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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Men! You too can be objectified and simplified! We are apparently mustaches wearing ties.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/19/reminder-for-all-us-guys/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today ("Jon P") wrote:
@laurenshof has a good article on @fediversereport that I thought was very good on Bluesky/AT's decentralization https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-decentralisation-and-the-distribution-of-power/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
marching is not going to motivate masses of folks in the face of a clean victory by the forces of authoritarianism. the majority of American voters chose this, and we need to think about what to do next. marching is not enough, will once again not be effective.
we need to figure out the lessons of this moment… this is a time for reflection, not for simply marching to vague slogans in lashed-together temporary coalitions.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
New blog post https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-11-18-misguided.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can we just treat the Bible as a curious archive of ancient & medieval ideas, rather than as a source of wisdom? Please?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
neilmadden@infosec.exchange ("Neil Madden") wrote:
NIST saying they are going to forbid ECC by 2035 is like forbidding wind power because you think fusion is just around the corner. It is sensible to invest in post-quantum hybrids as a hedge, but deprecating ECC is daft when there is still so little certainty that quantum computing is achievable at all.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Not sure how I missed this: NIST is deprecating and then outright disallowing elliptic curve cryptography for key establishment as well as for digital signatures by 2035: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
How is BlueSky, today, more resilient to being purchased by a billionaire?
In what ways are AT Protocol open?
These are two questions that I cannot find direct answers to by the BlueSky team or evangelists, despite searching for them, and flat out asking.
I ask because both claims are major selling points of the BS experiment, and both have been repeated by journalists. But no one has thought to ask how?
What am I missing?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:
The Reverse Orpheus.
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- THE REVERSE ORPHEUS / Girl: We're all moving backwards Cat: People like to move backwards! / Girl: Maybe backwards is the only path we can see Cat: I am DEFINITELY not going to bump into anything / Girl: because "progress" was claimed by the tech industry to mean advances in consumer widgets instead of social movements / Girl: and we can all see what the last twenty years of big tech progress have given us / Girl: Access to more and more things that are crummier and crummier - attempts at connection routed through for-profit platforms choked with misleading ads and malicious lies - passions reduced to content - bad jobs made worse / Girl: but time doesn't move backwards / / Girl: We're still moving forward - we're just not facing it Cat: This is forward to me now (remote)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Trump is a petty, divisive troll. Let's hope it makes him the most ineffective president ever.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/19/the-president-is-a-troll/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
on my morning walk
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a powerful piece… sometimes sadness is needed before action
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
minidebconf_tls@piaille.fr ("MiniDebConf Toulouse") wrote:
Thanks to @freexian for sponsoring MiniDebConf Toulouse
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:
During the mini debconf Toulouse, the #debusine team ran a very nice demo of a workflow that starts with a #debian source package, builds it on 4 architectures, runs lintian/autopkgtest/piuparts on all those architectures and then uploads the source package to Debian's incoming queue after having received the signature from the developer. Already available to all debian developers on debusine.debian.net!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jecfish@indieweb.social ("Jecelyn Yeen 🐟") wrote:
2 neat features to improve network debugging in the Performance panel. #ChromeDevTools
💈 Hover to view critical network information upfront
🕵♀️ Click Cmd + F to searchLess context switching, better focus. @tunetheweb
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Get stickers!
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Mastodon FeedChrisPirillo ("Chris Pirillo") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
👉🏼Cheyenne, Wyoming (AP) — A judge on Monday struck down #Wyoming’s overall ban on #abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/politics/wyoming-abortion-laws-struck-down?cid=ios_app
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
got a little something you can contribute to the patreon that keeps the dev team going? please yes. as an olde retired farte, I don’t have the buxs to donate to many things (this, wikipedia, eff, let’s encrypt), but Mastodon, like the others, is about supporting the development of tools for creating our own new FOSS intersubjectivities
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@Gargron @kevinrothrock you change the game with your work 👍🏼
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
radleybalko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Radley Balko") wrote:
Probably safe to say Gaetz would be the first AG to use the PayPal account of the son he “adopted” (but not officially) after dating the boy’s sister to compensate the teen sex workers he patronized.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:caohk5ypnjgggo6sjnnpy4na/post/3lbb4riiapc2z
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
I just realized that I don't need to argue with y'all about:
* Starter packs
* Composable moderation
* Quote tweets
* Paying trust & safety engineers for their labor
* Funding stuff without VC or begging for donations
* If UX is possible without VC moneyI don't need to argue with y'all about any of this. I'm not asking for your permission or your help. I'm telling you what's going to happen.
Mastodon is moving in the right direction, just slowly. It could be faster with funding + focus.
1/N
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xek@hachyderm.io ("xek (👻🏴☠️👻)") wrote:
Almost done with this l-match #hamradio antenna tuner. I tried to put it into a case since it was a known circuit, which went predictably poorly. After I splayed it out onto a blank copper board (like I should've done in the first place), it became much easier to find the problems.
The final version is in a different case, using a different coil setup, but, most importantly: using copper tape as "bus bars" worked really well. Would recommend as a technique, if you're low power enough.
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- A photograph of a disaster of a desk, covered in a pile of mess, with a bit of useful work cleared in. There is a trusdx connected to a bunch of components randomly soldered to a blank piece of copperclad board, going off to some banana jacks on the other side of the photograph. (remote)
- A photograph of the final version, which is nestled into a 3d printed case, with things much more neatly packaged. There are two "bus bars" made out of copper tape that's been stuck to the inside of the case. (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the quality improvement resulting from using gpt-4o or gpt-4o-mini instead of earlier models (like 3.5-turbo) is startlingly discernible, but sadly so is the latency degradation. 4o-mini is way cheaper than 4o, but the difference in latency is human-insignificant for these porpoises.
this is indeed a harsh set of tradeoffs, and I may need to look at other LLMs… 3.5-turbo responses are just far too low-quality.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hkrn@mstdn.social ("Hacker News") wrote:
Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
L: https://cerebras.ai/blog/llama-405b-inference
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178761
posted on 2024.11.18 at 19:15:04 (c=0, p=5)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fulelo@journa.host ("Kriszta Satori") wrote:
#BBCNews - Furious row at UN as Russia blocks Sudan ceasefire move
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33elmnzj0poMore on the war in #Sudan from #TheGlobalJigsaw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hq5c5s
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
charlotteclymer ("Charlotte Clymer") wrote:
Today, Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to the House rules package that would ban trans women from using women's restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. This is being done as Sarah McBride is set to become the first openly-trans Member of Congress.
It remains very unclear how this rule would be enforced.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:
More soon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:
Slack said its most recent survey found 33% of U.S. workers say they are using AI at work, an increase of just a single percentage point. That represents a significant flattening of the rapid growth noted in prior surveys.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/19/study-growth-of-ai-adoption-slows-among-u-s-workers/