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It has been 0️⃣ days since I (a Python programmer of 25 years) spent a long time trying to figure out why a unit test didn't work and it was because I moved an argument out of a function call into an intermediate variable and left the trailing `,` implicitly making the variable a tuple.
In case you missed it, the ACLU has a petition for payment processors like Mastercard and Visa to stop discriminating against sex workers and content producers. Read it, sign it, please!
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
Guess what! The prototype of the new #Plushtodon series has arrived. It will be available later this year in this and one other color!
Favorite Photo: The Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean by NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2rd3qdR
Favorite Photo: The New Moon is pictured above Earth's atmosphere by NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2rd4wy1
XMPP over RELOAD is the coolest fucking thing I have heard so far
XMPP without servers, entirely peer-to-peer???
that is fucking awesome what the fuck???
pardon the language I am just baffled
https://nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMPP/
"CC signals" is so out of touch its embarrassing
context: https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/
POINT OF CLARITY EDIT: the CC licenses are the same as they always have been. The "signals" thing is an unrelated proposed alternative to robots.txt for scrapists to continue to ignore.
"CC signals" is so out of touch its embarrassing
context: https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/
POINT OF CLARITY EDIT: the CC licenses are the same as they always have been. The "signals" thing is an unrelated proposed alternative to robots.txt for scrapists to continue to ignore.
I've had a severely deviated septum for nearly my entire life, and for the first time ever I tried a nasal strip and holy shit, is this the normal amount of oxygen that y'all have been consuming?!
LM Studio is now an MCP Host
Link: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/lmstudio-v0.3.17
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379792
안녕하세요~^^
Woaahhh, we're (over) half way there,
Woaa-oh! Clicking on a square!
Another bookstore pulls JK Rowling's books and returns them, after Rowling promised to.use the profits from .sales of Harry Potter books to harass and attack trans people.
Throw them out, build the boycott of Rowling products, books movies.
Stay secure with Windows 11, Copilot+ PCs and Windows 365 before support ends for Windows 10 | by Yusuf Mehdi.
#windows #windows10 #windows11 #windows365 #cloudpc #cloud #copilotpluspc
You're doing OK lilies. Keep it up.
Dear 
@creativecommons ,
I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.
Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.
I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.
"What does your infernal device do?" Captain Clever asked while locking the handcuffs.
"It's a hopebeam," Dr. Dastard said. "When I start it, everyone in the city will find hope that things can change."
"Why?"
"So they'll get disappointed and buy my ice cream to cope."
"Hm. How do I turn it on?"
Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-powered-artifacts
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379673
Most tech companies have less than 20 percent of their technical roles filled by women. Why is that bad for the industry? Andrea Mohamed explains how a lack of support for women will impact the semiconductor industry. https://spectrum.ieee.org/women-in-semiconductors-workforce?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
해설 두 인물의 사진이 양옆으로 이어져있다. 왼쪽에는 고려시대의 장군 복장을 한 남성이 어째선지 짚단 속에서 머리만 내놓은 채 환하게 웃는 모습이 보인다. 오른쪽 사진에서는 산발 머리를 한 다른 남성이 고개를 약간 내려다보듯 어색하게 웃고 있다.
I know a number of people messaged me.
(I have been busy with various thing, so I have been less responsive than usual.)
I am going to try to respond to everyone.
If you messaged me and I don't respond to you by tomorrow — I may have missed your message. In that case, please reach out to me again.
Tidal's web player requires me to click a button to update it when they ship a new version. It's a web application. What are we even doing here
As requested by 
@rvrRiver Brandon, here's a control sample from Lion, the reimagined Lion by 
@realmacdanDan Counsell, Sequoia, and Tahoe beta 2.
To be more fair to Tahoe, here's a version where I re-aligned the controls to accommodate the new metrics. I've also included Yosemite in this one. (I'd add more, but there's apparently a four-picture limit.)
📸 ETH Zürich & Empa researchers have developed an image sensor using stacked perovskite layers, capturing full-color images with higher efficiency and accuracy and without the need for traditional color filters.
