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Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

I watched an amazing talk last night...

They hacked washing machines and built a TUI for diagnostics.

Rust + @ratatui_rs in action again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1S-PVo3GlA

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

@lauren

yup

the answer to why the usa is so interested in venezuelan oil, and why trump shuts down wind and solar projects, when solar and wind seem so much better in all respects, was summed up in a newspaper political cartoon from the 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FPeters%5F%28cartoonist%29

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
elena@aseachange.com ("Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂") wrote:

I’m sharing this anecdote because it shows how it is important to speak up. Each one of us can make a small difference.

Discussion about the kidnapping of Maduro last night at dinner with my extended family. General consensus: it’s the law of the strongest, it should be expected.

Meanwhile, me: it’s incredibly dangerous to normalize these actions and accept them. This is not normal… if we change the baseline of what a country can do in the international stage, then that country will take the lack of reactions as a sign… and do something even more shocking in the future. People shrugged and said “we see your point but it is what it is”. Still, I like to think I planted some seeds in their minds regarding the dangers of normalizing extrajudicial actions like what happened yesterday.

Then: two people at the table had their hands glued to their cell phones looking up facts on LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini and Mistral.

So I had to have my saying about the dangers of using LLMs as search engines, their biases and real objectives. I spoke of the loss of critical thinking and… got eye rolls. But an adult at the table (70+) agreed with me.

Then I suggested that people relinquish their cell phones… and put them on a coffee table in the other side of the room so we could have a conversation without the internet - or LLMs - getting in the way.

More eye rolls and protests… but everyone eventually agreed… except for a 22 year old who protested “how can I get my facts?”… and put her cell phone in her pocket. So for another hour we all talked face to face without anyone scrolling or looking things up on LLMs.

Maybe it’s because I’m an only child but I’m not afraid to speak my mind… even when my opinion isn’t the popular one and I appear to be the “wet blanket” of the family.

Speaking up is important.

These are dark, difficult times but we can all resist.

/fin

#NoAI #resist

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kasdeya@cryptid.cafe wrote:

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

• “look man we both know you don’t wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here’s the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I’m not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar”
• “an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?”
• “this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!”

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

Seems like the sort of thing you might send to a congressional staffer...if, you know, you have their Signal.

https://www.justsecurity.org/127962/maduro-capture-operation-and-presidents-duty-to-faithfully-execute-un-charter/

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

Did you know Trump recently reclassified fentanyl as a WMD (yes, literally)? They're pretty proud of it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-designates-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/

Here, Kat Abughazaleh lays out this and other points you might need for arguing with people who think the ongoing coup in Venezuela is a noble fight against a dictatorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXNOP6s7Q6E

Boosted by jwz:
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

"We had to remove the president and his wife because he's a criminal the people hate" is quite a line for the US to take right now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

@foone nothing wrong go can

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/115832878989067019

Tell your elected officials to do everything in their power to stand up to Trump and prevent war with Venezuela.

Email your Members of Congress: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-trumps-war-in-venezuela/?source=mastodon

Call your senators: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-demand-your-senator-stop-trumps-war-venezuela?source=mastodon

And call your representative: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-representative-stop-trumps-war-venezuela?source=mastodon

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

Compere these ledes and weep:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/03/us-oil-trump-venezuela?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/venezuela-oil-industry-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.B1A.bPBj.MdaMgt3yfWjU&smid=url-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

#Caturday Yama, ridiculous creature that she is, is clearly quite comfortable. I wonder if other cats would see her sleeping like this and roll their eyes. 😁

#cat #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sandlapper37@mstdn.social ("ebbtide") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theleftistlawyer ("Sheryl Weikal") wrote:

I hope now everyone who kept saying "but they can't do that because it's illegal" will understand that ILLEGAL AND IMPOSSIBLE ARE NOT SYNONYMOUS.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Good. Other big states should follow suit since Congress under the GOP won't protect our rights here.

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

no healthcare
no education
no housing
low wages

but lots of money for illegal invasions

GOT IT

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

no comment

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

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by jwz:
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?

Boosted by jwz:
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