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nlovsund

@nlovsund@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

Player of games. Reader of books. Space enthusiast. Web lurker. Writes blog posts once in a blue moon. Luddite.

Develops software for a living.

He/Him.

Header: The Pillars of Creation (Webb MIRI Image) CC BY 2.0
Profile: Me - Brown man with short cropped, dark hair and a black shirt.

#Nobot

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caporalstrateg, to random French
@caporalstrateg@bagarrosphere.fr avatar

80e anniversaire d’une escalade anglo-américain dans un conflit

https://www.caporalstrategique.fr/2024/06/06/80e-anniversaire-dune-escalade-anglo-americain-dans-un-conflit/

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

This is bullshit, because:

  1. You need a TFR (total fertility rate) of 2.1 to maintain stable population (no growth, no shrinkage).

  2. UK's TFR is 1.75, so shrinking ~15% per generation.

  3. Which means, not enough workers to support the retirees.

  4. Net-positive immigration is the only thing propping our economy up.

5.The UK NEEDS immigrants, or we're fucked.

This is the truth, unpalatable to racists molly-coddled by generations of crooked right-wing politicians.
https://mastodon.social/@lohihilo/112546615087991583

cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Adding: the tighty-righty racists might counter this argument by saying "moar white babies, plz" … but the fact is, the reproductive age generation are hamstrung by student debt and such expensive housing (renting properties or buying in a market inflated by pensioners' investments) that they can't afford to start families.

Native population growth won't save the UK unless we crash the housing market and make education free again. Which are also unpalatable to the elderly voters.

18+ hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

Things you could do on top of the harm reduction strategy of voting:

  • Unionizing
  • Radicalizing your union
  • Joining or forming a mutual aid organization (not "tossing $20 around via gofundme," organizations)
  • Building a tenant's union
  • Running for office/getting referendums
  • Doing 5calls and showing up at elected representatives townhalls
  • Talking to your neighbors, baking them a pie

Again: you have 365 days that aren't election day this year. What are you doing with them?

journalistense, to random
@journalistense@mastodon.social avatar

SD angriper Kalla fakta på landets insändarsidor https://www.journalisten.se/nyheter/sd-angriper-kalla-fakta-pa-landets-insandarsidor/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

They have a handy map of where I’m going tomorrow 🙂

jon, (edited )
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Bike parking: build these. Just these. That’s it. These stands can accommodate any type of bike. And you can lock the frame to them.

Don’t build ones where only the wheel goes in. Don’t build anything where the mechanism can go wrong.

I know this is boring. But IT WORKS!

Edit: to those going “they can be cut and taped and bikes stolen” - I know. Do I care? No, not really. Tell me a type of rack that can’t be cut with an angle grinder!

Vive_Levant, to random French

Dans le quartier un peu deglingué et crade de Montpeul entre St-Roch et Comédie.

Pas vraiment un coupe-gorge, mais pas un quartier lisse fancy glamour, c’est certain.

1/3

pericoloso, to random French
@pericoloso@toot.aquilenet.fr avatar

Ma main effleure son torse. Je sens son soufle contre mes doigts. Épuisé par une nuit trop courte, je lève des yeux fatigués et pendant un instant nos regards s'accrochent. Entre nous les mots sont inutiles. À cet instant, pendant cette seconde, je sais que nous pensons à la même chose : ce tram est beaucoup trop plein.

thibault_lh, to random French
@thibault_lh@mastodon.xyz avatar

J’y repense (à cette case de la jeunesse de Picsou).

talia_christine, to random
@talia_christine@beige.party avatar

I have a theory that the men who reply to posts with some version of "not all men" do so because they see some of themselves in whatever statement was made and they don't like it.

angdraug, to random
@angdraug@mastodon.social avatar

For me, the main lesson from OpenAI trying so hard and failing so badly to buy Scarlett Johansson's voice isn't tech industry's arrogance or dishonesty, it's their insecurity.

When your entire business model is a con, of course exploiting a famous work of fiction to shape the public perception of your product is going to take precedence over law, ethics, safety, and technical excellence.

ianbetteridge, to random
@ianbetteridge@writing.exchange avatar

Curry sweats are the best sweats

kravietz, to Russia
@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl avatar

#Russia embassy in Poland boasts of ‘rebuilding Mariupol’. Only it omits a minor detail - the Russians are not rebuilding #Mariupol in the sense of renovating or rebuilding existing buildings for their existing residents.

What they do is demolishing existing buildings and raising new multi-family houses in their place, offered on the open market, which are unaffordable for existing residents…. because no one will give a mortgage to a person whose flat has been demolished! Residents rendered homeless by the Russian army are thus left in the lurch, as can be seen from the many desperate appeals they publish on Telegram.

The Mariupol authorities also officially run a housing restitution programme but, in typical Russian government fashion, they use many tricks to make it a sham - for example, the new buildings have a slightly different address and plot number and the allocation is no longer ‘due’! Or it turns out that the person in question still has a (also ruined) allotment garden, so as a ‘holder of two properties’ the return of the flat is also ‘not due’!

