Tootfinder

Personal, waiting through your life, ASD, sad
I suppose many people in the spectrum didn't have an easy childhood, especially if they lived in rural areas. Having difficulties bonding with peers, problems, solitude, bullying. However, the worst that you could have is having your parents tell the child that you just need to survive and wait, because one day you'll go a different school, meet new people and things will miraculously "be better". Because the child will take that literally, and make a point of their childhood to wait for this better day. It will believe that the problem is just a matter time, and then it will be solved.
Then comes the time for a higher grade school. And perhaps it will be a little better. But it won't be as great as it was promised. Perhaps you will cope better, perhaps you will find a better company, but you will never be neurotypical. And you will hear, once again, that you need to wait, and at the university things will definitely be just great.
Then comes the time for university. And again, it will be a little better, but never as good as it was promised. On the other hand, you will start realizing even more that you can't fit — that you've missed an important part of your life, that you lack the experiences that other people have, that you're a child that's suddenly ended up an adult between adults. And what will you hear? Of course, when you finally go to work, things will be even better.
And what's the truth? The future never brings anything better of its own accord. What it brings instead, is the realization that you've wasted the best years of your life waiting to be an adult. And then you are old, unhealthy and surrounded by people who sorted out their lives a long time ago. And people expect from you that you will work hard 5 days a week, and somehow manage to find more energy to sort out your own life at that.
And yes, as the old maxim says, you should just cope all these years and wait for retirement. Presuming you'll actually qualify for pension, that you'll be reasonably healthy and that the world won't burn completely by the time.
#ActuallyAutistic

Ghost Story ⚰️😱👻
Narrated murder mystery told in the second person | An unapologetically dark tale told from the 2nd person point of view. Are you ready? Don’t worry, you are.
1 seasons, 7 episodes as of May 07, 2021.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/ghost-story

Ghost Story ⚰️😱👻
Narrated murder mystery told in the second person | An unapologetically dark tale told from the 2nd person point of view. Are you ready? Don’t worry, you are. 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of May 08, 2021.

Hi friends!
We are just back from a nice 53km #cycling loop with our #mtbs. Lots of asphalt but as you can see, also lots of gorgeous views and sun today.
Is there a better way to start an 11th #wedding

Nuclear Throne is an incredible game, just as I'd heard. I'm glad I jumped on it finally. Figuring out the different random power-up mutations, the runs are fun as hell, twin stick shooting, permadeath, it's a blast. It's tough! But I'm gonna keep trying to get to that throne 🔫
#TwinStickShooters #roguelikes

Next Tuesday: Join me and @… and let's talk about app localization! We'll cover best practices, how to localize, when to localize, and WHY to localize! Register now, it's free and fun 🤩

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Localization: Best Practices for Mobile Apps. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
We take a deep dive into the topic of localization. This time we have invited Cihat Gündüz, an expert on the topic as he developed multiple localization tools for the iOS community, namely BartyCrouch, RemafoX, and String Catalog Translator. Together we will look into how AI and machine translation can help streamline your localization process, discuss typical challenges you will face and discover methods to overcome them with low effort. Note: By registering for this webinar, you consent …

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
"some immigrant girls were even picked up by immigrant boys during their flights to their country
to Canada; this has really happened! Secondly, many of the immigrant girls already have partners"
Again, your premise is that dating and marriage are hard, but you're pointing out people who found it easy.
You're just mad that YOU are single.
That, my little incel, is the definition of a you problem. And the definition of an incel.
#IncelShaming

Q&A with ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden about his support for Web3 gaming company Readygg, blockchain games, mass layoffs, AI, controlling costs, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/games/how-form

How former PlayStation boss views gaming’s tumultuous time | Shawn Layden interview
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Shawn Layden used to run Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, a position that gave him unique insight into the whole industry and triple-A games. Layden is now an adviser for companies like […]

"if you assume 'AI learns', you are in a bit of trouble, because the AI does not exist before it [looks at the paintings]"
Interesting and thoughtful long read about what "learning art" means for an apprentice artist, must come back to it more slowly and mindfully
By @… via @…

The Guild of St. Luke
Reassessing Digital-Cultural Infrastructures

Happy Friday to all of you here in the #Fediverse today!
What is on your agenda for the day and for the weekend ahead?
For me, the wife and I are going to a special Winston Salem Dash baseball game tonight. It's our first one. They are the AAA team for the Chicago White Sox. Hoping to have a great time tonight.
Not much else planned outside of work stuff for a bit to…

Back before the Reagan Revolution … a third of America had a good union job, our schools were brand-new and well supplied and staffed, college was free, healthcare was inexpensive, and the biggest challenge America had was to put a man on the moon and bring him safely home — there was little demand for a dictator in this country.
… For the majority of white Americans to adopt a strongman authoritarian, first the country had to be broken and broken badly.

