I find it interesting what is happening to the polls in Canada.
What looked like an upcoming comfortable victory for The Conservatives has changed dramatically after the inauguration of Trump.
Should the Liberals end up winning the election later this year, the US president would be facing the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Carney.
We would then see the chaos president Trump fighting a trade war against a calculated, educated and experienced economist who has lead central banks.
This happens all the time.
French fries are not French, theyβre Belgian at best.
One of the most popular Chinese dishes in the USA is General Tso's Chicken. In China no one knows who the General Tso is and never tasted his Chicken.
This is not an exhausting list.
reminds me of the dutch "filet americain"
which 1) for whatever reason has a french name
and 2) is literally raw minced beef with some spices that you're supposed to put on a slice of bread (with maybe some onions/eggs/more spices).
I guess maybe because americans like meat and boneless things? I have no idea what the connection is here honestly
WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draftβs fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a new Dim Auto Flip Text option to disable automatic text orientation based on where you click first.
BIM:
Syres916 fixed two cosmetic bugs in the UI code,
furgo16 re-enab
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Salvador DalΓ & Walt Disneyβs Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
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Salvador DalΓ & Walt Disney's Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
DalΓ long gone andΒ Disney gone longer still, it came out.Β The delayed arrival ofΒ Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few laid eyes on its unfinished materials again untilβ¦Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for the First Day in Dublin in Ireland - Ireland Purple Travel Guide
On your first day in Dublin, there is a good chance that you will be tired and exhausted - take it slow and have a relaxing afternoon in one of Dublinβs most beautiful parks.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise theyβd arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environmeβ¦Daring Fireball
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Chapter terbaru dari The Extra is Too Strong (Chapter 87) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! π
π Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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β³ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
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Chapter terbaru dari The Extra is Too Strong (Chapter 88) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! π
π Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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#news #poll #DC #WashingtonDC #Maryland #Trump
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Chapter terbaru dari Wolf Falls in Love with Moon (Chapter 22) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! π
π Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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Chapter terbaru dari Wolf Falls in Love with Moon (Chapter 25) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! π
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manga #Comedy #Romance #SliceOfLife
A cartoon by Paul Noth (@paulnoth). #NewYorkerCartoons
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For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun β itβs sacred, a sociologist explains
Beyond entertainment, fandom provides meaning, values and essential community to some participants.The Conversation
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Rich text editing on Discourse! I think that having to write Markdown directly has been one of the biggest real impediments for existing forums to move to Discourse, as I see it. I prefer writing raw Markdown, but most "normal" people would prefer a rich text editor. So happy to see this happening!
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Test our new composer on Meta!
We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that itβs easier to write on Discourse.Discourse Meta
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide, including $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy from Arizona farmers.
#Tucson #Arizona
Today I updated Spamhammer to get rid of Fediverse Chick once and for all.
I do so wish Mastodon had moderation tools, like, *anything* really, that would make this drastic step unnecessary. Alas, here we are.
Edit: Oops, the link. github.com/freeradical-dot-zonβ¦
GitHub - freeradical-dot-zone/spamhammer: DIY spam blocking the brute force way
DIY spam blocking the brute force way. Contribute to freeradical-dot-zone/spamhammer development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Attached: 1 image Are Senate Dems finding their backbone? Christ, I hope so https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029 #USPolvmstΒ·io
Do not believe it.
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The Kabuki Cave
As you could see from my comments here and some occasional comments on Bluesky, I felt pretty confident for most of the day that Senate Dems were in the processβ¦Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Just sent off my freedom of information request to get all the private data about myself that #DOGE has accessed. You can do it too, thanks to some quick #activism by Maryland representative Jamie Raskin.
"We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety." Amen, stamp.
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DOGE Privacy Act Requests - Jamie Raskin for Congress
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.Jamie Raskin for Congress
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13 March 1924 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Najman, was born in Radom.
In #Auschwitz from 21 July 1942.
No. 50301
He perished in the camp on 11 August 1942.
