Aluminum Business Cards Make Viable PCB Stencils
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Aluminum Business Cards Make Viable PCB Stencils
[Mikey Sklar] had a problem—namely, running low on the brass material typically used for making PCB stencils. Thankfully, a replacement material was not hard to find. It turns out you can use alumi…Hackaday
Does tooting Unlisted mean that only other users on your instance can see it? @FediTips @sandradejongwerk
Education Dept. cuts could hurt low-income schools. And, an entertainment rundown
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55118/up-first-briefing-education-department-el-salvador-maryland-key-bridge?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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i have been thinking about different settings / situations people would listen to different kind of music in.
what would be your favorite setting / place to listen to f.ex. something like this?
#amazon listed as #Ransomware Victim by tracking site:
Victim: amazon com
Ransomware Group: Babuk2
Discovery Date: 2025-03-20 23:52
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Ransomware.live 👀
Ransomware.live tracks & monitors ransomware groups' victims and their activity. It was created by Julien Mousqueton, a security researcher. The website provides information on Ransomware groups, victims, negotiations, and payment demands.www.ransomware.live
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Everyday Cyborg (@digitalraven@retro.pizza)
Seven of the #RPG books I worked on were pirated by #Meta to train their #AI #Bullshit Regardless as to my feelings on copyright, the IP owner did not consent to their inclusion in the dataset.retro.pizza
Yeah, I really don't get their strategy.
Maybe they should have split "protecting cultural heritage works in the public domain" from "disrupting(*) the book publishing industry".
I've come to the conclusion that we need to have a lot more redundancy in our digital archives of public domain works.
(*) I.e. blatantly violating copyright.
@truh I understood it was done to compensate for the closing of libraries.
Dunno about how libraries there work but. In e-materials the publisher sells this licence for the library and per the amount of licences you can lend those out.
This theft you refer to they opened the single licence to be lent out multiple times and not only once.
Pandemic was also financially bad for people. How much do you get from amazon or audible sell? Or does Bezos win?
It's pretty obnoxious to get DRM-free ebooks.
If one isn't in a hurry it can be legitimately easier to just order the paper book off ebay or wherever.
@manna @lispi314 @truh
Charlie, with all respect: one just can't get some of your books online in a legal way. E.g. your
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despite what your website says, nothing on Kobo, nothing on Google Books. The e-book industry has failed you. Unless you really going to roll your own ebooks, like @pluralistic does, it's all in vain to hope that they care.
London's Heathrow Airport closes Friday after fire knocks out power
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5336132/londons-heathrow-airport-closes-friday-after-fire-knocks-out-power?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How Trump’s diplomacy resembles a game of broken telephone
The discrepancies between how the US and others are interpreting Trump’s calls are adding upAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
El presupuesto militar ruso (110k m€) de 2023, en guerra, era equivalente al de la suma del presupuesto militar alemán (63k m€) y francés (58k m€), en paz.
Nos dicen que tenemos que gastar más en defensa pero ¿No deberíamos preguntar si no será que gastan mal el dinero?
Datosmacro.com - Información económica y sociodemográfica
Consulta los últimos datos publicados de las principales variables económicas y sociodemográficas por países y regiones.Datosmacro.com
US rejects Mexico’s request for water as Trump opens new battle front
State department turns down special request to supply city of Tijuana in drought-affected north for first time everGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
In this video I take a brief look at a pack of 100 loose-leaf 52gsm Tomoe River paper.
I take a quick look at the paper, write with some fountain pens then look at the writing to see how it has performed.
Join me to see what I think about this paper during my first few minutes of using it.
#fountainPenReview #fountainpens #fountainpen #penreview #unboxing #firstimpression #firstimpressions #writing
The Ultimate Fountain Pen Test: Tomoe River 52gsm Loose Leaf Paper
The latest Fountain Pen First Impressions video is now available for your viewing pleasure.In this video I take a brief look at a pack of 100 loose-leaf 52gs...YouTube
The granny squares are complete! 40 each of blue and cream and lilac and cream in chunky yarn. I'm going to join them together and do a border with the blue, to make a grid effect.
Will lay them all out on the bed at some point to decide between a checkerboard pattern, or stripes.
Hope that's enough blue left over for the joining and border, or I'll need another trip to the haberdashery at John Lewis.
#crochet
#Insomnia can lead to heart issues. A psychologist recommends changes that can improve sleep: buff.ly/l8qSNG0
Chart: As we age, the recommended amount of sleep declines.
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Insomnia can lead to heart issues − a psychologist recommends changes that can improve sleep
Insomnia and bad sleep can lead to high blood pressure and increase hormone levels and inflammation.The Conversation
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THAT is an obsolete communication device. Everybody owns a mobile phone now. Poor people do not exist. Nobody ever loses their phone. Abused spouses and children do not need a way to escape surveillance.
In this country when these devices became “obsolete” we kept them in service but made them free to use because we live in a society not an economy.
ETA: OP called me a “hateful rantsplainer” for this Wrong Answer and then immediately blocked me. Wasn’t trying to rant or hate. It was not my intent to offend you; I am sorry for that. Also, LTFU.
I don't understand why images like this don't unsettle people the way that they unsettle me. I don't claim to be able to detect all AI images this way, but this kind of thing? It shouldn't be useable for any purpose... it's just ... upsetting.
It's uncanny valley imagery, the stuff of horror stories.
(So far I have only rarely seen this kind of thing make it into a major public advertisement in NYC, that gives me a little hope)
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Millions of views. Why doesn't this stuff just turn people off? This is like waking up and everyone is going crazy for trypophobia makeup. They all think it's wonderful and I feel like I've stumbled into the bodysnatchers movie.
As soon as I detect this stuff I click away ... even if it isn't obviously gross... the swimming, dreamlike nature of even tame images triggers nausea-- I'm talking about a physical reaction.
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The other day my husband who is not a "very online" person showed me a video he liked of capybaras standing on each others back. He just found it funny and delightful. He knows it's fake obviously.
I thought it was horrible, because of the texture of their hair, the errors in the shadows, it was just made of WRONGNESS.
It really made me feel like there is something wrong with me.
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He was disappointed I couldn't enjoy it with him, and felt bad that I had such a deep negative reaction to something that on the surface is "cute."
And he can't see whatever it is that's setting me off.
if it means something, I have the same reaction - but it's also because of knowing what's behind the technology
it's like meat eater vs. vegan looking at a steak - even not having to eat it the reactions are different on a visceral level
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Honestly, I don't look at whales often enough to notice but now that you have pointed it out I see it. That's not your child! It's some kind of ... mimic!
Almost all AI ants do this to me constantly. But that's why we should point it out. Once you see it? It never goes away. The illusion is broken.
I sometimes get a sense like that. Usually not very strong, but I often immediately see from the store of an image that it's AI fakery.
I think I know the feeling you get. I used to get the heebie jeebies from a certain denk realistic cartoon character used in advertising decades ago. Some AI gives me an inkling of that same feeling.
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When you know an animal well the AI versions of that animal are especially upsetting. And when other people don't notice the flaws that you see it is a sudden and unwanted insight into how we each see the world differently.
I have been fooled by AI generated music. I expect people who make music would be disappointed in that. I'm not claiming to be a special cassandra snowflake about this.
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An uncanny valley corollary?
Train of thought:
While we previously applied the phrasing to humans, maybe that's only because we all see human faces frequently enough to be very familiar with them, and that's where the work was going into the art. Now we're talking about a significant amount of "work" going into making "art" that subject matter experts are familiar with and therefore see as creepy...
It's cool that the "uncanny valley" response isn't just for human faces: we engage with other things in our environment, and part of our brain is obviously watching out for ANY of it being Not Quite Right and flashing a warning.
And maybe some people enjoy that feeling? But I suspect a lot of people don't feel it very strongly, relying on group social cues instead, and then the Not Quite Right thing can GET them.
I fear these pave the way for political ads like this one I found by searching “is #Tesla funding #Poilievre?”
(Canada‘s right-wing cognate for Trump in coming national elections that could totally screw the country)
Poilievre’s Vision: Tesla Factories in Canada – A Game Changer?
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Poilievre’s Vision: Tesla Factories in Canada – A Game Changer?
Discover Pierre Poilievre's ambitious vision to bring Tesla factories to Canada. Explore how this initiative could revolutionize the Canadian economy, create...YouTube
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Happy Spring Equinox, happening right now, at 5:01 EDT (0901 UTC).
This is how Earth looks like right now as seen from the direction of the Sun. Also, shown is the view on June 20, 2025, the next Summer Solstice. Note the difference in tilt.
Note that this is a simulated view. Cloud cover does not reflect actuality.
