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#Providencia is a remote island that has uncrowded white sand #beaches and #turquoise waters. It belongs to #Colombia, people here speak English. Want to #getaway from it all?
#travel #BUCKETLIST #vacation #Paradise #Caribbean #sunshine #trip backpackandsnorkel.com/Provide…


HP will soon drop its first 18-inch mobile workstation, the ZBook Fury G1i, with Nvidia's new "Blackwell" RTX Pro 5000 GPUs for serious content-creation punch. We opened up this beast ahead of its reveal. pcmag.com/news/ive-seen-hps-fi…





An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work

GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
propublica.org/article/geo-gro…

#News #ICE #Prison #Washington #Law #Migrants #Immigration #Trump

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When someone's work is worth no more to you than 1$ a day, that is Modern Slavery.

It is a JOB, so you PAY at least MINIMUM WAGE.



I'm trying out a few GUI clients for git that will work with Codeberg (so I can fully move away from GitHub) and here's the list I am starting with...

➡️ git-scm.com/downloads/guis

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I can highly recommend Sublime Merge. I’m very comfortable with the command line but have it running by itself on its own monitor as a real-time “what did I just do” view 😀
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@aral Thanks! It looks nice but I don't know that I can justify the price as I just want to share code projects as a hobby and it's hard to fork out the cash for a git client. (I'm trying to support more open source projects this year, so...)


I’m a subscriber, and it’s worth every penny!

Not only is @meljoann a truly great musical artist and videographer, but the entirety of her artistic universe is just as weirdly great or greatly weird (plus, you get access to the great wisdom of Synergy Myers and Mustics®).
mstdn.social/@meljoann/1141888…


My dream: 185 subscribers on mustics.com! For £38 per year, you get:
- downloads & early access to all my music
- exclusive Mustics® stuff
- helping weirdo art in a world that HATES it

Totes understand if you can't afford. Consider telling a friend how great my music and vids are? They are GREAT.


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I have to admit I'm a proud Mustician® too and am constantly flabbergasted by the wealth of quality advice Dr. Myers offers!
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@axwax she is so wealthy in advice quality, and also… in wealth. 🫡🥰
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Exactly, someone so rich *must* always be right, how else could she have gotten to where she is?
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Just to add my two pence worth (because I now have two pence thanks to Dr. Synergy Myers) … I wouldn’t be where I am today without Mustics.
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@ethicalrevolution
So grateful to be left with literal pennies after signing up for that last Mustics® course 🙏🏼
@axwax @sknob
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@ethicalrevolution
Don't spend them all at once. You know what Synergy would say...
@Sam


Peer-reviewed research study: "Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism"

Four different experiments. Same result.

semanticscholar.org/paper/Low-…




Guested on @edzitron ‘s podcast with Cherlynn and Cranz. Had so much fun and loved that Ed assembled a consumer tech girl gang.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…




I wanted a way to activate idle inhibition on Wayland, i. e. preventing screen locking and blanking, regardless of status bar or compositor (well, kind of). I did try some existing solutions without getting them to work, so I went and made wib, Wayland Idle Blocker. Maybe someone else will find it useful too:
github.com/stefur/wib

#Wayland #Linux #SwayIdle




Only 8.7% of #plastics are recycled in the US. Chemistry scholars explore how pyrolysis offers a way to convert more types of plastic waste into oil, fuel gases, and char – potentially reducing pollution and demand for new plastics. buff.ly/4xkVpAI
#recycling
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There is a guy in Japan who already has a product on the market that does this. We need to catch up. This has been available for nearly a decade and it works!


#GNOME 48 should release in a few hours, so here is my look at this major new version.

In there, there's HDR, global shortcuts, triple buffering, a new audio player, a new font, digital wellbeing features, and a lot more!

youtube.com/watch?v=1MQF1QQAYd…

in reply to Nick @ The Linux Experiment

Given you use Gnome vanilla without Extensions this looks great. However the advise that you can always modify Gnome with Extensions is a bad one, it becomes way too unstable too quickly. And if something breaks your whole desktop locks up, causing you to lose any unsaved work.

Happened to me multiple times over a period of a few months. Made me to over to KDE recently despite not liking its native apps, just to have peace of mind and a stable yet customizable desktop experience.

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Salut Nick, bonne vidéo comme d'hab. Je crois que je vais essayer la nouvelle version, je trouvais que les ancienne était un peu lente sur mon vieux laptop et je vais en profiter pour redonner un coup d'essai à Fedora.


Forgot to post these games I found in IKEA the other day.

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Now I need to revisit the nearby Ikea because I remember seeing a game with the png of "sanic" on it.


Got excited, no idea if I can make it work, but I need likes to feel better today, so here's my latest iteration of "I'm using up parts by ordering new parts and PCBs".

My main goal is to get the display to work. It's one of the adafruit qualia displays, that I want to connect to the RPi GPIO pins and control it with the RGB666 mode that the header offers. An onboard RP2040 xiao will help the RPi Zero to set up the display through SPI, something the qualia boards do through a port expander.

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if all stars align, I might get all I need tomorrow 🤞
in reply to Dave

Seems like I have everything for a little soldering session this evening.
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@woodworker

240x960
3.7" - 25mm x 99mm

adafruit.com/product/5799

in reply to Dave

Ugh, messed up the LED controller, should have just copied what adafruit is using..
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@trcwm

the fun part was supposed to be "trying to get something displayed" and not "making the light work, so I can see if I get something displayed"

in reply to Dave

You appreciate the fun more when there are setbacks!
in reply to Dave

Learned a shit load of things while working on this project, but so far I have not figured it out completely.

The Raspberry PI zero is definitely sending data out through the GPIO pins! The newest raspbian release does the setup differently - almost all the tutorials are outdated.

The display speaks 9bit SPI, where 1 bit is telling the display if it's sending a command or data .The parsed Array that adafruit sends through a magic function and I2C expander - I've just shipped through SPI.

in reply to Dave

I could now look into how to bitbang 9bit SPI on the Raspberry Pi or continue to work with the RP2040 that will take over more things in the future anyways. Maybe I can figure out the state machine stuff in the RP2040s for that.

The hole "I can just copy the init array and send it through SPI with micropython" idea got me into programming my xiao board with my headless raspberry pi through SSH and figuring out how to work the micropython bits from the terminal.

in reply to Dave

Interesting to see that there are more people asking for 9bit pio examples to get LCDs to accept data.


Free App Hidden Gem : UTM – Run Windows, Linux and more on the Mac!
blog.lon.tv/2025/03/19/free-ap…
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@lonseidman, I’m currently using UTM to test some Windows and Linux builds on ARM using a MacBook as we speak. UTM is brilliant software.



New blog post: Silly Mastodon Apps halcy.de/blog/2025/03/18/silly…

featuring: posting from your phone like it‘s 2008, posting from the file system, posting from the browser but in a very roundabout way, posting sideways, maybe more

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There are at least two, TWO people on my feed that will be interested in this.

RISC OS North show in Warrington.

riscosnorth.uk/

29th March, Village Hotel, Warrington, WA1 1QA.

10:30 - 16:30. £7 door, under 14s free.

Found out via a flyer in the foyer in our mill.

The most Northern of communication mediums.

#riscos #acorn #warrington



The Fediverse should totally be more silly. Play around with the format more. Do shit that might not make sense on corporate platforms but that are human and weird and just some fucking fun.
icosahedron.website/@halcy/114…


The extractive tech playbook:

1. Target an industry where people create actual value
2. Build an app that makes transactions marginally easier
3. Burn billions in capital to subsidize artificially cheap services & kill the competition
4. Bleed everyone dry

joanwestenberg.com/the-great-t…

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The utterly stupid part is you'd have a perfectly ethical and zero expenses profitable business for decades if you did nothing but step 2 and took an 0.1% cut of transactions for existing providers who wanted easier transactions to get more business.
in reply to Cassandrich

See: what Patreon had before they went chasing something else.


This was a fun one: an automatic safe lock manipulator! This little bot can crack a standard safe in 10-15 min: youtube.com/watch?v=PpTF6XCVEX…

Mechanical safe combination locks leak a little bit of information about their internal state; you can use this to do a directed search of the combination space and open them way quicker than brute force. I've been wanting to do this ever since reading @mattblaze 's Safecracking for Computer Scientists 20 years ago - but the planets didn't align for a while!

