szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Best Venn diagram ever

Would you like a picture of a Smol Dog who has outgrown their cat hammock but still tries to fit?

Yes, of course you do.

#DogsofMastodon

"Abortion is Ok"
"Love Dogs, Fuck the Blue"

Banner & sticker spotted in Warsaw
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RT @WarszawaAnarch
4 rozprawa za nami, kolejna za miesiąc. Będziemy pomagać w aborcjach #JaJustyna, niezależnie od wyroku! #AborcjaBezGranic #AborcjaJestOk
https://twitter.com/WarszawaAnarch/status/1622638528181026816

#introduction
Hey, my name ist Laura, I am a math teacher in Switzerland and a mother of two.

I haven't written a single line of code before I was 26, when I taught myself Java because drawing the view within a 3-sphere by hand with spreadsheets doing the calculations was ... hard.

It's been quite the ride since then! I explore Fractals, Cellular Automata, Tesselations, whatever visual math has to offer!

With job and family my time for coding is restricted, mostly I code on the commute.

😊

Of course Mastodon is hard to use. They're really big, for starters, and if you don't have the right ladder even getting on is a challenge. Then they have to be fed a hay bale or a wheelbarrow full of cabbages every hour. And depending on where you use Mastodon, you may be responsible for cleaning up all the droppings.

But once you get over those things, it's really pretty great. Stinky. But great.

Fun story! In the early morning, this coyote would grab a newspaper from a porch in its neighborhood and play with it for a bit. The delivery guy figured it would be better for everyone if the coyote destroyed a free newspaper instead, so he’d toss one into this little park for the coyote to play with.

#coyote #urbancoyote #wildlife #urbanwildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #urbanwildlifephotography #animalbehavior

3D graphs that don't contact the plane in the closure area may proceed as scheduled, but be alert for possible collisions with 2D graph lines that reach the hole and unexpectedly enter 3D space.
https://xkcd.com/2735/

Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/08/why-does-0-1-plus-0-2-equal-0-30000000000000004/

What commonly available, free software #compression scheme yields the best results? By "best" I mean most compressed, not speed or otherwise. I've been using xz -9ev, but if there's something better, I'd like to hear about it.

I saw a meme on tumblr earlier that said the best response to “Can you explain this gap in your resume” is “No I signed an NDA”

#LifeHack

@drsueoosthuizen I love that stuff. Do you know what these are at the ends of some strips in Northumberland, the puzzle me and the farmer has no idea either?

I just love the quietness of #landscape #history - the way it unobtrusively, inadvertently, records the daily lives of generations of rural communities. Here, the backward-S curve of a stream shows how its course was shifted* to follow the course of #medieval #ploughteams, each drawn by 8 oxen spanned in pairs, as they cultivated the headlands that ran at right angles across the foot of each #furlong (group of strips) -

* Most probably in the 12th/13th century when...
1/2

Bill Donohue says I'm spreading Satanism by showing this video. Let me know if it succeeds.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/08/i-listened-to-an-evil-song-and-survived/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq9gPaIzbe8

I find it extremely comforting thatthese masks are really for super extra safety - since we have been using them in the 2000s no one has been in an emergency where they were necessary (there was one false alarm but better safe than sorry)

And good news! This morning I passed my exam and successfully and correctly put on my mask in well under 40 seconds. In the coming years I am allowed to work underground again (including tours!) See pic for proof. Safety is not flattering 🤪

An important addition to the pile of evidence that suggests some #insects are in decline. And that may destabilize #ecosystems 😬🐛 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/03/insects-china-decline-east-asia/

@mmasnick

Btw on death threats. I have about 3x the followers here that I ever did on Twitter.

I wrote an article laying out an argument for a $2/gallon gas tax and shared it on Twitter and here.

On Twitter, I immediately had a half-dozen DMs threatening my safety, about a dozen more just generally being obnoxious.

Here? Some debate, some counterarguments, some "you didn't considers." No DMs. No violence. All well-meaning and intending to further the discussion.

Calling all IT experts on #interoperability!

Join us for @EU_Commission workshop on interoperability in messaging services. Let's address crucial issues like end-to-end encryption, security, and user identification across platforms.

#DigitalMarketsAct

https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/dma/dma-workshops/interoperability-workshop_en

Mój tekst o IoT / "smart" rzeczach poszedł w sobotę w #OkoPress.

Internet Rzeczy Zepsutych
https://oko.press/internet-rzeczy-zepsutych-inwigilacja?utm_source=fedi&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=fedi

> Wiele z tych podłączonych do Internetu urządzeń wyposażonych jest w kamerki i mikrofony. Są w naszych sypialniach i salonach, w naszych kuchniach, w pokojach naszych dzieci. Kto ma do nich dostęp? Kto zbiera z nich dane?

Uwaga: wyjątkowo, link z elementami identyfikującymi, że kliknięcie przyszło z fedi. Chcę pokazać Oku, ile mają wejść spoza grodzonych ogródków. 😉

🇬🇧 Users in the UK will no longer be able to share or see images of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
Under a new #OnlineSafetyBill amendment, online platforms will have to proactively remove such content.
Read more from @openrightsgroup: https://edri.org/our-work/the-uk-will-treat-online-images-of-immigrants-crossing-the-channel-as-a-criminal-offence/

A nice simple midweek ‘Spot the Dog’ to boost the spirits!

#quantocks #SpotTheDog #DogsOfMastodon #photography