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Hey Canada, Greenland and Panama, did you know that "...the U.S. government argued that Bin Laden and Soleimani posed an imminent threat and that the killings were defensive and, therefore, justified under international law."
I'm not saying anyone should hurt anyone. Violence is never a good answer. I also think someone threatening to invade and take possession of you by force is...bad.
quote source:

What does international law say about targeted killings? | CBC News
It certainly wasn't the first time a government was accused of orchestrating a killing on foreign soil, but observers around the world were nonetheless shocked by Prime Minister's Justin Trudeau's allegation that India's leaders had a hand in killing a Canadian citizen earlier this year in B.C. 

¡Buenos días!
#loops

I think my daughter gets me. A for accuracy. Also, the disco ball is a nice touch.

Keep the chip in Christmas! After scouring Spotify for 8-bit and 16-bit holiday tunes, here's a playlist with covers of hymns and carols, midcentury standards, and more recent pop songs. Enjoy chip artists like Tee Lopes, Dj Cutman, Rush Coil, 8-bit Weapon, Computeher, Jim Kulakowski, Doctor Octoroc, Bulby, Mr. Joyrider in a Scrambler, CoolAm7, and Robby Duguay.

Mastering Rust's Error Handling: A Guide to Writing Reliable Code
Rust's error handling system is a cornerstone of the language's commitment to writing safe and reliable code. As a Rust developer, I've come to appreciate the power and flexibility it offers. The system is designed to make error cases explicit, ensuring that developers consider and handle potential failure scenarios. […]
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Mastering Rust's Error Handling: A Guide to Writing Reliable Code
Discover Rust's powerful error handling system. Learn to write safer, more reliable code with Result, panic!, and custom error types. Improve your Rust skills today.

After discussing the possibility for several months, European nations are finally forming a unified barrier of insurance checks and enforcement around areas where Russia's shadow fleet operate... a very important development, as it either will deprive them from the ability to keep evading sanctions, or significantly increase the costs and risks of doing so.
Big ramifications. This could have a major impact on Russia's recent long term oil delivery deal with India, i.e.

Twelve European countries to jointly counter Russia's shadow fleet exporting oil
Twelve European countries have agreed to jointly counter the shadow fleet used by Russia to export oil, bypassing the G7-imposed price cap. Ships will now be checked for valid insurance documents.

I recently upgraded my CPU and ordered a new CPU cooler without need, since I thought I had just the stock AMD Wraith cooler, which could have some trouble handling a 5700X3D under load.
I think I'll be going forward with that new cooler after all, just because of how neatly arranged its included mounting accessories are.
From Freeze 34 to Thermaltake's Peerless Assassin 120 SE.

Bluesky users:
Follow the robot @ap.brid.gy to let friends in the Fediverse (Masodon et al.) follow you.
Or allow the reception of messages from "everyone" in your account's settings.

Heute war der zweite Augsburger Winterlauf. Ich bin nicht wirklich glücklich mit dem Ergebnis, hatte auf 30 Sekunden weniger gehofft, aber es isch wie's isch. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #Mastodonlauftreff #Mastodonrunning

Jean-Marc Offner, du bureau 6t, dans le 1e épisode de leur podcast sur les 4 âges de la mobilité:
"Le 1e âge, c'est les flux. Avec une métaphore: le corps humain fonctionne parce qu'il y a une circulation du sang. Une vision du monde va se structurer autour de cette idée"

So I've finally had some time to watch #SkeletonCrew. Really enjoyed these first episodes and I hope the series continues that way. But more importantly, let's hope that #StarWars keeps doing these shows about exploring the galaxy and it's countless universes other than to keep everything …

So a HUGE box showed up at my doorstep.
It's the pre-order of my #XboxSeriesX #IndianaJones & the #GreatCircle - Collector's Edition.
It's the size of a small r…

@… It's a whole new team now, isn't it? Makes me sad that it didn't work out. I agree that their editor was a pain but I think it was a pain in the right direction.

C.S. Lewis & Last Things 2024 : C.S. Lewis and Last Things: How the Writer of Narnia Saw the End of Our Story #acrel http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.sh…

Nice, @…'s blog post about #Bundler's new checksums is worth a read:

Bundler 2.6: Enhanced Security with Built-in Checksum Verification
Protect your Ruby projects from supply chain attacks with Bundler 2.6's new checksum verification. Learn how to implement this crucial security feature today.

Awkward when you're literally doing more organizing in a whole other city where the knob who thinks he's — actually I don't know what he thinks he's accomplishing — lives, than the actual knob who &c.
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Truco para hacer fotos de tormentas y rayos con una #Olympus ( #OMSystems )
- En @… :

turn of the century chinafakes are something else

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
JENNA: It all happened so quickly. One minute he was crying with pain, then he went beserk.
VILA: I'm glad he's a friend. Could get very painful if he really didn't like you.
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Sounds like Russia's tech industry - including internet, software, etc. - is seeing sharp declines in revenue, with widespread, major layoffs.
"The economy is in s***. It seems like everyone really needed IT specialists, there was a shortage of personnel, and all that. But the market has no money for development, the marketing tools have collapsed. Although both marketers and IT specialists are needed, there is no money. But everyone is hiding this."

«Денег нет, но все это скрывают». В России начались массовые сокращения айтишников
Нынешний год для российского ИТ-рынка заканчивается увольнениями.

"Tout ce qu'on prête Š l'automobile est souvent déjŠ présent dans le monde de l'hippomobile. On dit souvent qu'on a adapté la ville Š l'automobile, mais pas tant que ça."
Jean-Marc Offner, directeur scientifique de 6t, dans le 1e épisode de leur podcast sur les 4 âges de la mobilité

Is "decentralizedwashing" a term yet? See recent #bluesky discussions like: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474

WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction
Automattic is ordered to undo several of the actions of its CEO Matt Mullenweg in its ongoing legal battle with WP Engine. “It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this," Mullenweg said in a community Slack message.
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WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction
Automattic is ordered to undo several of the actions of its CEO Matt Mullenweg in its ongoing legal battle with WP Engine. “It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this," Mullenweg said in a community Slack message.

How to Survive the Broligarchy
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy

Hello Mastodon! My name is Robert. I'm a Software Engineering student at Western Governor's University.
I am mostly learning #python but also focusing on #webdev and #java. I enjoy open-source…

#TheAmazingDigitalCircus Episode 4: No words to describe how amazing this is, amazing in directing, in development, in everything else. It's the series best at the moment. Do yourself a favour and watch it now!
https://www.

Wishing the Russians and North Koreans a very merry season's defeatings!
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"Fighters from the UA_REG Team unit of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck almost a company of Russian army personnel, as well as their North Korean mercenaries.
A video of the combat operation was released on December 17 on the unit's channel.
In total, special forces drones destroyed 50 enemies and wounded 47."

AI chatbots are like that one uncle you see at Thanksgiving. Over his life he became a true expert in something, say, ice sculptures, and can speak with authority on it. But he's convinced he should speak with authority on any subject at all — medicine, law, business, how rainy it will be next spring — stating with 100% certainty things he heard or made up.
Many things he says are right, many are wrong, and you can't judge which is which from his words alone.

¿Alguien por @… ? 🤟
#Loops
https://loops.video/v/4EILSXMx00

Lovely account of a fun foray with ancient web tech that's pretty much begging to be reverse engineered, and made into something beautiful at #JumboHack
Winning a hackathon, losing my sanity — Jerome Paulos
https://

Hey!
Just migrated here from @…, if u got a follow request then that's why
I'll make an introduction toot soon, and am figuring out how to do all the account migration stuff ^-^

There's hope in Berlin

I’ve added caching and revamped the results interface of https://onthecitesof.info.

via @…
https://masto.ink/@knotfeed/113750791947965283
Maybe

Ohhhh, that's a shame.
(The douche in Kitchener flying the Nazi flag, seems to have had some problems with flames.)
#Nazis #FashWatchCanada

C08 - Rumours of Death
[Avon and Tarrant break into Servalan's empty office, and leave. They then break into Surveillance. Avon shakes Grenlee in his chair.]
AVON: Hey! Wake up! [Grenlee groans throughout.] Where is Servalan? Where is Servalan!?
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Well 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…

Solar and Stellar Dynamos
This collection of articles gives an overview of key observational results and theoretical approaches to understanding solar and stellar dynamos

Fröhliches #Mittwinterfest! Wir haben offiziell um 10:20 Uhr CET den Tiefpunkt durchschritten, in #Augsburg hat's heute eine Tageslänge von 08:19 Stunden.
#Mittwinter

#A11y #Accessibility

Maybe if I play this enough, youtube will stop recommending that I watch fascists.
(That's a joke; I'm not logged in).
https://youtu.be/JBD5_8OGoCo

After today's #SBLAAR24 #THATCAMP I wrote this: Why Scholars Should Own Their Online Presence https://www.

Why Scholars Should Own Their Online Presence
Adam DJ Brett Web Developer

There's 3 types of people in this world:
1️⃣ Baffled folks with closed mindsets, completely clueless & scared of AI
2️⃣ Loud, untrained self-proclaimed experts who complain about AI more than they learn about it
3️⃣ Educated #AI users quietly & rapidly getting things done w/ a wry smile

Can we create an English dialect that spells “colour”, “flavour”, etc, but that spells “recognizable” and not “recognisable”, “specialization” and not “specialisation”, etc?
The colour and such words with a “u” are way prettier, but the ones with an s instead of a z are just weird. Z is way better

But in better news today I also finished #Frieren and holy cow that was amazing, can't wait for season 2.
My full review: https://boxd.it/80sUvz

A ★★★★★ review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023)
Season 1 When you think the series has reached its peak, when you think you know what's going to happen next, when you think the story can't get any better: it does, and it surprise you in many ways. I'm not really into fantasy/medieval series, specially in anime where it gets a little bit cliche for me. And yet, this has become easily one of my favorites Animes. If you are holding on for this reason, I highly encourage you to watch it.

«"Terms of Service; Didn't Read" (kurz: ToS;DR) ist ein Projekt, das im Juni 2012 gestartet wurde, um die "größte Lüge im Internet" zu bekämpfen: fast niemand liest wirklich die Nutzungsbedingungen, denen wir ständig zustimmen.»
P.S. Für mich pers. ein guter Einstieg um die Privatsphäre der Menschen im Internet und deren Nutzung zu erörtern, ist aber mMn nur erst der Anfang.
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Terms of Service; Didn't Read
I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.

Der Trailer des Lernort Kislau. Ansehen und vor allem auch die Playliste weitergeben. Demokratie bewahren. Nie wieder ist jetzt.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmiEEc2Pys
Playlist:

Sure, it might look like Air Force One, but I'm pretty sure it's an alien invasion mothership...
Better safe than sorry!

FYI Nashville folks, the Winter Solstice Celebration at Warner Parks requires registration this year (due to high turnout). Register now before it books up! https://warnerparks.org/event/winter-solstice-celebration/

How it started. How it's going.
#FuckNazis

Robby Duguay's Silent City, a remake of the Christmas carol Silent Night in the style of the SNES game SimCity.
Duguay's 3-volume collection, 12GB of Christmas, includes many excellent 8-bit and 16-bit pastiches like this.
https://robbyduguay.bandcamp.com/track/silent-…

What'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

Drawing attention to this thread of comments of mine from a few days ago, as it goes deeper into apparent efforts from European nations to Trump-proof Ukraine, which is actually VERY important for European security.
It's nice seeing news articles pointing out Ukrainian funding & Russian appeasement isn't something Trump gets to dictate, but rather, a situation where Europe is trying to diplomatically push back against Trump to defend their legitimate security interests.

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
VILA: What's Cally supposed to have?
TARRANT: No time for a discussion, Vila. You stay here.
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I didn't get Hexcodle #485 :( Score: 55%
Do you know the RGB value by heart for your website customers? Well, I don't either and have to check every time.
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🦜 https://hexcodle.com

Hexcodle - The Daily Hexcode Guessing Game!
Can you guess today's hexcode color? Challenge your color instincts and decode the hexcode with Hexcodle! Inspired by Wordle, but for color enthusiasts.

Here'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

Rewatching "The West Wing" yet again. Season 6, Episodes 8-9 were utterly terrifying (the China trip) but it's still a welcome respite from reality.
Chicken soup for the Democrat soul.
"This plane is going to China!"
https://youtu.be/A2i8xuzaTdY?si=AMA_Kv

Swiss Synthetic population for 2022
👉 Joint project between the Federal Office for Spatial Development & SBB
👉 Integrates georeferenced data & socio-economic attributes
👉 Meets the needs of SBB's transport model, SIMBA MOBi, & the land use model used by the Swiss government
👉 With methodological improvements & the inclusion of new data compared to the previous version (reference year: 2017)
Project completed, report online (in German only, with a…

«Can Europe build itself a rival to Google?
#Ecosia and #Qwant are teaming up to create a European search index, aiming to break the dominance of #Google and reduce

Can Europe build itself a rival to Google?
Ecosia and Qwant are teaming up to create a European search index, aiming to break the dominance of Google and reduce Europe's reliance on US tech giants. Can they succeed in challenging the status quo?

