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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Apple has caved yet again in the EU, this time for direct download. Browsers need both be allowed to offer direct download and control the update mechanism without scare screens.
Another DMA win!
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/12/iphone-app-store-changes-web-distribution-more/
Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Probably being (or trying to be) a SciFi author makes me a bit "choosy", but I can justify the creation of something like Rebel Moon on Netflix.
How can somebody generate a so high pile of YouKnowWhat ??
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well yeah... it ain't how high the elephant flies that is amazing, it is that it flies at all. my first attempt at a GUI app that talks with #OpenAI seems to actually work! color me amaze-balls
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
i wish there were software that could take a series of "slides" and allow you to "present" them as a "deck"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bitflipped@mastodon.world ("Cameron") wrote:
Signal this to all towers, not logged.
He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This winter has been a dud in so many ways.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/12/yet-another-example-of-our-disappointing-winter/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
AnarchoCatgirlism@transfem.social ("anarcho-catgirlism") wrote:
Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.
Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.
During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.
Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.
And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4 #astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
kind of obsessed with the fact that Diane Warren's wikipedia article has chunky blocks of links like this and yet not a WORD about her writing the Enterprise theme song "faith of the heart"
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I've been using Tailwind for nearly a year and a half, every single day, and I'm still waiting for the productivity to kick in.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fossifoundation ("FOSSi Foundation") wrote:
It's the second Tuesday of the month, and we all know what that means. A new action-packed issue of El Correo Libre, the world's best newsletter about Free and Open Source Silicon. This time we have academics from EU and US demanding FOSSi funding, new presentations at Latch-Up, Turing complete origami and much more.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Adam Lee's Daylight Atheism is now on Freethoughtblogs!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/12/everyone-say-hello-to-adam-lee/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The laboratory cafeteria is open. Breakfast today is flies.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
If you're excited about systems programming in Rust, whether it's down on the bare metal where I work, or up at the cluster management software layer and customer API endpoints -- we're hiring at Oxide!
https://oxide.computer/careers/software-engineer
We try to write really thorough job descriptions. Also, the salary is right on that page (top and bottom) and is independent of your location, because we respect you and don't want to bullshit you.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Once again thinking about the overt ageism of letting young people alone define the "right" usage of emoji.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
If you're over in the Boston area and are into machining, sculpture, etc., you might consider attending Chris Bathgate's exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum starting in May through November.
https://fullercraft.org/exhibitions/chris-bathgate-the-machinist-sculptor/
You can see more of his work here:
http://chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/
and here:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:
The work is never just “the work”. The actual “work” you have to do, is just a very small part of a whole invisible set of a project. There’s the world around the work, to get the work, before the work, between the work, beyond the work, outside the work, etc. It makes it hard sometimes to estimate it all.
Dave Stewart has an interesting framework to help you estimate it more accurately.
Full article and framework: https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That Fortune story is full of unsubstantiated commentary, and there is a lot of talk of "employees" where I suspect "upper management" would probably be the more accurate phrase, and the perspective of talking about an apparently profitable company as already a failure will never not be baffling to me, but it's good to be informed about how the hype around tech can be easily, and artificially, inflated by injecting a little money in the right places.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
600 Activision QA workers just formed the biggest videogame union in the US | PC Gamer
h/t Prof Steve Jacobs
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Jon Stewart speaks his mind. Good.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/12/democrats-listen-up/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
Kickstarter's bizarre blockchain announcement in December 2021 makes so much more sense now that we know Andreessen Horowitz secretly promised them $100 million to pivot to a blockchain-based product built on the also-a16z-backed Celo blockchain.
At the time, I wondered why COO Sean Leow was so insistent on the move despite being apparently very confused about the whole concept.
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris-dixon/
(archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240311124253/https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris-dixon/)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
"There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration. We will not drink from the cup of genocide." Old conservatives, same as the new conservatives.
Mastodon FeedI'll be honest. When I'm seeing "sqrt" in code, my first thought isn't exactly "square root".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:
What does a PIN Number and a PDF Format have in common? They both suffer from RAS Syndrome, also known as Redundant Acronym Syndrome. It’s when an acronym is followed by a word that is also part of the acronym, and there’s quite a couple of them.
Full details and more examples on Sketchplanations: https://sketchplanations.com/ras-syndrome
Mastodon FeedProgramming languages that use "ELSIF"... what's wrong with them?!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mia@front-end.social ("Miriam (still)") wrote:
You're so dull, I bet you look the same in sRGB! I bet you're a web-safe hex!
Nailed it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social wrote:
We've developed a patch for the upstream Android 14 QPR2 use-after-free bug we discovered with Bluetooth LE. Our priority is getting out a GrapheneOS release with our fix soon and we'll report it as an Android security bug. This should resolve the BLE audio regressions too.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
anybody else gonna be at SCaLE this weekend? 👀
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
esden@chaos.social ("Piotr Esden-Tempski") wrote:
Hey everyone! A new Glasgow - Digital Interface Explorer Update is live! The first regular Glasgows are shipping! Read the update for more details! Make sure to update your address if you have moved! https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow/updates/glasgows-are-shipping #electronics #opensource #fpga #tool #embedded #hacking #assembly #python #usb #protocol
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I’ve been cooking some lamb at 170°F for the past 6 hours, some leg rolled up into a “roast” of sorts. I tasted a little end piece just now, and it is YUM
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz ("Weekend Editor") wrote:
I did some digging into the details of what went on here.
(1) A combination of multiple factors made it lethal (touchscreen confusion, lack of barrier around pond, crazy-obscure door releases, unbreakable glass, distance from first responders).
(2) It sounded familiar, though! Turns out the Navy had several instances of this about 7 years ago, in which ships collided because of, among other things, touchscreen problems.
Details in today's blog post:
![Kickstarter's COO, Sean Leow, did an interview with The Beat to discuss the announcement. He seemed to be a little bit confused on the whole concept throughout, and seemed to believe that "open source" is some sort of competing idea to blockchains. At one point he stated, "We believe that that data can be structured in a way through a blockchain where it ... can move in a much more efficient and effective way between services ... in a way that open source doesn't allow". Later in the interview he spoke about governance, saying, "our understanding is that [governance] is done more effectively with blockchain then with open-source."](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/077/909/024/087/686/original/d377a20bb535385c.png){kind=link}
