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

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

i for one would be happy to be candid in my communications with the openai board

just so incredibly candid

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

You don't have to give Apple the benefit of the doubt in 2023; they're rabidly anti-web and anti-browser-choice. Remember, Apple makes *billions* a year from the web, and re-invests the tiniest fraction of that back into Safari, all while holding back competitors that might deliver real competition with their native app platforms. It's all of a putrid piece:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/apple-files-legal-challenge-eus-digital-markets-act-2023-11-17/

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

I'm choosing to interpret Resident Evil 4 as being about how religious extremism is an infectious brain parasite.

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• c7627bac3d722f36.mp4 (remote)

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

enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠") wrote:

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

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

(No, I don't understand symbolism nor Jung.)

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

Did Sting ever write a Synchronicity III to explain what that something was that crawled to the surface of that dark Scottish loch? If he doesn't, somebody else should.

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

kincaid@mendeddrum.org ("Kincaid") wrote:

@pzmyers as someone from a UK uni, the whole 'murican university sports scene is utterly bonkers. We had various teams, no-one knew how they'd done unless they played or were mates. Or the womens hockey team trashed the bar because they'd won/lost/thursday...

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

Yay? UMM qualified for the division III football semifinals. They play in Wisconsin tomorrow. So today, the campus is empty, and only one person showed up for cell biology. Lecturing to a bunch of empty seats is kind of depressing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/17/little-victories/

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• Might be the wrong kind of football. Don't care. (remote)

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

alcinnz@floss.social ("Adrian Cochrane") wrote:

HTML Web Components - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/html-web-components/

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social ("ChurchHatesTucker ☑") wrote:

#Ambigram in the wild. (A light to get waiter's attention in Maastricht.)

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• d7b625736464c52f.jpeg (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

sgrif@hachyderm.io ("Sage Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This was the same day I was being told my position was being cut due to lack of budget for it.

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• Rust Foundation board meeting minutes for Oct 10 showing an operating surplus of $228k for the year and discussing moving $1.2m to certificates of deposit (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

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

sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

I posted the closing statement from my talk at FOSSY earlier this year in text format, in case anyone is interested. It's titled "Software is Political"

https://blog.samwhited.com/2023/11/software-is-political/

#foss #floss #fossy #fossy2023 #xmpp

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

badastro ("Phil Plait") wrote:

Hey, if you wanna see the sky falling then tonight is a good time to look up: The Leonid meteor shower peak tonight.

And next month the even better Geminids put on a show, too!

Read all about 'em:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/leonid-and-geminid-meteor-showers-bring-bonanza-before-years-end/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The way my wife arranged our Christmas decorations along with leftovers from Easter looks like we’re worshipping a pagan god.

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• A wreath made out of dry wood, pine cones, and dried pine branches, with four lit candles is on top of a red napkin, with two LED wax houses on either side, and a big glass vase is in the middle of the wreath. Inside the vase, the head of a rabbit made out of straw on a stick with a big pink bowtie. In the background, the Devin Townsend Ocean Machine poster in a frame.

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

amuse@infosec.exchange ("Matt Linton :donor:") wrote:

Just remembered that time in my Google job interview when they asked me what my favorite forensics tool is and I said it was grep.

Protip: You don't have to leetcode or invent a new kind of physics to land a senior engineer job, just knowing how stuff really works is great.

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

You're not a real man unless you've got TWO massive intromittent organs the size of your head that are festooned with spikes and hooks. This is the new standard.

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• Steatoda borealis male spider (remote)

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

thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

🎉 Spade 0.5.0 is out 🎉

Some highlights:

- Write tests using Verilator enabling much faster and longer simulations

- Install synthesis, place and route tools and simulators in just 1 command via https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build. Now you can go from fresh Linux install to a blinky on an FPGA in just a few fully automated commands.

- Lots of new documentation for both the language and its tooling over at
https://docs.spade-lang.org/.

Read more at https://blog.spade-lang.org/v0-5-0/

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

I don't think I've watched The Virgin Suicides since the 90s. I wonder what I'd think of it now

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

Sometimes I wonder whether years as a designer taught me how to recognize when a client is their own worst enemy...or whether *every* client is their own worst enemy, and I just didn't get a sample size large enough to confirm it.

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

Here, have a Smoke Room meme

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• A couple of tweets edited to appear as though they were posted by Smoke Room characters. First is a tweet by "MurdochReactsYT", whose display name is "Live Slut Reaction." His tweet reads, "you see us all at the pool wyd" with a screencap of the cast of the Smoke Room Summer AU. Ralph (display name "ralph," username "strict9") quote tweets the first post and says, "Killing myself in front of you to forever change your bond and the trajectory of your lives"

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

This asshole is going to kill people, rather than "save humanity."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/17/someone-want-to-break-the-news-to-him/

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• Elon Musk with a flamethrower (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Pretty darn fine first test on the Prusa XL 🥰🐸

#3dprinting

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• d0c0c4e538c76552.png

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

It's weird how tiny little triumphs can lighten one's mood.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/17/little-victories/

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• Happy jumping spider jumping (remote)

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

Mario RPG is a delight. That is all.

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

shonin@mastodon.world ("Shonin") wrote:

The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):

ross@rossabaker.com ("Ross A. Baker") wrote:

Stable company, figured out remoting before the pandemic, Typelevel stack. I work with this team part time. If you'd like to work with me, or if you'd like to work in FP and can tolerate me ... check it out! DMs are open.

https://jackhenry.avature.net/careers/JobDetail/Scala-Software-Engineer/13519

#Scala #Typelevel #Kafka #Remote #Hiring

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Clippy has proven to be punishing, however 😂

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Cross-platform building + packaging on releases was a bit of a pain. I had previously built on Travis (RIP) and appveyor using the `trust` template. Moving to GH Actions involved cargo culting what I found in cardinal-rs's repo

https://github.com/open-contracting/cardinal-rs

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Making things compile was simple: upgraded the Graphics-related libs to the latest version and made changes that the compiler suggested. Took no more than 10-20 mins.