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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:

One of my proudest parenting achievements that I'll probably never cease bragging about is that when it comes to presentations, all my kids refer to bullet points as bullshit points.

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

nor should he be

https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114615339014370616

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Via Klasfeld:

Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Reagan, seemed taken aback by the manner of the students' arrests.

He said he's "not accustomed to" law enforcement without IDs, approaching people masked and without a warrant.

Full story on his ruling against #Trump

https://www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-trial

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Temporarily Doctor Doom") wrote:

Here’s what Senator Raphael Warnock said to Kristen Walker on “Meet the Press” yesterday when she tried to get him to answer questions about Joe Biden.

“Here's what we absolutely know about last year's election: it's over. And I'm gonna spend all of my energy focused on the task in front of us ... they are literally trying to take healthcare away from children."

That’s exactly how you answer that. More of it from the rest of the party.

Senator Reverend Warnock on MTP:
https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-reverend-warnock-on-mtp-this-big-ugly-bill-is-going-to-strip-people-of-their-health-care/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
steve@steves.life ("Steve Sawczyn") wrote:

I encounter so many inaccessible apps developed with Electron and I wonder why: Are developers limited in what they can do compared to the web? Is there automated testing that could be done, but generally isn’t? Does Electron just suck? I thought maybe it’s my choice of apps, but I’m talking about numerous... steves.life

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

@lauren One of our friends who does a lot of interview/podcasts has noticed (as have many of us) that people usually have terrible audio setups - bad microphones, noise rooms with lots of echo, etc. So she sends the interviewees decent, but inexpensive, microphone/headset to use. It can be surprising how much better even a bad network link can get when a headset is used - the link does not have to handle the gunk packets that are generated when a person's microphone can hear that person's speaker, and those echo suppression algorithms don't have to kick in and create audio artifacts.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:

For anyone following at home, SciPy to the rescue — specifically `binomtest` from `scipy.stats`, which for `binomtest(106, 190, 0.5, alternative="greater")` returns a 𝑝-value of 0.0637. This is to say that there's a 6.37% probability to get 106 heads out of 190 tosses of a fair coin. Commonly, we'd start looking into things if that probability were below 5%.

So, even the result in the 45+ cohort isn't statistically significant; more data would be needed.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rc2014@oldbytes.space ("RC2014") wrote:

I also could not help myself and bought another Z80 while I was there. This will look fantastic mounted on the wall in RC2014 Towers when I move in.

Mike is sold out of Z80 at the moment, but has a variety of other vintage chip art available and will have the Z80 back in stock again soon. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/GeekyArtByMike

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

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christalindley%5Fleadership-ai-values-activity-7335368136277295105-FMb4?utm%5Fmedium=ios%5Fapp&rcm=ACoAAAB7JkEBQCk8SY-mmP6rvpKfocI7TzIpqK4&utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fvideo%5Fv2&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Fvia

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

♬️ Just announced: Fri Sep 5, 7:30pm: CYBERDELIA: HACKERS SCREENING + CYBERPUNK DANCE PARTY
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #cyberdelia #electro #bigbeat #trance #cyberpunk #industrial #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by jwz:
skykiss@sfba.social ("skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms") wrote:

Spot the Aircraft carriers of the world

USA
UK
France
Ukraine

#Ukraine

Boosted by jwz:
earthlingusa@mas.to ("Earthling") wrote:

@virtualbri From Jesse Duquette

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

every man still posting on X is exactly 1 podcast away from joining a doomsday cult

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Warning, Cops not welcome"
Stencil seen in Athens, Greece

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pahoittelemme@mastodontti.fi ("Lentävä Kalakukko") wrote:

Turbo Pascal vs. Pedro Pascal.

#Pascal

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

when the social-economic maelstrom that is the current LLM hype wave fizzles or collapses there's going to be so much "how could so many smart people be so wrong?" and it's imperative you do not accept their framing of themselves as "smart people" - they are, in judgment and values and intellect, deeply compromised from living inside a machine that harms humanity for profit.

