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I don't know what I thought a mosquito laying eggs would look like, but this isn't it. bit.ly/3nWARJk

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Reposting this again as it's an entertaining read:::

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson (1992) [pdf] - lost-contact.mit.edu/afs/adrak

The Hungarian Entomological Society recently posted this image highlighting the importance of diverse yards and the decline in insect diversity when shifting to monoculture
#solarpunk #nolawns

CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.

Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.

All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at acropalypse.app/

Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)

"The first step is to control and order our thinking. Too many of our failures yesterday were self-created by our own negative thinking. Sooner or later we are going to have to realize and accept that fact. The unhappy consequences of our own negative thinking are going to be presented in our lives repeatedly until finally we realize that we are punishing ourselves. Then we will begin to think positively always and our lives will begin to change. This is nature's way of teaching. It is simply a matter of will to control our thinking. It is just as easy to think that we shall succeed as to think that we shall fail. It is no more difficult to think that we will feel better than to think that we shall decline and feel worse. We need simply to decide whether to expect happiness and good things today, or unhappiness and disappointing experiences. Remember, we create, whether we like it or not!" Rosicrucian Manuscript

This is really, really interesting. Open Collective is allowing those who use their platform, and have funding, to be “hired” under their umbrella to enable things like payroll, healthcare, taxes, etc to be handled. It doesn’t help projects that can’t get funding, but those that have ample funding to support maintainers full time now have an option for “employment”.

https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/open-source-collective-is-hiring-maintainers

After doing some RF prototyping with copper tape the other day, I realised I could also use it to experiment with more exotic dielectrics!

I made up this test board on some PTFE sheet which should have really good high-frequency characteristics, and is often used in expensive high-performance PCB laminates.


-Still user
-Still on vacation
-Still prefer to engineer my own stuff that will last, than to buy overpriced junk which will die after the first use.

Alright question for the savvy, I know both Calckey and Foundkey are Misskey forks, what I don’t know is what generally differentiates the two, what they each prioritize over the other, and how compatible they are with the original and/or other fedi software (masto, pleroma, akkoma in particular). Is anyone in the generous mood to give me a quick rundown of those details? I have tried searching but all answers I’ve found are fairly vague.

Rust AV1 decoder:
"Some assembly code that is not memory safe will still be part of the decoding process"

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd stake my life over our multimedia assembly being provably (and most often functionally) safe than safe Rust.
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