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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
A bunch of the Spritely crew will be at #FOSDEM and GuixDays 2024! https://spritely.institute/news/fosdem2024.html
You wanted to talk to myself, @tsyesika, @lispwitch about Hoot, Goblins, our goals for integrating the Guile and Guix and Spritely ecosystems, and the future of decentralized networks? Well, we hope to meet you there!
This is gonna be huge!!!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cat dreams
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Thread 🧵via Angry Staffer: 1/…
Just because you had your head in the sand for the entire #Trump presidency doesn’t mean there was “peace everywhere”
Kids were getting gassed in Syria.
There were 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of Trump.
There was a failed coup in Venezuela.
Trump’s policy of deterrence by tweet allowed North Korea to fully develop ICBMs.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
It's really busy at the gym today.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, this made me larf
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Something off Ki for #ProgTuesday.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Necessary caveats:
1. I like when libraries, frameworks, etc. use TypeScript. They should do that. It makes life easier for everyone using them.
2. Heavy emphasis on "beyond a certain point."
3. Again, I like TypeScript. It's undeniably useful. See 1 and 2.
4. This was originally a reply to a thread but I felt like it warranted being its own standalone post/explanation.
5. Remember that if I'm right, the psychology would still compel you to fervently defend TypeScript.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We might be making young people work too hard.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/23/did-i-work-that-hard-when-i-was-young/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I like TypeScript, but I maintain that beyond a certain point, it makes you *feel* more productive than it actually *makes* you.
It *feels* like an amazing achievement when you finally, satisfyingly, invoke the proper incantation to banish those cursed squigglies in your editor...
...but you might have just spent hours "improving" the code, when what actually ships and runs is 0% different that it was before.
It's possible the only thing you meaningfully changed was your own feelings.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:
https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/sublinks-a-replacement-for-lemmy/
It’s crazy how much of the comments about #Subllinks on the threadiverse are mad that the author is using #Java or just complaining that they chose to build another implementation.
Most of it seems to be #Lemmy users who think that #kbin, #mbin, #piefed, etc don’t exist and no other federated link aggregator should exist.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
watching a Coursera video series on LLMs... is that a croissant on his desk?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HelenBranswell@scicomm.xyz ("Helen Branswell") wrote:
"This isn’t Pez candy that we’re handing out like we’re a giant Pez dispenser.’” @brittanytrang's jawdropping story about the astonishing mismanagement of the White House "pharmacy" during the end of the last administration. Couldn't make this up. https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/23/white-house-pharmacy/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"prompted by complaints the Department of Defense received in 2018 about a senior military medical officer, who is not named, engaging in “improper medical practices.” It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama.
The OIG report does not mention Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House Medical Unit director from 2010 to 2014 and the president’s physician from 2013 through 2018. He removed his name from consideration as former President Trump’s Veterans Affairs secretary amid allegations about his lax prescribing practices and a hostile work environment in the White House Medical Unit, some of which were confirmed in a separate 2021 inspector general investigation"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LouisIngenthron@qoto.org ("Louis Ingenthron") wrote:
There's an episode of *M*A*S*H* where Colonel Potter needs to deal with the fact that his son-in-law cheated on his daughter. In the end, he does so by relating to the boy the time that his own fidelity faltered.
I wonder how different the world would be if more of us understood that the things that piss us off the most in others are just reflections of the flaws we see in ourselves.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EgyptianAphorist@mindly.social ("Yahia Lababidi") wrote:
A 23-year-old did this with nothing more than a hammer and chisel.
That man was Gian Lorenzo Bernini (The Abduction of Proserpina, 1622).
He liked to boast that "in his hands marble could become as impressionable as wax and as soft as dough”.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
40m #JS8 is hopping right now #AmateurRadio
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The Bear River Massacre (also known as the Marias Massacre or the Baker Massacre) was the largest massacre of Indigenous people in present-day Montana and one episode in the bloody campaign by the U.S. Army to dispossess the Blackfeet and other Indigenous groups of the territory. Whereas in the early 1800s the Blackfeet had a population of 20,000, by the end of the century, violence, disease, and starvation brought the number down to just 5,000."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Paul Gosar only thinks he knows what the American military stands for. It's not "wokeness".
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ANNOUNCE: #JS8 #AmateurRadio Learning Group Meeting tonight
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when: 9pm East Coast US time, Tuesday 23 JAN 2024
where: at the 20m JS8 meeting freq
(if 14.0780MHz is too busy
then we shall QSY to 14.107MHz)
what: @ROCDIGI group netwe have established a weekly net to explore the possibilities in JS8 with others, centered around but not limited to the Rochester NY area. feel free to join us no matter your location, it will be more fun with a good turnout to explore things like automated checkins and message relaying.
the idea is to establish a welcoming environment for people to get comfortable operating in this short-text-message mode, which works great with low power, with less-than-optimal antennas & sites, and over relatively long distances-per-watt.
looking fwd to working together
jeffs
—
Jeff Sonstein
wa2rrb
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Before I get any coffee this morning, I decided to rely on some TEKE::TEKE energy to wake up.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm impressed by how his hat dwarfs his brain.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/23/all-hat-and-no-cattle/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
Did you know that we’re an award-winning Consortium? W3C received a 2016 Emmy Award for our work to make online videos more accessible with captions and subtitles. For work to standardize a Full TV Experience on the Web, W3C received a 2019 Emmy Award. And for our work standardizing fonts W3C received a 2021 Emmy Award. 🏆 #aboutW3C
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
Storms make trees take deeper roots. ~ Dolly Parton
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
space weather: “13:03 UTC - Radio Blackout
Minor R1 radio blackout in progress (≥M1 - current: M1.01)”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:
“Physics is a dialogue with nature—accomplished through experimental testing of our ideas, and not a monologue in which we formulate our ‘theories of everything’ and rest on our laurels.”
#FAFO https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/beware-of-theories-of-everything/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Cmastication ("JD Long ✅") wrote:
Murderbot career advice is excellent…
From: @murderbotbot
https://botsin.space/@murderbotbot/111801044669938719
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
People once did this with Yoko Ono in sunglasses, thinking it was me. https://www.comicsands.com/snoop-dogg-lookalike-flight-attendant-2667036820.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh joy
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So Apple "fixed the problem" of developers deciding the web was going to be their XR alternative to continued serfdom?:
