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

Time to fight back.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/23/get-ready-for-the-resistance/

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

We were visited by pilot whales (not actually whales [cetacean needed])

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rick@social.lol ("Rick 🪁") wrote:

Learned about our local evac center’s “Hamakko Toilet” at today’s event. It’s a sewage pipe you fill with pool water at one end, set toilets above opened man holes, and periodically flush by opening a big valve at the other end. 🚽🚽

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

damn, and there I was thinking it would, @CARROT

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• video: 20b0bd1d46321612.mp4

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
lifning@snoot.tube ("liffy 💜") wrote:

Many of us have now heard of Rust's "Graydon Hoare being upset at a broken embedded system in an elevator" origin story, but not many younger programmers know that C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup after he forgot to null-terminate his legs while putting his shoes on one day and had to deal with the aftermath.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social ("Fight the Right") wrote:

#PresidentKrasnov

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

after an email exchange I feel okay recommending:

https://trumpcostsamerica.com

do you have a Trump administration termination story of your own to tell? this seems like a pretty safe & reasonable place to do it, with sensible privacy policies

https://trumpcostsamerica.com/privacy

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

Ever wonder how everyone got here?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/23/my-ancestors/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

The first woman to fly a combat mission as a Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot sums it up.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If you think I'm too critical of Elon Musk you're really gonna hate the history books

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Don't forget to vote today! Help keep the AfD away from the parliament. #Bundestagswahl

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

On the one hand, it's nice to see a public (if still React-pilled) write-up of the costs of JS excesses on a business; the omerta can't hold forever:

https://medium.com/preply-engineering/how-preply-improved-inp-on-a-next-js-application-without-react-server-components-and-app-router-491713149875

OTOH, how does anyone at Vercel sleep at night?

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250223%5FBiDcTF%5F14G-r%3A1-c%3A0&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=full

https://treo.sh/sitespeed/preply.com?mapMetric=r&formFactor=phone

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mattl@social.coop ("Dr. Matt Lee ☠️") wrote:

If anyone has a phone number or alternative email address for Kibo, his mail spool is full and his site is completely down.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

‘Trump Recruited as Moscow Asset,’ Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief

Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s security service, who rose up the ranks of the Soviet KGB, claims Moscow groomed Trump under pseudonym “Krasnov” in 1987.

#uspol

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47630#

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

🌶️

https://www.theverge.com/elon-musk/617427/musk-trump-doge-recession-unemployment

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

Like, this objectively sucks?

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250223%5FBiDcTF%5F14G-r%3A1-c%3A0&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=full

More compilers and "DX" did not help.

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

Context:

https://medium.com/preply-engineering/how-preply-improved-inp-on-a-next-js-application-without-react-server-components-and-app-router-491713149875

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Roberto Smith says: "You're not on the list." GOTHICUMBIA is sold out! You should have bought your tickets earlier...

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• video: 008004bcc0c44dd7.mp4

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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

For our Bollywood Berkeley night, we have a special Chicken Tikka masala pizza! Come check it out, it's so good!

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tendstofortytwo@treehouse.systems ("tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:") wrote:

so I went to San Francisco for the first time ever this week. when I was a kid, I used to play this video game called Midtown Madness 2, where you could drive around in SF, and I had an awesome time looking at things I'd only seem in video game become reality

here's a thread with the things as I saw them in real life, and as I saw them in-game

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OchmennoPodcast@literatur.social ("Och Menno") wrote:

Ouch

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

All of this allowed HP to monotonically raise, and raise, and raise - the price of ink to the point where it is now the most expensive fluid a civilian can purchase without a permit. Printer ink now runs over *$10000/gallon*, meaning that you print out your grocery lists with colored water that costs more than the semen of a Kentucky Derby winner.

HP is truly the poster child for enshittification, and also, patient zero in the enshittification pandemic:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/18/ink-stained-wretches/#hache-pe

9/

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Mikee@zeroes.ca ("MikeeZero") wrote:

People mimic what they see when there’s a perceived danger. I was just at the pharmacy picking up my wife’s meds, and every pharmacist was wearing a surgical mask (wish they were n95, but I’ll take it). There were about 10 of us in the lobby and only three folks did not have a mask. As the moments ticked by, 2 of them walked over and picked up one of the free masks and put them on. The next three people who walked in, upon seeing a room of masked people, also put masks on from the free box. You may not think you’re setting an example, but you are. Show yourself. Be the light.

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

Next.js is literally selling a compiler that understands why your website is slow, and *could* fix it, but that's incompatible with whatever weird sub/dom game Guillermo has going with a shrinking number of FBers...and, like, what?.

How is this "tech" when it's worse in every way.

Wut.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

To read this in the Financial Times, of all places, is chilling:

"America has turned on its friends.

Donald Trump’s abandonment of allies is real and will endure."

Money quote: "Trump’s predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Ukraine, the subject of the negotiations, was not invited. Nor was Europe. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu."

https://archive.ph/MHPpL

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So this here's a conundrum.

See, many government departments - I know, for instance, that the DoD's systems enforce this pretty fucking strictly - do not allow you to connect external media, like USB drives.

Likewise, file upload sites like dropbox are explicitly blocked.

The blindingly obvious reason here is that you do not want to let sensitive information off of controlled systems; this inability to exfiltrate information is a desired feature of those systems.

So idk what this guy thinks his recommendation is gonna do here, but it's plain to see he's never worked in fedland.

https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114031100442031839

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Requisite pointing out the hypocrisy of GOP whining about state’s rights.

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Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/nyregion/trump-congestion-pricing-nyc.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

Other fascinating #emergingtech news today out of Bristol: diamond batteries!

Scientists from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority have created the world's first carbon-14 diamond battery, which can run continuously for thousands of years.

The micropower technology encases radioactive material in diamonds, creating a safe and long-lasting power source that could be used for everything from space applications to bio-compatible use cases (implants, hearing aids, pacemakers) to RF tags. Functionality is similar to solar panels, but instead of capturing photons the technology captures electrons from within the diamond structure.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/december/diamond-battery-media-release.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Giovanni Duran, 42, came to California from El Salvador without federal authorization when he was 2 years old, brought by his family.

He worked as a busser in a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, Loreal said.

Duran is now being held in the Adelanto detention facility, run by a private company under contract to ICE, awaiting deportation to a country he doesn’t know.

“I haven’t talked to him in almost two days,” said Loreal last week.
She’s had to get counseling for her 7-year-old son after he saw his dad taken away by officers.
https://www.edhat.com/news/it-was-just-a-regular-morning-californians-picked-up-in-recent-ice-raids-include-kids-volunteers/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

@NOAA.gov ‘s publicly funded satellites, airplanes, radar, and weather stations provide the data behind most U.S. #weather forecasts. Atmospheric scientists explain why private companies would struggle to match this essential system, which Project 2025 has proposed privatizing. https://theconversation.com/noaas-vast-public-weather-data-powers-the-local-forecasts-on-your-phone-and-tv-a-private-company-alone-couldnt-match-it-249451 #climatechange