@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Get a locator fix on the signal.
CALLY: It's already pinpointed.
BLAKE: Well done. Alright, Avon, get kitted up. You too, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/2…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caListening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing
@hex@kolektiva.socialOk, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot@… is someone who has done more than most to help her compatriots in this dreadful #GazaGenocide. To see her express such despair breaks my heart.
There must be rebuilding.
There must be reparations.
Palestine must be free.
There is no pea…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaTroll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone,
And meat was hard to come by.
Up came Tom with his big boots on.
Said he to Troll: "Pray, what is youn?
For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim,
As should be a-lyin in graveyard.
Caveyard! Paveyard!
This many a yea…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaThe most up to date (according to Repology) Linux distro T2 Linux (https://t2linux.com/) will come out with a prosumer image before the end of this year. It will be KDE based and Rene Rebe and his team are doing a total cleanup of the code. Having done a 1000 hours already. It is so much fun to watch him. What a dedicati…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“From Brighton Park to Berwyn to Broadview, the pattern is clear: ICE and Border Patrol are using military-style tactics in civilian communities while distorting facts to defend their actions.”
“Chicago residents are left to confront a grim reality. Federal agencies sworn to enforce the law appear to be acting outside it, while lying to the public about what they have done.”
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social#V2G, and the rise of dynamic grid signals – in the form of prices – as a major lever for guiding the charging and discharging of electric vehicles.
https://www.
@hex@kolektiva.socialWhat are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: You took your time.
AVON: It was necessary.
TARRANT: Is it done?
AVON: Yes, but it isn't finished.
VILA: Wonderful. Who's next on your list? Servalan?
AVON: [Inserts key] Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/306…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDid I mention IC reversing is absolute crack for AuDHD brains?
I should probably put down the EEPROM, at least for a while, and move on to other stuff. But I'm having too much fun.
This is the dangerous part, and the part I have the most trouble with... the problem is so big you'll *never* be done (especially doing it manually without any automation, figuring out what each cell is by hand, etc).
There's always more to discover. Nerd sniping to the 20th power.
@pre@boing.worldSo much painting gone on here that we're out of paint. Apparently the paint is usually watery and is eaten up by the wood like a hungry teen eats cheese.
More paint should hopefully be arriving over the weekend or on Monday.
Looking good. Would have definitely tried to pick a lighter colour for the walls if I'd known what the wood would end up like though.
More to be done on Monday before the master carpenter gets back on Tuesday.
@teledyn@mstdn.caYes, The News is reaching new heights of bad, but I dont think keywords are really the cause of my suffering.
So I ask myself why they irk me and it generally comes back that I want control over others, which, as tyrants inevitably find out, isn't really possible. Hard enough controlling myself!
So, given what feeble control I have, I ask what needs doing, here, now, and find I need to know what's happening around me, here, now, to answer 😅
My strategy for news is roughly
- compare multiple sources eg AP, Reuters etc
- ignore what anyone says
- ignore claims what they will do or have done
- ignore predictions and interpretations
- be skeptical of causal inferences
- attend to what was actually done
The first and last when combined are often amusing in which actual observations are included or left out. Humans are awfully clever, and so cunning in their rhetoric 🤣
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?
Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.
🧑💻 https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.devWell, step 1 of this migration is done... Managed to get Backblaze's B2 backend working for the S3 provider, (after spending far too much time to realize that "S3_ENDPOINT" is in fact not "S3_HOSTNAME"...)
I'm not creative so it'll just be social.(newdomain).
I am going to give Glitch a shot to see what all features it can provide. Since it's already an unstable/beta application, I figured I'll just run on master. May switch it to a stable/* branch at some point, but not worth …
@pre@boing.worldThe cops and the government suggest that tomorrow's protest against the proscription of Palestine Action should be postponed because a crazy person done some murders.
The home secretary says
“If the point of protest is to stand up for something and persuade other people that you are right, then I think this is entirely the wrong way to go about it, but that is on their conscience.”
That is not the point of the protest. The point of the protest is to show that the proscription of a non violent protest organization under terrorism laws is ridiculous and unenforceable as well as being a massive waste of police and court time.
Delaying the protest would harm that demonstration. The police are over stretched and can't enforce this stupid counter-productive proscription without compromising their duty elsewhere.
Demonstrating that is the point of the protest, and police saying "We are too stretched to arrest all these demonstrators" just reinforces that point all the more.
You know what police and government? You could just not persecute non violent protestors as terrorists. That'd solve your over-stretched police resources problem in one stroke!
