@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-08 06:26:15
Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-07 17:12:00
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-08 00:45:43
Hi, it’s the team at EDF Action Votes.
Trump’s administration just ordered NASA to shut down two crucial satellites
that track carbon emissions and monitor vegetation health worldwide.
One would even be destroyed, burning up in Earth’s atmosphere — erasing decades of critical climate data.
This is deliberate sabotage of science,
and it puts every American at risk.
Without these satellites, we’ll be flying blind in the fight against climate change.
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-07 14:16:40
Oh hey, good things do happen even in the darkest times. Yarvin is taking about fleeing the country.
The thinks that Trump's fascism is failing (which it is) and tha Trump is incapable of doing what it takes to actually hold power. He's afraid of vengeance, which is honestly unlikely given how completely useless the democrats actually are. But I'm glad he's afraid. I hope he runs away to Russia, gets drafted and deployed to Ukraine, and eats a drone.
I also hope he can somehow convince Thiel to be afraid, but I think that's unlikely.
The fact is that if Trump fails, which I think he will (and Yarvin thinks it could be soon), it won't be because of Democratic leadership. It will be because of antifascist organizing and community resistence. We will have, once again, kept ourselves safe while the DNC argued over how much of their values they should abandon and how much of the left to sacrifice to "get votes."
#USPol
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-09-08 19:33:49
I have a question about the following:
Space-X satellites are relatively low orbit - they go around the world, their radio/signal footprint on the ground goes around the world with them.
So how does a single country, the US, issue "license" for radio spectrum that apply outside of the US geographic borders?
"SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal"
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-07 22:16:02
Federal courts step up security following major hack of electronic filing system (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-hack-security-lawmaker-response-00498563
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p140#a250807p140
@trochee@dair-community.social2025-09-08 05:37:40
Somebody else at my company is running a bot that tries to fix random failing tests
So I received a "hey I think I fixed a thing" PR from this bot last night
While it does, in fact, stop the test failure, it does not fix the problem that this test is detecting (collisions between two production grammars)
It burned a quarter-million tokens to... add a "tolerate more collisions" flag to the test that was failing.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-08 11:25:39
Filing: PA Media Group reports 2024 revenue up 3% YoY to £116.3M, its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, but profit before tax declined by 4% to £8.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busines…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-09-08 23:16:53
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-07 23:05:44
Utah Map 'Unduly Favors Republicans,' Claims New Filing Challenging GOP's Two-Pronged Gerrymander Scheme (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/utah-map-unduly-favors-republicans-claims-new-filing-challenging-gops-two-pronged-gerrymander-scheme/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p121#a251007p121