@david@boles.xyz2026-05-17 13:55:55
The Conditional Button
The mid-block crosswalk at a flashing-yellow pedestrian signal does work. A pedestrian presses the button, the overhead lights flash yellow, drivers slow or stop, and the pedestrian crosses. The system responds visibly, with no covert work happening underneath. The button does what it claims. But the same system also fails, often, in ways that have nothing to do with the button itself and everything to do with what is wired several layers behind…
@jake4480@c.im2026-04-18 16:25:26
Lola being an adorable little princess on a blanket pedestal
#Caturday #cats #CatsOfMastdon
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-04-19 22:00:04
florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families
Multiplex network with 2 edge types representing marriage alliances and business relationships between Florentine families during the Italian Renaissance. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 16 nodes and 35 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
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@krone@frawas.de2026-04-19 14:41:14
Titelkampf-Rückschlag - SK Rapid patzt mit 2:2 bei Nachzügler Hartberg! #News #Nachrichten
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-17 14:40:07
This remains much harder to talk about, family violence I hadn't really had in my mind for a long time. I had several entries from most days, writing after each treatment, fragments of thoughts that I may expand on later.
CW for the lined text: abuse dynamics, gun violence, #PTSD/#CPTSD stuff
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/decisions-ptss-5-day-1-entry-2
@gratianriter@bildung.social2026-04-20 06:49:15
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@doener/116424261808810065
In Kuwait passiert genau das, was auf der Potsdamer Konferenz für Deutschland geplant wurde: Der Entzug von Staatsbürgerschaften.
cc @…
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-03-19 19:57:07
Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing.
“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.”
This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because insects have a much smaller carbon footprint than beef, pork, and chicken.
Spoiler alert: We di…
@keithp@fosstodon.org2026-03-18 22:50:38
Today, I learned that emacs can access remote files:
/ssh:<host>:<path>
Why do I feel like I should have known this like thirty years ago?
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-05-20 06:23:04
Extremismus-Forscher Gideon Botsch im @Tagesspiegel: Die AfD radikalisiert sich immer weiter, nimmt Elemente des Neonazismus auf — und trotzdem schmilzt das Wähler-Stigma. Fast 30% in Umfragen. Die anderen Parteien? Stellen in manchen Kommunen nicht mal mehr Kandidaten auf. Das ist das eigentliche Alarmsignal. #NoAfD
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange2026-04-19 21:14:27
RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116432146593057423
Today I learned that Qmail (at least a heavily patched version) is still used in the Internet. I last used it over 20 years ago.