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

Last night I had a dream that I somehow missed a bill from when the kiddo was born, and now I was facing a bill of hundreds of thousands of dollars due to fees and interest.

I've had bill nightmares before. I wonder if this type of dream has finally replaced the "I have a final in a class that I somehow forgot about and never attended." 🤔

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

Maybe you've seen pictures of a zine or pamphlet titled "Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter" floating through your timeline. The authors have also made a PDF available on their blog:

https://othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/build-your-own-mini-fm-transmitter/

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

If you care about the web and PWAs, this is worth your time:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/web-apps-on-ios-is-the-cma-missing-the-point/

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

Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

They call us “mutants”—implying that our abilities are an accident of birth—but the truth is that anyone can choose to acquire the superpower they desire.

It wasn’t always this way, and it’s gloriously ironic that the possibility was unlocked only by an unlikely accident.

An idle grad student was feeding Human Genome Project data to a waveform visualizer usually used for music, when an anomaly stood out. Investigation revealed that whatever (hitherto hypothetical) elder race that originally uplifted humanity had left a login credential for the Galactic Uplift Genehub hardcoded in a region of “junk DNA”.

Remember to back up your genome before applying any untested patches.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

It's a bold move, Cotton...

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• An email from Tesla asking to rate their shambolic support experience. This will not end well. (remote)

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

Web Apps on iOS: is the CMA missing the point? https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/web-apps-on-ios-is-the-cma-missing-the-point/ - in which I worry that CMA is missing some mobile browser remedies, and invite you to let them know your thoughts plz

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

developers@chromium.social ("Chromium for Developers") wrote:

The File System Observer API origin trial

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/file-system-observer?hl=en

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

AverageDog ("Nils M Holm") wrote:

Try #T3X online! http://t3x.org/t3x/demo/
T3X is a small procedural language that runs on CP/M (Z80), DOS (8086), various Unixes (386, x86-64, 32-bit ARM), and a virtual machine. Its compiler is small and simple. The code is in the public domain.
#DOS, #CPM, #retrocomputing, #programming, #compilers

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• Screenshot of the T3X online compiler with an input window containing a "Hello World" program and "compile" and "load" buttons under the window.

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

We bought powerwalls and tesla solar before Musk went off the deep end, and years in, it's clear that the absolutely cursed support experience would have doomed their business even if Aeron hadn't pickled his brain in ketamine and alt-right conspiracy theories.

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

RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Jorkin Depeanus Tarr") wrote:

The USPS isn't "losing money", it's providing a service, that's the job of the government. Conservatives never talk about how much money Defense loses, and entire aircraft carriers just "disappear".

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:

Once this new pilot program becomes standard, Apple will be entitled to a 30% cut of all California state revenue.

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• California's mobile driver's license / identification card is a free, secure, and convenient digital ID. Try it! CA DAY WALLET Welcome IMA CARDHOLDER CA DAV WALLET mDL Status mol Info OME DOD Show my mD Share My Age Welcome to the CA DMV Wallet! Cave your nigl. today a lott for OR Code * Go to Profie Download on the App Store GET IT ON Google Play What's New • mDL Reader in your DMV Wallet • Use your mDL to login online

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

dansup wrote:

ActivityPub Filter System

Inspired by Pleroma (MRF) and Cloudflare (WAF), this new @pixelfed feature will help improve safety and moderation by empowering admins with fine-grained tools like these.

Better yet, you will be able to easily import/export rules and I'm working on a FEP so other projects can add support using a common vocab.

Available soon ✨

#activityPub #safety #pixelfed #filterSystem

Attachments:

• ActivityPub Filter System preview in Pixelfed

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

kentbrew@xoxo.zone ("Kent Brewster @ #xoxofest") wrote:

Dear fellow Mastodon users with astigmatism: in case you missed this, abandoning "night mode" will make reading things on a computer monitor much, much easier. On your local instance it may be settings/preferences/appearance

#accessibility

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

nelson@tech.lgbt ("Nelson Minar") wrote:

@kentbrew this drives me crazy about night mode. white text on black background needs wider strokes and more pixels than black on white. you can't just invert the palette.

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

georgespolitzer@monads.online ("The Skanky Tankie") wrote:

this has @pisscotheque energy somehow

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• 21cc46db31671e5f.jpg (remote)

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

sweet: https://people.com/gus-walz-learning-disorder-secret-power-exclusive-8691793

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

mistersql ("🥥Matthew Martin🥥☑") wrote:

The story of King Midas is a cautionary tale about adding the `async` keyword to a code base.

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

kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

LOL. Orenburg regional officials are in hot water for paying “patriotic entertainer” Shaman a fat $175,000 to perform at this month’s Russia Day festival. Big spending for a govt that still hasn’t paid promised compensations to thousands of flood victims. https://theins.ru/news/274068

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

philip_cardella@historians.social ("Philip Cardella") wrote:

@keraunos @Stone1glo @qkslvrwolf no one is Boomer bashing. Promise.

My parents were lifelong Dems and Boomers (didn't have the choice on latter, lol). My dad passed in May but my mom stays engaged and hates Trump.

She's indifferent to AOC. So what? The Dems did a great job of representing all Americans and most liberal perspectives.

AOC is but one piece.

Nobody on the stage was the favorite of every Dem. That's good!

They were all great. Tonight will be awesome!

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

artbyemilyhare@mastodon.art ("Emily Hare") wrote:

New Alien Reveal!

Name: Moltoaf
Height: 8' 10"
Wanted for: Hacking into the Intergalactic Broadcasting Station to transmit his latest podcast where he shares his love of growing and eating Zloppcumbers.
Bounty: 🄶7000 Gleknot.

Moltoaf and many other aliens are appearing in my new book, launching in October! Don't miss it...
https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/2b7c49b4-250f-4c03-9905-bf1272b92894/landing?ref+moltoaf-social-post
#MastoArt #crowdfunding #aliens #scifi

Attachments:

• Watercolour painting: plain textured white background with some kind of tubing dangling in the top right corner. Alien creature is facing the viewer, it has three orange eyes with horizontal slit shaped pupils. It has three 'trunk-like' tentacles in place of the lower half of its face and a few other tentacles coming out of its head, but smaller. Each tentacle is red/pink tipped and the face of the alien is blue with the body of the alien purple. It has some leather straps around its body. The skin of this creature is textured and wrinkled. (remote)
• close up of first image - Watercolour painting: plain textured white background with some kind of tubing dangling in the top right corner. Alien creature is facing the viewer, it has three orange eyes with horizontal slit shaped pupils. It has three 'trunk-like' tentacles in place of the lower half of its face and a few other tentacles coming out of its head, but smaller. Each tentacle is red/pink tipped and the face of the alien is blue with the body of the alien purple. It has some leather straps around its body. The skin of this creature is textured and wrinkled. (remote)
• Close up of first image - Watercolour painting: plain textured white background with some kind of tubing dangling in the top right corner. Alien creature is facing the viewer, it has three orange eyes with horizontal slit shaped pupils. It has three 'trunk-like' tentacles in place of the lower half of its face and a few other tentacles coming out of its head, but smaller. Each tentacle is red/pink tipped and the face of the alien is blue with the body of the alien purple. It has some leather straps around its body. The skin of this creature is textured and wrinkled. (remote)

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

jenred@hachyderm.io ("Jennifer Redman") wrote:

My new project - working to bring a public broadband option to PDX. https://communitybroadbandpdx.org

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

This unwholesome abomination is part of the test to determine whether you are a real Midwesterner, or some alien interloper. I did not pass.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/i-am-a-fake-midwesterner/

Attachments:

• deep fried ranch dressing at the Minnesota State Fair (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

https://make-firefox-private-again.com/

#firefox

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Who called it Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (#KCD2), and not Xtra Kingdom Come Deliverance?

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

What kind of demented weirdo would want this on their wall?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/who-is-this-for/

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• TrumpyTrout, a hideous talking decoration (remote)

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

What? JD Vance's semen is apocryphal?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/darn-the-jizz-cup-story-is-probably-fake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jWsQAEf8w

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

I'm going to have to join the crowd criticizing the ridiculous, petty fact-checking of Democrats in the news media. Glenn Kessler is a try-hard poseur.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/checking-the-fact-checkers/

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• "Mostly false" truth-o-meter (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There is no zeitgeist, only algorithmic trends and cheeky corporate mascots.

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

I was strongly opposed to Tim Walz in 2018. We both got better.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/22/i-was-against-walz-before-i-was-for-him/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtYcbH50ag

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I was at the right place at the right time.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Bristol

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• An old telephone box overgrown by plants and covered in tags standing next to a pub. In the background, a banner across the street welcoming passersby to the St. Nicholas Market. A man with a cigarette in his mouth is walking past, with his dog wrapped around his neck like a fancy scarf.