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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

so funny ("funny") when you have some need for a privacy-preserving feature and literally nobody ships it because why would they

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seachanger@alaskan.social ("wet forest moon folklorist") wrote:

Jon batiste / für Elise

#ebbtidejams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YRhvH6Uys

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

Rick Astley voice: The horrors persist but so do I.

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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

Red and white.

Attachments:

• Red and White / Cat: Wine comes in two kinds Girl: Not everything is binary / Cat: White and red Girl: Rose! / Girl: 20th century terrors come in two kinds Cat: Terroirs Girl: White and red / Cat: Rose terror - Orange terror Girl: And revolutionary armies Cat: The workers and the peasants Plum Army / Cat: You need to break a different type of glass for each. Girl: What a joke. / Girl: We've learned NOTHING from history Cat: Joke? Girl: and they NEVER will / Cat: What's black and white and red all over? Girl: The ideological factions in the Ukrainian War of Independence! / Cat: What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? Girl: Global warming. (remote)

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bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

The wait is over. HTML for People is OUT NOW!

I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This web book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

And it’s free for all. 🚀

https://htmlforpeople.com

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allisonchinart@mastodon.art ("Allisonchinart") wrote:

Flying in the Light

#art #illustration #whales

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• Illustration of a humpback whale family (remote)

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

(this is from 2018 but it's a gem) speculative execution almost destroyed the xbox 360 https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

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prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

Patrolling 2

#unix_surrealism #mata #retrocomputing #comic

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• Two fully sentient MATA mercenaries patrol the desert. Junior and Senior. Senior: "You want to say something. What is it?" Junior: "The hackers... they keep elderly machines alive for decades past their expiry dates." Senior: "Unlike them we're not monsters. We let machines die with grace once they grow old." Junior: "...that makes sense I guess. Man... imagine dying of old age at 6 months." Senior: "The machine welcomes death. That's what the GovCorp says anyway..." (remote)

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ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

This is a motherf*cking website.

I revisit this motherf*cking website at least once per year because I make motherf*cking websites for a living.

I love this motherf*cking website. It keeps me motherf*cking humble.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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

Would you like to speak to an AI version of a Biblical patriarch? I've seen too much Star Trek, I think it would be fun to try & make it melt down.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/16/hes-only-missing-a-creationist-crypto-currency-now/

Attachments:

• Answers in Genesis wants to build a Noah chatbot (remote)

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

There's no such thing as a non-racist eugenicist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/16/ra-fisher-rises-again/

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• My dear Gates, Thanks for your letter, It is always good to hear from you. I shall try to answer your quention. i I agroe with you entirely that Penrose and Haldene are both defindtely hostile to esugenics, the last move being to change the name of what used to be called The Annals of Eugenics. In my opinion, by far the most important work in human heredity is that done by Race, Kourant, and their associates at the Lister Institution, for this shows clearly,what many of us have suspected - the vast number of differences in gene frequency existing between different human races. I am sorry that there should be propoganda in favour of miscegenation in North America, for I am sure that it can do nothing but harm. Is it beyond human endeavour to give and Justly to administer equal rights to all citizens without fooling ourselves that these are equivalent items. (remote)

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I participated in a RIPE NCC Open House on Green Tech and Sustainability in Internet Technologies, and the talks by the two other speakers were very interesting

https://www.ripe.net/meetings/open-house/green-tech-and-sustainability-in-internet-technologies-2-oct-2024/

#LowCarbonComputing

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

Old and new(er).

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/16/found-in-a-back-room-at-my-mothers-house/

Attachments:

• PZ Myers' personal bible and PZ Myers' book, The Happy Atheist. (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Zombie Blob from Outer Space

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be@floss.social ("CEO of Anti-Clock Society") wrote:

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Good morning! Almost half of the EU stock of the stuffed Mastodon toy was sold yesterday. I've reserved a 100 units for when we can start selling to the UK. The rest still need a loving home!

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-plushie

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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simon_on_energy@fediscience.org ("Simon Waldman") wrote:

AI really is the new bitcoin: Google and Facebook extend coal burning in Omaha

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/14/ai-really-is-the-new-bitcoin-google-and-facebook-extend-coal-burning-in-omaha/

The question we should be asking of every new technology : is it worth the resources that it costs?

(one of the resources, in this case, being our rapidly diminishing global carbon budget)

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• 9572eb325ea5b450.jpg (remote)

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ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de ("Nina Willburger") wrote:

I'm in awe: holding a 40,000-year-old #IceAge masterpiece in your hand is something you don't get to do every day!
The amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth is carved in mammoth ivory. It will be on display at Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg from Saturday.

Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

And yes, I'm really, really happy 😊

#bestjobintheworld #archaeology

Attachments:

• The picture shows the small ivory figurine of a mammoth. It lies on a gloved hand. (remote)
• The picture shows a happy archaeologist holding the mammoth figurine in her hand. (remote)

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danilo@hachyderm.io ("Danilo Campos 🇵🇷") wrote:

Among the most tediously evil weasels in the game, yes, but I’m glad their masks are finally off

it’s always exhausting to buy early on “these guys are enormous dickheads”
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/113314591927833243

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

I'm sure I'm probably not the first person to coin the term "batshitty," but I feel it's especially apt here, as it implies both insanity and shittiness.

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

Matt Mullenweg is like a human Advent calendar but where every day just gets more unbelievably batshitty

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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• Reddy the dog looks aghast on stage, microphone off to side in his hand as he is seen in a suit from the view of watching television. Narration: "They say drinking makes you LAZY--truth IS, booze just makes you realizes there's no REASON to work." (remote)

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gustedt.wordpress.com@gustedt.wordpress.com ("Jens Gustedt's Blog") wrote:

The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654

This new edition has been the occasion to overhaul the presentation in many places, but its main purpose is the update to the new C standard, C23. The goal was to publish this new edition of Modern C at the same time as the new C standard goes through the procedure of ISO publication. The closest approximation of the contents of the new standard in a publically available document can be found here. New releases of major compilers already implement most of the new features that it brings.

Among the most noticeable changes and additions that we handle are those for integers: there are new bit-precise types coined _BitInt(N), new C library headers (for arithmetic with overflow check) and (for bit manipulation), possibilities for 128 bit types on modern architectures, and substantial improvements for enumeration types. Other new concepts in C23 include a nullptr constant and its underlying type, syntactic annotation with attributes, more tools for type generic programming such as type inference with auto and typeof, default initialization with {}, even for variable length arrays, and constexpr for named constants of any type. Furthermore, new material has been added, discussing compound expressions and lambdas, so-called “internationalization”, a comprehensive approach for program failure.

Also added has been an appendix and a temporary include header for an easy transition to C23 on existing platforms, that will allow you to start off with C23 right away.

Manning’s early access program (MEAP) for the new edition is still open at

https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c-third-edition

Unfortunately they were not yet able to tell me when their version of the C23 edition will finally be published.

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/the-c23-edition-of-modern-c/

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

The Europa Clipper finally took off! It'll reach this icy, water-filled moon of Jupiter in 2030. But it won't orbit that moon. Instead, it will fly by Europa 44 times, tracing out these wonderful tracks.

Why not orbit Europa? There's too much radiation that close to Jupiter, and the Clipper can collect data much faster than it can transmit it to Earth. If it orbited Europa it would fry before it could tell us very much!

Thus, the Clipper will spend most of its time farther from Jupiter, transmitting data to Earth. Using gravity assists from 2 other moons, it will occasionally swoop down, zip past Europa, and make more measurements.

In its 3½ year life, the Europa Clipper will get 2.8 megarads of radiation from Jupiter. This is about 280 times the amount that would kill you! Jupiter is pretty, but don't try to live nearby.

(1/n)

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• A picture of Jupiter's moon Europa in front of Jupiter, and 44 paths that the Europa Clipper will take as it repeatedly flies past this moon. The paths go all over, since the plane is to achieve global coverage of Europa during successive flybys. Picture by NASA available on Wikicommons here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EuropaClipper.jpg (remote)

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

I was making the Universal Sign of Need A Ride. Standing on the roadside with a travel case and my phone held in front of me, watching an icon of my ride approaching on the map. A really poor map, apparently. because the icon wasn’t lining up with streets at all, it was just heading straight toward me over what the map showed as canefields.

Then I felt my feet lifting off the ground. A blinding light shone from above. I looked up in alarm seeing, as I squinted to reduce the glare, a dark disc with an iris-like central opening.

I was drawn into the iris which closed. leaving me in a round room with a red sofa and a curved wallscreen showing the view out across the fields. There was a glass-doored bar fridge beside the sofa.

A disembodied voce with the telltale cadence of an autotranslator spoke.

“Hello, this is Vl’than your Uber Driver.
Feel free to sit down and help yourself to a beverage.”

“Uh, I ah. Wha-what. Is this an abduction?”

“Oh, no, just a rideshare. I was in the area doing some circle work when I saw your job come up. Heading into town, yes?”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

211 plushies sold on the very first day. Can't wait for folks to start receiving them!

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night, @chipsandcheese joined @bcantrill, me, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5th generation EPYC processor, codename: Turin. What's new in Turin and how is Oxide's Turin-based platform coming along?

https://youtu.be/9iJ2T5IHp8E

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linc@phpc.social ("Lincoln Russell") wrote:

Is your #WordPress installation secure from Mullenweg-In-The-Middle attacks? 🤔

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

199 now... Almost there! That's amazing.

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

I haven't looked into https://gosub.io/ too deeply but it seems to be taking the approach I told @ajroach42 I wanted to see in the browser space (modular components working together to provide as much/little of the current modern browser experience as desired)