Auntie PJ said while she was crocheting that it was just 3D printing by hand. I’m pretty sure that’s the most hardcore thing she’s ever said…
I have lost count of the number of people at Embedded World who have asked me ’what is memory safety?'
If anyone is wondering how embedded security is going...
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I talked to her and it was normal. Perfectly normal.
Why won't anything happen.
Finland and Ukraine have signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement. Finland's defense ministry said it would give a new military aid package to Ukraine, worth around 200 million euros ($217.48 million), including artillery ammunition to help in the war with Russia.
Finnish Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen visited Kyiv.
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QQ for my visual art friends out there.
I'd like to commission some work, the first of which is a logo for my neighborhood association newsletter (not an HOA).
Goal - Pay fairly for the work being done
Goal - Work interactively - meaning a couple of check-ins on design.
Goal - Let artist do art - its their thing
Goal - Be open to recommend artist if everything works out well.
Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
In the time since I linked the petition* above, Ireland has gone from under 50% to above the threshold! Spain is also now getting very close.
siorc.eu/notes/a4885f3ath9b00p…
The petition is up overall 26,000 votes in the last ten days. I don't know whether it can hit a million by May, but turning more countries green definitely sounds viable.
* The petition asks the EU to ban pseudo-psychological practices purporting to "convert" gay and trans people to straights. Yes, that's a thing, and it's cruel.
I think other countries should follow what Ireland has done, we were spamming the petition on the #MastoDaoine hashtag and on BSky the #SpéirGhorm hashtag and that saw us shoot up from like 45% to 100+%Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.
It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
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Britain proclaimed the legal non-existence of trans people in the last month with a court decision; in the US, Texas did so last night, with a bill passed in its House of Representatives. There is a global effort to unexist trans people. If nothing else, if the EU wants to show that it's different— that it's not a part of this— it seems like a pretty direct way to say so would be this citizen's initiative against attempting to unexist individual trans people via torture.
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EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
I've tried before to sign European petitions, never got it to work yet
Apropos of nothing, I read some real science about this stuff and there are over 40 biological sexes.
Reality doesn't get a voice.
I would but my Nationality is British and that excludes me even though I have left the sinking island and have lived in Europe for many years.
Stupid petitions.
I was reading the petition demands that are rightly detailed.
I started wondering whether "Provide a clear, precise and comprehensive definition of conversion practices, which shall cover all practices that seek to change [...] a person's [...] gender identity [...]" could be misinterpreted (wilfully, perhaps) by some as including voluntarily-chosen HRT for trans people that has a positive rather than negative psychological effect, unlike what this is combatting.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—
BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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By the way, since I know there's a lot of Germans on Mastodon:
The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352… ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the 8th country to endorse the petition!
15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:
¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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not-so-funny sidenote: there's a FI citizen petition for the same subject now in the parliament, but as we are saddled with at least one religious party in power, they're just stalling the handling. Why? Because they can.
And also because they are thoroughly foul people as well, but I guess that was obvious already.
You don't need to sign up for an account or anything.
It literally takes only a minute to enter your information so they can check if you're actually a real person.
I find this important to mention with these things.
Thank you. We quite like it. 💚
And we stand corrected. We were under the impression this is something which was only going on for a few weeks. Our pessimism got the better of us.
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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it's also important** to mention that this is an official EU website, they already have the data you have to give them to sign - it's not like it's some mid shadiness proxy petition site
**maybe lowering activation energy for signature
steadily increasing at a rate of 500 votes/minute, IF this keeps up, it'll be done in around 5h :o
Of course keeping it up requires everyone's support in shouting it from the rooftops
The process of signing it is a bit offensive, the EU wants to read your ID card…
I was also confused by the text, because it is so broad that the “or others” include the hormonal therapies for trans people, which are not pseudo-medicine, but they do alter the gender expression of these people (as desired).
Yeah it's maddening that the exact closing time is not posted on the website. In normal business, I would assume that "deadline 17 May" means: submit by 16 May 23:59. But I have seen some people post with apparent confidence that it's 17 May 23:59.
(CEST? CET? Le sigh.)
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Thank you for your help promoting!
Amazing, more than 900.000 signatures. Hundreds of thousands have signed this week.
EU citizens: IT REALLY TAKES ONE MINUTE TO SIGN. Just your name and your ID number. No registration, no electronic ID, nothing. DO IT NOW because the deadline is tomorrow.
OKAY WOW. WOW. THE WHOLE THING WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. WOW.
The EU citizen initiative petitioning the European Parliament to outlaw "conversion therapy" ("curing" LGBTs via torture) has met its threshold (1M votes and 8 countries supporting).
One week ago I sincerely thought y'all wouldn't make it. Amazing work Europe (and hi5 Germany, now country 8).
This is an incredible statement at a time the US/UK govt are forcing conversion (medical detransition) for trans minors.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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1,018,657 of 1,000,000
[Map with eight countries highlighted green]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/1619929 "Signatures collected online
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UPDATE: Nine. 9 countries. Sweden passed the threshold *while I was writing that last post*.
