Apparently the Latvian for "Article" is "pants", which as an English speaker makes the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights quite funny: ohchr.org/en/human-rights/univ…
OHCHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Latvian
VISPÂRÈJÂ CILVÈKA TIESÌBU DEKLARÂCIJA ANO Åenerâlâ Asambleja pieðèmusi 1948. gada 10. decembrì PREAMBULA Ievèrojot, ka visiem cilvèku sabiedrìbas locekîiem piemìtoøâs paøcieðas un viðu vienlìdzìgu un neatðemamu tiesìbu atzìøana ir brìvìbas, taisnìgum…OHCHR
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I've been trying to move out of my old storage unit (because I can't afford it) but it's gotten delayed, and I'm at risk of losing it.
Any donations to help me keep my collection of old computers would be very helpful!
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Fediverse acclimatisation test. Do not write on both sides of this toot at once.
1) What is a stavlet?
2) Do you agree?
(1) Stavlet: follower of Zoëasstrianism, a yeastern school of philosophy.
(2) It is always safest to agree with the custodienne of the Var.
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StavLet - Oribi
StavLet Et avanceret staveprogram, som retter stavefejl og grammatikfejl på dansk Køb StavLet StavLet fungerer på Windows, macOS og ChromeOS.Oribi
If your spoon economy is anything like mine, "once or twice a week" is much more spoon-load than "twice a week", which in turn is much more than "every Wednesday and Saturday".
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Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.
Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts (more than Belgium or Chile) to process less than 7 transactions per second :
Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.
This could be a joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dollars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.
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I live in a country (where I was born) where I need to apply for government approval to move significant funds out of the country. No issues doing it now, but I am concerned with what would happen if they start saying no. My currency also loses roughly 10% value against USD per year (sometimes more). I also have to provide my social media accounts to get a US visa. Bitcoin is valuable in this context. Much more than running AC or playing games (but value is subjective)
@louis
The currency situation sounds shitty, and governments can be arbitrary, my sympathies.
The rest though...
One, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people' logic for electricity consumption looks even worse than with guns.
Two, I hope to see enough EVs running to power a small nation. They take gas machines off the road.
Third, farms run where power is cheap and exploitable. If it's a stranded source, that's just coincidental, & likely to crowd out others.
What I am trying to say is this:
1. Bitcoin has value to at least some (e.g. my government example), in the same way that some other things have value to some e.g. games.
2. Power generation creates pollution not bitcoin mining. So it's on equal footing with whatever else consumes power like gaming consoles, EVs or ACs or washing machines.
You have the right to your views but treating it as abolutely right compared to other uses of electricity is not an argument.
Prisoners with jobs: “Sire! Sire! The advertisers are unhappy!”
SuperGeniusMan: “What are they whining about now? Have I not created the best social media network in the universe?”
Pwj: “Sire, some of the userbase, er, that is, the Necessary Scumbags, have revolted against your benevolence and are blocking advertisers on sight. Thus they do not see the amazing cryptocurrency scams being offered to them.”
SGM: “Ha! They cannot foil me, the Smartest Man Alive. Remove the blocking feature!”
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I just wanted to visualize a waveform, randomly searched for "audacity like online", not expecting much... and by god, they did it. The maniacs.
Wavacity | Online Audio Editor Based on Audacity
Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.wavacity.com
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Sodaphonic - Record, edit, and share audio online.
An online audio editor for humans. Cut, copy, record and export to mp3 or wav files.sodaphonic.com
The world's longest rail tunnel has been shut to passenger services after a derailment in Switzerland causing damage that will take months to repair.
Swiss authorities said there was "no indication" when the Gotthard Base Tunnel would reopen.
Sixteen wagons derailed and are still stuck inside, a week after the derailment on 10 August.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66…
Gotthard: World's longest rail tunnel shut for months after freight crash
National Swiss rail operator SBB said a derailed freight train caused severe damage to tracks.By Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)
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BREAKING: the world jigsaw authority have banned trans women from doing jigsaws with cis women citing their "biologically immutable advantage at connecting bits of cardboard together."
More as we have it.
#trans
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Debian Celebrates 30 years!
Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...Debian Project
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Anyone after #retroComputing fonts?
Just found this GitHub repository full of fonts for quite a few systems
github.com/robhagemans/hoard-o…
GitHub - robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts: turns out I like bitmap fonts
turns out I like bitmap fonts. Contribute to robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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you know what else is magic?
Getting in your climate controlled coach, driving to somewhere 40 miles away and arriving about a half hour later, and all the while you listened to a symphony played by a 100 piece orchestra.
I admit it's not as magical as being moved by words written someone 1000s of miles away or centuries in the past, but it is pretty damn good nonetheless.
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If you're at all being triggered by external events, then its going to come in waves.
