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

sbourne ("Sarah E Bourne") wrote:

@neurovagrant and @jsonstein I think you need to see this. And yes, you DO want to see the replies!
https://mstdn.social/@yurnidiot/111847806894543607

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

JudyOlo@universeodon.com ("Judy Olo") wrote:

@yurnidiot
Morse-cat. Was widely used during WWII. Dot-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash-dot-dot-dot

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

Oooh... Ibibio Sound Machine has a new album coming out in May:

https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/album/pull-the-rope

In the meantime, I'll revisit some of their existing performances like this one at KEXP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMwH49MNDY

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

scy@chaos.social wrote:

A few days ago, my groovebox, the #SynthstromDeluge, running the new and awesome community-built firmware, crashed, which was very cool.

Not that it crashed, but what happened next: It displayed a colorful pattern on its pads.

That's a stack trace. It's listing the last steps the code made before crashing. The devs have asked to be sent photos of these, to help them find bugs.

I've pasted it on Discord, and there's a _bot_ that recognizes these images and decodes them into addresses!

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• Me, in a Discord channel called "nightly-testing", writing "This is from 1.0.1 and happened a few days ago. I think I was adding synths to a kit when it crashed, but I don't remember with absolute certainty." Below that, a picture of my Deluge. It's a black metal device with several silicone buttons with colorful LEDs below them. It also has seven knobs (some black, some gold) and an OLED screen. The lower two thirds of the device are taken up by a matrix of 8 rows and 16 columns of square pads with RGB LEDs below them. Then there's an additional 2 columns of 8 rows of the same pads to the right of that, used for muting, auditioning, and playing. From left to right, the main matrix displays four binary patterns, each 4 columns and 8 rows in size, in different colors: purple, blue, green, and cyan. The two columns on the right also display a pattern, in red. In each of the patterns, each LED is either illuminated in the color of that block, or not at all. Each block of 4×8 LEDs thus represents a 32 bit address. The two columns on the right represent the first four hex digits of the firmware's Git commit hash. The small OLED screen says, in capital letters, white on black "Error: E339. Press select knob to attempt resume, then save to new file." Below my post, there's a reply of the bot "Deluge Crash Reader", saying: Thanks for the image, @scy!, it decodes as: 0x201157c0 0x2011585c 0x20110840 0x20048f4c 0xfe31 fe31a4f9b112890b16315796907788eb81314ff (remote)

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

Richard Dawkins continues his painful descent into reactionary ignorance. Put him on Fox News, he'd fit right in.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/31/dawkins-is-one-step-away-from-consulting-a-dictionary-to-define-biology/

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• Sex is not defined by chromosomes, nor by anatomy, nor by psychology or sociology, nor by personal inclination, nor by “assignment at birth”, but by gamete size. It happens to be embryologically DETERMINED by chromosomes in mammals and (in the opposite direction) birds, by temperature in some reptiles, by social factors in some fish. But it is universally DEFINED by the binary distinction between sperms and eggs. You may argue about “gender” if you wish (biologists have better things to do) but sex is a true binary, one of rather few in biology. (remote)

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

Nah.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/31/elon-has-gone-and-done-it/

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• Neuralink will cure depression and upload your consciousness for $5000! (remote)

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

Those Republicans sure know how to party down.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/31/anyone-want-to-go-to-a-concert/

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• Jack Posobiec proposes a concert with Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Jon Voight to counter the influence of Taylor Swift (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Packing essentials for #FOSDEM.

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• A white cat with orange patches sits in an open suitcase.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

That moment when you find yourself typing `println!()` in a C++ codebase.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We got a pig.

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• A ceramic pig whose purpose is to hold the spiral coil against mosquitos (katoributa).

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night @jmc, Patrick, and Steve joined the me, @bcantrill and the Oxide Friends to talk about Helios, the operating system that runs on Oxide hardware. It’s a distro of illumos, but what’s a distro? And why did we choose illumos? How does it work? So many questions! Many of them answered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejokdrByUs

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

boostmarks@hachyderm.io ("Boris Schapira") wrote:

#boostmarks

"The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024", Alex Russel (@slightlyoff)
https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/

"We got to a place where performance has been a constant problem in large part because a tribe of programmers convinced themselves that it wasn't and wouldn't be. The circa '13 narrative that:

- CPUs would keep getting faster
- Networks would get better, or at least not get worse.
- Organisations had all learned the lessons of Google and FaceBook's adventures in Ajax.

was all bullshit"

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

NedMan@social.makerforums.info ("NedMan 🚀") wrote:

Tracks.

