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throwback to that time I wrote a network stack to spite someone that annoyed me and it ended up the standard network stack in OpenComputers

No april fools item for @haiku because one time @mmu_man made an html5 client for our remote desktop protocol as an april fool's joke, and since then people are actually using it.
Today is the day to attempt creating that silly project or feature you've been thinking of. Who knows what will happen?

I've been a member of the xerces society for about two years and I'm really happy with their work. They are a charitable organization focused on invertebrate conservation. If you become a member not only will you be supporting a good cause but their magazine is amazing. They also have lectures and other events you can attend.

Invertebrates are often overlooked so I'm glad they're out there.

(If anyone know of an ant conservation group lemme know~)

https://www.xerces.org/

@izaya curl -d "good job" server.tld/pet

Last year, Stamen cartographer @alan wrote a blog post about an exciting trend in map making that we're calling #BlenderMaps. In the past few months, we've noticed even more interesting terrain maps that didn't get included in the original post, from cartographers like Estefanía Casal, Topi Tjukanov, Jo Hannah Asetre, & more. Maybe it's time for a follow-up blog post? Are there any other Blender Cartographers we missed? Let us know! https://stamen.com/shadows-on-maps-are-getting-a-lot-more-exciting-and-heres-why #cartography #maps #blender #terrain

pencil sketching #blackart #blackartist #pencilart #blackjoy #blackhistory #blackfuturity #blackmastodon #blackfedi #blackfediverse #blackfriday

@freemo @rrb @pj An interesting discussion. As someone who works in policing in canada I have been exposed to a lot of information about gun use in crime and the pros/cons of gun ownership and use in general. One of the aspects I think that you overlook when arguing that people would be safer if everyone carried around guns is that the vast majority of altercations, whether physical or otherwise, come about when otherwise reasonable individuals become emotionally disturbed or incensed (drugs and alcohol often contribute to this), then they make decisions they otherwise would not. A huge percentage of assaults/suicides by guns occur in residences where they are not safely stored, because individuals in the midst of an emotional episode can grab them and use them without a chance for a second thought. Suicide is also a huge one, you are *far* more likely to successfully commit suicide if there is a gun in your home and seeing as how the rate of suicidality in most developed countries keeps on increasing, probably the best reason to not own a gun is to protect you from yourself! And I think the argument for America being a naturally more violent country than other developed nations is not adequately supported by evidence, people in canada get into altercations all the time, but so few of them involve firearms that they are less likely to turn deadly, in fact, the communities within Canada that have the most fatal altercations are the very ones with the highest prevalence of gun ownership! Not having easy access to guns is certainly helping to prevent a ton of needless gun deaths. While it is true that a dedicated individual can acquire the necessary firepower to commit an atrocity, like what happened a few years ago in Nova Scotia, that event took years of planning and preparation; what gun control helps to prevent are the deaths that occur from more temporary insanities.

@settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!

2ck started reading "Light From Uncommon Stars"

Lazyweb: I'm using Teespring but I'm not married to it. I would like to make t-shirt designs through an on-demand service but I also like being able to sleep at night.

If I want something printed on t-shirts, and my criteria are:

- people making a living wage in safe working conditions
- won't dissolve in the washing machine in a month
- isn’t sourced from somebody dumping trash in the ocean or working meth-addled children through 17 hour days

... what are my options?

This looks like a fun RSE job on Colorado:

https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/123538

The perfect Meme does not exis…

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, has passed away at 94.

In 1965, he predicted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would double at regular intervals into the foreseeable future, increasing data-processing power exponentially. This came to be called Moore’s Law.

Moore later added that the evolving technology would make computers more expensive to build, but consumers would be able to pay less bc so many would be sold. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/obituaries/gordon-moore-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

“A leak of a draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on #ClimateChange (#IPCC) report..has been particularly enlightening when it comes to just how much how delegations negotiate, watered down & delete scientists’ findings.”

https://qz.com/ipcc-report-on-climate-change-meat-industry-1850261179 #science #food