Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@heartofcoyote @w7voa
I wasn't specifically talking about this case, and I have no idea whether you're right or wrong about that. But tell me: of "old", "white", "female" and "right-wing connected" (I will take your word for that one), do you believe that all those characteristics are disqualifying, or just some of them? And if the latter, why did you name them all? Also it's interesting that it was unanimous.

@w7voa Well it actually does happen. There are always managers and administrators who preferentially hire their own kind, and some of them are are of a historically less-privileged class.

@molly0xfff Damn it I was just about to ask it about the best way to trim my eyelashes

@w7voa Not as neutral a way to put it as it might seem.

@w7voa
Good: this means his "attorney general" will be spending at least some time not doing something else even more harmful to this country.

@w7voa
Are we tired of all this yet? I'll believe we're tired of it when I see actual coordinated effort being made to end it.

@w7voa
They'll retaliate by doing... um, exactly what they've been doing every night for years.

Pro Tip: If someone asks you, "do you know what [thing] is?" and you respond "I'd have to get back to you", then what you meant to say was "No."

Hope this helps

And yeah, I'm watching administration members being questioned on Capitol Hill, why do you ask?

Can we just clear this up once and for all?

Atheist: One who doesn't believe in God
Aaaaaaayyyyyytheist: One who believes Fonzie is God

@taoofmac It's worth remembering that the US didn't get text messaging in any useful way until at least five years after Europe. Principally because individual carriers insisted on keeping it inside their own walled gardens, the net effect being that nobody used it and many didn't know it even existed.

The key thing that LLMs and social media users have in common is that neither is capable of saying "I don't know".

I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that such a large proportion of talking heads videos are now planting a hardcoded text transcript very nearly dead center of their videos -- presumably to prevent them being cropped out -- or that they never check the autotranscription for accuracy. Absolutely painful to watch.

A lot of people have recognized that you can remove the AI summary from google search results by appending "-ai" to the query.

What's less well known is that you can get it to exclude the AI summary but still "roll coal" by appending
"-ai+burpashitloadofhotco2anyway"

@peppe8o @openmeteo @1br0wn

I just use HTTP for everything. Partly because I started out by extending a web client/server daemon I maintain for other purposes, so it's easy to keep adding features to it.

At regular intervals this daemon (as well as querying the NOAA's weather forecast API) interrogates the sensor devices, each of which implements an HTTP server somehow: a CircuitPython httpd server object if it's a Pico, otherwise whatever other HTTP provider is on hand, and returns the latest measurements as JSON.

Other clients request information from the central daemon which returns it formatted in whatever way they need. The Pico/E-Paper device pictured above requests raw binary 4-value grayscale image sections, ready to be written directly to the display, which saves a lot of client-side processing. Other clients -- which I haven't mentioned here but there are a few request json or jpeg images as needed.

I keep meaning to publish all of this someday, but I need to do some refactoring on that central daemon, which runs in an LXC container on a Pi 4B in a closet. It's a big wad of Python full of of tangled concerns that just evolved over time, and I'd find it very difficult and slightly embarrassing to present in its current form. The code on the individual satellite devices is clean and elegant enough but you can't always make complete sense of what they do without the main daemon.

(Oh, the device hostname convention is "minor characters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail": "dennis", "patsy", "tim", "concorde"...)

@peppe8o @openmeteo @1br0wn

(In fairness, the pico here is simply managing the e-paper display, the code that gathers information from the various sources is running on a Raspberry Pi-based web server -- always on anyway doing other stuff -- which generates the graphics on request. The Pico depicted here just asks for updated values every 5 minutes, compares them to the previous ones, and if anything has changed, requests updated images for the regions that will differ. Using the second core to run a watchdog so if the main thread freezes up during a display update -- seems to happen once in a long while, probably a Waveshare thing -- it does a hard reset.)

@peppe8o @openmeteo

Interesting. Very similarly, I made this about a year and a half ago, also with a Pi Pico. I'm scraping the NWS API for the forecast; with a bit of fuzzy logic to decide on the what icon to use. It's fed by a couple of other devices for the indoor and outdoor sensors. (Outdoor also a Pico; indoor a Pi Zero 2W that also runs my front door camera.) @1br0wn

@CiaraNi When will these companies realize that "it's not illegal" does not win you fans and admirers. Being a bastard is being a bastard whether the law has caught up or not.

@EugeneMcParland

I imagine it helps a lot that everyone in Russia tasked with protecting the country against this sort of operation is engaged 24/7 in committing extortion and graft against their own country and countrymen.

You can see how this sort of thing can go on right under their noses because they A) don't have time and B) literally don't give a shit.

@oalexanderdk.bsky.social
Well, when you consider that in practice the principal occupation of Russia's technical, maintenance and infrastructure workforce is stealing stuff and fencing it to Iran so Iran can sell it back with added labor costs, you can see how their attention might be elsewhere.