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dansup, 20 days ago to fediverse

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gvy_dvpont, 21 days ago to random

We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

ernie, 21 days ago to random

“&udm=14” is the Konami code of the Enshittification era

mondoweiss, 24 days ago to Palestine

Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters. This is their story.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/what-its-like-to-be-used-as-a-human-shield-by-the-israeli-army/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

MrLovenstein, 30 days ago to random

Secret Panel HERE 💥 https://tapas.io/episode/3005249

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to random

I have never, not once, wanted a browser to open inside an app

mcc, 1 month ago to random

When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:

1. The US government can crack it OR the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
2. The government of Israel can crack it
3. My friend Kristin could crack it
4. The government of Russia can crack it
5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
7. I could crack it

dansup, 2 months ago to Pixelfed

Experimenting with separate hashtags in the @pixelfed app

Before vs After

Wdyt?

#askFedi #pixelfed #pixelfedApp #pixeldev

Hashtag buttons
Inline hashtags
Hashtag buttons

TodayInTwitter, 2 months ago to random

X rolled out a change that automatically converts all links that have the string “twitter” anywhere in them to “X.”

For example, if someone tweets the link setwitter.com, the X client application will change that link to sex.com.

This is not a joke.

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to-x-dot-com-ios

TechConnectify, 2 months ago to random

Hey! Remember those toots from yesterday of mine? I've got a name now for the phenomenon I've been picking at:

Weak Induction

I'm probably not using it correctly in this explanation, but this is when you're looking at something (say an online post) and, because you have a brain which is constantly looking for patterns and motives, you induce things about what the author means.

But watch out for weak inductions! If what you assert isn't plainly there in the post, you might be on about nothing!

NanoRaptor, 2 months ago to random

Sometimes I forget how beautiful The Trout is, and someone has to come up to me in a parking lot, point to it and go "Nice. I really like it... Nice" and then I'm proud again.

flexghost, 2 months ago to random

I guess Trump‘s mental health isn’t the only thing in decline.

🇺🇸

Teri_Kanefield, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

A word about all the people I've pissed off with this week's blog post:

https://mastodon.social/

(When I woke up this morning, I removed about 25 comments !!)

I wonder if I feel free to write a blog post that I know will anger people because I don't monetize.

I have ads, but it pays a tiny fraction of the cost of maintaining a website and using MailChimp. People might be surprised at how much my blogging venture costs.

A few years ago Substack tried to recruit me . . .

1/

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!

Here are my 8 reasons for this:

1. POSSIBILITIES
   At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n

Edent, 2 months ago to random

Have a strong password is great.

Until a website says "Please enter the 3rd, 9th, and 17th character from your password."

And then you go blind trying to find them in
gD@YGXa6k*^EB&I5@b$0

vga256, 2 months ago to SmallWeb

little story for tonight.

while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)

They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.

i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?

what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.

read the rest of this diary entry here: https://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256/diary.htm

#smallWeb #homepage #worldwideweb #marchintosh #macintosh

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

I'm an infertile atheist. In a fit of desperation while doing IVF, I went into a church and promised that if I could have children, I'd have them baptized. I had twins and returned to fulfill my promise because of superstition. I was then told that because they were IVF babies, they had no souls and couldn't be baptized. So, I went back to my original FUCK RELIGION stance. 🙄

dabeaz, 3 months ago to random

Thought: I'd bet a lot of projects would have fewer dependencies if pip was 100x slower. Maybe we should try to do that.

nixCraft, 3 months ago to linux

#linux #linuxgaming

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Someone launched a platform where the internet collectively writes a book by democratically proposing and voting on each word and yep it is turning out pretty much exactly how you’d expect

arstechnica, 3 months ago to random

Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.

If you're tired of Alexa and Google listening, local voice is a real thing now.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/can-you-manage-your-house-with-a-local-no-cloud-voice-assistant-mostly-yes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

naught101, 4 months ago to HipHop

This week's WeeklyBeat - some dark hip-hop

https://weeklybeats.com/naught101/music/spkng2silnce

#WeeklyBeats #hiphop #beat #music #DirtywaveM8

nixCraft, 4 months ago to random

Are there any non-tech books that changed your life? Drop names below 👇

nixCraft, 4 months ago to random

I worked in IT for over 30 years, and people tend to forget the technical details of how you solved problems or implemented clever code hacks. However, they do remember how you made them feel. I am referring to both colleagues and customers. Even a small gesture of writing a compliment or thank you note can be impactful enough to make them remember it. Human emotions are powerful tools. Use them wisely.