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

nami@tech.lgbt ("Anna") wrote:

I would like 🤗 to propose a complete ban 🙅‍♀️ on emojis in docs 📖, technical articles 📰, READMEs 👓, and basically everywhere else 🌎 where my eyes 👀 have to fight 🤺 through them to get useful information ℹ️ Yes, I get it 👍, your startup 📈📉 is run by cool 🆒 humans 🫀under the age of 40 👵, and you desperately 😩 don't want to appear like a dry square 👔 But dear Lord 🛐, sometimes it's absolutely 💯fucking 💦 insufferable 💀Thank you for listening 👂 🥰🥹🕴️

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

Back in my day, we just called that exotic animal trafficking with a side order of hybridization.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/15/thats-no-franken-sheep/

Attachments:

• Argali sheep (remote)

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

brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

"Fine! I'll learn Rust..."

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• 1950s pulp novel cover art depicting a white man and woman being attacked by crabs in shallow ocean water (remote)

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

denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

I've sent this email to art directors I've worked with at Wizards of the Coast. I hope other Magic or D&D artists will do the same or similar.

#mtgart #dndart #MagicTheGathering

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• [Hi all my amazing art directors. I just wanted to send out an email regarding some concerning messaging around AI I've seen online from Hasbro's CEO Chris Cocks in an interview with GamesBeat. "First off, we're doing R&D efforts around AI... D&D has 50 years of content that we can mine. Literally thousands of adventures that we've created, probably tens of millions of words we own and can leverage."

 If Chris Cocks or anyone else in senior positions at Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast thinks the works I or other artists, art directors, writers, dungeon masters or creative humans have poured into these games are "content that we can mine" with AI, then I will have to take my future creative energy elsewhere. Which is sad, because Magic and D&D are probably one of, if not the most fun projects I've worked on in my creative career.
 
 I know I'm just one artist among many, but I'm probably not alone. These brands have been built on the creativity of human artists, art directors, writers, game designers...  the lot. And it would be an insult to not only the creative individuals who have done this work, but to the fans who love these games because of the immense creativity put into it.
 
 Hopefully Wizards will not head down this route. I hope this email is one of numerous that other artists have sent in, so hopefully it will put pressure on senior decision makers. All the best. I hope we can continue working together in the future building fun, creative worlds.][8] ([remote][9])

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falkowata@strangeobject.space ("Kat") wrote:

Current mood
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CM5ZqVl2D-8

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “How updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon”

I didn't realise this, so I'm documenting it to stop other people making the same silly mistake that I did. Messages in ActivityPub have two distinct ID strings. Here's a (truncated) view of what happens when I send a new message on Mastodon: "id": "https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/1234567890/activity", "ty…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/how-updates-work-in-activitypub-mastodon/
⸻
#ActivityPub #mastodon

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

Hans Kristian Graebener AKA Stonetoss will now have to peddle misogyny, racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism under his own name.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/15/hans-kristian-graebener-no-longer-has-to-hide-in-the-shadows/

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• Stonetoss, the neo-Nazi webcomic (remote)

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

thalassa@fandom.ink ("Julia") wrote:

Spring is here! Photos rarely do the cherry blossoms justice, it's so lovely to stand underneath a blooming tree in the sunshine :)

#BloomScrolling #nature #photography

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• Cherry blossoms in the sun with a blue sky as background (remote)

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

designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud ("Design Thinking! Comic") wrote:

Scream if you want to sprint faster.
AKA The most popular strip I've done so far, I think. Here it is again!

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• A 5 panel strips that represents various Design/Dev methodologies in the form of rollercoasters. Fig.1 Waterfall A rollercoaster with a long incline followed by a sharp 90 degree drop. Fig. 2 Lean A rollercoaster with a 90 degree incline and a 90 degree drop. Fig. 3 Kanban A rollercoaster that zigs zags downwards sharply. Fig. 4 Scrum A perpetually looping rollercoaster. Fig. 5 Waterfall pretending to be Agile. A constant series of Waterfall rollercoasters chained together. (remote)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

At long last! Oxide and Friends on data visualization is up.. with data visualizations! Our colleague, Charlie Park, joined @bcantrill and me to talk about various visualization techniques and the different roles they can play. Check it out!

