When I first came across the word "endocrinologist", I heard it, and didn't see it written out. I thought it was "endochronologist", and that endochronology was the study of the end of time.
Totally normal thing to do if you're a seven year old kid, right?
Ketamine is interesting. I don't remember details, but I definitely was in a nice dream sate, somewhere else entirely, while they were poking around in my esophagus.
As it took effect, the background noise from all the machinery in the room got louder and louder. And then, poof. I was off somewhere else. Not completely blacked out, but nothing vivid or memorable either.
Major Israeli industry figures turned down from attending the Amsterdam Documentary Festival, after more than 4,000 industry workers signed a petition.
Just Stop Oil is a climate group known for its public stunts to protest the use of planet-warming fossil fuels, often by spraying famous paintings, infrastructure or monuments with orange paint.
On Thursday evening, over 200 human rights activists and Sudanese nationals gathered outside Sheffield Town Hall to demand immediate action from world leaders in response to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
Part of the Gen-Z protests on Thursday in Dar Es Salaam, in the run-up to the elections calling for an end to government corruption and austerity politics
Crowds gathered in Derry’s Waterloo Place today demanding DUP Education Minister Paul Givan step down following his visit to Israel.
Some at the Derry demonstration also stood to defend the right to protest. Their show of solidarity comes ahead of a legal challenge involving Palestine Action due later this month in the High Court.
Activists disrupted U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s speech at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. yesterday, in protest of U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
A graduate disrupted the graduation ceremony at South East Technological University in Ireland, calling on the university to end its partnership with a tech company that collaborates with the Israeli military.
An Israeli DJ and former IDF soldier was forced to cancel a gig in New York this weekend, after online groups Boycott Room, Ravers For Palestine and Sound Against Siege sent an open letter to ZERO CHILL founder Seva Granik.
The Michigan Public Service Commission held its second public hearing in the state on Monday night regarding how electric utilities will meet the future power demand, with the possibility of more data centers in the state.
Jewish protestors staged a press conference on the steps of the city hall in New York, defending mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani against Zionist incitement and stressing their support for the Palestinian people.
It's just cold enough that I want to hang out under a blanket. It's just warm enough that I still have a small fan on. The blanket is a little too hot. The fan makes it a little too cold.
Today's micro conflict was about soda. Apparently I shouldn't have any because my dad doesn't want me to become diabetic. Let's just ignore all the blood work that says I don't have a sugar problem, the fact that I rarely eat candy, and I say no to processed foods if they have too much sugar. God forbid I drink a soda. Mom says they'll get some next time. I don't pay much mind to food and drink policing. I just think it's ridiculous.
Bacon is bad for you. Bad for you is bad for you. Fresh air is bad for you. Soup, plastic, dead fish, live fish, burger, sandwiches, iPhones, Android, Windows, Linux and anybody with the middle name Geoff is bad for you. Get it? Got it? Good!
This is the fediverse. If you don't know at least one furry, and someone who sexually identifies as a food processor, are you even part of the network?
Well sure. But the people I know tend to come in two types: * people who know furries exist and would sleep with them * people who have never met a furry, but are desperate and lonely and would sleep with anything that walks and talks
@quanin @fastfinge @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof I read a report that says that teens are having less sex. But I cannot verify the validity of said report.
No no. We're going to pass age verification laws. In order to use Facebook or YouTube, or have sex, you need to submit your identity and be validated as an adult over 18 years of age! The company issuing sex licenses will, of course, be privatized. It'll probably end up being Meta.
Hi all: the mother unit needs to buy a new laptop soon. Are there any particular makes nowadays that are reliable and can take a beating? don't have to be the most powerful things on the planet but need reliable hardware. Lenovo used to be the way but have read that more recently they're a bit more questionnable. Thoughts?
If she can afford Apple, those will last. Mine from late 2020 (bought early 2021) still feels fine on almost all fronts, despite heavy daily use.
Not sure what her needs are and what her technical sophistication is, but those have an added advantage of being much harder to infect with malware (due to a smaller amount of users if nothing else.)
Mine are facing a similar problem. I'm likely to be getting a new computer soonish through my PHD program, so I'm just tempted to give this one away (or at least sell it to them at an extremely reduced price).
Zajímavá přednáška na OpenAltu: desetiletá Sára Šimerdová celkem slušně přednáší o svých zkušenostech s výukou matematiky a algoritmizace v Montessori škole. Pro mě jako rodiče se tam našlo určitě několik inspirativních nápadů. #openalt
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Alright. Restored my Time Machine backup to the new Mac Mini. It took HOURS. It was insane.
