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SomaFMrusty@defcon.social ("Rusty Hodge [SomaFM]") wrote:

SomaFM's Merin MC, while she's not DJing or doing art direction/design/branding, also writes speculative fiction as M Luke McDonell.

She's going to be in Lit Crawl, reading Saturday night as part of "Kick-Ass Women Protagonists" Saturday October 26, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT at the Latin American Club, 3286 22nd St.

She'll be reading along with Kimberly Unger, Gail Carriger, Katie Flynn, and Andrea Stewart:

https://litcrawlsanfrancisco2024.sched.com/event/1mMh5/kick-ass-women-protagonists

Maybe we'll see you there? (I'll be helping sell books and such)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Runes of Ardun, my strategy board game, is now also available for Windows!

Building the Windows version using @TauriApps was great and allowed me to easily integrate the game's AI, which is written in Rust.

Download your copy for free here: https://runesofardun.app

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• 5ce8a699cb397608.png (remote)

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

first optimization in place... using a different model reduces the per-[redacted] LLM charge to < $0.01 per.

we likes this

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

She’s so cute 😭

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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• A white cat with orange patches and a pink nose (Peaches) sitting on a pizza box.

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

Huh. I wasn't expecting an MIT Press book to come hot off of Amazon's print on demand service. :/

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

I came across a couple of more sketchbooks. In one, I found a practice run for a Chinese New Year's card I made for a friend in 2008. I've made a few different cards over the years. Some hand made for an individual, others printed for holidays. (I've always wanted to do a lino print run.)

2007 was the year of the pig, and 2008 was the year of the rat. With that info, I think you get the idea. My friend seemed to like the card, which was all that mattered.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Cartoon image of a rat running upright wielding a broom chasing a pig. The pig has a worried expression, and the rat has what appears to be a confident expression. (remote)
• Same picture as before, but this was the final one done on red card stock. I also used gold ink to place a symbol in the middle above the pig and rat. The symbol (if I copied it correctly) should mean something like "good fortune". There's a bit of a smudge under the rat that I corrected with a careful application of an X-acto blade before giving the card to my friend. (remote)

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

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

@loren @colin @alex

hell yeah, this is just so mint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZl0MHwgn8c

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

waltisfrozen@threads.net ("Greg Saunders") wrote:

Holy shit. The LA Times didn't just squash a Kamala Harris endorsement. They buried an entire series of articles about Donald Trump.

"According to internal memos viewed by TheWrap, the series, tentatively called 'The Case Against Trump,' would have ran throughout this week. The endorsement of Kamala Harris would then have been published on Sunday."

https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-case-against-trump-kamala-endorsement-canceled/

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

matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

Hi academic folks. We’re hiring tenure-track faculty in computer security and cryptography this year at Johns Hopkins. Please come and work with us! https://facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Home/Position?reqId=A-153420-3

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

cleaning up output displayed by the GUI for my seekrit project… and if I am reading the per-request cost numbers correctly, this actually *is* a commercially viable project ;^}

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

ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🥥🌴🍑") wrote:

When Reagon won, after Democrats completely abandoned the New Deal as well as its success, they learned the completely wrong lesson and began chasing Republicans further to the right as they believed they needed to appear more moderate in order to win elections. This cycle continues to this day.

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

jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:

A slightly different way of looking at it though is that the reason people who are looking for a Twitter alternative are on Bluesky instead of fedi is that Bluesky's made a lot more progress than Mastodon on addressing the problems people who checked out fedi in 2022 (or 2017) encountered.

Sure there's a lot more to social networking than a Twitter alternative, and there's a lot more to fedi than Mastodon, but press coverage of fedi focuses on Mastodon and Threads as Twitter alternatives. So even people who want something more don't know to look for it in fedi. And Mastodon in particular doesn't make it easy for people who are looking for something other than mastodon.social (the default signup) and the mediocre Twitter-like mobile apps. @eniko@peoplemaking.games @oblomov@sociale.network

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

darrenburns@fosstodon.org ("Darren Burns") wrote:

An open source TUI for working with HTTP APIs - Posting 2 is out now ✨

This release adds "scripting" - run Python code before and after requests, customisable keybindings, new docs, and much more!

Lot's of room for it to improve and grow, but I'm proud of where it's at!

I wrote a bit about this release on my blog:

https://darren.codes/posts/posting2/

Repo:

https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Docs: https://posting.sh

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• A demo of Posting 2 (remote)

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

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

i was taking notes without wifi today on Spellbook #offlineFirst

https://garbados.github.io/spellbook

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

mcc wrote:

What I'm listening to today: Autechre Live at Oscillate (Birmingham 1993)

According to interviews this was the first "proper" Autechre live set; they didn't initially believe their style could work live until the Oscillate operator talked them into it. One month before Warp published "Inculabula", this set is *incredible*, a bridge from Lego Feet, dance percussion over dreamy vibes, closing at 25:20 with an alluring, gentle funk track that's one of my favorite Autechres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QihouwnA3x8

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

Yes king the gender binary is a prison

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• Top panel: Addams kids "it's a boy" "it's a girl" Bottom panel: Gomez "it's an Addams"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now sold out in the EU (but a 100 units are reserved for the UK). The US ones are technically ready to ship now but we still need to do some administrative work before we can start selling them. Sorry!

#Plushtodon

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

All my radical political views come from the movie Addams Family Values

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• Wednesday Addams dressed as an Indian says "the gods of my tribe have spoken. They said: don't trust the pilgrims"

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Video for my #P99CONF talk on DTrace at 21 is now up, though you will miss me in the chat explaining which of the slides are throwing shade at eBPF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQnB9yB9kQ

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

I mean, this would be pretty wild, right?

https://sundaecomics.com/2023/10/05/boo-rassic-park/

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redmp@recurse.social ("redmp (EDITED)") wrote:

all I want is software that's not internet connected and not ai enabled

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

You are too young for this, boy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/25/little-boy-you-are-not-yet-ready/

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• Male Latrodectus (right) approaches a female (left) (remote)

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

henk@waag.social ("henk ✅") wrote:

Life long learning: dealing with change

Extremely amusing contribution from @bert_hubert at @nlnog day (especially if you've been around for a while). Nice summary of trends or seemingly inevitable successes.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/HCcoNyhLo0w?feature=shared&t=19559 (talk starts around 5:25:55)

Slides: https://nlnog.net/static/nlnogday2024/NLNOG2024-07-Bert_Hubert_-_Life_Long_Learning.pdf

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

We're all fools together in the classroom this morning.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/25/today-im-doing-a-fools-experiment-in-the-classroom/

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• Darwin, 1849 portrait (remote)

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

thegibson@hackers.town ("The Ghoulson") wrote:

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• Arm wrestling meme one arm says Misinfo operators the other arm Corporate ad networks over the clasped hands: Centralized platforms (remote)

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

jnonfiction@social.coop ("Joshua Neds-Fox") wrote:

I had my 2024 list all locked down but this Kelly Lee Owens album just dropped and now I have to go back and cut something https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/dreamstate

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

Via @brucelawson, this post highlights why the weak sauce that a lot of tech companies (particularly Apple) are selling regarding privacy is a mirage. The only thing that will fix the problem is for data at rest to be regulated like the toxic sludge that it is:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

As I wrote back in July, browsers are better for security than native apps, but that's not enough. Technical measures aren't enough:

https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/

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

jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

Shout out to @davatron5000 for his view transitions post

https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/

I got back to trying these last night and the top few results in google were so confusing I couldn’t remember how to get started.

Then I thought “didn’t Dave have a good post on this?” Looked it up and it’s even been updated!

Still the best resource I’ve found if you just want to learn how to get started with css-only multi-page view transitions.

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

Borowitz Report:

“Giving up your rights is like riding in a driverless car,” Musk told a Republican rally audience. “Before you know it, you won’t miss having any control.”

[satire alert]

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

💦

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/style/modern-love-realizing-too-late-we-were-meant-for-each-other.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U04.zbyO.C6RLiDncac3V&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare