@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialOne thing I think about is how flat-earth types could convince themselves, without having to trust anyone, their model of the earth is wrong. I don't think the earth is flat, but it is an interesting problem in #epistemology.
A model needs to explain observations if it is to be believed.
Lately, I've been thinking about day length as seasons change, and how cycle is opposit…
@livia@sciences.social#todayilearned that the US census page went down with others. [1]
PSA: Now is a good time to pull some local copies of datasets and knowledge bases.
Spinning up a small homelab for stuff like #kiwix and backups is easy with
@dankeck@a11y.social
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialSteven Levitsky: "Nous assistons actuellement Š l'effondrement de notre démocratie. Sous Donald Trump, les États-Unis glissent vers une forme d'autoritarisme. Cela ne sera sans doute pas irréversible. Mais le fait est lŠ : en ce moment même, les États-Unis cessent d'être une démocratie."
#USA
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.socialA new promotional video for 'Aru Majo ga Shinu Made' has been released.
The anime is scheduled to be released this April 1st by EMT Squared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l80FWPxqw_A
@adulau@infosec.exchangeSuper happy to see the open source sysdiagnose joining the hackathon.lu held in Luxembourg on April 8th and 9th, 2025.
sysdiagnose is an open-source framework developed to facilitate the analysis of the Apple sysdiagnose files and especially the one generated on mobile devices (iOS / iPadOS). In the light of targeted attacks against journalists, activist, representatives from the civil society and politicians, it empowered incident response team to review device behaviour and ensure th…
@raysofred@discordian.social @scottmiller42@mstdn.socialPSA: Do you have a carbon monoxide detector in your home? Do you have more than one (think redundancy)? Does it have a fresh battery (or lifetime battery)? Have you tested the alarm function recently?
If you have appliances that may create carbon monoxide, or an attached garage, now is a good time to check all of the above.
#CarbonMonoxide
@0xced@hachyderm.ioThe SgmlReader NuGet package for #dotnet is a less known but great alternative to AngleSharp or HtmlAgilityPack if you need to parse HTML. It converts (almost) any HTML to valid XML that you can then query or manipulate with the well-known XmlDocument class.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Xml.SgmlReader/
@thopan@norden.socialBasnia – My Only Religion is Love
#PeerTube
@theawely@mamot.frChinese OW models laundering US LMs, themselves laundering GPL code. There is some irony to it.
@raysofred@discordian.socialThe skin is tainted. Please remove.
@MulberryDeep@troet.cafe
@@Gigi@kolektiva.socialThere is a long and storied history of whistles for protection. Ancient Egyptian guards used to place a blade of grass between the thumbs to alert other guards of issues that were transpiring. Later, shells were used to the same end. In China, acorns with holes drilled in them were used similarly.
As a dedicated instrument, whistles have been made of wood, bone, metal, and later, plastics. British bobbies have used whistles to communicate over distances since the 1880s. They are a commonly used tool for boatswains, crossing guards, and referees.
I wish I knew more about rape whistles, but they seem similar in functionality to hikers taking whistles with them in case of injury, as the sound carries much further than yelling, and is much less tiring.
As someone regularly stalked by a large creepy harasser, I am grateful for the whistle I was given for self-protection, even if the creeps who it was given to defend against resent the fuck out of it.
Fin.
@adulau@infosec.exchangeWe imported the data from Black Basta Ransomware group leak into AIL and there are many interesting aspects.
The federation network of Matrix servers (see the screenshot) used to communicated among the affiliates/group(s).
Activities in the chat room, especially the daily activity view in AIL. Guessing the location and timezone of groups or affiliates is an endless source of information.
They rely on many open-source and SaaS tools, including Googl…
@petaqui@masto.es@… @… something wrong is happening with pixelfed lately. Using your app, or Pixelix I'm seeing 2 posts from this user, but, opening the account from Mastodon shows 3 posts (but the stats show 4). How can it be? I'm having a lo…
@mpsgoettingen@astrodon.socialWell doesn't this look interesting: #MPSGöttingen's renowned dynamo experts Manfred Schüssler and Robert Cameron together with Paul Charbonneau, Masumi Dikpati, Hideyuki Hotta, Leonid Kitchatinov have edited the new Space Sciences series of ISSI #book
"Solar and Stellar Dy…
@RobertWillis42@mastodon.social @dankeck@a11y.social
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialIs my profile hostile enough?
I mean am I saying:
"If you do x, I will mute you"
"If you do y, I will block you"
etc.?
