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

What matters is whether you own up to your mistakes.

This also means others need to be willing to let people apologize and make amends. And of course, those that don't apologize and try to make amends (or are clearly repeat offenders), well we know what they are.

To close the circle: While I don't think it matters whether you intend to lie for your statements to be lies, I do think it matters whether you intend to speak the truth. And that will be clear by your behavior.

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

People get twisted up in knots about intent when it comes to lying. I don't believe intent is necessary for someone to lie. I believe we are responsible for the things we say or repeat. If you communicate a falsehood (knowingly or not) you are participating in a lie. While you make false statements, you are a liar.

What matters is whether you are careful with your words and will go out of your way to clear up misinformation you may have spread.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
TechConnectify@mas.to ("Technology Connections") wrote:

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Time to do the spring planting.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/27/most-people-would-decorate-with-a-few-garden-gnomes/

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

Whooooaaaa! The new #JWST image is so good! So much physics going on — physics Einstein himself thought about!

This is called an Einstein Ring. When a massive foreground galaxy (in this case, an elliptical galaxy) warps the space-time around it, light from behind it bends in our direction.

The JWST caught this fantastic example, where the background spiral galaxy is getting warped into our view. It appears as a ring, but we can see its structures like its spiral arms, gas features and star clusters.

Incredible science happening here!

📸 ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Mahler

I added the annotations in the second image.

#astronomy #astrophysics #generalrelativity #galaxies #science #gravitationallens #Astrodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

When I bought the XEphem ephemeris and planetarium program in the 1990s it was the first astronomy software I used on Linux.

Now available as open source, it is still as advanced as back in the day with features few similar programs have. With its Motif user interface frozen in time and now turned retro, here is XEphem on my Linux Mint box where it still builds and runs fine. Almost permacomputing.

https://xephem.github.io/XEphem/Site/xephem.html

#astronomy #planetarium #linux

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard 😭

What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years 🛰️✨

They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕

#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

Overall, I think it'd be awesome if there were roving bands wandering around the Internet and helping under-funded open source projects improve their security in a constructive way.

I don't mean people who have opinions and ranting at open source developers and maintainers. I also don't mean well-funded foundations that create hoops for unpaid hobbyists to jump through.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The secret police are thriving in American society.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/27/the-secret-police-are-here/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFIs7OkzYY

jwz wrote:

BTW, since I assume I'm getting sent to the camps regardless, I'm going to spend my remaining time calling stochastic terrorist christofascist piece-of-shit motherfuckers what they are. Oh, did I swear? Was it indecorous? I'm so fuckin' sorry.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

comedy is when this screenshot was posted to Mastodon and a pile of Effective Altruism dweebs promptly responded repeatedly to defend EA's honour

(i checked, original post appears no longer to be up)

jwz wrote:

Since I'm sure this is going to get linked to by HN-loving ignoramuses asking, "Why is jwz so mean to HN?"

It's a VC fan club, your go-to spot to simp for billionaires. Bad enough! But there's also Y Combinator's stochastic terrorist, cryptofascist, christofascist CEO Garry Tan.

This — that attitude, and that piece-of-shit motherfucker in particular — is what you're supporting every time you click on or share a "Hacker" "News" link.

Stop hanging out at the Nazi Bar.

https://jwz.org/b/yklG

jwz wrote:

Having read Gruber's lament about being blacklisted (take the win, man), I was disappointed to learn that I am still number 80 on the highest-ranking personal blogs of "Hacker" "News".

But that's a lifetime number. My ranking per year, 2009 through now are: 32, 47, 10, 7, 197, 351, 2034, 2127, -, -, -, -, -, 3255, 2605 and -.

"Let's keep this conversation going!"

https://jwz.org/b/yklG

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Spring sprang with daffs from the allotment.

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

New new new on the Microsoft OSS blog: We’ve released a Wasm Component guest based on Wasmtime for the Hyperlight hypervisor!

We talk a little about what this means and how it works on the blog. But tldr: we’ve made it possible to start new VM partitions, load a Wasm runtime, and start executing a Wasm Component binary in about ~1ms. No guest OS. No virtual devices.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/26/hyperlight-wasm-fast-secure-and-os-free/

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

here's the reason I was thinking about all of this. now that I can send values back and forth between game boy software and the microcontroller on my custom game boy cart, i did what anyone in my situation would do: i made a game boy photoresistor theremin

Attachments:

• video: overhead recording of a violet gameboy (though it looks more blue here), wired up to a breadboard with a photoresistor plugged into it. as i move my hand over the photoresistor, the frequency of the audio changes. the screen fills up with black pixels vertically in response to the movement as well, and there's a hexidecimal number in the corner (which also changes in response to the movement)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

What do you *mean*, an ePrint archive dedicated to cryptography research isn’t the right place to publish my hummus recipe?!

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

In the US, some people have been advocating for making wearing masks illegal, mostly to further the desires of a surveillance state.

Then you find that federal officers now wear masks while abducting people:

"Videos released online purportedly showed plainclothes DHS officials wearing masks that partially covered their faces while detaining Ozturk in the street and taking her to one of several unmarked cars"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-agents-detain-tufts-university-graduate-student

I wonder why they wear masks. :thonking:

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know (The Onion)

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Wow, this is it all it takes to be rounded up by ICE nowadays.

Tufts Daily: Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

#Politics #USpol #ICE

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If any journalist going to WWDC is reading this, I would love it if you could press folks involved with App Review to give a statement on what their plan is for when armed DOGE agents extrajudicially seize the app store's datacenters in order to deploy tracking software to migrants & trans people's phones.

Not a shitpost; this is a serious question. This is not a plan that we will get to develop after the fact. Do they have a hot spare of their trust root in a different jurisdiction?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

To be very clear: I take no solace whatsoever from the fact that they are morons. They successfully took power & are successfully destroying the country right in front of us. They are evil morons, with a plan, breaking the law on purpose. Being morons is no particular impediment!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
creachadair@phire.place ("M. J. Fromberger") wrote:

"Is that free as in beer, or free as in freedom?"

"It's free as in use-after."

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ehqo@social.lol ("Ehqo") wrote:

Hey folks! I've been laid off from my ops role at a tech startup and am hunting for something new in ops, PM, or data work.

What I bring to the table: taking on messy, ambiguous problems, building systems that make sense, and using data to figure out what's actually going on. I'm equally happy diving into spreadsheets or running a meeting where everyone leaves knowing what they need to do next.

If you know of anything that might be a fit, I'd love to connect. Thanks all!

#GetFediHired

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WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

As bad (and it is bad) as this entire SignalGate thing is in and of itself, there is literally no gov’t agency remaining that can or will bring charges, dismiss the guilty, or deliver accountability.

Media would do everyone a favor by reporting that part of the story.

#politics #signalgate

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

A little more trickster shapeshifter inspired take on the Ceffyl Dŵr of Welsh legend.

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

Since I'm on book tour I'm only briefly checking in on the news of the day and I can't say I mind it at all

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

I don't think the press is covering the part where the point of the regime using Signal is to do illegal things and not leave a trail enough.

CCing the Atlantic isn't the core problem.

(edited to be clearer that Signal isn't the problem)

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I’m not a cabinet-level official. I don’t have an army of aides or a security detail helping me. The most sensitive things I handle in my work life are student records, such as grades, protected by FERPA.

Yet I have somehow never accidentally sent my grade sheets to a reporter. Not even once.

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

“In interviews, state health officials predicted that thousands of health department employees and contract workers could lose their jobs nationwide. Some predicted the loss of as much as 90 percent of staff from some infectious disease teams.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare