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Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
rednikki@toot.boston wrote:

Today I learned there is a vaccine for the cancer that killed my mom in development. In a stage 1 trial, it cured the cancer for people with Stage III and IV cancer. That made me tear up for what might have been.

Then I learned that legislators in some states are trying to ban RNA vaccines (which this possible cure is) and I really cried.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08507-5

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

I KNEW IT

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DJUyKG6iYfW

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
humdrum@social.lol ("kevin humdrum") wrote:

Still have a couple weeks of sponsorship for Foofaraw available through the end of the year if anyone is interested... https://foofaraw.press/sponsorship/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

These are now my favorite release notes

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.

Boosted by jwz:
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10648/nazis-raid-sex-institute

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

Tomorrow [Weds, 5/07] VENJENT comes to DNA Lounge! With DJ? Acucrack
and DJ W4X! Don't miss this insane lineup!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #venjent #talmientertainment #drumnbass #sanfrancisco

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• video: adbdd553337562d2.mp4

jwz wrote:

Rewrites and error logs.

Dear Lazyweb, How do I do an Apache rewrite but also have it show up in error_log? E.g. the following has the side effect that it is not logged, making it unavailable to fail2ban: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f....
https://jwz.org/b/yknN

jwz wrote:

User agent blocking.

Dear Lazyweb, What is your strategy for blocking user agents that are attempting to impersonate browsers? There are many, many botnets out there sending implausibly old user-agent strings. Now, I'm just an unfrozen caveman, your...
https://jwz.org/b/yknL

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lianna@micro.webgarden.click wrote:

Just spotted a "Fuck Antifa" sticker on a streetlight. Wanted to put an antifa sticker over it, but there was a young family behind me on the pavement so I wanted to let them pass first.

Just as they passed me and the pole, the dad stopped and pulled off the sticker himself. He taught his daughter how to safely remove nazi stickers.

I laughed and told them that I was just waiting for them to pass to put my own on top. Small funny moment of solidarity.

#Antifa #FuckNazis #FCKNZS #DePol

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Buzzzzz..... I think it's the best of about 1000 photos I made trying to catch one of those guys over two days. Try that with your phone :-)

#darktable

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we have a new water feature
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/05/06.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

Can we blow your minds?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/06/another-podcast-coming-up/

https://www.youtube.com/live/P7Gt4eIaXnw

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
benbrown@masto.hackers.town ("benbrown (new server edition)") wrote:

The "new" Ministry record is on bandcamp now. I have to say, I've enjoyed these re-recordings from their early days.

https://ministryband.bandcamp.com/album/the-squirrely-years-revisited

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Tesla sales fall by 62% in the UK, 46% in Germany
Last month, Tesla sold just 512 cars in the UK and 885 cars in Germany.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/05/tesla-sales-fall-by-62-in-the-uk-46-in-germany/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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mellifluousbox ("Felix Hlatky") wrote:

Just finished my panel at #GSS2025 in #berlin with @PaulNemitz @displayeurope @udbhav @signalapp @sheila

Boosted by Mastodon:
renchap@oisaur.com ("Renaud Chaput") wrote:

Our team is growing, and I am very excited that there are now 2 developers focused on the Mastodon web interface, with a designer joining in a few weeks.

Brace yourselves for a lot of interface improvements in Mastodon this year 💅
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114460783162498046

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

Finally the truth emerges

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jewelstaite/post/DJUX6yjJ-a9

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

The Rodenstock 32 is probably my most used architectural lens. The large image circle leaves plenty of room for shifts, and it's sharp on the IQ4-150 back all the way to the edges. It's big, heavy, and expensive, though.

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

I made four images with the 32mm Rodenstock to create this, each shifted up, down, left, and right to incorporate the entire image circle and then stitched them into a 500MP image. Then I found a pleasing crop that gave me the composition I wanted, in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The full image is here. You can see the edges of the image circle in the corners. There are also a couple of weird stitching artifacts at the far edges.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

It’s always DNS.

The age-old internet maxim has been upgraded to a full-fledged jingle. 🎶

You can grab the MP3 here: https://dns.kitchen/jingle

#dnskitchen

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• video: 385955375c258241.mp4

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

The long-ish exposure (1/4 second) gives us a sense of motion; some people in the station are waiting around, while others are going places. Stitching multiple shifted exposures with the Rodenstock 32 gives us a very wide horizontal angle of view - here roughly equal to that of a 13mm lens in 35mm format, with excellent edge-to-edge sharpness. There are a few artifacts (a fellow visible on the rear balcony moved between exposures and appears twice, for example).

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

Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/4 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically +/- 15mm, horizontally +/- 23mm). Stitched composite of 4 images), cropped to 16:9 and 240MP.

This is a revisit, four years later, of a photo made from the same vantage point after the station just opened. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362 for an emptier, more pristine station.

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

Moynihan Train Hall (Four Years Later), Pennsylvania Station, NYC. 2025.

All the pixels, and then some, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54499376593/

#photography

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I am on vacation but I noticed this change finally went live on mastodon.social so I'll post about it anyway: the audio player on the web app now has a new and improved look! I hope you like it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

This new documentary about Sally Ride looks good.

#Film #STEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67rl6MNGe0

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I feel like every tech story has become either “ten new ways in which generative AI is even worse than you think” or “AI-powered garden hose startup raises $450M on a $5B valuation”

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
skade@hachyderm.io ("Florian Gilcher") wrote:

Distributed Databases Democracies
🤝
Leader Election is hard

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

Today in History: EDSAC (the 2nd full-size stored-program computer, developed by Maurice Wilkes at Uni Cambridge) demonstrated, 1949 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Following up on the original question... Concise Products in Japan seems to still be producing circular slide rules https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/detail.php?product%5Fid=7