I guess my most "hostile" thing in my profile is:
"Replyguys/Attackers vs Mastodon/Fediverse: What happened? Did the attack stop!?"
It was more hostile earlier, I said something like:
I won you loser Replyguys, I have a filter shield now!
I try to make it nicer and more neutral...…
@alexanderadam@ruby.socialNice, @…'s blog post about #Bundler's new checksums is worth a read:
@livia@sciences.social#todayilearned that methane emissions from EU marine transport have at least doubled between 2018 and 2023, largely due to increased use of #LNG. [1] Methane is a heavy contributor to #climatechange
@hieronymus@chaos.socialWhat is even better than #rsync?
@… \o/
That's how I shovel TBs of data through my tiny copper line.
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.social @@Gigi@kolektiva.social"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577
@anijatsu@meow.socialWhat's the path of least resistance to archive reddit.com threads that are somehow still online?
I've seen that web.archive.org and archive.is can get blocked by reddit's bot detection, and even if not, they don't archive all the permalinks to nested comments etc.
#datahoarder #dataarchival #webarchiving
@dankeck@a11y.socialToday I learned the English word "access" has been a noun for centuries, but seems to have only become commonly used as a verb in the mid-20th century with the advent of computers.
#Access #Accessibility #English
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI looked into buying a solar charged battery bank. This product category is completely dominated by no-name 3rd party sellers. 🚩
Charge time is key. No listing had even a rough estimate for solar charge time. 🚩
An example unit claims max solar power 1.13 w, with enough battery power to charge an iPhone 14 Pro twice. Working from that, you'd need ~25 hours of full sun to fully charge. I'd roughly estimate that means at least 3 days in summer. Not quite worthless, but close…
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialIs my goal just to jump at every person making a post?
Is my goal to also become a reply guy when we already have a huge replyguy problem?
#Replyguys #Replyguy #DontBecomeReplyGuy
@@Gigi@kolektiva.socialHere's why having accounts on different apps is a good thing:
Instead of responding directly to the person who annoyed me, or even sub posting on the same platform, Ima make snarky comments over here where, likely, they will never see it.
Like:
I'm going to start calling straight white guys in positions that *I* don't think they're qualified for "legacy hires".
#LegacyHires
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThere is a new #Fediverse bot that facilitates web forensic analysis of websites.
You can submit a domain for crawling by messaging @…, and it will respond with the analysis results.
@livia@sciences.socialThe more I travel, the more I adore dead zones in Germany (especially on the train).
The train is one of the rare places I can work without distractions (or the possibility of procrastination). My writing is a lot better here…
@dankeck@a11y.socialWhen listening to an ebook with TalkBack, if I get a regular notification, the ebook resumes after the notification.
But if I get a charging notification, the reading does not resume. Sometimes when my phone is on the charger, it will announce the charging level at random times, and TalkBack just stops.
Does anyone have any experience with disabling charging notifications or getting the screen reader to resume automatically?
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social @@Gigi@kolektiva.socialWhat. The. Actual. Fuck.
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Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music.
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Suno was trained on heaps of copyrighted music it fed into its training dataset without consent, a practice Suno is currently being sued for by the recording industry.
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https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialCan the ai components (NPU) of new processors be used for non-ai work?
What I'm thinking is along the lines that the vector-processing components of GPUs have also been used to speed up non-graphic mathematics on large arrays.
#NPUs #AIProcessor
@adulau@infosec.exchangeDon't forget! In vulnerability-lookup, you can quickly identify sighted vulnerabilities that are not yet published or are scheduled for publication soon (highlighted in yellow in the screenshot).
This example is interesting, a pre-publication on GitHub Gist before the official CVE release.
https://
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.social @@Gigi@kolektiva.socialBattery dying. Must upload!
Chilling with a couple hundred other colonizer haters.
My stalkers seem particularly offended by this song. This is for you!
#FuckTheColonizers #FuckShitlibs #DeathToCanada
@dankeck@a11y.socialUntil 5 pm EST today, They Might Be Giants is giving away My Murdered Remains, their 2018 album.
Go grab the MP3s and maybe buy a Dr. Worm Venn diagram shirt.
#TMBG #TheyMightBeGiants
@45names@mastodon.social @scottmiller42@mstdn.socialToday is Employee Appreciation Day, announced by mass email to all employees. Get ready for (tokens of) our appreciation next week.
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialI really dislike strawpoll...
the site is paranoid and ignores its own options! I'm avoiding them for now
#StrawPoll #StrawPollSucks