#palestineAction #ukpol #protest
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI've done an `apt update` and `fwupdmgr` update on my #debian13trixie @… laptop today, and the sound quality is suddenly awful. Equally awful on all audio apps, so it's not an app issue.
What should I be looking at to fix this?
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comCompanies House: "BITFOLK LIMITED’s people with significant control need to verify their identity"
Okay, fine, yes, let's do that.
"It is too early for the following people to verify their identity…"
So it seems there is a 14 day window in which I have to do this and it can't be done earlier.
This seems like a maddening amount of bureaucracy to process basically every company director/majority shareholder in UK.
What is the purpose of…
@wraithe@mastodon.social“But in the words of Anansi from American Gods, anger is good. Angry gets shit done.” https://mas.to/@BlackAzizAnansi/115250982690818639
@cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.comWell, step 1 of this migration is done... Managed to get Backblaze's B2 backend working for the S3 provider, (after spending far too much time to realize that "S3_ENDPOINT" is in fact not "S3_HOSTNAME"...)
I'm not creative so it'll just be social.(newdomain).
I am going to give Glitch a shot to see what all features it can provide. Since it's already an unstable/beta application, I figured I'll just run on master. May switch it to a stabl…
@gray17@mastodon.social> Let's be clear what's happening: the person is outright baiting people using this AI slop into correcting the post, incorporating said corrections without attribution to the people who corrected the post and then took the credit for said corrections silently.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@am…
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.devWell, step 1 of this migration is done... Managed to get Backblaze's B2 backend working for the S3 provider, (after spending far too much time to realize that "S3_ENDPOINT" is in fact not "S3_HOSTNAME"...)
I'm not creative so it'll just be social.(newdomain).
I am going to give Glitch a shot to see what all features it can provide. Since it's already an unstable/beta application, I figured I'll just run on master. May switch it to a stable/* branch at some point, but not worth …
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageImproving Zero-shot Sentence Decontextualisation with Content Selection and Planning
Zhenyun Deng, Yulong Chen, Andreas Vlachos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17921 https://
@davej@dice.camp
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Trade Proposal Brings in Running Back to Fix Only Offensive Issue https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-running-back-offense-fix/?adt_ei=[email]
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 059 - LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your …
@hex@kolektiva.social#DearLazyWeb: Hey #Nederlanders ik heb en expat vrag over mijn #VvE. Our management company is absolute garbage. Our VVE management company recently scheduled repainting, during winter, with the most incompetent company possible, who did a horrible job, some of which didn't need to be done. Our windows had just been repainted since they were painted before we moved in, so 1/3 of the work they did was unnecessary, and now they look much worse than they did before. I could go on, but generally lots and lots of complaints along with absolutely terrible service.
Our upstairs neighbor (also an owner) also hates them and wants to switch, but a rental company owns the top half of the building and seems to be trying to force us in to staying. Basically, this management company is super cheap and the rental company are absolutely trash absentee leaches. (They *may* also have not been paying their part of the VvE fees for a while, but I'm not totally sure I understood everything.)
Unfortunately, I am way out of my depth and can't seem to get much help from google. Can anyone give me some advice about what to read or who to talk to, or are we actually stuck?
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SULA: Then stop talking like a fool. Do you seriously imagine I have any personal regard for that woman? Doesn't it occur to you that I might hate her more than any of you precisely because I do know her?
HOB: So let's cut her throat and be done with it.
https://blake.torpidity.n…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz"After Saturday’s protest, the chair of the Metropolitan police federation said officers policing protests in London were “emotionally and physically exhausted”.
"Paula Dodds said: “Enough is enough. Our concentration should be on keeping people safe at a time when the country is on heightened alert from a terrorist attack. And instead officers are being drawn in to facilitate these relentless protests.”"
Well that's the government's fault for having completely unnecessarily created this conflict and brought the law into disrepute!
No wonder the police are "emotionally exhausted", when they have to keep on arresting peaceful old people like their grandparents, and being mocked for it! Not what any of them probably imagined their job was gonna be!
But this to me is the worst bit of news in that article:
"The planned new power follows protest-related measures in the crime and policing bill going through parliament, which bans the possession of face coverings ... at protests"
Planning to ban masks, in the time of covid. Denial or what.
I wonder if they've done an "impact assessment" for that bit of the law, because it certainly would disproportionately affect people disabled with Long Covid & similar things.
#UKLaw #masks #London #protests #Palestine #CovidIsntOver #KeirStarmer
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: In a Federation prison colony too?
RO: No. In an accident.
BLAKE: Paura told me that your father would never have made his people slaves as you have done.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/339 B7B3
