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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
sidereal@kolektiva.social wrote:
Source: Business Insider
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
DM_Ronin@mstdn.social ("ilias :night_ablobcat_wink:") wrote:
Big W for people of Colorado and the right to repair movement, this is really fair and strong bill https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24166894/colorado-right-to-repair-law-electronics-devices-parts-pairing
#Hardware #RightToRepair #UnitedStates #Colorado #Tech #Technology
Mastodon Feedrust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:
docs.rs/std
is a short URL that opens #Rustlang's standard library documentation.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Scary Russian zombies, their secret weapon.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/29/russias-latest-weapon-zombies/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
H5N1 is evolving. There, I said it. Accept it, creationists.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Me: [bursts into room and establishes a power pose] "It's time to power each other up with knowledge, friends!"
Strangers: [startled then nervous chuckles] ...
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Consider this my attempt at powering you up with knowledge, friends.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What the hell is wrong with the US, UK, and the Netherlands? Is everyone racing to elect the most ludicrous clown they've got to the highest office in the land?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/29/despairing-of-democracy/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
Here it is, your moment of machining Zen:
https://youtu.be/tHdg_emv9bs
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"The head is heavily armored, but the rear of the abdomen is a weak point for obvious reasons, there has to be an orifice there.
And so they target that, but then they also avoid being targeted by others. And the outcome of following those that are moving away from you and moving away from those moving towards you results in the whole swarm beginning to march together across this desert environment."
Iain Couzin from:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-flocking-like-computing-20240328/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"And what is better for you in this sort of harsh environment than another individual? Because they are perfectly balanced nutritional composition. So what the individuals do is, they’re attracted to each other, and they tend to cannibalize each other. So they’ve evolved to follow those that are moving away, to try and bite them at their rear, at the rear of the abdomen, which is very hard to defend against.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"But in the case of locusts... It was actually the fact that in these desert environments, when the food suddenly becomes short, you’re desperately short of essential nutrients, especially in the desert: protein, salt and water.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jviide@infosec.exchange wrote:
Several well-known and popular APIs redirect HTTP API requests to HTTPS. This behavior seems to be widespread.
Maybe it's time we amend best practices to explicitly recommend that APIs reject unencrypted requests. https://jviide.iki.fi/http-redirects
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
seav@en.osm.town ("Eugene Alvin Villar") wrote:
Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.
This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.
Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=
Mastodon FeedTIL: when running software in chroot, there is no /dev, so /dev/null can end up being a regular file, and then reading from /dev/null is a surprise.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
A superhero/sports multiverse crossover set in the '90s where Peter Parker's MJ is Michael Jordan
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Another excellent OSS EDA workshop: https://woset-workshop.github.io/
The WOSET workshop aims to galvanize the open-source EDA movement. The workshop will (virtually) bring together EDA researchers who are committed to open-source principles to share their experiences and coordinate efforts towards developing a reliable, fully open-source EDA flow.
The workshop is fully virtual so attendance is a no-brainer! Deadline for submissions is September 23
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Until Roe fell, many in the party believed the federal right to an abortion was all but inviolable, unlikely to be reversed even by a conservative Supreme Court. The sense of denial extended to the highest ranks of the party”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘some 75 percent of the human genome consists of dark matter that is copied into RNAs of unknown function. While some researchers have dismissed this dark matter as junk or noise, I expect it will be the source of even more exciting breakthroughs.
We don’t know yet how many of these possibilities will prove true. But if the past 40 years of research have taught me anything, it is never to underestimate this little molecule. The age of RNA is just getting started.’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘we have gone from you’re not supposed to say “hell” on the radio to a nation that is now being permanently exposed to for-profit systems of political and psychological manipulation (and throw in Russia and China stoking the fires today as well), so people are not just divided, but being divided. Yes, keeping Americans morally outraged is big business at home now and war by other means by our geopolitical rivals.’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
typical
“[Trump] held Mr. Cohn in high regard and took his lessons to heart. In 1981, he gave his mentor a pair of huge diamond cuff links as a gesture of profound gratitude. Years later, a friend of Mr. Cohn’s had them appraised. They were worthless fakes.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“What Justice Jackson is calling for, as a liberal, is what conservatives once said they wanted: judicial restraint.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I have a small shipment of spiders arriving sometime today. Tune in for conversation and unboxing later!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/29/spider-unboxing-today/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
This is a remarkable graph.
You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.
That's not what's happening.
What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."
Or, put differently, "Tesla is failing harder than the entire rest of the market is succeeding, combined."
Mastodon FeedAlso in the Seattle Daily Times from this date 100 years ago:
- Controversy over gas prices.
- An op-ed column on Zionism and Palestine.
- Deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:
There’s a lot of luminescent corners of the web, the internet and the broader infosphere, but it’s hard to see them for the light pollution of the Terrible Ones.
We need a way to keep the lights on for each other.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:
E.O. Wilson, who must have spent much of his life thinking about comparisons between ants (one of the major subjects of his research) and humans, once said:
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”
Mastodon FeedIt’s always interesting to look at the newspaper archive and see what was happening exactly 100 years ago. From the Seattle Daily Times front page for May 28, 1924:
- First woman to be convicted of vehicular manslaughter in San Francisco.
- Japanese government protests new US immigration law barring Japanese immigrants.
- Rum smuggling ships play havoc with transatlantic cables.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
talia_christine@beige.party ("TC 💖") wrote:
The US is legally bound to support Israel, and I agree that this administration needs to do far more to stop the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people. So by all means, protest loudly, make your objections heard, demand better.
But please don't forget...
If the Democrats lose in November this is the kind of person that Republicans consider "too moderate"
Do with that what you will.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:
You need to vote *defensively*.
Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.
Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.
The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.
