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

bkahn@beige.party ("B Kahn") wrote:

Should you need an example of bad luck, here is one: to be born in North Korea and die fighting for Russia.

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

a scary piece https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

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

ZhiZhu@newsie.social ("Zhi Zhu 🕸️") wrote:

Long article, but worth reading from @ProPublica

https://propub.li/4gF50W0

A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing #militias.

He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and #government attorneys.

He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The conversations that he secretly recorded give a unique, startling window into the militia movement.

#Press #Journalism #News #Media #US #USA #Extremism

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This, e.g., is instructive:

https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/comparison?median-weight-over-time=total&client=mobile&tech=ALL%2CReact%2CAngular%2Clit-element%2CSvelte%2CNext.js%2CNext.js+App+Router&geo=ALL&rank=Top+1M#report-content

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

tick tick tick... about another 40 minutes and I get to see if a session really does TTL out from inactivity

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

mcbaumwolle ("Matthew") wrote:

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black and white cat standing right next to the Lego black and white cat looking suspicious.

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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq6PQjL9LjA

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's still under development, and there are some asterisks to apply to the data sources, but I find the directional data you can get out of the new HTTP Archive Tech Report page helpful:

https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/comparison

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

Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not Christmas Cake"") wrote:

You can't fix stupid

You can fix uninformed. You can fix underinformed. You can fix poorly informed. You can fix misinformed. You can fix malinformed. You can even fix some forms of medical inability to process information.

This isn't that. This is stupid. You can't fix stupid.

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• Clownfuck McSerialrapist thinks "windfalls" is a type of windmill (remote)

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

"And oil". Sorry, I'm not reading your smart-ass wrong article.

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• A header from Slate magazine that reads "My Cacio E Pepe Exposé. It should be just cheese, pepper, pasta, and oil—but something's amiss in the sauce." There's a generic stock image of a pasta supplied along with the header.

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

I never cease to be amazed at how much smaller a release build is than a debug build

build debug: 56,327,024
build release: 16,110,752

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

On PHP

Strings tangled like vines,
Errors haunting through the night,
Hopes for clarity.

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

jtruk ("James") wrote:

This'll tickle some people!

Usborne have released their 1980s computer books as free-to-download PDFs 😍

https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

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

coreysnipes@fosstodon.org ("𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒔 🌨") wrote:

Overall I'm happy with the current state of things. I'm self-hosting things that are important to me, and getting a lot of value out of the services that are being handled by third parties. And I have a higher level of trust in the third parties I'm using.

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

markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

You can compare my dodgy image with one taken a few hours ago from El Teide on Tenerife, as part of the GONG network. This one has all of the sunspots numbered.

Credit: NSO/NISP, downloaded from SpaceWeatherLive.com

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/sunspot-regions.html

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• An image of the Sun at 677nm taken by the GONG network showing sunspots with their numbers.

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

warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Let's Go

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• 5-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: The Grim Reaper is sitting at a dinner table with a woman. He says, "Well, yes, the job has some perks." Panel 2: The woman leans forward and asks, "So, if I had - say - an evil ex… you could take care of him?" Panel 3: The Grim Reaper chuckles and replies, "Haha, it doesn't work that way. I can't just—" Panel4: The woman interjects, "He was mean to my dog." Panel 5: The Grim Reaper rises from the table, holding his scythe, and says, "Let's go."

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

Code whispers softly,
Lines and numbers shimmer bright,
A spark—life ignites.

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

okay, set sessions to

store.expirationTime = 5.hours;

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

yup

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

This would be a nice way to get home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/04/i-would-like-to-spider-there/

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• Lio comic about riding a spider (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Donations to any president's fund are gross. It's bribery in broad daylight.

A democratic government should have a budget allocated for the president's needs, and not have any channel for oligarchs to buy favors.

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

ugh

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

listening to the Sec of State trying to dodge self-reflective questions & deny the failures of this administration in communicating to the American people is sad. this is the essential national-level Democratic Party problem: they think the answer to mis- and dis-information (in this case, about foreign policy) is more policy & more rational explanation.

when one is dealing with an appeal to the psyche, countering by appealing to reason is generally not very useful.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000682646412

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

this sounds like a powerful series

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/arts/television/american-primeval-netflix.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk4.hrty.Jnv5cDjhJqIg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

Standard Ebooks dropped a bunch of beautifully formatted books newly in the public domain today.

Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest” and “The Dain Curse” defined hard-boiled detectives. But also Agatha Christie, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, Mahatma Gandhi…

(Standard Ebooks is Project Gutenberg with editing and typesetting. They also have an RSS feed for new releases!)

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025

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appleinsider ("AppleInsider") wrote:

In a bid to gain favor with the president-elect, Apple CEO Tim Cook has contributed $1 million of his personal finances to the inauguration fund.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/03/apple-ceo-tim-cook-personally-invested-1-million-in-trumps-inauguration?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Not only did Jimmy Carter live long enough to vote against Donald Trump, but he somehow died at a time Donald Trump finds to be really, personally inconvenient.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-complains-that-us-flags-will-be-half-staff-his-inauguration-day-2025-01-03/

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The UnitedHealth CEO was killed 30 days ago on December 4. Luigi Mangione is now on trial for that killing.

Since Dec 4, about 5589 Americans have died preventable deaths under America’s exploitative for profit health system.

So—when do the CEOs who knowingly enabled these deaths go on trial?

My latest: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-hell-corporations

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

A haiku about Murderbot:

Metal guardian dreams,
Searching for a true command,
Tales of heart and peace.

[ h/t @marthawells
wandering.shop ]

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

Today in History: Apple Computer founded, 1977