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Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
In a few days, on March 23, Mercury and Venus will line up in the direction of the Sun, making them difficult to observe as they will appear close to the Sun as seen from Earth.
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste…
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Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
Explore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions.Eyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPL
Here is a stunning image taken today by EUMETSAT's Meteosat-12 satellite. It shows the day-night boundary over West Africa running vertical from pole to pole, since it is Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere today.
Meteosat-12 is located in geostationary orbit at longitude 0.3W.
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Spring Equinox 20/03/25
Today at 10:01 CET, the Sun appeared directly above Earth’s equator, marking the Spring Equinox! 🌸 The equinox in the northern hemisphere happens twice a year, around the 20 March (spring equinox) and the 22 September (autumn equinox).Flickr
TIL @pluralistic has a spare testicle lying around
Edit: full article for reference and your enjoyment
pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…
It is called wabi-sabi. A concept I like more on people than on my PCBs. 😁
"The point - which I don’t think is understood nearly widely enough - is that radical institutional revolutions such as #DOGE follow naturally from the AGI-prepper framework. If #AGI is right around the corner, we don’t need to have a massive federal government apparatus, organizing funding for science via the National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Health."
#AI #LLM #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Prepper
programmablemutter.com/p/shoul…
Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?
There's magical thinking about the magical thinkingHenry Farrell (Programmable Mutter)
they don't need AGI because they are not held accountable in any way.
You can be labeled "woke" with the current state of art. They want you gone because woke, you gonna go gone...
Even if the algorithm fails, no problem, it adds more terror and incentivise "correct" behaviour.
Doing some interesting #memoryforensics on @signalapp tonight. Still would trust them with my life, and the lives of my friends, but interesting stuff in the memory.
For instance, people I haven't talked to in 3 years showed up in the memory dump with a field called "SharedGroupNames" that listed every group that both I and that individual were associated with.
Also, the "LastMessage" field was often populated with a plaintext version of the last thing the individual had messaged me.
So,so. Dass den Flughafen Heathrow versorgende Umspannwerk brennt und somit steht der Flughafen still.
#Europa muss seine kritische #Infrastruktur identifizieren und besser schützen. #kritis
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Flughafen Heathrow nach Stromausfall durch Brand gesperrt
Ein Brand in einem nahegelegenen Umspannwerk hat dafür gesorgt, dass der Flughafen Heathrow den gesamten Freitag gesperrt ist. Zahlreiche Flugzeuge wurden bereits umgeleitet.ZDFheute
- New feature: Notifications.
- Updated: Improved user interface for new posts.
- Updated: Documentation.
- Updated: Some UI elements and included information about shortcuts in each buffer.
- Minor fixes.
Source code: codeberg.org/deadblackclover/t…
In the next version: You will be able to send direct messages.
Enjoy!
#emacs #twtxt #twtxtel
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Survive and advance: First-day upsets set the table for March Madness
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55110/survive-and-advance-first-day-upsets-set-the-table-for-march-madness?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner embraces melancholy in new album
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5251281/japanese-breakfast-michelle-zauner-new-album-melancholy-brunettes-sad-women?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Families of deported Venezuelans dispute gang claims after deportations under Alien Enemies Act
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5333886/families-of-deported-venezuelans-dispute-gang-claims-after-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5330917/trump-schools-education-department-cuts-low-income?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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What's trending in the world of soap operas? Find out in the quiz
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-54879/quiz-astronauts-trump-autopen-forever-21-micro-drama?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Is planting trees "DEI"? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55090/trump-dei-trees-removal-climate-change?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Climate @climate-npr
Court hearing to test legality of deportations under 18th century law
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5335532/trump-judge-alien-enemies-act?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
5 takeaways from this week — from courts pushing back on Trump to wars overseas
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5333726/trump-week-doge-courts-deportation-roberts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How Trump's firings could upend a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling limiting his power
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5333325/ftc-trump-firings-supreme-court?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Law experts raise alarms over police action in DOGE Institute of Peace dispute
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5332193/why-d-c-police-sided-with-doge-institute-of-peace-standoff?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Authors await overdue payments as publisher Unbound goes into administration
The company, launched in 2011, has been acquired by new company Boundless, after writers have been left unpaid for monthsLucy Knight (The Guardian)
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#unbound #Boundless #publishing #bookstodon
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Opinion: The Unbound authors' view
The authors affected by the collapse of Unbound deserve real support, honest accountability and clear answers.The Bookseller
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