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vik, 5 months ago to random

Well, the eye oop didn't quite go as planned. Fortunately I have a keyboard I can type on :q Unfortunately I cannot read your replies. Mastodon TTS TBA.

There was significantly more bleeding than anticipated, and after the patches were removed, more swelling. anyway, shold recover over the next 3 dys or so. TTFN

fkamiah17, 5 months ago to random

Naomi Klein's publishers have allowed her to release the two chapters of her new book, Doppelganger, which deal with the politics of Israel/Palestine. You can download the .pdf here:
https://naomiklein.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Israel-Palestine-and-the-Doppelganger-Effect.pdf
#StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #Bookstodon

ai6yr, 5 months ago to Aviation

Houston Chronicle: 115 pounds of weed stuffed in drums seized at Houston's IAH Airport #aviation #airport
https://www.chron.com/news/article/houston-bush-airport-texas-weed-18520427.php

ve7fim, 5 months ago to random

Oh, nice! The left-hand LEDs on these RJ-45 connectors are bi-colour (green/yellow):

A dual port RJ-45 connector is visible, with multiple test leads connected to it. Each RJ-45 connector has a red LED on the right, and a second LED with no visible colour on the left. A button is heard to be pressed, and several tones are heard as a device test is initiated. The two LEDs with no visible colour blink, either green or yellow. At the end of the test, another set of descending tones is heard.

mattblaze, 6 months ago to random

Me: I do this thing this way. Other people do it different ways, sometimes quite well.

Mastodon: So you're saying those other people are doing it wrong? What makes you so special?

Green_Footballs, 6 months ago to random

“I’ll tell you a secret since media is not here,” he said. God revealed to Johnson that he would be a Moses-like figure leading the GOP and the country through a “Red Sea moment.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-speaker-mike-johnson-moses-speech-rcna128126

parismarx, 6 months ago to tech

Yesterday Elon Musk told advertisers to go fuck themselves and threatened to send his mob after them if they pull their ads from Twitter/X.

Over the years, he built a reality where he was a genius who could never be wrong. But as his fantasy collides with the real world, Musk is melting down — and has the power to make us all feel the pain as he crashes back to Earth.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-built-his-own-reality-now

#tech #elonmusk #twitter #x

mattblaze, 6 months ago to photography

Power Switchboard, IRT Subway Substation 13, NYC, 2017.

Now used as the Mastodon preferences configuration interface.

More pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32303400033

#photography

jpeelle, 6 months ago to academicchatter

Regular reminder that if you are giving someone feedback on their work, be kind and try to find at least one positive thing to tell them about it. That goes for trainees, authors of manuscripts you are reviewing, and even senior colleagues you think probably don't need a pat on the back. @academicchatter

azonenberg, 6 months ago to random

Board I've been waiting on for a while finally came in.

This is my experiment at (possibly) moving away from the Vishay HML series axial lead resistors as probe tips, in favor of something with an easier supply chain and potentially even better performance.

HML for scale on top of the PCB.

jaseg, 6 months ago to Electronics

I bought some 5 year old, used large industrial power supplies for an upcoming project. Before turning them on, I decided to open them up to check for any loose parts. As I found out, these have a rather neat internal design. Like in any large power supply, they have an APFC circuit that feeds a couple hundred volt DC bus, which is then chopped and put through a chonky flyback transformer, whose output is then smoothed with an LC network. (1/n)

#electronics

acyberexpert, 6 months ago to random

If the loudest company in generative LLMs, OpenAI, is looking for a new leader that brings:

✅ many years of experience with the state of the art in AI including LLMs and chat bots
✅ published author
✅ research scientist
✅ has worked for Google
✅ great follow on Mastodon

They really should get in touch with Janelle Shane

https://www.aiweirdness.com/

ben, 6 months ago to ai

I don't know what this means for code improvements over time. People tend libraries; they upgrade their code. AI doesn't make similar improvements - or at least, it's not clear that it does. #AI https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

billbennett, 6 months ago to random

Is there a practical way to search Mastodon for a post I saw in the last 24-26 hours WITHOUT using a hashtag? I don’t think the original had a hashtag.

billbennett, 6 months ago to random

Optus outage: company reveals what caused last week’s failure https://www.afr.com/technology/optus-reveals-what-caused-last-week-s-outage-20231113-p5ejn7

vik, 6 months ago to random

Dunno why, but my Xubuntu #Linux laptop loses pulseaudio devices when waking from sleep. So, created a wee script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep to stop and start pulseaudio on wake. Works so far.

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

if [[ "${1}" == "post" ]]; then
#AFTER resume
pulseaudio -k
sleep 1
pulseaudio --start

fi

ajsadauskas, 6 months ago to random

Interesting explanation about what really went wrong with Optus last week.

The short version: it looks like Optus doesn't control its own core network. Its parent company Singapore Telecom does. Optus just resells it.

Which is why Optis' CEO was so vague about what the issue actually was: she was protecting her bosses in Singapore.

https://www.channelnews.com.au/excluseoptus-services-failure-was-on-a-netork-operated-by-singtel-claim-insiders/

lcamtuf, 6 months ago to random

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zl2tod, 6 months ago to random

Another Earth directed CME is predicted to arrive on 11Nov2023 at 1800GMT. That's 12Nov2023 7:00am in New Zealand so possibly no good for us.
The modelled prediction for the 5Nov2023 CME arrival significantly underestimated the speed such that CME arrived during NZ darkness triggering a display seen across much of the country and in high latitude areas around the world over the next 24 hours.
The current prediction shows a less intense impact, but ...
#aurora #CME
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enlil-solar-wind-prediction

dgar, 7 months ago to random