The "end of the collection period" is May 17 (so seven hours from now… plus 24 if the person who told me it's *EOD* May 17 is correct) so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the numbers and convince EU Parliament you're serious. Also:
- If 4,343 Italians sign, it's ten countries endorsing
- 5,308 Austrians makes it eleven
- 6,794 from Portugal makes it twelve
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.
and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%
ANOTHER UPDATE: About three minutes ago on the website, France literally hit 1000% support for the anti-"Conversion Therapy" initiative. France really showed up here, with ten times the threshold support FR is literally half the supporters on this initiative. Apparently the people of France really, REALLY don't want their trans friends medically tortured
(if this is a boost, see upthread for explanation)
let's hope It doesn't end in a petition or a "for 2050 we aim to have 20% less convertion therapy"
Still happy to see people wants us to be safe, makes me quite a bit less worried about losing my friends
slight amendment. The petition calls on the Commission to propose legislation, not the parliament.
And it is excellent news to see it reach the target.
I’m having a problem understanding your convoluted grammer.
Is it go for therapy or no go.
@ipd I'm sorry, there is a 500 character limit and it makes my text awkward…
The proposed law bans therapists from trying to turn LGBTQs into straights.
I like that law. Personal choice and autonomy. Is it passing or not, so far?
Spectrum plus you tube interruption with psyop ads == brain injury and diminished mental capacity today. Or you got any spare spoons?
... aaaaaand Italy made it.
Italy!
What's next? Poland?
Come on, Denmark, just 1800 votes to go!
(I can't remember /when/ I voted, just that back then, I saw no chance in hell of this ever getting the necessary support. Wow.)
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@maccuinneagain Isn't this just how the EU works?
"The Commission is the only EU institution empowered to initiate EU legal acts. It submits proposals for EU legal acts on its own initiative, at the request of other EU institutions or following a citizens' initiative."
I just wanted to say that I woke up today and saw this post (8am CEST). I thought: "well that's a cool initiative. I guess I'll sign this. Also gonna tell my (50% queer) friend group and family about this, but let's face it: 200.000 Signatures in less than a day? Not gonna happen."
And now, we're not that far from hitting TWICE AS MUCH signatures. This kind of made my day.
There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/… ) asking the EU parliament to ban "conversion therapy" (pseudo-medical efforts to "cure" queers). It's at 1.2 million votes over 1 million; surplus votes are good because some votes may be disqualified, so EU nationals, it's still worth voting!
One thing I notice, it looks like DENMARK and CROATIA are *so* close to passing— under 1000 votes each. Does anyone here know how to inject a message in the Danish internet?
I gave it a shot: mastodon.online/@atjn/11452402…
Seems like the Danish channels are already flooded with posts about it, maybe there arent enough danes on Mastodon yet?
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Hvis du synes at det skal være ulovligt at torturere transkønnede i EU, så skynd dig ind og stem her: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home Vi mangler kun 1.Mastodon
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No. I write for myself. Either they like it or not. The readers ultimately review my work for better or worse.
Remembering South African playwright Athol Fugard
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A moody B&W Driving the Back Roads. Was just before Spring in Wallkill NY
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Flickr at one point allowed users to see information about page views, which included referer data (so you could see how people were finding your work).
Fifteen years ago, I was a bit surprised to find that people were clicking through to this photo of our previous dog at the park after searching for "Cinemax After Dark".
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Is this beauty a #AI generated redhead, or is she a real beautiful girl you can kiss?
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Yesterday, I visited the Mauthausen Memorial. KZ Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp. This being my third visit, I had to give up after an hour; I was unable to continue thinking about the unthinkable that happened there. Just one good thought: In the museum, they show the bicycle of the survivor Stanislaw Kudlinski. It was given to him by nuns in Linz after the liberation, on which he set off for his hometown in Poland. A bicycle as a symbol of freedom.
#Brompton #BikeTooter #BikePacking
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My three coworkers that can see this deck I'm creating, as well as my manager's (and their manager) notes on the stuff.
Coworkers on slack DMs about those two managers: OMG. Are these people clueless? Are they serious. What is wrong with them. I don't envy you. How are you dealing with this. I'd go crazy...
At least I know I'm not crazy. And the deck comments are only about 1/4 of the notes I'm getting. I'm getting slack, email, and off-hand comments in video meetings.
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Fuck me. My manager asked me if we wanted to show a "2" or a "4" (It's about 30% of the project cost) yesterday afternoon. It was a "4" and I said that in my expert opinion we should ask for 4. He said the slide needed to be updated and it was wrong. I asked if we were asking for 2 now, and showing a 4 option? He said he didn't know. I said we should do 4 and show a 2 option and moved to the next slide. He repated that the slide needed to be updated, and implied it was a big deal to do later so it couldn't wait. I then just selected the "4" and changed it to "2". That's literally it on the whole slide. And then said "It's changed, done. It was easy. Took less than a second. We can change it back if we need to."
Today when I get a note from my Sr Director asking why it got changed from "4" to "2". I told her that my manager directly asked me to change it in person, so I did.
And now there are no numbers, adding ambiguity to the deck that's only substantial critique was "not enough detail". Even though the presentation was way over the allotted 25 minutes already, and is now already over 2x as long, with 4x more appendix slides. But sure let's open up that question.
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Me [to manager yesterday in 1:1 video call, literally first words of meeting]: Hey I was a day late doing this training class. I just completed it. I didn't get it done yesterday because of the 10 hours of emergency work I did. It's done now.
Manager [today in email]: Hey this training needs to be done.
Me: ...
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there's one important phrase when working with incompetent managers:
"Can you please clarify the priority of <work items>?"
Yep. Hope they'll be clear skies for tonight's Cheddar Cheeserock so I can get a pic or two.
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