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

We are cursed animals, that live by generating buckets of poop.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/27/poopology/

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• Where the fomites go when you flush with the lid down, or the lid up (remote)

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

Converting a slice &[..] to a fixed-length array in #Rustlang

By copying:

let arr: [_; N] = slice.try_into().unwrap();

By reference:

let arr: &[_; N] = slice.first_chunk::<N>().unwrap();

Single element only:

let arr: &[_; 1] = std::array::from_ref(element);

If the slice length is obvious to the optimizer (e.g. chunks_exact() iterator), the unwrap() will be optimized out. Otherwise, handle possibility of the slice being too short.

There's more:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.slice.html#method.split_first_chunk

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foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

if I had a lot more time I think I might write a book on my ideas about "adversarial automation".

The idea that the point of computers is to help the humans do their job faster and easier, and sometimes the computer or the software on it is the enemy in that battle.

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

@owa Also, if you're in London, it's not too late to sign up for the meetup tonight! Some of @owa's inimitable leaders are in town, and would be great to see you from 6pm at the Hospital Tavern in Whitechapel:

https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/63459

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

So @owa is out with early reactions to a new update from the UK's CMA. Augurs well for an expansion of real browser choice on iOS and unlocking of critical Android APIs (e.g., WebAPKs):

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-cma-browser-cloud-gaming-progress-report/

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

OMG, one of the catnip plants is flowering

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pmcneil@aus.social ("The pmcneil (nerd)") wrote:

Just heard about solar suppliers sprouting bullshit about having to replace the whole system if the inverter fails. This makes me very angry. No wonder people are suspicious of renewables when charlatans in the industry do this.

Let's be clear. A solar panel will last > 25 years and then some. They DO NOT FAIL*. An inverter can be replaced and it will cost about a $1000 maybe. Don't let these people bullshit you.

The things that may fail on a solar panel are the bypass diodes or the optimisers, not the panels. Those diodes can be replaced.

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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

Republican lies must be refuted 24/7. Undocumented immigrants & legal immigrants have consistently committed fewer homicides in Texas than native-born Americans.

"In Texas between 2013 and 2022, the homicide rate among illegal immigrants was 26% lower than that of native-born Americans. The homicide rate among legal immigrants was 61% lower than that of native‐​born Americans.
-S Rattner
(from The CATO Institute)

#GOPLies #Immigrants

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• Graph: Homicide conviction rates by immigration status in Texas per 100K residents in each subpopulation, 2013-2022: (remote)

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detachedspork@mastodon.ie ("detached spork") wrote:

I don't actually think we should have rules about who can and cannot attend pride, but we should have much higher standards for behaviour than we do.
The hands down worst behaviour I've experienced at pride came from gay men who felt entitled to grope me.
And you want me to be afraid a bi woman will bring her partner with her? Yeah?
Nah, fuck that.
The discourse is a fucking scam.

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krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:

@slightlyoff

From the Fast Company article:
> Robots Exclusion Protocol [..], compliance is voluntary. [..] Srinivas also noted that [it] is “not a legal framework.”

Uh.. the robots protocol has in fact been tested in court. Trespassing, terms of use, and/or copyright prevailed over the liberty of unrestricted "universal" use without consent.

Short transcript / podcast:
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/book/search/

Summary from a legal course:
http://www.tomwbell.com/NetLaw/Ch06/eBay.html

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge#Order

#BiddersEdge

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mikemathia@ioc.exchange ("🌪 MikeMathia.com 📡") wrote:

Please don't let #AI systems teach you how to set-up a campsite.

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

check out this scene from 1931 where a swishy tailor openly flirts with James Cagney. It got taken out for the 1941 rerelease and only got restored in the DVD era, too late for inclusion in The Celluloid Closet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Whyks7Gp9E

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

KMHD delivered this little, dreamy gem of a song this evening. "Canario" from Karen y Los Remedios:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RyZg1mcXw

and:

https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/track/canario

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

“Gone were plans to make subway stations more accessible to riders with disabilities, repairs to some nearly century-old infrastructure and the expansion of the Second Avenue subway line, among other now-deferred projects.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing-mta.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

“House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation that would slash funding for the Department of Justice and U.S. attorneys’ offices… would cut funding for salaries and other expenses at the Justice Department by 20 percent, and for U.S. attorneys’ offices by 11 percent… example of how House Republicans are again trying to inject the annual government spending bills with partisan policy mandates aimed at amplifying political grievances and culture war issues.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/gop-spending-cuts-law-enforcement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Added an Elasticsearch-powered Retrieval-Augmented-Generation + Gemma notebook to Hugging Face's community cookbook site

https://huggingface.co/learn/cookbook/en/rag_with_hugging_face_gemma_elasticsearch

Hope that makes it easy to get started.

