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

Sunday afternoon science chat.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/05/going-to-have-a-conversation-on-youtube-lets-see-how-it-goes/

https://www.youtube.com/live/DsEM1XWVUH4

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

Again, I'm not following Wayland development closely, but I have a feeling people doing it only ever use computers for coding and YouTube. It's the only way you can consider it mature enough to be the default on users' machines.

Like, how can you live without color management? Sure you probably don't care about the shade of green of your "Merge" button on GitHub, but you do care about colors if you work with #photography or #art in any capacity.

I'm slightly dreading my next Ubuntu upgrade.

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

You probably know what I'm going to complain about, right? #Wayland. I'm not following its progress too closely, but when she came to me asking where is the color picker that she had on Windows, somehow "wayland" was my very first hunch. So I switched her Ubuntu to a Xorg session, and the button appeared where it was expected, working.

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

Daughter's video editing project freezes Shotcut on her laptop dead. We tried opening it on mine, which has beefier hardware and runs Linux, and saw it can push those pixels around just fine. So now I'm resorted to tooting from my phone, until she finishes...

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

If you ever wondered what it would sound like if I covered a Buddy Holly song, one, that is a strangely specific thing to wonder about, and two, here you go:

youtu.be/re58pPB3B7c

http://youtu.be/re58pPB3B7c

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

Mastodon-coded vocabulary

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #weather #Texas #flooding #NWS
/1

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted

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oracle@phantomthieves.net ("digital star system") wrote:

@dnalounge i have never needed to be in san francisco more than right now

RE: https://sfba.social/@dnalounge/114802267619043017

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hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

TONIGHT! in the main room at @dnalounge

https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/07-05.html

SUPER MARIO (1993) movie screening, costume contest, chiptunes & dance party! -- Get your TICKETS *here!*

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

♬️ SUPER MARIO BROS '93: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Sat Jul 5, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/07-05.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #supermariobros93 #cyberdelia #8bitsf #crashfaster #chiptunes #videogamemusic #electrorock #burlesque #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: 07b331cb0700f99b.mp4

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isaaclyman@toot.cafe ("Isaac Lyman") wrote:

E-bikes are a more important development than AI and solve more problems, but they don’t get nearly as much press and investment. This is because Microsoft doesn’t think adding e-bikes to Windows 11 will shield their stock price from market volatility.

#Tech #AI #Cycling

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Ok, this is an awesome build. So many wee cores!
https://youtu.be/HRfbQJ6FdF0

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

A nation’s story isn’t just about what happened. It’s about who gets to say what it meant. That’s why 1619 was intolerable. It refused to defer. It refused to flatter the founding. It did not erase 1776. It completed it. And in doing so, It crossed a line. Invisible to many, But real.

9/13

Image: An 1847 ad placed by Nautilus Mutual Life Insurance (later renamed New York Life Insurance) offering insurance on enslaved people. The Daily Democrat,. Source: EJI, https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/new-england/#industries-reliant-on-enslaved-labor

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

truth

https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/114802427197120019

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

So when the 1619 Project arrived—Not from Harvard. Not from Oxford. But from the New York Times—from the mouths of Black folk—it wasn’t an aberration. It was an inheritance.

6/13

Image: An advertisement for the sale of roughly 250 enslaved people trafficked into Boston on the Bante Island ship, ca. 1700. Source: https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/boston/#the-port-of-boston

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

thread

https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/114802361255344794

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
j2bryson ("Joanna Bryson, blathering") wrote:

There’s a lot going on, but can we remember this is possible?

Paris reopens Seine River for public swimming

Parisians have begun bathing in the Seine for the first time in over 100 years after a ban was lifted. The French capital has created three swimming zones along the river as part of its Olympic legacy.
https://www.dw.com/en/paris-reopens-seine-river-for-public-swimming/a-73163816

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

“I was born in a place that I thought for thousands of hours was enough of a universe. Then I knew quite suddenly that it was not, but that I wouldn’t be able to leave; and then I could leave. You hear the same all over the place, and not only among the human.”

Embassytown - by China Miéville

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@Chip_Unicorn @fromjason it was called keyboarding when I took the class in south Texas in the ‘90s. That’s not new. (I’m also grateful to have had the class.)

jwz wrote:

I know I am probably the last person in the world still running X11 on a Mac, but some time around macOS 14.7.3, XQuartz stopped working with OpenGL programs that use EGL instead of GLX. If someone could tell me how to fix this, that would be great:

libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqv

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

I'm so grateful that I learned to type in high school. Are they even teaching that to kids anymore?

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("vkc (Veronica Explains)") wrote:

I know, I know. "Blocking replies is impossible". "You can't stop people from disagreeing with you on the internet".

I've heard it all, and don't really care.

Here's my proposal: much like how I can set the post visibility here, I should be able to tell my server to drop any replies to that post.

Not "don't send notifications about replies". Drop them. Don't host them.

And compliant servers would honor that request in the UI.

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Sbectol@toot.wales ("Sbectol :twt:") wrote:

Everything at the centre of this country is completely mad. Utterly unintelligible ancient ceremonies that mean absolutely nothing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%5FRemembrancer#Quit%5FRents%5Fceremonies

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

The rise of Whatever:

> This was the front-page example for a state-of-the-art LLM integrated with the most popular code editor in the world, all built by one of the richest companies in human history, whose entire business is software and who has specifically invested a zillion dollars in this specific technology. This is the gizmo at its best! And it’s crap!

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Logged-in in #twitter today after a very long time (no reason).
Lot of notifications, all for posts from people I don't follow: many of them were… unexpected. Some examples? J. D. Vance, "MAGA voice", FBI Director.
So sad to see what my former favorite social is now.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My beautiful boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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

The glass curtain grid and distorted reflection of midtown reminded me of Saul Bass's iconic title sequence for North By Northwest (imitated in Mad Men), though this is across town. Hitchcock's film also employed a somewhat different perspective, looking downward, and at a sharper angle. Here, our focus is on the impressionistically rendered Times Square skyline rather than the street below.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), vertically shifted 15mm.

The Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 has a floating internal element that has to move as it's focused. It has to be focused with a helical ring (like an SLR lens) that moves the focus and the internal element together, rather than simply by moving it back and forth with a bellows. This makes the lens big, heavy, and cumbersome (not to mention spendy), but it's very sharp.

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

445 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 2024.

All the pixels, arranged in an orderly grid, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53997928594

#photography

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vaurora@mstdn.social ("Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦") wrote:

Ahhhhhhh such a great short story, by the inimitable @Catvalente

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when-he-calls-your-name/