jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
he is just buying, remixing, & cobbling together Other People’s Tech, not really building anything new.
“… a patchwork product that relied on Microsoft’s Bing for search and Meta’s open-source Llama model for query rewriting.
…still relying on outside technology for core Grok features… Black Forest Labs to power image generation. The feature lacked guardrails… allowing people to generate photos of anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun.”
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Melania Trump’s book publisher wanted CNN to pay $250,000 to interview the former first lady. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/melania-trump-book-cnn-interview/index.html
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:
"If #Project2025 is implemented, the United States would be unrecognizable. Instead, it would resemble autocracies around the world."
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:
“Why did the NYT play the first story the way it did? We don’t know. They won’t say.
"Why did it play the second story so differently? We don’t know. They won’t say.
“’Don’t ask, don’t tell is one thing. The attitude of our leading journalists boils down to: ‘You can ask. We won’t tell.’
"This is not good enough.”
A tale of two front pages, from James Fallows, our leading media critic.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Excuse me??? Gaslight much?
Via Rupar:
GOP Rep. Brian Mast on #Trump saying "so what?" to #Pence's life being in danger on #Jan6:
"I don't think that should be characterized as anything more than hyperbole right there ... his life wasn't really in peril."
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… former County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. Described in 2022 as "one of at least twenty-two election deniers vying to take charge of elections in eighteen states", she was the first election official in the U.S. convicted of criminal charges related to stolen election conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 United States presidential election. In August 2024, she was convicted on charges relating to unauthorized access to election machines.”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
DoJ - Warrant unsealed authorizing the seizure of 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to commit computer fraud and abuse in the US. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-russian-intelligence-spear-phishing-efforts
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange wrote:
Microsoft and the Justice Department have seized over 100 domains used by the Russian ColdRiver hacking group to target United States government employees and nonprofit organizations from Russia and worldwide in spear-phishing attacks.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
timkmak@journa.host ("Tim Mak") wrote:
Here’s what we’re reading today:
Saudi Arabia's attempts to increase oil exports could lead to a fall in prices, putting the #Russian budget at risk.
A collapse in prices could severely limit Moscow's ability to continue the war, given its reliance on oil revenues.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The strategic uncertainties generated after an Israeli-Iranian nuclear exchange are likely to be at least as fraught as any that might arise before such a clash. An unspoken hope among security experts is that nuclear deterrence can work between Israel and Iran. Such optimism, however, discourages clear thinking about what might happen if deterrence fails and both countries use nuclear weapons.”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
New paper on the GHG footprint of LNG exports from the US is now published. Conclusion? LNG has a larger climate impact than any other fossil fuel, including coal.
https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1934
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
You know how when you have a concept you want to write about, but whenever you try, it's all long-winded and boring?
I've been sitting on this one for ten months and I finally forced myself to stay under five hundred words.
Anyway, #Meta has a toaster problem.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Ooooo I have a five hundred word write up that is snappy and pithy. Should I post it to ol' faithful or my side-blog?
I feel like fromjason has been neglected lately so maybe there? But also, I love shiny and new things.
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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
Microsoft, predictably enough, focused on a "lock everything to our platform" strategy. CEO Steve Ballmer calied every Ipod owner a "thief" and arguing that every record company should wrap music in Microsoft's Zune DRM, which would allow them to restrict anything they didn't like, even if copyright allowed it (and would also give Microsoft the same abusive leverage over labels that they famously exercised over Windows software companies):
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MaggieFero@hachyderm.io ("Margaret Fero") wrote:
Burnout isn't about working too much, it's about moral injury: watching or participating in betrayals of your ethics or values. Larger gaps between stated and practiced values create more burnout. - @phire at #Monktoberfest
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
zwol@hackers.town ("Zack Weinberg") wrote:
https://thesecretknots.com/comic/remind-me-later/
my god, what have we done
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ArneBab@rollenspiel.social ("Arne Babenhauserheide") wrote:
I uploaded "My best thing today" in #sketchnotes from August 2024 to September 2024:
https://www.draketo.de/kreatives/best-thing-today#2024-09
Please boost! I’m publishing these with some hope that others may start #bestthingtoday sketchnotes: it’s a great way to build and strengthen positive memories.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:
Oooh The Designed by, and Powered by OpenWRT router is now out!
https://liliputing.com/openwrt-one-wifi-6-router-is-now-available-for-89/
$89 and $10 of every order goes directly to the OpenWRT project!
Hope to see some folks get these and post reviews soon! (I'll order one as soon as I can afford to)
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
what's your favorite videogame that wraps its challenge in having the player build consensus and cooperation instead of competition and domination?