Stick around to the end to learn about the Oxide book club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEoE98oV9mc

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

The inimitable folks behind @owa sit down with @nomadtechie to talk about browser choice. Worth your time:

https://pca.st/episode/62ae3300-16e1-47bb-af24-759c980ba671

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

masukomi@connectified.com wrote:

Feeling stressed?
Want to listen to something quiet and soothing, yet also happy?

Might I humbly recommend you listen to You no necesito de mucho by Laura Itandehui https://youtu.be/8JuXMLiltZc?t=20

I only understood about half of the lyrics, but that's ok. It's still beautiful. After translating it's even more beautiful https://lyricstranslate.com/en/yo-no-necesito-de-mucho-i-dont-need-much.html

—
side note: I love that her love's gender is never specified.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🦣") wrote:

I’m not a weirdo that doesn’t trust banks, but I gotta say I don’t have complete trust in the storage of my life’s savings at this particular branch

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• Photo of YOLO bank (remote)

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

zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :verify:") wrote:

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• a screenshot of HTML with a lot of tailwind classes, nested 4 divs deep reads “web development is my passion” (remote)

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

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Russia apparently jammed the satellite signal on an aircraft used by UK defense minister Grant Shapps to travel from Poland back to Britain for ~30 minutes while the plane flew close to Kaliningrad, forcing the plane to use alternative methods to determine its location, reports Reuters.

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

mattsheffield ("Matthew Sheffield") wrote:

The Christian right is going to lose it over the latest Gallup survey finding that 21% of Gen Z women are bi and 5.4% are lesbian.

Young women no longer being constrained by religious authoritarianism is the number-one reason why the right wing is freaking out so bad, and why misogyny is out of control.

They view young women as their property and it enrages them that it's not working anymore #lgbtqia
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lgbtq-identification.aspx

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• Gallup Poll LGBTQ+ Identity, by Gender and Generation, 2023 Which of the following do you consider yourself to be? You can select as many as apply. Straight or heterosexual; Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender Table with 6 columns and 14 rows. Generation Z Millennial Generation X Baby Boomers Silent Generation % % % % % Women Total LGBTQ+ 28.5 12.4 4.7 1.9 0.8 Lesbian 5.4 2.5 1.4 1.2 0.3 Gay 0.9 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.0 Bisexual 20.7 9.0 2.8 0.4 0.1 Transgender 2.1 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.4 Other LGBTQ+ 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 Men Total LGBTQ+ 10.6 5.4 3.5 2.7 1.2 Lesbian 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 Gay 2.8 2.3 2.3 1.8 0.9 Bisexual 6.9 2.5 0.7 0.7 0.2 Transgender 0.9 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 Other LGBTQ+ 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0

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

"We want to automate the drudgery of creativity!" he pitched to the group of VCs who responded by throwing wads of cash.

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

OMG, what a trip down Memory Lane... I found the AKC registration for the dog I grew up with and her one also-registered offspring https://dogs.pedigreeonline.com/typhoon-gaffey-o2nurVxw/offspring

awwwwwww, she looked just like this pic from a magazine about Weimaraners

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• 951fd4bf2b208a04.png (remote)

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

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

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• RAS Syndrome illustration: Redundant Acronym Syndrome shown with a person using their PIN Number in an ATM Machine (remote)

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

splattne ("Stefan Plattner") wrote:

Every turtle should be provided with a skateboard.

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• A small turtle riding a little skateboard. There's also a cat watching.