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
TARRANT: [To Dayna] Stay with him.
[Somewhere else on the Liberator]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/276 B7B3

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I switched from Windows to Linux for personal home use a few years ago. Here's a hot tip. After running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while, I moved to OpenSUSE Leap and love it. Everything works just the same, but updates are significantly faster.
#OpenSUSE #Linux

Dude gets so into #DepecheMode live & NAILS everything I love.
DM fans ALL know Dave Gahan's act during #EnjoyTheSilence but watching it thru a new eyes is awesome.
"FIRST TIME HEARING 'Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence'" -

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
DAYNA: Whh, he's just one less to deal with, do we care why? [pause] But why leave him sitting there?
AVON: To delay discovery and give the murderer a chance to get away.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/286 B7B4

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"WATCH ROOM" (2020)
Three maverick computer scientists work to develop human-friendly artificial intelligence within the safety of a virtual reality environment... until the AI learns it's at risk of being shutdown.
🎬 https://vimeo.com/383913383

In celebration of #Microsoft Corporation officially joining #BlueSky (per Comms Director, Frank X. Shaw)...
...here's a "Microsoft Product Group" Starter Pack of about 15 accounts so far. (I expect a lot more tomorrow. 😁)

Microsoft - Official Accounts
Join the conversation

Thank you, @… . It's been decades since I thought about DOS Shell.
Our first PC came with MS-DOS 5 and also Windows 3.1. So even then DOS Shell seemed quaint and antiquated. But in a fun way.
https://

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 08 - Games
TARRANT: Well not exactly. These things chuck the lot at you. Flying the real thing's nothing after one of these.
GAMBIT: Countdown eight minutes, still running.
https://blake…

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Until 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

To all my #Microsoft employee followers, it's almost time for the annual announcement of the company #UglySweater holiday charity benefit. No idea what they have planned.
Prepare yourselves. 😜

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: Well, I doubt whether we'd understand the manuals, so go ahead and try one. Go on.
JENNA: Well, don't blame me if it's self-destruct.
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Well, my #Fallout #Vault33 #Backpack arrived.
NGL, I don't think this is worth $200. (Maybe $120 but it's just a backpack.) Out side of the design, flannel blanket & the water contain…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
AVON: Blake, there's a mass of ionized particles, vector three nine. If we can fly into it it could confuse their scanners for just long enough.
BLAKE: Avon might be right. Tangent one eight. Go for it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/38 B…

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Overwhelmed by winter? A traffic camera shows this rest stop on I-70 not only has no snow, but it's spring and the leaves are out 😆
#OHWx

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
VETNOR: There's a main rotonoid link. If I cut through its primary impulse vein, it might break the circuit. Then again -
CAUDER: It might not. We'll chance it. [Vetnor reaches into the console and drops a tool, Grant and Cauder exchange looks. Vetnor pulls out some wires and cuts them. There is small explosion and the ticking that marks the countdown stops]

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#SilentSunday

It's gonna be a sad day if all the handmade, off-model, copyright-defying art on carnival rides ever gets replaced by boring generative AI images.
#Art #AI #Airbrush

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
ZEN: Course and speed confirmed.
AVON: With our speed we'll probably outrun them. This time. But they'll keep coming. Pushing us, tracking us. They'll never give up.
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Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BLAKE: Yes ... I don't suppose you know how to speed up the timer on a hom- [Sees that Zil is out of earshot] - homing beacon? Yeah. [He straightens up and starts after her. Zil has collapsed.] Zil, what's wrong?
ZIL: Zil is lost. [The ground opens near her. Blake scoops her up and walks off with her.] The Host will take...
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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: [Completes his dash with Gan catching him. Places his hand on Blake's arm.] Thank you.
BLAKE: [To Vila] How long?
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
RASHEL: What do you think's out there?
COSER: How should I know? I don't care as long as it stays there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/355

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