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rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.81.0 is now available! 🦀✨

This release brings you better sorting implementations, the Error trait in #![no_std], #[expect(lint)], std::fs::exists, PanicInfo::message, Duration::abs_diff, IoSlice::advance, and more! 🌈

Check out the announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/Rust-1.81.0.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Daring Fireball

"I have so much respect for Cheney. Her father too, but he’s retired… And nothing — not climate change or the environment, not reproductive rights, and certainly not fucking tax rates — nothing matters more than support for democracy itself and the rule of law."

The tech community deserves better than John Gruber. https://daringfireball.net/

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

smart move… be done with it and move on with your life:

“Hunter Biden to change plea to guilty in federal tax case”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/sep/05/us-elections-live-kamala-harris-debate-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66d9d2c08f08da0c09ad3a45#block-66d9d2c08f08da0c09ad3a45

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shaver@hachyderm.io ("Mike Shaver 🤷🏼‍♂️") wrote:

@tedmielczarek @slightlyoff @heydon if your organization could not seriously consider building a basic version of React/k8s itself, it is not equipped to deal with the complexity costs they will incur

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

uspolitics ("U.S. Politics in Real Time") wrote:

Goldman Sachs Says Trump Win Would Lead to Economic Downturn

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/goldman-sachs-economic-downturn-trump-1235094814/

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

dansinker@threads.net ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

There's evil in *every* society but only one that lets 14-year-olds readily gain access to semiautomatic weapons.

Attachments:

• Photo by Dan Sinker on September 05, 2024. May be a Twitter screenshot of newspaper and text. (remote)

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markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Here's the second set of three images from the very close flyby of Mercury by ESA & JAXA's #BepiColombo mission last night.

As ever, it was a great pleasure & privilege to be with the mission team last night as the spacecraft made contact after the flyby & downlinked the data, & then to discuss what the images show with scientists across Europe & Japan.

Full images & article:

2/2

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• A black-and-white picture showing the planet Mercury with craters and plains across the surface illuminated to different degrees by the Sun, seen against a black sky with parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
• A black-and-white picture showing the planet Mercury with craters and plains across the surface illuminated to different degrees by the Sun, seen against a black sky with parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
• A black-and-white picture showing the planet Mercury with craters and plains across the surface illuminated to different degrees by the Sun, seen against a black sky with parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.

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kenbauer@fosstodon.org ("Ken Bauer Favel") wrote:

#educoffee starts in about an hour from now at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 5pm UTC.

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

tweaked project to read ports and passwords and such initialization/configuration stuff from a file instead of hard-coded... cleanup time from being lazy earlier

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

I did not expect black widows to be so pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/05/the-more-you-know/

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• black widow (remote)

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njr@mathstodon.xyz ("Nick Radcliffe") wrote:

@fromjason - Tim Bray, Ongoing, https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/, ( @timbray)

• Molly White, Citation Needed, https://mollywhite.net & https://www.citationneeded.news (@molly0xfff)
• John Gruber, Daring Fireball, https://daringfireball.net, ( @gruber)
• Michael Tsai, https://mjtsai.com ( @mjtsai)
• Rachel (“by the Bay’”), Writing, http://rachelbythebay.com/
• Manton Reece, Microblog, https://manton.org, @manton
• Tina Roth Eisenberg, SwissMiss, https://swiss-miss.com
• Craig Hockenberry, https://furbo.org
• Dann Luu, https://danluu.com

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vantablack@cyberpunk.lol (":FediPact: vanta, the fedipact girl :FediPact:") wrote:

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• "billionaires should not exist" and there's a guillotine and molotov but with like legs and arms and faces the artist signature is just a pac-man style ghost that says 2023 (remote)

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Visual representation of me getting the fuck out of Florida.