Was the GOP Plan All Along to "Break" America to Make Room for an Authoritarian Strongman?
You have to break government pretty badly before people are willing to trade in a normal democracy for a dictatorship, but it’s sure happened before...

Jack Dorsey interview post-#Bluesky. Whatever you think of him, his views on why he helped getting Bluesky started in the first place are interesting. I wonder which of those might apply to the Fediverse (which he doesn't mention at all).

An Interview With Jack Dorsey
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending

Sign the petition for stronger privacy protections
#Privacy

Sign the petition for stronger privacy protections | CHOICE
We all want to know our personal information is protected, but our outdated privacy laws are letting businesses get away with using our data in ways that are unfair or even unsafe. Will you sign the petition for strong privacy laws that create an even playing field between people and businesses?

Scrolling through these replies is delightful.
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112066609049680983

mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)
Attached: 4 images Today is my birthday! If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color. If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be …

If you are an academic, particularly one in the US, let me know what sort of prevailing norms on guest lecturing there might be.

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
DEVA: [Rushing in] Blake! They've found us! The base is under - [stops cold at the sight of Blake] Arlen, what happened?
ARLEN: HE happened. [camera indicates Avon; Arlen shoots Deva and he collapses] Be so kind as to drop your guns, all of you. [Three Scorpio guns hit the floor in short order. Avon is still staring at Blake's lifeless body and takes no notice whatsoever. An explosion is heard in the distance.] You and this nest of rebels are now... [1/2] B7B2

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

What a time to be alive: now a buggy app can even kill you... 🤷‍♂️
"At least 224 people have been injured after an iPhone app called t:connect drained the battery on its accompanying insulin pump, called t:slim X2, causing the pump to fail to deliver insulin."
https://

224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries
Users are being told to closely monitor their insulin pump battery levels before bed.

Situations like this are a prime example of why we have to end the death penalty. As long as you have fallible human beings imposing an irreversible sentence on people, you're going to have errors and abuse.
#justicereform #deathpenalty

Colorado finds DNA scientist cut corners, raising questions in hundreds of criminal cases
A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA scientist intentionally cut corners and didn’t follow standard testing protocols, raising questions about hundreds of cases in which she processed evidence, the agency said Friday, calling it “an unprecedented breach of trust.”

Good Morning #Canada
Today is National Napping Day, or in my case any day that ends in the letter "Y". It's important that you nap responsibly as studies have indicated that excessive napping, more than an hour a day, could lead to Alzheimer’s, versus those who did not nap daily, or have a greater chance of developing high blood pressure and having a stroke.
Here's the late…

A German second division club is also doing this.
You could do it philanthropically; the business model has changed.
“The club began what amounts to a live-action experiment examining some of the most profound issues affecting sports in the digital age: the relationship between cost and value; the connection between fans and their local teams; and, most important, what it is to attend an event at a time when sports are just another arm of the entertainment industry.”

Paris F.C. Set Tickets To $0. Should Others Do the Same?
When Paris F.C. made its tickets free, it began an experiment into the connection between fans and teams, and posed a question about the value of big crowds to televised sports.

The hardest thing working solo on systems and trading is that the bugs and mistakes are EVERYWHERE but the verification is all on you. There is no QA department, not even another end user to report an issue.
Let's say you write code to study market behavior or to verify a strategy and come away with wrong conclusions due to some subtle bug in the implementation.

Stolen from https://mastodon.art/@Nick_Stevens_graphics/112421843448343716 but with a better alt text.

I guess the advantage of the big city is you can go to the gym anytime day or night right next door to the hotel! 😂 I do like the view.

Issue 13 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳
Now.
With links to posts by @…, @…, @shadeed9, @…

Own Your Web – Issue 13: Now
Hi All! 🤗 There are many pages you can add to your personal site that people can visit if they want to learn more about you. A “contact” page or an “about”...

