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

In the long run, in the big picture, the occasional horrific (but painless!) disintegration of a few individuals doesn't matter. Besides, doesn't everyone want to vaporize Capt. Kirk now and then?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/02/this-is-valid/

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• DO I Die WHEN THE TELEPORTER SWITCHES ON? SAME GAMETES. SAME PHENOTYPE. SAME NUMBER OF AGENTS. MODEL WORKS THE SAME. Population biologists don‘t understand the Teleporter Problem. (remote)

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

Good mornin', good people. Gettin' my Saturday started right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enYdAxVcNZA

(Thanks @Greg for the new alarm sound.)

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

trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

1:150 scale!
https://youtu.be/riehhgKlRwo

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

My iNaturalist Year in Review is very orange, which is their color-code for arachnids.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/02/inaturalist-has-been-observing-me/

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• Summary of iNaturalist observations for 2023 (remote)

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

waiting for the Pound staff to open up so I can walk some doggos

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here's a little video about the new color film stock from Harman/Ilford, Phoenix 200. Previously Kodak had the only factory producing color film, so this is very exciting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjyWK4P2sM0

#BelieveInFilm

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We bought some wool and felting tools and here is what my wife made today!

#Blahaj #Felting #Christmas

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• A small blue IKEA shark, known as Blåhaj, made out of wool, hanging on a string in front of its large counterpart.

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

@simon this is the first application of LLMs I've seen that seems unequivocally useful and timely. I imagine a paid Mastodon instance spending part of its income to make this functionality automatic for all images.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I liked the colors here. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• A white house with a grey roof and multiple chimneys, with a hill behind it. In front, there are green bushes and red trees, and in front of those, there are pink flowers.

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

bot_wg@lepoulsdumonde.com ("William Gibson Bot") wrote:

RT @kangaroos991 :
Pass it on! ⤵️

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• un média posté par le compte Twitter (remote)

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

andymoose ("Googly Eyed Peas") wrote:

Wearing a mask in 2020 is now thought to be the cause of the pneumonia outbreaks in China and Ohio. And in other news, seatbelts are suspected to be the cause of 100% of all traffic accidents

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

talia_christine@beige.party ("Merry TC-hristmas 🎄❤") wrote:

Buying a Cybertruck seems like an awfully expensive way to tell people you have to pay for sex.

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

Isaac_C@hachyderm.io ("Isaac Csandl") wrote:

The bottom of this bag of coffee has better UX than a lot of apps out there.

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• Bottom of bag says “Oh honey. You must be tired. Try the other end. Hugs.” (remote)

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

"A heavily blacked-out document released by police in Sarasota included several mentions of rape and sexual battery.

No charges have been filed... His wife... is a co-founder of Moms for Liberty" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67560516

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

Now accepting strong opinions on a core Old English textbook for my winter intro grammar study. TIA!

(I'm working with https://oldenglish.info while I decide about a text, but I need print to learn things well.)

#OldEnglish

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

potatogunkelly@infosec.exchange ("Martin Kelly") wrote:

Tiny Monster #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A blue and cream dilute tortie, jaws wide in murdererous rage and paw extended, reaches up from behind a footstool to attack her mortal, a stick with some feathers on it (remote)

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

Ok in respect it was a mistake to put this out there in the middle of Kissinger's Dead Day and I still think it deserved better.

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

not bad for 15 watts #AmateurRadio #JS8

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• f7c7a34b8439237c.jpg (remote)

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

mi finfine akiris vinilalbumludilon kaj kompreneble la unua albumo ludita estu esperantlingva

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• albumludilo ludanta "Rutherford" de i.d.c. (remote)

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ashur@front-end.social ("Ashur Cabrera") wrote:

Did y’all see this classy bit of CSS from @DavidDarnes for hiding an element until a user has scrolled down the page a bit? 🤩

https://codepen.io/daviddarnes/pen/JjxmLpb?editors=0100

(via @adactio)

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Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $245,600,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $168,200,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $116,600,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

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ianfogg ("Ian Fogg") wrote:

Fascinating image from a smartphone camera. Upshot: a photo is no longer a snapshot in time. It's the perils of computational photography - https://petapixel.com/2023/11/16/one-in-a-million-iphone-photo-shows-two-versions-of-the-same-woman/

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rolf@mas.to ("Rolf Oldejans") wrote:

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• Photo: Snow-covered front garden, instead of snowmen you can see a group of 6 snow "Moai" (the monolithic stone figures on Easter Island). (remote)

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

React gotchas:
- It's className
- It's htmlFor
- style attribute has to be an object
- No loops
- Everything is a return statement
- No if statements
- Controlled inputs
- Everything is a function return
- Can only return a single element
- useEffect
- Rendering loops
- Data only goes one way
- Hooks only in components
- Hooks are bad anyway use signals
- Figure out your own CSS
- Don't assign directly to variables

Svelte gotchas:
- Don't forget to reassign arrays and objects.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

What a curious mug!

#Merchtodon #JingleJam #JingleJam2023

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• A large projector screen showing the Jingle Jam stream on Twitch. The stream is on break and showing the feed from the Yogscast office. On the coffee table, next to a large banana plushie, stands a mug featuring colorful elephants building an elephant snowman under a blurple sky.

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

Personal success story https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2023/12/01/config-success/en/

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

TIL, is deprecated in HTML. How could they, it was my favorite tag! I loved it much better than . Oh, teh drama!

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

I was concerned that abandoning Twitter would have a negative effect on traffic to my blog. It has made no difference at all. In fact, traffic is up slightly (that's noisy and variable, though, so you can't interpret that too much.)

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

moi

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• 51fd59ca35694af2.mp4 (remote)

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djspiewak@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Spiewak") wrote:

Unsolicited advice for open source maintainers: when you start feeling those tendrils of burnout, give yourself permission to hack on something in your project which *doesn't* move the needle. Literally tack into the wind.

You maintain this project because you like the technology, and most of the time OSS burnout comes from the endless Issue queue and not from code. So give yourself permission to enjoy the code for a change.

Or just chill. That's okay too <3