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schtaks@infosec.exchange ("taskschd.msc") wrote:

Me: It doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.

TechSupport: *sigh* Fine. Right-click on your hamster...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emmettoconnell@mas.to ("Emmett O'Connell") wrote:

WA’s new Shared Streets Law (SB 5595), signed May 18, lets cities set 10 mph limits and give pedestrians full street access, first in the U.S. to do so. Cars must yield to bikes, and bikes to walkers. Inspired by European “woonerfs,” it starts July 27.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/governor-signs-washingtons-first-in-the-nation-shared-streets-law/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Don't forget you can zoom in!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Evening on the Adriatic coast in Croatia.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
theruran@masto.hackers.town ("theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:") wrote:

great news! @nlnet is funding a full-source bootstrap for Ada (GNAT)!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Ada-bootstrap/
discussion: https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-bootstrap-compiler-funding-thanks-to-nlnet/2014/32

#Ada #bootstrappable #Guix #GNAT

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Dear marketing, I would like you all on the agentic web by Friday

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

I chose the 32mm Rodenstock with stitching here. I could have just barely squeezed this into a single frame with the wider-angle 23mm, except that the 23 doesn't have a large enough image circle to accommodate the vertical shift needed to keep the vertical lines from converging. The 32 has a much larger image circle, and so stitching with it yields a wider angle of view than I could obtain with the 23 (which allows only much more limited movements). More pixels this way, too.

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

This is a stitched composite of two captures made from the same position, using horizontal shift movements to get a wider field of view on either side. This was really the only way to capture this building from in front of a tree that would otherwise have obstructed the facade, while also keeping its geometry undistorted. The final result is roughly the angle of view of a 14mm lens (in 35mm full frame terms), with a total of about 190 megapixels in the combined frame.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W (@ f/6.3 lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, and Phase One XT camera. Composite of two shifted images (+/- 12mm from center horizontally, -12mm vertically).

Officially, "House of the Temple, Headquarters of the Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington DC". The local Masonic temple, museum, library, and, I'm told, a gift shop.

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

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, none of the secret stuff, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

#photography

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

Dog brain. #grickledoodle #brain #dogs #thinking #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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limeleaf@social.coop ("Limeleaf") wrote:

Our new app, apply.coop, connects purpose-driven job seekers with values-driven workplaces. Beta runs through June 3rd. Job postings are FREE during Beta, use code SOLIDARITY during checkout. Visit https://apply.coop! #coops #solidarity

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
graue@social.coop ("Scott Feeney") wrote:

Every line is pitch-perfect. McSweeney's, you glorious bastards, you've done it again. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-company-reminder-for-everyone-to-talk-nicely-about-the-giant-plagiarism-machine

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

Live image of me working in my office.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I see older libs keep asking why the younger generations aren't protesting. Dude, they totally are. They're being jailed. They're losing their jobs.

It's just the things these kids are protesting aren't a part of the Dem's agenda, and you're not allowed to speak on these issues in a perpetual effort to court centrists who'll never vote blue.

Name a time in history when Gen X/Boomers gave up their six figure jobs in protest.

From: @aral
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114540833616584848

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

“‘Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians,’ Lopez yelled. ‘How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?’”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/19/microsoft-ceo-speech-palestinian-protest

#microsoft #azure #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza

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

Me: [bursts into kiddo's room first thing in the morning] PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM!

Them: [surprised] WAUUGH!

Me: Oh, excuse me. I meant to say day. *ahem* PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DAY!

Them: 😆

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bjacobs@social.edu.nl ("Bart Jacobs") wrote:

For those interested in a principled approach to probability and the underlying mathematics & logic, a new version of my book is online:

http://www.cs.ru.nl/B.Jacobs/PAPERS/ProbabilisticReasoning.pdf

This 1000 page book presents a fresh perspective and a new language, as part of a new emerging field "Categorical Probability Theory", with many examples.

Three chapters have been added, on learning from multiple data, on causality, and on probabilistic automata.

One more chapter to go, on continuous probability.

Feedback is welcome

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

God bless all the marketing departments who are undoubtedly receiving emails from the bean counters on why their processes aren't more "agentic"

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

Maybe ignorance of the most basic concepts of civilized law is a prerequisite for appointment to the dictator's loyal tribunal?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/20/dear-god-shes-the-secretary-of-homeland-security/

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

In an alternate universe.

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

I'm sorry, bees. We brought out the drenching rain and near freezing cold for World Bee Day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/20/today-is-world-bee-day/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Industry that charges you a premium for a cab ride if your battery is low: you should let our robots buy stuff for you

#agenticweb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

God, the media are going to adopt the "Agentic Web" without a shred of critical thinking or pushback, aren't they?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Not that they're short of good reasons but if I were a woman I think having no pockets would radicalize me

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I can't just be crying at my desk on a random Tuesday morning wtf I have things to do

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash:

"It is important to understand that the current usage of “Web 2.0” is often wrong; people often use Web 2.0 as a term to describe things like Facebook. This is incorrect — closed, proprietary, user-hostile sites like Facebook are what killed Web 2.0."

The platform era took so much and left us with so little. https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Black Mirror s7 ep "Eulogy" 😭

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

There's an excellent BBC audio drama of "Neuromancer": https://archive.org/details/neuromancer.-bbc.-radio.-part-2

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digitalsnow@social.lol ("Kerri :usad: :knife_lgbt:") wrote:

Meditations on Death | So It Goes...
https://notes.krueger.ink/meditations-on-death/

#Meditations #Blogging #IndieWeb