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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adhdeanasl@beige.party ("ADHDeanASL") wrote:

May thoughts of the Tate brothers rotting in a Romanian prison carry you to happier places today.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Taweret@timeloop.cafe ("Void Chicken") wrote:

AI companies: this technology may be the most dangerous thing humanity has ever created. its so super dangerous we might not even be able to control it ourselves. that's how powerful and dangerous it is

public: omg. so we should regulate it very aggressively?

AI companies: whoa whoa whoa lets not get crazy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Supreme Court backs Republican request to lower TV ad rates
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/politics/supreme-court-backs-republican-request-to-lower-tv-ad-rates?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117203066740019607

So reminder that on Sunday I'm going to be streaming the VR game I ported to PS5, and announcement, Heather Kelley from Kokoromi (who worked on both the original game and the PS5 port) will be present for commentary on the stream!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
p4bl0@mamot.fr ("🏴‍☠️ MC Pablo ∴") wrote:

Fuck you very very much, VeriSign.

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
slimes@slime.computer ("'(slimes-fancy)") wrote:

Internet Archive is hiring a software dev, US-based:

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=12261ced-819c-4d6d-af85-ffea690b6521&ccId=9201102651278%5F3&jobId=616952&lang=en%5FUS

#GetFediHired

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

Just the fact that Ken Paxton can be a serious candidate for anything ought to mark Texas a failed shithole state.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/04/putting-on-my-prophet-hat-again/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kaimac@sunny.garden wrote:

made an 88x31

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
weirdonwheels@chinwag.org ("Weird on Wheels") wrote:

Today we have an electric 1980 Comuta-car. It is powered by a 6 horsepower GE motor with a top speed 65 kph (40 mph), and a battery range of 65km (40 mi).
https://www.designboom.com/technology/electric-1980-comuta-car-six-horsepower-motor-commuter-vehicles-08-18-2022/
#weirdcarMastodon

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

To add to the map projection toots, I found a website where you can do a Mercator projection with your favourite city as the pole.

I knew Mercator distorted things but I didn't expect distortion to be that bad.

My favourite one is the Spain/New Zealand antipode which depicts the UK as being as big as the contiguous US

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sergeanthax@furry.engineer wrote:

Happy #FursuitFriday!

Character: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sergeanthax
🧵: https://bsky.app/profile/poeproductions.bsky.social

#fursuit #goat #dragon #hoof #hooves #longtail #horns #hybrid #max #anthro #sfw #furry

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Soon-to-be-birthday Miya Ironami") wrote:

yessss such a normal skill to have :3

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

If I had a nickel every time I saw someone tooting about map projections today, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's certainly weird it happened twice.

I wonder why everyone is tooting about map projections. Is it to do with the UN resolution, by any chance?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
apps@toot.fedilab.app ("Fedilab Apps") wrote:

So Google refuses to delete my dev account because they suspended #UntrackMe, an app that redirects Big Tech content to alternative privacy front-ends. Seriously?
Their advice: fix the "compliance issues" first. So I guess my only option left is to rename it TrackMe and have it redirect privacy front-ends back to Big Tech instead. That should fix it.

F*** Google!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
daniil@d.miku-dominant.ts.net wrote:

This instance is hosted on a 20 year old laptop, boost to give it a stress test.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods programmers believe

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

A little shy.

🐺 Senri
✂️ @lemonbrat

#BatPics #Fursuit

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
kate@hai.z0ne.social ("Kate") wrote:

@catsalad@infosec.exchange

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ah, the postgres developers have helpfully left me a side quest tracking what every predefined function i want to support does with nulls.

tell me again how statically typed postgres is.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Me when Tron Legacy came out: "This scene is unnecessarily over-sexualized male gaze'y nonsense" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3V4xUYdoHA

Me now: "Okay, actually this is good doll content. Redo the scene and make the dude transform into a girl as they put the armor on and it's perfect."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

The Mercator map projection keeps generating controversy, because it is completely fucked up. Greenland looks like it's the size of South America (it's about the size of Algeria). Antarctica looks like it dwarfs all of Eurasia (it's a bit smaller than Russia). Africa looks like it's a lot smaller than it actually is, and the centre of the world (at least longitudinally) is conspicuously Greenwich in England.

It has one redeeming feature (and all the aforementioned was *not* considered politically incendiary back in the 1500s!), and that is that a straight line on a Mercator map corresponds to a straight bearing on the actual globe. So it's incredibly useful for navigation - especially when this involved compasses and sextants and paper, rather than GPS trackers and satellites and computers. This was *the* killer feature back when it was invented: A lot of formerly very tricky navigational problems now collapse into "keeping your ship going straight".

But *because* it so greatly distorts the sizes of landmasses, it's probably not the best choice for eg. a school classroom world map, where it mostly creates misconceptions and its main quality has little use.

Here is my favourite alternative, the Dymaxion projection, which balances right on the knife edge between "utterly brilliant" and "batshit insane".

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

A Dymaxion map is made by first projecting the Earth onto an icosahedron and then choosing some vertex and unfolding it from that. It traditionally centers the North Pole (and the one I found above doesn't show antarctica at all - normally, they end up with little bits of Antarctica spread along the edges). But you could choose wherever you want. The North Pole one is popular because it neatly turns the continents into a mostly connected landmass.

It has the very nice property that it greatly reduces distortion *both* of size and shape - Mercator maps screw up relative sizes, and Peters and Equal Earth maps screw up shapes. Dymaxion gets both of them *almost* right.

The price is that it is completely useless for navigation. You can't even easily tell where north, south east and west is, so you get a completely fucked-up view of how a ship would travel. You can't easily see that if you sail west from Europe or Africa, you'd hit America!

One thing that I find it's *very* neat for - especially in the north-pole-centered configuration - is illustrating land-based migrations, such as those of prehistoric humans. You can plot in any arbitrary migration route and never have to do a Pac-Man teleport from the east edge to the west edge!

And since you can pick any point as centre (which its inventor, Buckminster Fuller, himself promoted as a feature), you could quickly make a reoriented version that could be used to illustrate eg. marine animal migration instead. As a pedagogical map for kids, it has an absolutely *killer* feature: You can fold it back up into an icosahedron, and neatly illustrate 1. the relation of a map to a globe, and 2. the compromises that necessarily happen when trying to project a spheroid surface onto a flat one.

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

The face I’m making at *way* too many things lately.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

cinnamon nuns

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i just worked out how to get custom typecheck error messages in idris.

first of all, you need an implicit argument to a proof of some property. you set the default to call a function which returns a proof of the appropriate type.

at any point if something is wrong, that function uses idris_crash to show a helpful error message.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules she/her") wrote:

Just as a quick addendum, if cooking fuel is scarce, insulation cookery involves bringing food up to temperature for ten minutes or so then wrapping it in some insulating material for long slow cooking. I wrote a blog post about it here: https://tangledbankforaging.co.uk/2022/09/28/economy-gastronomy-hay-boxes-wonderbags-and-insulation-cookery/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

In this modern world where these characters can appear in ambiguous contexts, I really think it's not too much to ask that the default fonts for whatever computing device you are designing have clear distinctions between O and 0, and between 1, l, and I. Put the legibility and utility just a smidge ahead of whatever aesthetic judgment you're using please.

(And if your preferred language is other than the one I'm using to write this, I hope your device's glyphs are similarly distinct.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

Due to popular demand (it's me—I'm the demand), I've decided to cut pgbg in two and liberate the database-agnostic parts.

So if you want a self-healing way to run a background thread in Python with flexible wakeups, check it out!

The ideal outcome would be if someone wrote something like mysqlbg or so on top of it. :D

https://bgt.hynek.me/stable/