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in reply to Megan Lynch (she/her)

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in reply to Quinn Norton

how tf did it take LA until 1990 to bring back rail transit? they should have started mass rollout in the 70's
in reply to Fluffy Kitty Cat

@fluffykittycat when the trusts bust you, they bust you.

weirdly, the best movie on this is Who Framed Roger Rabbit 😂



in reply to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

see alt text for further description, but as a quick summary: 12-24V in, 5.25V out, max output current 1.5A, operating current typically 500-700mA. designed for minimal EMI and noise. all downstream rails are generated from the 5V25 rail using high PSRR LDOs.
in reply to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

having your typical about half max is a good idea: switchers get kinda bleah when they're operating at <20% max.


Lots of ads for cruise ships. They look crass and vulgar: a huge floating city that has negative environmental impacts floating in pristine places, places that won't remain pristine with these things visiting. 🙁

Leave the pristine places alone. 🙁






in reply to Edwin G.

@admin The last thing one wants to do is become complacent.

But Canadians have been the victim of lack of respect from USA residents for months now, including an USA official crossing the border from side to side saying: “USA #1 / 51st state”.
montrealgazette.com/news/provi…

And it’s not only Canada, but also Greenland:
bbc.com/news/articles/cr4236e2…

And Panama:
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

😀

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Edwin G.

@admin I won’t argue on the common threats you mentioned, which include also the Russian Federation.

But I do have to ask you a simple question: when did this whole thing start (as in a calendar date)?

We might have two different starting points.




going to use my startup lottery winnings to buy IRC networks and run them into the ground


Wizards' Caporn Named Basketball Australia Head Coach

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There's a horrendous loud, high-pitched continuous beeping outside, so I clapped on the noise-cancelling headphones so I could work and preserve some sanity. The first thing my music app suggested was George Clinton and the P-Funk, so everything I write today gonna be FUNKY. 🎶
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in reply to Alex Psmith

You know when Flashlight comes on, I have to get up and dance.
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John Adams regretted signing the Sedition Act of 1798, which restricted press freedom. He told his son it was "never a favorite" of his. The law expired in 1801, but its legacy as a restriction on free speech endures. A history professor explains: buff.ly/6HCy4Vx
#freespeech


Dear station playlist. Stop screwing with my hearing. I’ve had to spend half the day fixing your stupid settings. And I have to get this show recorded before Friday.
in reply to Duyahn

no cookies for you SPL! lol. here is hoping you can whip it into shape.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry I think I finally fixed it. There’s one setting I do like and I’m going to use it. It has to do with commercials. I’m going to tell station playlist not to Crossfade those. I don’t think personally it’s necessary. That’s just in my opinion.


Former Emergency Leaders' statement on Cyclone Alfred

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Googleのニュースですね

Google asks Utah’s governor to veto the state's app store age verification bill engadget.com/big-tech/google-a…

#Apple #news #bot



Hey, fellow #neurodivergent folks! Especially fellow #AuDHD folks.

Do you have a flirt radar?
I do not.
I never know when anyone is flirting with me.
Almost all the time when it does happen, someone else has to point it out to me & even then, I usually don't see/understand what they're talking about.
I do not know how to flirt either.
I am very direct. In the past, my straight forward nature has intimidated many NTs & some NDs who haven't invested much time in getting to know me better.
I'm quite friendly & engaging with almost anyone whom I find interesting & seems to share similar core values. It doesn't matter what gender, if any, they identify with either.
My straight forward friendly style seems to make many CIS guys think I'm interested in more than platonic friendship, when I am not.
If I like anyone more than just a platonic friend, I am pretty open about telling them that, directly.
If I don't say it - don't assume more than I actually say. I have this thing called, emotional maturity.

#ActuallyAutistic

in reply to Ms. Que Banh

Do you have a flirt radar? I do not. I never know when anyone is flirting with me. I do not know how to flirt either. My straight forward friendly style seems to make many CIS guys think I’m interested in more than platonic friendship, when I am not.