I wonder if there is a correlation between the people so marked for early death and a particular Nazi guard or kapo on duty at their selection to enter the camps. Who punched defenseless people so brutally.
Friendship ended with Firefox: Floorp is my friend now
I had meant to try out Floorp ages back but never got around to it so now after the Mozilla situation is as good a time as any, is it a good Firefox based br...YouTube
Floorp is what I recommend to people, who insist on sticking with Firefox.
As you pointed out, the obvious, if Firefox goes, so will all these many Firefox clones, because none of them have expressed interest in hard-forking Firefox, and going independent.
But, Floorp has two advantages.
1) They do not break things. LibreWolf, will break something (often), then blame Firefox. Which only further hurts, Firefox, which in turn only hurts, LibreWolf. -- It is a snake eating its tail. I think the 1x Floorp broke something, they patched it right away, and they owned up to their issue. They did not try to pass the blame, as LibreWolf does.
2) Floorp is very similar to Vivaldi Browser. If Firefox, goes, it would be nice not to have a big learning curve, if you need to switch browsers. If you've learned Floorp, you've more or less learned, Vivaldi, in many ways.
These are two things, I believe can help users in the long run.
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@Linux floorp is a nice browser, if somewhat needing a lot of tweaks. I use it as part of my isolated browsing system
Librewolf is my main personal browser and it hasn't really broken anything for me. I don't use it for streaming services or anything requiring DRM
There is 1 site that is buggy (canva) in librewolf (i use floorp for that) but everything else is fine so I don't know what people who have big problems with it are trying to do other than using DRM services
EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target
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Weird #3dPrinting question I've been thinking about.
Would the left side print faster? (Assume that both discs in the photo below are the same diameter and height.)
My assumption is that it would. The print head could accelerate during the chunky segments but the right side would be constantly changing directions, so no acceleration.
If it would be measurably faster, I'm not sure. I need to do some testing, but it's interesting to go against years of optimization in the other direction.
@chrishuck right. I think Iβve met this problem.
When you have two different geometries joining with different with a different number of facets you get some pretty strange problems. The corners canβt quite align. In a 3d print? Not a problem. I can see in industrial applications it could be a big ass problem if it wasnβt just an artifact of an image quality setting.
(I actually like the look of lower facets in some more shiny filaments like this example)
Fortunately, itβs just a graphical artifact. When it happens, I usually just turn up the quality setting from the default until it looks right. Weβre not talking complex geometry here, usually just cylinders.
I never really thought about it on the printing side because Iβve been using STEP files for so long in slicers and also running my G-code through ArcWelder to produce true circular moves. It could definitely be a problem otherwise!
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Writing Thu 13 Mar Leonardo Furore and Diamine Bliss
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A few more shots taken in-between sessions at the #FediverseHouse on Monday.
#Leica #Photography #SXSW
PLEASE SHARE: Great opportunity for people starting out. Free Desk space or Free Workshop space for 6 months.
Itβs time to launch the process for the next round of Boost Membership. This would be the cohort that will have their membership from April 2025 β September 2025.
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As it turns out, 56k modem technology wasn't quite as analog as the standards that came before.
Lewin Day explains.
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Why 56k Modems Relied On Digital Phone Lines You Didnβt Know We Had
If you came of age in the 1990s, youβll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screecβ¦Hackaday
Google has added Loss of Pulse detection to the Pixel Watch 3.
Maya Posch explains the functionality and the methods by which Google hopes to avoid false positives.
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Pixel Watch 3βs Loss Of Pulse Detection: The Algorithms That Tell Someone Is Dying
More and more of the βsmartβ gadgets like watches and phones that we carry around with us these days come with features that weβd not care to ever need. Since these are devices thβ¦Hackaday
There is no #cloud, only other peoples' computers. As @pluralistic says "Itβs funny because itβs true and the 'other people' in this case are rapacious, vertically integrated monopolies."
Now you can bypass the cloud w/ @privacysafe temporary encrypted files π
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So I should trust it because you say so? Who trusts you?