Felt rather unproductive today, so I decided to check out some games instead. So, this is where you come in: Tell me why I'm dead wrong – and why those are your favorite games ever! 😜 (Both are rated as "Overwhelmingly Positive")
#BuckshotRoulette #SheepyAShortAdventure

“.. a repeat of the can’t do attitude they turned to for decades when fighting fuel economy standards, then claiming the technology didn’t exist, it was too expensive, and consumers didn’t want it (they were wrong). Now the auto industry is dragging its feet once again, this time trying to use China’s progress on EVs as an excuse to slow down on U.S. standards. Really? When you’re falling behind, is slowing down really the right answer?”

EVs Are at a Turning Point, It May Not Be What You Think
Strong momentum is moving in the right direction to support the growing EV market.

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
"it is well-known that many Iranian families who have immigrated to European countries, such as Germany and Sweden, have divorced or separated after a while"
So well-known that you can't cite a source for this?
Also, oddly specific example.
"This has happened because they are gradually modified by the culture, tradition, and conditions of the new country; therefore, they cannot continue their previous life together."
Are you mad that women forced into an arranged marriage in an authoritarian country then want a divorce after moving somewhere that they have rights? Really weird topic.
#IncelShaming

Yes, but it’s because audio mixes have become completely unintelligible over the last 20 years especially for dialog; it’s not “TV audio” that’s the problem.
https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/112060450573772958

BBC Research & Development (@BBCRD@social.bbc)
Attached: 1 image Do you sometimes struggle to hear what's said on TV? We're running an experiment to find out how wide-spread problems with TV audio are. If you have half an hour, click here to take part: https://tv-speech-rating.audio.labs.bbc

“bro if you don’t enable dnssec an attacker can send you to a rogue NTP server”
while true I find these scenarios quite funny because they are totally unrealistic and if someone is targeting you to this extent you’re fucked anyway

You don’t have to be caught up in the Drake / Kendrick Lamar drama to know there are better memes to use than that Drake one.
Which you can customize:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/yLaZOZX
As part of your larger effort at more accessible memes:

Drake Meme but with LeVar Burton
Customize by editing the text in the second and fourth paragraphs. Change the font size in the appropriate selectors. More accessible memes: https://a...

My adopters starved me, too. & despite the fact that I was CLEARLY malnourished, no one ever tried to help me. Why not? Because society has been taught to believe adopters are saviors & saints. But abusive adoptive parents are not uncommon. That “better life” trope needs to be yeeted into the sun—when you give up your child to #adoption , you’re abandoning them to an utter crapshoot, &…

The W3C – the standards body of surveillance capitalism – on privacy.
If you had any “privacy principles” to speak of, what would Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Bloomberg, Google, Huawei, IAB, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Bilibili, SoftBank, Tencent, Yahoo!, Zoom, etc., be doing on your members list?
#privacyWashing

Happy Friday to all of you here in the #Fediverse today!
What is on your agenda for the day and for the weekend ahead?
For me, the wife and I are going to a special Winston Salem Dash baseball game tonight. It's our first one. They are the AAA team for the Chicago White Sox. Hoping to have a great time tonight.
Not much else planned outside of work stuff for a bit to…

Developers at API-First Companies are happier? That's maybe a little bit of a stretch of the imagination, dear #Postman - but I do think yous general gist is spot on. In a highly technical marketplace, it makes sense to communicate your intents and services in a highly technical way

What Is an API-First Company? | Postman
Are you an API-first company? API-first is the new model of software development in which applications are conceptualized and built as an interconnection of internal and external services through APIs.

'Is 75 the new 65?' Is it fuck. Don't let these motherfuckers get away with trying to manufacture your consent. Speak up and tell them exactly what you think of them and their desire to see you drop dead at work, never being allowed to enjoy your rest. https://www.bbc.com…

"Here’s another idea we ought to test: let’s mashup a couple of tech billionaire fantasies by sticking Sam Altman on a SpaceX rocket and firing it at Mars. The benefit to humanity is potentially immense. (Just think… at a bare minimum, we wouldn’t have to continue to wade through Altman’s bullshit anymore!)"
(Original title: A Memo to OpenAI: You Are Not the Protagonists)

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#FactFriday
Even when you get a ecard from an actual #friend on your #birthday from a legit birthday card website, it STILL could be from a

