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jk ("josef") wrote:

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

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maleve@zeroes.ca ("Matti Aleve") wrote:

Public health asked if they are aware of any way to slow the spread of airborne diseases.

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• Steve Martin Idk GIF (remote)

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

NiN's Hurt, bardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4UZRYShjYU

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

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

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BenCollver@tilde.zone ("Ben Collver") wrote:

"If OpenSSL were a GUI"

#linux #programming #tech

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• OpenSSL options presented as a GUI dialog. (remote)

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

When Florida can report and arrest trans people for just going to the bathroom, and they can now also forcibly detransition people in prison by refusing their meds and shaving their heads, and the industry is still ✨⭐️conference at Epcot✨⭐️!

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ritualdust@merveilles.town ("Lizbeth") wrote:

A recent piece of writing on solar time and older ways to keep time by made me look up the history of time keeping on Wikipedia where i found out about incense clocks. There's something really unique about different hours having different smells and this little device with slowly burning intricate paths

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• Image of an old wooden incense clock, a box with a top section containing sand with incense pattern drawn onto it that will slowly burn over a fixed period of time, a lid with square holes goes on top (remote)

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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Recent commission I shipped off!

Good to dust off the ink brushes and mess around with 80s horror icons

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• Black and white illustration of a surprised looking woman in front of a background of 80s horror monsters including a zombie, the fly, an american werwolf in London, and gremlins (remote)
• Close up of the woman and snarling werewolf (remote)
• Close up of Cronenberg’s The Fly and zombie's face (remote)
• Angled photo of the illustration on a drawing table (remote)

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mattcropp@social.coop ("Matt Cropp 🌲🌲") wrote:

As a hobby project, I've gotten interested in using #mirrors for heating and lighting purposes (and as an outlet for a bit of #climate anxiety). Just did a write-up of my progress over the last few months for the @LabB blog: https://www.laboratoryb.org/diy-seasonal-mirror-based-window-extender/

#solar #passivesolar #solarpunk #lightshelf #heliostat

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

The original artist describes their Fortran code that rendered the Nostromo's vector landing display in "Alien": https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-06/page/n51/mode/2up?ui=embed&view=theater

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• cover image from the article "Landing the Nostromo" by Alan Sutcliffe with a vector rendering of the mountains and flat spot in the middle (remote)

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

An interesting fact about Bryn Mawr College.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/15/i-knew-a-few-people-at-bryn-mawr/

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• The seal of Bryn Mawr College: three owls and the motto veritatem dilexi (remote)

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

Who needs soil and grass when you've got EPDM all over the parks?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/15/plastic-shall-rule-over-all/

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• EPDM, a common recycled plastic used to cover playgrounds (remote)

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

My sketch habit has been rocky the past month or so. Maybe it's the holidays. Maybe it's because I took a detour working on a Christmas card. Whatever the cause, I've been really meh whenever I tried to pick up a pencil and paper, and my attempts at drawing have left me feeling pretty disheartened.

I realized I was probably approaching things wrong and decided to try to relax and just doodle whatever. No pressure. These little fun guys popped out.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Pencil doodle of a cartoon bird with a large beak. The shading on the beak implies it has gradients of colors. He's got some bold feathers on top of his head and smaller feathers around his face. It has it's left wing stretched out holding up feathers like fingers (as cartoon birds do) with a gesture that implies he's maybe ordering two of something. (remote)
• Pencil doodle of a sinister looking face. Scales cover the skin, and the toothy grin is devoid of mirth. Eyes with oblong pupil's look on with keen interest. Where you might normally find ears there are fins with bony spines. (remote)

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

Opinion: "There is no such thing, for Trump, as a positive exchange or a mutually beneficial relationship. There is only winning and losing, the dominant and the dominated.

It is an ugly and repugnant vision, but it is a vision nonetheless. It speaks to the ambition of some Americans and the ennui and frustration of others. If nothing else, it gives the appearance of action rather than stagnation. And for many Americans, that is enough."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/trump-mckinley-tarriffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

Opinion: "We have an incoming leader who threatened on the campaign trail to lock up his critics."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/trump-biden-pardon-insurrection.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

strongly agree:

NYTimes Opinion: "as close observers of people and places where democracy has come under pressure and occasionally buckled, we see creeping autocracy as a distinct and under-discussed possibility."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/trump-democracy-autocracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

these headlines are *not* disconnected, they are datapoints in an economic situation that is about to get much worse

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

I'm in LA right now and had a chance to see some of the damage. Experts estimate the cost at $150B.

$150 BILLION

Only thing crazier than that massive price tag is the fact that it can be paid for in full by at least 3 USA billionaires, & its only 1.5% of the net worth of USA's 800 billionaires.

Tax billionaires. Invest in working people. Save our democracy.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

TSA says it intercepted 6,678 firearms at airport security checkpoints last year and 94% of the weapons were loaded. https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDHSTSA/2025/01/15/file_attachments/3132695/Firearms%20Discovered%20at%20TSA%20Checkpoints%20in%202024.pdf

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

rvaughnmd@med-mastodon.com ("Zauberlehrling") wrote:

"All sects dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live."

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Presbyterians protesting the appointment of Dr Cooper to the chair of chemistry

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

"Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left-wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/19401612241311886

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Important paper by Dutch scholars Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri brings data to show that the alleged epidemic of disinformation is not widespread across the political spectrum or manufactured by technology but is a specific tactic of far-right extremists exploiting the vulnerability of both an open society and mass media's attention economy. I've been shouting this into the void and I'm delighted by the research. 1/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/19401612241311886

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

dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Pixelfed and Loops are amazing projects but it's you the community that makes them special, not me.

I promise that during this historic journey, I will not forget to remain humble and remember who I work for, you!

Don't hesitate to comment on my posts, DM me, or reach out in Discord or Matrix with your feedback or bug reports.

It may get wild with all the new people and celebs but let's just try to be good to each other.

The world deserves to see the magic of the fediverse, and we can behave

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SANKOFAB@zirk.us ("Sankofab") wrote:

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork)

:clap_claw:⁠https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/

via @soatok@soatok.blog

In-depth analysis by @soatok@furry.engineer of the many ways Session (Signal Fork) screwed up their cryptographic routines. Like the developer decisions are suspicion af! I mean, they could be just incompetent devs, but either way... :eyes_squint:

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

Don't OD on all this Bob Ross!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/15/need-therapy/

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• Bob Ross (remote)

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

h/t https://arghstudios.com:50433/

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

Soft purrs fade sweet,
Gentle paws in moonlit peace,
Love wrapped in soft paws.

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

apparently, our dear friend Oscar the Cat has cancer. the Vet estimates he has somewhere between a few weeks and a few months of life left. 💦

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• Oscaar the black cat lying in his cat tree, sprawled comfortably in a patch of Springtime sunshine last year. (remote)

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

bicmay@med-mastodon.com ("Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:") wrote:

"Franklin Tao, an Asian American scientist who was wrongfully accused of spying for China, is suing the University of Kansas, his former employer, accusing it of 'vicious, unabated discrimination.'

Tao, a chemistry professor, said in a lawsuit filed last week that he was 'unfairly and unlawfully' terminated from his tenured position and is seeking to be reinstated."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/franklin-tao-professor-china-university-kansas-rcna187063

#aapi #aanhpi #ChinaInitiative #science #research #courts