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

mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:

Growing up, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was an auto mechanic, an aircraft mechanic, and a tinkerer of all sorts. One of the biggest things he tinkered with was a Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra (aka theatre orgran) that he purchased well before I was born and installed in his home. I've told plenty of folks about this but it's hard to convey the experience.

Recently, I've gotten everything put together to digitize VHS and one of the first I'm working on is a recording of him giving a demonstration. As he says in the video: "this is a demonstration, not a performance. This is about when these were built, why they were built, how they work, and a then a bit of performance to show how they were used." That video is going to take quite a bit of time to restore from the tape I have.

In the meantime, I found another tape that has a local news segment on him and his theatre organ. This is that tape straight from the capture.

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• Local news segment from the 1990s covering Larry Evritt's theatre organ. It was installed in his home and he gave demonstrations of it including history, how it works, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the organ itself for many years. (remote)

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

phooky@octodon.social wrote:

Moving all my web content into "robots.txt" files on the presumption that they'll be ignored by crawlers

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

It looks like the book banning efforts we have here in the US are spreading to other places, but one publisher has responded by freely sharing their banned book as a PDF.

https://aus.social/@KathyReid/112425556083534847

Kathy Reid's statement:

"Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist."

Gives me strength.

If you're curious to know more about the banning, I found this story. It is so similar to the stories we have over here:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/cumberland-city-council-sydney-steve-christou-same-sex-book-ban

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

cmzw ("celestialmaze") wrote:

#MaterialMaker #b3d

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• fa483e5b9b649c0f.mp4

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

The dress is going viral again, for the wrong reasons.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/12/a-cynical-mothers-day-connection/

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• Is the dress blue & black? Or white & gold? (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

zhuowei@notnow.dev ("Zhuowei Zhang") wrote:

ShinyQuagsire (the main developer of ALVR for visionOS) is probably the foremost expert of the Apple Vision Pro's rendering pipeline outside of Apple.

His new write up of the Vision Pro's eye tracking/dynamic resolution is incredibly detailed and worth a read (even if some parts went over my head, since I'm not a VR/graphics dev.)

https://mastodon.social/@ShinyQuagsire/112424602385955769

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

NOTimothyLottes@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

It is not the amount of transistors, but rather what you do with them that counts ... C64 it on a real CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUmVdd_t2s

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

ipg@wetdry.world ("Emma") wrote:

My Despicable Wii got the Homegru Channel

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

I managed to finish this yesterday. I don't like the final result (I'd show you, but I'll keep my shame to myself this time), but the kiddo seems to. I nearly botched it at the end trying to mount it to some cardboard I had around with whatever adhesive I had around. Not the greatest job, but it'll get tossed after the party anyway. Onwards and upwards or some such.

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

Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

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• A female Anna’s hummingbird feeding two chicks in a nest among green leaves (remote)

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

moshboy wrote:

murder!, manual, dos (1991) https://www.mobygames.com/game/10585/murder/cover/group-11788/cover-732411/

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• the simple image of an old revolver and the words 'instruction manual' at the bottom.

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

The new Minnesota flag is official. Good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/11/the-new-state-flag-is-official/

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• Minnesota state flag (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Are you still finishing @philipcball's extraordinary How Life Works in preparation for our Oxide and Friends discussion? Good news: you have an extension on the assignment! We need to move our discussion to May 20th, when @ahl and I will be joined by molecular biologist Greg Cost to discuss the book. Read it and bring your comments and questions -- or join just to listen to the discussion! On Discord on May 20th at 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/NaxMgtFF?event=1233892673023246387

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

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Here's a family you can help escape Gaza. This GoFundMe has been vetted by Operation Olive Branch.

If you can't donate now, bookmark this link. Or, if they hit their goal by then, visit the Operation Olive Branch link (in comments). I'll also try my best to have at least once active campaign on the homepage of my blog.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-young-muhammad-rebuild-a-life

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

Purple & yellow weeds are commencing along with the Class of 2024 today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/11/commencing/

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• Pretty and chaotic lawn (remote)

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

A touch more acerbic than I think it needs to be, but still an interesting point to be made.