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• Four-panel meme. The top left panel features a cartoon representation of Bill Gates with a speech bubble that says, "Lets make more vaccines." Opposite to this, in the top right panel, is a drawing of a distressed character with a tearful expression, shouting, "nooooo you will put microchips in our bodies and track us." The bottom left panel shows a cartoon of Elon Musk with a contemplative expression and a speech bubble stating, "I will literally put a microchip in your brain." The bottom right panel displays a character with a beard, looking amused, and saying, "Lmao nice" in response to Musk's statement (remote)

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

High-level takeaways from this year's research:

• reliable network information is so much harder to come by than anyone expects. Dear Akamai, CF, Google, Ookla, etc: publish full histograms?!! And slice by locality and form-factor if you can.
• devices are slow. But they got faster (finally)!!
• network speed is the Great White Hope, in that rich programmers hope it'll make their React sins look less shite. Oops.

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

How much HTML/CSS/JS can we afford if we want to serve most users most of the time? It's a data-driven question that I've been trying to answer for the web community for the past decade, along with dozens of collaborating colleagues from Google, Akamai, Cloudflare, and many other vendors.

Here's my best reckons for teams building new sites in 2024:

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/

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

OK perverts; this one's for you:

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

terrybot@frikiverse.zone ("Terrybot :pratchett:") wrote:

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat :-)

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Jk I love it

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My blog needs some MAINTENANCE 😅

Who said a custom blog was a good idea anyway? I'd like to have a word

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ryanc@infosec.exchange ("Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:") wrote:

OH: Lawyers are attack librarians.

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

joshmillard ("Josh "cortex" Millard") wrote:

TIRED: "unicorn"
WIRES: "horny on mane"

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

cory@social.lol ("Cory :prami_pride_demi:") wrote:

“If you put yourself through hell long enough, or if your lifestyle does, eventually it just blows up or breaks down. And then you’re screwed.” #NoMeansNo #PunkRock #PunkRockHistory

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

amusing stories told on tonight's usual local voice net at 50.250MHz USB #AmateurRadio 📡

#RocDigi JS8 learning net on 20m coming up at the top of the hour (0200Z)

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

I've long said that we should have been spending frontend's Lost Decade exploring sync and a diversity of offline-first approaches instead of bailing out from the predictable consequences of legacy, desktop-oriented framework misdesigns.

I'm constantly glad that RociCorp is doing something about it. Here's Aaron Boodman on some of the history:

https://youtu.be/cgTIsTWoNkM?si=Kt8lVIMCH_D2UPFf

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:

how is it only january my life has been already ruined a couple of times this year

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

Me: [squinting] "I've been using augmented reality tech for decades." [puts glasses back on and immediately stops squinting]

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Is it too late for a Tracy Chapman Fast Car discourse entry? No? Great.

The song Fast Car is an indictment of manifest destiny. Covering the song as an identity that historically doesn’t believe there’s anything wrong with the American Dream, feels like a betrayal.

Boom, roasted; as my nice says when she thinks she has made a point.

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

Yesterday was the blaster beam, and today it's a bass tagelharpa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBEt5mubDY

Now I'm wondering what an ensemble with a bunch of these atypical string instruments could sound like. 🤔

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Rise of techno-optimism: Silicon Valley backed new political force in America

"This group — mostly rich, white, middle-aged men with tech jobs, companies or investment funds — is building impressive, if unorganized, political muscle through social media, podcasts, new journalism projects, and political donations and activism."

Great. We’ve finally identified the major faction that has flown under the radar for so long. Now let’s acknowledge it’s a dangerous movement https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/30/rise-of-technooptimism.html

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

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

farm-to-table experience

#Caturday

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• orange cat sitting up on hind legs next to man milking a cow. man squirts milk directly into cat's mouth (remote)