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

I'm probably old fashioned, but I really think the Youtube folks should strongly consider curating the videos they highlight when somebody lands there without any watch history for them to feed to their recommendation algorithm. As it stands, the suggestions in that situation seem to be things I wouldn't want associated with my brand.

Then again, perhaps I'm in the minority of people that regularly sees that face of Youtube due to not being logged in and clearing cookies. It's pretty gross.

Boosted by jwz:
TheZeldaZone ("TheZeldaZone🏳️‍⚧️🎮🎀") wrote:

@jwz They can't mask, they won't be able to breathe!! This admin is KILLING ICE OFFICERS!! The masking must end at ONCE! For their safety 🤔

jwz wrote:

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please.

After taking four people into custody at SF's immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents' faces. "I have a request to ask if you would consider blurring...
https://jwz.org/b/ykol

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pixelpaperyarn@hackers.town wrote:

For those of you who don't know, my last gig was working in federal gov consulting. In particular, I worked on the IRS's Direct File program, serving 32 million Americans.

THEY OPENSOURCED THE CODEBASE!!!

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file 🥳

This means I can now openly talk about the work I did on the code. Yay!

You can learn a bit more on ⁠Chris Given's website where he's got some associated info and links. He was the program director/head honcho and an awesome human.

https://chrisgiven.com/

Boosted by jwz:
left_adjoint@tilde.zone ("lynn / clarissa") wrote:

As someone who works in higher-ed and also has taught middle school and high school aged kids, my opinion is not that LLM use is exploding among students because they're lazy or stupid or anything else

it's because our educational system has prioritized a very transactional "do this bullshit, and you get the credentials you need to have a life" approach for

well

maybe forever, really

and no one should be surprised that adversarial approaches by teachers and administrators are being met with an adversarial approach by students

jwz wrote:

"Never ask me again"
https://jwz.org/b/ykoj

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Am I ready to connect to the Internet?

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

okay, that’s sweet… no tools needed to assemble and install trailer & hitch

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

Every news blog interview with a tech leader is just two dumb b***** telling each other "exxxxactly"

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

And then I found out Analogue has been promoting their "openFPGA" approach on their device[1].

Maybe it's all too niche, but there's more and more FPGA hackers every day (now that things are opening up more), I can see game dev teams consisting of system architects, coders, and artists collaborating on unique engines optimized for the work they want to create.

[1] https://www.analogue.co/developer

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

As a distraction from things, I've been contemplating compute systems designed around FPGAs. That got me thinking about the MiSTer project, which seems to be getting converted into a consumer product in various ways[1], and the Analogue Pocket[2].

The primary use case seems to be emulation, but in light of these things becoming consumer friendly, I was wondered if anybody was treating these things like a unique platform for games.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e-k9I94JLs
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogue%5FPocket

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

I have mixed feelings about these cold war relics. On the one hand, they're artifacts of what was perhaps humanity's most dangerous folly to date, locking the world in a deadly game where the stakes only went up with each round. This doesn't seem like something to commemorate or celebrate.

On the other hand, these objects, many now destroyed or decayed, serve as visible evidence of just how close to oblivion we are willing to go. And looked at from the right angle, they have stories to tell.

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

t's unclear if the SAGE system would have actually been effective in detecting incoming bombers, which presumably would have employed radar jammers and other countermeasures. Fortunately, we never found out.

The huge rotating antenna (not shown) was removed shortly after the site's decommissioning in 1980, but the building, a prominent local landmark visible from downtown San Jose, has been preserved.

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

From 1958 through 1980, this incongruous four story (82 foot) monolith was the centerpiece of the "Almaden Air Force Station", a long-range radar site that was part of NORAD's SAGE early warning system. The blast-hardened concrete building served as the platform for an FPS-24 radar system, a massive 120 foot wide reflector that emitted a 5 megawatt VHF pulse, continuously rotating at 5 RPM.

Notoriously, the signal disrupted TV and radio reception throughout the San Jose area.