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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Responsible use of your data"

Are you fucking serious, Thingiverse?!

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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

🎙️ New Podcast Episode: Web Components Are Having a Moment

@Meyerweb and @bkardell chat about Web Components and the recent flurry of posts about them.

https://www.igalia.com/chats/web-components-moment

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markarayner@mas.to ("Mark A. Rayner") wrote:

And the sarcasm will be so sharp, you'll bleed.

#writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #library #libraries #librarians #humor #humour #signs

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• white sign with red lettering that says: Library Parking Only. Violators will be held in low esteem (remote)

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unfa ("unfa🇺🇦") wrote:

Any embedded Linux software engineers looking for a well paid job?

Louis Rossmann is hiring.

#Linux #TexasInstruments #EmbeddedLinux #Programmers #Engineers #Work

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

Whoa... Björk is on bandcamp.

https://bjork.bandcamp.com/music

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cybertailor@deadinsi.de ("jan Anja :toki:") wrote:

I have discovered a truly remarkable license which this margin is too small to contain.

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

Why Aren’t More People Marrying? Ask Women What Dating Is Like. (Gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/opinion/marriage-women-men-dating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE0.TsiR.p4XWgg3ic5th&smid=nytcore-android-share

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

I think I'm finally done with the teaching over zoom experiment. I've given it a good, long, thorough shot, and it just doesn't work for me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/21/the-end-of-zoomfor-me/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

They weren’t lying… that format sure is medium.

#BelieveInFilm

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• A Canon AE-1 next to a Pentax 6x7, which is much larger.

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

An interview with André 3000 about himself and his latest album "New Blue Sun".

https://www.kmhd.org/article/2023/11/15/andre-3000-interview-album-new-blue-sun/

(Scroll down the page a little for the audio player embedded in the page.)

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

Someone in the Smoke Room discussion channel just now: "sex with friends grosses me out, i get it when u become lovers and etc. But sex and remaining friends is something i dont think ill open my mind to."

?????

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

Stabbity stab stab.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/21/poor-squid/

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

This guy has an amazing number of red flags in his ensemble.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/21/he-was-dressed-in-every-red-flag/

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• Phillip Fisher Jr, representing Moms for Liberty (remote)

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

I wasn't there at the time, but there must've been a lot of "Music to X By" in the 50s for Red Norvo to release this record: "Music to Listen to Red Norvo By"

https://www.discogs.com/release/1333641-Red-Norvo-Music-To-Listen-To-Red-Norvo-By

(Now I just need to find some Red Norvo music to go with it. :thonking:)

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pagarcia ("Pablingo") wrote:

Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

in my personal experience it's some of the most supposedly pro-free speech people who have some of the most buckwild ideas about what constitutes defamation (or i guess business disparagement in this case)

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

as a passionate supporter of free speech, i'm going to sue a publisher and author to force them to take down an article i didn't like

#Twitter #ElonMusk #MMfA

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• 41. Media Matters represents itself as “a progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”6 Since its launch in 2004, it has engaged in an all-out campaign of “guerilla warfare and sabotage” on conservative news sources.7 In this context, X Corp. and Elon Musk are a critical Media Matters target because X is the most prominent online platform that permits users to share all viewpoints, whether liberal or conservative, and Mr. Musk is the most prominent voice on the platform and a passionate supporter of free speech. In taking down two forces it already found objectionable, Media Matters had the chance to starve X of ad revenue and thereby silence all of the voices on X. Nothing in Media Matters’ campaign was coincidental or accidental. And, its guerilla attack on X is working, driving away X’s advertisers and revenue precisely as intended. (remote)
• PRAYER FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Plaintiff X Corp. prays for judgment in its favor and the following relief: 1. Actual and consequential damages caused by Defendants’ misconduct, including but not limited to all general and special damages; 2. A preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Defendants to immediately delete, take down, or otherwise remove the article entitled “As Musk Endorses Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory, X Has Been Placing Ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity Next to Pro-Nazi Content From Its Web” from all websites and social media accounts owned, controlled, or operated, directly or indirectly, by Defendants; 3. X Corp.’s costs and attorneys’ fees to litigate this action; and 4. For such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper (remote)

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

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

The Real Housewives of MLanta continues to deliver:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969586/sam-altman-plotting-return-open-ai-microsoft

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mikebutcher ("Mike Butcher") wrote:

European investors grab the popcorn for the new 'series' of OpenAI, but are fearful of the fallout https://tcrn.ch/49I1KGf by me

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

I can't help but notice the more someone talks about free speech, the less they seem to comprehend the concept.

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sysop408@sfba.social ("Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸") wrote:

This whole ordeal with #OpenAI tracks against my past dealings with AI. You could get the AI 90% of the way to doing the job you wanted it to do, but attempts to close the last 10% would result in the project moving backward.

Because of this, we could never take a human off of closely babysitting the AI's decisions, which didn't actually save us much time. It just changed the nature of the work for the human.

If we went all in and and tried to close the final 10% to make the AI self-sufficient, the whole thing would go haywire to the point of being unusable.

So at least for me, OpenAI blowing up as soon as they could see the promised land is totally on brand. 😂

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

Have literally nothing to add to the openai stuff, except to ask: why is this front-page news around the world in serious publications? Seriously? A staffing drama?

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

i'm starting to question elon's commitment to free speech

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johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:

@carnage4life I’d not have picked OpenAI mirrors NFTs in value destruction 7 days ago but here we are.

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

In fairness, there's actually a little more to it than that. It seems to have something to do with animation and/or transitions too.

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raphael@mastodon.sdf.org ("Raphael") wrote:

Because it bears repeating: #python datetimes should always have timezone information it it. Always. Just put it in! It prevents so many bugs from happening

"I use UTC everywhere" Great! So you can just put UTC as the tz info!

(you are only exempted from this if you are processing 10k datetimes per second for some data analysis or something)

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latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

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• Flowchart: 1) get new idea. 2) start new project. 3) tell everyone. Skip step 4 of 'finish project' and go straight to 1) get new idea again. (remote)

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

Anyway, here's one of the recovered photos for you! My wife @alenacpp has a special soft spot for this piece set due to pieces resembling "C++" :-)

#darktable

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• A figurine holding an axe. Made from pieces resembling Lego, but all of them have the same shape of two merged plus signs: ++

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

… What I'm trying to say is, us programmers use computers in a vastly different manner than non-programmers. Being able to wrangle data without pre-defined user interfaces is a huge enabler. Fight to keep it free, don't let the gloss of "curated computing" blind you.

Also, I keep being impressed with the quality of #Darktable as a project. This time by the docs. Imagine a commercial app documenting location of its files.