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solar_seattle@mas.to ("Solar Seattle") wrote:
The sun will rise in #Seattle #Washington tomorrow at 7:49, 50 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:17, 4 seconds later than the day before.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tinkebell@mstdn.social ("TINKEBELL") wrote:
❤️ Louise Bourgeois
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Man, I miss the Pacific Northwest.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/12/why-i-like-seattle/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
… and I’m off
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
maddiefuzz@hackers.town ("M. The Crystalline Entity") wrote:
Sometimes you gotta make a doom pile to clean a doom pile
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stim3on@fosstodon.org ("Simeon Schmauß") wrote:
After several months of climbing up the steep slopes of the Jezero crater rim, Perseverance has reached the top!
The afternoon sun provides a spectacular view on landscape which the rover will explore soon!Full panorama: https://www.360cities.net/image/marsrover-perseverance-navcam-sol-1354
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Almost done grading!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/12/one-more-day/
Mastodon FeedMeanwhile, in Seattle:
The reporting on this is wild. "Alarming message", "Raises questions about the motive", "Alarming trend", "How could this happen", "Shocking", "Which agency is responsible." Let us know when you figure that out, Deputy Barney.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:
"welcome to our fender reveal party!"
"don't you mean-"
"no."
*guitars emerge from everywhere. there are no fireworks, only riffs. only chaos. there are no genders. only rock.*
Mastodon FeedI reported an annoying cross-platform bug in the Patreon web site's CSS.
They fixed it! Yeah, I'm as shocked as you are.
But then they had to go and squander even that momentary goodwill by trying to shame me for using the latest Safari on the latest macOS, instead of a browser owned by the world's largest advertising-surveillance company.
Amongst the many, many, many reasons to despise Patreon, this is one of them.
https://jwz.org/b/ykee
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:
pioneering a new ruder chess move called "en pissant"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, playing around some more with using AI-focused promo video production tool... interesting results
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
playing with generating AI-assisted promo video
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
majdal@social.coop ("Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 مجد الشهابي") wrote:
Hello #Mastodon! Moving to a new server, so here's my #introduction.
I'm a technologist, urban planner, and a #PhD student based in #Toronto, with #Luddite tendencies. I research municipal climate action plans and the role of computational modelling in shaping them. Particularly of the emancipatory potnetial of modelling.
I also think and write about #anticapitalist climate futures of #Palestine and the #Levant.
With @bothness, I co-founded Palestine Open Maps https://PalOpenMaps.org
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loadingartist@mastodon.world ("Gregor") wrote:
deck the malls 🎅
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Good interview with Ed Zitron.
They end the interview with “What happens when consumers reject AI after all this infrastructure investment?”
My guess—With a little help from regulatory capture, Meta pivots to cloud services and then 4 companies own the internet.
It’s probably time for an updated write-up, but I talk more about that prospect here: https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Aleums@octodon.social ("petit mordor") wrote:
The standard of the Compact Disc, established in 1982, is rigorously defined. If you want to make a CD player, you read a book, you implement its design specifications, and you can perfectly reproduce the audio on every existing CD. The standard was designed to perfectly encode all the audio signals within the range of human hearing. The discs themselves are portable, stand up well to use, and last a very long time without degrading. Being a digital format, they can easily be transferred to more modern digital storage and reproduced again on the other side of the world.
Compared to vinyl records, they are a little worse for long-term archival, but considerably cheaper to produce and store and are not subject to the infinite gradation of analog reproduction fidelity. Compared to audio files on flash memory, they are more expensive to produce and store, but significantly better for long-term storage with no difference in reproduction fidelity, and benefit from implementing an actual standard that obviates the need for interpretation by software.
It is possible that we could develop a physical audio standard to render the compact disc obsolete obsolete using the technology of flash memory, but we don't have one right now and it's unlikely that we'll see it within our lifetime. We have firmly left the era where companies are willing to invest the time and money to work together to develop a standard like that for physical media - the demand for it has dried up, so we are left with the last best format.
Before someone mentions it, I know that there is an argument to be made for the humble and oft-forgotten minidisc. But I, like many others, have never held a minidisc in my life and so cannot speak to it, and so it is beyond the scope of my writing.
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SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:
Exploiting mansplaining as tradecraft during WW II:
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”
From Elyse Graham's “Book and Dagger”, describing a training school for the SOE.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Sexual dimorphism makes me nervous. I've got a bunch of dainty little male Latrodectus lined up for introduction to some beefy, swole females. Will it be an orgy, or lunch? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
drachenmagier@mastodon.art wrote:
Done and scanned. :D
I started that one simply because I wanted to draw something glowy. And I really like how that fire drake turned out! <3
Acrylics and alcohol markers on bristol paper.
#drachenmagier #dragon #fantasy #fantasyArt #traditionalArt #traditionalMedia #creature #fire #phoenix #drake #MastoArt
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Are you excited about @spritely? Do you care about decentralized networks? Do you also, potentially, like lisp and scheme? Are you, by any chance, a fan of functional programming or functional package managers like #Nix or #Guix?!
If ANY of these are true, you should come to my talk TODAY, in 2.5 hours, where I'm going to talk about Spritely! WebAssembly! Decentralized networks! And video games! Don't miss it! https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/303599147
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:
So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me.
I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO. For the last two years I've been merging platforms of two billion dollar companies.
I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.
I like python and postgres, but happy to quickly pick up any stack. You do not want me anywhere near your frontend code.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
interlisp@fosstodon.org ("The Medley Interlisp Project") wrote:
Hello from the Medley Interlisp Project! We revive and modernize the Medley Interlisp extensible graphical operating and programming environment created at Xerox PARC.
We post news & updates, tips, historical info, and more. We look forward to connecting with researchers, software preservation experts, Lisp programmers, retrocomputing enthusiasts, and anyone interested.
#interlisp #lisp #retrocomputing #VintageComputing #SoftwarePreservation #xerox #introduction #parc
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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:
@interlisp 👆 The Medley Interlisp Project lands on the fediverse with the official Mastodon account @interlisp ran by yours truly. It's the beginning of a new adventure in Lisp and the history of computing you're invited to join.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bucknam ("Alan Bucknam") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: E.G. Robinson born, 1893
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hilarious... doing a s/w update from Apple & I see "nsurlsessiond" at the top of my sucking-up-bandwidth list. is this left over from the days of the NSAPI? in the early days of the Web, there was commercial competition to grab the server market. Netscape's offering had an API you could tie into to extend the usual Web capabilities & HTTP (to make things like early attempts at what we now know as socmedia services, like Arcadium). this concept is what spawned things like servlet engines &etc
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
This is me according to Apple Intelligence’s new Image Playground feature
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Letting Aurora set the mood for the evening as I get ready to rest for the night. "Dreams":
![Screenshot of a social media post. First part has a quote, second has an image of the person quoted in the first part signing bombs with a sharpie. Post reads: Pop Base @PopBase Governor Josh Shapiro comments on the arrest of Luigi Mangione: "Some attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbing as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer. [...] In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint." governor josh shapiro literally signing bombs:](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/630/292/434/993/085/original/3c899914f575c3c5.jpeg){kind=link}