Complicated Sticks – Faster and Worse
https://fasterandworse.com/complicated-sticks/

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

toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

Just been checking some of my fave webcams in the Alps for the aurora. Some highlights:

Konkordia (Jungfraujoch/Aletsch glacier):
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/konkordiahuette/2024/05/11/0030

Zugspitze (w/ Höllental):
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/zugspitze-ost/2024/05/11/0030

Zugspitze summit:
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bzb-gipfel/2024/05/11/0030

Nebelhorn:
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/nebelhorn/2024/05/10/2230

All images by https://www.foto-webcam.eu

#Aurora #Photography #Webcam #Alps #Mountains

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• Nighttime view of the Konkordiahütte on the edge of the Aletsch glacier with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)
• Nighttime view from the Zugspitze summit north over the dark Höllental and Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)
• Nighttime view of the Zugspitze cablecar station near the summit with the entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)
• Nighttime view from the Nebelhorn summit over the still largely snow covered High Allgäu Alps (the ridge just north of Oytal) towards the Hochvogel pyramid. The entire scene tinted pink by the light of the aurora. (remote)

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

yogthos@mas.to ("Yogthos") wrote:

how innovation works under capitalism 👇

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• 6b6dff656c8f21ff.mp4 (remote)

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

ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

I've seen the Northern Lights before, but never like this.

Snoqualmie Summit, WA

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• The northern lights in shade of bright pink at the top, then violet, then green lowest down, over snowcovered mountains. (remote)
• Northern lights: Reds and violets and pinks exploding over the trees with a background of stars. (remote)

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

damonyoung@mas.to ("Damon Young") wrote:

Wow. Just wow.

The aurora borealis over Hobart, Tasmania.

#aurora #auroraborealis

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• The aurora borealis seen over Hobart, Tasmania. (remote)

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

aboard tgv 🥲

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Aurora visible from Seattle right now.

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

I'm not very good at photographing the northern lights. I'm more accustomed to shooting very tiny things that are very close.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/11/aurora-time-2/

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• Aurora borealis (remote)

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

scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

🥳 ANNOUNCEMENT! 🥳

I just launched a campaign to crowdfund my next online course:
**Web Components Demystified**. Coming this Summer! Build fast, dynamic, resilient apps for the next phase of the web!

The campaign has 29 days left. Please help make this project happen and help me spread the word! Thank you so much.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified

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

morganm@subdued.social ("airbr") wrote:

I am immensely happy to pledge to support @scottjehl with his Kickstarter for Web Components Demystified! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified?ref=thanks-copy

His last course that I took was Lightning Fast Web Performance and it helped me get a job!

#webperf #webperformance #webcomponents

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

extretemps@toot.community ("Extreme Temperatures") wrote:

HISTORIC EVENT
Unbelievable 51.1C/124F at Gallinas MEXICO yesterday, HOTTEST DAY IN MAY IN NORTH AMERICA HISTORY.
By far,the worst heat wave ever recorded in North America and there is no end in sight to it in any foreseeable future.
From SMN/Conagua:

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• 5526079e3ffd713a.png (remote)

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

I'm a bit intrigued by the Italian-made Seabike concept. Seems like an obvious thing in retrospect so curious why there haven't been things like it before.
Anyone tried it already?
https://www.seabike.fr

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• 225979d3ff00a064.mp4

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Directly adjacent on my timeline. @lmorchard @ranjit

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• A post by Les Orchard of a picture of his cat looking out the window, captioned “neighborhood watch.” Just below it, a post by ranjit of a cat in a neighboring window, captioned “neighbor cat.” (remote)

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

I realized yesterday I've been writing code for ten years.

That put me in a (perhaps self-indulgently) introspective mood on the web in general and my strange, lucky career path.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/ten-years-of-code

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

Oh c'mon! His recently added video introducing patriarchy through the lens of the recent Barbie movie is currently being blocked by Warner Bros. on copyright grounds. Not surprising considering, but still 🙄 .

(I'm watching it on NewPipe, which appears to have buffered a bunch of it before this happened?)