"Wenn Reichtum nichts mit Anhäufung zu tun hat, sondern sich auf einen Reichtum an Beziehungen bezieht, macht der Reichtum jedes Einzelnen alle reicher."
Charles Eisenstein
#Zitate #Eisenstein
Quelle:

#Jupyter Notebooks are great.
That said, one PITA is the extra cruft saved in the file. Someone sends an updated Notebook, "I only changed 2 lines, can you look?", but when I do a file comparison, there's 100s of changed lines. To make any sense of it, I'd have to upload both to a Jupyter server, open, clear all cell outputs, save, download to my PC, and then compare.
…

I am so glad I didn't absolutely *have* to buy an RTX card from this generation. At least in my opinion, the prices were the right indicator that even the lower tier Nvidia RT-capable cards are an early adopter thing dressed as a mass product. You don't *need* to play games with RT, unless you love paying more for lower resolution upscaled to an extrapolated image, at lower FPS and higher lag. Today's mass technology could give you 100-200 FPS native QHD without robbing you blin…

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Are you a budding copepodologist? Then there is a book just for you. Charles Miller, a retired, prominent copepod expert last year published a book "Oar Feet and Opal Teeth". The title refers to the Greek for

Nice to see someone remember AlgoMech, which turned out to be a series of three festivals.
Really happy with what we managed to achieve with a small arts council grant and other oddments. It was a labour of love though and so there was no point compromising on it during the pandemic.. Until then it was becoming a strange addiction working for many underpaid months of the year on a weekend of fun that as an organiser you couldn't even participate in..
We are dreaming up a

People are saying #RyanZinke has an embarrassingly small penis. Like, they thought he was doing that move where you push your wang back between your legs while the balls are still hanging out front -- except he wasn't. Sad!

#Requiescat One last nugget, I promise. In 2009, #SteveAlbini wrote this for Record Store Day and the #ChicagoReader published it as an ad for

Ai Image Generation and Social Network – NightCafe
Lately, I've been having a lot of fun experimenting with AI image generators. Simply input your desired image, and voilŠ! In just a matter of seconds, Ai creates an image. Whether it's a specific theme, a particular style, or anything you can imagine, the possibilities are virtually limitless. Here are some images I created with just a few words on…

I was here to witness #totality today, and it was breathtaking. The 360⁰ sunset was wild. The sudden drop in temperature gave me goosebumps.
Making a friend laugh til she couldn't breath talking about pre-historic man going about their day until suddenly the *sun goes out!* Aaaaaagh, and then a few short minutes later, "Nevermind, we're all good." was priceless.
~3 minute…

If you are a @… user and work with #WCAG - this extension hit the Raycast store Today: https://www.raycast.com…

Raycast - WCAG
Search the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2

A tip if you are in an WM but don't have Desktop environment or xscreensaver.
Doing the command below you can be able to put in standby mode the screen. Watch out, this only put in black the monitor this does not lock your session account.
xset dpms 3 3 3
The number three is the seconds that it has to pass until the screen goes black.
Of course you can change it. ;)
Hope you helped you.

Cave of wonders.
2 Free wallpapers for you to use.
Also uploaded to my Ko-fi completely uncompressed for free here: #AIart

Click to view on Ko-fi
Follow Be Aware on Ko-fi

During #APISIXNorthAmericaTour, I spoke yesterday at the Chicago JUG with the help of Mary Grygleski and had an amazing audience!
Next stop at the Boulder JUG next Tuesday. Don’t miss it if you are in the vicinity !

proposal: LLM prompting should be called "fanfiction-oriented programming"

Sushi towels by Jenny Pokryvailo
"These kitchen towels featuring very specific colored patterns inspired by sushi ingredients, so that when properly rolled step by step you can easily create different styles of sushi rolls in your kitchen. The sushi towels designed in a variety of different flavors (colors) to choose from and can be rolled as a regular Maki or as an inside out Maki."

Sushi Towels
These kitchen towels are woven with the aesthetic patterns of sushi ingredients. By rolling the towel step by step you can easily create your own sushi in your kitchen.

