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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-19 05:53:39

The trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official:
The American-dominated liberal world order is over.
This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it.
Rather, the American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security.
The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used ins…

America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-10-19 08:17:14

First/last light, same day. Golden larches.
(From a hike on the last day of our recent roadtrip. The view in the second image is looking back at Hanauer Hütte, in front of Schneekarlespitze and (clipped) Dremelspitze)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

(Mostly) yellow larch trees standing in dense patches of lowgrowth mountain pines, on steep mountain slopes in the morning fog. A vague ridge line in the background. Uniform gray sky.
Multi-layered mountain landscape, in terms of distance, elevation and light. A mountain hut (Hanauer Hütte) is standing on the precipice of a large rock wall, the cables of its supply cable car leading up to it from the valley. Behind it, the ridge line of Schneekarlespitze and the north face of Dremelspitze in the haze. Most of the lower valley parts are already in deep shade from the surrounding peaks. Only a band of yellow/orange larches standing in the penumbra are still catching the beauti…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 12:32:14

A matter of perspective. A Tom Gauld editorial cartoon from a while back.

CARTOON: A landscape showing a mirror image of two medieval coastlines separated by a body of water. On each side, from he top of a hill going down to the water, a castle, a cathedral, a town building with people, and a boat setting sail for the opposite coast. One side is titled: "Our Blessed Homeland", and descending the hill, above each object (castle, cathedral, town sqare, ship): "Our glorious leader", "Our great religion", "Our noble populace", "Our heroic adventurers" On the opposite s…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2026-01-09 21:14:55

Telerik software engineer Dave Brock takes a look at improvements in .NET 10 from a web api coder's perspective. Reviewed improvements include:
1. Built in Validation for Minimal APIs
2. Validation Error Responses
3. OpenAPI 3.1
4. Schema Improvements
5. EF Core 10 Named Query Filters
6. C# 14 Improvements
7. Null-conditional Assignments
8. Extension Members
(...)
"What’s New with APIs in .NET 10: Taking a Look at Real Improvements…

A black and white line art drawing including many detailed icons suggesting software technology with the word "APIS" within a hexagon in the center of the composition. Image designed and executed by DALLE-3
@comex@mas.to
2025-12-08 07:11:22

Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…

What appears to be a trapezoid, with the narrower base as a horizontal line near the center, getting wider towards the top, until it's cut off by the top edge of the image (forming the wider base).
3D orbit showing what's really going on: the 'narrower base' of the trapezoid was one side of a triangle, and the other two sides get closer together moving away from it, not farther apart.
@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-21 21:22:04

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text.
If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap.
Try it on this page:
srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l

Web page in Firefox with photo of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon, focused by TalkBack, and a TalkBack caption showing: “view of the planet Earth from the perspective of the moon.”
The same image focused by TalkBack in Chrome, with the TalkBack caption: “earth-view.”
<img src="../images/earth-view.jpg" width="700" height="470" alt="view of the planet earth from the perspective of the moon">
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-06 10:00:59

he's one of gen z's memetic totems and brings joy and prosperity into every hearth and home his image is displayed in

happy pure smiling chudjak with a root beer whipped/ice cream floatie and an apron that says billions must try!
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 02:47:14

Dude. What the...? 😜
#Azure
From: @…
infosec.exchange/@alevsk/11549

Lenin alevski 🕵️💻 (@alevsk@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image Ever thought of tunneling traffic over Azure Blob Storage? 🤔☁️ ProxyBlob lets you run a SOCKS5 proxy using Azure Storage as the communication channel. Useful in restrictive networks where only `*.blob.core.windows.net` is accessible. #Azure #Proxy #Networking --- Why does ProxyBlob need Azure Storage? 💡📦 It creates a clever detour: Agents in target networks poll Azure Blob for tasks, while the proxy writes requests there. This avoids direct network conne…

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-06 19:58:57

Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-12-10 06:51:25

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals eneuro.org/content/early/2025/

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals
Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invariance must be ‘broken’ to enable efficient reading. Consistent with this phenomenon, a small, localized region in the ventral visual stream, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), exhibits repetition suppression to both identical and mirror pairs of objects but only to identical, not mirror, pairs o…