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

“In the wake of Thursday’s explosive revelations about North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson, JD Vance abruptly cancelled his entire campaign schedule in order to clear his search history.”

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/jd-vance-responds-to-mark-robinson?publication_id=2337656&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=4qey6&utm_medium=email

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

mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:

It's finally happening. I'm bringing a early FPGA exhibit to @SDF Interim Computer Festival (https://sdf.org/icf/).

Tonight I got 86Box setup and did a run through of installing OrCAD386 and X-ACT v2.4. Discovered I have a tutorial for that version and I was able to go through it. It builds a design for an XC3020 demo board that I have as well.

Now I need to replicate the setup on my RapidCAD machine, run through the tutorial again, and download the design to my board. That'll be the main exhibit.

With that out of the way, I can turn my attention to getting my Epson Apex 200 upgraded to 3MB of RAM so it can open XC3000 designs in X-ACT v2.12.

#retrocomputing #fpga

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

tubetime ("Tube🍂Time") wrote:

a friend of mine just booted Linux on an Intel 4004! (yes, the first microprocessor)

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004

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

this is interesting, more will come

https://runwayml.com/news/runway-partners-with-lionsgate

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant's power generation for at least 20 years.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/re-opened-three-mile-island-will-power-ai-data-centers-under-new-deal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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

watching the 1st in the PBS series on LBJ, I was struck by how they skipped over both his time teaching Brown children in a segregated school and his brief active duty time during WW2. one period helped form his politics, and the other revealed a great deal about his character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson?wprov=sfti1#Early_life

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:

VLC Media Player has encountered a problem with Windows

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• A photo of two floor to ceiling shop windows. One is badly cracked having been hit by something. The second is smashed even worse and has an orange traffic cone embedded in the window (remote)

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

backyard birds this lovely morning

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I printed and framed two photographs on my parents’ request. Digitally printed from 35mm Fuji Superia X-tra 400 film on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper.

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• Two framed color prints on a white wall. The left features a stone house in front of a green hill, the right features a seagull standing atop a pier.
• The same prints from a different angle.
• The same prints from a different angle.

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

alberto_cottica@mastodon.green ("Alberto Cottica") wrote:

Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important.

https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany).

#economics #tax

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

I used to move my alarm time constantly, based mainly on how I felt at night when I was getting in bed. But when my kid started school, I was forced out of that habit, and I recently realized what a positive difference it's made in my life.

It's also a lot easier to drag yourself out of bed when you already know exactly how much time you have, because you live it every day. It's psychologically easier to obey an unwavering constant than the whims of yourself from last night.

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

Tiny life tip: set your alarm for the exact same time every day. Don't move it around based on the day or how you feel at night.

For one thing, you get to know exactly how much time you have in the morning, and it's nice to just offload that mental work.

But more importantly: it's an anchor for your sleep schedule. If your alarm time doesn't move, your bedtime is much less likely to move, and you're better incentivized to organize your evening around the next morning.

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

cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:

I was having a nice day until I saw this and have made the executive decision to make it all y'all's problem as well

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• pavement and roadwork with some misplaced paneling covering underlying infrastructure (remote)

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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)

#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus

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• Oldschool Windows 95 error dialog box with For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:

#UFO50 released today! It's the long-awaited next game from Mossmouth (creators of #Spelunky.)

They describe it thusly: "UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design."

And all these games were supposedly made by the same fictional company. Can't wait to dive in!

#IndieGames #RetroGaming

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• Ultima Underworld-esque 3D maze with orc monsters, a bat, and a cloaked man with a sword who appears to have taken a hit. Game HUD is displayed on left and right. (remote)
• Colorful game on a grid of checkered tiles with slime-like creatures and a femme character jumping. (remote)
• What appears to be an adventure game sort of interface showing a living room, minimap, and inventory containing a spoon, some sort of crumpled paper, spare change, and a box of matches. (remote)
• An armored character standing in a cavern-like environment with what looks like a giant otter person with colorful boots kneeling. Text on the screen reads "10 star fragments opens the path, but also awakens the bile of old." (remote)

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

VincentTunru@mozilla.social ("Vincent Tunru") wrote:

Some people argue that Firefox should be able to survive on donations, if only Mozilla accepted them.

To which I say: prove it, you cowards; go set up your monthly donation to @servo.

If there's a project that can prove that that model works, it's Servo.

https://servo.org/sponsorship/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I made a bear blog so I can rant about politics without mucking up my main blog.

RSS it why don't ya.

Anyway, look out for a new essay on my main blog soon. I think it's a pretty pretty pretty okay post

https://fromjason.bearblog.dev

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

Had to explain to a colleague how the compositer works with animations and y'all, browsers are a miracle.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Learn more about overdraft fees

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/understanding-overdraft-opt-choice/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

If you reply to this with a comment shaming people for being poor, I'm going to call you out and then block you.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A pro tip for the monetarily challenged:

You can OPT-OUT of overdraft protection AKA over draft fees.

Call your bank and tell them:

I would like to opt-out of all overdraft protection services, so any transaction that would overdraw my account are declined.

They might try to get you to sign up for another service that reduces the fee but stand firm. They'll tell you that ACH charges may still go through. That's fine. Most charges aren't ACH.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm surprised they haven't called it "Copilot Copilot"

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113166497420667804

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

That Midwestern thing where any time you receive anything resembling a compliment, all your energy goes into trying to humbly downplay it, so you realize later you were so busy being self-deprecating you completely forgot to reciprocate the kindness in any way at all.

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

this election modeling is pretty interesting:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/#ec-vs-popular-vote

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In this house we believe

All cops are bastards
Defund the police
Fuck 12

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Hand soap: He's right behind me isn't he?

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• Bathroom mirror selfie of Jack Dorsey looking to disheveled with long messy hair and a long beard and black clothes.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

When you were tweeting, I was studying the blade

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• Bathroom mirror selfie of Jack Dorsey looking to disheveled with long messy hair and a long beard and black clothes.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Jack what are we doing

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• Bathroom mirror selfie of Jack Dorsey looking to disheveled with long messy hair and a long beard and black clothes.

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

Nothing highlights more acutely the massive gap between React and every other modern framework than working with form inputs.

Building forms in React, after having done so in literally any other modern framework, is like going from this year's iPhone to a 2004 Blackberry.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

When LCD Soundsystem said so go and dance yourself clean, I felt that