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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rolle@mementomori.social ("Roni Laukkarinen") wrote:

OMG the Mastodon issue about fetching whole conversation threads finally got completed after 7 years!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9409#event-16708683816

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Saving the planet. #grickledoodle #gardening #godzilla #climatecrisis #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #kaiju

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

In a historic first, wind and solar combined overtake coal in the US

In the US in 2024, wind and solar accounted for 17% of total electricity generation, surpassing coal, which fell to a record low of 15%, according to a new report from global energy think tank Ember.

(well, that is, until the Republicans try to reactivate shuttered coal plants)

#uspol

https://electrek.co/2025/03/11/in-a-historic-first-wind-and-solar-combined-overtake-coal-in-the-us/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Over on Whatever today, I've written a longish piece on billionaires and boycotts, how boycotts are effective (and are not), what to do when you don't feel you can boycott, and what to say when someone is telling you that you're not doing it right:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/the-billionaire-boycott-conundrum/

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

It's hard to have checks and balances via the courts once you make people's lawyers effectively illegal:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/trumps-latest-weapon-against-critics-destroying-their-lawyers/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
donpdonp@mastodon.xyz wrote:

I'm so glad https://radio.garden/ still exists. Listening to radio stations from all over the globe is an easy way to get some real exposure to another culture and language.

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

📄 New blog post: 11ty Math

Some thoughts on nice/common ways of embedding math in your @11ty.dev site's markdown - static site generation of native MathML

https://bkardell.com/blog/11tyMath.html

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

Fluent Web Components v3 are really cooking. Per @davatron5000, there's even a shiny new migration guide:

https://web-components.fluentui.dev/?path=/docs/concepts-developer-v2-%E2%86%92-v3-migration-guide--docs

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
KathyReid@aus.social ("Kathy Reid") wrote:

I didn't expect "using a Torrenting client to seed US government scientific datasets because the policy settings are erasing years of research" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.

You wouldn't download America's scientific research output would you?

#SafeGuardingResearch

EDIT: Several people have contacted me for the link.

https://sciop.net/datasets/

(Better link)

and follow @SafeguardingResearch

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nousaerons@piaille.fr ("NOUS AÉRONS / LET'S AIR") wrote:

Big discount on one of our favorite CO2 monitors: ARANET4

https://aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
oshwassociation ("OSHWA") wrote:

There's lots to look forward to at #OHS2025 like Alessia Romani's talk on RepMat, an Open Source Materials Library designed to share circular sustainable practices on new materials and technologies, especially 3D printing! Get your ticket today: https://2025.oshwa.org/attend/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

I made a little tool that lets you search the full text of all published Fediverse Enhancement Proposals.

https://fep-search.glitch.me/

It does so privately in your browser using a neat in-browser elasticsearch-type-thing called FlexSearch:

https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch

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

(I know. I know. Having a life outside of computer touching is just absurd, and as a long suffering EE/CS type computer toucher, I'm well aware that I'm expected to pay for all my own training one way or another. And I also know this attitude is not limited to my industry. Whole community colleges exist mostly to externalize training costs for corporations.)

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

You know, it's pretty hard to hire for any niche tech stack (and they're all niche, friends), especially when corporations show no interest in attempting to train competent people.

Maybe you can't find somebody with 5 years experience in rust, but maybe you can find somebody with 10 years experience who wants to learn but finds it difficult to juggle learning random tech they're not using with professional gigs and having a life outside of computer touching.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
nfd@social.lol ("Nathaniel Daught") wrote:

Okay! ✍️

I’ve refined my self-portrait likenesses and detail while keeping the sketchy style, plus I did an alternate version with glasses.

#MastoArt #art #artist #myart #selfportrait #selfie #procreate #sketch #illustration #me

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
BenRiceM wrote:

Pokémon Going, Going, Gone
https://flipboard.com/@polygon/polygon-usmsh4o6z/-/a-ge5K9No1TbeNU1EtcN-Gqg%3Aa%3A785933440-%2F0

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

"If you are naive, you put a new thing into production, and experience this law in practice. And then you conclude from this that you should use a different thing for the next feature.

This is how you awoke one morning, from uneasy dreams probably, and found yourself with nine alerting systems in production.

The new thing won’t be better, you just aren’t aware of all of the ways it will be terrible yet."

https://boringtechnology.club/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Chickenshit LinkedIn

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

absolutely no appropriations nor appointments should be approved until this Administration reverses the un-Constitutional seizure and redirection and impoundment of funds appropriated by the Congress. the Constitution demands checks and balances, not dictatorship. #JustSayNo

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes#chamber[]=1&category[]=6

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inquiline@assemblag.es wrote:

"Protesters arrested during peaceful walkout at #Cornell University"

“The first protester, who spoke about Livni’s alleged war crimes, left peacefully when asked but was still arrested.”

https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/03/11/protesters-arrested-during-peaceful-walkout-at-cornell-university/

#GazaProtests #PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #academia

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

too friggin true:

"There are also unknown unknowns in technology. This is a random example I saw a while back. This person spent four months trying to figure out why he was getting GC pauses, and it turned out to be because he was writing stats to a file. He had no idea that that was a thing that could happen, but it was.

Many bugs in software are like that. We don’t know they’re there, and we don’t even really know we should be on the lookout for them."

https://boringtechnology.club/

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

useful & thoughtful piece by @simon

"My current favorite mental model is to think of them as an over-confident pair programming assistant who’s lightning fast at looking things up, can churn out relevant examples at a moment’s notice and can execute on tedious tasks without complaint.

Over-confident is important. They’ll absolutely make mistakes—sometimes subtle, sometimes huge... Don’t fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing LLMs..."

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mikemac29@infosec.exchange ("Mike McBride") wrote:

New Shared Link - SPECIAL EDITION: Resources for Unemployed Federal Workers https://ift.tt/JkLmMs3 - Are you a federal worker who has recently lost your job? This is a scary time but you are not alone. Here’s where to look for help.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:

"Russia will not agree to a 30-day ceasefire because it will just enable Ukraine to regroup and rearm"
- Russian MP Viktor Sobolev

He added that a temporary ceasefire is unacceptable and only plays into Ukraine's hands.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:

“Using LLMs to write code is difficult and unintuitive”

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#atom-everything

An impressive tutorial on using 2025 tech. LLM capabilities vary by language and library so will change what is used.

“Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing LLMs and assuming that failures which would discredit a human should discredit the machine in the same way.”

#jgshare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brunojnavarro.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Bruno J. Navarro") wrote:

'... since you’re raising electricity and natural gas and oil prices at the same time, you’re practically begging Americans to buy heat pumps, induction stoves, and invest in energy efficiency technologies essential for decarbonization.'

Call Him ‘Green New Donald’

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
42aross ("Andrea Ross") wrote:

Is Tesla cooked?

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/627894/tesla-stock-sales-protest-musk-trump-doge

> The CEO is absent, the stock is plummeting, and the brand is toxic. Tesla’s future looks grim.

#tech #cars #news #business #tesla

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

https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114143910372718897

see also https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/blog/leave-leaves-help-pollinators

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mothership@mstdn.social ("Hot Stuff☀️") wrote:

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

"CDC expects measles outbreak in west Texas to ‘expand rapidly’"

no sh*t, Sherlock...
(I got an MMR booster yesterday, and I would suggest you do the same)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/texas-measles-outbreak-spread