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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:
Enjoy this satisfying clip of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer tearing up a MAGA flag.
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olivvybee@anarres.family ("Liv 🐝") wrote:
Apparently I’m a matrix user now, so if you want to— *** Unable to decrypt message ***
Mastodon FeedThe Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects.
These photos are from the future. A future somewhere between Don Davis and Simon Stålenhag.
https://jwz.org/b/ykrS
Mastodon Feedand what you can take away from this log is that the reason they are blasting the entire internet, every webserver with these requests - most of which are 'im gonna hit myself in the face with a brick now' level of bad from a config/dev/admin perspective - is squarely because it has worked for them enough times that they feel spraying the internet will nab them more.
look.
just look at the shit they're collecting and how easily theyre doing it.this is because docker
this is because k8s
Mastodon Feedif you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Today is trying very hard to be a Monday here.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
f you like this stuff, there's a sadly out of print book, "New York's Forgotten Substations", with some excellent photos.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
NYC's IRT subway, opened in 1904, is powered by a 600 volt DC third rail running alongside the tracks. Power is fed to the system via a number of substations throughout the city, where high voltage AC is converted to the lower voltage DC used by trains.
Until recently, this was done with electromechanical rotary converters (essentially a combination AC motor and DC generator). They are now supplanted by solid state rectifiers, but a few of the original rotary converters remain operational.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Rotary Converter, IRT Subway, Substation 13, Midtown Manhattan, NYC, 2017.
All the pixels, none of the voltage, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32992380451
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 🌸") wrote:
Introducing Blue Rose, an 11ty starter kit.
Blue Rose is a lightweight, responsive, and highly performant gallery for photos and videos.
Template: https://melkat.dev/melanie/blue-rose
Demo: https://melkat.pics
Mastodon FeedSecret Police need Secret Lawyers.
Law and Order ICE: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The secret police who throw suspects into unmarked vans, and the secret attorneys who deport them to third world concentration camps. These are their stories."
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court:
https://jwz.org/b/ykrQ
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rresoli@mastodon.opencloud.lu ("Roberto Resoli") wrote:
Wonderful summary of @valhalla 's talk at #DebConf25 about #xmpp
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/07/15-federated-instant-messaging-100-debianized/index.html
It's a perfect summary of my own toughts about it as well! Waiting for the video ...
Italian translation: https://www.resolutions.it/nextcloud/s/DWMXoA42ZDyYKKW
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Both Athena (my daughter) and I went to go see the new Superman movie; one of us liked it better than the other. We decided to write our two takes of the film into a single post. Check it out. Heads up: There are spoilers!
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/07/16/two-takes-on-superman/
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erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:
From a French Revolution museum exhibit in Paris… they wore jewelry with guillotines… ahahaha This is a pair of guillotine earrings with the heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.
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pivic@kolektiva.social ("Niklas Pivic") wrote:
@pluralistic This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:
'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.
Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:
🚨 Astronomers have witnessed the dawn of a new solar system!
Using ALMA and JWST they observed the first specks of planet-forming material — hot minerals beginning to solidify around HOPS-315, a baby star 1300 light-years away.
This marks the first time a planetary system has been identified at such an early stage in its formation – a window to the past of our own Solar System.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2512a/
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MarvClowder@mstdn.jp ("Marv Clowder") wrote:
"Economist Paul Krugman points out that “two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
that this is America in 2025 just plain breaks my heart
#ICE #50501
please
get in ‘Good Trouble’
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:
What was the person who invented square toilets trying to achieve? Corners in my thighs!? Fuck you, squoilet!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
It's a plague of stupidity. Can we get a vaccine against ignorance?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/16/creationists-still-exist/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Superman was OK, but it would have been truly great if he actually punched Donald Trump.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/16/superman-has-always-been-wokeand-goofy/
Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Finally Github #Copilot includes the definitive model were are all waiting for! #SciFi
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NationCymru@toot.wales ("Nation.Cymru") wrote:
Names of 20,000 children killed in Gaza by Israel to be read aloud at the Senedd
#News
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:
Naturalist Chris Packham comes for an unlikely target in a Guardian column: sheep!
More precisely, the presenter is fascinating on how unchecked grazing livestock is ruining the biodiversity of natural wonders like Dartmoor. “Where once there was purple heather, bilberry and buzzing insect life, there are now over-grazed, sheep-infested ecological disaster zones,” he writes.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just published a new section on my site to capture references to a lot of the essential web performance and fundamentals-oriented webdev resources I find myself continually directing folks to. Also, lots and lots of links to blogs I love:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
killick@dmv.community wrote:
Knowing how to tie a useful knot is a skill that doesn't get much attention outside of sailing and rock climbing, but although I do neither of those things, I like learning new knots. They come in handy in the garden, the kitchen, and any time I have to move something on or in a vehicle.
If you'd like to learn to be more handy with rope and string, I suggest this website, where you can learn new knots. You can easily go step by step, reverse, or even re-orient the knot to see how it looks from another angle. It's called "Animated Knots." They even have neckties!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every front-end shop should have this printed out in huge type somewhere in a high-traffic common area:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A billionaire saying they back politicians who will "make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires" obliquely confesses that the primary thing billionaires have is nobody who tells them "no".
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
The next six weeks are going to be extraordinarily busy for me, between a massive day job project, a couple of larger personal things going on, and getting my new apprenticeship underway. Still going to be working on omg.lol and Neato stuff, but if I’m a little less visible or if email replies take a little longer to reach you, that’s why!