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

I was going to say "MAGA is not sending us their best" but the fact of the matter is this actually is as good as it gets with them

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

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fozztexx@fozztexx.com ("FozzTexx") wrote:

Also have you seen this neat little #OpenSCAD program that you give it a list of screw hole locations and it automatically generates a 3D printable PCB mounting frame baseplate with standoffs? It's really slick!

(What do you mean "No, because you forgot to share it before")

https://www.printables.com/model/1316292-unified-baseplate-whisk

#Arduino #ESP32 #electronics #maker #3DPrint #3DPrinting

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

Since I don't see a native PalmOS Mastodon client that works over the network, I've setup mop3 by @miakizz and use the mail client https://miakizz.quest/posts/MOP3/

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

and that’s the truth

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

(Yes, I know even in sweaty Steve Balmer's time there were much worse things in tech. It's a joke, friend.)

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

Sad to be nostalgic for the time when a sweaty Steve Balmer was one of the worst things in tech:

https://soundcloud.com/smixx/smixx-developers-feat-steve

jwz wrote:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 252.
https://jwz.org/b/ykon

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magnetic_tape@infosec.exchange ("Jonas") wrote:

"The internet I came to love was quieter. Smaller – which is not to say small. It was still vast, but it was a vast collection of small sites instead of a small collection of vast sites."

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/

#smolweb

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

they want the States to pay for this

https://mstdn.social/@faraiwe/114615402781486229

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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

Spot the Aircraft carriers of the world

USA
UK
France
Ukraine

#Ukraine

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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.

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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

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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/

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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