@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioLet's all show up for the Day of Action for Higher Education today. Now is the time to fight back to save US higher education. There are events all over the US and lots of online activities as well.
"Your silence will not protect you" - Audre Lorde
https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgCrazy, I’m posting about 100BaseVG and HP-VUE on the same day!
So, one more thought… Back in the day, we ran a DUX (diskless cluster) of about a dozen Snakes (HP9000/720) over 10Base2. They had disks for local swap and scratch space (context-dependent files, anybody?) and ran #HPUX 9.
And it worked fine. Booting all machines at the same time obviously was slow, but there was rarely any…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgCrazy, I’m posting about 100BaseVG and HP-VUE on the same day!
So, one more thought… Back in the day, we ran a DUX (diskless cluster) of about a dozen Snakes (HP9000/720) over 10Base2. They had disks for local swap and scratch space (context-dependent files, anybody?) and ran #HPUX 9.
And it worked fine. Booting all machines at the same time obviously was slow, but there was rarely any…
@bici@mastodon.socialI'm a Tarrif Man and I'm OK
I tweet all night and I bloviate all day
I cut down deals, I bluff and shuffle
I like to press against women
I put on women's clothing and hang around changing rooms
He cuts down deals, he bluffs and shuffles
He likes to press against women
He puts on women's clothing and hangs around changing rooms
I'm a Tarrif Man and I'm OK
I tweet all night and I bloviate all day
@cdarwin@c.imNo Kings 2.0. July 4, 2025
https://bsky.app/profile/jynxthewondergirl.bsky.social/post/3lrtaa52te22z
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 043 - XLIII
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialRead "Software and Anarchy", I think thanks to @… boosting it the other day, and it's worth the read even if I didn't find all of it convincing!
https://applied-langua.ge/software-and-anarchy.pdf
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyznew book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history
@denmanrooke@social.coop
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCam Ward gives thanks to dad, who drove him all over Texas to help him reach his dreams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45493280/tennessee-titans-qb-cameron-ward-fathers-day-message-calvin
@matthiasott@mastodon.social☕️ I can drink coffee all day, also in the evening, and fall asleep without any problems (although my sleep quality might suffer).
🧉 But give me a cup of mate, and I’ll be wide awake until 3 am. 🪩🕺
😂
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgLast day of the Open Science Retreat is starting with a special surprise: it's snowing! 🌨
Thanks Switzerland for showing us all the seasons in one week 💜
#OSR25CH
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHello all!
I wasn't able to process the photos of my recent trips, but I wanted to share this one from last year.
I went there on a hot day to "take a couple of photos". In the end I spent 3h just at this waterfall searching for the right composition & interpretation, the right motive etc.
I love the result, but I'm surprised how much time I spent there to get it.
@cdarwin@c.imThe risk of famine increases in Gaza
as the Israeli government’s blockade of nearly all aid to Gaza approaches its third month.
“I felt this almost sense of panic as every day went by without food let in,”
Ash Bohrer, a Chicago-based Jewish activist in the Palestinian solidarity movement,
told me as she outlined how high the stakes are as the genocide continues in Gaza.
“When I first heard it, my initial thought was … if there is some way I can use my body,&quo…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@markhburton@mstdn.social"All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.
But never any fire from the opposite direction."
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american
@dankeck@a11y.social14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.
Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
http…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialWe all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. Join Fatima Taj at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as she shares her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work, and explains how to handle similar situations.
Learn more:
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 117 - CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmis…
@newstik@social.heise.deFor a few days, I drove a 2024 #Toyota. I'm afraid that all those #DriverAssist systems are a terrible cocktail.
Several times a day, the car would suddenly break for no reason. Dangerous! I turned that off, but after every restart, it was back on.
Changing lanes or overtaking w…
@JasonPunyon@fosstodon.org
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo last night, after watching the Russian Victory Day ‘24 video for contrast, I thought “what the hell” & went ahead & watched1️⃣ the PBS YT video of the “June 24 Military2️⃣ Parade” to see if it was as bad as all that
(Short Answer: Yes and No)
But this guy was the one that caught my sympathy as “you poor dude”.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgGood morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter
@threeofus@mstdn.socialSince halving my #sertraline dose, down to 50mg / day, my brain feels like it’s halved in processing power. Words are more difficult to find, my speech is slower, my thought patterns and creativity are stifled. I’m generally more lethargic. On the plus side I’m less agitated and less prone to angry outbursts. If only I could have all of the good bits and none of the bad. That’s not really h…
@pre@boing.world
Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
#doctorWho
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI wish my family could see how much I care about anarchism, syndicalism, and especially anarcho-syndicalism, and how serious I am about building a different kind of world.
They still hold on to the image of me as someone who just spends all day gaming, like that’s all I ever was. But people change, grow, and find new paths.
If they can’t accept that, then they don’t really know who I am now, and it’s painful to realize that the people closest to me can’t see the person I’ve beco…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI was at the Bastille Day parade in Paris where I think ol Donny got his hard on for big parades (see next) and, no offence at all to the soldiers doing their jobs, but Don, this parade is not even Macron worthy.
#nokings #parade #sad https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/114684200393019112
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialLove to see all the #NoKings posts!! Do we have any sources on total turnout?
Edit: this #TheGuardian article says "several millions" and also that they're still ongoing in some places:
@laimis@mstdn.socialI had a nice day reading by the pool while the kids played with my wife. Then watched some #F1 . Overall a perfect #FathersDay . If not counting for all the nonsense that's going on in the world today........
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldIt was a sweet spring day, and just before they went into bloom you could hear all the almond trees say, "I'm gonna nut! I'm gonna nut!"
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialAll recordings from the first day of the conference are now available exclusively for ticket holders.
Please navigate to "recordings" in the sidebar on our online platform to access them.
We will continue to upload more recordings as soon as they have been edited.
#bbuzz
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgInteresting. I mean, obviously they're spinning things, but to the extent that Apple is focused on delivering tangible features that leverage LLMs this is actually a fundamental, key difference between them and all the other companies.
Every other company is delivering a Chatbot, and while they may be useful in certain areas, they don't integrate into day-to-day tasks.
It's like the difference between theoretical and applied mathematics.
@vrandecic@mas.toIs posting wrong AI answers still a thing, or do we all just accept they're making stuff up? #ai #googlesearch #aioverview
I mean, just note that the first and last sentence are clearly contradicting each other.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgFirst full day of the Open Science Retreat #OSR25CH is in full swing. Had some wonderful conversations about Open Science, science outreach and marketing, and unconventional careers all in a single day.
And enjoying walks and views of course.
@jpanzer@mastodon.socialI’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThe first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab
@tml@urbanists.socialMarina Hyde is a brilliant columnist:
Imagine owning the world’s premier shitposting platform – in fact, having spent $44bn on it, specifically so that your magic mirror would tell you each day that you were the fairest shitposter of all – and then shuffling sheepishly on to your own pixels to mumble something about having gone “too far” with your hurty words.
@ian@phpc.socialHappy "find out what services you use run on GCP" day for all who celebrate.
@rberger@hachyderm.io"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"And what has it got us? You can now order any product made by stroking a pocket glass and have it next day or even quicker. What are you doing with all that time that is freed up?
Certainly not leisure. The average hours worked per week in developed countries has certainly dropped since the industrial revolution but remained roughly constant since 1980. Tracking all that work in Jira has not led to doing less of it."
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeHappy Jacob Geller Book day AND Nintendo Switch 2 day to all who celebrate! 🎉
What a day!
@wfryer@mastodon.cloud(1/4) “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in 1 place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, & it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, & a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit & began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusal…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzahellow my name is ena i sleep all day and walk all night
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaA challenging day ahead, it seems.
One NUC needs a cmos battery reset and required serious surgery to get into at all.
As for the N150: you get what you pay for. This reminds me of the OrangePi, and not in a good way.
Put on my sport shorts the wrong way around this morning. Noticed just before I stepped out.
Talk to y'all tomorrow.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialJoin us for our Get-Together right after today's last session at 18:00 CEST!
Head over to the partner area, where you can unwind with tasty snacks and refreshing drinks while enjoying great live music, all sponsored by Search Guard. What better way to end the first day of the conference than by catching up with old friends and making new connections?
#bbuzz
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialLet me introduce you to Nera, the youngest of three siblings. They all turned 1 year old on May 31st. Their mother one day in late April arrived here homeless (we asked intensively throughout the neighbourhood) and already pregnant. All four of them are alive and healthy and still live in our property. #caturday
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Marcello Pizzeria & Ristorante. I have eaten all my meals out today. It was a stressful day. No ragrets.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSorry if I fucked up your day too, but I fucking love you all! After looking at this GIF, I’m over it!
Autism is real as hell, and autism is fucking awesome. Fuck the haters, fuck anyone who’s “anti-autism,” and fuck domestic violence against autistic people.
I exist, I’m proud, and I’m not going anywhere. Autism power, always fucking rad!
