I bought an M4 Max Mac Studio, it's an upgrade from my M1 Max. Can I offset like 1% of the cost with revenue from this video?Resources I mentioned in this vi...
In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, I’ve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps I’m using – the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences – aren’t native iPad apps.
Assholes keep scolding people for not breaking out of their "echo chamber". Meanwhile I'm trying my hardest to minimise the amount of right-wing and fascist nonsense I'm exposed to in my life but having about as much success as I would have playing whackamole against a wave of army ants.
Massaker in Syrien: Zahlreiche falsche Bilder und Videos im Umlauf
In den sozialen Netzwerken kursieren viele Bilder und Videos, die das in Syrien verübte Massaker an nahezu Tausend Zivilisten zeigen sollen. Doch neben authentischen Inhalten verbreiten sich auch viele Fakes.
Question for those who have online jobs, if equipment is required for the job, is it a bad look if they offer financial support to purchase the equipment? #OnlineJobs, #Work, #Jobs
sadly you can get really bad deals if it's not a W-2 but a 1099-type employment deal, since then you're expected to bring your own stuff. Usually though collecting info about your bank or deposit comes after they've verified and you've filled out the W-2 stuff, if they're a legit employer that is. I've always seen in that order. It's also why some tech companies have clearly made their contract hiring through W-2 staffing agencies, rather than directly contracting them out as 1099 employees, of course it puts the burden of paying for all employee costs on the staffing agency, but they typically take a cut from the hourly rate of the client a bit to make up for that. And it's not that 1099-employment is bad in and of itself, it's just that then you have to prepare to pay for your own stuff and track all receipts for tax purposes, which is not as great when starting out on an employment path.
Spring cleaning exists because people with seasonal allergies go "wtf, it's winter, I shouldn't have seasonal allergy symptoms now", and by the time they actually get around to cleaning, it's spring
I thought spring cleaning was because when it's finally nice enough outside, you open all your windows and the house gets absolutely coated in pollen and the only way to see, breath, live properly after that mistake (due to said allergies) is to close the windows and get every bit of pollen cleaned up.
February 13, 1912 - Labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was placed under house arrest at Pratt (Kanawha Co.), West Virginia, for inciting to riot. An organizer for the United Mine Workers, she had come to the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek mines where a long and nasty struggle had escalated.
Jones was known for her fiery (and often obscene) verbal attacks on coal operators and politicians. A native of Ireland, she had been organizing for more than 15 years.
The coal operators had hired mine guards to intimidate the workers and discourage formation of a union. Besides asking to be paid what other area miners were making, the union demanded;
• the right to organize • recognition of their rights to free speech and assembly • an end to blacklisting of union organizers • alternatives to company stores • an end to the practice of using mine guards • prohibition of cribbing • installation of scales at all mines for accurately weighing coal • unions be allowed to hire their own checkweighers to make sure the c
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February 13, 1912 - Labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was placed under house arrest at Pratt (Kanawha Co.), West Virginia, for inciting to riot. An organizer for the United Mine Workers, she had come to the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek mines where a long and nasty struggle had escalated.
Jones was known for her fiery (and often obscene) verbal attacks on coal operators and politicians. A native of Ireland, she had been organizing for more than 15 years.
The coal operators had hired mine guards to intimidate the workers and discourage formation of a union. Besides asking to be paid what other area miners were making, the union demanded;
• the right to organize • recognition of their rights to free speech and assembly • an end to blacklisting of union organizers • alternatives to company stores • an end to the practice of using mine guards • prohibition of cribbing • installation of scales at all mines for accurately weighing coal • unions be allowed to hire their own checkweighers to make sure the companies' checkweighers were not cheating the miners who were not paid hourly, but by the ton.
68 years old (though claiming to be over 80) and suffering from pneumonia, Jones was never charged with a crime (martial law had been declared). A few weeks later, the new governor, Henry Hatfield, was sworn in and examined Mother Jones (he was also a doctor) but refused to release her from house arrest for two months.
i was trying to think of another brand that has had wide spread massice demonstration against it. i can’t think of any on the scale Tesla has had, where it feels more general and distinct activist groups. everything else has been boycotted campaigns or extreme acts like the Boots bombings in the UK by an animal rights group.
i find this very hopeful. more than just silently ‘voting with your wallet’ - agency and action #teslatakedown
¿qué clase de problema cognitivo grave lleva a alguien a pensar que es sensato movilizar este monstruo innecesariamente grande para transportar a un gordito de su casa al trabajo?
@gabrielP @santiago lo peor es que la mayoría del espacio debe estar mal aprovechado, nomás para que la mierda aparente ser más grande. Como un paquete de papas chips, ponele.
Extremely mild take: Legal first name should be as closely held as SSN by an employer. Like sensitive personal data that only people who NEED to know have access to.
The journey of an average Vagina Museum follower: Day 1: Gee willickers, I learned an exciting fact about pubic hair today! Day 10: I am forming a riot punk band called Baubellum and the Gropecunt Lanes.
Sometimes a group of lawyers can come to be regarded almost universally as crooks. Anyone remember Prenda Law, the group of porn-uploading copyright trolls who ran an extortionate scam? Rather quickly they were regarded across the national legal community as crooks and widely distrusted. /1
/2 It’s past time that the government lawyers appearing for the administration in cases challenging its lawlessness come to be viewed that way: as a fraud gang, their conduct and representations and arguments inherently suspicious and unworthy of trust or belief.
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When I was doing MacOS ports of LucasArts games back in the 90s, I needed to provide appropriate "About" screens from the Apple menu, so I got to exercise my Programmer Art skills. Recently a kind MacOS fan extracted them for posterity.
Euronext koopt van Visma voor zo’n vierhonderd miljoen euro de Noorse software-as-a-service-aanbieder Admincontrol. De overname verdubbelt het governance-aanbod van de...
It's difficult for me to believe that Baba Is You is nowhere near even a decade old. It feels more like a found thing than a game, almost a koan; the reverent way mathematicians talk about deep, unexpected relationships being discovered rather than invented.
I loved that game until I got stuck on a puzzle I couldn't solve and now I simply have frustrated memories of it even though 99% of my experience was delight. Brains are weird and mine is not built for puzzles I guess
@darius For my money that's exactly the thing about it that seems timeless, that it's such a simple, elegant idea that contains this bottomless complexity within it.
Drought expanded in parts of the Southwest, South, and Eastern US this week on the US #Drought Monitor, even as it eased in adjacent areas. Drought coverage decreased slightly to 43.59%, a drop of 0.82 points. Soil moisture is low in parts of the country as planting season nears.
A friend was in the Toronto area last weekend and got this scam SMS today. Quite a coincidence. Is it possible that the scammers are using Stingray-type devices to scrape phone numbers for this kind of thing? I don't know much about the devices or how they work, just that they exist.
I keep and edit these to train relatives. This one ticks all the boxes: ✓ Non-local (West Virginia in this case) area code (not shown) ✓ Scary language to throw the recipient off balance ✓ Chinese URL ✓ Standard scammer tactic to make the link (and any forthcoming) links active by inviting a reply
Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
These records show that Kyle asked ChatGPT to explain why the UK’s small and medium business (SMB) community has been so slow to adopt AI. ChatGPT returned a 10-point list of problems hindering adoption, including sections on “Limited Awareness and Understanding”, “Regulatory and Ethical Concerns” and “Lack of Government or Institutional Support”.
Apparently it didn't say "because it's unhelpful and probably harmful to most SMB problems" or "what on earth are you doing asking a computer this you fool?".
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
And then I had to switch Ethical Book Search back to Cloudflare because I realised that I was relying on their GeoIP Location to add a header to requests to include the country the request was made from.
I will still move away, but a yak shave is required first.
Suggestions for a replacement for this GeoIP location service welcomed.
I’m not sure if either of these do what you’re after and I’ve not looked in to them fully myself yet but they were both recommended to me as Cloudflare alternatives: sia.tech/ storj.io/
It hurts me to say this, as an #American, but people need to avoid the #USA for 2 years, at least, 2027, when the #Democrats can get a majority in #Congress and stonewall #Trump
If that doesn't happen (which would be a serious tragedy), then 4 years. And if we get a #MAGA/ Trump president in 2029, write off this country for a generation at least
"A #German Thru-Hiker Has Been Detained, Deported, and Banned From the #US Without a Hearing: Here’s What You Need To Know"
My own sense in this is nobody should travel to the United States if they can possibly avoid it until billionaires disappear as an economic class.
We won’t get out of the black hole we are in until they are dealt with.
This is why it is absolutely necessary to avoid all large corporations as much as possible to walk away in every way we can from any economic involvement with them as monumentally impossible as that sounds. ..
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another day, another binary file format with a badly designed magic number
not gonna call it out specifically but here are some RFC2113 MUSTs for magic number design:
MUST be the very first N bytes in the file MUST be at least four bytes long, eight is better MUST include at least one byte with the high bit set MUST include a byte sequence that is invalid UTF-8 SHOULD include a zero byte, but you can usually get away with having that be part of the overall version number that immediately follows the magic number (did I mention that you really SHOULD put an overall version number right after the magic number, unless you know and have documented exactly why it's not necessary, e.g. PNG?)
Here is a template. If you follow this template for your binary file format's magic number, you will be doing it better than a depressingly large number of senior software engineers.
First eight bytes of the file:
0xC8 x x x x x (0x01 0x00 | 0x00 0x01)<br>
0xC8 is a byte with the high bit set. Together with the next three bytes, it forms a sequence that is invalid in UTF-8, Corrected UTF-8, and UTF-16, thus unambiguously declaring this file to be Not Text.
x x x x x: Five ASCII alphanumeric characters naming your file format. Make them clearly related to your recommended file name extension. I'm giving you five characters because we're running out of three-letter acronyms. If you don't need five characters, pad at the end with 0x1A (aka ^Z). For the leading 0xC8 to do its job, the first of these must not have its high bit set; for the remaining four, use of ASCII alphanumerics is just a strong recommendation.
0x01 0x00 or
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Here is a template. If you follow this template for your binary file format's magic number, you will be doing it better than a depressingly large number of senior software engineers.
First eight bytes of the file:
0xC8 x x x x x (0x01 0x00 | 0x00 0x01)<br>
0xC8 is a byte with the high bit set. Together with the next three bytes, it forms a sequence that is invalid in UTF-8, Corrected UTF-8, and UTF-16, thus unambiguously declaring this file to be Not Text.
x x x x x: Five ASCII alphanumeric characters naming your file format. Make them clearly related to your recommended file name extension. I'm giving you five characters because we're running out of three-letter acronyms. If you don't need five characters, pad at the end with 0x1A (aka ^Z). For the leading 0xC8 to do its job, the first of these must not have its high bit set; for the remaining four, use of ASCII alphanumerics is just a strong recommendation.
0x01 0x00 or 0x00 0x01: This is to be understood as a 16-bit unsigned integer in your choice of little- or big-endian order. It serves three functions. In descending order of importance:
It includes a zero byte, reinforcing the declaration that this is not a text file.
It demonstrates which byte ordering will be used throughout the file. It does not matter which order you choose, but you need to consciously choose either big- or little-endian and then use that byte order consistently throughout the file. Yes, I have seen cases where people didn't do that.
It's an escape hatch. If one day you discover that you need to alter the structure of the rest of the file in a totally incompatible way, and yet it is still meaningfully the same format, so you don't want to change the name characters, you can change the 0x01 to 0x02. We both hope that day will never come, but we both know it might.
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