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

Capitalism doesn't make products anymore, just tracking devices with the indicator light taped over, and the hero's journey plot printed on its packaging. 

#AI #Google #Meta

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

daKid and hubby are headed back to Toronto after a short but sweet visit with us this weekend. I miss her, and I must remember we will see each other a lot more now than when they were living in Nashville.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

Here’s a figure from an upcoming article about optimizing Synchronization Words in radio signals.

Another solid contribution to open source digital radio from your friends at @OpenResearchIns 🙂

Article will discuss Barker codes, concatenated Barker codes, maximum length sequences and truncations, Zadoff-Chu sequences, metrics of sync words, and how we chose the sync words for Opulent Voice. See the draft article in ORI's next newsletter.

Sign up at https://www.openresearch.institute/newsletter-subscription/

Visualization of three results. First, when you use a maximum length sequence, produced by a linear feedback shift register, in a situation where it's a one-shot synchronization attempt, you don't get a good result. This is because there are lots of matches for the pattern throughout all the offsets. The offsets come from when you have a pattern you are looking for, and you are monitoring an incoming received data stream. These are false matches, which are equivalent to having high side lobes to a main lobe in an antenna. You might be tempted to point your antenna towards signals in the high side lobes. The second graph shows how a concatenated Barker Code works. It's got a solid high main lobe when the stored pattern matches up exactly with the pattern in the received data stream. But there are a couple of sidelobes that peak up. If there was also a lot of noise, then one of those might give you a false alarm. At the bottom of the graph is the brute-force search sequence. 24 bits that only give a solid 24 bits match at the exact center, when the alignment is perfect. Otherwise, only 3 bits match. This is a great sync word. It's the best we can get, because we did an exhaustive search. Use this one to find the edges of your frame!

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

When was the last time a piece of tech actually changed your life?

Sometime in the last ten-fifteen years, Silicon Valley stopped making products we want, and instead, will manufacture endless versions of the same tracking device.

It is easier, and perhaps more profitable, to make surveillance tech with a good story and a large marketing budget, than it is to make actually useful things.

#BigTech #Google #Meta

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

My Newsboat + Lynx browser setup

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gQ9pCFCgmcihC67rnMMhUz

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

building a giant golden ballroom while cutting SNAP has very Marie Antoinette vibes.

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

Nice try, Threads, but I'm not going to look at the "For You" feed no matter how often you try to default me back to it, "Following" is my happy place here

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

The least surprising bit of news in a very long time

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DQR7N0eEh57

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Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
jococruise@threads.net ("JoCo Cruise") wrote:

Our next JoCo Cruise 2026 featured guest is Amal El-Mohtar, an award-winning writer of poetry, criticism and short fiction. She won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for her short story “Seasons of Glass and Iron” and again for her novella This Is How You Lose the Time War, written with Max Gladstone, which also won the BSFA and Aurora awards & became a New York Times bestseller. Learn more about her here: https://monkeylink.co/389f21

Photo by JoCo Cruise on October 26, 2025. May be a cartoon of magazine and text that says 'FEATURED GUEST sofa CRUISE 2026 AMAL MALEL-MOHTAR EL EL-MOHTAR'.

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

Leftover pic from this week

Slight hints of misty steam over a yellowing landscape, with a few trees scattered here and there

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

Half-assing our halloween decorating.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/26/halloween-decorating-done/

inflatable spider

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Under #Trump, Federal #Workplace Anti-Discrimination Agency Engaged in…Workplace #Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (#EEOC) was established by the 1964 #CivilRights Act to enforce anti-discrimination laws in workplaces across the country. But under Trump, the federal agency tasked with helping workers who experienced hostile work environments became a hostile work environment itself, acc/to one judge’s recent ruling.

