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I'm really enjoying Dept Q on Netflix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dept._Q
It's mostly a police procedural set in Edinburgh but has some disturbing elements of horror. Makes me think a little of Iain (not M) Banks at times.
The setup is the same as you've seen a million times on TV before: a newly formed cold case department digging up old cases from their files and all the usual cliches that come with it. But what sets it apart are the fantastic larger than life characters and dialogue. The subject material is dark and serious, but the dialogue is at times very witty and laugh out loud funny. I think my favourite character is Martin, played by Sanjeev Kohli [1], who you may know from elsewhere as Navid Harrid. Like Navid, he's a philosopher, but in this case formally so. Matthew Goode is remarkable too, playing a different personality to his usual roles.
There are some unusual design choices - it's set in the present day but architecturally and fashionwise it has a grungy 70s feel, reminiscent of Life on Mars (the UK version). And a couple of the cops look like they strayed in from a 60s sci-fi show being filmed in the next-door studio.
Overall, a very good show. But don't watch if you're disturbed by tension of the hyperbaric variety.
[1] Tangential: Sanjeev Kohli has a degree in Mathematics, started on a PhD, and originally comes from my old neighbourhood back in London.
do any adhd-havers or executive-dysfunction-havers have tips about remembering what food is in the freezer and remembering to eat it versus doing the expensive thing and ordering takeout? i really struggle with this and i'd love to hear details of what techniques work for you.
(boosts appreciated! and i'm aware "i have too much food and can easily spare money on takeout when i'm lazy" is a first world problem, i'm very fortunate)
New WCH MCU with USB3.0 and SerDes.
Possibly interesting alternative to FX3?
via James on bsky
South Florida meteorologist John Morales told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
#Plushtodon ready for the night 😎
Every time I remember to take my seasonal allergy drug, I'm reminded with amusement of the very nice intern who earnestly asked me if I ever felt addicted to it. This would be the drug that I have an elaborate system to remind myself to take every day (not always a successful one). My allergy season is basically over so soon I'll get to forget it all for another year.
(The drug is steroid based and I think that's a standard question with any steroid drug.)
I know for absolute certain that crystal resonators do in fact exhibit this property, but that's unsurprising.
@gsuberlandGraham Sutherland / Polynomial I once visited the really interesting but sadly now late Lonsdale twins at their company, Sensor Technology, the company makes transducers for measuring twisting torque on shafts (submarine engine shafts, helicopter winches etc), they work by using a rotary transformer to couple power and signals back from a VNA that's actually spinning on the shaft as it measures S11 on a SAW resonator bonded to the shaft that is subject to deformation as the shaft twists - changing its s-parameters. IIRC the VNA sought a particular value and varied its oscillator until it was obtained and it was that oscillator signal that was coupled back as the measurement through the transformer (transformer was providing power in the other direction). Also it was two SAWs and two VNAs as a bridge to cancel drift - one compresses while the other expands or similar.
Rust-Based Redox OS Begins Implements X11 Support, GTK3 Port
For those not liking the direction of the Linux desktop with its Wayland-first focus, the Rust-written Redox OS has begun rolling out X11 support within its Orbital display server...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Implementing-X11
🌐 The Fediverse is meeting IRL!
FediCon — August 1 & 2 in Vancouver 🇨🇦
Want in? Join the early bird list:
See you there?