Goodbye demosaicing, two-thirds more light in the same surface!
久しぶりにワイルドカード証明書が必要になったんだけど手でcertbotちゃんを起こすのが面倒←
Seeing a lot of these posts lately, I wonder if there's a round up of all the cities that have switched to floss alternatives this year
https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/114745740698591706
Woah Zohran Mamdani actually won!?
UPDATE: Its a primary election so no he didn't win mayorship (yet)
https://social.mondoweiss.net/@mondoweiss/114745777611321791
Misskeyを国民の義務に
Zohran Mamdani's victory over Andrew Cuomo is a historic turning point for Palestine in U.S. politics. It reflects a growing fatigue with Israel’s role in American life and the slow implosion of Zionism under the weight of its own excess.
#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestinepalestine group @israelisrael group
起きるか……あっづい
sigh
if you're a unix-y person who writes software that reads and writes from places in a user's home directory, and you want to do something mac-adjacent, the correct idiom for paths in ~/Library/Application Support, ~/Library/Caches, etc is a reversed domain name. e.g. the way Pip does it, ~/Library/Caches/Pip, is wrong. The correct directory name would be ~/Library/Caches/io.pypa.pip
Does anyone sell a dedicated 433MHz weather sensor USB receiver? I know I can use a generic SDR + external antenna, but was hoping for a super compact + cheap solution.
Is upgrading FreeBSD as smooth as installing it?
In this video from community contributor RoboNuggie, we take a look at the upgrade process from FreeBSD 14.2 to 14.3 — starting with a test run in VirtualBox before moving to the main machine.
The goal? To explore how straightforward the process is and whether FreeBSD delivers a seamless upgrade experience in a real-world scenario.
🎥 Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/JOozWIShETY?si=zBUnfMA4cMO-eCB8
Have you upgraded your FreeBSD system recently?
🚨 We're still in need of more #snowflake extensions to help keep Iranians connected during this critical time.
If you're able, please consider running a Tor Snowflake proxy. This simple and safe action can make a significant difference in ensuring Iranians stay online. #KeepItOn
To get started, visit: https://snowflake.torproject.org
Tröööööt. Wir von Freifunk Dresden starten heute mal unsere Mastodon Seite.
Is upgrading FreeBSD as smooth as installing it?
In this video from community contributor RoboNuggie, we take a look at the upgrade process from FreeBSD 14.2 to 14.3 — starting with a test run in VirtualBox before moving to the main machine.
The goal? To explore how straightforward the process is and whether FreeBSD delivers a seamless upgrade experience in a real-world scenario.
🎥 Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/JOozWIShETY?si=zBUnfMA4cMO-eCB8
Have you upgraded your FreeBSD system recently?
트랜스여성의 입장에서...
저런 생각을 하고 행동으로 실천하는 시스여성으로부터 '실존하는 범죄위협'을 느껴 저는 여자화장실에 가지 않습니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xg7g6uzg4pqpvg4uwmz627s3/post/3lsdr6qag3k2w
*pronk*
'트랜스젠더라고 생각되는 사람'을 괴롭히라구요? 실제로는 '이상적인 여성상'에서 벗어난 여성들이 피해를 당하고 있습니다
얘네들은 '딱보면 안다'라고 하는데 100% 헛다리에요
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xg7g6uzg4pqpvg4uwmz627s3/post/3lsdr6qag3k2w
(to answer the inevitable question from mathstodon.xyz people: I *could* set up a PeerTube instance linked to mathstodon, but I want to be sure about how much work it is before seriously considering that)
@christianpChristian Lawson-Perfect
Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.
I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html
Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.
I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.
I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.
My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!
Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.
#mastodon #webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization #edgeComputing #webGL #W3C #activitypub #AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon
Fs in chat gamers
PNG is back!
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume)
A new PNG spec was just released! […]
[…] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!
What's new?
* Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!)
* Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!)
* Officially supports Exif data
* General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc.
にゅーぱるドットモードもそうだけど演出否定目で当たるやつ好き
mcc
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Stefano Marinelli
