@rachel@norfolk.social2025-09-13 19:24:19
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-09-13 19:24:19
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-07-12 20:50:15
Watching the Once Upon a Time... intro hits me with how tiny and temporary my life is compared to the giant sweep of history.
The scenes of people through different ages make me wonder what any of us really mean in the big picture.
The vast flow of time shown reminds me that anarchism is the way forward to break free from repeating cycles of power.
#Anarchism
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-09-14 03:25:10
@… I wouldn't be surprised if there are in fact more total posts about OR than ME, but I do also wonder how much the results are skewed by the way federation works, and the fact that you are therefore much more likely to see PDX related posts.
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk2025-07-11 07:00:14
Maybe when she is marched onto a plane, she might begin to wonder.
BBC News - Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation plan
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vd1vn9n06o
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-08-12 18:12:44
I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-09-12 08:26:58
this made me wonder why anyone would write a url parser for node.js in ada
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115190240946299368
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-08-12 20:21:51
Content warning: NZPol and te reo Māori in reading books
Wow, citing phonetics as a reason to keep books with Māori words in them away from beginner readers... makes me wonder what evidence National & the Minister of Education are citing... because, of course, English pronunciation is hugely inconsistent because it's a conglomeration of a dozen languages, all of which have different phonetics. The variability in English is substantially greater than in te reo Māori. Maybe we should teach the latter first.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-08-11 14:39:30
Wonder if I can get Mechahitler to mount these shelves for me
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-07-03 12:44:04
Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-07-10 18:20:58
My wife just sent me a Reel which shows a couple #cycling and the text (translated):
"Behind every man in comfortable Zone 2, a woman fights for survival in the slipstream"
It's a nice video but I wonder if there is a hidden message here 🤔
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-09-08 12:49:44
Had forgotten to mute Teams Notifications on my phone and just got notifications that really make me wonder if I should return after the sabbatical. Holy shit.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-07-03 11:47:18
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca2025-09-04 01:10:17
Sometimes I wonder how people can be fooled by AI videos, and then I'll send a comedy sketch video to someone I know and they'll ask if it's a real interview.
@fell@ma.fellr.net2025-07-07 10:13:51
You know how WWII destroyed most of Europe's beautiful architechture from 100 years ago?
It makes me wonder if buildings in another 100 years are going to be even uglier than what we are building today.
@jtk@infosec.exchange2025-07-05 11:56:13
Color me cynical, but I wonder if Google, like Cloudflare and Fastly, will soon be announcing its own AI crawling traffic monetization scheme for all you content creators. Everyone gonna want their cut?
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-09-03 23:29:52
Just heard some sirens, checked local FD/EMS dispatch, and...
A motor vehicle accident not far from me was paged out as *three* battallion chiefs, *two* engines, and *one* medic unit.
I can't imagine that's a standard response for a MVA, I wonder what kind of crash would dictate such a top-heavy response.
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza2025-08-05 00:58:06
Is anyone else getting weird SPAM asking you to be on a podcast? I originally thought it was a young relative but now i honest have no idea who this person is, or why they would want me on their podcast. I didn't reply originally (got busy) and just got a follow up with zero new information just "Nick?" Umm.. now I am not inclined to reply at all. But its odd enough to make me wonder. It feels like that old scam where you get picked to be in the "Whose Who in IT" book…
@jake4480@c.im2025-08-02 15:47:22
Sometimes my cats look at me when I'm washing dishes or cleaning something else or working around the house and I always wonder what they think I'm doing. They don't do any of that stuff
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-07-08 14:53:02
Yeah, I had planned not to write any more of these since I had already gone after the big players. But this one poked me.
“#Accesstive Will Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce…
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-09-04 10:53:39
Schloss Johannisberg, Rheingau Musik Festival: Alexander Malofeev, Klavier
I'm left to wonder about his finale, Skrjabin's Fantasie h-Moll op. 28. The hall got warm by the end. I suspect it got to this otherwise superb young pianist (along with a cellphone ringing during Listz's Funérailles). He played the Fantasie for 3–4 minutes. It's described as lasting ca. 9 minutes and requiring the full, immense skill of the performer while stretching the limits of the instrument…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-09-08 15:56:41
looking at an old rfc i was reminded of how pointless “security considerations” sections used to be
which made me wonder what rule the authors were supposed to be obeying
the first security considerations section was in RFC 1060 which set a bad example that almost everyone followed
https://www.r…
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2025-07-01 06:30:36
""The [newly formed] Debcrafters’ […] team will take the lead on syncing & merging packages from Debian, reviewing proposed migration issues, upstreaming Ubuntu deltas, and take ownership of major transitions […]""
Makes me wonder how many similar efforts Canonical/Ubuntu already announced over the years to improved the interaction with Debian – and what became of them.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-08-01 23:17:46
Recently I’ve been thinking about taking a step back from my friendship with my mom, maybe just talking to her less.
Sometimes I honestly wonder if I’m just misinterpreting things, but it really seems like she’s uncomfortable with me being fucking queer, especially with me hanging around other queer people at my local gay bar. She’ll question who I’m with and lately it feels like she’s always picking at my life choices. I can’t tell if it’s just me being sensitive, or if she’s actually…
@pre@boing.world2025-06-26 17:04:54
Content warning: UKPol, Palestine Action, Email to my MP
Dear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
@piger@mastodon.social2025-08-29 19:44:15
me: I wonder if there's an open source alternative
internet: npm install -g open-source-alternative
me: *groan*
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-07-06 15:28:48
@… Two other things come to mind:
The use of snowflake as an insult to me implies something about the person's political allegiances.
