sometimes employs terms like "almost surely." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely #Math

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The morning we had to leave, the sun finally came out. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak UltraMax 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• As the sun rises, golden light hits a far away coast filled with autumn colored trees, and behind them, mountains. The sky is pastel blue and mostly cloudless. In the front, a lake that morning light has not yet hit, and close to the middle, a little red boat still coated in darkness.

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

riana@mastodon.lawprofs.org wrote:

When "Lo and Behold," Herzog's documentary about the Internet, came out in 2016, he did a screening at Stanford. Afterwards some undergrad crypto bro asked him for his opinion about Bitcoin. Herzog replied that he was anti-Bitcoin because he needs cash - untraceable, hard cash - to keep existing, as sometimes when making his films he needs to do crimes such as paying bribes to local officials. The entire auditorium went silent. Still the most effective way to shut up a crypto bro I've ever seen

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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Carl Sagan, who would be 89 today.

Sagan famously wrote about the 'Pale Blue Dot' - "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Voyager 1 took the image of the "Pale Blue Dot" on Feb 14, 1990, from 6 bil km away, minutes before its cameras were shut off forever.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23645-pale-blue-dot-revisited
#palebluedot #Voyager #Sagan
5/n

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• Image of the Pale Blue Dot. The image was processed by JPL engineer and image processing enthusiast Kevin M. Gill with input from two of the image's original planners, Candy Hansen and William Kosmann. Full quote from Carl Sagan from Pale Blue Dot, 1994 (remote)

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verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953603/signal-username-feature-test-phone-numbers-privacy-security-pre-beta-2024-launch?utm_content=buffer80076&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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yvanspijk@toot.community ("Yoïn van Spijk") wrote:

'Lord' stems from Proto-Germanic *hlaibawardaz: "bread guardian".

This compound consists of two words:
- *hlaibaz, the ancestor of 'loaf'.
- *wardaz, which meant "guardian" and became English 'ward'.

Hear how over the course of 2500 years, its four syllables turned into one:

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• 82eb112994eca3b6.mp4 (remote)

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

vanellopemint@mastodon.art ("🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋") wrote:

A dark knight rode into town. In a low, growling voice he said, "I seek the temple of puppies."

"You seek the Temple of Mikrós," said the townsfolk. "Mikrós is the god of Smol."

"God of... Small?" asked the knight.

"Smol," said the townsfolk. "It means all things tiny, cute, and cuddly."

"Yes," replied the knight. "I heard that their Holy Book is filled pictures of kittens, puppies, and bunnies. Verily I said to myself, this is the religion for me...."

#microfiction #flashfiction

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

BM_Visser@mastodon.energy ("Martien Visser") wrote:

In the Netherlands the average daily electricity price decreases by 1% point for every 1% increase of solar and wind in the Dutch electricity mix (horizontal axis). Extrapolation shows always a value close to zero at 100% solar and wind.
This 'Martien price law' has proven to be (more or less) correct since my first analysis of it in 2018.

The (virtual) price at 0% solar and wind in the mix, left side of the graph, is alway close to two times the gas price.

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• 7ade2451b171e1b6.png (remote)

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

ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

#today in #1934 Carl Sagan born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
Art by Chris Riddell

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• “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." Image of a child reading a book by Chris Riddel (remote)

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

scanlime@misc.name ("lime with barcode") wrote:

some naive networking greybeard once wrote that a good URL never changes, or something

but URLs do change because everything changes, and the expectations around their longevity and change are one place where people exert power and have power used over them.

if people rely on a URL they're actually relying on a stream of labor. There is no "static" content, all data storage requires some portion of ongoing renewal: new materials and ongoing human care.

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

amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

My $100 Raspberry Pi 400 has a spring loaded microSD card slot.

My $1,000 ASUS Chromebox 3 doesn't. To pry a card out of the slot I need tweezers or similar tools.

Guess which design team is passionate and pays attention to detail.

#RaspberryPi #RasPi400 #chromeOS

Reblogged by rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips"):

valentinegb@hachyderm.io ("Valentine Briese :transuwu:") wrote:

Little bit of a trick I discovered for documenting fields which are on multiple structures:

```rust
macro_rules! extensions_doc {
() => {
r#"The extensions properties are implemented as patterned fields that are always prefixed by `"x-"`."#
};
}

pub struct Info {
// ...
#[doc = extensions_doc!()]
pub extensions: HashMap<String, Value>,
}
```

#Rust #RustLang #OpenAPI

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

j3s@merveilles.town ("✨jes✨") wrote:

small websites are countercultural. self hosting is countercultural. web 1.0 is countercultural. user experiences that aren’t pillaged by advertisers are countercultural. a completed project is countercultural. a small, reliable tool is countercultural. independent maintenance is counter cultural. useless programs are countercultural. caring is counter cultural.

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

I want this flag.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/09/minnesotans-detest-our-state-flag/

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• Proposed state flag for Minnesota (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

marcoarment ("Marco Arment") wrote:

Got Thunderbolt Migration Assistant working!

Had to do half of this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253658404

- connect Thunderbolt cable to both

On source Mac:
- create Thunderbolt Bridge interface
- assign it a 10.0.0.x IP
- enable Internet Sharing from Wi-Fi to the Thunderbolt Bridge
- run Migration Assistant

On destination Mac, never set up Wi-Fi. It’ll activate over that Thunderbolt shared-internet connection and never ask for a Wi-Fi network.

(This used to be as easy as “connect them with a cable”.)

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