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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I just can't help but notice the more we've fetishized building websites quickly, the more they've all started to look exactly the same.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
step 2: automate the tuning process, perhaps moving it onto an Arduino with an attached keyboard or laptop as a target-frequency input mechanism (mutters to self, strokes beard & begins looking either puzzled or constipated)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a vnc would be step 0
step 1: I want to think through & build a remote control unit for manual tuning of a magnetic loop antenna while sitting at the xmtr end of the coaxial cable... which basically means using a remote control wire to activate a servomotor to turn a shaft and adjust a big-ass air-gapped capacitor at the antenna end of the coax.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
He's your problem now, Prague.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/13/failing-upwards-2/
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laurenshof@laurenshof.online ("Laurens Hof") wrote:
Bluesky crosses the mark for 2 million accounts
Bluesky has now 2 million accounts, crossing the milestone 2 months after reaching the one million mark. It is a great eye-catching headline about a network in growth, doubling its user base in two months, and going from 500k to 800k daily posts. But underneath it all, the numbers are quite a bit more mixed.
Looking at the amount of posts that people make on the platform, there is little growth in the same time period at all. The following graph shows the amount of posts per day, in thousands.
There are a few things of note here: September 20th was in inflection point of the network; this was the day that Elon Musk floated the idea of charging everyone to use X. This lead to a massive increase in signups, as well as a great boost in posts per day.
After that moment, total posts per day has not increased anymore, even though the network grew from 1.1m accounts to 2m accounts. If we look at posts per day per account:
There is a clear downwards trend visible in the amount of posts per user per day. This indicates that people continue to sign up for the network, but that the network does not manage to retain the new users into actually contributing and posting.
https://laurenshof.online/bluesky-crosses-the-mark-for-2-million-accounts/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hmmmm, maybe I can use a VNC connection from my phone & the flrig meters-display on my laptop to monitor/adjust the pwr, key/unkey the xmtr, and monitor the SWR while I tune a magnetic loop antenna mounted ~6 ft up on a tripod... 50 ft apart
me not having to run back & forth between a magnetic loop antenna and a xmtr ~50 ft away to tune up the sucker would indeed be A Good Thing 📡
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
JFC:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Did it make all your faith melt and run out of your ears?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The atheists unveil their latest weapon in the war against Christianity: Disney kid movies.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
David Rives (ex-husband of Jenna Ellis) recruits ignorant guests to spread lies about spider venoms. More liars for Jesus. You're not changing the narrative, David & David, you're just spreading the bullshit.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/13/southern-adventist-university-is-a-pit-of-lies/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Texas is just an exaggerated symptom of a deep rot in how we promote a college education.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/13/the-problem-with-college-athletics/
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Mastodon FeedIf DHL were an internet protocol, it would be UDP.
via @schenklklopfer
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Not sure the robot overlords had a foolproof social engineering plan inviting us to wake up at 7:15am every Monday.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Struggling with language for this (cc: @davatron5000, @brucelawson, @nomadtechie), but it strikes me that the frontend community has succumbed dark-dimension Goodhart's law: when a problem ceases to describe a solution in JS, we fail to acknowledge the humanity of the user.
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:
I felt silly for preemptively locking the @eleventy issue about switching to tabs and now I’m very glad that I did—the opinion-havers have arrived with opinions 🫠
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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:
It’s a sign of something that the GOP has two candidates ostensibly of south asian decent, and nobody in our communities fucks with them but they still get attention from conventional media. (And also that SNL has them both played by non-south asian actors & people don’t even care that there’s no one on the cast to do it or worry about whether that’s appropriate.) Meanwhile our actual voices are typically lumped into “other” or completely erased when talking about election impact.
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swift@merveilles.town ("Swift") wrote:
@slightlyoff being a frontend specialist at an agency that takes Gov contracts is wild, because my projects veer wildly between corporate "we don't have time for you to make it accessible, also throw these six trackers in" and Gov "what's javascript?"
They have their own problems, but the latter is significantly preferable.
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ted@an.errant.cloud ("Ted Han ★ 韓聖安") wrote:
Children's magicians when you're not a parent: haha children's entertainment, clearly not serious.
Children's magicians when you're a parent: holy shit a person who can keep the attention of 25 four year olds for an hour???? Clearly an -actual- wizard
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It makes me sad in my soul that the UK is an island chain in decline, but it's also the best at web in some fundamental ways. The BBC's sites are paragons of "we're a public service for everyone" virtue, as are gov.uk's, despite a decade of the siren song of JS tempting each successive team.
Study this. Replicate this. *DO* this. Your users will thank you, particularly those on the margins...which brings us back to the UK Doom Loop of Conservative gott...but I digress.
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ja2ke@idlethumbs.social ("Jake Rodkin") wrote:
A couple of days ago at work we announced the Steam Deck OLED. It’s available next week (Nov 16) and though it’s got a bunch of great improvements like longer battery life, faster downloads, the star is the ultra-bright HDR OLED screen.
The screens are ridiculously bright and vibrant, so we thought it would be fun to use actual Steam Deck OLEDs as lighting sources to light our entire launch trailer.
Of course this necessitated building a giant metal orb. First though, here’s the final spot:
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The workable solution and the optimal solution never appear within a sleep of one another.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea/
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adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:
Good editorial on the state of breach disclosure: https://www.databreaches.net/if-entities-continue-to-obfuscate-and-lie-its-time-to-mandate-more-transparency-in-breach-disclosures/
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ekuber@hachyderm.io ("Esteban K�ber :rust:") wrote:
Dashboard with #Rust versions as seen by crates.io with the information provided by cargo:
https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/3a172e20-e9e1-11ed-80e3-da7ad0900002-973f4c1011257befa8598303217bfe3a?refresh_mode=sliding&from_ts=1699226397081&to_ts=1699831197081&live=true
Thanks to @tb for this!
#RustLang
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I really love everything about Rob Rey's painting "Origins: Complexity Rising"
https://robreyart.blogspot.com/2023/10/origins-complexity-rising.html
(If only I had thousands of dollars burning a hole in my pocket and the ability to take care of such a wonderful painting.)
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ieure@retro.social ("_why combinator") wrote:
I'm thinking about replacing my iPad Mini. Is there a comparably sized (7-8") tablet which runs either Linux or a community-supported deGoogled Android? Postmarket or Calyx or Graphene, something like that.
Boosts appreciated.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:
"Minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
This brave new artificially intelligent world sure looks fun!
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Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
💾 I've written a new software tool that I'd like to share. It's called BinkyBox, and it provides some minor improvements to virtual desktops on Windows: https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/binkybox
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Another nay vote for Assembly Theory.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/12/assembly-theory-pops-up-again/
