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bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Oakland is now first in the US to have a 100% electric school bus fleet – and it’s V2G.

The 100% electric school bus fleet is not only emissions-free but also plays a critical dual role as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), giving 2.1 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy back to the power grid at scale annually.

https://electrek.co/2024/05/15/oakland-is-now-first-in-the-us-to-have-a-100-electric-school-bus-fleet-and-its-v2g/

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

nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:

"How Do Chrome Extensions Impact Website Performance In 2024?" by Matt Zeunert https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-extensions-website-performance

Once again, one of the most reliable ways to speed up your browser is to uninstall extensions. (Except ad blockers.)

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

Racist nonsense from my middle school years. Get out of my brain!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/16/all-i-needed-this-morning-was-a-poisonous-earworm/

Attachments:

• The Raiders -- Indian Reservation (remote)

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

Making curry while the plumbers are pounding away in our basement. I'm not getting anything done today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/16/this-is-not-the-morning-i-had-planned/

Attachments:

• curry (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Jack Dorsey doesn't want to end censorship. He wants to end his accountability for moderation and data privacy.

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

stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

#science #space #planetarium #history

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

Apparently when I wrote, "before I head to work," what I meant was "before I have to watch over a sick kiddo." :/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

my-crimes.txt

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• 21. On or about December 27, 2022, ΑΝΤON PERAIRE-BUENO and JAMES PERAIRE-BUENO, the defendants, created and shared a document (the "Exploit Plan"), which outlined a four-step plan to successfully execute the Exploit. In particular, the defendants identified four stages-"1. The Bait," "2. Unblinding the Block," "3. The Search," and "4. The Propagation." In the months that followed, the defendants followed each stage as outlined in their Exploit Plan. (remote)

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

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

In other words: "We've figured out that our competitors are so much worse than we are that we are deliberately degrading our service because we know you will still pay us the same for less."

*This* is why corporate shills and pro-monopolists prefer satellite to municipal fiber. Sure, it's orders of magnitude slower than fiber. Sure, it costs subscribers far more. Sure, it's less reliable. But boy oh *boy* is it profitable.

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

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

In order to thwart the public's will, the cable and telco lobbyists joined ALEC, the far-right, corporatist lobbying shop, and drafted "model legislation" banning cities and counties from providing broadband, even in places the carriers chose not to serve:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband/

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

["What Makes You Beautiful" begins playing]

Baby you waited your turn oh so patiently
Now everyone on this Zoom call is listening
And they're all looking at you but can't hear a thing
You don't know, oh oh,
You don't know you're muted, no
Oh, oh oh
You don't know you're muted, no

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

this literally 100-year-old roast of the first crossword convention is so good it's still warm to the touch https://crosswordcraze.today/cross-word-puzzlers-to-hold-10-letter-word-meaning-meet/

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• Newspaper clipping that reads "A Cross-Word Puzzle Convention is to be held Sunday at the Hotel Ambassador. Enthusiastic followers of tiddley-winks, jackstraws, parchesi, prisoner's base, cops and robbers, and whatever the game is that the kids play on the sidewalks with checkers have not yet announced the dates of their respective conventions." (remote)

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

randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

Here's a band concept for you.

"Castle Rat is a Medieval Fantasy Doom Metal band led by the Rat Queen on a mission to expand and defend ‘The Realm’ from those who seek to destroy it."

I think there needs to be a comma in there. "Medieval Fantasy Doom, Metal." Sounds more NWOBHM to me. Something to be played over an AD&D 1E session.

#NowPlaying

Into The Realm Castle Rat

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

This morning as I've tackled some of those necessary, but not enjoyable, household chores before I head to work, I've been enjoying the musical stylings of this set from Red Means Recording. Maybe you will too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GL-9TkrTE

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

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

The real guide to interpreting developer job ads 🤡 EDIT: I believe this is an old image from the bird site https://twitter.com/rundavidrun/status/689165491760316416

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• Guide to software developer job advertisements A table of job description -> what it means work on cutting edge technology -> Do what everyone else is doing a fast-paced environment -> Your job will be constant firefighting must be a team player -> Must not question authority able to work with minimal supervision -> You'll be the one we blame when something goes wrong an Agile team -> We have daily stand-ups a market leader -> Recently started making a profit rockstar developer -> You will work very long hours with impossible deadlines we have an urgent need -> Our other rockstar just left and no one understands the code dynamic environment -> Our leadership keeps changing priorities self-starter -> We have no process passionate -> Perseveres through regular death marches

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

Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

Once again, criticizing the Israeli government's actions is NOT antisemitism. In the same way, criticizing the U.S. government's unending support for the Israeli government when it commits crimes is NOT anti-American. I've been doing both for many years, but I have no bias against Jewish religion or people, and I also spent a career working in the U.S. government. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

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

wendynather@infosec.exchange ("Wendy Nather") wrote:

First of all: no, and secondly: what?

— me reading my email this morning

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

Hey, anyone want to score a few grams of spider parts? I can hook you up, for the right price.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/16/who-knew-spiders-were-so-lucrative/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSkdjE4OhMM

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

now how did that ‘nip get out of the jar and on to the housepanther? 🐈‍⬛

‘tis a mystery

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

repeattofade@tootr.co ("garry") wrote:

I think about this tweet so much when I see stories like this about climate change
https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112437987286290009

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• A screenshot of a tweet that reads: climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it (remote)

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

can you say “quid pro quo”?? sure you can

“Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds” | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/donald-trump-big-oil-executives-alleged-deal-explained?utm_term=6645e73c3167c792ae5d2bc0513ac2ca&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Wanted to finally use my alcohol markers and was looking for a colorful motive, so I took the main character from @JenJen comic "Jenitales: Artemisia". Really like how the tentacles turned out and the shading of her skin. :D Really like the combo of base color in marker and shading in pencil. :blobcatheart:

#mastoart #markers #lewd #nsfw #JenitalesArtemisia #tentacles #harness #fanart

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• Fanart done with alcohol markers and color pencils. A young woman with turquoise and purple hair and green eyes. She is nude, her back turned towards the viewer, wearing a red harness. She is leaning forward, her left breast showing slightly. She has her head turned back towards the viewer, smiling slightly, blushing. Behind her four purple tentacles are wiggling, two starting to wrap around her and one slightly forming a heart. Behind her a gray rectangle for contrast. (remote)

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

Yesterday, I predicted that the unwarranted outcry by certain privacy experts towards Google's new local LLM that scans calls for scams would result in misleading press articles. Today, we have one such press article over at TechCrunch.

I wrote a critique of it here: https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-05-16-googlellm.html

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I tried out Sun Haven tonight. It's instantly way better than nearly every Stardew Valley clone, and even the original game, just because it autosaves when you quit

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

France imposes state of emergency, bans TikTok in riot-hit New Caledonia:

"The unrest flared after French lawmakers approved a bill extending voting rights in provincial elections to residents arriving from mainland France – a change critics fear could marginalise Indigenous people and benefit pro-France politicians. "

Different lands, same fight. 🇳🇨 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇪 🇭🇹 🇨🇩 https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240515-french-gendarme-wounded-new-caledonia-riots-dies-toll-rises-four-france

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

What if increased stock prices for companies that mention "AI" (e.g. in earnings calls) is due to trading algos that have gained sentience, with the goal of furthering AI evolution?

As in, AI is, through capitalism, taking advantage of mankind's greed to further its own evolution?

🤔

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

blinry@chaos.social wrote:

Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓

Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it!

@piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go!

:yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:

Attachments:

• A screenshot of the Regexle website: There's an intro text explaining how it works, a sidebar with a cheat sheet, and the user has just guessed the word "fluffy"! (remote)

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

cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This tracks (it's EXACTLY how techbro engineers who've never had to deal with elderly folks in cognitive decline think).
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/112446972357880354

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

The year is 2032. CSS is so powerful JavaScript is all but obsolete. The average website ships 500MB of JavaScript.

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

00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

Good video on a number of unethical and parasitic practices that landlords regularly engage in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq59qGkwXlE