Mistakes happen, and I gotta work on myself, lmao! You do you, and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThree Former Cowboys Busted in Separate Violent Incidents in Four Day Period https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/greg-hardy-adam-pacman-jones-kelvin-joseph/?adt_ei=[email]
@hynek@mastodon.socialtfw iA Writer somehow throws away a day of work (99% sure it’s iCloud Drive's fault) and you have to reconcile yesterday night’s version with the latest one.
Thank Cthulhu for `File − Revert To − Browse All Versions…` and my overpriced Kaleidoscope subscription. #YouTuberLyfe
@frostpoem@mastodon.artAt the end of the day, I am haunted splinters, trying to hold to the silhouette of a girl who knows how, a girl with clear aspirations and legible scars that fit neatly into all the boxes. At the end of the day, I am a fool, dressing up a raw heart in wild flowers, because bloody things are only acceptable when they're dressed. At the end of the day, I am a poet. #Mastoprompt #microprompt #WSS366
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialLet's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
...
This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.pageAdaptive Job Scheduling in Quantum Clouds Using Reinforcement Learning
Waylon Luo (Kent State University), Jiapeng Zhao (Cisco), Tong Zhan (Meta), Qiang Guan (Kent State University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10889
@wraithe@mastodon.social“Hello from downtown LA, where the sun is setting and the tenor of the protests is shifting
It's been a long day and has all the markings of a long night
Let's do this
🧵”
https://bsky.app/profile/laurajedeed.bsky.social/post/3lr5gxfolrs2n…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotIf any of us #GenX-ers need hearing aids in years to come we'll be pretty chill with it as we're all so used to wearing earbuds so much of the time. I don't think a day goes by when I don't wear one (only ever one). Not all day like, but at some point.
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialOk, first day trying my end-to-end Xogot/Claude/MCP integration, not bad at all:
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgVery efficient: running Reichstag moment and Kristallnacht reenactment all in one day instead of months apart
I really had hoped the situation would have calmed down over night, just to wake up reading about Trump having setup everything to burn down his country completely—and then gone golfing
#USPol #WTF
@servelan@newsie.social'Calling news anchors all day': Trump badgering reporters to 'dunk on Elon Musk' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-calling-news-anchors/
@castarco@hachyderm.iouspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaScientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question.
They had worked for months gathering one each of every computer that was
built. Finally the big day was at hand. All the computers were linked
together. They asked the question, "Is there a God?". Lights started
blinking, flashing and blinking some more. Suddenly, there was a loud
crash, and a bolt of lightning came down from the sky, struck the
computers, and welded all the conn…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.
@andycarolan@social.lolThe weather here really is all over the place! Sunny and warm one day, wet and cold the next. ☀️ 🌧 ☀️ 🌧 ☀️ 🌧 ☀️ 🌧
#UKWeather #Weather #WhatToWear
@cheryanne@aus.social
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAt 7 I was walking the 5-ish blocks to/from the neighborhood grocery store occasionally & exploring the patch of woods halfway there. By 9 I was biking over a mile to school every day and often further to my Dad’s apartment. All in University City, an inner suburb of St. Louis. Some of it crossing or riding on major arterial roads & crossing a freeway.
I wasn’t special in any of that. My sisters & kids in my neighborhood did it too.
@cdarwin@c.imNO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Map
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineTomorrow's my first day at the new job and looks like all my bosses identify as women, which I guess would be good when you have femdom fantasies but it's absolutely great when you have equality ones.
@UP8@mastodon.social💪 Omnivorous? Vegan? Makes no difference to muscle building after weight training, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-omnivorous-vegan-difference-muscle-weight.html
@keithjgrant@front-end.socialThis is our cats’ hedgehog. We never actually see them play with it, but it moves around the house all the time. Nearly every morning, after the first hour or two of my work day, I mysteriously find this little guy in the kitchen.
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.socialThe Max Planck Society is excited to invite its alumni*ae to the
10th Max Planck Symposium for Alumni and Early Career Researchers - SustainAbility
30th June & 1st July 2025, Harnack-Haus, Berlin
The symposium is an intensive, two-day career and networking conference serving as a platform to connect Max Planck Alumni*ae and Max Planck Early Career Researchers of all disciplines and institutes.
Registration is now open. Feel free to reach out to your al…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSkies cleared up just in time for solar activity to get even higher (Kp 8)...
... and the sun to come up. I grabbed a single digit number of shots but the eastern sky was already visibly bright naked eye and my long-exposure shots started getting washed out.