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com ("tj usiyan") wrote:
Them: “This is not a paywall.”
Me: “whew”Them: Provide your Email address”
Me: “that’s a payment, though. Personal information is a payment”
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tech4palestine@infosec.exchange ("Tech For Palestine") wrote:
Google Was Set to Host an Israeli Military Conference. When We Asked About It, the Event Disappeared.
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/27/google-israel-defense-tech-conference/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Doting grandfathers everywhere are getting a gleam in their eyes…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/important-facts/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The goal? Make out there unbearable so that you're willing to pay to stay in here.
Where, "out there" is just the world, and "in here" are the little sanctuary malls, fantasy parks, and virtual realities designed by the same people who made "out there" so bad in the first place.
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Daniel_Grosse@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Grosse") wrote:
🎉 Just published in the October issue of IEEE #TCAD: "WAVING Goodbye to Manual Waveform Analysis in HDL Design with WAL".
📄 PDF (open access): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10496480
👉 WAL: https://wal-lang.org
📂 GitHub: https://github.com/ics-jku/wal
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stevelord@bladerunner.social ("Steve Lord") wrote:
Who called it "social media" and not "clout computing"?
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:
Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.
Here’s a poem called ‘In Search of Poetry’. It’s constructed entirely from popular Google searches about poetry.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I wish someone had explained to me the purpose of my Flesh Crayolas years ago.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/we-were-using-our-crayons-wrong/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was feelin' okay early this morning so I thought I got off light this time, but the Covid and Flu combo vaccine I got yesterday afternoon is catching up with me now. 🤒 But at lest I know this will be short duration discomfort.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Website League looks interesting. And it made me realize, the best way to fight back against Meta's definition of the social web is to simply make things that stand opposed to it.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
"Threads posts with a 15 minute delay are now mixed with fediverse posts without a delay and presented as happening during the same time. This was already noticeable during yesterday’s U.S. VP debate, an event where people use microblogging for the real-time reaction. But part of the real-time reactions was actually 15 minutes delayed, while another part was not, which creates even more confusing experience."
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:
"A 15 minute delay is a long time in microblogging, and significantly impacts things like breaking news, and live-posting sports events. It also meaningfully impacts the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with people in a comment section."
The fact that this was first reported by #TechCrunch but you wouldn’t know it because they burried the lede under rosy coverage. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhh, to be in a real city again (Toronto)
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oh no! I robbed Jason Allen!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/in-which-i-commit-a-crime/
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
Going on now: the Craig Maloney Memorial Auction, benefiting Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Win a #ryoms sponsor gift purchased for a sadly deceased friend, and help those less fortunate. Runs through Tuesday evening, for reasons.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Collinsworth's Razor: the person demanding to be debated is almost always the one in the wrong.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a repeating life pattern for Trump:
“Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than it raised for the second month in a row as the Republican nominee struggles to keep pace with Democrat Kamala Harris’ robust fundraising operation” - Bloomberg Report
https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/02/trump-spent-more-than-he-raised-again/
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
climatebrad ("Brad Johnson") wrote:
Don't you hate it when climate activists block highways
#Helene #climate
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jalcine@todon.eu ("jack(y) or treat!") wrote:
In tandem, tech freelancers need to organize. With more than 300,000 tech workers let go, folks need to stop playing around.
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ForeTeeThree@gaminginthe.cloud ("Frixie") wrote:
Wow.
"...an app is just a webpage skinned with the right kind of I.P. to make it a felony to put an ad blocker in it."
Yeah.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:
this is a great song about trees:
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Swing voters aren't real. They can't hurt you.
Undecided voters aren't real. Just scrunch your eyes closed real tight, and when you open them, the undecided voters will be gone.
I'm undecided on if I'm going to eat this here slice of cake after my workout*. 🍰
(*I am not undecided. That cake is as good as gone.)
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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:
We made a thing
https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/track/rip-out-the-battery-sid-edition
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
2. It (2017). What hte fuck was that? Where was Clara Bow?
Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
Every time this comes up no one in the media says anything about the 40% of the housing market being swallowed whole by private equity/corporate interests.
How can anyone talk about solutions when the diagnosis hasn't even started yet?
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The closest I'll ever come to the feeling of cruising down the road in a getaway car after having just successfully pulled off a major heist is disabling my linter's "no explicit any" TypeScript rule.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I'm delighted to report that the stuffed Mastodon toys have arrived at the German warehouse at @ravioli. The ones going to the US warehouse are still in customs. I imagine we'll open the store once both have arrived, unless US customs takes unreasonably long...
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.
