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Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ellie@social.lol ("Ellie") wrote:
heeeeelp, how do i use a binary search tree in lzss compression?
this is not a meme, it’s just one a.m., i'm tired and still have a sucky uni-thing to do, so i've decided to make it fedi's problem
edit: i think i figured it out (this is the type of thing smart people write blog posts about, right?)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
― A.R. Moxon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cassey@urbanists.social ("Cassey Lottman") wrote:
My friend @skiles has made a hobby the last few years out of making websites critiquing anti-queer lobbying organizations and SEO-hacking them to high rankings for that organization's name.
Eventually one of them, a subsidiary of Focus on the Family, filed a complaint against one of his sites under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy system of the World Intellectual Property Organization at the UN.
He won!Read about it here:
https://johnskinnerportfolio.com/blog/domain_name_battlefield/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
who hasn't done the Blogging Questions challenge? I need to tag some folks!!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
TeenVogue@flipboard.com ("Teen Vogue") wrote:
Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/dear-trans-kids-raquel-willis?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Teen Vogue @teen-vogue-TeenVogue
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:
📣 One account I’d follow, even if I was not a user, is the EchoFeed Amplify (https://beep.town/@echofeedamplify) bot. It shares the posts sent with EchoFeed, if the author authorized it. I can’t tell you how many brilliant accounts I’ve found that way.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
No I will not debate you on the ethics of ICE school raids to kidnap kids & strike into them the fear of a tyrannical government.
And if you find yourself defending such fascism, expect a block—and remember that at no point in history were the people who justified targeting children the good guys.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
I’ve spent the last two months reading a dozen Agatha Christie novels, and nearly all feature a game of bridge that ends up being a crucial plot point.
The characters who suck at bridge are always way less likable than the murderer, (or “murderess”— a gendered term we should bring back, honestly) and now I need to know everything about Agatha Christie and find out whst sort of bridge drama was going down in the 1920s.
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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:
@robb @zicklepop To me, the conclusion from all this isn't that Dan is a terrible, terrible person, but that the BDFL model of OSS is inherently problematic for any project that grows beyond a small library with a tiny footprint.
I think folks would be a lot more comfortable if Pixelfed/Loops truly had some kind of panel or group of people with "veto" power to make sure Dan doesn't just go off the rails with no accountability. Otherwise…we've seen this movie before. 😕
Mastodon FeedLukeBornheimer@sfba.social ("Luke Bornheimer") wrote:
The Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project—which was approved by the SFMTA Board in November and supposed to begin construction in early January—was appealed by 3–5 merchants.
Please send an email in support of the project using https://tinyurl.com/ValenciaCEQA — it takes less than 10 seconds!
Mastodon Feedcmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:
i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("melanie kat") wrote:
i literally caught dansup lying and misinforming people about pixelfed's export tools just this month! it's laughable!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
melkat@nyan.lol ("melanie kat‘s writings") wrote:
My Disappointment With Pixelfed
https://melkat.blog/p/pixelfed-disappointment/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
Doubts about Pixelfed https://rknight.me/blog/doubts-about-pixelfed/
In which I have some concerns about how Pixelfed is going, a follow up of sorts to @zicklepop's post (https://melkat.blog/p/pixelfed-disappointment/)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anarchademic@kolektiva.social ("emeritrix") wrote:
PGE wants to cut down part of Portland, Oregon's Forest Park.
Cutting down a bunch of mature trees in Forest Park because the corporation doesn't want to spend a little more to go around is wrong and should be stopped.
Submit comments (contact info and talking points below via link) to the Hearings Officer, your City Councilors, AND the Mayor by 9 a.m. on Jan 29th. (If you already submitted comments to the City in late 2024, please submit again)
Comments can be sent via email. Include the Hearings Officer, all 3 City Councilors from your district, and the Mayor as the recipients. If you live outside of the City of Portland, feel free to include the hearings officer, Mayor and any assortment of City Council members.
Public hearing is this Wednesday, 1/29 at 9am, all virtual.
Here is a link to the Bird Alliance of Oregon's handy action page:https://birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/tell-the-city-to-protect-forest-park-from-development/
#PDX #Trees #SaveTheTrees #PortlandOr #Portland #SaveTheCommons
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Szescstopni@circumstances.run wrote:
@johl Someone in Poland did an interesting experiment. Asked DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square, but demanded the answers were in Polish. And got *correct* information about the 1989 events. They then asked to translate this into English and DeepSeek answered that it's beyond its scope https://73-110.pl/@bartosz/113900590655686534
[edited to fix two typos]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is seriously bad news:
"... there appears to be no clear explanation for the outsized number of cases in this local outbreak. And given the ongoing pause in communication from federal health agencies like the CDC, it’s unknown whether the CDC will even weigh in publicly anytime soon."
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Things are back to nice at #Starbucks? Got everything in ceramic cups, completely unprompted.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
what a colossal betrayal:
“[Senator] Tillis Assured Hegseth’s Former Sister-in-Law Her Testimony Could Convince GOP Senators to Vote No
[then the] North Carolina senator provided pivotal 50th ‘yes’ vote to confirm Hegseth as Defense Secretary”via WSJ
Mastodon Feeddenschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:
also yes, OF COURSE that font is PragmataPro. thanks for asking.
Mastodon Feeddenschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:
@NfNitLoop I suggest linking to my blog posts instead, https://overengineer.dev/blog/tags/activitypub/ as a link to the relevant tag, which includes two posts that are written after that GitHub comment.
Mastodon Feeddenschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:
my current overengineering project involved writing a hacky Python script to generate, layout, and print 24 * 2 * 2 labels with a data matrix code on a label printer.
and yes, I hate everything now, thanks for asking.
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Was telling friends about #Diskuto (see my previous post) and one asked "Does it support #ActivityPub?"
Thankfully I have a canned response:
https://github.com/diskuto/diskuto-api/issues/42 (i.e.: No.)But, re-verifying that information, I had the pleasure to re-read @denschub 's now-5-year-old vehemently thorough take on ActivityPub, which holds as true for #Diskuto as it did for #Diaspora:
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecomment-451750994
❤️
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!
Blogging Questions Challenge https://krrd.ing/posts/blogging-questions-challenge/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's a little thing, but a company called "OpenAI" getting walloped by an actually Open Source effort is linguistically delicious.
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
The Mad King’s transition to villain is complete. (via @paulashby)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
going to fosdem this weekend, hmu if you want to chat, or catch my talk on the whippet gc library on sunday ~~~ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6066-the-whippet-embeddable-garbage-collection-library/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:
getting ready to travel to Brussels for the first time ever to give a talk at FOSDEM. haven't traveled internationally in 15 years!
the whole spritely dev team is going to be giving talks. full details here:
https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-is-going-to-guix-days-and-fosdem.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
marxjohnson@indieweb.social ("Mark Johnson") wrote:
@slightlyoff "I never thought disruptors would disrupt *my* market!"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
flaki@flaki.social ("Flaki") wrote:
It's incomplete and 9 years too late but a lovely sight nonetheless :blob_raccoon_heart:
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html
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