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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mia@hcommons.social ("Mia") wrote:
If the whole 'attack Wikipedia' nonsense inspired you to start or restart editing, there's a bunch of tools to help newcomers, like 'suggested edits' https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Tools
If you need to turn the newbie features on: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Tools/Enable_the_Homepage
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bsletten ("Brian Sletten") wrote:
People born in the 1900s have a quite coherent shared sense of reality because of the shared media experiences we had.
Much of the present world is inexplicable when measured against this shared understating.
I’m seeing more awareness in the public sphere (social media posts, content, memes) that people are getting the consequences of a fragmented information sphere yielding fragmented realities.
This is a big part of why it feels like everything is changing at once.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drrjv@vmst.io ("DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic") wrote:
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to #Sun
“Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.
Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, #NASA’s #ParkerSolarProbe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved
A beacon tone received late on Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.”
#NASAScience
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an interesting piece. I do not often agree with him, but this time...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/opinion/trump-musk-ramaswamy-immigration.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
djspiewak@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Spiewak") wrote:
Just to give an idea of the potential here, the initial tests of http4s-ember (via TechEmpower) on top of io_uring, made possible by the Integrated Runtime, showed performance 3.5x higher than baseline. Not percent. Coefficient.
This is a huge leap forward for performance, and users don't even have to lift a finger. It also unlocks proper I/O and multithreading implementations on Scala Native, which will be the focus of CE 3.7.
Mastodon FeedCdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:
Same energy
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Hoooooly it is a drag to find/add people on a fresh #mastodon instance!
If you see this post, kindly boost it up so I can find my peeps again!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp ("廃墟猫/Urbex cat") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The MAGA civil war, or whatever you want to call it, was always going to happen. The rich never intended on actually kicking out all the immigrants. There’s only so much prison labor to go around. They just wanted to keep the poor from realizing whos our real enemy.
But it’s all fun and games until a populous realtor from Manhattan gets elected on mass deportation.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Also, established a monthly donation to @spritely. Consider doing the same!
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Finally worked my way through @cwebber re:-re: post on decentralization https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
It's long and technical, but it inspired me to offer my own, admittedly simplistic, definition of a decentralized social network:
If a social app forces you to choose an instance before anything else, it's decentralized. If not, it's not.
Mastodon Feedrasterweb ("Pete Prodoehl 🍕") wrote:
I still use Firefox and other Mozilla products but I just got this email from Mozilla:
"We’re in the final days to reach our goal of raising $4.35 million USD from the Mozilla community. We’re close, but we’re still short."
I just want to let them know their CEO probably has $4.35 million USD since their salary a few years ago was about $7 million USD. Maybe ask them?
Mastodon FeedExterminate All Rational Graphic Design.
I love that the billboards around town for "AI" companies have converged on an identical design aesthetic: sparse text on a solid background, usually black or white, maybe a pastel if they're feeling saucy.
It says, "We didn't waste money on a graphic designer, our CFO just knocked this out in Notepad!"
It's morally consistent, as their business model is "Never pay an artist, or anyone who does creative work."
https://jwz.org/b/ykfH
Mastodon FeedI know this is a bold claim, and I don't say this lightly, but that was the worst episode of Doctor Who that I have ever seen.
By contrast, "What If...? Howard the Duck Got Hitched?" was fantastic. Possibly the best episode.
Mastodon Feeddnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Just heard on the Behind the Bastards podcast that Peter Jennings once yelled out to Henry Kissinger in a restaurant “How does it feel to be a war criminal?”
Fucking legendary.
Mastodon FeedMaybe we could save democracy if news-site editors would stop illustrating articles about Musk with photos of him smirking and mugging like a white supremacist Urkel.
That adorable little scamp.
Mastodon Feedexocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:
Since the year is almost over, I thought it would be neat to look back and share my top four comics of 2024! Hope you liked them too! ✨
Mastodon FeedMissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Roses are red
Violets have chloroform
I spent $44 billion to buy Twitter and yet
Mastodon FeedDNA Lounge Update, Wherein this trashcan is trash
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/27.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Just say no to all Elsevier journals.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/27/elsevier-strikes-again/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I’ve got a big rat to paint. Normal rat for scale.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
When Debian LTS (https://wiki.debian.org/LTS) started in 2014 for Debian 6 "squeeze",
(https://web.archive.org/web/20240720200316/https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140616)
we didn't have any certainty about its future success.Ten years later, we are happy to announce that more than 4000 security updates have been published under the LTS initiative.
More precisely, DLA 4000-1 (https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00022.html)
was released on 21st December 2024 by Guilhem Moulin to fix three CVEs in sqlparse.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I do appreciate how the Right, once they get a little power, immediately turn on one another.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/27/the-pettiness-is-the-point/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“the rapidly evolving nature of the field present additional hurdles that make the prospect of an Apple search engine both financially and technically daunting”
Apple & others should try to remember that the rate of change also presents opportunities to move past those with huge existing infrastructure investments (in both the psychic & financial meanings), if the org can find a route to being more agile than their giant competitors
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/why-apple-won-t-make-a-search-VvAz0DTFQtugdj_yy9FDEQ
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the first developmental task for a neonate is to filter, else they will be overwhelmed by inputs
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/the-human-brain-is-very-slow-YGm.UjyKRW.caXXHnhlb4Q
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This cat is too lazy to infect us with bird flu, I hope.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/27/its-killing-the-cats/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I don't know how to tell folks this and have them hear what I'm saying, but my advocacy for better performance isn't anti-developer – it's literally the result of seeing developers in pain and suffering and wanting better for all of us.
And anyone telling you otherwise is pushing something that isn't sustainable.
Mastodon FeedSend me a photo of your favorite 3D print of this year and which machine you printed it on!
Mastodon FeedSoozafone, creator of the 3d-printable Dummy13 action figure, has to deal with a fraudulent design patent and is looking for advice:
