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

anyway, the ideal amount of ionising radiation for growing plants is as little as possible, the same way that the ideal amount of ionising radiation for most humans is as little as possible.

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

some kid even got some award for successfully growing these pretty fucked seeds into mature plants. great gardening skill, i'm sure, but like i'm sure he could have done even better with seeds that hadn't been radiation-damaged.

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

literally some dude bought a cobalt 60 source and started flogging the atomic gardening society seeds. they sent them out to anyone who wanted seeds and asked them how they got on.

notice they never compared against non-irradiated plants. you might well think there's a reason for that.

if you hit them hard with radiation (like mr irradiator), then plants do not do so well. almost like they weren't made for that sort of abuse. why you'd think it would make crops better, i have no idea.

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

fwiw, atomic gardening never really took off because there just weren't any amazing results to show for it.

not that they didn't try, it's just that they never delivered the goods.

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

mr "i bought a food irradiation device" has been experimenting with atomic gardening. although he didn't use that term. and i had to go look up what that term was because i couldn't remember

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%5Fgardening

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

it was indeed a very bad day to be a bean

jwz wrote:

Happy "Big Block of Cheese Day" to all who celebrate: UN General Assembly votes against the Mercator Projection.

The US voted against it because of woke, obviously.

Fortunately for you, XScreenSaver can accurately reproduce a Mercator Globe, amongst other cursed projections.
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5Fg

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

💭 what if computer directories had both an on-disk name and a display name, similar to how usernames and display names work in social media?

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

there we go. we wrote, uh, wow, about a thousand words about the memory-management assumptions the hex transform operates under. when you're transforming code that transforms the code of a compiler, there are a bunch of layers of abstraction to keep in mind....

https://code.irenes.space/evocation/commit/?id=00c9a3709a2e91f847dfa19a0688204b4704034d

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

one thing i have noticed is how often AI bros are just... incomprehensible.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

Remember, their record profits are your unpaid wages

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

the antidote to purity narratives and original sin is definitely imperfection and impermanence...

we just aren't always sure how to apply that when there are ideas we really do want to give no quarter to, heh

research continues

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

Read the story about how the NEC V20 microcode was decoded.

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/09/decoding-nec-v20-microcode.html

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering #necv20 #x86

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
wwu@social.wikiworkersunited.org ("Wiki Workers United") wrote:

WE DID IT. WE WON. 💜✊

Wikimedia Foundation workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740

We’re so proud of everyone who built this union, and this win belongs to our whole community. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers.

This is just the beginning. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now, and with future organizing efforts across WMF’s global workforce. 🌍
[union needed]

[]4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

the Intel ISA, formalized, as a web site:
https://intel.github.io/SDM/sdm.html

announcement:
https://intel.github.io/SDM/announcement/2026/08/20/announce-preview.html

some blog posts:
https://intellabs.github.io/isa-tools/

this is all Alastair Reid's work! he previously did similar work creating an executable formal spec for ARM's ISA

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

TIL that there's a `transitionstart` event, and a `transitionrun` that triggers before delays, which is cool. Meanwhile in CSS animations, we have `animationstart` but no `animationrun`, which means if you catch an animation starting that had a delay, pause it, then restart it later, you won't be able to figure out how much delay it *should* have.

/cc @patrickbrosset

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

@stefenauris @soatok Because 1Password is in large parts owned by Shopify executives, since 2021.

And DHH is a director at Shopify.

https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117203113790816888

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER.

Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots.

This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston County auditor talking about postal service fuckery during the primary, and some of the steps they're taking to get around it:

https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/news/we-are-still-getting-ballots-should-have-counted-primary

Imagine express mail taking 19 days to deliver to the _next county over_. Literally behaviour they've never seen before. That's they kind of fuckery they're seeing.

Take your ballot to a BALLOT DROP BOX, not a mailbox.

#usps #election #elections #seattle #cascadia #2026midterms #midterms2026 #fascism #FuckTrump #FuckTheGOP #FuckFascism

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

@djsundog in the 1970s and 1980s, we had the ultralight wave of personal flight, reimplementing much of aeronautics from the ground up to see how much better we could do at the small scale with modern understanding and modern materials.

We should do that with computing and keep doing that. Not just hardware (we already have the Pi etc) but software and UX.

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

jankchinery

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

CNN has more on how Todd Blanche interfered in a money laundering case against Trump's business partner to steal Venezuela's oil.

edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/p...

Trump administration quietly c...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("𝑮7𝑰𝙕𝑼 𝑹𝙍𝑫") wrote:

The UK is currently not importing any gas from Norway via the Langeled pipeline.

This is unusual, but not uncommon as it happens a couple of times per year.

https://www.businessenergydeals.co.uk/blog/langeled-pipeline/

Get the software to monitor this here:
https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/software/

#gridmonitor
#g7izu

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

You give good cloud, Tampa

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

I should buy a new Mac, I think this could go much faster than my M1 MBP

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

today’s ripened habanero

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org ("Tyler Morgan-Wall") wrote:

A fly-by ski trip generated entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender, featuring realistic lighting for that location at a specific date and time, properly marked roads, trails, ski trails, streams, lakes, houses, and 2 million (!) individually rendered trees! All generated from {sf} data!

Attachments:

• gifv: 3d fly through animation render of a ski town with lots of trees and houses and roads

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org ("Tyler Morgan-Wall") wrote:

Starting off my Mastodon journey with a dataviz I made in #RStats with the #rayrender package! The Earth's submarine fiber optic cable network, visualized in #RStats with #rayrender.

Code:
https://gist.github.com/tylermorganwall/b222fcebcac3de56a6e144d73d166322…

Rayrender Github:
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayrender

Attachments:

• gifv: 3D map of submarine cable map

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

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@tylermorganwall/117212370879998657

sweeeeeet

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

I fear they are correct

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/opinion/world-order-international-relations.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.-lA.tmWa.PDELAku-JAK4&smid=nytcore-ios-share

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Scanning 3.0M blobs, ~120.5 GB of content in 9 minutes 🚀