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

easwatch@m.ai6yr.org ("EAS Watcher") wrote:

#EAS for Jefferson, #IN; #Trimble, #KY: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 2:30 PM EDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Louisville KY** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

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• Tornado Warning - - NWS Louisville KY (remote)

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

openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/when-francois-truffaut-made-a-film-adaptation-of-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451-1966.html

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• 1c5ea44e1c6f9da4.jpeg (remote)

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

julie@merida.hair ("Juliet Merida (she/they) 🚝🏳️‍⚧️🏹🎯") wrote:

I had a meeting this morning with my Risk team and some external auditors and after I asked some questions I got a Slack message from my CISO saying "You sound like you've done this before."

It's my first time doing audit stuff at this job but I got a crash course in audit shenanigans back in 2011 when I started in security.

My first security job was when I joined the security team at the hospital system I worked for back in 2011. I was the first technical member of the team which was, until then, two people with audit backgrounds. But one of them worked at Radio Shack in the 1980s so she was definitely a computer expert, I guess?

Anyhow, I learned a lot about the basics of responding to auditors as a technical person.

The first rule is: *Ask clarifying questions"

The second rule is: *Threaten to overwhelm them with data if the answers are still unclear."

You mean you *don't* actually want 5TB of auth logs? Screenshots of assorted times across the audit period will work instead? *Imagine that!* 🤣

#InformationSecurity #Cybersecurity #Audit #RiskManagement

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

stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

All server-, media storage and email bills have been paid ✅ :blobcathearts:

Upcoming weeks there will be a server migration for mstdn.social but this will be announced beforehand :cat_hug_triangle:

If you can, please think about helping me out with these bills❤️

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost

You are appreciated :nkoLove2:

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

w9lw@wx.social ("Jay Farlow, W9LW") wrote:

LMK issues Tornado Warning [tornado: RADAR INDICATED, hail: 1.75 IN] for Jefferson [IN] and Trimble [KY] till 2:30 PM EDT https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/f/2024-O-NEW-KLMK-TO-W-0003_2024-03-14T17:48Z

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• f8c0224566f7c505.png (remote)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

If you reply to my posts with "he needs to be assassinated," you'll be blocked.

Murder is not a solution.

Violence is not tolerated in my feed.

Thank you.

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

proof-of-concept works, idea seems solid, feedback from live-testing 1st crude not--anything-like-a-release uniformly positive & useful, sooooooo...

bought some Nolo books about setting up a co, bought the ArghIntelStudios.com domain name, & now to talk a retired bookkeeper friend & a couple of other folks into helping me get set up...

time to pull a rabbit outta mah hat

#AI #RustLang #GPT #LLM

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• rabbit head wearing round wire-rimmed sunglasses and a pair of audio headphones emerging from an upside-down top-hat (remote)

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

zwol@hackers.town ("Zack Weinberg") wrote:

* Corporate mergers are banned. Unconditionally.

* Vertical integration is also banned, as is any arrangement where one organization habitually purchases more than 33% of any other organization's output of any single product.

* No organization, of any kind, may employ more than 20,000 people (Dunbar's Number, squared, rounded down to the nearest ten thousand).

* Corporations may issue as much *non-voting* stock as they like, and this can be owned by any entity, but they may issue no more than 150 shares of voting stock (Dunbar's Number again), each of which must be owned directly by a natural person. Furthermore, no natural person may own more than one share of voting stock in any one company, and everyone who owns voting stock in a company is personally and unlimitedly liable for the acts of that company.

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

I did great on my yearly physical this morning--all the numbers were in the green. Only downside: scheduling a colonoscopy for this summer. Bleh.

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

clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

Congrats to Free Geek for winning the NTEN Catalyst award.

They refurbish computers that would have ended up in a landfill, install Linux on them and get them into the hands of people who need them.

#24NTC #NonprofitTech #CommunityTech #FreeSoftware

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• Free Geek director gives an acceptance speech for the Catalyst Award. (remote)