They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS
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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:
New results out of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Astronomers found a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the second closest star system to the Earth. The planet Barnard b orbits its star every 3.15 days and has a mass about 0.37 times that of Earth.
There are also hints of planets with 2.34, 4.12, and 6.74 day-orbits, although more observations are needed to confirm the existence of those planets.
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dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt ("Dmitry Borodaenko") wrote:
@willoremus An entire article about #Threads without mentioning #Fedipact or quoting someone prominent, e.g. @jdp23, on it? That unresolved "and some wariness [that we are not going to talk about]" sticks out like a sore thumb.
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alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:
A really delightful video taking a deep dive into the #rendering technology and #techart choices of #tinyglade! I learned a lot!
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Since JD Vance seems so opposed to fact checking, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone he definitely fucks couches.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
@willoremus thanks for the gift link! The article makes some good points -- and I really like your phrasing of Meta's "gesturing" at interoperability.
On the other hand, when you talk about Meta's strategy, it's worth highlighting how much benefit they're getting just from from gesturing. As @laurenshof of @fediversereport points out, they've mastered the art of using tiny incremental improvements in fediverse-related functionality to get positive press. Including this article!
So at least in the short term, while I agree with @Gargron that so far Threads is only dipping their toe in, what's their real incentive to do more? After all, Mastodon has less than a million users -- not that many more than before the Apartheid Clyde acquired Twitter two years ago. And while many white male fediverse influencers are very gung-ho about Meta, there are also a lot of people who don't want them here. So they're very wise to tread carefully. And while I'm rarely one to praise Meta on many fronts, I think their decision to make federation opt-in for Threads users was a great one. It's pretty funny, but also sad, that some of their supporters here have criticized that decision.
Still, Meta's clearly keeping their options open to do more than just gesturing. In Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse I talked about how they could try to use the Fediverse to help shape regulation and as a platform for decentralized surveillance capitalism ... time will tell.
In any case @Sarahp reported that Meta's one of the funders for the new @swf, so that's more evidence that they see it as useful to keep gesturing -- and I saw one of SWF's founders say that they'd make sure some of that money goes to Mastodon, so Meta still sees Mastodon as useful as well. It'll be interesting to see how things work out!
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
When the rest of the team asks why you're still working on a 2-point story after three weeks
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Two college students paired Meta’s Ray Ban smart glasses with facial recognition tech and were able to pull up info on strangers (name, home address, phone number, and family members) in seconds just by looking at them. https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/
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Rihilism@toot.community ("🦅 RKeller Photography 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Red-bellied woodpecker.
(01/02/24)#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText
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shadowsminder@mas.to ("A.L. Blacklyn") wrote:
Monarch butterflies continue to exist.
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KE2AEQ@mastodon.radio ("Todd") wrote:
Hey U.S. people: thinking about getting your ham license? Free training, testing, and a radio.
"The Make Operating Radio Easier (MORE) Project is an initiative to reduce both gender and age imbalances in Amateur (Ham) Radio, through education and hands-on activities."
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Soft RISC-V Systems Workshop:
https://sites.google.com/view/srvs-workshopThu Nov. 7 & Fri Nov. 8, 8am-12pm PDT, the RISC-V Int'l Soft CPU Special Interest Group is presenting a free online (Zoom) workshop and celebration of the vibrant RISC-V soft processor community. Please spread the word and join us as attendee or presenter.
This workshop aims to be a technically focused, inclusive celebration of the world of RISC-V FPGA Soft Processor Systems, and the great diversity of designs, designers, and applications.
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
One cool thing about having a kiddo around is that you can put together a playlist to listen to while you're making them breakfast, and they get super stoked because they've never heard any of these songs before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSVPjFLN_Oo
https://twrp.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-racer-feat-the-protomen
(There may be a theme.)
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redsad@strangeobject.space ("captain aaaaaaaacab 👻") wrote:
Yeah I read theory...
"It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it, and you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet."
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm not worried about this at all, why do you ask?
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TFW your inner monologue starts to sound like Wolfman Jack...
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
My niece took a dollar from me, and returned two pennies and a Canadian dime.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's worth sharing this because 1) everyone should know JD Vance's whole intended playbook is shitty racist lies.
But 2) this is the archetypal abuser response: call out the person calling *you* out, as though *their* *response* to your lie is what matters. Make the offense everyone's taking about *their ordinary response*, not your original offense that prompted it in the first place.
