Charlie Stross
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I have just checked into my 7,500th unique beer on Untappd. I chose something special.
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@fabrice it's still like 5-10 exabytes of extra bandwidth, and it's not going to be diff-friendly. They developed a new dedicated binary patcher to shrink Chrome updates (Zucchini) fairly recently so it can't be too cheap for them.
@fabrice and BTW I never thought I'd ever use the word exabytes.
d@nny disc@ mc²
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my stance on software is I don't care if you use copilot to write the code for you but if you use vscode you can't contribute to my repo
@gabrielesvelto I bet it's actually cheap for Google. They have network caches (or used to at least for YT) very close to the ISPs, and this kind of payload is very cache friendly.
@fabrice it's still like 5-10 exabytes of extra bandwidth, and it's not going to be diff-friendly. They developed a new dedicated binary patcher to shrink Chrome updates (Zucchini) fairly recently so it can't be too cheap for them.
has anyone seen consciousness in image or sound generators yet?
@hbons let's ask this guy
By me: I'm suing the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/plot-twist-i-am-suing-the-justice-department-and-fbi
I also posted the complaint to DocumentCloud if you want to read it there.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28094739-whittaker-v-justice-department-and-fbi/
Foxconn's Wisconsin's plant has had "networking issues" since last Friday
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
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Chemistry is often a field full of barriers—between researchers, between disciplines, and even between data systems. FAIR4ChemNL is here to change that. By promoting open science and developing new data management solutions, this project will make chemistry more accessible, collaborative, and innovative. Our approach brings together experts from across the Netherlands and beyond, ensuring that discoveries in one area of chemistry can benefit others. #introduction #chemistry
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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As promised, wee Una discovering her wings and grooming them the other day 🥹🖤🦇 #UnaUpdates #BatsInBlankets
Shuanglin K7 is a colossal, driverless electric-powered mining truck that uses sideways ‘crab-walk’ to tackle narrow, risky pits.
@thisismissem @mayel I tried to capture the different solutions we discussed on the #ActivityPubE2EE call today. Can you confirm that these are in the right ballpark?
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/issues/77#issuecomment-4382341437
A few weeks ago, kiddo, a minor, lost a necklace. In a desperate attempt to find it, I posted a sketch of it on Craigslist lost and found. No PII, only the anonymized Craigslist email forwarding to another anonymous throwaway email alias.
I have had no luck.
But today I did get an email from a weird pervert offering to buy me jewelry in exchange for…
Ugh. Why are men.
ugh, gross
in a happier memory, i once placed a CL missed connection ad for a lost glove and it didn't turn up but people were sweet about it
(i also rode my bike all over philly looking for it on the ground, thinking it had probably fallen out of my pocket while riding)
George W. Bush must be eternally grateful that Obama and Biden were born. If not, everything that goes wrong in the Trump administration would have been his fault.
@randahl I think it would be Clinton's fault then.
From comments I feel like the mention of elderly protagonists sucked all the air out of the room even though I was talking about a pretty specific technical aspect of older protagonists in worldbuilding, rather than fictional representation of older people in general? 
Maybe it's understandable given that elderly protagonists are something of a rarity especially in genre lit spaces; I did in fact mention that aspect in an earlier draft of the op but cut that part out because it was already too long. In the earlier draft I mentioned "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin and "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" by R.S.A Garcia https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tantie-merle-and-the-farmhand-4200/ as the few other examples I know of, both of them superb science fiction short stories with older female protagonists where the viewpoint characters' knowledge of how the world used to be serves to ease readers into aspects of the world.
🫧 timeline cleanse 🧽
@thomasfuchs That poor tape deck will be full of fur…
🎉 We’re celebrating the Public Domain with PROMETHEUS (1930), José Clemente Orozco’s monumental mural of the mythic fire-bringer, rendered with dramatic intensity and human struggle. It's a landmark of Mexican muralism.
See it in our collections ➡️ https://archive.org/details/Prometheus-1930-Orozco
#Prometheus #Orozco #MexicanMuralism #PublicDomain #OpenAccess
@lorenzodm la tifoseria non è sempre un male, ma è anche un modo per impegnare le energie delle masse in modo che non vengano utilizzate per la guerra di tutti contro tutti... 😅
Detto questo, spingere le persone a studiare e a darsi da fare per costruire piccole parti di mondo a propria immagine, forse potrebbe servire a distrarre molte energie dalla pratica della tifoseria. E da quella della guerra...
@informapirata @devconf assolutamente si! Io sono sempre per lo studio, il confronto costruttivo e la crescita 😉
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Union, KDE's new style engine, will be released with Plasma 6.7.
Check out how it works and what changes it introduces to styling and theming for Plasma.
https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-05/union-spring-2026-update
Are you into theming? Take it for a spin and share what you build with Union!
