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

NWS Dense Fog Advisory for Monroe County NY

Effective Dec 28, 2023 at 9:07 AM Expires at Dec 29, 2023 at 7:00 AM

Dense Fog Advisory issued December 28 at 9:07AM EST until December 29 at 7:00AM EST by NWS Buffalo NY

* WHAT... Visibility below a quarter mile at times in dense fog.

* WHERE... Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, and Chautauqua counties.

* WHEN... Until 7 AM EST Friday.

* IMPACTS... Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.

If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.

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

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

blink twice if you're being held against your will

#Caturday #dogs

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• a group of 6 cats huddled together around 1 dog, sitting on a towel against a wall (remote)

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whitedove@leftodon.social ("White Dove") wrote:

@jsonstein Standing Together have a mastodon account: @omdimbeyachad

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

WHAT—

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html

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

such a cheerful ‘bot

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whitedove@leftodon.social ("White Dove") wrote:

@KarunaX
I don't know where you saw that most Israelis have dual nationality, do you gave a source?
But anyway, it doesn't really matter.
Yes, Israel has committed a lot of crimes against the Palestinians over the years but right now both Jewish Israelis and Palestinians live between the river and the sea and non of us are going anywhere. This is the home of both peoples. We need to advocate for Jewish-Arab solidarity and a peaceful solution to the conflict.

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year_progress@techhub.social ("Year Progress") wrote:

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 99%

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

Sam Altman's only talent seems to be the ability to get rich people and the media to suck up to him. It's all about the money.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/28/what-does-sam-altman-do/

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• Sam Altman waving (remote)

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

Keep asking Republican what the cause of the US Civil War was -- it makes their brain stutter and flail.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/28/thats-not-the-right-answer-nikki/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8jnf66N30

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cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:

This is so fucking blursed: https://bvisness.me/luax/

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forrestbrazeal@hachyderm.io ("Forrest Brazeal") wrote:

I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available.

Has it held up?

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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

G303.3.1.21
The devil
as a great hairy man.

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

Only peace will bring safety

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• Only Peace Will Bring Safety “We're aching. All of us. It seems like we're not allowed to hurt for both peoples. Let's remember that the most important thing we can do in this moment is allow ourselves to grieve for all - towards a place where we can also build for all." - Sally Abed — Member of the National Leadership of Standing Together (remote)

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paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2023 Headline of the Year Contest! 🎆

Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.

16 headlines.

Only 1 winner.

A reminder of the nominees:

https://mstdn.ca/@paulisci/111615475542166731

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JosephMenn@infosec.exchange wrote:

Today's story caps months worth of work with colleagues on a Washington Post series about critical changes in India's public governance through its domination of technology.
This piece delves into what happened before and after Apple warned journalists and politicians in India Oct. 30 that a country was attacking their phones.
What we found: The evidence suggests that India is using Pegasus again, and again going after its critics in civil society.
More surprising, and a clear sign of what the current Indian government expects from major tech companies: Ministers went on the attack against Apple, which sees India as a major market for growth.
This link is free for anyone who enters and confirms an email address.
Please read and share. Thank you.
https://wapo.st/3NEJYub
#infosec #hacking #privacy #india

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HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

#Poll #Time #Clocks

Be honest, can you read an analog clock?

[If you are older than the sample size do not vote but instead boost.]

** Boost for maximum reach.

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

Truth

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• Only Peace Will Bring Safety “I ask (from the bottom of my heart) that we all say a prayer — Jews & Arabs (from all over the religions and faiths), let us sanctify the memories of the people who were murdered. Let us raise a prayer for the lives of all of us who reside in the Holy Land” Ghadir Hani — Member of the Standing Together leadership (remote)

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mcc wrote:

What I'm listening to today: "Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #4)" LudoWic

The Trautonium is an early electronic instrument from the 1930s. Instead of a "keyboard" like a post-1965 synthesizer would use players make contact between a resistive wire and a metal plate, allowing fine control more akin to a violin than a piano. In this piece, the musician works the plate (and the pedals?) for a complex and stunning tremolo effect, like a guitar pedal under direct human control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4U7Uue5Qdk

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xot@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Big day! Ian Brumby's Crossrunner v1.0 is out. This is an amazing Apple IIgs emulator I've been testing for the last few years. It has a modern interface, is extremely accurate, and features scripting and a unique source-level debugger. It is currently just for Windows, but Mac and Linux versions are coming.
https://www.crossrunner.gs/

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

"If schools were already in collapse because of their broken incentives, and LLMs are just accelerating it, then it’s about time we took seriously school reforms that have better incentives" — https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/more-than-calculators-why-large-language-models-threaten-public-education-480dd5300939

Exactly my thoughts. LLMs just showed how education is broken.

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

Randomly went back and platinumed Hexcells yesterday. I started up the sequel (Hexcells+) and it looks like it's expecting players to have done the first one. It starts requiring techniques in the first few stages that were introduced over several chapters in the original.

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programming_discussions ("Programming Weekly") wrote:

CSS is fun again

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again

#programming

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LukaszOlejnik ("Lukasz Olejnik") wrote:

The Triangulation cyber espionage tool/malware turns out to be extremely advanced/fascinating. Certainly the ~most impressive piece in 2023, perhaps among the most impressive (known) cyber espionage tools in history? https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/

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

what's the best fiction book you read this year? bonus points if it is mid-length or shorter and available in paperback (especially at the bookstore i'm about to walk to)

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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

This really hurts. Tom (Tommy) Smothers, who along with his brother Dick formed the Smothers Brothers, has died at 86. Despite his character being played as a dummy, in reality he was the driving force of the comedy duo, pushing them from a fairly straightforward singing comedy team into realms of free speech, anti-Vietnam war, and anti-censorship realms that incurred the wrath of President Johnson, who pushed CBS to cancel their show ("The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour") -- which ultimately happened.

When they featured (in September 1967) once blacklisted Peter Seeger singing his anti-Vietnam war "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" all hell broke loose and CBS cut the performance from the tape before the show aired. After pressure from the brothers, CBS permitted them to bring him back for another performance of the song in February the next year, which did air -- but the brothers relationship with CBS was beyond repair, especially when CBS tampered with a performance by Harry Belafonte later that year.

It's impossible for me to express here the impact of the Smothers Brothers, or reasonably point at a single representative sample of their vast work, or their many interviews about these topics, but you may find this Q&A interesting as a starting point.

Peace Tommy. You deserve it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Cw2lZt72Y

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• "Mom always liked you best!" (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

GPT-4 seems to be MUCH better at answering illumos-related questions than GPT-3, and I have to believe that the presence of authoritative documentation is helping?

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• The result of asking ChatGPT 4 the question: "what does 'default' imply in the limitpriv for an illumos zone?"

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

"Live as our customer" by @dglazkov is worth your time:

https://glazkov.com/2023/07/30/live-as-our-customer/

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

He gives sweet-looking old grandpas a bad name, because behind that grin is a shriveled, rotting brain that just echoes authoritarian bullshit.

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

I'm really, really, REALLY tired of creationist a-holes like Richard Eggleston who just parrot the same ol' dead claims over and over again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/27/do-i-have-to-do-this-again/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's been a very difficult and stressful year that almost broke me multiple times, but there were good bits too: I got married, visited the @yogscast office, saw The Dear Hunter live, got into analog photography, and adopted two very silly cats.