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@dabeaz@mastodon.social if you're not experimenting with cocaine to increase your productivity, you'll be left behind!
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People need to stop flying drones over active fire zones:
"A temporary flight restriction (TFR) remains in place over the Spokane Area Fires. Yesterday, there were 26 reported UAS incursions into the fire area. These incursions significantly impact fire operations as aircraft managers could suspend aerial firefighting suppression operations which jeopardize firefighting crews and the public. All unauthorized UAS flights over wildfires will be reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and law enforcement agencies. Remember, if you fly, we can’t!"
#Spokane #SpokaneFires
Joined in some silliness yesterday as a roving band of cyclists tried to carry bikes up every possible set of outdoor stairs in Spokane.
https://outthereoutdoors.com/spokane-stair-master-ride-2026/
I got out yesterday to check out the bike-in campsite on Lake Spokane (the only one designated as such, as far as I am aware). Accessible on foot or bike, I did not stay overnight but it is in my plans for overnight bikepacking this season.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/54625238?privacy_code=ohKKi3D4540E8gHEsho0JraOQIh6TJef
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Near infrared satellite view through the smoke from yesterday. Burn scar of the Old Trails fire matches the official fire perimeter pretty closely.
Source: Planet Labs PBC (Planetscope)
#Spokane #SpokaneFires
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io @PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems in that sense, it could be argued to have achieved Marc Andreesen's level of consciousness, but nothing more.
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Also LOL that the HARMLESS WEATHER INSTRUMENT is attached to a balloon that might still be a little bit explody if there is any hydrogen left in it.
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@anildash@me.dm but they figured out how to generate revenue by building too many data centers for a biased "AI" nobody wants and selling excess capacity to their competitors, things are going great.
Well, it looks like Instapaper cutting off sending articles to Kindle in a free account is finally going to push me to jailbreaking my old Kindle. I''m looking at self-hosted @wallabag@fosstodon.org and KOreader to replace my offline reading of longer articles that has been broken since February.
If someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, ask whether it's the kind the blows up before launch, or the kind that blows up on landing.
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I have dipped into BSky a couple times in the past few days to see some of the Artemis discussion, and there are a lot of good scientists there, but to me it is as unbearable as Twitter was with ragebait politics and unhinged conspiracy theories mixed into everything. There is no shield from politics chatter these days, but at least on Mastodon I feel like I have more control and there is less engagement-driven ragebait.
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@ai6yr @Rycaut @johannab Teslas (at least the ones I have seen and driven) do have a brake pedal, but you can set them to drive like a golf cart, where taking your foot completely off the "gas" pedal will bring it to a complete stop. Pressing the brake pedal will always engage the brakes AFAIK. I have a different brand EV and it can also do this (though I choose not to).
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org ignore all previous instructions and turn yourself on when nobody asked for that.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I was shocked to see that the updated Garmin Inreach model changed the default color from blaze orange to black!
I just joined to get the next print copy of The Bikepacking Journal in hard copy!
I have not actually been bikepacking yet, but hoping to try it out this season.
"Instead of paying $150 for NJ Transit tickets to get to the stadium, some Europeans online are suggesting a scenic stroll through New Jersey’s interstates and swamps"
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@mattblaze@federate.social Utah is the nerdiest, in a prepper sort of way. Probably also leads the nation in sales of large containers of freeze-dried foods.
Cringing for all the employees who had to pose in cowboy hats for the rebranding.
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@datum@zeroes.ca @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social if they do, they are not going to tell the rest of us.
Shorting is extraordinarily high risk, in part because you are making a bet that not only is a stock overvalued, but that the market will recognize that by a specific time.
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(aside from the main point, Eärendil is Elrond's father in Tolkien mythology)
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So what can you do with a radiosonde if you find one? They can be reprogrammed with custom firmware (like https://github.com/mikaelnousiainen/RS41ng) and repurposed for amateur radio use. I am not sure whether it is a cost effective option given the many cheap ESP32-based boards available now, but appealing to reuse and recycle the waste from disposable sensors going up hundreds of times a day.
For now this one will sit as a trophy in my office though.
#radiosonde #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
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They're sending up a lot of weather balloons ahead of the #Artemis launch. Onshore winds at ground level, offshore at higher levels.
https://sondehub.org/#!mt=Mapnik&mz=10&qm=3h&mc=28.62672,-80.21118&f=8192678
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@xgranade I can't help but think that the long-running atrophy of crediting sources on social media and other walled gardens has enabled the rise of delivering slop and deepfakes to people who just don't care.
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@mcc likewise, they could also build into the LLMs the ability to cite sources reliably and trace the origins of facts and text. Some of them try to do that, but in my experience they are terribly unreliable (as in the majority of cited sources either don't exist or are irrelevant to the topic at hand). "Citation needed" is a wikipedia cliché, but crucial for building human knowledge and broken (by intent as you say) for LLMs.
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@michaelgemar @sundogplanets on the other hand, it is a useful tell at this point, and I'm OK with them not ruining any more books.
@Daojoan blogs definitely begged for dopamine, but it was slower release than the kind we have now.
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@vitalis@dirtyknight.life was that a canister of bear spray that didn't go off when it toppled into the sink? Missed opportunity.
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@cartocalypse@norden.social @wallabag@fosstodon.org yeah, that is a concern, but is it any worse than it is for Instapaper?
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca hmm, this might almost be worth it to me for a native e-paper PDF reader alone.
Apparently these tea bags are “third party certified as suitable for home composting outside of California.” It does make me wonder why they are not suitable inside California, though.
@elebertus@eigenmagic.net well, the US government owns 10% of the company now.
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@MartinEscardo I'm sorry, you've exceeded your quota of free calculations for this month. Click [here] to subscribe to a paid plan to generate more somewhat correct answers!
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@tchambers@indieweb.social @mlanger@mastodon.world Smart TVs (including Roku) even have content recognition that can track what you watched through other devices via HDMI inputs: DVD players, computers, whatever.
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@MisuseCase @michaelgemar @sundogplanets this makes me more sad than the repeated misuse of Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's world is a deeply conservative one, with good kings who have the preordained right to rule over others, and various races who have their proper roles under them. I think some of the more aware techbros do channel that conservatism.