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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-06 19:58:57

Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

@smashtie@mas.to
2025-10-05 12:55:59

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

Mother, by Diego José Aznar Remón Composed in muted tones, with momentary flashes of pink, this portrait of the artist's wife and son shows them on an unkempt bed, the exhausted mother asleep, the baby awake and looking directly at the viewer. It is a moment of gorgeous intimacy.
The Echo - Self-Portrait, by Pippa Hale-Lynch This self-portrait has the quality of a doubly exposed photograph, or one that has slipped and smudged in the process of development. Your eye slides over the detail, unable to lock on. Her face is pale, but with flushed cheeks, against a black background. The painting explores themes of solitude and grief stemming from the loss of her mother.
Ukrainian Girl, by Nelson Hernandez A female figure with her back to the viewer stands at a window, through which shines a wintry light illuminating individual strands of her light blonde hair. Chilean artist Nelson Hernandez's spectral portrait of his Ukrainian friend, Kseniia, captures a brief moment in time: 'I was moved by her stillness as she gazed out the window. Suddenly, the drawing in her hoodie evoked in me a scene of war, a metaphor of her past and the burden she carries.'
Portrait of a Sculptor, by Dide Blasting out bright red, the surface of Dide's portrait of the sculptor Laurence Edwards seems alive with a kinetic, electric energy. The sculpture sits in a brightly patterned armchair, looking directly at the viewer, with legs crossed and grubby boots prominent. It explores 'the messy plaster-splattered existence of artists in their studios'.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-11-07 05:59:45

I think I'm making progress on the bottom-of-column logic.
I've traced out a bunch, but I don't grok.
There's a bunch of control signals running the full height from bottom to top which makes tracing stuff out a bit painful.
The circuit that I thought was the column mux itself seems straightforward, just eight pass transistors that connect the drain-side bitlines to a common 8-bit bus on metal 2 running the full width of the array.
But then there's…

Overview of the entire EEPROM with vectorized layout
Schematic of the pass transistors described in the text of the post
Layout of the massive pass transistors
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-06 03:30:19

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

A black PC case sitting next to a black couch with a gray cover. A gray cat with a black Goth as fuck cone sits on the couch arm. A skull wearing a headset, and a 6 inch skeleton figure with its legs dangling down the side are on top of the case. You can see the purple intake fans in the side panel. the front panel is glass, with a light color wood accent on the right side.
View from the front glass panel, the purple fans are on the right. You can see through the heat sink fans to the exhaust fan at the back. The Thicc GPU (9070XT) sits under the heat sink.
view from the left corner of the front panel. Not much different from the previous pic other than you get a better view of the mobo, heatsink and GPU.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-10-06 16:55:21

As one of my next #selfhosting projects I wanted to compare #ttrss and #freshrss
Seems like the choices just narrowed down to freshRSS. TTRss is discontinued -- at least until anotherone wants…

The end of tt-rss.org
On November 1st 2025 I’m going to dismantle the entirety of infrastructure that powers tt-rss.org, cgit, this forum, and other related sites. The reasons for this are many but the tl;dr is that I no longer find it fun to maintain public-facing anything, be it open source projects or websites. As for tt-rss specifically, it has been ‘done’ for years now and the “let’s bump base PHP version and fix breakages” routine is not engaging in the slightest. You have a month to mirror any i…

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-05 23:59:38

It always cracks me up when I see stuff like this. I'm now on my second 100yo home, and in both cases the window weight cavities were just empty despite having windows "professionally" installed. Now, my first 100yo home had the windows replaced in the 70s/80s, so.. I can forgive that. The 2nd 100yo home, tho, had the windows replaced in the 2000s. They also insulated from the interior (putting foamboard against the brick, sealed w/ spray foam, then 2x3 metal studs to build a n…

How should I fill the space where window weights used to be?
Spray foam insulation. This is a standard detail, I’m surprised they didn’t do it when the new windows were installed. Not batt, You need something that will also create an air/moisture seal. Source: architect who just ordered new windows for her century home.
@rafa_font@mastodon.online
2025-12-06 08:11:53

"No group in America has fallen further, faster than young men. When I began talking about this several years ago, that was a controversial statement, especially on the left, where many pathologize masculinity.
While the right has suggested the solution is to take women and non-white people back to the 1950s, the left’s view is that young men don’t have problems, they are the problem.
Neither attitude helps."

The Cult of Therapy | No Mercy / No Malice
“Don’t read the comments,” I tell people, just before I have a drink and … read the comments. I knew my book Notes on Being a Man would spark controversy, as you get the most flak when you’re over the target, and some of the criticism (likely) misses the mark. The comment that hits home: […]

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-05 14:25:44
Content warning: Possible vertigo...

So glad about this particular road taken, on that particular day...
(Apologies for the intense lens flares, it was a very bright October day and almost too much for my phone... That hike was such a touching experience, I had to repeat it literally a week later...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography

A one minute first person video of a person walking on a narrow path along the edge (approx. 100 meters above) of a stunning, narrow canyon, surrounded by 3000+ meter tall mountains. The path is partially bridged by short boardwalk sections and secured via steel ropes running along the rocks. The slopes down are covered in dense grass and bush vegetation and some Swiss pines. The bright sunny day brings out the intensity of all the stunning autumn colors. The other side of the valley is mostly …
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
2025-12-06 16:16:49

Over the past couple weeks, I've been designing a spool with some particular features in #FreeCAD, encompassing 6 parts to 3d-print. I've been manually re-orienting them when I print them.
Now that it's working, I realized that I could use the FreeCAD Assembly workbench to create a good packing of the parts in the right orientation for printing, saving anyone else who wants to prin…

FreeCAD screen shot showing the parts as they will be used. This is not an assembly; the parts are designed with parametric placement.
FreeCAD screen shot of top view of parts arranged to print, showing one fixed joint and five 0-valued distance joints between faces that should be coplanar for printing
FreeCAD screen shot showing edge view with printing surfaces aligned
Screen shot of sliced assembly, imported into the slicer and sliced without any further arrangement.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-06 03:31:03

Leaked memos: Meta delays the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 to give Meta "more breathing room to get the details right" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/meta-delay

Meta delays release of new mixed reality glasses code-named 'Phoenix' in order to 'get the details right'
Meta plans to release a new wearable device codenamed "Malibu 2" in 2026, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.