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday in #Caledon it was 8°C and our lawn was greening up nicely. I was thinking about doing a bit of yard work today but woke up to a snow covered yard and -3°C temps. Sigh...
If you can believe the infograhic below, and it was on the internet so it must be true, lots of Ca…

Former GM Confident Steelers Are Better Fit For Russell Wilson Over Las Vegas Raiders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_gm_confident_steelers_are_better_fit_for_russell_wilson_ov…

Former GM Confident Steelers Are Better Fit For Russell Wilson Over Las Vegas Raiders
The Pittsburgh Steelers' fan base has been on an emotional rollercoaster since the 2023 season officially ended following a Wild Card loss to the Buffalo Bills. The team has plenty of holes on the roster and if you asked the front office two years ago if quarterback would be one of the talking points in the 2024 offseason, they would have vehemently shot down the idea. Kenny Pickett has been underwhelming during his two NFL seasons and talk has shifted from Justin Fields being acquired via t…

Dear prestige TV makers. No one wants a 70 minute episode. I understand you are much too self-important to stick to a 30 minute slot. So take an hour, which means 48 minutes runtime. 70 minutes is a goddamn movie. #shogun

If being 18-year-olds means you're an adult, then 19-year-olds are children, right?
Wait?! What!?
The internet is very confused.
https://youtu.be/-84WWGhL6sE

Memory, nostalgia, personal
Today I've reached the part of Szczecin that I haven't visited for 15 years or so. I have to say: memory is interesting.
I only had minimal recollections before, some place names I've visited, some associations, maybe a few rough visual memories. Looking at the map helped uncover a bit more but not much.
Today, walking (unknowingly following a similar route), memories returned in bulk. "I've been here before", "I totally forgot about these plane trees", "I remember this fence", "we sat somewhere over there". Even some images returned.
I was hit by nostalgia too. After all, all that was important to me. I was in love, and for the first time in my life everything was going just right. These were the good memories.
So what's the issue? Perhaps it is that it's easier to cherish good memories when the present is good as well, or at least you're convinced that it's going to go in the right direction. Perhaps you need precisely that to avoid perceiving these memories as the good old days that are never coming back.
Or perhaps it's an autism spectrum thing. Perhaps these memories will always represent attachment to a person that's no longer a part of my life. Dreams that didn't come true. Good times that has passed, and that I didn't cherish as much as I wish I would. Memories made together that remain important to me, but not to anyone else. And these memories that I've lost, though they remain present at the edge of conscience, reminding of their existence, but ever unreachable.
#ActuallyAutistic

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
"I, the author of this paper, was born in 1993"
[several pages later]
"This trend can easily be observed in online chat rooms"
1. Trends cannot be "easily observed".
2. That's not a citation, simply an anecdote.
3. MY DUDE, I was in "online chat rooms" while you were a toddler. You, my most naive incel waif, are in a goddamn Discord room or some bullshit, this isn't fucking CompuServe or the Red Dragon Inn on AOL. (if you refer to Reuters as Usenet next, I will pull this cat over)
#IncelShaming

I can’t touch grass. I’m allergic, my skin breaks out in an itchy rash.
You understand now why my hobbies and interests are so indoorsy. 😅

MTA subway announcements are so funny. "Attention: if you have questions or need to report something, NYPD are available on the platform"
Like subway riders need overpaid power-tripping MAGA shitheads staffing an info booth. "Yes, hi, can you help me book a car to the airport?" "Fug off I'm playing candy crush"

"According to the Equal Justice Initiative, people of color are more likely to be prosecuted for capital murder, sentenced to death, and executed, especially if the victim in the case is white."
https://

Abolish the Death Penalty
Our death penalty system treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. As a result, a stunning number of innocent people have been sentenced to death. In practice, capital punishment is mostly imposed on poor people who cannot afford to hire an effective lawyer. For every eight people executed, one person on death row has been exonerated. We call on elected officials and lawmakers in the states where capital punishment remains legal to immediately put a...

Who comes up with names of floors on an elevator. There should not be a floor G for ground floor. 1 should not mean you are 1 story high. B should not mean bottom floor.

This is how *my* day is going.
`One or more errors occured` great, thanks. *WHAT* errors? there's no explanatory popup, there's no log file, nothing.
This says:
`This is an edge case we couldn't be arsed to handle properly either because we are lazy developers or our product management doesn't give a shit. So fuck you Mr/Ms Customer.`
not even spelled correctly. Not a good sign from a translation tool.

