@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaManaged to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialTop 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
A browser fingerprint is the unique set of data your browser and device reveal #online, such as system info, fonts, screen size, and #IPaddress. Detecting your #browser
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#GNU findutils help:
> ‘environment is too large for exec’
>
> This message means that you have so many environment variables set (or such large values for them) that there is no room within the system-imposed limits on program command line argument length to invoke any program. This is an unlikely situation and is more likely result of an attempt to test the limits of xargs, or break it. Please try unsetting some environment variables, or exiting the current shell. You can also use ‘xargs --show-limits’ to understand the relevant sizes.
Okay, let's check:
$ xargs --show-limits
xargs: environment is too large for exec
🤦
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: I'll risk that.
AVON: He could use the new gun. Dayna?
DAYNA: It's ready. [starts to go but Avon stops her]
AVON: Vila can get it.
DAYNA: It's in the test room, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/491 B7B5
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M users, and Zhipu has 8,000 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/o…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaLargest Number of Driving Test Failures
By April 1970 Mrs. Miriam Hargrave had failed her test thirty-nine
times. In the eight preceding years she had received two hundred and
twelve driving lessons at a cost of L300. She set the new record while
driving triumphantly through a set of red traffic lights in Wakefield,
Yorkshire. Disappointingly, she passed at the fortieth attempt (3 August
1970) but eight years later she showed some of her old magic when she w…
@alm10965@mastodon.socialMhh, gefällt mir besser als #pastperfect
WhichYear 11/8/25
3974 pts
7.0 avg. years off
6️⃣ 2️⃣ 5️⃣ ⚪ 🔟
https://whichyr.com
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaToday is going to be a good day for several large (very large) shots of Scotch.
Working with client for a test file and asked questions on how we are to set up the test environment. It hit me after I asked that I didn't even know what the hell those changes to the files were for.
I checked our current release documents and the next release documents. Zero notes on the changes. I am the release coordinator and I remember nothing on the topic for the current two releases. …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeOK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
@cdarwin@c.im“These are regulatory tariffs,”
D John Sauer, US solicitor general, assured the court.
“They are not revenue-raising tariffs. The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental.”
It was a curious, and more than a little confusing, explanation
– tariffs on goods from overseas might raise revenue, but are not revenue-raising
– designed to counter rulings by lower courts that set the stage for this test before the highest court in the land.
@pre@boing.worldYou see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid
@raiders@darktundra.xyzClean Game or Chaos? Geno Smith Set for Big Test vs. Jaguars’ Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-geno-smith-jacksonville-jaguars-chip-kelly-asthon-jeanty
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAlright, started work on the `av1an` module for my distributed encoding server. First up, getting a proper JSON format to set the command-line options. The schema is about 320 lines long, but it does lend itself to some nice data formatting. A basic encode "job" block looks like this and actually generates the appropriate command-line arguments.
```json
{
"source": "video.mkv",
"destination": "test.mkv",
…
@compfu@mograph.socialI've set up a #TriliumNotes server to test it as a replacement for my job-related Trello. Phew... I've rarely seen an app that looks so daunting when you first start it up. Dozens of buttons, menus, features... and on first start it wants a password but you can't use it with multiple users. You need multiple servers for that or encrypt a set of private notes.
Trilium integra…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@datascience@genomic.socialThe functions in the {withr} package allow to change your environment temporarily. E.g. create a temp file for a {testthat} test and clean it up afterwards. #rstats
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCircle launches the test version of its Arc blockchain, with Goldman, BlackRock, Apollo, Anthropic, Intercontinental Exchange, and others set to trial it (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/g…
@bourgwick@heads.social60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialWell, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs there such a think as a test tube brush crossed with a wire brush?
We're starting to set up outdoor Christmas lights and a bunch of the sockets are oxidized and not making good contact with the bulbs. So I need to get into the socket and scrub the contacts.
Maybe after this holiday season I'll put some deoxit or something on them.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Happy National Trivia Day for all nerds walking around with mostly useless facts in your head. Today is your day to shine.
I never said that there would be homework but today... there's homework. Test your knowledge of obscure Canadian trivia by taking this quiz. You can set the difficulty and length in case you're brave or timid. Full disclosure: I chose the "Surprise Me" option and got 20% correct. Using the Google thingy is not allowed. You're on the honour system, and if you're Canadian, I didn't need to say that.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Trivia #Quiz
Canada Quiz | The Canadian Encyclopedia
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/quiz/canada-quiz
@compfu@mograph.socialProps to the #Incus team. I had set up a Rocky 9 machine using Incus and ZFS as a test at the start of the year. I just updated the whole system using dnf update and installed the incus rpms somebody built for inclusion in the epel repo (but they are not part of it yet). And things seem to work great after a single reboot.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
