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

I am an undercover #Safari lover. I don't use it for serious work, but for casual browsing it's nice to know I'm making it a little harder for #Google and #Meta to track me.

Also, I don't have a #Facebook or #Instagram account but alas, Zuckerberg still tries to follow me around the web.

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

When knees go bad.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/26/prognosis-boredom/

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

What happens when the Oxide API is slow? A podcast episode! More specifically, one about how the team employed all manner of debugging techniques to track it down to one obscure and configurable async runtime feature! @bcantrill and I were joined by members of the team to talk about that journey and the tools we used (and made!) along the way. https://youtu.be/4nU4JDG%5FzPs

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

The Voting Village at DEF CON (August 8-10, 2025 in Las Vegas) solicits talk proposals on all aspects of election security. Our speaker track is the premier venue bringing together researchers, election officials, and the broader security community. Come share your work!

https://www.votingvillage.org/dc33cfp

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

You'll notice that each site operated on multiple frequency pairs across the HF spectrum. This was for two reasons. First, each channel could only handle one call at a time, and so this allowed for more simultaneous traffic. Second, not all frequency bands were usable (due to atmospheric and geomagnetic conditions) at any given time. So in practice, at most half a dozen or so ships PER OCEAN could use the system at any moment.

Multiple transmitters shared the antennas using tuned combiners.

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

By the way, here's what I believe was the final published frequency list and schedule for the AT&T high seas service, (a souvenir of one of my visits to the station before it went off the air).

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

I should note that while the site (and its cousins) had a number of large discone antennas like this one, they were mostly there as backups in case the main antennas (which included truly massive wire rhombics oriented toward various oceanic regions) or transmitter combiners failed.

The old Bell System did not mess around.

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

Ships on the high seas still occasionally make some use of shortwave radio, but its importance has greatly diminished over the last few decades. The Coast Guard still maintains a "watch" on emergency shortwave frequencies, listening for distress calls, but most transoceanic ships are now equipped with more modern, higher-bandwidth satellite communications systems.

Places like this are what the Internet looked like a century ago. Infrastructure is often heroic, and occasionally looks the part.

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

There were three AT&T radiotelephone sites in the continental US, each with its own transmit and receive antenna farms: Ocean Gate, NJ (shown here, serving the North Atlantic), Miami (serving the Caribbean and the Gulf), and Point Reyes, CA (serving the Pacific).

All the sites have by now been razed, either for redevelopment or as nature preserves. The antennas (including this one) are mostly gone now.

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

Captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens.

During the 20th century, AT&T operated a shortwave "radiotelephone" service for vessels on the high seas. Ships could contact an operator, who could connect them with any landline telephone number they wished.

The North Atlantic station, callsign WOO, occupied expansive transmit and receive "antenna farms" in marshlands near the shore in central New Jersey.

Rendered obsolete by satellites, the service ceased operation on November 9, 1999.

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

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.

All the pixels, none of the risk of sea sickness, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

#photography

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

Oh, hey, there is an ARC giveaway of The Shattering Peace (my upcoming novel in the Old Man's War universe) happening on Goodreads, through July 7. If you want to get in on the action, go here:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/410824-the-shattering-peace

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

@creativecommons Psss! After reading all those comments here, I just had to channel my inner artist. So, here’s my new logo for you; because clearly, you need all the help you can get in your new mission. You're welcome! 😂

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

1. RFK Jr is doing an excellent job of finally destroying whatever lingering mystique is clinging to the Kennedy political brand;

2. RFK Jr really gets off on having dead children on the ledger of his soul.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/kennedy-vaccines-gavi.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.R08.%5FjAX.XE6FCh4OkaZE&smid=url-share

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

okay, those zucchini were not supposed to grow quite *that* much overnight

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:

Huh. Microchip started adding a 32 LUT FPGA to some PICs. Mark Omo decided to see how it is configured and found they internally use Yosys. Full RE details: https://mcp-clb.markomo.me/

#fpga #openfpga

Mastodon wrote:

📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too!

https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack%5Fid=43a9c3e16e24b2f182e2d3e03a7e1338&pack%5Fkey=87a129905fbe7371568eef6485f93a81b7569a963bf711063bf804123a075083

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
JorisMeys@mstdn.social ("Joris Meys") wrote:

Brace for impact. The #ECMWF #weather #model promises scorching temperatures over #Europe the coming week. Anomalies of up to 15-20 C higher than normal are expected.

This weather is brought to you by climate change (for those who claim it's been hot before: weather is what happens, climate is the probability it happens. And this has become significantly more probable because greenhouse gases and physics.)

#wx #Climate

Attachments:

• gifv: a map of Europe showing a color coding for the temperature anomalies predicted over the next week. Very cold is purple, very warm is whitish, the scale goes over darkblue to light blue to greyish over yellow, orange, red, darkred to pinkish and whitish. Over the week you can see a significant heat dome develop over much of western Europe. North Europe stays in the light to dark blues. On friday next week you see the heat dome being pushed out to the east when cooler air arrives from over the north sea.

jwz wrote:

Oh I guess it's "lipsum". Doesn't matter. It's dumb.

jwz wrote:

It takes an impressive level of laziness to not only Lorem Ipsum your dumb TV show's grimoire, but to literally cut and paste from ipsum dot com.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@jmc It's kind of impressive in its glorious insanity.

I just re-read Don's "X Windows" chapter of the Unix Haters Handbook for the first time since probably nineteen diggity-aught -- http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html

....and like 80% of it still tracks if you s/X/Wayland/

The Iran-Contra jokes in there kinda hit different today, and yet also don't, at all.

Time is a flat circle.

Boosted by jwz:
jmc@unix.house ("Joshua M. Clulow") wrote:

@jwz It's super cool that we've taken the sometimes inconvenient minor fragmentation caused by there being a small handful of different looking X11 toolkits and resized that problem up to cover literally every aspect of having a graphical environment.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

If your auto-merged Dependabot PRs don't build after merging into `main`, this is why.

Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action.

https://david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/github-actions-not-running

jwz wrote:

What's the proper way to determine that you are speaking to XWayland rather than Xorg? Is it really "pick one of half a dozen possible environment variables and pray"?

It is software malpractice that the XWayland X server doesn't identify itself via Vendor String, or the presence of extension or something.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Thoughts on Project #gemini

https://nfnitloop.com/blog/2025/06/project-gemini/

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

7 years. The most notable change this year is lowering of the right side. And I also went back on the idea of growing another upper level (for now).

#bonsai #darktable

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

And btw here's @creativecommons supporters page, which thanks (among others) Microsoft, Google, the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Amazon Web Services, and Mozilla (which has pivoted to become an AI company these days).

Huh.

Not to be cynical or anything, but I wonder if that has anything to do with the reason they don't think content creators should be able to say "no" to #AI?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

there are no deals, commitments are meaningless, but the ironclad principle of the new diplomacy is if you flatter him and make him look good he just might be nice to you. whoever you are.

and if you give him an opportunity to look good, if he can take credit, he might do whatever it is you’d like done.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Dear @creativecommons ,

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

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

Is it cool that the five or six men with all of our personal data, and who control all of our communication tools, and who own all of the Internet's critical infrastructure, suddenly want to help western governments scale their war machines using technology they claim will bring about a techno-utopia/armageddon?

It'll be fine, right?

#Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Meta #GAMM