1. I wonder if he realizes that FOSS is itself a political movement, one that may be incongruent with his other views.
2. If not for the fact that they're an active threat to life, it would be hilarious that the p…
@joe@toot.works2025-07-24 16:17:30
I wonder if they would let me hit it with a hammer 😁
#EAA #AirVenture
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-08-19 19:16:11
Me: I wonder if anyone has written Arduino code using the tone command for a bunch of common songs...
Internet: #arduino
@hanno@mastodon.social2025-07-19 19:48:15
I wonder if one day someone can explain to me why Google thinks the fact that I am in a foreign country means I immediately am fluent in that country's language, and prefer it over English or my native language. I mean, there's an Accept-Language header, I think it's older than Google.
@sean@scoat.es2025-08-27 20:23:11
Excitement filled his mind as his eyes traced the letters of the email subject:
We're updating our terms and policies
“I wonder what wonderful new privileges and benefits Ticketmaster has for me this season!” he thought, flagging the email for later, to savour its text tonight.
@luana@wetdry.world2025-06-25 11:03:54
Found the specs sheet.
The front camera and ultrawide camera seem to be considerably worse.
The normal wide camera seems to be better, except it lost the electronic stabilisation (not sure how important that is tbh).
The battery is better, but it needs a screwdriver to be changed so no more switch during the day if you don’t have a screwdriver always on you. This comes with no added water resistance, which makes me wonder why they did this.
The display seems to be worse? The resolution is smaller which makes sense since the size is smaller, but also it seems to have less PPI than the Fairphone 5. The refresh rate is higher tho.
It has worse USB-C connectivity as well, the Fairphone 6 has just USB 2.0 (!!!!) compared to 3.0 on the Fairphone 5.
They also got rid of the sky blue color (which was the prettiest imo) and of the transparent option.
I don’t really understand Qualcomm processors, but at least the new GPU seems to have a better benchmark score?
#Fairphone #Fairphone5 #Fairphone6
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-07-19 18:38:07
The Argentine president and his ilk of the right are organizing a "Derecha Fest", makes me wonder why they didn't go with the much catchier "Nazipalooza" instead. 🤦♂️
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-08-23 19:38:57
What a waste of money, not to mention the ugliness of paving over the white house rose garden.
But hey, I guess El Presidente Naranja (EPN) needs some place to bury bodies.
In the same vain vein is there any truth to the rumor that EPN, after he slaps his greasy name onto the Kennedy Center, plans to rename Washington DC?
Which makes me wonder - who controls the names of the various States and of the US of A as a whole?
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-06-18 13:15:36
⇢ What I find more surprising is that the 720 was actually a little too slow to run HP-VUE smoothly, which makes me wonder how it ran on 68K-based machines…
So people typically used either twm or HP-VUE Lite. There seems to be hardly any information online about the latter (apart from the documentation
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-06-18 13:15:36
⇢ What I find more surprising is that the 720 was actually a little too slow to run HP-VUE smoothly, which makes me wonder how it ran on 68K-based machines…
So people typically used either twm or HP-VUE Lite. There seems to be hardly any information online about the latter (apart from the documentation
@timfoster@mastodon.social2025-06-19 07:57:38
And so it begins. I wonder will they let me have a go?
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2025-06-23 11:25:13
Sonnet 098 - XCVIII
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor pr…
@nerb@techhub.social2025-07-18 14:02:19
CVS sent me a text telling my the insulin was in. On the way back an ebike passed me. I looked and I was doing 44 mph in a 45 zone. He was zipping back and forth passing vehicles. Wonder what he did to make it so fast? And yes I know that is illegal. Bike had no plates or signals and the dude was wearing shorts no shirt. Suspect I saw a future Darwin award recipient.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-07-21 23:55:00
Did I just hear the sports commentator on RNZ refer to Kathryn Ryan as 'Cathy'? That would never even have occurred to me. I wonder if that's a thing (calling her Cathy)?
@eyebee@mstdn.social2025-06-18 07:22:17
It didn't surprise me to read, but according to an article in yesterday's Independent, social media is the number one source of news in the US. No wonder there are so many shouty, misinformed, keyboard warriors out there.
@pre@boing.world2025-06-23 22:44:30
Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-07-24 10:32:47
When I contacted my #bank last time via its web service, I got the reply there, after two days.
This time I've also used the web service, and:
• A week later, got a text that they've started processing my request.
• Further two weeks later, I've got an e-mail asking if I'm interested in "electronic reply". I answer using the formula they give.
• Three days later, they text me that they've sent the reply via traditional mail. 🤦
I wonder why they didn't accept my request to reply via e-mail. Was it that I quoted their original mail, or perhaps they didn't like the encoding my mail client used…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-20 05:16:16
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 If You Really Love Me
#StevieWonder
https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-really-love-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Axz5VSkc4Bs8eXWQxnynE
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-07-19 23:17:16
I'm #ActuallyAutistic as hell, unapologetically autistic. I just want you to know, which you already do, that I speak to myself, or not. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone actually cares, or if I’m just talking to myself. But honestly, it makes me happy. So, here we are, just vibing, being a little extra, and sharing my weird little world with you.