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@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-01-08 13:45:54

This is nature on the island of #Norderney as me, @…, and @… visited it du…

A beautiful landscape of Norderney showing a lake with dark water, a whitish green grass, heavy fog, and almost red plants emerging out of the lake.
A beautiful landscape of Norderney showing the sun pinch through the fog with a wiggly river on the right side. The picture is taken through high grass.
A beautiful landscape of Norderney showing a burning sun behind the fog and tiny dunes with bushes on top of them as far as the eye can see.
A beautiful landscape of Norderney with dunes in the far background. The sun isn't visible, but it's light is sent visibly across the sky from the right side due to reflecting off of the heavy fog.
@comex@mas.to
2025-12-08 07:11:22

Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…

What appears to be a trapezoid, with the narrower base as a horizontal line near the center, getting wider towards the top, until it's cut off by the top edge of the image (forming the wider base).
3D orbit showing what's really going on: the 'narrower base' of the trapezoid was one side of a triangle, and the other two sides get closer together moving away from it, not farther apart.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-12-09 13:59:25

The latest issue of the journal I edit - the Canadian Historical Review - dropped last week. It includes articles on the influence of Indigenous practices on European medicine (it'll help you understand the origins of the term "blowing smoke up your ass" too), First Nations' dispossession and the funding of settlement, early campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty, Trudeau's return to power in 1980, and the UN's World Refugee Year.
Check it out.

The cover of The Canadian Historical Review vol. 106, no. 4 (December 2025). It features an eighteenth-century engraving of two people giving a tobacco smoke enema to a third person (the title bar hides the actual procedure, though the full engraving is reproduced on the back cover, not shown here).
@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-01-08 21:29:01
Content warning: sexual violence mention

As the Red Army was pushing into Berlin, Hitler tried to order the destruction of German Industry. It was not simply to prevent the allies from continuing, but also to punish the German people for failing him. The film Downfall portrays him believing that the German people had shown themselves to be weak and that they deserved to die.
Trump has always had some Hitler energy. It's been reported multiple times that he keeps a collection of Hitler speeches by his bed. As he threatens Greenland, everyone wants to jump to compare that to Poland. The thing is, he doesn't have Hitler 1939 energy. He has Hitler 1945 energy.
Everyone knows he's a pedophile and a rapist. He's a loser and he'll do anything to distract from that. He would literally start WWIII if he thought it would give him a few more days. He's a coward who's afraid to face what he's done. But he's a coward with nuclear weapons.
I just hope the people around him value their life more than they are loyal to him.

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-12-09 16:35:29

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

They argue that genAI won’t produce sufficient revenue from consumers to pay back the current investment frenzy. I mean, they’re right, it won’t, but that’s not what the investors are buying. They’re buying the promise, not of more revenue, but of higher profits that happen when tens of millions of knowledge workers are replaced by (presumably-cheaper) genAI. ¶ I wonder who, after the loss of those tens of millions of high-paid jobs, are going to be the consumers who’ll buy the goods that’ll d…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2026-02-08 16:19:23

99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.

The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-01-08 19:21:51

The Greenland sea cables are probably being closely monitored, but redundancy seems minimal likely limited to OneWeb satellite connectivity and some VSAT links.
Looking at the routing side, AS8818 announces just two /19s and one /22 (and two /32s in IPv6) with a single upstream provider, Level 3 Inc. This suggests that Layer 3 redundancy is even more constrained.
I would have expected at least one EU-based provider as an additional upstream...
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Telecommunications in Greenland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Greenland
https://www.tusass.gl/en/infrastructure/submarine-cable/ Submarine Cable 5404 kilometers of high-tech fiber optic connection, is the description of Greenland’s first submarine communications cable Greenland Connect which went into operation in March 2009. It runs from Newfoundland in Canada to Nuuk in Greenland. From where it continues on to Qaqortoq and Iceland. With a response time of just 23 milliseconds, it is one of the fastest routes across the Atlantic. The second submarine communicat…
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
https://bgp.he.net/AS8818#_graph4
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-08 05:57:24

Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …

FAFSA Is Breaking Me
I think I have been holding it together in the face of everything we can’t stop talking about—the killing and the dying, the explosions and the terror, the eggs and the bird flu and the shameless ghouls ruining the good parts of our country, the weapons and the

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-09 16:21:11

We’re grateful to Elon Musk for proving once again
why the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms
and log on to a better way of being online.
The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society.
The term "digital sovereignty" means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical…

The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.