Holy shit this dude just successfully argued that misgendering is a GDPR violation
not.an.evilcyberhacker.net/notβ¦
EDIT: If you are having trouble accessing evil cyber hacker dot net here is the underlying news article, it concerns an Iranian man seeking asylum in Hungary wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refugβ¦
wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refugβ¦That's an... interesting approach to it but I'll absolutely take itA trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.Jamie Wareham (QueerAF)
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Been a long loop to close, but playing The Bard's Tale on an Apple 2c has somehow prepared me for raising a kid who's getting into online gaming.
That game had _one_ save point, an inn in an alley in the middle of the city, and it didn't matter at all how much adventuring you'd done, if you didn't make it back to that bar at the end of the day you lost all of it. Poof.
So I make sure the kid gets a healthy advance notice before he has to shut it down.
I had completely forgotten about that mechanic! I remember loving that aspect of it.
Now I wonder how many of my favorite modern games I can improve by adopting it voluntarily.
and then there were those games whose save points were volatile because they werenβt provided for do-overs. We had copy the whole disk to have redundancy, which meant having to defeat the copy protection first and enduring such a long process that we typically got lazy and didnβt have enough backup points.
I still have my childhood computer. When I fire it up, Iβm oddly sanguine about how much I have to wait for it to finish loading things. It feels almost meditative. Itβs a genuine part of the experience and Iβm not sure if I want it to load any faster.
Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
Enough pixels to make everyone feel groovy at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48β¦
59th Street Bridge
28 July 2019. From 58th Street and Sutton Place Park, Manhattan. Officially the "Queensborough Bridge" and, more recently, the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge", but immortalized as the 59th Street Bridge by the eponymous Simon and Garfunkel song (AKA β¦Flickr
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Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
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"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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Legitimately among the finest American novels ever written. When I read it as a teenager, I found its giddy prose exhilarating, but with every subsequent re-read - as I gained the maturity to appreciate its deeper meanings - it became more horrifying.
Such careless people...
MaΓ―der, Soul Raider by Magali Villeneuve
Source: boardgamegeek.com/thread/25537β¦
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
[Preview] The Soul Raiders | Soul Raiders
Hello everybody! Here is the start of a thread to introduce the valiant heroes composing the party of Soul Raiders! This will be updated regularly in the months leading to the Kickstarter campaign, so follow it to have a sneak peek at the charactersβ¦BoardGameGeek
The image depicts a female warrior in a dynamic pose, suggesting movement. She is dressed in a combination of armor and flowing garments, with a red and gold tunic, a white sleeveless top, and a gold belt. Her armor includes a breastplate and arm guards, and she wears knee-high boots. She holds a large, ornate shield in her left hand and a long sword in her right, both adorned with intricate designs. Her hair is curly and blonde, flowing behind her as she moves. The background is a muted, cloudy sky, emphasizing the warrior's figure. The colors are rich and warm, with golds, reds, and whites dominating the scene.
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Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
hackaday.com/2025/03/16/transmβ¦
Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Teslaβs] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses involβ¦Hackaday
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news vice.com/en/article/people-areβ¦
People Are Seasoning Packing Peanutsβand Eating Them
Hey, soβ¦Not sure if anyone told you, but youβre absolutely not supposed to eat those packing peanuts. So don't do that.Sammi Caramela (VICE)
When algorithms take the field β inside MLBβs robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesnβt mean perfect precision β nor does it necessarily create a better fan experience.The Conversation
βAre we going to break something?β acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. βI donβt know."
propublica.org/article/recordiβ¦
#News #DOGE #Musk #ElonMusk #SocialSecurity #USPolitics #Trump
Recording Reveals SSA Head Dudekβs Thoughts on DOGE, Trump
In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with βthe DOGE kids.βProPublica
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"The president wanted it" will not age well when it comes to face the music.
#philosophy #raptor #dinosaurs #meme #memes #dreams #wow
FunHouse Radio
Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Okay but what is the new way to query hash tables then lol
Itβs 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.
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?
I beg your pardon?
Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
This bedazzled arachnid woos its mate with a sexy thrusting dance.Melissa Hobson (Live Science)
DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with many game improvementsMarius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Audacity 3.7.2 Improves the Linux AppImage Bundle for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - 9to5Linux
Audacity 3.7.2 open-source digital audio editor and recording app is now available for download with improvements for Linux and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Gesehen auf dem GelΓ€nde der #PHTG PΓ€dagogische Hochschule Thurgau in Kreuzlingen
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.
