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

dublininquirer@mastodon.ie ("Dublin Inquirer") wrote:

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

We have a new occupant of our house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/23/behold-our-new-king/

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• Thin-legged wolf spider (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Me: "what is up with half of the security scene having anime profile pics, so weird"

Also me: "this is great source code audit music"

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• eac50a58dc216a07.png (remote)

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

College students are just weird.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/23/just-another-spring-day-on-campus/

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• Students celebrating our carbon-neutral status (remote)

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

inquiline@union.place ("Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫") wrote:

Hats off:

"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform"

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/

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

Sempf@infosec.exchange ("Bill") wrote:

This is such a brilliantly simple flaw, I can't believe I didn't think of it.

Maybe because it is brilliant. And simple.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/22/edr_attack_remote_data_deletion/

#security #malware

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

Ailantd@mastodon.art ("Ailantd Sikowsky🔻") wrote:

Remains of a long gone exoplanet civilization.

Quick sketch with digital color overlay.
#scifi #scifiart #alien

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• Scifi landscape sketch (remote)

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

howinhell did I miss this paper?

https://escholarship.org/content/qt6x5933cw/qt6x5933cw_noSplash_7856234f97c374a0d948b1888fc1d407.pdf

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

reeks of a corrupt bargain:

‘“Nauta was also told that even if he gets charged with lying to the F.B.I., FPOTUS” — an abbreviation for former president of the United States — “will pardon him in 2024.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/politics/trump-warning-classified-documents-case.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.QUtZ.h46cyy0a7p7g&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

Is it possible to extend the set of filetypes that Gmail will preview as an attachment? Is there a way I could write or install an extension to allow it to read and display info from a custom file?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

"Are you super-duper sure you want to keep sending your posts to that dark scary place? 👻 ☠️"

#Threads #Fediverse

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• Screen shot of popup I received on the threads app: Continue sharing to the fediverse? You've been sharing to the fediverse for 30 days. Your posts will be visible on other servers where people can interact and share your content with anyone. Continue sharing Edit Settings

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Daily vibe

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• In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.

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

taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

Bodies were found with hands and feet tied “and there were signs of field executions. We do not know if they were buried alive or executed. Most of the bodies are decomposed.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/middleeast/khan-younis-nasser-hospital-mass-grave-intl/index.html

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied:") wrote:

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• A Twitter screenshot showing user “Roshan Patel” saying “I've been thinking a lot about IRL podcasts: bring a few friends together, no mics, nothing is recorded, have a free form discussion, can even have food & drinks. Has anyone tried this?” To this ser @anshnanda_ responds saying “Tech bro just discovered 'hanging out'” (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

https://youtu.be/lOD3k6oMyUk
#cat #f1

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I'm sorry, but no matter who you are, you cannot and will not have 31 good songs on one album. (Most artists don't have 31 in their entire career.)

At a certain point, all you're doing is diluting.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Every writer needs a good editor, because every writer loves everything they write, and will make it at least 2–3 times longer than it needs to be, in the belief it's much more interesting than it really is, without someone there to say "no, actually, a lot of this is not that great and you should just get to the point," and what I'm getting at is: Taylor Swift has needed a good editor for at least five years but especially now.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

If you’re sick of how much Google search sucks these days, try Kagi. I’ve been on it for a while, doubt I’ll ever look back: https://kagi.com

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

Birch. Planted a birch outside my window. This is my way of keeping the connection with my Russian culture. That part of it that doesn't want to murder everyone refusing to kneel before the current god-annointed czar.

#darktable

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• Sapling of a white birch tree with a thin brown trunk and bright green leaves surrounded by a metal net against a house wall with a window.

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

ieure@retro.social ("Wendigo Girls") wrote:

What I'm listening to today: "Fanny - Hey Bulldog."

Fanny is one of the first all-women rock groups to have some mainstream success. They were relatively short-lived, but were objectively extremely good and also very influential.

This is a live version of their cover of Hey Bulldog, originally by The Beatles. It's a deep cut, though has been reappraised and is much more well-known than it use to be. Fanny's version is off their third album, Fanny Hill, from 1972.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s

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

fraser@m.universetoday.com ("Fraser Cain") wrote:

Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

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• Voyager 1 (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#Meta announces Meta Horizon OS for 3rd party headset makers including Lenovo. It's also opening the Quest App Store.

Meta is no longer a social media company with its own cloud infrastructure. It's a cloud services company.

The next logical step, imo, is to open up its cloud to 3rd party social platforms as a PaaS.

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-open-mixed-reality-ecosystem/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, we saw an embarrassingly ham-handed (and false!) allegation against OpenTofu. While the specifics were new, the tactic is nearly as old as computing: this is FUD -- the "fear, uncertainty and doubt" made famous by IBM when used against the upstart Amdahl. Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about this latest FUD -- as well as FUD's storied history in our industry. Bring your own examples, and join us today, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/cEEnJhT2?event=1232017174307012658

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Today's case in point: determining whether I had access to Apple News, and then cancelling the free trial I was railroaded into.

You'd think you could just find your account info *IN* the app you're trying to access and/or cancel. You'd be very wrong.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Few things make me as explosively grumpy as trying to do something that seems like it should be extremely simple with my Apple account.

(Because it takes 15 minutes doing multiple searches and signing in at least 2–3 times across multiple apps and websites every single time.)

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

Why did no writers stand up and scream that the Rebel Moon story is execrable shit and that no one should spend millions turning it into a movie?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/22/i-am-stumped-by-the-logistics/

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• Rebel Moon movie poster (remote)

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

breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

More like Earth Day 2024, am I right?

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing

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• Editorial cartoon titled: Earth Day, 2035. A man in a business suit, either a politician or a corporate CEO, poses in front of a billboard showing beautiful green trees. Photographers and news media gather around to take his picture. Everyone is smiling. But behind that billboard, we see industrial smokestacks, heaps of trash, polluted waters, and the stumps of clearcut forests. (remote)

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

PsyArXivBot@botsin.space wrote:

Generating random partial correlation matrices with an application to redundant variables and bridge centrality http://osf.io/qds8r/

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

BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

I love watching righties lose their shit over stuff like this. I mean, it’s absolutely fucking glorious.
#RubyBridges

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• A meme with a photo of a young Ruby Bridges escorted from school by FBI agents in the 1950s. The meme says “If this sweet Black baby was old enough to go through it, your sweet white baby is old enough to read a picture book about it. Ruby Bridges. Learn her story” (remote)