#law #LaborLaw #LGBTQ
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/under-trump-eeoc-discriminated-against-trans-man-marc-seawright/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

today’s #yaddaYadda is a memepost from the #incElCamino #wankpanzer bar, with an unusual Sunday cathechism:

BE UNGOVERNABLE, like Sugar

🎶 fuck you, i won’t do what you tell me 🎶

#anarchy #antifa #memes #horses

source:
https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115441061058947649

it’s an image of a horse looking asleep on a patch of grass. it was posted by a Jim Rose Circus account. it says: «Meet Sugar, she doesn't like to be ridden. If Sugar is approached with a saddle she lies down and pretends to be asleep. Sugar refuses to open her eyes until the riders leave.» right under it is a comment by an Atane. it says: «Never have I related to an animal so much in my life.»

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

Herr Trump and Company should read this and consider how wannabe kings are treated by Americans

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

science

Curve diagram showing "normal distribution" - smooth symmetrical curve line, looks like a hill. Paranormal distribution - the line has been formed into a cute ghost

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

'Before Trump’s inauguration, community-based organizations, non-profits and local and state governments were eligible to apply for the grant. Now, only city, county and tribal governments are allowed. And the stated goal of the program has been changed from “comprehensive, community-based prevention” to “supports law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations”.' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/capitalvices/

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

Why is “do not update software while in the middle of a project” a lesson I never learn?

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("Grant Me Strength") wrote:

If you tax the wealthy they’ll leave.

We tax them. They leave.

Every country taxes them. They leave.

Now they live in international waters on giant boats. They hate it. The food is awful. They get norovirus a lot.

The world carries on, considerably better off.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
crk5@layer8.space ("crkⓋ") wrote:

I'm surprised to learn this week that French and British museums consider theft wrong

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

Do not go gentle into that digital stream.

Rage, rage, against the living of the machine.

#AI

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

anyone using Windows (not remote) able to confirm this?

Test: up the cursor size to max in system settings and tell me if the custom CSS cursor on wondermake.xyz scales up too, or not? (obvs. test normal size to compare)

For reference (published a day early 🤫 ):
https://dbushell.com/2025/10/27/custom-cursor-accessibility/

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
emmfoolery@dosgame.club (":msdos: Emmfoolery :msdos:") wrote:

https://archive.org/details/MAGPIES

I FOUND IT.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing #MSDOSMonday

'I Hate Collingwood' Wolf3D mod.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
BrentToderian@mastodon.online ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

Key quote from the great Lewis Mumford in 1955 — “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I regret not buying a My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard poster because I have some free wall space next to my It's a Slow Apocalypse, You'll Work Through It poster.

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

First snow. Boo. Hiss.

A view of a driveway and mountains, both covered in snow.

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

It seems DHH doesn’t realise that Kathy Sierra might have changed her perspective on “haters” since her Creating Passionate Users days, after being run off the web twice by Nazis and their tech industry collaborators, nor does he seem to have read her vastly more useful and nuanced book “Badass: Making Users Awesome”.

There is no value in paying attention to DHH except as a precautionary measure in case he decides at some point to pick a target.

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jwz wrote:

Needed to use this extremely specific tool today.
https://jwz.org/b/ykw7

Screenshot

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

This guy just nailed it

A tweet from Jeremiah Johnson (@JeremiahDJohns) reads, “Every startup now is like ‘We found a cool way to monetize undermining the social contract!’” The tweet quotes another post by @nearczyan that says, “a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of social media accounts with AI, ensuring they look as human as possible – ‘never pay a human again’!” Below is an image showing a marionette hand controlling multiple smartphones with strings. The text on the image reads, “Control is all you need. The doublespeed TERMINAL allows you to orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment. Never pay a human again.” A smaller line of text adds, “It’s never been easier to create and deploy content without human cost. Stay up to date with changes and strategies in our community.” A “Join Discord” button appears at the bottom.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

Back when they invented the DHS after 9/11, many of us in the US said "Dept of Homeland Security? That sounds like some dystopian Nazi-ass shit"

And all the Voices of Reason were like "stop catastrophizing, we need to come together in these trying times"

Flash forward two decades and

https://gizmodo.com/dhs-little-dark-age-nazi-video-2000676359