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

Seems my perf.now() talk is now un-paywalled:

https://youtu.be/0XwWVjQOmyg?si=47K_hMsMJssonxLi

I've come to the conclusion that all of my punch-pulling for the past ~decade has only served to aid and abet folks selling lemons. This is a gloves-off enunciation of why making websites that feel good to use isn't charity, and why those of us who make a living on the web need to care.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I rediscovered "Super Cartography Bros." in my collection this afternoon. It has been a refreshing listen on an otherwise subpar Monday.

https://cartography.ocremix.org/

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: House Chamber of U.S. Capitol sign "Number of Presidential Elections Since Last Attempt to Use Violence to Impede the Certification of Electoral Votes" is changed to "1."

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Exactly one week between these two tweets.

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• 6d70e2fe3b53f588.jpeg (remote)
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jwz wrote:

Lazyweb, why doesn't this regexp match in Perl 5.32.1, 5.34.3 or 5.18.2 but does in PHP and JS:

perl -le 'print 0 + ("ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C(G)/);'

Changing nearly any character, including the C before the G, or removing the parens, makes it match.
https://jwz.org/b/ykfv

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:

Cunk should host every political debate.

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• Philomenia Cunk: Since light travels faster than sound, people may appear bright until you hear them speak (remote)

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

If you need a judge or panelist on anything civic tech / public interest tech and AI ethics related, let me know! I'm also happy to be on a podcast, or to sit down for a longer conversation regarding any of those topics.

I led the product management team for one of the US's largest municipal digital teams (SF) through Covid-19, built systems that helped residents and businesses, provided access to vaccines; made decisions on infrastructure and hiring.

Now I do the same at Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I'd like to share what I know, in whatever medium works best. I know many people are curious about product management work outside of the usual.

Email me: skinnylatte [at] gmail.com

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriannatan/

A recent feature: https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/adrianna-tan-founder-future-ethics-united-states

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carpingdiem@med-mastodon.com ("Carpingdiem") wrote:

The winter bird that got me interested in birding was the Northern cardinal. (Description in ALT.) #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #HoosierMast

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• The male Northern cardinal is a medium-sized bird who is red all over except for a black mask. Here, he is taking off from a feeder, wings spread. A small American goldfinch is still on the feeder, showing the difference in size between these 2 birds. (remote)
• A male Northern cardinal flaps his wings while trying to hang onto the feeder. His wing feathers are red at the base and become almost translucent near the tips. (remote)

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grheavyroller ("gregg r") wrote:

Appropriate for January 6.

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• "This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

If you enjoy using Mastodon for Android, please consider leaving a positive rating or review on the Play Store, because a lot of people who do leave reviews are like this:

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• A 2-star review saying "The app certainly has potential, but the users are so blue pilled that more than half the content isn't worth reading"
• A 1-star review saying "Far-left echo chamber"
• A 1-star review saying "I got banned for simply saying good things about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. While others are allowed to say nasty, vile things about them. This app is definitely another leftist dump"

jwz wrote:

"Deep Dive"

What the absolute shit
https://jwz.org/b/ykfr

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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

After Jan. 6, 2021, ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

Revisit the collection: https://propub.li/4a4RqZA

#News #Video #Jan6 #Insurrection #CapitolAttack

jwz wrote:

Somehow I did manage to get it down to 0 followers and following, which was a primary goal. It wasn't like that last month, so I'm not sure how that happened.

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jwz wrote:

Locking the fire exits is still a great way to juice those engagement numbers.

"⚠️ Oops something went wrong, please try again later."

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jwz wrote:

I Hate You, Milkman Apple.
https://jwz.org/b/ykfn

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medigoth@qoto.org ("Daniel Dvorkin") wrote:

@micahflee It's like if Fawkes et al. had been invited to join Parliament.

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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

Need more galaxies in your feed? Of course you do.

Over the break I made @ArpBot, mostly because I thought the name "Arp Bot" was funny.

It posts an image of a galaxy in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies twice a day. Images are from the archives of professional observatories and the original 1966 catalog. I curated the images and wrote the image descriptions and most of the alt text.

Give it a follow!

#Astrodon #space #galaxies

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• A grainy, black and white vertical image of two spiral galaxies next to each other. The galaxies are nebulous structures with denser arms shaped like spirals that meet at the centre of each galaxy. The galaxy at the bottom of the frame is face-on. The galaxy at the top of the frame is somewhat inclined, and they're almost touching. The image is sprinkled with white dots, which are stars. (remote)

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

4 years ago, I was locked down in the Capitol. When the majority of the Republicans voted to overturn the election AFTER the attack, something broke in Congress that still hasn’t healed. Truth is truth. And while it should never be partisan to defend democracy, we can’t pretend it isn’t.

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dusk@todon.eu ("Dusk To Don :raccoon:") wrote:

@ErikUden

Don’t forget Senator Josh Hawley, another insurrectionist, running out of the capitol to the tune of “Chariots of Fire”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCwvSNgigE

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) cowers in fear at a coup he helped create on January 6th 2021

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• A picture of Markwayne Mullin in congress hiding behind one of the large chairs looking fearfully at the door where rioters storming the Capitol are presumably coming in. (remote)

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

cave painting found in Alps of Paleolithic socmedia user

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• man in tweed suit sitting at old fashioned Ham radio operator station while smoking a pipe (remote)

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

Happy Anniversary to Richard and Mildred Loving

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jan/6

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helenaisvibing@tech.lgbt ("Helena") wrote:

Fedi scientists are funny because their behaviour spans the full spectrum of "basically only posts things that are indistinguishable from the public outreach account for the National Laboratory of Clever Activities" to "basically only posts meowing" and you can't necessarily tell which is which from their bio

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek #Insurrection

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• Movie cover art for the film Star Trek: Insurrection. There's a large planet across the lower half of the picture as if we're in orbit above and we see the USS Enterprise flying away from us at warp towards open space. There's a large menacing face looking down at the starship and planet, cloaked in red beams of light. Across the top reads, "INSURRECTION."

jwz wrote:

He is absolutely the guy trying to shut down the rec center.

And only the power of dance can save us.

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adhdeanasl@beige.party ("ADHDean Being A Fanboy") wrote:

Happy 4th anniversary of the day Donald John Trump’s best and brightest smeared human feces on the walls of the United States Capitol Building.

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

True passion. #grickledoodle #spiderman #DocOck #marvel #comics #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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• A cartoon illustration of Spider-man villain Doctor Octopus sitting on a rocky shore surrounded by pink octopuses. Caption reads "It really wasn't about the suit, or Spider-man, or any of it. He just legit loved octopuses. And they loved him." (remote)

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kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n

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• A diagram showing how pi is encoded in the Pentium chip. The Pentium has a ROM to hold constants in the lower right. Zooming in on the ROM shows how it holds exponents in the left and the signficand in the right. Zooming in more shows the individual transistors in the ROM. Eight bits are indicated with arrows, the binary bits that start pi. (remote)

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TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

@VintageProject
I have a written version of my high level video on doing floppy imaging from a flux perspective here: https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Floppy_Disk_Imaging

I have some specific information on HP 3.5in floppy formats on my page for the 9122C: https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/HP_9122C_Dual_1.44MB_Floppy_Drive

I haven't documented it on my wiki yet, but I do have a 4951C I've looked at in some streams: https://www.youtube.com/live/0ltWvh2y8RI

They are a pain because they have a serial on the disks to lock them to specific machines if I remember right.

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VintageProject@oldbytes.space ("Thilo, EE 🤘🏼🇪🇺⚛🎗️") wrote:

Looks like I added another section to my #RetroComputing learning curve.
The #Greaseweazle 4.1 arrived, and I'm looking forward to exploring a couple of floppy drives that I extracted from several devices.
Help is appreciated, but I'll start with the documentation.
Also, I kind of blame @TechTangents for putting this on my wish list. 😜

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• A purple PCB with various ICs on it. Connections for a 34-pin ribbon cable, floppy power supply, and USB. The label says "Greaseweazle 4.1". (remote)