Thereβs a simple solution:
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Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
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The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW β Write to your MP β¬οΈ
#SaveOurSites π
action.openrightsgroup.org/savβ¦
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #fediverse #netplurality #mastodon #ukpolitics #ukpol #tech
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
β«οΈ Check if they have UK users
β«οΈ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
β«οΈ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcomβs future directives
#SaveOurSites π
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
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 β‘οΈ openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-β¦
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.Open Rights Group
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; thereβs 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."
Tim Walz is touring Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327412/tim-walz-is-touring-republican-held-congressional-districts-in-iowa-and-nebraska?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump is getting pushback from an unlikely place β the conservative media
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328623/trump-is-getting-pushback-from-an-unlikely-place-the-conservative-media?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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An animation breakthrough makes it possible to more accurately illustrates Black hair
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327498/an-animation-breakthrough-makes-it-possible-to-more-accurately-illustrates-black-hair?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Early tractors were wild. This here is a "road locomotive" plowing an entire field at once.
youtube.com/watch?v=5xDj45zF-lβ¦
#Tractor #Locomotive #Steam #Engineering
2021 RECORD! 150 CASE Road Locomotive pulling 44 bottom John Deere plow
Watch the 150 Case pull 44 bottom John Deere plows at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover, South Dakota! This is a new record for this engine with 36 ...YouTube
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A Tesla protester targeted by Elon Musk speaks out: 'I have to protect myself.'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328626/a-tesla-protester-targeted-by-elon-musk-speaks-out-i-have-to-protect-myself?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-npr
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People in the path of destruction of Oklahoma's wildfires survey the damage
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329291/people-in-the-path-of-destruction-of-oklahomas-wildfires-survey-the-damage?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Looking at Solid Project: Can anyone give an overview of how this fits together with or complements ActivityPub?
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.β¦
#photography #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
digiKam 8.6.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 8.6.0.digiKam
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/societβ¦
#seoul #korea #southKorea #protests
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March should be great for biking since itβs not too warm yet. It was 50Β°F a few days ago (good) and 62Β°F yesterday (a bit too warm) and today itβs 31Β°F and snowing.
I think for me the ideal is between 45-60Β°F.
Domain renewal month this month so we need a little extra.
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Repairing Our Clothes π§΅
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 >>>
πͺ‘ #Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.
This shows that weβre placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we donβt want to keep replacing items,
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#WRAPreport #mending #repairing
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in reply to mcc • • •"...the Court has created a powerful legal framework that transcends national barriers."
I have an issue with that language and it's really common to see. The court didn't create anything. What the court FOUND is that this framework/right already existed in the law.
If it actually doesn't THEN the court created it. Example: SCOTUS finding that presidents have immunity from prosecution. That is nowhere in our laws and in fact it's opposite to them. So this was created by the court.
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Unknown parent • • •@alexlunaview I'm sorry, I do not understand your question.
My post significantly simplifies the actual case. Did you read it?
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in reply to mcc • • •ironically Iran is more liberal than Hungary on trans rights, or the US for that matter, as there is a fatwa by Khomeini no less, legalizing gender reassignment surgery.
Gay, lesbian or bisexual rights, not so much...
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in reply to mcc • • •I don't have any experience of Iran (I am of Indian origin, not Persian), I'd just read an article on this in Salon.com, that also explained how it was a double-edged sword for gays and lesbians:
salon.com/2005/07/28/iran_tranβ¦
A fatwa for transsexuals
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in reply to Fazal Majid • • •@fazalmajid I see, I was not sure so I was trying to avoid assumingβ¦
Anyway, I've seen this specific article. I'd really like to have some confirmation of it more closely linked to Iran. Western press gets the Muslim world wrong all the time. If this was true in 1983, was it still really true in 2005? Now, in 2025? Consistently in all areas? Khomeni himself died in 1989. It's hard to get a government to really continue supporting trans health care, since it's somewhat expensive.
Fazal Majid
in reply to mcc • • •according to Wikipedia Khamenei, Khomeini's successor, confirmed the fatwa:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenβ¦
I have no first-hand or even second-hand knowledge of the situation on the ground in Iran, but if all these reports are true, there is no official government-sanctioned anti-trans agenda, unlike in Hungary or the USA, with the caveat of course that Iran has one of the worst human rights record in the world more generally.
rights of transgender people in Iran
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in reply to mcc • • •it looks like it might even be an EU-wide legal precedent to correct this data without undue delay
dudes rock
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in reply to mcc • • •I look forward to finding out just how well that's going to go down with the terf island Establishment.
(About as well as the Scottish Legislation, no doubt..)
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