Politics chat: Trump signs stopgap measure, gives DOJ speech; DOGE targets 7 agencies
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5325938/politics-chat-trump-signs-stopgap-measure-gives-doj-speech-doge-targets-7-agencies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A tale of two states: Florida and Illinois's responses to the Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5324551/a-tale-of-two-states-florida-and-illinoiss-responses-to-the-trump-administration?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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.
Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …Simon Willison’s Weblog
#woodworking
planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spac…
SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing
This should never have happened.Will Lockett (Planet Earth & Beyond)
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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:
Great work @pocketvj and Sxmo team!
#postmarketos #sxmo #tiling #linux
Sxmo: Simple X mobile
A minimalist mobile linux environment that is truly yours to control! Sxmo is a collection of simple programs and shell scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for Linux phones and other devicesSxmo: Simple X mobile
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
Sunday Puzzle: Celebrity jeopardy
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5311560/sunday-puzzle-celebrity-jeopardy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
As congregations across the country shrink, churches offer space for homeless shelters
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5285377/as-congregations-across-the-country-shrink-churches-offer-space-for-homeless-shelters?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I just finished a new 3D-printed planter for growing grass for cats! 🐱 It’s designed to work with fractured, porous clay gravel and features a built-in drainage system. A sturdy grid helps keep the grass in place while your cat enjoys their fresh greens.
Check it out, along with all the details and downloads: printables.com/model/1231471
#3DPrinting #Cats #GrassPlanter
Cat Grass Planter: Durable Solution for Long-lasting Use by Metikumi | Download free STL model | Printables.com
A durable, cat-friendly grass planter with a secure grid. Easy to print, assemble, and maintain! | Download free 3D printable STL modelswww.printables.com
The U.S.'s hospital bed shortage is in danger of reaching a 'critical threshold'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5325974/the-u-s-s-hospital-bed-shortage-is-in-danger-of-reaching-a-critical-threshold?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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16 March 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Nora Kohn, was born in Marosvasarhely.
In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was murdered in a gas chamber.
@jhamel @meercat0
@AGT @Freigeist62 @Martin_Urban
@Martin_Urban
🕯️ 🖤 Nora Kohn 🖤 🕯️
2 years old inhuman b*st*rds
#keinvergessen
#KämpfenBeginntMitErinnern
#niewiederfaschismus
#niewiederistjetzt
#AllezusammengegendenFaschismus
#afdverbotsverfahrenjetzt
#stopptDieBrandstifter
#WirSindDieBrandmauer
@pluralistic: "That's where "AI" comes in.
The hype around #AI serves an important material need for tech companies.
By lumping an incoherent set of poorly understood technologies together into a hot buzzword, tech companies can bamboozle investors into thinking that there's plenty of growth in their future."
Me: *flailing Kermit arms*
BECAUSE INVESTORS ARE STUPID IDIOTS WHO CAN'T SEE PAST THE $$ IN THEIR EYEBALLS!!
This Betty Boop is Broadway's newest star
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5326014/betty-boop-jasmine-rogers-broadway?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
A Look at the Panasonic FS-A1FM
hackaday.com/2025/03/16/a-look…
A Look At The Panasonic FS-A1FM
MSX computers were not very common in the United States, and we didn’t know what we were missing when they were popular. [Re:Enthused] shows us what would have been a fine machine in its day:…Hackaday
Helping Russia win is a Trump goal, not a goal of the citizens of USA.
Only 30 percent believe the US is providing too much aid for Ukraine, as opposed to 45 percent who believe the aid is about right or not enough.
And still Trump is on Putin's side.
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
Americans’ views of the war in Ukraine continue to differ by party
Americans remain largely divided along partisan lines over U.S. aid to Ukraine, nearly three years after Russia’s military invasion.Beshay (Pew Research Center)
1) If you have a group of people all steering the wheel, some going left, some trying to go straight and some right - with those percentages it will take a turn, slightly to the right. Unfortunately it is not just Trump.
2) Trump is not as such on Putin’s side. They both view the liberal well-informed democratic society as a threat. But they also view each other as opponents, and they both try to utilize Europe to their own advantage.
Michael Bauer, maker of the DIY REMI electronic wind instrument, has just published all the design and build notes from a pretty neat Samd21 based synth, designed for an Adafruit Itsy-Bitsy M0.
There is a very comprehensive build guide and all code is for the Arduino environment and up on GitHub.
Read more here: mjbauer.biz/Sigma6_M0_synth_we…
I always learn a lot from his writeups 😀
Also, zumindest die #BILD scheint etwas nervös zu werden...
#Merz #Grünen #Klimaneutralität #Schuldenbremse
und wie der Zufall will ist auf der gleichen Seite ein martialisches Bild zu einem Artikel über Heuschnupfen.
Luftverschmutzung ist ein wichtiger Auslöser von Allergien bei Erwachsenen. Stickstoffoxide aus Autoabgasen führen zu entzündlichen Reaktionen, und diese wiederum zu fehregulierter Immunantwort. Derartige Zusammenhänge werden ignoriert, um billig gegen Grüne Politik vorzugehen.
Der Link unten ist einfach nur das erste, was für mich auf Europe PMC dazu hochkommt. Der Konsens zu den Zusammenhängen ist klar. Wissenschaftliche Diskussion ist halt vorsichtig.
I'm proud to announce 6502.sh, because the world needs another 6502 emulator!