Forecast shows activity will be decent all day (good luck Asian/European sky watchers!) and might persist into the dark for me tonight. Fingers crossed.
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI think we all knew a Melon Husk / Turnip meltdown was inevitable, but I didn't think it'd happen this soon, escalate this quickly, or blowup this spectacularly.
🍿 🍿 🍿
#MelonHusk #POTUS47
@timfoster@mastodon.socialOff to the Cultra Hill Climb today. It is unambiguously raining out there, which means a few things:
1. No chance of parking shiny clean car on the club stand, so am not even going to try
2. Hopefully exciting racing?
3. Likelihood of being drenched all day: very high
https://www.…
@frostpoem@mastodon.artAt the end of the day, I am haunted splinters, trying to hold to the silhouette of a girl who knows how, a girl with clear aspirations and legible scars that fit neatly into all the boxes. At the end of the day, I am a fool, dressing up a raw heart in wild flowers, because bloody things are only acceptable when they're dressed. At the end of the day, I am a poet. #Mastoprompt #microprompt #WSS366
@Jyoti@mas.toAnother day waiting around for builders from 7am only to be told at 1.30pm they're not actually gonna appear.
I might start a career as a professional ghost hunter, I think I'd have more chance of spotting my quarry.
Couldn't work last night, all today wasted. Fucking brilliant.
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialah #11ty - read the docs Simon.
Didn't realise I needed:
serveImageTransforms: false,
In my image.js - wondered why all the images were being rebuilt on serve each time!!
IndexNow thinks I'm changing all my images every day...
@outer@mas.to@…
The forScore website’s been down all day. Attempting to connect to
https://forscore.co or anything in it produces
"
Error establishing a database conn…
@matthiasott@mastodon.social @ian@phpc.socialHappy defederation day to all who celebrate! Apparently Hands Off protests are a troll magnet. If other admins want to check our blocklist, it just got four instances longer today. #fediblock
@pre@boing.worldThe Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.
In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
#software #upgradeTredmil #python #microsoft
@wfryer@mastodon.cloudPlease share this link about the EIGHT (STEM / coding / design / engineering summer camps Shelly Fryer and I are teaching in June and July 2025 through "Summer at Providence Day School!"
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/summer-2025
@cdarwin@c.imNO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
Happy #FathersDay to all fathers and daddies ❤️
#Zeus is the father of many of the gods and many mortals liked to trace their line…
@castarco@hachyderm.ioThis past night I had a strange nightmare. For some reason unknown to me I found myself visiting the US.
Minutes after passing through all the airport checks I was detained for terrorist conspiracy... because the other day I wrote about zip bombs as a defense against adversarial thief bots.
The crazy thing about this is that I find it plausible to happen in real life.
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldThere's a line conductors use when seating an extra crowded train. They say, "It's 'Make a Friend' Day." The conductor said this before all the Girl Scouts got on in Stockton.
@andycarolan@social.lolI'm sure there's an air pressure thing going on at the moment, I've had a headache all day which has only now got slightly better.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"The day will come when all these skirmishes & battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority & then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege."
"Remember this: Try."
▶️ Nemik's Manifesto, #ANDOR
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSending all my love and femme energy to the beautiful LGBTQIA community. 🏳️🌈💖
You inspire me every single day, keep shining, keep slaying, and keep being your authentic selves! 🏳️⚧️✨
Together, we’re unstoppable. 🌈💪
#TransAlly #LGBTQIA
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCardinals fly 275 students to Washington D.C. for Civic Matters Arizona trip https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-fly-275-students-to-washington-d-c-for-civic-matters-arizona-trip
@cdarwin@c.imAmid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire
The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents said on Monday night that
“all personnel decisions” are directed by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III,
10 days after Donald Trump claimed that he had fired the director of the institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
The board, which issued its statement after an all-day meeting Monday, also said that it supported Bunch’s “authority and management” of the Smithsonian…
@cdarwin@c.imIf you feel comfortable doing so, please register for this event at https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/.
It helps us with our planning to have an idea how many people to expect. Thanks!
@cdarwin@c.im @midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaEvery day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…
@cdarwin@c.imThe investor and engineer
(who was employee No. 2 at Pinterest)
is ready to talk about his DOGE days.
Last week, he published a blogpost detailing his brief stint in government.
And in a 30-minute call with The Standard on Monday, Lavingia expanded on his life inside Musk’s controversial cost-cutting machine, from attending the DOGEfather’s awkward all-hands meeting to expediting the government’s use of AI.
