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

What's in the box?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/16/interesting-news-from-outer-space/

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• OSIRIS-REx probe (remote)

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

An old fool and his folly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/16/local-pseudo-archaeology/

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• Olof Öhmon standing proudly with his fake Kensington runestone (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Been using it for a while now, but zsh-autosuggestions has been one of those things that still makes me smile.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

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

6am run in Lausanne!

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• 4bd32b8efbf58070.jpeg (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@collinsworth See also: React

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

“a series of plans by Mr. Trump and his allies that would upend core elements of American governance, democracy, foreign policy and the rule of law if he regained the White House.”

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-2025-second-term.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-0w.5NCz.iL54GwUyDHYL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Reptar: bug in Intel CPU microcode allowing processors to enter a glitch state where the normal rules don't apply

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/reptar.html

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

hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

Give me those juicy good teams where the front-end folks are allowed to blur the lines over into design. It's honestly the best. I'm so stoked whenever I get to work with other developers like me. Good, creative, things happen.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I feel like a blog post titled "Deep Frontend Teams are Light on JS Skills" writes itself.

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cybeardjm@masto.ai ("DJM (freelance for hire)") wrote:

@slightlyoff Tested with Canva...

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cybeardjm

#Bitcoin

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• Merit badge I was right about crypto Bitcoin logo between 2 traffic cones 2009-2023 NGMI colors: dark blue, orange and white (remote)
• Merit badge I was right about crypto Bitcoin logo Still Early! 2023 colors: orange and white (remote)

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

'In her proffer interview, Ellis told prosecutors she was informed at a 2020 White House Christmas party by one of Trump's top aids, Dan Scavino, that Trump "is not going to leave under any circumstances."

"And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, 'Well, we don't care, and we're not going to leave,'" Ellis said of the alleged Dec. 19 conversation with Scavino. "And I said, 'What do you mean?' And he said 'Well, the boss', meaning President Trump -- and everyone understood 'the boss,' that's what we all called him -- he said, 'The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.'"

Ellis said she told him, "'Well, it doesn't quite work that way, you realize?' and he said, 'We don't care.'"'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-prosecutors-emergency-protective-order-trump-case-video-disclosure/story?id=104882446

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

Howling because I stumbled on a tumblr mpreg blog titled "embarazoku"

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

I'd like to learn more about job titles like "technical project manager" as well as "community manager" (for technology projects). More broadly I'm interested in hearing about roles which require understanding technology but focus on working with people. Anyone up for talking with me about this kind of work? Boosts appreciated!

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

Ok that was just an extended prologue. Once that's over you get to a non-linear part that's unique among the games so far. There are 50 total short fragments to read, each with 0 - 2 prerequisites. It's almost like a storylet system, except that searching for available passages is part of the gameplay.

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

clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

(As proof of my love of Omni, here's my essay from last year -- "The Strangest OMNI Magazine Covers Of All Time"

The sub-headline: "Staring zebras, deadpan cyborg women, and an awful lot of eyeballs"

Essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-strangest-omni-magazine-covers-of-all-time-f65e25d4a741

Free friend link in case you don't subscribe to OMNI: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-strangest-omni-magazine-covers-of-all-time-f65e25d4a741?sk=ea691d92f55a74e94c3b2266cfdde776

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• Omni cover for 1982, Bob Giusti, titled "Mysteries of the World". It is an illustation showing a Zebra, standing sideways with its head turned to stare at the view, standing on an empty flat plain. In the far distance are two pyramids, and an infinity sign emerging from the ground. The sky in the distance is dusk. In the sky is an orange-red moon, sun, or planet (remote)

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

Sunset, Rochester NY 15 NOV 2023

#ROC

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• Sunset, Rochester NY ©️2023 Batya Billinkoff (remote)

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

I don't think people understand how monumentally difficult it will be to migrate away from Tailwind, when that day comes (and it almost certainly will, for any project looking to the future).

It's wild to see people who would care deeply about platform lock-in in an other context not even giving it a second thought in the case of Tailwind.

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

Website: "Are you interested in buying something?"

Me: "No, not really."

Website: [Has giant text that animates as you scroll]

Me: "How fast can you ship?"

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

The effort to create an official #rustlang specification has begun! Read about it in this blog post from the newly launched specification team:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/11/15/spec-vision.html

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

etchedpixels ("The Penguin of Evil") wrote:

Another CPU for the collection of things to nail to an #rc2014 #rcbus system. This time it's an Intel 80196. Quite a fascinating instruction set which basically has 256 bytes of low internal memory that work as registers (somewhat akin to the 8051 but more like the Z8 in that any op works on any register) combined with external memory. However unlike the 8051 it's all sanely mapped into one address space with the registers being the low 256 bytes (with one a zero register and a few are I/O)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Lies, damned lies, and...

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• "You're 97% there." (remote)

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

ajbenjaminjr ("James Benjamin") wrote:

A reminder that abortion is on the ballot in 2024. A GOP President could take action to end most abortions in the US.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/15/us-abortion-ban-republican-president-2024-trump

#uspol #abortionrights #abortion

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

i gotta start blogging again

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

i can't tell if this is an obvious error or just a delightful sentence

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• Screenshotted text: "At Lot 77062, he started to get antsy. “I’m getting shpilkes,” he said, using the Yiddish word for shpilkes. His hope — not unreasonable, he thought — was somewhere in the high six figures." (remote)

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copystar@social.coop ("Mita") wrote:

I'm trying to find the source of a wonderful thing I read here in May

It was along the lines of 'treat AI as it is fey' (or fairyfolk) ...

never give them your real name...

Does anyone remember this source?

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JoBlakely ("Jo Jitsu") wrote:

I just love how modern, timeless, fun, and stylish this Minoan vase is.

Minoan pottery is just gorgeous.
The whole design, artwork, proportions and shapes not only hold up, they still look avant garde, still looks highest quality.

Made around 4000 years ago!
#art #pottery #design #beauty #octopus

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• Vase with base, neck, and handles painted in Black, with the body in cream, with an octopus painted in Black on top.

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

The intel post ends (somewhat defensively?) with:

"APX demonstrates the advantage of the variable-length instruction encodings of x86 – new features enhancing the entire instruction set can be defined with only incremental changes to the instruction-decode hardware."

Which is certainly *a* way to look at things.

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

I saw this:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/advanced-performance-extensions-apx.html

And immediately thought of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

Auspicious.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Ehh, my Crucial P5 SSD has become an M.2-compatible resistive heater.

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Packbat@indiepocalypse.social ("Packbats, creative") wrote:

Saw a @noracodes toot the other day and it made us want to write a Socratic dialogue in which Sagredo and Simplicio argue about whether computers are magic.

(672 words.)