bit0fun @bit0fun@qoto.org

President Biden extends moratorium on student loan payments - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-extends-moratorium-student-loan-payments/story?id=93815609

Welcome to the official Hackaday.social Mastodon instance!

Expect the usual posting on hacks, and a social community to talk about tech, hardware, software, firmware, and all the related topics under the sun.

It’s good to see engagement and use growing here. It would be healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks, don’t you think?

For ten milliseconds, the datetime palindrome will extend to the full 4-digit year:

2022-11-22 22:11:22.02

Honestly, if this mastodon thing has reminded me anything, it's that the internet is a big place with lots of cool people, making cool stuff.

In case you need to see a dog in a hat... And let's face it who doesn't?

#dogsofmastodon

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/

No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.

Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...

... the *algae* is producing the electrons.

Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8

Do not use Mastodon for anything that you’re not OK being 100% public. I’m surprised this hasn’t come up more here.

"Vox populi vox Dei" is from a quotation saying the opposite of voice of people is voice of God:

"...riotiousness of the crowd is always very close to madness"

--Alcuin 8th C AD.

https://archive.org/details/littleoxforddict0000unse_b9y8/page/242/mode/1up?q=%22Nec+audiendi+qui+solent+dicere%2C+vox+populi%2C+vox+dei%2C+quum+tumultuositas+vulgi+semper+insaniae+proxima+sit%22

I find this twitter poll interesting: https://twitter.com/danielerasmus/status/1594468482829139968

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

@blancomar Welcome! 🖖 😀

There are many educators here. Some tips to connect:

1) Add #EduTooter hashtag to your toots/posts;

2) Join the EduTooters Unite! List at tinyurl.com/joinedutooters;

3) Follow and include @edutooters group in every education related post;

4) Add hashtags #EducationTech to your toots. 🤩

5) Finally, check out these “tootorials” at go.mgpd.org/feditoots for quick tips. Don't be afraid to boost toots/posts and share a hashtag rich #Introduction with others with that hashtag. :-)

We have decided to create an account at Mastodon. We need time to learn how this platform works but also how to synchronize our work here with the Twitter account.

Thank you all for joining us here. No matter where we are, the mission stays the same. We are in social media to commemorate the victims of Auschwitz and educate the world about the tragic story of the camp.

I am delighted to announce the release of “dynamax”, an open source library for dynamic state space models in JAX. It supports inference and learning in HMMs, Linear Gaussian SSMs, as well as non-linear and non-Gaussian SSMs. See https://github.com/probml/dynamax for the code.