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

overactive fail2ban banned *mah* sorry a$$ from my main server just now... what wuz *that* about?

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a group in Melbourne called the Australian Soldiers' Legion (ASL) helped the Wagglens family, which included a homeless, wounded WWII veteran, his wife and children, squat a empty house in Bell Street, Hawthorn https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10160/wagglen-family-squat?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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MikeSaccone_@mastodon.online ("Mike Saccone") wrote:

A sunrise great blue heron flyby over the Potomac River.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f6.3, 1/500s)

#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

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• A great blue heron in flight in profile. The bird has dark blue wing feathers on the bottom half of its wings and lighter gray-blue feathers on the top of its wings, back, and throat. It has a long beak, yellow eyes, and a cap of dark blue feathers atop its head. The background is out-of-focus water. (remote)

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

Troopers Koehler and Haggerty almost made it all the way to peacetime… but in war, unlike in horseshoes, almost just does not count 💦

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

TIL about the doodle grid method of scaling and transferring drawings. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5A_9vylrQ

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jgeorge@oldbytes.space wrote:

LOL what the everloving heck is this, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen an IBM logo on. Spoilers: it's legit. I have it, it works, it does precisely what it says on the tin, and I love it.

Takeapart thread coming soon.

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mhoye wrote:

[dad voice] We have panic at home.

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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

Full source code for DOOM SNES released

https://gbatemp.net/threads/doom-for-snes-full-source-code-released-by-former-sculptured-software-employees.657118/

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cascadepine@mas.to ("Cascade Pine") wrote:

A leaf cutter bee, nomming on some pollen. You can see it’s got three extra eyes on top of its head. I never knew bees had 5 eyes until I took this photo!

#insects #bees #nature #macro #macroPhotography

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• A black bee with a white fuzzy band on its back is sitting on the stamen of a flower, absolutely chowing down on some orange pollen. (remote)

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1moremin@mastodon.ie wrote:

#ThickTrunkTuesday

The Tree is so big that no frame can contain it. There is no way to hold its integral essence in a single picture.
Everyone calls it The Cedar or just the Tree. They say “I’ll be at the Tree” and you don't need to ask “which one?”
The Tree is actually a juniper, not a cedar. It's an Arkeuthos (Αρκευθος), an oxycedrus Juniper I believe, though the subspecies of these trees vary a lot as I’ve learned these days.
Still, we all call it the Cedar.

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• The Tree as seen from northwest. Two distinct trunks, separated long ago, send huge branches around, shaped in forms that twist and swirl in time and space. (remote)
• East side, more curves and forms. The sky is still blue between the upper branches, but yellow and orange above the horizon. Someone's watching the sunset in the distance behind. (remote)
• The other side of the eastern trunk. Ancient grey shapes folding and flowing, leading up, to a labyrinth of sharp leaves and younger branches. (remote)

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

Good to know that the right-wingers want to quantify our genetics so they can tell us how to act during the day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/03/blood-quantum-is-back-baby/

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• My DNA says I'm 2/3 scandinavian and 20% british (remote)

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

Also, without going on too long about this, I think this mindset has also protected me from any sorts of ideas of exceptionalism. Like the idea that certain groups of people can't develop their own tech or something. Just utter bullshit and nonsense. History is rife with independent invention. Much of invention is path dependence leading to a context where a lot of people will have similar ideas. It's foolish to the extreme to underestimate other humans' ingenuity and imaginations.

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

However, in my old age, I have also developed a reluctant acceptance of the limits of my own understanding. We can't know everything (no matter how much we *really* want to), but just be careful who you trust when you decide to delegate understanding to somebody else.

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

Regarding LB[1]: That is the attitude I've had about computers, but also other things. Computers were the first memory I have of seeing people talking about something as though they were mysterious and unknowable, and that just made me angery and sad for people. People made it. Other people can understand it! To this day, whenever I see somebody more or less say, "Don't worry your pretty little head about that," my gut reaction is, "WTF are you tryin' to pull here?"

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@psypherpunk/112898887050260641

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psypherpunk@hachyderm.io ("PsypherPunk") wrote:

Wonderful article: "Computers can be understood": https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

"…no single human understands all of the layers…from the transistors and silicon up through …the application code, not even to mention all the network services involved…"—why I am, shall we say, not a fan of the phrase "full stack".

