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

Today in History: Integrated circuit patented by Robert Noyce, 1961

and everything changed…

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

Who is that living under my deck?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/25/visited-by-an-alien/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bx@tiny.tilde.website wrote:

OMFG.
I JUST REALISED A FOOD TRUCK IS REVERSE DRIVE THRU.

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

They're so, SO close to getting it. Alas.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

When Congress returns next week, remember that they could stop Trump's rampage any time they want. Don't let their fecklessness and crocodile tears fool you. They could take back their authorizations of presidential power in a day. They are enabling all this, as bad as Trump himself.

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

It is *wild* to see so much progress via e18e.dev for developers through [ checks notes ] removing legacy assumptions and trimming script as a result in the [ looks down, back up...checks again ] React ecosystem

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

Drink Special @ Violette Wautier: Jesus Freckles - Bacardi Chili Mango Rum, Guava Soda, and a lime.

Attachments:

• gifv: 1db05c79d24c2e39.mp4

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

Apparently this is by @pornin. Props for the most excellent paper!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

The reason Hegseth keeps bypassing the Pentagon's existing security protocols is that he wants to avoid the requirements for security, safety, transparency, and accountability: https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

Today's light reading: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1325.pdf

Remarkably comprehensive survey of the subject matter (binary elliptic curves) and very clever construction. Useful in specific cases where differential addition isn't available.

#elliptic #cryptography #math

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Ponyo, you're amazing.

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

I know English has no actual rules but if there's foot -> feet and goose -> geese, then there should be shoop -> sheep

here's a shoop 🐑

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
dave_andersen@hachyderm.io ("David Andersen") wrote:

sigh. There are a lot of posts going around right now claiming that #bluesky is feeding data to the various data sniffers that the US government uses for surveillance and that #Mastodon is not.

This. Is. Crap.

Anything you post on Mastodon is nearly as easy to vacuum up as things you post on BlueSky. You should treat *all* social media platforms larger than a Signal group of your college friends + Pete Hegseth as "assumed public." It's slightly more work to slurp up almost all of mastodon but really not that much more.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I adjusted the font to be more like the actual 029 keypunch font. Also found a bunch of other blank cards to use. The script adjusts spacing and size automatically for different size blanks. #retrocomputing

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

This capture made extensive use of view camera tilt movements. The depth of field is quite shallow here, so the lens was tilted forward to keep the stems and leaves in focus from the front to the back.

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

Captured with a Sinar P camera. a 240mm/5.6 APO Symmar lens, and a BetterLight scanning digital back.

This is a minimalist studio still life, so it's all about lighting and geometry.

Illuminated by a single hard light placed at the left of the frame, yielding well defined shadows. The background was a white sweep table, creating the illusion of an infinite background. The fruit looks evenly spaced, but actually the rear one had to be much farther back than the center one to create that effect.

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

Three Persimmons, 2008.

Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2207576183

#photography

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mononoir@pixelfed.art wrote:

Digital drawing made with MsPaint

#art #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #dessin #drawing #digitalart #digitaldrawing #mspaint #illustration #dark #architecture #artwork

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bye@wetdry.world ("bye 📺 :spinny_cat: :nano: (nano is best)") wrote:

maybe search engines shouldnt own browsers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ross@fosstodon.org ("Ross Wintle") wrote:

Flippin real old-school deep internet magic happened this week.

There was a discussion about an old C64 game that was beloved by a couple of people including me.

Someone saw this and posted that they were in-person with the developer of that game.

The next day the dev joined Mastodon to join in the conversation and we could tell him direct how amazing his work was.

This... THIS is what the internet and social media should be like, and, as far as I remember, was for some time a while back.

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

Rebecca Watson has some brutal words for Lawrence Krauss. He deserves every scathing word!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/24/krauss-smashed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FNkGgutgc

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

Now it can be told: I wrote two episodes of Volume 4 of Love Death + Robots!

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/love-death-robots-season-4-trailer-1236377075/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rpsu@mas.to ("Rpsu (326 ppm)") wrote:

To end war send STOP to VLADIMIR

🤣

https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/114394077906826615

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

The Finals

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

#Pulp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

A DIY digital stethoscope for cats
New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1075/diy-digital-stethoscope-for-cats

#cat #diy #audacity

Boosted by jwz:
zoul@boskovice.social ("Tomáš Znamenáček") wrote:

Great review of Careless People (of Facebook fame) by @pluralistic. Works nicely as a quick summary if you don’t want to read hundreds of pages about Facebook. https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

It should be pointed out to the saboteur where the circumstances are suitable, that he is acting in self-defense against the enemy, or retaliating against the enemy for other acts of destruction.

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

Kickstarter adding a tariff manager to their backend because they know their userbase is entirely fucked.

jwz wrote:

Got another metal band coming through who want to open doors even earlier so they can be in bed by 10pm.

Big bad Satanists, I tell you what.