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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
A new stereophonic sound spectacular!
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
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Mastodon Feed#dog looking out of a #window with an #american #flag in #japan #hashtags
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ginaintheburg@mastodon.world ("Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻") wrote:
Claire McCaskill on Alex Wagner Tonight reminds us Anderson v Griswold was NOT brought by Democrats - it was brought by 5 Republican voters & 1 independent voter.
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A 4-3 decision, the 3 dissenting judges were appointed by Dem governors.Not a Democratic partisan decision as fact-challenged Trump & his MAGA gang feverishly scream.
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dukepaaron@babka.social ("דאלק בן אברהם") wrote:
A book report 🫤
"A 13-year-old who admitted to planning an attack on a synagogue was sentenced to probation - and a book report."
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janellecshane@wandering.shop ("Janelle Shane") wrote:
Dec 20
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Tesla to add recorded “banging” noises to the Cybertruck so that the Coast Guard can more easily locate wreckage.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
howz yer aura, Dora?
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hi_mayank@hachyderm.io ("Mayank") wrote:
📝 new post: "A custom element base class"
it's a bit niche and i kept it quick, to be improved later in true "digital garden" fashion
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patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:
Hey @jaffathecake looks like we're shipping support for AVIF with Edge 121. Thought you'd be interested to know.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Did I toot this because I was mad at the problem I was having? Yes.
Did that problem turn out to be mostly my fault? Also yes.
Is everything I said still true though? Triple yes.
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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:
If you missed last night’s Quiz you can still watch the recording at this link, although it won’t be quite the same without the live interaction with other players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jVxkdf-VU
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Teri_Kanefield ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:
The national election protection hotline (I do legal volunteer work for them) asked me to share information about them on social media.
Here is their website: https://866ourvote.org
If you are a lawyer and want to volunteer, there is a place to contact them.
(I like doing back office research, so I spent a few dozen hours last year researching changes in state election laws and writing up summaries so the lawyers working the hotline have the information handy.)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
setting up for weekly voice net on 50.250MHz USB
Mike Echo Oscar Whiskey
Mastodon FeedMozilla has easy-to-run single-file servers for LLMs (#AI/hallucinators), and the Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct is pretty coherent. Ability to run one locally solves a lot of privacy and centralization issues:
Mastodon FeedFinally on vacation! And finally played with my watercolors again yesterday! No idea why my first few lines made my brain go “this should be a mermaid“.. But I'm quite happy with the result. It's always interesting to see where your creativity leads you. :blobcat_nwn:
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- Watercolor painting of a mermaid leaning out of the water, her lower arms laying on a wooden jetty. Her hands are crossed beneath her chin, propping up her head. She is looking upward at someone with an expression that is trying to tempt the one she is looking at into the water. The end of her fin is peaking out of the water, almost laying on the jetty. Her skin has a slightly green tint and is slightly scaly. Her eyes are golden, as well as her lips and fingernails and her blue green wavy hair flows around her face and shoulders. (remote)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I just genuinely don't understand why anyone still uses React (aside from just legacy decisions that cost too much to undo, I mean).
The only thing it does well (manage state), every other framework on the planet does just as well or better.
Aside from that, React/JSX makes literally everything else about working on the web harder than it was to begin with.
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FrankPasquale ("Frank Pasquale") wrote:
“the same article, Insider revealed that Decentraland, arguably the largest and most relevant Metaverse platform, had only 38 active daily users. The Guardian reported that the monetized content ecosystem in Meta’s flagship product Horizon Worlds produced no more than $470 in revenue globally. You’re not reading those numbers wrong. To say that the Metaverse is dead is an understatement. It was never alive.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/metaverse-zuckerberg-pr-hype/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Me: [Googles an issue specific to React/Preact]
Google: OH BRO YOU WANNA INSTALL THIS NPM PACKAGE, BRO
Me: No, I don't want to install—
Google: HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? OR THIS ONE? I GOT A WHOLE PAGE FULL BRO TAKE UR PICK
Me: No, actually, this is just a fairly simple question about how to use a very common web API with React, and I—
Google: NPM INSTALL ABSTRACTION-OVER-AN-ABSTRACTION-OVER-ANOTHER-ABSTRACTION
Me: Seriously, can I just get one plain code sample
Google: PACKAGE PAKIDGE PAKKIJJJ
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neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:
After learning the neat trick to approximate distances without square root, I wanted to see if I could automate stroke thickness in oekaki for more natural brush-like lines.
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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:
Too many people in political and journalistic circles seem not to understand let alone be trying to reckon with the fact that a very sizeable proportion of the right doesn't hear "strongman" as shorthand for "dictator" or "fascist," but as a literal, laudatory description.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadness
"The towns and agricultural communities that line Israel’s border with Gaza were once bastions of the left. Many villages there were founded as kibbutzim, socialist agricultural communities. Over the years, many residents used their proximity to the Palestinians in Gaza to help deliver aid and run solidarity campaigns.
On Oct. 7, the closeness of those communities to the border made them vulnerable to the attack by Hamas terrorists. Well-known peace activists, including Vivian Silver, a founder of Women Wage Peace, were among those killed. The attack made the survivors rethink policies they had previously championed."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/world/middleeast/israel-oct-7-left-wing-peace.html
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ohiorob@mastodon.world ("Ohio Rob 🐶📻") wrote:
Agrarian #Jewish #socialists living in kibbutzim, many of whom for decades lived alongside #Gazans and were among the most active peace activists in #Israel were hit first and hardest on Oct 7th.
And socialists worldwide basically instantly turned their backs and started pouring themselves into the emerging “from the river to the sea” + #Oct7 denial movement.
🎁 link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/world/middleeast/israel-oct-7-left-wing-peace.html?mwgrp=c-mbar&unlocked_article_code=1.HE0.w0q2.9x4B0Db0PMtU&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share
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starchy@infosec.exchange wrote:
I'm just glad Jared Kushner solved this whole Israel-Palestine thing, imagine how much worse things would be otherwise
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stephen@crabsin.space ("Stephen 🐈 🇨🇦") wrote:
For anyone who's into APRS, I've been working on a modern alternative called CATS for a few months: https://cats.radio/
It cleans up the bloat in the protocol. Packets are modular, consisting of whiskers, which can be mixed and matched depending on what you want to convey in your packet.
Everything from the physical layer up has been completely revamped. We're running raw FSK for a massive 12dB coding gain over AFSK. Modern commercial transceiver chips makes it economical to do everything in FSK. These didn't exist when APRS was first developed.
We're also using LDPC for forward error correction, and have boosted the data rate from 1200 baud (APRS) to 9600 baud.
I've developed reference implementations of a Raspberry Pi I-Gate and mobile transceiver. Both are fully FOSS, and I'll also be selling units fairly shortly for $24 USD and $49 USD respectively.
But that's all just a summary. I highly recommend checking out our site for more information! https://cats.radio
Hope you like it! #hamradio #amateurradio
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dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:
It's hard to overstate the importance of SSH in securing home networks, massive cloud centers and everything in between. Now, researchers have devised a novel cryptographic attack that breaks integrity of this widely used protocol. Dubbed Terrapin, it's the first-ever practical attack of its kind, and one of the very few attacks against SSH at all. Terrapin exploits weaknesses in the specification of SSH when paired with widespread algorithms (ChaCha20-Poly1305 and CBC-EtM) to remove an arbitrary number of protected messages at the beginning of the secure channel, thus breaking integrity. In practice, the attack can be used to impede the negotiation of certain security-relevant protocol extensions. Moreover, Terrapin enables more advanced exploitation techniques when combined with particular implementation flaws, leading to a total loss of confidentiality and integrity in the worst case.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The phrase "good chap" only applies in its original meaning to people who shudder slightly at the idea of being called "a good chap".
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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:
"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The thing about counter-proposals and competing implementations is critical. What we want out of standards and the market of ideas is for vendors to be listening to needs, proposing solutions, and for developers to be providing feedback about which ones are best.
Vendors that spread FUD *without providing analysis or counter-proposals* are playing games, and not in your favour. Lack of a counter is the strongest tell that a critique isn't being offered in good faith.