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• Art by curioscurio of Hatsune Miku running down I-4 away from Orlando while wearing a Micky Mouse baseball hat, sunglasses, bikini top, jorts, knee banage + bandaid on her shin, and blue & pink crocs. She is slightly sunburn, carrying a plastic Publix bag, and eating a Publix subway sandwich while firing a pistol blindly behind her. You know, normal Florida shit. (remote)

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

Today in History: First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, 1774

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

Today in History: St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland, 1980

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

Today in History: US President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961 (so-called "missile gap" was false interpretation of the data)

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

Today in History: Raquel Welch born, 1942

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torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

Got something nice in the post from @letsencrypt. Want one, or just want to support encryption on the web? Donate at https://letsencrypt.org/donate/. 🔒👕

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• A black t-shirt featuring the Let's Encrypt logo with the words “Let’s Encrypt” on the sleeve.

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

Today in History: King Louis XIV of France born, 1638

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

‘Trump is facing four federal felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A federal grand jury returned an indictment alleging that Trump knowingly lied about the 2020 election by spreading claims that “were unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing.” Trump has indicated his lawyers will enter a not guilty plea on his behalf during a hearing on the case on Thursday.’

https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C_iaxLnxfpZ

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

‘Fuentes noted that if Trump knows that he lost the 2020 election, then he “deserves to be charged” by special counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the results of the election.

“That actually vindicates the DOJ charge against him!” Fuentes declared. “Because the charge is that he knew he lost but he lied to defraud the people.”

“So, why did we do Stop the Steal?” Fuentes demanded to know.’

https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C_iaxLnxfpZ

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

once upon a time, I too was a Regular Army Sergeant… although of the Signal Corps and not the Cavalry, and perhaps one or two years later than Sgt Armstrong

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• cdab9d521a585fa6.jpeg (remote)

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

Small town newspapers are a treasure trove of ignorant creationist nonsense. My local paper is relatively free of it (thanks to the horde of collegians living here), but Marshall, Texas gets the worst of it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/05/i-expect-better-of-retired-professors-jerry-hopkins/

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• Creationism Billions of years plus natural selection? Impossible. Six days plus Magic Beard Man? YES! (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

One day you're young and foolish and the next you're still foolish but you have CDs that are older than people you work with.

Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):

freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Do you know that #Freexian collaborators can spend 20% of their work time on the Debian projects/tasks of their choice?

We document these #Debian contributions done by our Freexian collaborators each month.

In 2024, Freexian collaborators contributed to Salsa CI improvements, the /usr-move transition, and the future live-patching of Linux in Debian and more.

You can read all about these at https://www.freexian.com/tags/debian-contributions/

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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support - https://www.freexian.com/lts/ and consulting services - https://www.freexian.com/services/

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

There are so many teams and so many great engineers...Rick Byers' support of PWAs and animations and layout from Waterloo to the Devices and Storage and Layout teams in the Bay Area (with many helpers from around the world), to the 3D stack teams in SF and the Research Triangle area, to networking in Boston and MTV and elsewhere, to performance work spread around the world.

And that's not even mentioning PWA teams in Seattle, SF, MTV, SYD, and LON.

Chromium only works because we all give.

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

Lots of teams around the world have made Chromium's decade of feature leadership a reality, from the WebRTC experts in Stockholm to the security and VM crew in Munich to the mobile mensches in London to the perf boffins in Paris to the layout wizzes all over the world...nothing happens in real, bleading-edge browsers without a huge talent pool and incredible acts of self investment into the future of the web.

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

I think I need to start a series of blog posts on the engineers that have shaped the modern web from positions of relative anonymity.

The Google Tokyo office under the leadership of Kinuko Yusada and the Google Sydney office reporting to Mike Lawther were particularly productive groups that didn't get the spotlight.

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lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:

Oh well thank fuck for that. Another one of humanity’s problems checked off.

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• An article headline from The Verge discusses Samsung's upcoming feature allowing users to create AI-generated wallpapers for their touchscreen refrigerators. (remote)