@PhoenixSerenity huh, so that explains all the problems I have had all these years. Fortunately for me, in a stroke of incredible luck that I would never be able to replicate if I had to do my life over again, I met someone who eventually agreed to marry me, so I don’t have to worry about this quite as much as when I was younger.



I finally finished reading Mastodon.

Fun read but the plot was all over the place.



America is to blame for the American drug problem....NOT MEXICO NOT CANADA.
America is to blame for the Mexican GUN PROBLEM 100%.


It's 11pm and I'm currently making sausage pasta sauce while drinking chili-pineapple moscato. Why not?
in reply to Trivial Einstein

In other news, I regret to inform English that in an effort to make our language more welcoming to visitors, I'm henceforth spelling it "chili" whether it's the stew or the pepper. "Chilli" just looks wrong and there are too many vertical lines. Plus I could never remember which spelling was which. It's "chili" from here on out. The surplus "L" can go to the ploor.
in reply to Trivial Einstein

That was a fucking brilliant bit of wordplay to bury in a reply. What am I even doing here? What clout could I possibly be chasing with that kind of weak shit? I don't deserve clout at all. I don't even deserve discount, knock-off, Klout®-brand Engagement™. I'm a disgrace to the uniform.

What do you mean there's no uniform?! Eugen assured me there was... Oh that sneaky fucking Russian bastard!

Does anyone want to buy a slightly used Mastodon uniform which I'm now realizing is just a garbage collector's jumpsuit with the word "Mastodon" written across the back in off-white house paint? I'll knock off a few bucks from the price because I've just now realized that "Mastodon" doesn't have two "D"s.

Nice try Eugen, but you're not clever enough to fool me repeatedly for more than two years.

in reply to Trivial Einstein

This, in comedy terms, is what's called "an extended bit." See, I'm leading you on a little, making you think the joke is over, when in fact I have additional material to spring on you when you least expect it. It's kind of like the anticipation of a jump scare in a horror movie. It's more fun if you know it'll happen but you have no idea when, at least for the creator who is going to scare you.

Of course, there's equal humor in stringing you along unnecessarily, making you read through a huge text dump expecting the punchline at any moment, but instead you come to a sudden halt

in reply to Trivial Einstein

in reply to Trivial Einstein

You may have figured out by now that I had no punchline. This is all an extended bit gone horribly off the rails and I've lost the thread completely. I had to find a way out, so I reversed the script and accused you of cheating so I could fail to deliver my promised punchline as gracefully as possible. Frankly, I was hoping you would get annoyed by the whole premise a long time ago and I wouldn't have to bother, but you've pushed me too far.
in reply to Trivial Einstein

That's what's known in the biz as a punchline which begs the joke. In other words, if I give you a suitable punchline, your brain, in a feat of gestalt, will fill in the joke which must have gone before. It's a bit like an "AI" using all the jokes it's been fed to autocorrect a joke which might fit the punchline, except "AI"s aren't funny so the joke it would produce would probably be about telemarketing or arithmetic or something.

The human brain being the marvel of evolutionary randomness that it is, we're much better at amusing ourselves than other people, so I'm counting on this to improve your opinion of my humor without actually having to be funny. Of course there is a certain skill in constructing a suitable punchline to be backfilled, but in this case I've gone with something which implies a ribald joke but which isn't in fact dirty in itself. It's cheap and tawdry, really, but what can you expect from someone who would get this far into a bit without an exit strategy?

Once you know how the trick is done, it's much less magical, isn't it?

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@superball
I feel like "The Not-Boring Story of the Last Time I Was Bored" is a book waiting to be written.



Finally watched some tutorials and got myself off the ground with Nomad Sculpt! Which is funny, since my first project is a flightless kiwi. :3

Working on this lil guy as a potential enclosure for a #RaspberryPi running #Kiwix

// #3DPrinting #Electronics #NomadSculpt #CAD

in reply to merlin / alex glow

Thanks again, looking forward to getting started!

