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@Unixbigot@aus.social Hear me out, programming a “self driving” car to kill you enemies. Hmm? Right? Who they gonna arrest? The car?

@foone@digipres.club I feel this deeply. "I can't even get the print() to come out!" ... "Oh, wait."

@cmconseils@mastodon.social "or perhaps looking at things on the shelf and then casually pushing them until they fall off? Very relaxing."

PSA: If your post is on Substack and relevant I *might* read it, but only if its free. If your post is on Ghost or another non-nazi hosting provider I'll even pay to subscribe sometimes!

@XauriEL@mastodon.nz Yeah, it doesn't really actually make sense. I used to think that Lewis Carroll was writing silly dialog about words meaning what the speaker wanted them to mean when I read Alice, now I realize he was poking fun at pundits.

@MLE_online@social.afront.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I was being specific to the term 'heat'. There are others, like "if winds are over 100mph and you go outside you will die.", "if rain is accumulating faster than 12" per hour in a US city and you're in a car, you will die. " Things like that. There are a lot of assumptions in building code, civil codes, Etc, about what is "unlikely" and so need not be considered. Those assumptions will be tested extensively in the coming decade.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @MsMerope@sfba.social Turntables are kind of in vogue at the moment. So yeah they're a thing. I saw one at a garage sale when I rode up on my back and the guy in front of me, walking on the sidewalk, hurried up and picked it up and carried with him the whole time before buying it and leaving. I asked the woman what she had sold it for and she said $5 😆. I'm sure she was super happy it went so quickly.

With more interesting data

Popehat's suspension, read this: https://www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious-drama-at-bluesky

@hoco@sfba.social @dgar@aus.social When you look underneath, and there's nothing but teeth, That's a moray

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org At my High School Reunion one of my fellow band members (and a HAM) who played base for the Stage Band was there. We all talked about what we were doing (sort of the humble brag kinda thing) and I felt like I was winning with my high tech job when the band he was playing for came by to pick him up for the next gig, and it was DONNA SUMMER'S TOUR BUS! We were all just dumb struck, and the grin on his face when he waved goodbye was pretty huge. Definitely won the evening.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org And when my wife and I first met and went camping in CA she asked "why do you shake your shoes before putting them on?", "Habit" I said. Because yeah, in the desert you always shake your shoes before putting them on because smaller things think of shoes as caves they can hang out it to get out of the heat.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Reminding us once again that ad fraud is the best fraud because the people who could stop it don't because it makes them money too!

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org "Work resumed with the coyotes using non-unionized labor. The facility's purpose is unknown but it appears to be a large facility for holding roadrunners."

@xxv@mastodon.social Yeah, its all fun and games until the fur and the claws come out 😆 (That's awesome btw)

Anyone know what the copyright status on that Softbank slide deck is? I mean if you were organizing a bunch of tech workers to start a union it would be a good start, right?

@corbden@defcon.social Nice. I saw a person wearing a t-shirt that said, "I am the goose" and I had to chuckle at that because it was so true.

This is an interesting thing. (https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font) (unfortunately I can't post an example)

@EtherNRhum@mstdn.ca It is absolutely rough, and the people who are suffering are once again not the people who caused the problem. We're not power'ful' but we are also not power'less'. I'm a big fan of getting everyone to vote, especially the newest voters because they are the biggest bloc of people who could, but don't vote in the US. And they are greatly affected by this crap.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I'm a bit surprised you couldn't find it stocked in a bike store somewhere reasonably near by. That said, there are now Ebay sellers that seem to use AI to take a search query and compose a 'buy it now' page for the part. I haven't tried 'flux capacitor' yet but I'm getting close 😆

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party This absolutely needs to be a Ukrainian FPV drone. Especially if you painted it to have UAF camo and a cape. #Ukraine

@MLE_online@social.afront.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org All you have to know is if the wet bulb temp is higher than about 95 degrees Fahrenheit then you will die within a few hours of being in it. (the higher it is the fewer the hours).

@foone@digipres.club Ha! You have an example of "FCC hacking", everything says it is an LED remote, and look even the LED lights up when you push it. But its *really* a 2.4GHz remote without any FCC certification because that would be expensive and make importing it hard to do!

HTTP should have an error code for 'no more fucks to give'

@MAKS23@mastodon.social Okay, I laughed out loud at that one. "We want a $150,000 missile that will kill a $5,000 drone." Nothing says "we can win by outspending the enemey 3000:1!

@love@thistlenfern.org In our house 'toddler food' was code for one of three things: fruit, cheerios, or bread. 😆

I wonder if advertising messages with an AI slop illustration are more or less impactful. Has anyone done a reasonable study of this?

@EtherNRhum@mstdn.ca not gonna disagree on most of this but this bullet?

inflation is beating all established records i can think of, pointing towards bad news

Yeah no. I remember the 70's and 80's. You apparently do not 😉 In 1980 is was 13% annually. That's 3 times the current rate.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I read this story once, where a bunch of people just danced around this huge walled city and it knocked all the walls down and God killed everyone. 😃

At this late stage I'm kind of surprised we don't have a programming environment that is simply an HTML rendering / UX engine that you run your code in. Where the HTML engine is the equivalent of the BASIC interpreter kinds of thing. Sort of like an all-in-one one window window system + language interpreter.

@samlitzinger@journa.host I wish New York and Florida would make him register as a Sex Offender.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems very pretty so far.

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange Ah okay. I had made linear actuators by brazing a 10-32 nut into some brass tubing, sliding that into another piece of tubing and using a threaded rod that was attached to a motor. So some what similar in concept. The threaded rod needs to be greased periodically which is annoying.

@c_9@mstdn.ca I have pointed out to all of my California representives (and Gov Newsom) that we could do this in California. We have the land, sunlight, and a bigger economy (so a bigger positive impact). We already make more energy from renewables during the day than we can use, but we lag behind in batteries.

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange I feel ya on how easy it is to get angry. Muting words is a pretty cool thing that works well here. Just saying that unlike other social networks you are likely not seeing a lot of stuff you would be interested in because you don't follow people. Curating that list, especially with selective word muting, can really give you a great experience. @MLE_online@social.afront.org

@spirit532@mastodon.social Awesome! You have invented fuel injectors! 😃 It definitely looks pretty neat.

@Nonilex@masto.ai I wonder if the moon fragments will reach moon escape velocity.

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange the extended IO folks used to have this with infiniband or pcie connections

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange ouch

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange That's pretty cool, what do you use to drive the motion?

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Things change right? I remember having that feeling walking through the Vallco mall and thinking about small business and how do they even survive now? It's been instructive to watch some of that coming back as the Internet wanes. I don't think we'll get malls again, but I feel like we might get small businesses back.

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange I have observed this as well! I ended up with a 1uF capacitor across the Vdd/Gnd lines right next to the chip to get it to behave. I eventually gave up on those as the number of warts >> the utility.

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange So here is an experiment for you might try Rue. You've got 662 followers but you only follow 92. What if you followed back all of the people who follow you? Then when they did a make, perhaps inspired by something you did, it would show up in your feed. As it is, if you don't follow someone in the Fediverse, and no one else on your server instance does, you just won't see their posts. That is one of the differences between here and twitter/bluesky. @MLE_online@social.afront.org

@kardinal691@mastodon.online This is what I think too, they really don't care about Russia or Ukraine, its "somebody elses problem". There might be a group within China that is trying to "help them to death" (there is a Chinese phrase which means this) its where someone pretends to be your friend and helping but their goal is for you to fail and die because they want something you will leave behind.

@shonin@c.im This is in Ukraine's future as well sadly.

@gsuberland@chaos.social Cue the joke about the guy that owns Texas and Hell, he rents out Texas and lives in Hell. 😃 I too dislike high temps. One of my coping mechanisms is one of those neck cooling things that you soak in cold water, they swell up like a hot dog and then you tie them gently around your neck. I have found it can help me functional when I need to be.

@tael@yiff.life I mean when you think about it Fascists need VPNs when Democracy is fully functional so it makes sense for them to invest in such things.