Classic DARVO.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We’re at War With Iran - Ken Klippenstein:
"One can stand on the parapet with binoculars searching for Iranian tanks to come rolling across the desert to signal what everyone is insisting is something more to come. But reality should have set in today. Only the American people seem unaware because of secrecy and because of the lockstep narrative of the mainstream media, which is not to accept this fundamental reality. " https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/were-at-war-with-iran
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Landlords are drooling at the possibilities here.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/02/i-didnt-watch-the-vice-pres-debate-last-night/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Jonathan Wells is no longer poisoning the discourse about evolutionary biology.
He's dead, but I'm trying to look on the bright side.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/02/jonathan-wells-is-dead/
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birdcubed@queer.party ("bird³") wrote:
All flying objects are UFOs if you're bad at identifying things
9 out of 10 developers enjoy code reviews.
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I would like to, in my free time, start working on an iOS app that people might find useful. What is a privacy-focused use case that you’d like to see an app for and where you think I can meaningfully contribute? Let me know!
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:
I beg you to toggle light mode on this web site
https://mastodon.online/@latte/113233330240863053
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Hoo boy it's been a day in the Matt Mullenweg/WP Engine debacle. Here's a direct link to my updates on today's news:
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The fact that he doesn't like Taylor Lorenz makes me like her more.
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cjust@infosec.exchange ("Tim Hergert") wrote:
Updated for the new millennium.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Finally went ahead and removed Daring Fireball from my RSS
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Stuff. Him. In. A. Locker.
🤦
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Walz did not stiff him in a locker, and a nation mourns for an opportunity lost.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So this new little blog is turning into me cataloging the bookmarks I've collected over the years. I'm into it.
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senator, thank you, to remind the audience, birds are in fact real
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kims@mas.to ("Kim Scheinberg") wrote:
JD Vance is correct that many professional economists have a terrible track record, but one of the only people with an even worse understanding of economics is Donald Trump
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Sources:
https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.
But only $50k of the One Million Dollars in funding for the #SWF came from The Ford Foundation, back in February of this year.
The other $950,000?
Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by our colleague Ben Naecker to talk about OxQL—the Oxide Query Language we’ve developed for interacting with our metrics system.
“Another query language!” the comment sections responded, “why can’t you *just*… ?” So we explained why we can’t *just* …! Along the way we talked about metrics, ClickHouse, histograms, parser generators, and the beauty of domain specific languages.
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ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:
Can we all take a moment and pour one out for all the DOJ & FTC attorneys that have to deal with Apple on that antitrust suit?
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Maybe this old guy should retire and get out of the classroom at last.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/01/behold-the-worst-teacher-in-the-world/
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
1. Sleepy Hollow (1999). What a very odd movie. I can't believe this didn't flop. It actually made its money back by a considerable margin. There's a scene where Johnny Depp does a mostly off-camera autopsy of a pregnant woman and it's strongly implied that the Headless Horseman decapitated and stole both her head and that of her fetus in utero. It's played for laughs; the camera stays on Johnny just long enough for the corpse to squirt blood on his steampunk goggles like a grapefruit
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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja (he/him)") wrote:
Y’all know that CNN has a text-only web interface, right?
If you want to experience how GODDAMN FAST the web can be without the tens of megabytes of adware tracking cruft and hundreds of npm dependencies, try this out:
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chris_gammell@chaos.social ("Chris Gammell") wrote:
I have been following Katerina Galitskaya on LinkedIn for a while, she posts really great animations and explanations of RF fields with antennas. I asked her to be on The Amp Hour to talk more about how she thinks about antennas and how listeners could benefit from her wisdom. It's a whole segment of the electronics field that is magical to me, so it was great to learn more myself!
https://theamphour.com/678-all-about-antennas-with-katerina-galitskaya/
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
OCT 2024 Daily Horror movie thread!
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
so_treu@blackqueer.life ("Ra'il IK") wrote:
"'When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery' is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that enabled this violence are all explored and scrutinized. Enlightening analysis found that rape was not merely a result of sexual desire and opportunity, or simply a form of punishment and racial domination, but instead encompassed all of these dimensions as part of the identity of white masculinity. This provocative text highlights the significant role that white women played in enabling sexual violence against enslaved black women through a variety of responses and, at times, through their lack of response to the actions of the white men in their lives. Significantly, this book finds that sexual violence against enslaved black women was a widespread form of oppression used to perform white masculinity and reinforce an intersectional hierarchy. Additionally, white women played a vital role by enabling this sexual violence and perpetuating the subordination of themselves and those subordinate to them."
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0") wrote:
Eleventy 3.0.0 is now available!
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Over a year of work, 22 pre-releases, so many contributors. Thank you to our entire community—y’all make this project possible. ❤️
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
After a shower.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
hey its that time of year to unplug your internet and shake the cable to get all the bullshit out of it.
lots of bullshit going on is what i'm saying.