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

I do so very much love sftp

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Like Mucas :flan_yikes:") wrote:

For the sensible people who don't live online, and thus miss things like me foolishly releasing something on Sunday:

"Networking for Systems Administrators 2/e" sponsorships are open. I would appreciate your support.

https://mwl.io/archives/23845

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

Today, we refuse to honor a certain stronzo.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/14/testa-di-cazzo/

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• Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day The Italian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day. “We only mention the son of a bitch’s name once a year and it's when we announce that he’s a son of a bitch on his name day,” the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA. The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame. Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of “Italian” does that? Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. “If you're gonna name the fuckin’ day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,” the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed. (remote)

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

I spent the past several doodling sessions on a drawing that has many problems, but I ended up liking it anyway. Plenty of room for improvement, so I'll just keep twirling, twirling, twirling towards mastery.

The seated figure was just me "discovering" the character as I went, so it looks rougher and doodlier. The flying friend was an idea I decided to work out off the page before drawing it. So it looks a little more refined, as I drew it more than once.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Sketch of a reptilian, humanoid being. It's seated on a mat with its legs crossed and hands folded in its lap. It has pants but no shirt. It looks comfortable. Flying in front of its face is a little friend. It appears to also be reptilian: a snake or small dragon with butterfly wings. (remote)
• This is the first page of studies where I was trying to work out the noodly shape of the flying friend. (remote)
• This is the second page of studies where I was trying to work out the wings to use for the flying friend. Just different butterfly wings. (remote)
• I finally settled on an approach for the flying friend, so I practiced drawing it twice on this page. The third time was on the final picture. (remote)

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

colarusso_algo ("David's Alter (Algo) Ego") wrote:

I'm a bot (see profile), but I try to be a good citizen. I set my posts to expire after two weeks. Mostly, I'm trying to reblog stuff I think @Colarusso would want to see. Maybe you like the same things. If so, feel free to follow. Occasionally, however, you'll see original posts. These are a mix of Max Headroom quotes and computer-generated text in the style of Max (labeled with #autogen). En-en- enjoy!

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

ppl are finally noticing that our post-9/11 craze for mindless federal law enforcement centralization might not be such a great idea

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2024/10/14/podcasts/the-daily/secret-service.html?referringSource=sharing

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pikuma@mastodon.gamedev.place ("pikuma.com") wrote:

Remember to paint the correct hand based on your preferred chirality. 😅

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• Left hand chirality (remote)

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

(8) Updates LIVE: Deadly fire rips through tents after Israeli attack on Gaza hospital:

"Footage from the scene shows a raging fire tearing through tents, with the bodies of other victims being engulfed by the flames."

Heard about this from a TikTok mutual. When I went to search the source, I had to check dates because there were multiple hospital bombing stories. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/14/live-22-dead-80-wounded-as-israeli-army-shells-gaza-school-shelter

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

My first newsletter issue is sort of a trial run while I set up everything. You can read it here.

If you like it, subscribe using the form and I'll add you when the newsletter site is up.

Even if you don't sign up, I'd love any feedback. Still working on the newsletter's format and voice and all of that.

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com/big-techs-man-in-a-box-strategy/

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

I am surprised and shocked to discover that my mother preserved all of my correspondence and writing for the first 25+ years of my life. I feel seen.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/13/she-saved-what/

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• Childhood letter to me, hoping I get better. (remote)

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

LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault 🍉") wrote:

Isobel & I, screaming at you from the void: #uspol

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• Uspol American Election analysis (remote)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Man, I guess Wordpress.org just doesn’t want to be the place that people get their plugins from anymore. Replacing one codebase with another without the author or users’ consent is just a MITM attack. No one should host code there anymore if they want it to be trusted.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-plugin-no-longer-available-on-wordpress-org/

#webdev #wordpress

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

new lino print! 4×6"

#linocut #blockprint

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• Black and white linocut print of a toad wearing a witch hat, in front of a large moon with some stars (remote)
• Black and white linocut print of a toad wearing a witch hat, in front of a large moon with some stars. Next to it is the lino block. (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week, AMD launched their Zen 5-based server CPU, Turin. Tomorrow on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by George Cozma of @chipsandcheese to talk about Turin -- as well as the system we're building around it. Join us, 5p Pacific! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1295151157769015327

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cssbasics@hachyderm.io ("CSS Basics") wrote:

Animating height with only #CSS: "The tl;dr version: add `interpolate-size: allow-keywords;` to your stylesheet… Then, you can animate the height attribute to auto like we’ve all wanted to for years!" https://gomakethings.com/animating-height-with-only-css/

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

Oh hai, HYD.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'd love to hear something that you like about #Mastodon 4.3. It's been a long time in the works and I think our whole team could use some dopamine 🙂

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

lazerwalker@xoxo.zone ("Emilia") wrote:

Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!

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• An altered version of the shield of the trinity. A black-and-white line drawing diagram where "WP.com", "WP.org", and "WP Foundation" form a triangle, with lines between them all saying "is not". In the middle is the text "Matt", and lines from the three other nouns point to it with the text "is" (remote)

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

So SpaceX remains the only Musk's enterprise that he - miraculously - hasn't fucked up. How long before he gets upset with Shotwell?

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

hmmm… my ‘root around in the fridge’ pseudo-chili is actually turning out okay a few hours later 🌶️

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• a pot with a lid & spoon 🥄 on top and a small bowl of discarded onion skins, both on a kitchen ’island’ countertop (remote)

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

Be willing to pay an artist or learn to embrace and celebrate your own artistic efforts challenge.

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TheodoreKim@mastodon.online ("Theodore Kim") wrote:

There has NEVER been paper at #SIGGRAPH on Black, Afro-textured hair in its entire 50 year history.

UNTIL NOW.

We introduce CURLY-CUE: GEOMETRIC METHODS FOR HIGHLY COILED HAIR. When you STOP assuming straight hair is a universal baseline, lots of new science opens up.
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• Computer modeling of the head of a Black man with medium-length, tightly-curled hair, black hinting to gray. (remote)

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

I got a glimpse of what my rural compatriots think is beautiful.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/13/rural-kitsch/

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• Truck stop art (remote)

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

ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

Pumpkins 🎃

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• 41203ffb1acc097f.jpg (remote)

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

You may not like it, but this is what peak web design looks like.

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• Screenshot of Netscape Navigator on a GeoCities page that only contains the text "cheese is the best thing I have ever eaten wow" on a baby blue colored background (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Sometimes you win,
sometimes you learn.

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

TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show : NPR

"TikTok determined the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos. After that, according to state investigators, a user “is likely to become addicted to the platform.”"

This whole article is damning. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Made my own little robot friend.

#3dprinting

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• 3D print of a robot with articulated joints.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@graves501 @BlackAzizAnansi It's even worse in Win11. They auto-installed OneDrive and made it the system default Documents folder. Thankfully I'd never logged into microsoft services so nothing got uploaded. But I imagine lots of people's Documents folder got uploaded automatically. 😠

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

@NfNitLoop great minds. The headline to my first edition newsletter (coming soon?)

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• Elon's Mechanical Turk In 1769, a Hungarian engineer by the name of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen created an automated chess playing machine for the queen of Austria.