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

TIL that OpenBSD (my "distro" of choice as a padawan professional security engineer circa '02) is somehow still going. What I learned in those years is the same lesson I learned watching the progression of Windows and the web: when software is situated so tightly on fine-grained contracts that it cannot upgrade seamlessly, it becomes a liability as surely as night follows day.

Anyway, this is WILD to my old self. After 15+ years of not getting it they learned...sot of?:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html

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

"How can one person possibly be two things?" ask America's men/husbands/fathers/followers of Christ/developers/musicians/marathon runners/kombucha aficionados

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Ponygirl wrote:

Abortion is never illegal for the wealthy. Abortion bans are class warfare.

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Giuseppe Stromboli Tarr") wrote:

"I live in a red state my vote doesn't ma-"

If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to make it harder to vote in red states. Voting in red states can turn them into swing states like Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona. And voting in blue states can keep them from becoming swing states.

California used to be Red. Texas was Blue long ago. Florida was once a swing state. Obama took Indiana but it's gone redder since. Ten years ago Arizona and Georgia going blue was unthinkable.

Things change and we can make them change.

And that's before getting into more local elections. Turning cities blue, the state legislature.

Red states have flipped blue in recent years at those levels too.

Because people vote, and if we vote in high enough numbers we can turn a tight election into a walk in the park. If we vote in high enough numbers, we can turn a loss into a win. So many good things have happened in states where someone won by like 100 votes. (arizona is one)

-sniperct

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

When I say "things are forever ruined and will never again be the same as they once were," what I am specifically referring to is the food quality at Chipotle.

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Miniver ("Jonathan Korman") wrote:

It is a common misconception that “Mary Shelley” is the name of the novel, when it is actually the name of the novel’s creator

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• A matched set of classic novels, with a funny glitch in the formatting of the titles on the spines Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway Lewis Carroll | Alice’s Adventures Frankenstein | Mary Shelley Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer Charles Dickens | Great Expectations

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TartanLlama ("Sy Brand") wrote:

A wrote a book on how debuggers work!

It guides you through writing a complete native debugger from scratch.

Available Spring 2025 from @nostarch (probably not with this cover)

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• Cover for Building a Debugger by Sy Brand. It prominently features a cat with a blep and says "placeholder not final"

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GayOldTime@masto.ai ("Gay Old Time") wrote:

Traditional Masculinity™
#vintage #male #fashion

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• Page from a 1972 clothing catalog featuring the Shirt Suit Supreme. It’s got a collar big enough to reach your nipples, and massive colorful ruffs on the front and pant legs. (remote)

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lproven@vivaldi.net wrote:

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/cpm_50th_anniversary/

In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems

<- by me on @theregister

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Hi everyone, I am organising LOCO 2024, 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing
It's hybrid and will be held 3 Dec 2024, in Glasgow (Scotland) and on line.

Please consider submitting, whether you're academic or not, and please spread the word.

https://locos.codeberg.page/loco2024/

#FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

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rochacbruno@social.rochacbruno.com ("Bruno Rocha :verified:") wrote:

All I need to be productive every day.

- Any editor with decent syntax highlighting
- Terminal
- pdb

extra: Solarized Light Theme

#meme #ide #python #tt

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• Full IDE vs simple Editor (remote)

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alvaromontoro@front-end.social ("Alvaro Montoro") wrote:

When the Back-End Engineer tries to add some white space below a component.