I’ve seen Paperlike recommended before, often wondered about trying it as I do a lot of notes but find the bare iPad screen and pencil a bit slidey.

in reply to The Hat Fox

@thehatfox Absolutely! I've been using the Paperlike for years now, and I prefer the matte screen for both art and glare reduction.

Recently decided I wanted even more friction for drawing, so I bought some "MJKOR Soft Paperfeel Damping Tips" and have really liked it for the past couple weeks. I also tried a silicone cover for the Pencil tip, but it reduced the precision, which ruled it out for me.

Curious to hear your experiences, if you go for it 😀



nytimes.com/2025/03/12/climate…

E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, reframed his agency’s mission, saying it is to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.

the new corporation protection agency. black is white and white is black.

#news #trump #environment #epa #resist



When I discover a cool open source project: 😀

When I see the web site has a link to the project’s Twitter account: 😢

in reply to Pete Prodoehl 🍕

Is the twitter account still active? I know plenty of projects that had accounts, still have the link the website, but haven't posted since API access died.
in reply to AMS

@AMS It might be worth checking on that and then getting in touch with the project about remove the link and/or deactivating the account.
@AMS


(ロストテクノロジー、ろすとてくのろじー を覚えました)


I just migrated here from SecondUniverse@neurodifferent.me, so as a quick introduction... I am a trans woman. I transitioned back in the nineties before the world declared war on us. I was diagnosed with autism in my fifties, and more recently I have self diagnosed myself as having CPTSD. I post about astronomy, game development, trans issues, mental health, autism, and writing. #trans #actuallyAutistic #writing #mentalHealth #gameDev
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Belfast is one of the main attractions of Northern Ireland. There is so much to see that we created self-guided tours to see the highlights of Belfast in two days. #Belfast #NorthernIreland backpackandsnorkel.com/Norther…



“It’s World Day Against Cyber Censorship, a great occasion to remind ourselves of the early optimism surrounding the internet. Once envisioned as a force for global connection and free-flowing information, the internet has instead (d)evolved into a place where access to knowledge and privacy are increasingly under threat. Big Tech has monopolized its infrastructure, and governments all over the world are too eager to capitalize.”

blog.torproject.org/fighting-c…



in reply to Edwin G.

You forgot that in Montréal we also get oraanges/mandrins from Morocco !!!!

Used to be a 747 back in late 1990s now only a 787. But there is still the nonstop that brings cargo (and passengers).

in reply to Jean-Francois Mezei

@jfmezei Does the USA even produce mandarines or clementines? 🤔

I’ll add the Moroccan oranges. 😁
Thanks!



finding out that human fall flat, a game that’s been in the back of my mind but not as this like… ground-breaking game, sold 55 million units genuinely floored me

scott the woz mentioned it off-handedly in a video and i was just like… surely this is just one of his jokes right

it wasn’t

he’s dead serious

in reply to Ibly 🏳️‍⚧️

name me someone who's a fan of human fall flat

that's right they don't exist

so how the fuck did it sell more than most indie games ever

motherfucking it outsold balatro by 10 times

who are the people who bought human fall flat, i need to study them

in reply to Ibly 🏳️‍⚧️

genuinely, I think like 70% of human fall flat sales were people who bought it on console to play with friends like, a total of 3 times, got through 4 levels and then quit. I know thats what happened with my friend group, and we played like 6-8 people once, and none of us have touched it in like 3 years.



I need a new non-US produced show to watch to let me think about things that aren't US-related.

The Story of Pearl Girl was nearly perfect but I've finished it. And there's only so many times I can watch Who Rules the World and Once Upon a Time on Lingjang Mountain and Qi Refining for 3000 Years.

in reply to Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D.

Blood and Water, Netflix. Filmed in Cape Town, a taste of how hard African drama goes. Arnold Vosloo's Ludik is filmed in Joburg or Pretoria, but similar turn-it-up-to-11 bad guys.