Credit where it's due: inspired by Mongo's cookbook + dataset 🙇‍♂️

#RAG #LLM #elasticsearch #GenAI

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

I admit I exaggerate a little. It is actually only 18,746 words according to wc.

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

Company: We've updated our privacy policy because we care about things like not getting dragged through court. We encourage you to read it. Here's the 19,000 words of legalistic phrases and vague sentences.

Me: *heavy, heavy sigh*

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

Regarding LB[1]: It's worth following the link to see the video Adam Beane created in response to the recent "Apple crush" ad. I'm not an Apple fan (not even from a nostalgic angle), but I admire and respect the effort Beane put into crafting that message.

https://80.lv/articles/clay-sculptor-crushes-tim-cook-in-response-to-apple-s-infamous-ipad-ad/

[1] https://hackers.town/@antijingoist/112684912900271625

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antijingoist@hackers.town ("Abbie 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

via https://80.lv/articles/clay-sculptor-crushes-tim-cook-in-response-to-apple-s-infamous-ipad-ad/

Edit: gif missed the punchline.

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• a picture of the runner from the apple 1984 commercial with the statement "the apple has fallen so very far from the tree" It's pressed into a piece of clay that was once shaped like Tim Cook (remote)

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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

"This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!"

#Caturday

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• a ginger cat walking outside the window comes in just as another gray cat enters, squeezing under the ginger cat. it looks like the gray cat appeared magically from nowhere. (remote)

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OnlyU wrote:

The sharpest image ever taken of Venus.

From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki.

The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken.

It's real!

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• The sharpest image ever taken of Venus. From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki. The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken. It's real!

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

I pressure cooked some 🐷 which I will finish off over some charcoal for dinner tonight. I love me some Instant Pot 🙂

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• pressure cooked pork ribs cooling on a platter (remote)

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Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

@djwfyi have you tried a #cupoftea? :blobcat_smilehappyeyes:
@mentallyalex

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• four panel JIMBENTON cartoon of a cat saying "I feel lousy" and the other cat replying "I get a cup of tea" and puts it on the table, and the first cat throws it off, and both laugh and say "Hey I do feel better" and "Works every time" (remote)

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rnd@toot.cat ("/dev/urandom") wrote:

general midi specifies a list of instruments, so that any genre of music can be played properly on any device

except sea shanties

those are handled by admiral midi

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MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

Full post here:

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/unethical-use-of-data-at-meta/

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

On May 19, three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool -- A mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old.
The mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab.
This infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-old white woman,
who, upon arriving at the pool, began loudly berating the young mother,
using racial slurs to tell her she wasn’t welcome in white America.
Wolf then jumped into the pool and grabbed the two children, who were playing in the shallow end, 💥and tried to drown them.💥
With mom’s help, the little boy escaped with scratches from Wolf’s fingernails, but Wolf succeeded in dragging the 3-year-old girl into a deeper part of the pool and was repeatedly holding her head under water as the little girl began to drown.
A bystander intervened, jumping into the pool and rescuing the little girl; when police arrived and handcuffed Wolf, she screamed at the arresting police officer:
“Tell her I will kill her, and I will kill her whole family.”

An eyewitness who was also in the pool with her own 7-year-old told a reporter for KDFW:
“That was like 10 seconds, but it felt like forever. She was like, ‘Help me! She’s killing my baby, she’s killing my baby!’”
The little girl was so traumatized by the incident that she’s now afraid to leave her family’s apartment. Her PTSD may well affect her for the rest of her life.
Can you imagine if that had happened to your child or grandchild?
The mom, whom news reports aren’t identifying to protect her from the other many violent racists daily encouraged by Trump and Texas Republicans, told the local media:
We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids. My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here. My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again. Also, my husband’s employment is jeopardized, due to having to leave work to accompany me and our four kids whenever we have appointments and errands to run.

https://c.im/@cdarwin/112680305280684938

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Well that escalated quickly.

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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

2/3 of Supreme Court "Justices" have taken bribes and refused oversight

And that's how you get this:

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• Headline Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors The Supreme Court is and has been illegitimate

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Is Not A Wizard Tarr") wrote:

This has the energy of a Renaissance painting.

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• This is a photo of a middle aged man holding a muffin on a plate, from the corner of the frame a cats paw is reaching out and grabbing the muffin. The man's face is filled with anguish (remote)