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devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

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• Word "SLOWER" added to to sign with marker: POLAR BEAR IS IN THE AREA!! USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN HEADED OUTSIDE!! GO WITH A CO-WORKER. (remote)

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

gleemie@social.coop ("Lilly Irani") wrote:

Princeton is up to it's 70% fall sale again. My book Chasing Innovation about what's wrong with #innovation in building towards social #justice is $10.50. Discount code: FALL70

I just bought Carl Frey's on Power and #Labor In the Age of #Automation myself!

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691175140/chasing-innovation

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

Relative Activity & Testing Costs (gpt-4o vs gpt-4o-mini) October

gpt-4o

API Requests: 58
Tokens: 36,669
Dev Spend: $0.33 ($0.005689/Request)

gpt-4o-mini

API Requests: 258
Tokens: 172,037
Dev Spend: $0.09 ($0.000346/Request)

gpt-4o-mini used
~4.45 times the API Requests
&
~4.7 times the Tokens
but cost ~27% of using gpt-4o

TLDR:
about 6/10ths of 1 cent per w gpt-4o
&
about 4/100ths of 1 cent per w gpt-4o-mini
&
no noticeable degradation in story quality

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

My granddaughter gets to play a fun game at school.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/30/modern-education/

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• active shooter drills! (remote)

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

fixed some service-side stuff, which of course broke some client-side stuff. mañana, I’ll fix what I broke mañana

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• 90d863e009644ef0.mp4 (remote)

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

As a comic, if you're invited to a room of powerful people, and your instinct isn't to speak truth to power, but rather punch down at a group of people who statistically aren't even in the room, you're a hack and a coward.

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

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

i'm preparing to publish some new essays soon so here's a thread of some essays from the past few years that i'm kinda proud of

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

Society if white male comics defended anything as much as they defend other white male comics.

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• A vibrant community scene depicting people engaged in various activities in a sustainable farm setting. Wind turbines and solar panels are visible in the background. The landscape features gardens with diverse plants, people working together, and cozy homes. The atmosphere is bright and lively,

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

a@exozy.me ("​") wrote:

Here's the "I Can't Believe It Can Sort" algorithm for sorting in *increasing* order, from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01111:

for i in range(n):
for j in range(n):
if A[i] < A[j]:
A[i], A[j] = A[j], A[i]

I still can't believe it can sort!

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

anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

Seeking advice:

A friend wants a website where people can support her art project, and we’re looking at options!

What’s the easiest way for a regular user to launch a website with a simple donation link, preferably with easy Apple/Google Pay and credit card options?

Free support for mapping a domain name is a bonus. This is in the U.S. in case it matters.

Thanks!

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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

found a new muppet 🙂

(bdelloid, a type of rotifer, under electron microscope)

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• Bizarre yet cute tiny organism that looks like a chubby pale green worm with small googlt orange eyes and a curved mouth that looks like it's smiling (remote)

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

eled_nil@mstdn.social ("Alina") wrote:

Cartoon by Jim Benton
#Meme #spookyseason

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• In this comic by Jim Benton, Alice, a character with blue hair and a pentagram hoodie, is seen setting up a ritual circle with candles and a red pentagram. In the second panel, she summons a green demon-like creature. As the ritual continues, more strange and demoniac creatures appear in the circle. In the second-to-last panel, a purple creature realizes something's off, saying, "Wait a second… These are birthday candles!" In the final panel, the creatures, now joined by Alice holding a birthday cake, look happy. The last character now touched says:"You guys" (remote)

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

picardtips@botsin.space ("Picard Tips") wrote:

Picard civics tip: Elect leaders the way you would hire crew members. Seek calm, control, and familiarity with how to operate the ship.

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

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

as a friend pointed out in a followers-only post, @bob 's Epicyon activitypub server is a non-toy implementation that does not use a database but renders posts as flat files on disk!

https://libreserver.org/epicyon/

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

Join me in the Fettaverse! — Guy who is definitely not a viral TikTok pasta dish

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

I've declared myself king of the social web, peasants.

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• Cartoon lion, prince John, sucking his thumb and grabbing his earlobe. He's wearing a kings robe, crown, and jeweled rings.

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

aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

lately whenever i try out new foss software, it's like i can see the next ten years of my life unfold. the group producing the software launches a startup for hosting/"enterprise support"; the startup gets acquired; the acquiring company does lawyer stuff to repossess the code from the commons; there's a community fork under a different name; the fork builds up cruft that encourages a *different* group to make an incompatible "stripped-down" version; that group launches a startup...

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Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social ("Dr. Brad Rosenheim") wrote:

Climate protestors in Spain are blocking roads, whether they want to or not. Photo from ClimateDefiance at that other site.

#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateProtest
#NewNormal
#ClimateDiary
#ClimateDisaster
#ClimateChange
#Climate
#OilSubsidies

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• A view down a small street gradually curving to the left. A person looks outward down the street from the bottom center of the photo. Cars are stacked on other in a disorganized fashion, 2 to 3 deep, wall to wall against the facades of the apartments and shops that line the streets. There are approximately 100 cars in this predicament and the street is impassable. Photo from ClimateDefiance at the bird site. (remote)

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

ieure@retro.social ("djinn & juice") wrote:

@cstanhope Related, here's "Hang 5," a surf rock cover of Take Five.

https://elcastillo904.bandcamp.com/track/hang-5

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

Good morning[1], fellow travelers. Could I interest you in an interpretation of "Take Five" from an orchestra out of Pakistan? It's got some righteous tabla and sitar work. Sachal Studios Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLF46JKkCNg

[1] Toot recipient's apparent time may differ.

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genode@floss.social ("Genode") wrote:

The upcoming @fosdem 2025 will again host the "Microkernel and Component-Based OS" devroom! The Call for Papers is open until December 1, 2024.

#FOSDEM

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/microkernel-devroom/2024-October/000198.html

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• Screenshot call for papers on mailing list (remote)

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

amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

SpecOps is an assembler framework with s-exp syntax written in pure and portable Common Lisp. It provides backends for x86, Z80, 68K, and more.

https://github.com/phantomics/specops

#assembler #assembly #CommonLisp #lisp

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Truck@icosahedron.website ("Sir Garbagetruck") wrote:

You may be interested in the broadcast I'll be doing from Zoo party this weekend.

C64 demoparty, Finland.

Will be broadcast on scenesat.com and scenecity.tv .

#demoscene

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

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

All watched over by machines of loving grace but it's all the creatures big and (especially) small we have coevolved with that keep this tiny oasis of life in a vast cold universe thriving.

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

‘After Mr. Hasan voiced support for Palestinians, the CNN guest, Ryan James Girdusky, said, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/business/cnn-pager-comment-mehdi-hasan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

key skill for this sort of warfare:

‘Learning how to advance in small teams that can attack and then dissipate into thin air was key...

“It is so powerful to be able to send a company’s worth of personnel, which is about 130 people, on those vehicles, along multiple routes, and then at a point bring them together to attack the enemy, and then disappear in different directions,” said Maj. Gen. Marcus Evans, the 25th Infantry Division’s commander.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/politics/us-military-army-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The only thing AI is good at is convincing people AI is good at things.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@ipg These days *everyone's* IP address is ::1. :p

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freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles against genocide") wrote:

This makes me think we should just build our own LED modules using mostly thru-hole components rather than buying integrated off-the-shelf ones, since it's almost never the LEDs themselves that fail. Maybe power them with USB-C PD.

Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/29/lies-big-lies-and-led-lightbulb-lifespan-promises/

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

From: @mmasnick
https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/113392501165577956

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• Scene from Matrix. Mouse: "BlueSky and Meta Pub are fighting"