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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

Taking a moment to remember Martin Gardner on what would have been his one hundred and eleventh birthday.

Thank you Martin for *so* many fabulous ideas, for connecting so many people to each other and to those ideas, and for a wonderful afternoon in your company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FGardner

Ron Graham said of him, "Martin has turned thousands of children into mathematicians and thousands of mathematicians into children."

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

Who decided it was a smart idea to fire live artillery ammunition over I-5?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/21/the-gang-that-couldnt-shoot-straight-screws-up-again/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The newsletter also had some foggy autumn photos

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/foggy-photos-2025/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The inevitability of anger

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-inevitability-of-anger/

This week's newsletter is on culpability in the AI Bubble, how social media shapes what we say and how we respond to it, and the inevitability of a reckoning.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

If you like CRTs and obscure product history wrapped in a nerd adventure story, this is a lovely way to pass 35 minutes. https://youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
socketwench@masto.hackers.town ("Socketwench") wrote:

I'm not talking about the f-ing Apple store.

I'm talking about fix-it clinics. I'm talking about having a volunteer desk at a library to help people with their tech problems.

I'd rather have friends and family not spring tech problems on me over turkey, but feel comfortable to say, "Oh, I'll just go to the fix-it clinic on Sunday. They'll get me sorted."

*That's* a culture of mutual tech support and mentorship.

*That's* what will break monopolies.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
jaseg@chaos.social wrote:

I've got a new paper out on eprint: Monitoring tamper-sensing meshes using low-cost time-domain reflectometry.

In the paper, I wrote up how you can build a ~200 ps resolution time-domain reflectometer from an STM32 and some cheap display bus redriver ICs. The circuit is sensitive enough to distinguish several identical copies of the same test specimen PCB from manufacturing tolerances!

blog post: https://jaseg.de/blog/paper-sampling-mesh-monitor/
paper preprint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1962

#electronics #embedded #security

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

hm. i wonder what this may cause

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🎮") wrote:

why is all WordPress hosting PHP 3 on a 500 Hz vCPU with a 5 nanosecond execution limit

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
matt@oslo.town ("Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦") wrote:

@calvin @veronicaexplains_channel @ChrisWere Both look great. Good recomendation. Would check them out again.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
calvin@fedi.sphericalcow.space ("calvin 🛋️ ") wrote:

I love that in both @veronicaexplains_channel and @ChrisWere 's latest videos, they recommend viewers check out Bread on Penguins. ☺️

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

Fun legal fact of the day: Florence, Oregon, where federal agents famously (and illegally) used a thermal imager to detect Danny Kyllo's indoor grow operation in 1992, is the same oceanfront community that, in 1970, famously (and disastrously) tried to dispose of a beached whale carcass using explosives.

Boosted by jwz:
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

ICE agents were all recruited from this meme

Boosted by jwz:
sarahjeong.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("sarah jeong") wrote:

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xlei7q2y4rzlub5iordn6l3r/post/3m3nzmbwbn223

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

I know it’s not exactly the point but like… Someone just rented an excavator and… drove it to the White House? And someone else said “Great, the excavator’s here” and was like “Just rip down that wall, don’t worry about the windows or anything, just maximum ripping please.”

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
p3ter ("Peter B.") wrote:

"If it's still regularily used, it's not old. It's stable and sustainable"

#timeless #stable #computing #linux #foss

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

IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS

Attachments:

• gifv: 719b220f4503143c.mp4

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
allanon@mastodon.uno ("Allanon 🇮🇹 :amiga:") wrote:

@adele well said... this is a problem that no one seems to have the will to address (I'm referring to our governements).
It's a shame that the internet has become a battlefield, but we will stand firm and we will take it back.

#letstakebacktheinternet

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. The formal recognition enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free from the W3C website. You can read more and share our press release https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/wcag22-iso-pas/

#accessibility

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I don't want to react to the AWS breakdown (even if this toot looks like that).
Telling that you should use a different service, your own server, or whatever to avoid a breakdown is stupid. All solutions are subject to breakdown and AWS isn't the worst.

Yesterday's problem just shows the hegemony of AWS (and other Big Tech actors), even for non-American structures. It should just make us aware that a unilateral decision by the United States could harm any country without military intervention.

It's time to dig up a post from the beginning of the year:

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/what-if-us-cut-off-big-tech-from-europe.md

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

it's genuinely funny that huge swaths of the internet went down today and Mastodon is just sitting here like a cockroach nibbling on an old sandwich like nothing happened.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

US-EAST-1 really jumping the gun on the general strike, but I appreciate the enthusiasm.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
memory@blank.org ("Doctor Memory") wrote:

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Togedemaru just returned from a visit to Transylvania.

#pokemon #togedemaru #togedemaBOO #halloween

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Neatnik is an itty bitty Kentucky-based LLC that makes neat things and charges a fair price for them. No ads, no algorithms, no AI, no investors, no pretentious thought leadership. Just a guy sincerely hoping that you’ll enjoy the stuff he builds.

This account was created so that you don’t have to hunt for updates buried beneath Pokémon posts and bad jokes in @adam’s feed. :prami_contented:

#introduction

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Looks like a separate account for “official” stuff is the way to go!

Just dusted off @neatnik. 👋

https://social.lol/@adam/115389944853083508

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's melting.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #plants #grass #trees

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dcoderlt@ohai.social ("DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦") wrote:

It’s only an “#AWS outage” if it happens in the eu-*-* regions. Otherwise it’s a “sparkling #DigitalSovereignty stress test”.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
grigs@front-end.social ("Jason Grigsby") wrote:

Our former colleague @paulhebert launched a new daily word puzzle game with a twist. It is a lot of fun and a beautiful, well-built web app. Definitely worth checking out! https://tiledwords.com/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I regret that this post is useful to me:

https://jakearchibald.com/2022/html-codecs-parameter-for-av1/