Because, from where I stand, you're just another Internet rando.
Please try to see it from my viewpoint and then find a way to make the trust you demand from me something that is verifiable by me. Perhaps a trusted-by-me third party can speak for you? (I trust @pluralistic, for example.)
Trust is not easily earned and should not be easily given.
(BTW: I still won't click on a link shortener, even so.)
@jackwilliambell Sure, I can't force you to trust me. When did I try to do that?
A URL to a web server I run is a URL to a web server I run. Whether it is a 301 redirect or not, or what length it is, has nothing to do with privacy or trust. An HTTP request is an HTTP request and can be logged by the server.
Here are two direct links to apps I hope people will trust enough to use, but if that is not you, that is okay π
PrivacySafe Bot β Secure Password Generator
Secure Password and Passphrase Generatorprivacysafe.bot
"I have no idea what I'm talking about" level question:
So last week I found out how polls work in ActivityPub
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And⦠this is interesting. What does this say about the level of anonymity of votes in Mastodon polls? I always assumed at least some of the instance admins would be able to deanonymize votes, but if votes are somehow analagous to statuses does that imply random users could snoop who voted how�
Multiple-choice polls should allow no-votes Β· Issue #34041 Β· mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Mastodon allows multiple-choice polls; e.g., selecting more than one choice is allowed. However, these polls reject an attempt to vote for 0 of the options. In many types of poll, that may be...GitHub
No. Evan's comment describes the inter-server protocol. Other users have no way of accessing these individual votes, on the voting server nor the poll server. Admins with database access can plainly read individual votes on either of the two servers.
PieFed came up with an interesting system last year that scrambles user IDs for votes to anonymize them, so the voting user's server would still know their specific votes, but the poll server would not. This has not yet been added to Mastodon.
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So this is almost like Matrix where any room participant can read individual poll answers, even historical ones after a user changes their mind (except here itβs gatekept to only admins, but a random user can just run a single-user instance and become admin)
I feel like somewhere should be a disclaimer that poll answers arenβt really as private as they would seem. Similarly for blocks (Moshidon does say the blocked user sees that theyβre blocked but most servers actually hide this)
This is correct. @kimapr If you run a Mastodon server, you have access to (1) all votes for all polls started on your server, and (2) votes by people from your server on polls hosted elsewhere.
I didn't have room for it in my original reply, but it's worth clarifying that there's nothing except a social contract stopping an ActivityPub server from publishing all votes it knows. The whole "private voting" idea in PieFed started because mBin was publishing votes: piefed.social/post/205362
EPROM-based Enigma Machine
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EPROM-based Enigma Machine
The Enigma machine is perhaps one of the most legendary devices to come out of World War II. The Germans used the ingenious cryptographic device to hide their communications from the Allies, who inβ¦Hackaday
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A medieval Bishop's ring from more than 800 years ago goes to auction
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •The Canadian Conservative Party has a massive war-chest and theyβve basically been campaigning non-stop since the last election. The Liberals on the other hand have kept their heads down and have been busy running things, basically ceding the floor to Poilievre and his grievance-politics.
Additionally, the Liberal government under Trudeau have been in power for almost a decade, so people got just kind of bored with them.
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It's pretty rare that governments last longer than two full terms (10 years max, but generally closer to 8). Trudeau was leader for 9 and a bit. That would make him the 6th or 7th longest serving PM.
He had a lot of baggage from a few relatively minor scandals and dealing with Covid. There was also a constant anti-Trudeau drumbeat from Western and mostly rural based grievance operations, well funded by the oil, gas and coal industries.
PP made it his duty to appeal to the anti-vax and grievance voters. A lot of the rest were just leaning "not-Trudeau". As soon as Trudeau stepped down, conservative support started to slide.
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Let's sse if the USA still "exists" by then. π¬π±
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Nobody ever has seen a sadistic destruction of a superpower before. Who knows what's gonna happen til fall.
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