Installed and configured Bacula on it instead, just told it to backup /Users because that's all I really care about, and it ran in 90 seconds backing up 12GB (I'd already cleaned out tens of gigs of junk)
Tested restoring a couple files from the Mac to my FreeBSD laptop, and poof they appeared like magic whereas when they're in Time Machine it's impossible to read them out without a Mac
| bacula.i.feld.me JobId 1473: Elapsed time=00:01:30, Transfer rate=138.4 M Bytes/second |
To je spíše známka punku, ne? I Pohlreich v nějakém rozhovoru říkal, že v gastronomii hodně frčí chlast a koks. Mně by nevadilo, kdyby mě obsluhoval číšník pod vlivem, spíše bych měl problém s těmi nácky kuchaři.
Asi na tom ale fakt něco bude. Znám tři vyučené kuchaře a vlastně všichni tři inklinují ke krajní pravici.
Gastronomie je dřina, tak není divu, že tam lidi chlastají a užívají OPL. Kdo to odsuzuje, ať si vaří doma.
Akorát teda to množství kuchařů inklinujících ke krajní pravici mě dost děsí. To abych na protest chodil žrát kebab. Anarchisti používají heslo “kebaby pro všechny” dokonce i na demonstracích proti náckům.
@donbahno za posledné tri roky to bolo prvý krát.. vládzem energie mám na rozdávanie toto nie je ten prípad, toto je čistá ľahkovážnosť. Ja ako konzumet naozaj nepotrebujem aby ma obsluhoval niekto mimo, keď to nezvláda nech to nerobí.
ja to ale pochopiť viem aj ty ale na nás dvoch biznis nestojí.. lebo musí byť Helloween, zvalíme to na Helloween geniálny nápad. 😂 Žiadny průser, no stress.
That small joy when you unexpectedly come across a public bookcase that isn’t yet mapped in #OpenStreetMap .It's like a tiny treasure hunt for mappers 📚🗺️
With a few taps in an app, it’s now part of the OpenStreetMap database. The free global map of public bookcases just got a little bit better.
when i was a kid i had this oracle called "ask the ipod" where i'd ask some question to my ipod and then hit shuffle and whatever song came on was the ipod oracle's answer. and imo this is a lot better than ai
In an attempt to break up the constant doom scrolling, I'm going to post random little snippets of information I've picked up over the years. Stuff that is not at all topical because I need a little break from the present horrors.
If you buy a bottle of 3 year old Scotch and put it in your cupboard for twenty years until you bring it out for a special occasion, you don't have a bottle of 23 year old Scotch. You have a twenty year old bottle of 3 year old Scotch. Liquor ages in the barrel and picks up flavor from the wood. It doesn't pick up anything from the inert and nonporous glass bottle.
Wine ages in the bottle because it isn't distilled. It is more than just alcohol. It has sugars, tannins, & other stuff that continue to react chemically to change the flavor profile. This change isn't always for the better. Depending on a huge variety of factors (temperature, light, type of grapes, etc.) wine quality generally follows a bell curve: it improves, peaks, then degrades. Most wine peaks between 6 months & 5 years old. Very old wine is bad but costly because people think it's linear.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae & S. pastorianus are the two species of yeast used to make beer. S. pastorianus makes lager. S. cerevisiae makes ale, but also wine, liquor, mead, & bread. "Winemaking yeast", "champagne yeast", "baker's yeast", and "distiller's yeast" are all breeds of the same species: S. cerevisiae. S. pastorianus is a hybrid species that appeared when S. cerevisiae crossbred with another species of wild yeast in a brewery in Munich in the 1600s. There was no lager in the Middle Ages!
Speaking of the Middle Ages, you've probably heard that "ye" was actually "the" and was never pronounced with a Y sound because they used the Y to represent the letter thorn, Þ. You may wonder why they picked Y as a substitute for a letter that looked more like a b superimposed on a p. It's because in a lot of handwriting, it looked like a Y. The runic form was a stick with a triangle on the side. Later forms were rounder. Some miniscule forms were much curvier like a fancy Y.
Serifs were not extra bits added to letters as decoration. They were a natural consequence of writing with a quill. The tip of a quill has a little split through which ink flows by capillary action. When you press the quill to a page, the end spreads open on contact then narrows as you ease up on the pressure when you draw it across the page. That initial spread meant each stroke started with a serif "flare" (and sometimes ended with one if you pressed hard at the end, like in capital legs).
You've heard how "uppercase" & "lowercase" letters are called that because typesetters literally stored them in cases with the majuscules on top. Did you know that majuscule & miniscule letters are two different versions of the Latin alphabet? The ancients wrote in majuscule letters. That's right. THE ROMANS WROTE IN ALL CAPS LIKE AN ANGRY INTERNET COMMENT (when they weren't using Greek to look fancy and dignified). Miniscule letters came much later around the start of the Middle Ages.