Such ‘reconstruction of Mariupol’ thus has the character of a exploitative colonisation of the city by the new owners rather than a real reconstruction of the city, and on top of that it only concerns attractive plots of land near the sea and in the centre. Hundreds of blocks of flats in popular bedroom neighbourhoods have remained without water, electricity, without windows and with holes in the roofs for two years.

P.S. I can provide numerous appeals from Mariupol residents on request

kravietz, to Russia
@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl avatar

has declared an intention to unilaterally extend its territorial waters on sea in a way that collides with territorial waters of and . Russian Ministry of Defense (!) proposed to cancel the 1985 decision of demarcation of the sea borders and redraw them according to “new geographical references”, and then declare them “internal waters”.

Obviously, this looks very much like a poorly disguised attempt to create an strategic dilemma for by unilaterally opening a territorial dispute with two NATO members without really invading anyone yet. In case of NATO inaction the next step will be Russian actually enforcing their “new territorial waters” by threatening or sinking ships sailing to Finland and Lithuania. And if the inaction continues, the next step will be likely establishing “new geographical references” on one of the land borders of NATO countries.

Source: https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/05/21/rossiya-reshila-vodnostoronnem-poryadke-sdvinut-granitsu-slitvoi-ifinlyandiei-ibaltiiskom-more-a131403 (in Russian)

kallekn, to random Swedish
@kallekn@mastodonsweden.se avatar

Det spekuleras nu i Finland att Rysslands utspel är något slags svar på dessa diskussioner.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/uk-finland-discuss-further-efforts-stop-russia-shadow-oil-fleet

sue, to random
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

Do y'all think other countries committing atrocities will receive the same type of rightful and long due backlash that Israel has been receiving.

Will there be a boycott against China for their treatment Uyghurs?

What about Saudi Arabia's treatment of folks in Yemen?

malcircuit, to random
@malcircuit@thingy.social avatar

Sci-fi: What if humanity built generation ships? That'd be cool, right?

Actual human history: You mean a designed, self-contained, indefinitely stable, culturally and ecologically sustainable society where everyone cooperates to work toward a far-off goal they will probably never see achieved?

Sci-fi: ...

Actual human history: dies laughing

fulelo, to Slovakia
@fulelo@journa.host avatar

Breaking #BBCNews - #Slovak PM #Fico in hospital after being shot
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg6761ggxz1o
#Slovakia

18+ ericj, to random Swedish
@ericj@mastodon.acc.umu.se avatar

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/pehrson-l-om-sd-bryter-mot-tidoavtalet 🍿

"Johan Pehrson säger att Sverigedemokraterna har brutit mot tidöavtalet. Han säger också att det är ”helt centralt” att SD slutar med anonyma konton i sociala medier."

lol, as if. Det jag undrar är vad denne "liberala vakthund" tänker göra när Åkesson ger honom långfingret och SD fortsätter driva trollkonton (för det kommer de fortsätta göra).

Riva Tidöavtalet, eller? Lämna samarbetet med SD? Jo tjena. Den här vakthunden jamar.

#svpol

inthehands, to random
@inthehands@hachyderm.io avatar

So…there is a concerted campaign, with Musk as its mouthpiece, to discredit Signal and get people to switch to Telegram. It’s disinformation, but there’s also useful information in it. The useful information is that a hideous, powerful, right-wing crank — or whoever’s yanking his chain — really, really wants people to use Telegram.

We’ve long known Telegram’s security is weak. But now, in light of this new information, we should move forward assuming that Telegram is actively compromised.

inthehands,
@inthehands@hachyderm.io avatar

Lest it get lost in that longer post:

Assume Telegram is compromised. Not just vulnerable. Compromised.

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

KevinMarks,
@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone avatar

@mekkaokereke the real disruptive innovation in vehicles is cargo ebikes. They fit Christensen's criteria perfectly

cafou, to random French
@cafou@raru.re avatar
gabrielesvelto, to random
@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org avatar

Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.

I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17

randahl, to random
@randahl@mastodon.social avatar

In April, Ukraine defender Denys Zeleny took this photo of his workplace, the battlefield of Serebeyansky Forest in the Luhansk.

48 hours ago, Denys was killed in action. His colleagues write

"Defending Ukraine, our hero Denis Zeleny died during the fighting. There are no words to express all the pain of losing this person. A real warrior, defender and friend. Forever in the ranks."

Let us help Ukraine win.
Let us end this war.

Source: https://24tv.ua/viyni-zaginuv-avtor-unikalnih-kadriv-vipalenogo-serebryanskogo_n2551525

CodingItWrong, to random

People on LinkedIn: "I can't believe I got laid off; I was working 60-80 hours per week."

Me: "Please start believing that a company that works you 60-80 hours per week is not going to prioritize your wellbeing."

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