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

okay. actually. doing some napkin math here and I think I'm going to move my botsin.space bots to *this* mastodon instance, at least for now

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

one thought I had: if Gatsby had come out just a few years earlier and thus been on public-domain side of the 20-year chasm created by the Copyright Term Extension Act, its text would've been used for so many cool net art things over the years

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New Goodreads pre-review for #Covid Safety Handbook, available this week: "The antidote to Covid-19 misinformation and the prescription for being as safe as possible from the virus and the havoc it brings." https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7028578668

Humbled 🙏 We're so proud, and hope you check it out.

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

the other day I saw GATZ, an 8ish hour stage production that includes the entire verbatim text of The Great Gatsby. it was so so so good, both in terms of the staging and (forgive the obvious here) the underlying prose

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

trying to land on a name for my (own) dedicated bot server here... is bot.intersects.art passable?

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splendorr ("nick splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

instead of “VC Funding” we should call it “Faustian Bargaining”

ie. “Another company is proud to report they took $61 million in faustian series A bargaining. They assure us that they will be the first company to somehow avoid calamity from this cursed arrangement. We are told they plan to enjoy the riches in the short term and then pass the fated collapse along to someone else down the line”

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russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

Photovoltaic camel

Attachments:

• An aerial image of a solar photovoltaic array. Panels have been omitted in the shape of a camel. (remote)

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

So you think you know how #networking works? Riddle me this problem of the lack of connectivity under these conditions:

- Only two apps on my phone are affected, Tusky and Tesla.
- Only on my home WiFi (LTE and many public WiFi work fine).
- Only on my Pixel 5 (wife's Pixel 7 works well).
- Only started happening around a month ago.

What the hell could that be?

Bonus note: my home WiFi is on both IPv6 and IPv4. Not sure if it's relevant…

Any guesses?

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jstepien ("Jan Stępień") wrote:

I made a thing. Please do not hesitate to point me in the direction of more forms to fill. https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

The future is an AI-generated anime waifu singing a personalized song just for you about why your insurance company isn't going to pay for a kidney transplant

jwz wrote:

Good to see the outgoing Biden regime crowing about the things they are doing in the mad scramble of their last few weeks to fortify the bulkheads against the incoming shitstorm such as [...taps headset...] airline ticket refunds.

jwz wrote:

How to write a progress indicator, pro-style: (It has been a few years, so tried out Kodi again. It is still trash.)
https://jwz.org/b/ykdc

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• Screenshot

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

social media platform users are going to link offsite. the only question is how obnoxious the platform will make it for them and everyone else.

(For context: Instagram prohibits links in post text. This, plus the incentive to inflate comments, has led to the proliferation of tools where creators instruct their followers to comment with a specific word to receive a link in their DMs— in this case, to a pie crust recipe)

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• Screenshot of an Instagram comments section where every comment just says "Pie" (remote)

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mhoye wrote:

Paraphrased, that reads "At a molecular level, parts of the Covid19 virus look and seemingly behave a lot like cobra venom and rabies."

Turns out being "covid cautious" is just a revealed preference for not wanting strangers to sneeze rabies and snake venom analogues into your lungs.

Wear a mask.

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

This is so fucking nerdy and dumb but I'm the friend people ask which laptop to buy, and I take that responsibility so seriously. 😭

I want to be able to answer "Is Bluesky worth signing up for?"

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n3verm0re wrote:

@fromjason Sorry, this isn't an answer to your question, but I wanted to check whether you'd seen Tim Bray's "Why Not Bluesky" piece. Great read if not.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/11/15/Not-Bluesky

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anetaklamra ("Aneta Klamra") wrote:

#SilentSunday in the #forest

#photography #photo #fotografie #photographie #fotografia #tree #trees #poland

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• The color photograph shows an upward perspective of a large tree, giving a sense of its immense height. The trunk, which is rough and textured with deep ridges, rises straight up from the bottom, drawing the eye upwards towards the tree's canopy. The canopy is filled with small, bright yellow leaves, catching the warm autumn sunlight. Above the treetops, the sky is a vivid, cloudless blue, creating a striking contrast to the golden leaves. Interspersed among the bright yellow leaves are also neighboring trees' dark, bare branches. The deep blue of the sky and the golden hues of the leaves create a sense of clean forest air on an autumn day.

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ommatidia@pixelfed.social ("sabrina") wrote:

#japan #aomori #写真 #マストドン写真部 #photography #photo #naturephotography

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• A tree branch adorned with colorful autumn leaves, displaying a beautiful array of warm tones typical of the season. (remote)

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LexYeen@plush.city ("Alexis") wrote:

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• A low-quality picture of a person in a private home's bathroom mirror, holding the handset of a payphone with the earpiece and mouthpiece pointed towards them, aiming the back of the handset at the mirror - the rest of which is still attached to the handset, and just behind the person. They're looking into the camera, too. There is no obvious way this photo could have been taken, as there are no cameras visible in the mirror. It's captioned with "How we used to take selfies in the '90s." (remote)

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

Can a PDS control which relays index its content?

I feel like I've read everything anyone has ever written about #Bluesky, lol. But I still have questions. In "Bluesky is cosplaying decentralized" the answer appears to be no. However, the post is over a year old now and things change.

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

as it has more & more become coalition-oriented without a longstanding ‘Fearless Leader’, is the Democratic Party doomed to the perils of ‘minoritarianism’?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000677890883

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

I've never questioned that scientists should be activists. I had good teachers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/24/science-has-always-been-politicalbut-especially-now/

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• George Streisinger, one of my mentors (remote)

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Axomamma@mastodon.online wrote:

@pzmyers "Why can't we be friends" from people who wear "fuck your feelings" T-shirts?

#FuckThatNoise

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

You used to be able to screenshot movies and tv shows on your iPhone. I made so many memes with that feature and they just took it away and nobody said shit.

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

lovelylovely@masto.ai ("CandyK") wrote:

@lovelylovely
A lie doesn't become truth
wrong doesn't become right
and evil doesn't become good
just because it;s accepted by the majority.

#BookerTWashington

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• cca891cf1742ed27.png (remote)

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

An important thing about Elon Musk that’s widely known in tech circles but perhaps not in the wider world: he’s an ignoramus.

His technical knowledge is shallow and careless, full of parroting and fantasizing.

People who’ve worked on the small amount of code he actually wrote long ago describe his work as an unskilled mess.

At every company he runs, there are teams of people devoted to keeping him away from the engineers, who largely succeed to the extent that he forgets they exist.

1/3

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

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

I'm sometimes a tech cynic but it's actually ridiculously easy to gain my trust and everlasting loyalty.

For example, iA Writer has been my writing app for a decade now. I recommend it to everyone. I've advertised them more than my own business.

Just be honest and fair. Be the opposite of tech culture. Lol

https://ia.net/writer

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hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

Link to vote result: https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/2121#issuecomment-2494153010

/r/cpp not buying it: https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1gxm7ji/ewg_has_consensus_in_favor_of_adopting_p3466_r0/

Note also Sean Baxter’s comment in the thread:
https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1gxm7ji/ewg_has_consensus_in_favor_of_adopting_p3466_r0/lykw1t5/

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

it has indeed been a while since I cranked out any production code... I'd forgotten how fat a "debug" build can be:

60,792,480

as vs a "release" build:

14,835,040