RE: https://mas.to/@Trenton_Hoshiko/115596288427284442
I love this. Homeless deserve "privacy, consent, respect. They are vulnerable humans."
Having a camera isn't a free pass to exploit others for "an edgy" photo.
@Federation_Bot
The poor 286 took some of the corrosion too.
I don't have time to completely disassemble it, wash it, scrape, tin and patch the traces. This'll probably have to wait a vacation.
For now, I'll snip the battery away, clean with some vinega and a brush, and then wash away with alcohol. Should stabilize it enough to wait for a better occasion.
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Next step for this taiwanese Laptop will be to dump the ROMs and save them to archive.org
Will get to that next week.
this week in security — november 23 2025 edition
Gainsight breach hits 200 companies; airlines to stop selling ticket data to the government; bank data stolen in SitusAMC hack; DoorDash breach, and more.
Federation Bot
Update. "Women are significantly underrepresented among highly cited scholars globally (0.255 women per man) and receive fewer citations and have lower h-indexes than men in most regions and disciplines. However, after controlling for productivity and career length, female scholars are cited more than men in the pooled sample, Asia, Europe, and in two fields (natural sciences and exact sciences/physics). Despite this, women’s h-index remains significantly lower than men’s in all regions except Africa and South America, and in all fields except social sciences."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0334690
Update. "Women are markedly underrepresented among authors of retracted publications, particularly in cases involving multiple retractions."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335059
The article is #OpenAccess. But on the day of publication, this #paywalled comment by Jenna Ahart appeared in Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03796-w
We always hear about nature being in trouble, but this week, RTÉ reports that the beautiful Puffins have returned to Isle of Muck near Islandmagee northeast of Belfast, after having gone locally extinct for decades.
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'The leaders of Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Germany, Norway and senior EU officials issued a joint statement from a G20 summit on Saturday expressing concern that the 28-point proposal on the table “would leave Ukraine vulnerable to attack”.'
'German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he is "sceptical" a deal on Ukraine can be reached by Trump's Thursday deadline, adding that "we are very far from that".
Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 in Johannesburg (which the U.S. did not attend), Merz says: "That doesn't mean it's completely impossible to reach..." adding that he is "sceptical whether such an outcome is possible given the current differences".'
@EverydayMoggie
I was thinking this - I can see it, but it's not *super* obvious to me. I think if I was a young'un just starting out in math, I would want to cut it out and fold it in half to check 😅
(Ooh though I remember now we had little mirror thingies to check, too?)
@futurebird
La COP30 vient de finir, sans mention des énergies fossiles dans le texte final. L'éléphant dans la pièce transformé en souris par des lobbyistes particulièrement actifs cette année pour saboter les négociations climatiques. Analyse :
https://bonpote.com/cop30-une-vraie-reussite-pour-les-exportateurs-denergies-fossiles/
It's Sunday morning in the fediverse.
You know what to do.
@neil Its sunday morning in the fediverse and you are a wonderful boost.
But someone in this supply chain is skimming off A LOT of money.
According to this website:
https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/Gaza?displayCurrency=GBP
rice in Gaza is currently £18/kg (that's much less than my contacts in Gaza say they're paying).
According to the same website
https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/Cairo-Egypt?displayCurrency=GBP
the same kilogram of rice costs £0.60 in Cairo, Egypt, 200 km away.
So if you load a 40 ton truck with rice in Cairo and drive it 200km, you can make a profit of over half a million pounds.
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When I look at the donations to the people I'm giving to in #Gaza, some of them are receiving far more money than I have. But actually they have to, because my total income would not keep a family in Gaza alive. It feels weird to be giving money to people who are 'richer' than me -- but then, I can get 20kg of white basmati rice here for £50, so in food money terms £50 here is worth twenty times what £50 is worth there.
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Had dinner with somebody I've not seen since 2019 (since she left London to go back to Poland) and we had such a lovely time
Text your friends
Students and workers in Ghana took to the streets of Accra on Thursday, calling for an end to the genocide in Sudan.
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@SKleefeld I'm still suspecting @thegibson knows more about this.
hard sci-fi anthology spanning thousands and thousands of pages to describe a hypothetical process to make pokemon real
@40whirl the newsletter now/later example is a clear comment on consent. it seems much more likely to me that the line on asking permission is not denigrating the permissions but implying that such a permission was imposed as a condition of doing something it shouldn't need the permission to do.
@hipsterelectron idk it’s not convincing to me. but thats okay
pure joy 🥹🥹🥹
RE: https://mastodon.social/@PatrickoftheG/115596093774912002
WHAT IS HE ON ABOUT
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.
1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.
1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.
1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
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