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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is (finally) out! Have a great weekend. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/just-for-skeets-and-giggles-1326?r=1zr8b&utm%5Fcampaign=post&utm%5Fmedium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
leonardo@www.mattos.eng.br ("Leonardo Marques") wrote:

pwrTools.app

Dear fellow engineers,

I have great news!

I’d like to invite you to try out my new electrical engineering tools hub, hosted at https://pwrtools.app . The idea is to make widely available some of the applications I’ve been developing to support my daily work over more than a decade of professional practice and research.

To bootstrap the platform, I have included four tools:

1. serFilt: Series filter design tool. Its purpose is to quickly prototype filters for use in power quality studies;

2. LTparam: Overhead transmission line parameter calculator based on the physical description of the conductors and their position on the tower head;

3. volt2pu: Computes per-unit values from the ATP/EMTP phasorial solution step node voltages, enabling fast evaluation of base case settings. Each node voltage unbalance factor is also calculated to identify modelling mistakes;

4. calcZpZsZt: Converts transformer leakage impedance percentage values into individual coil impedances. These outputs are used in short-circuit, power flow, RMS, and EMT simulations.

My goal is to release a new tool every month or so. Stay tuned for upcoming updates!

Feedback, comments, and ideas are most welcome!

#engenhariaElétrica #pwrtools #python

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Current state of democracy:

A distributed system where half the nodes don't trust consensus, the other half deny the logs, and rollback is unconstitutional.

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

Mom calling to casually tell me she "just got off the phone with AL" and hopes they come to fix her toilet.

She unironically calls AI "AL" and it's my favorite thing.

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

"Don't meet your heroes" is an obsolete warning in a world where we have 24-hour access to virtually every celebrity.

It should be "don't get into a parasocial relationship with Chappell Roan because she's a human and it's a mathematical certainty that she will eventually let you down."

(Jk I love Chappell she's perfect)

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

2026 goal: help a normie friend build a personal blog.

Boosted by jwz:
wendynather@infosec.exchange ("Wendy Nather") wrote:

You gotta wonder whether these scam farms collect and share the best reactions to these opening lines

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reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:") wrote:

The Hard Times giving The Onion a run for their money: https://thehardtimes.net/breaking/ice-accidentally-sends-maduro-back-to-venezuela/

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

Mole sauce is a wunnerful thang

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

Market algorithms are the Human Resources of corporate social media. They want you to believe they're neutral, or even on your side. But in reality, algorithms serve the corporation in which they operate.

#CnM

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theonion@threads.net ("The Onion") wrote:

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

I blame no one who has mentally checked out. I do that often. It's just so much.

But when we do talk about it, I just can't figure out why ethnic cleansing isn't at the core of the discourse; why we rarely acknowledge that all of this, at its center, is the US fighting the browning of the country. Ya know?

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dresstokilt ("DressToKILT") wrote:

If you want to understand what a real artist feels when they hear "I make AI art!", just imagine being a CIA operative today watching Hegseth take a beer shower.

jwz wrote:

Dali Clock in the wild.

Our New Years Eve countdown featured Dali Clock, because we use all parts of the buffalo here at org du jwz. And yes, it was NTP synchronized to within 1 frame, thanks for asking.
https://jwz.org/b/yk1R

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

2008—P. Diddy addresses his Facebook audience with the message: “Voting improves your sex life.”

Found this while doing some research on Obama’s 2008 social media strategy. Oof. In today’s context, this video has rancid vibes. Almost forgot that Diddy had a get out the vote campaign. https://www.facebook.com/Diddy/videos/diddy-blog-32-voting-improves-your-sex-life/645790009489/

jwz wrote:

Snarkatron appreciation post.

I added a little self-test mode to the Snarkatron. We're missing very few of these 27 year old pixels!
https://jwz.org/b/yk1P

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

If you're an American, please call your reps today. The phone call can be short. Be direct. Tell them to do whatever it takes, impeach, remove, block.

Go to https://5calls.org on your phone, it gives you the numbers to call.

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

@blogdiva @nev @mhoye it's well understood that latin american countries export their most right wing citizens

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

The supplementary supplementary cat picture for your Saturday

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

Seems relevant today

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DNyp1vEZJeg

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

From this month's The Onion.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If Trump thinks a country (allegedly) sending drugs to your shores rises to the level of “terrorism” and justifies kidnapping that country’s president, perhaps he should be wary of threatening worse to his neighbors who know where he lives.

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

because history does not matter to fools:

“Asked during a visit to Canada last week whether Mr. Noriega’s capture might serve as a kind of model for the Trump administration’s current planning, Secretary of State Marco Rubio deflected, saying he had been in high school at the time.”

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

“Maintaining order across the country would be a huge task, especially without the full allegiance of heavily pro-Maduro security forces.

A 1994 U.S. military mission in Haiti that deposed a military junta and stabilized the country required some 25,000 personnel. Venezuela is about 33 times larger than Haiti, or roughly twice the size of California.

The 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, a country less than one-tenth the size of Venezuela, involved about 27,000 U.S. forces.”

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

the Black Sea has proven to be a good proving ground for uncrewed sea-attack vehicles.

“…fighters who belong to neighboring Colombia’s National Liberation Army, or ELN, are based in jungles along the border. The group has pledged to defend Maduro’s government and to fight any foreign forces in the region; its arsenal includes explosive devices and some armed drones.”

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

Pentagon ran a “war game to assess what the Venezuelan strongman’s fall might unleash.

The results showed that chaos and violence were likely to erupt within Venezuela, as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control of the oil-rich country.”

surPRISE

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/venezuela-maduro-fallout-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.BlA.Vryy.wKuYboVEDnJE&smid=nytcore-ios-share

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

5 days ago Russian news was making a big deal about Ukraine targeting Putin’s residence with drones. (Whether or not that is true.) I had this to say then, which seems relevant today:

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donmoyn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Don Moynihan") wrote:

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Alessandro Biffignandi

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mhoye wrote:

A reminder, that no US military operation of any scale has involved a declaration of war since 1942.