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- Trans Rights
- Are Human Rights
- aphorism
- When Bhagavan was asked, "How should we treat others?", He responded, "There are no others."
- Poverty
- Is a disease of the rich
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Doctor day again. Getting stabbed, bled, and zapped in the pursuit of a variety of diagnoses, all downstream issues of a single #COVID bout in Jan 2022.
BTW you can avoid my 46 months of hell just by:
- masking up
- staying vaccinated
- washing your hands
- ventilate enclosed spaces regularly
- and reminding others to do this
Such a small price to pay
On that note #Aranet CO2 sensors are reduced for a further week https://aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home/ I highly recommend them
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Some days you think I'll just fix a bug.
And then you're knee-deep in yaml-powered tool written in python, suddenly falling through a hidden trapdoor into a shell script that uses sed and grep to parse the yaml configs, and you land on a bed of ancient monkey skulls.
At least you hope they're monkey skulls, because the inference could be its other devs who never made it back, and this sed/grep monstrosity is looking for something that was assumed to be on a single line, but doesn't have to be, because ... yaml is not an ini file.
The monkey skulls suddenly collapse into dust, and while you sneeze, you disturb a previously hidden nest of snakes (the python, you remember), which rises up to bite you on the arse. At least, its pretty close to your arse.
The only thing you can think of is to run screaming down random corridors looking for an exit, only to find that the config files that should be in /usr/local/etc are in fact in /etc/ and they point you to an escape route, even if its poorly documented, but its across a shoddy rope bridge over /var/lib/ and there are raging crocodiles below you. Skimming these files that don't respect hier(7) at all, you realise there's no choice - it's the bridge, and the crocs, and you'll need to move, fast.
Grabbing a fraying cord on the rope bridge, you struggle across as fast as you can. Of course, it pulls loose, and you swing wildly down towards the crocodiles. There's no way out now, but suddenly you realise -- /run/ isn't safe, but there's /var/run/ where this stuff should be, and at the last second, you swing over the crocs, into a hidden cave of the ancients.
There is a scroll, and it tells you how to get out. There are only two words:
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I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.
That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.
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FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available.
The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is available for multiple architectures and can be installed via ISO, USB, VM images, cloud platforms, and OCI containers.
Download and release information:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/
Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and the many contributors who make each release possible.
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #ReleaseEngineering
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Passkeys are a modern replacement for passwords based on the WebAuthn (Web Authentication) standard. A simple Site and Web App that explains how they work and lets you try them out in your Browser - by Quentin Joly https://understand-passkeys-with.a-cup-of.coffee/
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100 years of growth. Gone in moments 🛑
New scientific research has uncovered a stunning, fragile ecosystem on the Lord Howe Rise. It’s a site of global significance, yet New Zealand bottom trawls here.
It’s time to close this seamount to destructive fishing and create a permanent sanctuary. 🌊🛡️
Watch the footage, share the story, and let’s hold our leaders accountable.
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We are #Ikiya and we are finally on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !
We are a small #Japanese shop located in Treviso, near Venice, and we focus on bringing to Italy a selection of Japanese teas (such as #matcha), ingredients for your recipes, kimono and haori, handmade pottery and much more.
We would like to start leaving mainstream social media for good to connect with our customers in a different way, and this is our first step towards a better communication.
Happy to be here!
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Holly Ukulele! I had Python run some CUDA/Torch stuff on #FreeBSD using the #Nvidia eGPU and the #Linuxulator system 😱 Not in a Jail yet though. Also, the thing runs in a mixed mess of FreeBSD rl9 packages and Container-Base content; because I don't understand how you're supposed to use dnf to install things in /compat/linux. Maybe you're not supposed to... :D
Gotta sort my notes now and try to have it done properly...
Still, kind of happy now.
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Y'all, #BakedBeansOwl is still so angry. How dare those penguin chicks come in and be cute?!?!?
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Sigh.
So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.
Pop-sci explainer here:
Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):
"The wiring is the computation".
/1
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#AI⁉️”#Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about🚨AI BREAKING ITS SYSTEMS. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of🚨incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established."
We gave AI to engineers & things keep breaking? The response for now?🚨Junior & mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code w/o a senior signing off…”
-L Olejnik
#Tech #USPol
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RT: @_BoldPolitics Which one would you pick?
The science behind racism with Professor Keon West
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@mttaggart @WeirdWriter "I fucking hate the Tech Bros. I hate the hype. I hate the Bros wrongly claiming LLM's will turn us all into toast. I hate their never-ending quest to make their investments have a return. I hate the venture capitalists in their Patagonia vests who talk about "disruption" while they burn down the library of human experience and fuck over workers. I hate them with the specific, intricate hatred of a survivor who knows exactly how the grift works."
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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„Informatik ist ein junges, dynamisches Feld, in dem man Unterricht gestalten, ausprobieren und weiterentwickeln kann. Wer diesen Weg geht, entscheidet sich nicht gegen Informatik, sondern für ihre Vermittlung – mit fachlicher Tiefe und hoher Verantwortung.“
Im Interview berichtet Yvonne Ewen, was Fachbachelorabsolvent*innen im dualen Master für das Informatiklehramt an der @PHKA erwartet: Ein Schwerpunkt ist die Praxisnähe.
👉 https://gi.de/themen/beitrag/vom-informatikbachelor-zum-lehramtsmaster
📸 PH Karlsruhe
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I thought we were over this.
(The form accepts "L@zic" in the surname field btw 💀)
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Nothing to see here, just the UN saying Israel has displaced 700,000 people in Lebanon. 700,000 in 10 days.
Why would this be newsworthy?
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small correction... there was/is no war with Israel.
Israel is and has been killing Palestinians by the tens of thousands for as long as Israel has been a thing.
Palestinians do not wage war against Israel; Israel is waging war against the people of Palestine, destroying their few crops, turning hospitals, houses, schools shops, places of worship, even the tent cities the people have to escape to into rubble, while the rest of the world watches on and sells them stuff.
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Started a new painting for my coral cathedrals series.
about 60% there.
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"Israel will target anyone promoting radical ideas against it, says UN envoy" of the genocide culprit far-right authoritarian religious extremist Israel-regime
https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-booking-flights-get-530-citizens-out-middle-east-2026-03-06/
So, what do those extremists deem to be "radical ideas against us"?
The Genocide Convention?
The Geneva Conventions?
The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The existence of neighbors?
Here the subject is the equally extremist Iran-theocracy, but with that phrasing the objective may be all of those, and more.
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According to HRW, the munitions were deployed over a residential area outside an Israeli-designated evacuation zone. “The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch said. “The incendiary effects of white phosphorous can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering,” he added.
- Trans Rights
- Are Human Rights
- aphorism
- When Bhagavan was asked, "How should we treat others?", He responded, "There are no others."
- Poverty
- Is a disease of the rich
Warning: may occasionally contain content. Consume in moderation. Finest dumpster fire curation on the fedi.
Joined Jun 2018