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Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria
It took nearly two years for doctors to figure out the cause of his chest pain.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…

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What unites us is being challenged.

We’re presenting solutions to close critical capability gaps, build a strong defence industrial base, and preparing for all scenarios.

We’re also introducing the ReArm Europe Plan / Readiness 2030 to boost EU Member States' defence spending by over €800 billion, with:

🛡️Up to 1.5% of GDP for defence investments over 4 years
🛡️Up to €150 billion in loans for defence projects
🛡️Leveraging public and private capital for defence projects

europa.eu/!fXYQwj



I guess that "bare minimum" alt-text is better than no alt-text.

But giving people who can't view images high quality alt-text - a chance to enjoy an image properly - is (to me) just part of treating people kindly.

It takes but a few seconds to type an extra sentence or two.

Bad alt text: "Cat"

Good alt text: "A tabby cat sitting on a windowsill, looking out the window with its tail curled around its body."


rnib.org.uk/campaign-with-us/a…

#accessibility #kindness #alttext



loops will be ready to self host with a simple installation process (mysql, php, redis, ffmpeg) by the end of this month!

it will still be beta software, but it's been running pretty stable so far on loops.video and we're switching our approach to open first development, as it should be.

Star this repo to follow along: github.com/joinloops/loops-ser…



#Titikaveka Beach is only a few minutes away from #Muri Beach, but more relaxed and rural. #Sunbathing, #swimming and #snorkeling are good and you can enjoy the #solitude that you cannot find at Muri Beach. backpackandsnorkel.com/Raroton…


Tesla fans expose Tesla’s own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash

electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-f…

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #elonmusk #tesla #teslabros



Jasmine Mooney: I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…



Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts

The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
propublica.org/article/trump-i…

#News #Trump #IRS #Tax #Law #Labor #Government #Workers

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"In a follow-up email, he said he was “pleading with you to remove the clause,” adding: “It is not an immaterial false statement, because it is designed to improve the govt’s posture in #litigation (to the detriment of the employees that we are terminating today).”

Because it was not true, he wrote, “That renders it, as I see it, an anticipatory #fraud on tribunals of jurisdiction over these employment actions.”
- @ProPublica

propublica.org/article/trump-i…

#Trump #Corruption #USPol #Law #News #US

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Just like how the Doge boys never went thru the security clearance process. They DGAF about process and procedures.

#Fascism



19 March 1874 | Jewish woman, Thora Mendelsohn (nee Paltiel) was born in Malmö. She moved to Norway in 1894.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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Hi, I’m here. Having a mini holiday at the lake.
(Does this need a CW for feet? But men post their hairy legs without CW, too.)
#CyclingLife #cycling #BikeTooter
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@Pawpower Thank you!! Yes, my bike is so great and springy 😁 it’s literally just a half day visit, but it FEELS so vacation-like, sitting here in the sun ❤️. Definitely making the most of it! Gonna get cold & rainy again from Saturday.
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Gotta save up those warm sunshine-y memories. Saturday you can stay home and bake cookies while it rains but today is for sunshine! I hope it's excellent and restorative! I spent all day yesterday outside and it was fantastic, I needed it.


Wireshark’s packet filters make it easy to zero in on specific network traffic, whether you are looking at protocols, IP addresses, ports, or even packet contents

Here are useful Wireshark filter examples 😎👇

Find high-res pdf books with all my #linux and #cybersecurity related infographics at study-notes.org



🐣 Cute Happy Easter Chick with Finger Friend Hole! Toy • STL and 3MF files
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2822497
💡 Designed by ValeriaMomo


This Wired overview of historic dictatorships and modern day Trumpism and Putinism is impressively well written.

I learned a number of things I did not know, and I highly recommend it:

youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?si=3MfbST…

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Great! Thanks for sharing! I’m sending it out to my friends who aren’t yet on Mastodon.
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i watched it too, it's excellent. And the prof. Does not even pretend that Trump isn't skipping merrily down the autocratic path