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“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know."

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#News #DOGE #Musk #ElonMusk #SocialSecurity #USPolitics #Trump

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Acting blindly on orders was coming up so often in the Nuremberg Trials that they created seperate levels to rate your personal guilt.
"The president wanted it" will not age well when it comes to face the music.
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This does underline how much those who want to keep their jobs are walking on eggshells. An atmosphere where nobody dares to tell the truth to their boss is not conducive to good management!



Okay but what is the new way to query hash tables then lol

It’s got to be more than putting a linked list in a slot, which makes x the amount of time to find the slot + an average find time for the depth of the list.

wired.com/story/undergraduate-…

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This is the part I am also curious about, something @gvwilson (correctly) gets wound up about regularly. Cutting-edge anything interesting that shows up SIGGRAPH becomes an AfterEffects plugin in weeks.

We've got an incredible new hashtable implementation? Great, but where my libraries at?

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I beg your pardon?

Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate

livescience.com/animals/sparkl…



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Weiss jemand was und wozu das ist?
Gesehen auf dem Gelände der #PHTG Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau in Kreuzlingen
#phtg


The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.

There’s a simple solution:

✅ Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
✅ The government can do this now

The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP ⬇️

#SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #fediverse #netplurality #mastodon #ukpolitics #ukpol #tech

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Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:

⚫️ Check if they have UK users

⚫️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments

⚫️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives

#SaveOurSites 🌐

#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech

in reply to Open Rights Group

When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.

This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.

We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.

Read our explainer for more detail ➡️ openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-…

#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech



A historian talks about the state of things. Which appear to be retrograde.... Not the "r" word he's talking about.

"NEW: I guess we have to argue, once again, that the Holocaust was real and Nazis are bad. But flip this around; there’s also good news. Right now, those of us who hate Nazis, but love equal rights and not catching measles, are losing. But we won before. We can win again."

bsky.app/profile/lollardfish.b…






Early tractors were wild. This here is a "road locomotive" plowing an entire field at once.

youtube.com/watch?v=5xDj45zF-l…

#Tractor #Locomotive #Steam #Engineering

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@mcSlibinas It's been generally found that sun-following solar panels aren't worth the cost and effort.

Especially since the event of double-sided panels 😀





Looking at Solid Project: Can anyone give an overview of how this fits together with or complements ActivityPub?

solidproject.org/TR/protocol

#ActivityPub #fediverse

in reply to Jim Killock

sure. There is actually a project - ActivityPods - that aims to do just this (there was a recent interview with @laurin about it on Fireside Fedi audio.firesidefedi.live/@fires…). For example, there's a project MastoPod that is sort-of, Mastodon with your data stored in your own Solid pod. So there are some connections / alignments here. Privacy, opt-in centric.

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this is true. I know John personally, and this makes them very sad.


digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.

You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.

We also fixed 140 bugs!

digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.…

#photography #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@kde@lemmy.kde.social



Saw the incredible images from the mass protests in Serbia, so I wanted to post this of Seoul yesterday with citizens trying to get the impeached president (Mr. Overnight Coup Attempt) removed from office

Original article:
hani.co.kr/arti/society/societ…

#seoul #korea #southKorea #protests

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following the tradition of "aquila blanco salutat" of Roman elite legions


Yesterday I rode outside with a short sleeve shirt and today fuck this the outdoor bike ride is canceled. This is the real March madness.
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what are you going to do when it’s 80? 😜 60-65 is perfect for me. I’m also wanting to wear less…
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@fistfulofdave Ride in the basement on the trainer with a fan in just shorts. I ride early morning so it’s typically not too hot but yeah, when it’s too hot I don’t go outside.


Domain renewal month this month so we need a little extra.

Mastodon.art is entirely donations driven, with no ads, no algorithm, and no AI - just glorious art and creativity by real people 😁

If you could help keep us up and running it would be hugely appreciated! ❤

patreon.com/mastodonart

liberapay.com/Curator/

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Repairing Our Clothes 🧵

Thanks to the latest WRAP report (Feb 2025) we finally have some statistics about how choosing to #repair our #clothes and buying #SecondHand is having an impact.

A few key points >>>

🪡 #Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.

This shows that we’re placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we don’t want to keep replacing items,

🪡

#WRAPreport #mending #repairing

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zombies, cis people, allegories, explorations in film

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Baca komik I Will Raise This Family! Bahasa Indonesia!!!
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Comedy #Drama #Fantasy #Shounen
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari I Will Raise This Family! (Chapter 33) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/441580
⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Comedy #Drama #Fantasy #Shounen


Baca komik I Will Raise This Family! Bahasa Indonesia!!!
Segera baca di e-komik.org/komik/441580
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Comedy #Drama #Fantasy #Shounen
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari I Will Raise This Family! (Chapter 34) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/441580
⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Comedy #Drama #Fantasy #Shounen


Baca komik I Will Raise This Family! Bahasa Indonesia!!!
Segera baca di e-komik.org/komik/441580
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Attaching an eGPU to a Low Cost Mini PC Without Thunderbolt!
blog.lon.tv/2025/03/16/attachi…


Trump's "national energy emergency" declaration raises concerns about fast-tracking energy projects with minimal environmental review. Legal experts question if claimed emergency conditions warrant bypassing normal oversight. theconversation.com/environmen…
#ClimateChange





Stimulating article on LLMs in programming: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/…

My bet is that CHOP will evolve into some state where the methodical person giving it context with well-written and structured business domain and requirements documents is going to still be well-paid, because there'll be some upper ceiling on the useful abstraction that LLMs can handle without it. BA and QA skills will become even more important. (I might be wrong.)

Thanks to @simon for the article.

in reply to Matt Stratford

yeah, I don't care how good these tools get at writing code (or other software development tasks), there will always be a need for specialists who understand how to build great software

Excel didn't put all the accountants out of work!



I just ran across this one. I've never seen a draw knife like this. Is it specific to a particular craft? In what situation would you need something like this?
#woodworking
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@wedge little more detail on that kind of drawknife, from dictionary of woodworking tools


"Over 50 years ago, NASA was able to get its Saturn V, a rocket nearly as large as Starship, to fly without ever having a failed launch over its 13-launch, six-year operational lifespan. This was a rocket designed with computers less powerful than a Casio watch, built with far less accurate techniques and materials, with check systems and procedures infinitely less sophisticated than anything today. Yet, engineers were able to ensure it never had a launch failure [...]"
planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spac…

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If you always wanted to run a tiling window manager on your smartphone, give Sxmo a try.

They just added a nice getting started guide to nicely illustrate how gestures are used to open the menu, bring up and close the keyboard, switch between workspaces and more:

sxmo.org/docs/gettingstarted/

Great work @pocketvj and Sxmo team!

#postmarketos #sxmo #tiling #linux



Trump Blocking Free Press!

Voice of America has ceased broadcasting

The Voice of America has suspended broadcasting, and all employees have been sent on leave

Voice of America Director General Michael Abramowitz also stated that:

All 1,300 employees (journalists, producers, technical staff) have been placed on administrative leave.

For the first time in 83 years, Voice of America is forced to shut up
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews