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@gilest@mastodon.me.uk
2026-10-02 08:33:13

Obscured windows
#photography

A set of 4 very similar images. A window, obscured by fabric, divided into 4 equal sections by a dark frame. Each of the images shows a slightly different pattern on the fabric, so they form a nice set.
A set of 4 very similar images. A window, obscured by fabric, divided into 4 equal sections by a dark frame. Each of the images shows a slightly different pattern on the fabric, so they form a nice set.
A set of 4 very similar images. A window, obscured by fabric, divided into 4 equal sections by a dark frame. Each of the images shows a slightly different pattern on the fabric, so they form a nice set.
A set of 4 very similar images. A window, obscured by fabric, divided into 4 equal sections by a dark frame. Each of the images shows a slightly different pattern on the fabric, so they form a nice set.
@anildash@me.dm
2026-09-30 04:13:42

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over.

The Facebook Fake-out
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@servelan@newsie.social
2026-11-01 04:22:33

Bolivia declares state of emergency over El Nino weather pattern | Climate News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/1/b

@comex@mas.to
2026-10-19 19:32:36

Did you know that Claude Code ships a copy of ugrep built into the binary, and distinguishes based on argv[0]?
% bash -c 'exec -a ugrep claude --version'
ugrep 7.8.4 aarch64-apple-macosx neon/AArch64; -P:pcre2jit; -z:zlib,bzip2,zstd,brotli,7z,tar/pax/cpio/zip
License: BSD-3-Clause; ugrep user manual: <ugrep.com

The ugrep file pattern searcher
The ugrep file pattern searcher -- a more powerful, faster, user-friendly, compatible grep replacement

@georgiamuseum@glammr.us
2026-10-30 13:25:16

Still need a #HalloweenCostume? We pulled four ideas from our collection, including one for people who’d rather spend the night on the couch.

The text: Philip Evergood, “My Forebears Were Pioneers” You will need: Long black dress Red book Rocking chair Optional: dog Plus images of all those things, including the painting, which shows an old woman in a long black dress, sitting in a rocking chair and holding a red book. To her right is a skinny yellow dog with floppy ears, holding one paw over its muzzle. Behind are large toppled trees, including one that rests atop a brownish yellow Victorian-style house.
The text: Lamar Dodd, “Self Portrait” You will need: Collared white shirt and dark slacks Pipe Palette Pitcher full of paintbrushes Plus images of all those things, including the painting, which shows the painter in action, at work on this portrait. He wears a white dress shirt rolled up above the elbow and uses his left hand to hold a paintbrush against the canvas. We can't see what's on it, only him. He holds a pipe in his mouth. A palette lies on the table in front of him, and there is a pit…
The text: Elihu Vedder, “The Poet Bears the Sorrows of the World” You will need: Cane or big stick Round tree ornament Crown of vines Dark bedsheet Plus images of all those things, including the painting, which shows a mournful figure in long brown robes. He wears a laurel wreath on his head and holds a reflective globe in his right hand, which he partially gazes at. His left hand holds a tall rustic staff. His feet are bare and he wanders in a desolate landscape.
The text: Frederick Carl Frieseke, “Girl Sewing” (“The Chinese Robe”) You will need: Comfortable robe Craft project Couch with throw pillows House plants Plus images of all those those things, including the painting, which shows a young woman reclining propped up on a flowered sofa. She wears a pale green robe covered with a floral pattern and holds a piece of embroidery, which she works on. Her hair is dark and pulled back. Behind the sofa, potted plants sit in a row on a windowsill.
@crell@phpc.social
2026-10-22 22:11:01

Using #PHP arrays as pseudo-objects is almost never the right answer. They're less self-documenting, slower, worse on memory, and more bug prone.
garfieldtech.com/blog/php-list

PHP: Use associative arrays basically never
The other day I was working on some sample code to test out an idea that involved an object with an internal nested array. This is a pretty common pattern in PHP: You have some simple one-off internal data structure so you make an informal struct using PHP associative arrays. Maybe you document it in a docblock, or maybe you're a lazy jerk and you don't. (Fight me!) But really, who bothers with defining a class for something that simple? But that got me wondering, is that common pattern r…

@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2026-09-02 05:14:12

❓Who fired up?
🔥 We fired up!
#Memphis #Tennessee #TN9 #JustinPearson

Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson stands on the dais at his Memphis, Tennessee campaign headquarters, September 2nd, 2026. Behind him, small campaign signs are arranged in a checkerboard pattern on the wall.
@pre@boing.world
2026-10-30 11:23:56

Fascinating Mindscape this week as Erik Winfree talk about information and dna and robots.
He describes how if you put molecules into a solution and let them settle, they come to equilibrium. But if you heat, cool, re-heat, in a cycle, the molecules can capture energy from the heat into a meta-stable state which, when they are cooling, they can release in a very programmed way.
we have these little dna-units that start assembling into a two-dimensional crystal, during that crystal-growth ... right next to the melting temperature of the crystal which is where you get the lowest error rates, at this point molecules are assembling/dissembling, coming on, coming off, but they're all doing a computation, they're creating that tapestry that is an algorithmic pattern tapestry.
But they are doing it for as close to zero energy as you want, the closer you run to the melting temperature of the crystal, the less free energy difference there is when a piece comes in, vs when a piece falls out, and so the system is naturally exploring this regime Charles Bennett was talking about...
To get the lowest error rates you introduce a form of proof-reading... not which burns energy to do so but a form of self-assemby proof-reading which is based on cooperative interactions. So the growth-process can't go forward unless two things come together at the same time, and of one of them missassembles then the other one won't fit and self-assembly stalls out.
You can prove some interesting things about the kenetic and error-rate trade-off based on the co-operativity (the type of self-assembled pattern)
youtube.com/watch?v=3ggjfwIty9g

@billbert@mastodon.social
2026-10-19 22:58:03

JUSTICE FOR MY MALE PATTERN BALDNESS FORMER TWINKS, lean into those sweet, charming receding hairlines
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