When scribes started using miniscule, they only used miniscule. it was its own alphabet.they wrote completely in lowercase letters.they also didn't space out their sentences much.parchment was expensive so they didn't want to waste space.
It wasn't until Charlemagne's time that scribes invented "mixed case": using capital letters to start paragraphs and mark proper nouns while using miniscule for everything else. Capital letters helped break up the wall of text so it was easier to read.
Upper and lowercase letters were two different alphabets stuck together to give us capitalization. If they had chosen a different majuscule alphabet, we could have had sentences like this:
"Тhe Лord of the Рings" was a sequel to "Тhe Хobbit", both of which were written by Д'.Р.Р. Тolkien. Иt tells the story of the Оne Рing after Бilbo gives it to his nephew Фrodo and Гandalf tells him to destroy it.
Michael J. Fox's real middle name is Andrew, but he didn't like "Michael A. Fox" as a stage name. By SAG rules, he had to use a name other than "Michael Fox" because there was already an actor with that name, so he just stuck a J in the middle.
In his hit movie "Back to the Future", his character's father, George, says he has to get home so he doesn't miss his favorite TV program, "Science Fiction Theatre". "Science Fiction Theatre" had only 8 episodes. Four starred the original Michael Fox!
The Vietnamese language has *many* pronouns for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. I can think of dozens off the top of my head and I suspect it's actually hundreds. They vary based on both relative and absolute age, social standing, incredibly complex family trees, profession, politeness, marital status, and more. Vietnamese people tend to ask a lot of personal questions when first meeting someone, which foreigners think is kind of rude, but they need that information to know how to refer to you.
Because of the complexity of its pronouns, the Vietnamese translation adds an extra layer of depth to the otherwise shallow dialogue of the Star Wars original trilogy, which I watched on TV in Vietnam.
People speak to droids with the pronouns used to speak to pets or farm animals. Droids address people as professional superiors.
Droids speak to each other like they are siblings.
Vader speaks to everyone (except the emperor and Tarkin) as an arrogant superior addressing an underling.
In polish, translating a notification like "{username} has just sent you ${amount}" is problematic, because "sent" translates differently based on whether {username} refers to a male or a female, and that information might not be available.
Sure, I could turn a screw with a kitchen knife, or hammer a nail with a felling axe, but the whole point of tools is that they’re designed to do the thing they do.
@delta@chaos.social desktop Linux client installed from an official arch repo for some reason doesn't work on my Arch Linux with Wayland and Sway installed. After the launching through wmenu nothing happens. When launching through a terminal emulator I got an error:
[28650:1101/162426.452376:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/x11/ozone_platform_x11.cc:250] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[28650:1101/162426.452426:ERROR:ui/aura/env.cc:257] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
SolutionLaunch Delta Chat client by the following command:
You can also set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto environment variable globally or install Xwayland.
deltachat-desktop package does not do anything special, so it works like all other Electron apps: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayla… If the default should be changed, it should be changed for Electron, not deltachat-desktop specifically.
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I am always seeing news stories about men getting caught not wearing pants (trousers) on webcam or seeing them openly fantasize about not having to wear pants. I have to conclude y’all find them extremely uncomfortable. May I suggest: skirts? Pants were invented to make it easier to ride horses. Most civilizations that didn’t do a lot of horse riding have traditionally garbed men in skirts. You can in fact just wear a skirt. You can call it a kilt if that helps
Estoy muy decepcionado con el servicio de TutaMail ya que no puedo acceder debido al E2EE, eso es bueno pero al menos deberían de tener la opción de eliminar los datos de tu cuenta y permitir cambiar tu contraseña pero al acceder que no haya nada, ni correos ni calendarios.
I lost my phone, which contained my account recovery keys stored in a notes app. Now I can’t sign in because I don’t have the password or recovery codes. When trying to reset the password, the system only asks for those codes, ignoring the authenticator app. There’s also no option to verify through the authenticator and then delete the account data to allow a password reset.
Congratulations Tuta! I must say I now regret having subscribed to your Swiss competitor for a year a few days ago. I truly appreciate your approach and wish I had chosen Tuta instead. Amazing team, amazing job!
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.
You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.
None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.
Are there actually blind people who think vibe-coding a screen reader would be a good idea? The only post I've ever seen on that subject merely posed it as a hypothetical while being quick to note that it wouldn't be a good idea.
And of course, there's a difference between using an LLM to vibe-code a screen reader and engineering a screen reader that makes careful use of an LLM. It's too bad that what you described was clearly not the latter.
I saw a thread the other day amidst the ever growing Enshittification with JAWS and I probably took a joke too litterally, but it was buried in a thread. @matt
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