"…engineers I’ve worked with (including myself) who are the most comfortable reading unfamiliar code bases are at risk of habitually undervaluing documentation…”—ouch, that one hurt.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

View from around Old Dungeon Ghyll.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• Fells partially illuminated by the evening sun, partially in shadow from the heavy clouds above.

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

I have a soft in my heart homebrew computers. Things like:

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6940

Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC532

OR the many others I've seen. I'd like to add to that list with my own someday. 😄

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jbenjamint@mastodon.scot ("Ben Thompson 🐕") wrote:

This is quite the read - the fascist (and explicitly Nazi) origins of sex-testing at the Olympics.

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/a-forgotten-athlete-a-nazi-official-and-the-origins-of-sex-testing-at-the-olympics

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CobaltVelvet@octodon.social ("hinged death kinnie") wrote:

this is it. the ship is sinking.
on 2025-04-03, in 8 months, on its 8 years anniversary, the octodon will be permanently shut down.
use this time to slowly migrate your accounts and download your post archives. tell your local friends who might miss the instance announcement.
the first reply will contain a small list of instances to consider; the second a personal note for my followers.

thanks to everyone who supported us, to our crew and members.
i am glad to have built and shared this with you over the years. it was a beautiful horrible adventure. i hope you will remember it as a good place that united so many people for quite a while.

it always had to end eventually. for an impulsive little social website, 8 years is a good run. we have witnessed and remember so many friends who are gone. the octodon, too, gets to live impermanence and have a good end while we still can take care of it.

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

When a woman accomplishes something, the conservatives will line up to cast doubt on their identity. Every time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/03/as-we-all-know-real-women-lose-at-sports/

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

Sometimes reader mode just doesn't quite work for a web page[1], and so you drop into the inspector and add a little something like this in the style sheet:

body {
/* favorite width here */
max-width: 50em;
margin: auto;
}

And suddenly it's much more comfortable to read. After over 30yrs of the web, this kind of adjustment is inaccessible on the client unless you've had toxic levels of computer exposure like I have.

[1] https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The article "SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums" by Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame, with photos by Annie Leibovitz, was published on the Dec 7, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

It covered hacker culture in the Bay Area, mostly at Stanford and Xerox PARC. The article made PARC widely known, contributed to its myth, and caused some consternation among Xerox management.

https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

https://archive.org/details/19721207rollingstoneexcerptspacewararticlev02

#retrocomputing #xerox #parc

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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

Tyler Cipriani writes an interesting blog post about git credentials:

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/07/31/git-as-a-password-prompt/

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VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

"childless woman" is such a 19th-century-ass insult. what else you got. do I render inferior tallow? do my cabbages grow pale and blemished? does the quality of my sock-darning bring shame upon my father's name?

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makeworld@merveilles.town wrote:

I fucked up my repo so bad

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

oh, what a lovely weekend project idea @CARROT

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

@rgadellaa ROC's notes on input latency are dead-on. That's the butter that makes the bread worth toasting.

What isn't called out is the role of benchmarks and bespoke macOS ports for pretentious (but underpaid) tech press. That shite murders good projects.

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

@rgadellaa - Never sleep on compiler flags or allocators or new OS-level APIs! This is the stuff of battery life and benchmark wins. Nothing makes browsers faster than data locality (we have done *ridonkulous* projects in Chromium on this; AMA), and nothing wins you security like telling system malloc and sandboxing to GTFO

• Hardware acceleration is wicked hard in web-landia because we can't make old sites do good things. But a new engine could set new lines. That's virgin territory.

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

via @rgadellaa, I'd missed this insightful post by ROC (who I'm not sure is here?):

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html

I'll only add notes to his queries in the thoughtful "Going Beyond" sections:

• You can always best a multi-OS browser on some perf aspects by optimising for a single OS...at least in the short run. Apple manages to do it (at least on power) through private APIs, and a sufficiently funded team can investigate/reverse enough to do the same (on open OSes....so not iPhones).
• (ctd.)

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

It was always "interesting" to me to see that it was reliably the most off-piste, bespoke, hardened, and locked-down configurations of general-purpose OSes (like OpenBSD) that got pwn'd in sweeps. Modern (as in, post 1990) OSes and CPUs just leave too many services hanging out for that not to be true over time, and nobody is djb except djb. So we have to find other ways forward. And seamless upgrades are the most powerful tool invented yet.