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

randulo ("Randulo.com") wrote:

This is fantastic, a beautiful moment with Norah Jones. The definition of musicality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYtRQ2tHGg

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

In their floundering for a line of attack, one tactic the Republicans are following is to mock her for laughing?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/laughter-humanizes/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OyyBQDNg77Y

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

Finally finding a few Monarch larvae in our yard.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/little-princeling/

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• Monarch larva (remote)

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

IABs that don't respect browser choice are a scourge. Shame on Google and Apple for allowing them.

ICYMI, a great post on them via @rgadellaa :

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-in-app-browsers/

And @owa's video explaining the problem(s):

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

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

tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid #seedLibrary #earthDay

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• An old card catalog is used to hold seed packets. (remote)
• A closeup of one of the card catalog drawers entitled "beans" with a seed packet with information. (remote)
• Books on seed libraries, harvesting seeds, and various fliers announcing the seed library. (remote)
• Various fliers announcing the seed library and other programs. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He’s all-terrain.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting on a stone wall overlooking a valley with a lake.

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

regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

people are posting this because it's funny and of course it *is* funny. but also, having non-critical fail-fast elements in your instructure (fuses, basically) is a legitimate path to resilience.

I'm hoping that there are computer scientists (or adjacent scientists) studying orgs that missed out on the worst of Crowdstrike and getting into the technical details of how that worked? I know it's way too early to see papers on this but are there maybe blog posts already??

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• In our case, the bad update hit the DNS servers kind of early on. Once those were down, nothing else was able to update, kind of saving us.

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

MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.

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

jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Thought I couldn’t get surprised by CSS anymore, but then someone goes and builds a raytracer using `box-shadow`s??? https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-not-to-use-box-shadows

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Tea and cake with the boy.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting on the table. In front of it, a cup of tea and cake on a plate. Behind him is a terrace with more tables.

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

Brace yourself for an openly racist, misogynist Republican campaign.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/nosedive-right-into-the-sewer/

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• Kamala Harris (remote)

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

The strong longing and wishing for ones’ children to have their own children and to be able to manifest the affection and express the feelings of endearment inspired by having grandchildren, mixed with the simultaneous fear of knowing the life your grandchildren will inherit will be radically different than the present one, and perhaps filled with untold suffering as climate change accelerates and drastically alters the Earth.

https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/portfolio/nonnapaura/

Others:

https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/

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

I'm home. I've decided that no one in my family is ever allowed to die again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/22/the-magical-misery-tour-is-over/

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• Memory board from my mother's funeral (remote)

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

I'm thrilled to support Harris.

Just one thing: Trump isn't going to stop hammering on his opponent's weaknesses (real or imagined), and the media isn't going to stop unquestioningly parroting him in an obvious double standard.

So maybe we *don't* help them out so much this time, eh?

In November I want to see us standing behind our candidate—and I think we will—not wringing our hands over whatever MAGA talking point the NYT laundered into quasi-journalism.

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

ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

the Joint Statistical Meetings, a huge conference, will be here in Portland in _TWO WEEKS_. I finally took a look at the schedule, and I will be running around going to a million sessions starting Sunday afternoon.

(also the online schedule doesn't let you save sessions, so good luck trying to be organized)

Do I know anyone who will be there? Can you boost so that I might meet fedi-folk who should be in my professional circle?

#JSM #JSM2024 #Amstat #ASA #statistics

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

The transition of virtually any code base in the world to safer, better languages, such as Rust, is not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of “when”.

Putting aside the White House recently identifying unsafe languages as a national security risk, there is also the fact that all software will become strictly unmaintanable in a decade simply because the most skilled people in the upcoming generation will not be competing for C++ jobs, they’ll be competing for Rust jobs!

This is why Linus Torvalds actually admitted that the main reason for introducing Rust into the Linux kernel is actually in order to enfranchise younger talent! Look it up.

The transition to Rust for all the world’s kernels, drivers, microcontrollers and more isn’t going to be just motivated by safety concerns (themselves already more than enough), but also by the fact that if you don’t transition, you won’t have the best engineers, today in their teens, willing to work for you in ten years to carry your stack into the future. You will therefore open up your entire empire to being replaced by the upstarts that will actually take these engineers in and let them shine.

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

wolftune@social.coop ("Aaron Wolf") wrote:

I'm speaking at #fossy2024 in just under two weeks. First, I'm doing an updated co-presentation with my son about teaching #softwarefreedom concepts to children. Second, I'm co-presenting an updated overview of the economics of public goods to set the stage for a panel discussion on FLO funding dilemmas.

https://2024.fossy.us/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Starting to regret throwing away boxes of old IDE cables now 🫣

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

alanferrier@mastodon.scot ("Alan Ferrier") wrote:

I'm definitely up for the series finale of the Donald Trump saga being the one where he loses to a Black woman.

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

danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

here i got you a copy of tomorrow's nyt

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• 96bcb3ad817320ac.png (remote)

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

blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris
https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198

#2024Elections #USpol

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

samhainnight@mstdn.social ("Samhain Night") wrote:

While I'm thrilled at the thought of President Harris, I am a bit concerned that the "donor class" got a sitting president to drop out of the race.
Getting rid of Citizens United has got to be a priority, folks.

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

kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

An interesting side note in all of this is that the Supreme Court has given total immunity to a guy with six months left to serve and no fucks left to give.

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• Biden in shades. (remote)

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

rodhilton ("Rod Hilton") wrote:

This November, you have the power to make Elon Musk waste 180 million dollars.

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

otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

mods are still asleep. Post more woodcock

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• Parent woodcock and two babies bopping to the beat as they walk with rhythm. (remote)

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

miona@toot.lgbt ("他の星からMiona") wrote:

#BloomScrolling

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• A butterfly with black and white wings on a red flower surrounded by leafs. (remote)

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

rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

In-App Browsers are hijacking our web, and that really needs to stop

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-in-app-browsers/

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

JubalBarca@scholar.social ("James Baillie") wrote:

*runs in, panting*

Heard the timeline was in desperate need of a baby wild hamster right now. Got here as quickly as I could.

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• A baby European Field Hamster. It's standing up next to a metal angle on the corner of a grave, with its forepaws on the metal and its back paws barely tippy-toe on the ground. There's grass to the left, and the stone corner of the grave on the right: the hamster has very round ears, a black belly, and orange and white fur. Meidling cemetery, Vienna, 2021. Picture by/rights: James Baillie. (remote)

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

RIP Evelyn Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTDwJEBe21s

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malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

The Democratic party has to be hands down one of the most useless political parties in history. The republicans have built a comprehensive 4 year plan to dismantle democracy, meanwhile it's 6 months into the election year and the democrats are still busy eating glue.