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• Convenience store in New York City 2nd avenue named BR BR BR BR BR (remote)

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

I made today's Puzzmo puzzle, a mid-sized themeless with some of my all-time favorite clues! Solve it here: https://puzzmo.com/link/crossword/2024/08/02

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vxo@digipres.club wrote:

Your periodic reminder that Sir Mix-A-Lot is an RF design engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpZOvADLW0

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

worth rereading from time to time:

“What does the Constitution say about picking Supreme Court justices? Not much” - MinnPost

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2016/02/what-does-constitution-say-about-picking-supreme-court-justices-not-much/

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

Cheer up! Janelle Monae is singing!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/02/a-great-way-to-start-the-morning/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ONr6K8GpE

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

Kamala Harris is "evil", according to noted expert in evil and ignorance, Ken Ham.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/02/i-guess-ken-ham-wont-be-voting-for-kamala-harris/

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• Christian cartoon of two people afloat on a bible with an anchor, beset by a storm of culture war buzzwords, like "LGBTQ", "gender", and "evolution". (remote)

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adoralaura@tech.lgbt ("Adora 0x61646F7261 :verifiedlesbian: ✨") wrote:

Ok, PSA:
Gravatar is going Web3/Crypto-Bro.

To delete your account, login to wordpress.com and delete that, it’ll take care of gravatar too.

https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/30/decentralized-identity-management/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Go is to programing what Brutalism is to architecture.

It's the basic materials laid bare and exposed for what they are, striped down to the functionality and almost free from any decoration."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Of course I feel like the photo lacks a subject, but you don’t get a lot of choice after hiking up rocks for two hours with a 3kg camera and a tripod on your back, and a smaller camera swinging from your neck, standing on the only flat surface you can find.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First time shooting Ektachrome! From our unfinished hike to the Grisedale Tarn.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Ektachrome 100
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• Fells.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I love how in iOS when I'm editing my writing it now will aggressively highlight a word and ask me "hey did you want to spell this word incorrectly, by chance?"

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

Attention, world:

I have completed the jokerless challenge in Balatro.

That is all.

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clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

Saw this thermometer cricket hanging out on our 🏳️‍🌈 today.

Its name comes from the fact that you can deduce the temperature by counting the number of chirps they sing.

For Farenheit the formula is

40 + number of chirps made in 15 seconds

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• A light green cricket with translucent wings perched on the pink and white stripes of a pride flag. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan's children represent the conflicting political sensibilities reflected in contemporary American politics.

Each child represents a political faction, and throughout the show will argue their case for their ideology to take charge to save the empire.

#succession

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• Photo of all of Logan's children. From left to right: Roman, Kendall, Connor, and Shiv.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan is a deeply broken man. His rags-to-riches story arc reminds us that the American Dream realized is not often fueled by hope, but rather the trauma endured by violent childhood poverty.

#succession

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• An older person with a bare back covered in deep scratches or wounds. A figure wearing white clothing is visible to the side. The background is dimly lit.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Logan represents the manifest destiny of the American Dream.

His last name "Roy," means "King" in Old French, and has become synonymous with the conservative wing of the American ruling class in the Succession universe.

(Nan Pierce serves as his liberal counterpart, but we'll get to her later.) #Succession #LoganRoy

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• An older man Logan Roy with a serious expression, wearing a black cap and grey jacket, sitting on a beige chair near a window in a private jet.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Let's start with Logan's media empire. Waystar Royco is conglomerate of businesses (perhaps fifty total?) united under one brand. While still powerful, the company is showing signs of decay and people are starting to take notice.

In #Succession, Waystar Royco is The United States.

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• Room filled with people in suites. Shiv Roy is standing at the podium center stage with the Waystar Royco logo behind her and two big screens at either sides of the stage.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My Roman Empire is HBO's Succession, and how the show, and all its characters, serve as an allegory for the United States as a dying empire.

That may sound obvious, but I don't just mean the show's themes. There are direct, knock-you-over-the-head parallels if you look for them. And I've been DYING to talk about it.

Thread? Thread 🧵 (Spoilers). #succession #waystarroyco

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• Poster for the HBO show Succession with the main characters standing in front of a painting hung on a dark wood wall. The painting in a gaudy gold frame depicts an epic fight with men, horses, tigers and other animals. From left to right: Kendall Roy, Roman Roy, Siobhan Roy, and Logan Roy. Bottom text reads "Succession Season One"

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

No, but seriously...why don't we have `` yet?