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

gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

still the best album art

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• Album art for Monolake's "VLSI". The art is a stylised form of chip gate layout. (remote)

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

meg@fediscience.org ("Megan") wrote:

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings just released their first studio album of original material as a duo in a while and it is a keeper. The songs are both heartbreaking and hopeful with their signature melancholy sound. Gillian's voice is exquisite as always and David's guitar playing reminds me why he is one of my favorite guitarists active today. These two are true treasures in #music. https://gillianwelch.bandcamp.com/album/woodland

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

why, yer right

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• 26a557c6b30d8ba7.mp4 (remote)

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

well, yes

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/techno.png

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

searls ("Justin Searls") wrote:

I got so frustrated getting the runaround from my ISP that I filed an FCC complaint and… holy shit.

1. Complaint triggers mandatory contact from ISP within a few days
2. Got a call from Spectrum corporate, super kind and helpful/understanding guy
3. Delegates to research team to look into the issue and have answers within 24 hours.

Government in action.

🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2024-08-23-08h47m21s/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

For a moment, my heart jumped out my body and began to drown itself

#DNC #Democrats

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• Text message alert on my iPhone home screen reads: Maybe: Hillary Clinton Jason, last night, I formally accepted the nomination for President of the United States at the 2024 Democratic National Co...

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Sh4d0w_H34rt@cyberpunk.lol ("Shadow Heart") wrote:

@verge or buy only physical releases and run a #jellyfin or #plex server instead of continuing to pay for this garbage.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

You can opt-in to the beta notification grouping feature on #Mastodon, by clicking the gear above the notifications area and activating the toggle. Notification filters have been improved as well, and content warnings and word filters have a new and improved look across the web app. Enjoy!

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

thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

Today I am pleased to announce my new startup ✨ Open CoreutAIs ✨ that will fundamentally disrupt the unix coreutils market.

Our 🚢 flagship product CHaNGE dIRECTORY (ad) replaces the legacy ♻️ cd command with an AI ✨ powered replacement.

To fund the development uses we use an LLM to analyze the directory the user enters and serve relevant but privacy preserving ads directly in the terminal.

Users wishing to see fewer ads can purchase ✨ Open CoreutAIs ✨ pro for only $19.99 per month

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• A unix shell where `cd` has been replaced with `ad`, a command which before changing directory shows shows a message that it is analyzing the current directory, using it and an LLM to generate an ad, and then shows that ad in-line in the terminal. This happens a few times, at the end there is a prompt that we are looking for VC funding

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Speaking of St. Nicholas Market...

📷 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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• A street covered by a triangular glass roof, street lamps suspended in the middle.

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

Amazing to see; @owa is making huge strides on browser competition and against Apple's dark patterns. Now we just need to break the geofence on engine choice:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-adopts-6-owa-choice-architecture-recommendations/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First #Powernerd single from #DevinTownsend dropped last night! Full album coming October 25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYSzMIugu8

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

My response:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/23/its-always-a-good-time-to-be-an-atheist/

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

I have been informed by credibly wealthy individuals that Kamala Harris is indeed a communist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/23/did-you-know-that-kamala-harris-is-a-communist/

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• "We will enact slight modifications to existing Democratic Capitalism that have been repeatedly proven to be beneficial to our economy." "That is the very literal definition of Communism!" (remote)

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

The dorks at the Discovery Institute think that having more science ought to make atheists uncomfortable.

https://evolutionnews.org/2024/08/jay-richards-the-1890s-was-a-good-time-to-be-an-atheist/

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• Jay Richards (remote)

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

evilscientistca@octodon.social ("Jason Nishiyama") wrote:

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit radiation in a beam from their magnetic poles. As the pole sweeps past Earth we here the "click"

This is pulsar PSR B0329+54. It glitches (click not in time) at the end.

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• Pulsar sound - sound waterfall graph (remote)

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

(Just before receiving the bill, I also dreamed I was doing yard work and pulled my arm out of a bush to see it covered in wasps. My brain noped out of that scenario pretty fast. 😆 )

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/

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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".

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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

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• 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