#FediCon #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #DeSo #FeSo #LoSo
Fabulousness from Rose Ann Prevec. ;)
![he text above the image reads: Ever since I learned the word for a group of raccoons is a gaze, scenes from English literature take on whole new meanings. [laughing-emoji]
Within the image, there are four different scenes corresponding to different literary quotes. Number 1: "Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre" from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In the picture, Jane Eyre is accompanied by a group of raccoons, one of whom has just said to Mr. Rochester, "We want food!" Number 2: "She returned his gaze" from Ian McEwan's Atonement shows a woman carrying a box full of raccoons back to her reluctant ex-boyfriend. Number 3: "His gaze was direct, holding my eyes" from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander shows a clustered group of racoons physically holding open a shocked woman's eyelids. And number 4: "That somber, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing" from Agatha Christie's Towards Zero shows a woman on a sun-lounger with her face entirely covered by a swarm of raccoons.](https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/624/912/910/955/699/original/e2205afc9eb0a89e.jpg)
Discussing the importance of not just accepting technology as it’s given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need to make our world a better place with 
@effElectronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-why-three-tors-magic-number
When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.
Torが3ホップさせる理由その他。人々に力をもたらしていたインターネットへの回帰のために、Mastodonへの言及もあったよ。
Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic Number | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-why-three-tors-magic-number
Discussing the importance of not just accepting technology as it’s given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need to make our world a better place with @effElectronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-why-three-tors-magic-number
> Note that this definition of “based” is intentionally similar to the definition of “based” in C99, though it is slightly weaker.
llvm manual finally answering the “based? based on what?!” question
I wish there was an easier way to save posts
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Cloud Academy: Unlock Your Azure Skills and Accelerate Your Career | by Jim Harrer.
Hello Fediverse!
After a few months of lurking I am writing my introduction post (as is custom I am told).
My name is Leon (he/him - they/them), I am based in Berlin, studying Ethnography, where I also work as a student counselor, and am part of a mutual aid meal train project for disabled people here in Berlin. I am interested in knowledge production (like on here!), music cultures, societal visions of a different way of living together, activism, and trains (they are fun). Happy to be here^^
One of the times - oh yeah, somehow there was a transaction lock on the database from something else happening. So it wasn't anything I did.
The other time ... Well, let's just say the DBAs got a plate of cookies from me the next day.
Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:
Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.
鋼之鍊金術師 (1) 電子書上架各大電子書平台，後續集數有可能會晚幾天後一口氣上架。可能啦。
Not sure why Cortex-M bothered to add atomics when the cores can just race to halt each other over self-hosted debug.
interested in Toronto history? - recently updated our site for viewing and comparing historical aerial imagery / air photos
now includes 1939, 1947, 1954, 1965, 1978, 1985, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2018, 2022, and 2024
https://schoolofcities.github.io/historical-aerial-imagery-toronto/
Fabulousness from Rose Ann Prevec. ;)
So, I checked the references of the Wikipedia article "link rot", and I decided to click on the first URL to a paper that I saw in the references.
Needless to say, the link did not lead me to a paper:
(and yes, the "simple" low frequency electronics I dismiss are also absolute marvels of engineering and physics. I guess the difference is that those miracles have been standardized into boring black plastic chip carriers, whereas a lot of RF stuff the miracles are still sitting out there at macro-scale where you can look at them. Well, once you've removed the giant shielding cans)
On the other hand look at this other wikipedia image of a YIG filter. The filter itself is the right-hand piece, and don't tell me that's not a precisely laid out arcane sigil.
Signal (and many other messengers) stores push tokens in their database in plain text. Which allows law enforcement to subpoena them (though signal has never publicly admitted this happening) and then law enforcement uses these push tokens to subpoena apple to get personal information associated with it like your full name, address, phone number etc.
This way Law Enforcement can correlate your personal information with your signal account which means participants in conversations are deanonimzed. (Though content is still encrypted).
If you organize in large signal groups (or any Messaging app using push notifications) there is a high chance law enforcement and intelligence agencies can tell that you're part of a group or not.
I don't understand why nobody is talking about this more. It's extremely problematic.
Apple started publishing stats on how often this happens now. They were gag ordered to not speak about it before but they have changed course (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/)
You can find the stats here:
Before deleting a dataset or snapshot, perform a dry run using the -n
parameter. This is to make sure you really want to delete just that
dataset/snapshot and not any dependent ones. ZFS will display the resulting
action when -n is combined with the -v option without actually performing
it:
zfs destroy -nrv mypool@mysnap
Once you are sure this is exactly what you intend to do, remove the -n
parameter to execute the destroy operation.