6502.sh is about 3k lines of busybox ash compatible shell script, it provides an emulated ACIA serial port and is capable of running BASIC
It has an integrated interactive debugger, with breakpoints, single stepping, and a myriad of other features
Check it out here: codeberg.org/calebccff/6502.sh
![; ./6502.sh ./progs/basic/basic.bin
Loading ./progs/basic/basic.bin...
Reset vector: $E836
6502 EhBASIC [C]old/[W]arm ?
Memory size ? 32768
31999 Bytes free
Enhanced BASIC 2.22p5
Ready
10 PRINT "HI FROM 6502.SH"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
HI FROM 6502.SH
HI FROM 6502.SH
HI FROM 6502.SH
HI FROM 6502.SH
Status: $36
negative : 0
overflow : 0
constant : 1
break : 1
decimal : 0
interrupt: 1
zero : 1
carry : 0
Registers:
A : $00
X : $DF
Y : $02
SP: $FF
PC: $C4C3
Ran 31204 instructions
65sh>](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/244847 "; ./6502.sh ./progs/basic/basic.bin
Loading ./progs/basic/basic.bin...
Reset vector: $E836
6502 EhBASIC [C]old/[W]arm ?
Memory size ? 32768
31999 Bytes free
Enhanced BASIC 2.22p5
Ready
10 PRINT \"HI FROM 6502.SH\"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
HI FROM 6502.SH
HI FROM 6502.SH
HI FROM 6502.SH
HI FROM 6502.SH
Status: $36
negative : 0
overflow : 0
constant : 1
break : 1
decimal : 0
interrupt: 1
zero : 1
carry : 0
Registers:
A : $00
X : $DF
Y : $02
SP: $FF
PC: $C4C3
Ran 31204 instructions
65sh>")
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My favourite #melbourne tradition is how on the last day they open for the season, Pascoe Vale pool invites the local dogs to come for a swim. It might have been the happiest place in the city today. Absolutely worth getting soaked by a rainstorm for. They were such good doggos
They weren't making me any money (very saturated market) so I've decided to open-source my feet. MIT license, do whatever you want with them.
GitHub - dupontgu/my-feet: My feet.
My feet. Contribute to dupontgu/my-feet development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Three years ago today, 1200 #Ukrainians sought shelter in the #Mariupol drama theatre.
#putin ordered #airstrikes in which 600 people, mostly women and children, died.
Today #trump is working with putin.
#Ukraine #DramaTheatre #war #russia
Right, after the disappointment of that last scanner arriving broken (and filthy), it's time to get serious.
I've found a more reputable seller and ordered a Fujitsu Fi-7160. No flatbed, I'll keep my current SP-1425 for that, but it's got intelligent anti-skew, supposedly top-end paper feeding tech, and does 120 images a minute(!) from the 50 IPM of my SP-1425.
Fully refurbished, new rollers, 12-month RTB warranty. Should be here some time next week.
That should speed up the scanning stage (fewer rescans due to misfeeds, faster scanning) and the processing stage (no, or at least less, manual deskewing).
But what about the cutting stage? That's a very manual process right now, involving a Stanley knife and a steel rule.
The answer: a heavy-duty guillotine, which the manufacturer claims can do a 4cm-thick stack of paper. That's at least half again as thick as the biggest issue I've got - and it'll cut perfectly straight in one pass (I hope!)
If this all works - and it's a big if - I'll have not only dramatically sped up the whole process, but the finished result will be better with less page content missing from those annoying catalogue pages that don't respect the gutter.
Cross your fingers for me!
51 dead and more than 100 injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g-s1-54140/51-dead-fire-north-macedonia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year!
So this is important to share.
Thank you.
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oh yeah, this was absolutely a secret "which version of Lee Dorian do you prefer" q. 
It's hard to argue with Napalm Death's remarkable body of work and influence, though.
Forget about rare earth minerals. We need more copper
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327095/copper-rare-earth-minerals-mining-electronics?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Rachael Cody, Oregon State University #ASD
Why parents of ‘twice-exceptional’ children choose homeschooling over public school
A better understanding of why parents of children with special needs choose homeschooling can provide insights to help improve public schools.The Conversation
Had two cold nights, so I was out poking the mud with a stick to see if it's frozen deep enough to try pulling that concrete beam again.
Nope, only top 1-2cm. I did sort through the steel pile yesterday. Found some wheels, but no two matching ones, nor anything resembling a wheel bearing or suitable axle.
Some other treasures though. Like a human powered plow. And a chair frame. Some wedges. And a ... wtf is that. Welding table?
If you enjoy factual take downs of poorly thought-out evolutionary biology theories you'll like this video that takes apart a fringe theory about neanderthals being some kind of evil ape super-predators.
I think it's really sad that neanderthals aren't around anymore, I think we could learn a lot by interacting with humans who were more significantly different from anyone who is alive today.
youtube.com/watch?v=UCsr7W0x6Y…
The Most Unhinged Neanderthal Theory I Have Ever Heard
#history #ancienthuman #archaeology #realarchaeologyThanks for watching, make sure to like, share, comment, and subscribe!All images are copyrighted to Danny...YouTube
if the calories do turn out to be a major factor for filtering out most of the "Neanderthal features" in our DNA¹, then aren't we describing the 80/20 rule but applied to evolution?
¹as @michael_w_busch pointed out: Neanderthals and sapiens sapiens interbred. So arguably the discussion should be framed as which genetic features were selected for within the hominid lineage, rather than as two truly different species of which one went extinct.
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@vanderZwan @nazokiyoubinbou @michael_w_busch
Things like basic disease resistance, or allergies could be huge.
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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!