The question is, do you feel that you were being fraudulently mopey, or that the feeling not so bad is a fraud? Hint: it's neither.
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@Sion [main] External events are a factor but my reaction to them is way over the top or even exists at all because of the depression. I think the feeling is that I was somehow exaggerating how bad it felt (I wasn’t) to get attention, and now one of guilt for having alarmed or alerted friends now that 48 hours later I’m a bit ok again. And also a sort of fear that everyone will go away again.
Similar feeling regarding my therapist. She’s offered an emergency appointment rather than waiting until September but it doesn’t feel like an emergency today. Saturday evening it definitely did.
Having been there: just because it's stopped being an emergency now, doesn't mean it's not going to be again before the next time you can see your therapist. Or that next time it's going to go away so quickly. There's no such thing as a false alarm in this sphere, just that sometimes it takes a *lot* of work to figure out what the root cause is.
Have long post brewing about feeling guilty about alarming friends and family, particularly those who understand. Just do it. Some of us are going to be in a place to listen, some aren't, and if we're all honest and transparent about this then those that aren't should just be able to back away from the moment without anyone's guilt, and be there another time.
Looks like I was pretty prescient ~5 years ago about the Hashicorp CLA being added:
twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1…
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Yes, and there are examples where things went sideways; "Hudson" was a tool to do Continuous Integration testing, and Oracle trademarked "Hudson" and claimed that they owned it. Community quickly continued under "Jenkins" that we now all know and love. "Hudson" was abandoned and donated to Eclipse, and largely a forgotten name by now.
MySQL -> MariaDB is another example.
I agree. I opposed the acceptance of OpenOffice into the Incubator in 2011, pointing out it was going to be bad for the ASF reputation. However, the Incubator PMC majority was in favor of accepting it.
I am pretty sure there was powerplay with IBM behind the scenes.
"2.5 years ago" was a reference to the woke invoking cancel culture on an individual from his own (original creator) project and Apache at large, because people were upset about what he wrote on Twitter.
Oh, I see. It's two-way from mastodon is it? The friendica post content is presented to me here as a link. But unlike RSS, if I comment on mastodon, the replies are federated to friendica?
I was confused, expecting either the content and replies to both be embedded within my mastodon client or else neither.
Stop using Brave Browser.
Seriously.
spacebar.news/p/stop-using-bra…
If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.
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"I have suspected so, ever since you were born."
"Why?"
"I was cursed when expecting you. A demon would take my firstborn son."
"And?"
"It came, looked at you and said 'Nah'."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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I have booked my Winter Flu Jab for 14th September. I'm eligible to get mine free, but most pharmacies in England also have private jabs for around £20. In my case it was quicker to book the free one via my local chemist than to wait for the GP clinic in my village.
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I wonder whether the Pavilion B Common Room at DAMTP is buzzing with talk of all this! mastodon.social/@Dtl/110858637…
Interesting! Newtonian Gravity seems to break down at very very low accelerations - perhaps the end of dark matter models for the universe?phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-…
Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars
A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable analysis of the orbital motions of long-period, widely separated, binary stars, usually referred to as wide binaries in astr…Science X (Phys.org)
Here's a repeat of an experiment I did on Twitter about 5 years ago.
Can you fit an entire Shakespeare play into a single social media image?
This uses the tiny GNU Unifont which is the most compact way to represent most characters.
The image is 4091x2069px and about 460KB . But when expanded it uses about 70MB of RAM - so some devices and services have trouble with it.
If this breaks something unexpectedly, please let me know.
(My original at twitter.com/edent/status/97032…)
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After some faff getting git repositories into shape, here are some notes on making the PCB and plates for Keybird69
dotat.at/@/2023-08-09-kbpcb.ht…
here's the hero image from the blog post, you will have to click through to enjoy the awesome purpleness of the actual PCB
i updated my pcb notes with some more about the holes for the switches and stabilizers
dotat.at/@/2023-08-09-kbpcb.ht…
Africa’s top cyclist Biniam Girmay ‘denied UK visa’ for Glasgow worlds
The Eritrean was among the favourites for the men’s elite road race in Glasgow but has withdrawn after the Home Office reportedly denied him an entry visaJeremy Whittle (The Guardian)
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I wasn't surprised to learn that someone proposed a unit for reciprocal of resistance to be called the 'mho' (ohm backwards).
I was suprised to see it proposed by Lord fucking Kelvin in 1883.
He even suggests to play 'ohm' backwards in a phonograph to work out how to pronounce it.
19th century physics shitposting.
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But what about phoneticians who came up with their 'cepstrum'?
(A cepstrum is a kind of inverse spectrum. Get it? spectrum -> cpestrum)
((The independent variable on a cepstral graph is quefrency. Get it? GET IT? frequency -> quefrency))
(((Phoneticians are very good shitposters.)))
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