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
So, da habt ihr‘s.
Moin 🙂
ich bin #neuhier.
M36 aus #Karlsruhe, fahre gern #Fahrrad und mache Fotos von Landschaften, bin #Gamer und #Linux user und #sysadmin
Letzte Woche habe ich zwei Touren von Karlsruhe nach Bad Wildbad im #Schwarzwald und zurück mit 14kg Gepäck gemacht.
Aktuell plane ich mit Komoot eine längere #Radtour nach NRW in meine alte Heimat und warte nur noch auf das passende Wetter 🙄
Bis dahin vertreibe ich mir die Zeit mit #Games wie #TempestRising oder #EldenRing
...und mit Mastodon 
Om alvast even een voorzetje te nemen op de aanstaande verkiezingen, wil ik wat populistisch linkse thema's voorstellen;
- sluiting van Tata Steel
- sluiting van die pfas fabriek
- re-nationalisatie van het OV en de nuts bedrijven
- nationalisatie van de kernwapens op ons grondgebied
- open grenzen voor vluchtelingen uit de VS
- een transgender brigade in het Nederlandse leger specifiek voor de door Trump ontslagen militairen.
-Totale boycot van Israël, Rusland, China en de Verenigde Staten.
Dit is maar een begin 
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
Link: https://restofworld.org/2025/employee-surveillance-software-vc-funding/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182582
So, I checked the references of the Wikipedia article "link rot", and I decided to click on the first URL to a paper that I saw in the references.
Needless to say, the link did not lead me to a paper:
🌐 FediCon is happening August 1st & 2nd in Vancouver 🇨🇦
It is the first ever Fediverse & Social Web conference in Canada.
Want in? Join the early bird list:
See you there?
#FediCon #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #DeSo #FeSo #LoSo
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Whoop whoop 🙌🏼
Another 5 star review for the Beginner's Crochet Class
uBlock Origin on Bluesky vs Mastodon
TIL YIG filters (Yttrium Iron Garnet), which is used in microwave RF filters to make a pass-band that sits north of 3GHz.
This does _nothing_ to dispel the notion that RF engineering is just modern alchemical bullshit. Look at this simplified representation of a YIG filter on wikipedia. Oh yeah, you pass two microstrips at an angle near a mysterious Sphere Of Filtering, and its ravenous maw consumes the 0-3GHz frequencies to feed its demonic ambitions. But sure yeah, enjoy your filtered signal.
https://www.evshift.com/327134/taking-the-luxury-electric-bmw-ix-suv-for-a-spin%e2%9a%a1/ Taking the Luxury Electric BMW iX SUV For A Spin⚡ #bmw #BmwElectric #BmwIx #BmwUsa #ELECTRIC #ElectricCars #ElectricSuv #ElectricVehicles #EV #luxury #LuxuryElectric #LuxurySuv #NewBMW #spin #SUV
LMAO! I love how Nintendo is sending retailers "Out of Stock" signs.
Letting the cat out of the bag:
My Fediverse promo video will premiere at #FediForum on Friday, right after 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber's keynote. I'm SOOO EXCITED!!! And honored beyond words.
I just had the opportunity to do a test of the tech during 
@fediforum's meet & greet and I was thrilled to see so many familiar faces! I'm really moved by everyone's support. Thank you 
@ozoned 
@tommiTommi 🤯 
@sturmsuchtChris 🦑 
@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
@alexisbushnell 
@anca and ESPECIALLY 
@j12tJohannes Ernst for this incredible opportunity. I LOVE this community ❤️
Andy Piper
✧✦Catherine✦✧
dansup
zunda
Stefano Marinelli
🚴 📷 
McK
Emelia 👸🏻