Not if you consider every whore on it as a contractor and therefore an "employee" from a metric perspective. Then I bet it's about in line with everything else, if not worse.
The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate.
CNN — The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave. cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/na…
I wonder why. They happily hire someone with a history jumping company every 2-3 years. But not hiring someone 10 years before retiring by fear of lost investment in the person?
The Trump White House, which touts itself as “the most transparent” administration in history, has removed a database of official transcripts documenting the president’s announcements and appearances.
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request.
For all the #train enthusiasts out there: mapcomplete.org/historic_rolli… shows a map of historical locomotives and other rolling stock that are permanently placed somewhere - e.g. monuments, in a museum or just abandoned.
Today's fun with OpenStreetMap and route planners: A route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men.
About 40,000 Danish roads (= 35 % af all Danish roads) have been tagged with name:etymology:wikidata to tag into Wikidata's structured content.
Other ideas for funny restrictions? Roads named after politicians of specific political parties? Roads named after royals? (¡Viva la revolución!) Roads named after Swedes?
@MapComplete Yeah, I have been using MapComplete excessively for the last 1½ year for that exact purpose, creating thousands of entries in Wikidata as well and updating most of the ways that now have this tag 🙂 Thank you for an excellent service!
Yeah, I know. You are (together with some others) one of the big drivers for 'number of changes' in the statistics.
Btw, the etymology theme was a bit of an afterthought itself. I (@pietervdvn) created the Wikidata-link item for a different theme. A bit later, I realized it wouldn't be much hassle the setup an etymology thing to help equalstreetnames.
@pietervdvn Yes, 40.000 individual streets when aggregated locally and grouped by municipalities. In OSM terms it's about 160.000 ways, but MapComplete helps group local ways together.
I have been to the library a lot for the last two years.
Do you have a pointer to the desks you mention? I'm not having luck searching for that...
I picked up the idea from watching Kids on the Slope. There's a low desk that appears briefly in one scene, and when I saw that I had to stop everything and take note of it. Perfect for my alcove (alcove thread at mstdn.mx/@federicomena/1090095… )
Estoy haciendo una mesita/escritorio chaparrito para la alcoba de mi oficina. Estos prismas cuadrados están a punto de convertirse en octagonales. #carpintería
sadly, no desk suggestions. i kind of bastardized a coffee table and lifted myself with a little wooden platform and spare meditation cushion. i’ve duplicated this at my cabin: another old coffee table + meditation cushion combo but with the legs cut down a bit.
lets be honest, if they can't be bothered to review the code before committing these same people would have been copy and pasting directly from stack overflow
A great photographer is one where even when you know how great they are and are familiar with their main body of work, one of their photos can still take your fucking breath away. This one just floored me.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
Might as well join in: TheUnCloud.co/ WebRTC file transfer. Most of the code is in the page but you can download the rest. Share large files outside the cloud.
CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say Under Trump, the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut. arstechnica.com/health/2025/05…
On the first of four trains today because, in a reckless fit of efficiency, I thought it would be a good idea to stop off for a 4.5 hour electrolysis session on the way from Devon to our holiday in Scotland. Feeling cute today though ☺️
Ooo lookie! Not sure when this version will be released, but...
The topic for the Tuesday, May 27, That All May eRead online program will be NLS Braille eReader software Version 3.0. In the remaining time, we will answer any questions you have about the NLS Braille eReader.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. eastern time and will last for one hour. The meeting will be recorded. To access the meeting, go to loc.zoomgov.com/j/1609330620?p…
@pixelate This radio has totally not crossed my radar at all. Must investigate for curiosities sake if nothing else. I know of the VRM-7500 mobile radio, which is apparently usable with its android app. Kind of cheap and cheerful though. My current favorite handheld is the TYT MD-UB380 with OpenGD77 installed, but that radio is sometimes hard to get. Once that firmware and a voice pack is installed, the radio is completely accessible.
@BorrisInABox@pixelate Huh. I must be thinking of another unit. Also, the VR-N76 has bluetooth support. I can't wait to hear someone using that awful 8k bluetooth phone profile over an already terrible sounding repeater.
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
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Governing Board nominees announced, 2 new members, an open CFP for #MatrixConf (deadline June 8!), new research, and new releases. That and more This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05/23/thi…
American English wasn't the only option for asserting our independence in the minds of some of the Founding Fathers. They also considered making French, Greek, and other languages the "American" language.
Learn about that and much (much!) more in this week's Grammar Girl interview with Gabe Henry, author of "Enough is Enuf" about simplified spelling.
Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language.
I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a large language model
Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. It just celebrated its 10th anniversary. But as it tries to grow, one of the big challenges it faces is that it isn’t a good replacement for forums.
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What are you a conspiracy theorist?