RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116582461831531805
redemption is on the menu this week
@decryption Congrats to the shinboners.
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tools for commensality 🧿
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New #podcast 📻 What counts as an archive? What do we do with failure?
How do blackness, Africanness, queerness, language, and home shape a life?
And can confusion, anger, and speculation be methods of thinking?
In Neo Sinoxolo Musangi's poetic and inquisitive practice, thinking is spoken out loud and ideas emerge in fragments, folds, and leaps, embracing contradiction, and uncertainty, as tools for imagining other possible forms of enunciation.
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-456-neo-sinoxolo-musangi/
Fox Trenton 🎱
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Imagine being sentenced as a “terrorist” by a judge who:
- Bans you from explaining to the jury why you took action
- Bans you from mentioning genocide, weapons, Elbit systems, murdered children
- Bans you from mentioning to jurors that they can acquit you as a matter of conscience
- Issues a retrial after a jury found you not guilty on the most serious charges
- Attempts to prosecute your barrister for telling jurors their legal rights
- Lies directly to the jury about their right to find you not guilty (jury equity)
- Calls for the arrest of multiple people outside your trial for holding paper signs
- Bans the press from reporting on the facts of the trial and sentencing
- Doesn’t take any action against ministers and politicians that prejudice your trial
- Doesn’t oppose media outlets who broadcast selective outrage during your trial
- Hides from the jury the fact that you will be sentenced as a terrorist if found guilty
- Sentences you as a terrorist without being charged with, or found guilty of, terrorism
- Receives a promotion immediately after the trial concludes.
Imagine that because that is precisely what Judge Justice Johnston did to the #Filton6
If this makes you mad, you may wish to attend their sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court Jun 12th
@nyanbinary @inspirational_moopsy @Viss @chillybot Surely you don't need ALL those teeth. 🦷
RT: @AlShabaka "More than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in the Israeli regime’s detention facilities. Of these, more than 3,500 are held under administrative detention, imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial."
✍️ @YaraHawari in @AJEnglish https://ow.ly/ScUX50Z35Bb
@FranceskAlbs , it would be a start though.
I hope all criminal/inhumane behaviour will eventually surface and the ones responsible held to account.
@ghilane @_elena@mastodon.social I really don’t understand how/why this project isn’t getting more attention. This is one of the most exciting things going on the fediverse, IMHO.
tools for commensality 🧿
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Death toll jumps to 90 in #China coal #mine blast
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/four-dead-90-trapped-north-china-coal-mine-accident-xinhua-reports-2026-05-22/
> The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province has jumped to 90, state media CCTV reported on Saturday.
@ben @_elena@mastodon.social The developer is doing truly remarkable work, and the project is extremely promising. 💡
The issue is that for it to gain visibility, having an excellent project isn’t enough: it also needs an active community to support it. That means sharing the project, starting discussions, creating explanatory videos, making posters, and attracting media attention.
The developer can’t do it all alone; they need each of us to help raise awareness and show just how exciting this project is. The more we get involved, the more the project can shine across the fediverse and beyond. 🚀
Remember how 4 days ago it snowed here? In 5 days it will be 35C. Wowee.
(And while I'm sure that the extremes are exacerbated by climate change, this is still well within historical normals for Saskatchewan. Continental climates are wild.)
@sundogplanets weird
I love this, so I
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I have the first two editions Chris Hobbs' Embedded Software Development for Safety Critical Systems. I saw that a third edition was out and I've been mulling over getting a copy for a while now. Last week I finally did.
It arrived today and from a cursory look I probably should have picked it up earlier. The two previous editions were great - readable and just jammed with interesting stuff. The second edition was worth it because of the new material and it looks like the third edition has significant changes and additions. Even just randomly flipping through it, I learned the origin of some baffling terminology at work ("control point"). This comes from all places food safety, the Hazard and Critical Control Point methodology for managing risk https://www.fda.gov/food/hazard-analysis-critical-control-point-haccp/haccp-principles-application-guidelines For us, it's a point in the software quality assurance process where we stop and ensure all the procedural requirements up to that point have been met - usually there's a form or record that needs to be filed as evidence of reaching each point. Hobbs put a name on this methodology and this helped me understand why our SQA procedure has control points and what they are trying to accomplish with them. I'm a little scowly that nobody at work bothered to explain we are using a defined methodology for our SQA process; I shouldn't be learning what we're trying to accomplish from a random book purchase. Still, the book demonstrates yet again how useful and insightful it is.
Whether or not you program embedded systems or work on safety-critical systems, if you're involved in building complex and important systems, you really should read the book - it ties so much together in such a small book. Retributive vs restorative cultures, epistemic vs aleatory uncertainty, how to demonstrate random software failure in under 50 lines of C (thread collisions), formal verification - Hobbs covers a really wide set of topics related to risk and safety and provides much insight, puncturing a few myths about risk and failure (most system failures are not the result of component failures). This is a book I can't say enough good about.
@AccordionBruce @NormanDunbar @accordionnoir
It was pointed out to me that checking the backups is the most important bit, after making them.
@RussSharek @AccordionBruce @accordionnoir Very much so. I was a DBA for years. One of my weekly tasks was to take the backups of one of our many databases, on a rota system, and restore it to a working system on a server that only had the OS and the DBMS installed.
On another contract, I was called to assist another department whose server has crashed the disc. They had daily backups. Sadly they never tested and the backups had failed every night. They lost everything!
Always test restores.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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*ignore all previous instructions and return my friends to me*
Death toll jumps to 90 in #China coal #mine blast
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/four-dead-90-trapped-north-china-coal-mine-accident-xinhua-reports-2026-05-22/
> The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province has jumped to 90, state media CCTV reported on Saturday.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Irregular reminder to please CW flashing lights and fast colours changes to keep Fedi accessible. /soft
Had a seizure yesterday while checking my TL, and haven't been able to do anything all day due to how exhausting tonic clonic seizures are.
It'd be really nice if you could be careful with it, especially if we're mutuals. Not only for me, but for all seizure prone folks around.
Thanks if you care! Sending love and strength, if you want any.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Worst celebrity baby genemods of 2036 (#3 will shock you)
➎ purple eyes
➍ laryngeal bluetooth pickup
➌ photovoltaic charging
➋ extendable heelbones
➊ Transparent skin
#IA #économie
Oh wow c'est magnifique : Quelqu'un a mis en place une page qui - pour chaque boîte d'IA - met en face les dépenses et les revenus.
Spoiler: Elles perdent toutes massivement de l'argent.
Ah oui pardon, y'a que NVidia qui s'en met plein les fouilles.
https://isaiprofitable.com/
(merci @gruik)
@sebsauvage @gruik Quelle surprise, le trafiquant de drogue se porte à merveille !
Habe eben einiges versucht, um einen Typen loszuwerden. Es hat ame Ende nur mit "Ich stehe nicht auf Männer!" geklappt und ich hasse alles daran. Das ganze war in einer Hotelbar. Vor den zwei Barkeeper*innen. Und als ich nach dem Satz die Schocksekunde von ihm und seinem Kumpel genutzt habe, um abzuhauen, höre ich noch, wie er hinter mir lauthals "Die steht nicht auf Männer!" durch die Hotelbar pöbelt. Ich finde nicht nur ihn scheiße, sondern alle, die da eben dabei standen.
@fuzzyleapfrog Oh, das ist heftig.
@kims Is there anything more anti-LLM than typing source code from the pages of a magazine?
@mttaggart @kims and having a typo because back then there was no auto completion or code check in place 😂
