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@aardrian@toot.cafe
2024-03-03 19:29:56
Content warning: spoilers in pics

I grabbed the second in the Midsolar Murders series, “Chaos Terminal,” because the first was pleasant and a space murder mystery seemed fun.
The editing was so poorly done that I had to keep re-reading entire sections, my mental image of a crime scene or interview blown up by it.
These images are spoilers, obviously. If you look…
1. Where is Reggie?
2. When does Mallory stand?
3. Is she talking *to* or *about* Parker?
And I only started taking pics at the end…

Reggie went back into the bathroom; Parker went to ask the bartender. Draughn stood with Amy, Max, and Reggie, then started moving around the room. Finding the body would look sudden and unintentional, he decided. He found the little closet.
"I don't think you have motive to kill me," Mallory said. "Although sometimes people kill when someone gets too close to the truth." She stood up and dropped Amy's hand. "Dammit. I had to talk to someone. And you're the only one who gets the a Parker thing."
"I still can't believe you could think that one of your oldest friends could do that. I can't believe that you'd drop that bomb on Parker and then leave him alone."
Mallory stood up, feeling a thousand years old. "These are reasons why I …
"Third, when the Cuckoos came to protect you, they left Amy alone and stung Draughn. I thought they left her alone because she was your sibling and an honorary member of the hive, but I don't think it had anything to do with her. Draughn was the murderer, and Parker thought he was in danger as well, so they swarmed to protect him, but they also attacked the person they thought was attacking one of their own. They've known all along who did it."
"I still don't know-" Parker said.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2024-04-02 22:16:29

I have decided, as a #selfhost with just two other people on my instance, that I'm going to limit threads.net following the example of @… quoted below. I didn't know that you can “unlimit” specific accounts! This is an interesting option.
For other a…

A screenshot from the mastodon admin page for the threads.net domain after it has been “limited” and so appears in the list in the Federated section as a limited account. There are a number of graphs, all clickable, that show stored accounts, stored posts, stored media, their followers here, our followers there, and reports about them.
A screenshot showing the full admin page with menu on the side ad Accounts selected under Moderation. This is where you go when you click on the stored accounts graph under the threads.net domain federation page.  There are a number of accounts listed with their posts, followers, and last active.
A screenshot of stonekettle@threads.net account page in the mastodon admin shows his name and profile pic, his posts, and other stats. It is listed as “Limited”
Same screenshot as previous but now there is a green “Successfully undid limit of stonekettle@threads.net” message and the Login status is now “No limits imposed”
@design_law@mastodon.social
2024-04-04 12:12:16

"One of the most striking changes in the proposed fee structure... is the introduction of new fees for continuation applications.... These fees are clearly designed to discourage applicants from filing continuation applications long after the original priority date...." - @…

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2024-04-04 12:15:01

"#Akkus sollen in Zukunft kein #Lithium mehr enthalten, das immer knapper wird. Künstliche Intelligenz sucht blitzschnell nach Materialien für den Ersatz
Mithilfe von #KI wollen sich

@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social
2024-03-04 07:26:20

#Boids are fun! #Boids are beautiful! They are an incredibly simplified model of the interaction between elementary agents, yet the macroscopic organization is always tantalizing...
Based on an existing implementation by Ben Eater, which is openly available on his website

Boids! Lots of boids!
@spamless@mastodon.social
2024-03-03 23:49:29

#SeniorFitness
It's been a couple of weeks since I did an update. I post these because I found #calisthenics four years ago on my way out (so to speak) of the E.R., and the sudden love saved my life — to use only a bit of hyperbole. (The cardiologist who did save me seems more …

Decline push-up Nos. 77-80 from my first set today. More at https://www.youtube.com/@MeFitYouFit, including details of my journey to fitness in my 60s following years of obesity and heart disease.
@Defiance@sfba.social
2024-04-03 22:15:08

A friend just sent me this terrifying video of boulders crashing down onto a road during the #earthquake in #Taiwan 😵

Dashcam video shows a few cars on a hillside road as they dodge huge boulders falling down onto the road.
@laimis@mstdn.social
2024-04-03 18:48:02

Converting C# code that uses tasks to F# can be so maddening because for the most part it's very straightforward until you forget a "return" statement somewhere in some indented if/else flow.
Compiler gives the most strange error message complaining about TaskCode type constraint mismatch like this person encountered:

@arXiv_mathAG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2024-03-04 06:54:37

Configurations in the Euclidean space related to the 3D genome reconstruction problem from partially phased data
Annachiara Korchmaros
arxiv.org/abs/2403.00407

@design_law@mastodon.social
2024-04-04 12:13:29

"The NPRM would also hike design patent filing and issuance fees. The USPTO notes that no maintenance fees are owed on design patents and that the USPTO has been subsidizing design patent examination with revenue from the utility patent side." - @… #DesignPatents