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cadusilva@bolha.one ("Cadu :oh_vixe:") wrote:

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• Tirinha colorida em inglês e dividida em 4 quadros. 1) Uma pessoa verde observa de longe uma pessoa amarela e outra rosa discutindo. A pessoa amarela tem uma opinião e a vermelha tem outra. Uma placa acima das duas diz "debate online". 2) A pessoa verde então franze os olhos, junta as duas mãos com os indicadores encostando no queixo, e diz "eu deveria entrar no assunto...". 3) Então muda para uma expressão pensativa e balança a cabeça para um lado e para o outro. Um balão de pensamento traz o texto "na verdade... não. Eu não deveria" 4) Agora o personagem verde faz uma expressão de paz e tranquilidade, enquanto pensa "algumas vezes você tem que dizer a si mesmo para calar a boca". Ele balança a cabeça como quem diz "sim, é verdade". (remote)

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binjip978@hachyderm.io ("Siarhiej") wrote:

@oxidecomputer @ahl @bcantrill All historical episodes are excellent, but as Go programer I especially like "The debugging odyssey".

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The Supreme Court code of ethics uses the word "should" 53 times and the word "shall" 0 times. https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/Code-of-Conduct-for-Justices_November_13_2023.pdf

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

I started up Higurashi 8 yesterday. I got a couple chapters in and it took me forever because this one is a side character origin story that hasn't yet grabbed me

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oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

No Oxide and Friends today or next week, but @ahl and @bcantrill will be back on November 27th. In the meantime, new listeners and followers: be sure to check out our back catalog! Long-time listeners: what are some of your favorites?

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

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

This article about Mike Johnson and some of the disturbing movements he partakes in makes for some harrowing reading:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/10/mike-johnson-rewrite-constitution-00126157

(Why is it so many conservative and fascist types have so much time on their hands to plot and scheme and even train to attempt to remake the US into some sort of "Christian" fascist state? Why can't they just be a bunch of people with dead end jobs who don't even have time for their families let alone taking over a country like the rest of us?)

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A lot of people who are more successful than you also had more opportunities than you. This shouldn’t make you despair but instead provide insight into why comparison is the thief of joy.

You should work hard and seize opportunities when ever you can but also realize that comparing yourself to people who started the race with a half mile head start just leads to unhappiness.

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

😒🤦‍♂️

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• A login screen, where the first field is labelled "email or username" (remote)
• Logged-in, it is revealed that your username IS your email. (remote)

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

orangelantern@froggie.town ("Orange Lantern") wrote:

I have the best conversations with my mom. I try my best at a translation of the call I just had with her:

_phone ringing_Me: Hello m...
Her: Eʟᴅᴇʀ Sᴘᴀᴡɴ.
Me: ...
Me: Yᴇs Gʀᴀɴᴅ Mᴀᴛʀɪᴀʀᴄʜ.
Her: I sʜᴀʟʟ sᴜᴍᴍᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴀʀᴛᴀᴋᴇ ɪɴ ꜰᴇᴀsᴛɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴄʀɪꜰɪᴄᴇs ʟᴀɪᴅ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴜs ᴛʜɪs ᴅᴀʏ ᴏꜰ sᴜɴ. Wɪʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴇᴇᴅ ᴍʏ sᴜᴍᴍᴏɴs?
Me: checks calendar
Me: Tʜᴇ sᴛᴀʀs ᴀʟɪɢɴ, ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ. I sʜᴀʟʟ ᴍᴀɴɪꜰᴇsᴛ ɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ 12ᴛʜ ʜᴏᴜʀ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇs ɪᴛsᴇʟꜰ ɪɴᴠɪɴᴄɪʙʟᴇ.
Her: Tʜᴜs ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀʀᴇ sᴘᴏᴋᴇɴ, ᴛʜᴜs ɪᴛ sʜᴀʟʟ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴ.
Me: Great, see you on sunday.
Her: Try to be punctual.

I always refer to her when people ask me "why are you like this?".

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

2/ MacFarlane, cont’d:

"Defendant seeks yet another extension"

"..should not be permitted to derail the pretrial schedule by pointing to the rapid appellate consideration few other defendants enjoy"

Special Counsel slams latest Trump request for deadline delay in DC crim case
#JackSmith
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.151.0_2.pdf

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

Caution@tech.lgbt ("CautionWIP (No longer spooky)") wrote:

Aaaaaand there’s a thread on BS where folks are playing “but wait it gets worse!” about Piers Anthony, so the bacon is gonna be washed down with heavily spiked coffee and then I’m reading comic books for the rest of the day.

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.

jsonstein@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)

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

He's your problem now, Prague.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/13/failing-upwards-2/

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

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.

#bluesky

https://laurenshof.online/bluesky-crosses-the-mark-for-2-million-accounts/

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jsonstein@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 📡

#AmateurRadio

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

JFC:

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111403624627170779

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

Did it make all your faith melt and run out of your ears?

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

The atheists unveil their latest weapon in the war against Christianity: Disney kid movies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/13/i-guess-you-could-argue-that-corporate-capitalism-is-a-kind-of-religion/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BCtEE0Ys7w

pzmyers@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/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xJqawpmqyU

pzmyers@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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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If DHL were an internet protocol, it would be UDP.

via @schenklklopfer

slightlyoff@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.

slightlyoff@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

slightlyoff@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.