Secret Agent Cat!
/
Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Ah, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow
Secret agent Cat, secret agent Cat
They've given you a number
And taken away your name
(Johnny Rivers)
/
#AI

Why is the Press Making Trump Seem More Normal?
Yes, a presidential candidate just accused the sitting President of the United States of delivering the State of the Union address while high on cocaine.

I’m guessing that unless you listened to the Friday episode of Pod Save America, most of you are learning this information for the first time.
And it's not because you aren’t avid consumers of news. It’s because the traditional political media decided to ignore thi…

Why is the Press Making Trump Seem More Normal?
Believe it or not, much of the political press has an inadvertent pro-Trump bias

This might be just a clever test to see who is willing to spend 30 minutes to participate in research.
https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/112060450573772958

BBC Research & Development (@BBCRD@social.bbc)
Attached: 1 image Do you sometimes struggle to hear what's said on TV? We're running an experiment to find out how wide-spread problems with TV audio are. If you have half an hour, click here to take part: https://tv-speech-rating.audio.labs.bbc

Good morning and happy Thursday to all of you here in the #Fediverse today.
It's a new day, so let's all discuss what our plans are for the day today.
Work stuff here as usual for me with just one normal meeting today at 12pm. Nothing crazy like yesterday.
Other than that, not much else planned for the day today outside of resting and relaxing.

Silly (or maybe not) question:
So what exactly is social media for?
For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the #Fediverse. So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?
And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs or wants do you have that w…

you have not understood anything as you are an average man. An average man is a monster, a dangerous delinquent, a conformist, a racist, a slave-driver and a man who couldn't care less about politics
---- Pier Paolo Pasolini

🤯 If you are a long-time user of Microsoft Forms, you have likely run into the annoyance of ending up with a new spreadsheet every time you go to download a copy of your Forms response data.
If you are tired of juggling multiple spreadsheets of survey data, then you are going to love that Microsoft Forms just rolled out an update to make your life easier! Say goodbye to manual updates, outdated data, and confusing tables. ✨
You can now have your data up to date and in sync auto…

"We are an organization for all."
Unless you don't talk to invisible friends, of course, then no, they're not an organization for your kids...
Fucking religion spoils everything.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-boy-scouts-despite-its-i…

The Boy Scouts, despite its "inclusive" rebranding, will still exclude atheists
Scout Law still requires members to be "reverent" to a higher power

TFW you walk by the office of a colleague who you haven't seen in years and are convinced hasn't set foot on campus in an even longer time than that and the lights are on.
#AcademicChatter #academia

Noticed an interesting phenomenon.
These are right angles, and yet, there's a bit of moon shadow there.
Very cool.
#eclipse

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#FactFriday
Even when you get a ecard from an actual #friend on your #birthday from a legit birthday card website, it STILL could be from a

"Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand." https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-an-expert/

If you are doing #dotnet #dotnetmaui development with #JetBrainsRider, the latest release fixes an issue where the debugger could not attach to a physical device deployment.

People kept asking me to change usernames and deactivate old accounts on my website, so tomorrow I'm releasing an update that will finally let them do it themselves. I will finally be able to forget about this :neofox_sob:

Home - Demirramon's hideout
My name is Demi, and this is my hideout. This place holds all my projects, the tools and generators I developed, and also a small community around them.

Just received an email from the Court system!
“Your request to be excused from jury selection on 5/6/2024 has been APPROVED.
You are NO LONGER REQUIRED to report to the Port Alberni Law Courts on your original summons date.”
As much as I wanted to do it... this is for the best. Sigh. Next time, pick a trial date in July OK!?
#CivicDuty

An interview with Sundar Pichai on playing the long game on AI, how Gemini image generation "got it wrong", AI search, the US DOJ lawsuits, layoffs, and more (Emily Chang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#TeacherAppreciationWeek - Get A #FREE #TCEA Membership:

After some weeks off while on Holiday today I published 3rd post about my infra rebuild. Today about Puppet, Choria and Server Management
It's a bit of a trash fire and annoying alas.
https://www.devco.net/posts/2024/04/07/lab-infra-rebuild-3/

@… Hey! Are you into https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.hrtime.php? I thought maybe you have an idea - but please be careful, the rab…

Your Aged Care Compass
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Your Aged Care Compass | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Your Aged Care Compass Hosts: Coral Wilkinson and Michelle Brown Category: Education Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, How To First Episode: 2024 Are you supporting an older loved one at home…

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?

Ai Image Generation and Social Network – NightCafe
Lately, I've been having a lot of fun experimenting with AI image generators. Simply input your desired image, and voilŠ! In just a matter of seconds, Ai creates an image. Whether it's a specific theme, a particular style, or anything you can imagine, the possibilities are virtually limitless. Here are some images I created with just a few words on…

During a Online meeting today I thought:
Okay, if you think personal connect and seeing the other's facial expression is so important - why don't you invest 20€ in an external webcam so that I can at least see if you're eyes are open or closed?!
Srsly, how can a teamlead (not mine!) have SUCH a BAD camera quality?!?!
#meeting

Secret Agent Cat!
/
Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Ah, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow
Secret agent Cat, secret agent Cat
They've given you a number
And taken away your name
(Johnny Rivers)
/
#AI

Good morning to all of you here in the #Fediverse today!
Tell me about your day today as far as what you have planned and/or what you've already accomplished for the day.
For me, it's work stuff with two meetings this afternoon. Shouldn't be too bad, meeting wise.
After that, just enjoying the day as best as possible though it's supposed to rain most of …

Noticed an interesting phenomenon.
These are right angles, and yet, there's a bit of moon shadow there.
Very cool.
#eclipse

Argaeikosophilia is the sexual attraction to people in their late 20s.
Have you considered that maybe you are an Argaeikosphile?
Do you consider deviant Argaeikosophilia to be a problem in your community?
#chronophilias #SexualDeviants

Just thought about an online friend who deleted their accounts last week and now I'm incredibly sad.😔
Wherever you are, if you're out there reading this somehow. I miss you. Please come back.😢

#RustLang is the perfect language for the "move fast, break things" era. No, I'm not implying it encourages you to break stuff. All I'm saying is that all these modern languages are specifically designed for that mindset. They optimize for corporate greed — nicely dressed as "valuing developer's time".
Developers aren't supposed to slow down and think things over. They should finish feature after feature, project after project, profit after profit. When things break, that's bad for profit. However, putting an effort to prevent things from breaking is not cost-effective.
People love to point out memory safety problems with C. However, there are two other important problems affecting C libraries — ABI and API stability. An uncontrolled ABI breakage means that existing programs suddenly breaks. An uncontrolled API breakage means that programs don't build anymore. Combine both and you're in a tight fit.
There are reasonably good solutions to both these problems. However, they require conscious effort, they require thinking — and that is costly. There are also cheap workarounds. If you link libraries statically, you don't need to worry about their ABI changes. If you vendor dependencies, you don't even need to worry about API changes. That's much cheaper for the company — though in reality, it just moves the burden down the line, to distribution developers and users, who end up fighting old, broken or even vulnerable vendored dependencies.
The problem with Rust and #Cargo is that it embraces these hacks into glorified 20M executables. Everything is linked statically, everything is vendored. You can move fast without actually breaking things — at least for the significant majority of users. To the minority, you always have the usual excuse — "we're sorry, we're just volunteers, we can't spend more energy on this, and you should get newer hardware anyway". Not that doing things better wouldn't benefit all users.
#Gentoo

I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other
Teaching an undergraduate class on democracy at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs this semester has felt urgent and clarifying.
In the classroom, we’ve been looking at backsliding and the slow corrosion of democratic norms in so-called democratic countries.
Meanwhile, what’s been happening outside the classroom in more than 120 universities around the…

Argaeikosophilia is the sexual attraction to people in their late 20s.
Have you considered that maybe you are an Argaeikosphile?
Do you consider deviant Argaeikosophilia to be a problem in your community?
#chronophilias #SexualDeviants

Just thought about an online friend who deleted their accounts last week and now I'm incredibly sad.😔
Wherever you are, if you're out there reading this somehow. I miss you. Please come back.😢

Good morning #Fediverse
How are we all doing today and what do each of you have planned for this awesome Thursday?
For me, it's the usual work stuff plus a meeting at 12pm EST. Going to work on an article for the #AllThingsTech blog and hopefully get that done or c…

Good morning #Fediverse
How are we all doing today and what do each of you have planned for this awesome Thursday?
For me, it's the usual work stuff plus a meeting at 12pm EST. Going to work on an article for the #AllThingsTech blog and hopefully get that done or c…