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I had to convert an episode of Drag Race for my iPad and, even though the file got borked, I still deeply enjoyed it.

in reply to Shafik Yaghmour

and yet sometimes a quad-long is okay with g++ if you twist its arm in exactly the right way:


Here's one of my absolute favorite shots, "Momentary", where one had been sailing over the other, before being kicked out of the way mid-air, leaving them with a perfectly hapless expression.

flickr.com/photos/porsupah/949โ€ฆ

Now available to buy!

redbubble.com/shop/ap/64436639

#RabbitsOfMastodon #wildlife #bunnies



A rare three #cat configuration has been achieved on my daughters bed!! #catsofmastodon


Welcome to the future, goats and monkeys.

[ credit: stoney.monster/@stoneymonster/โ€ฆ
h/t @chebra ]

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SpaceX Starlink satellites photobombed my northern lights photos in Iceland!

#space #science #spacex #astrodon #womeninstem

youtube.com/watch?v=7hTnctQLCIโ€ฆ



Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.


I've redesigned my artist website completely. Big changes. It's now all a bit...weird. So I'm happy with that.

All javascript has been removed and there are no more embedded videos or other media. I've also tried to make sure it's as accessible as possible; all images now have descriptions right back through a 15-year archive.

shanefinan.org

Comments welcome, especially if you notice something broken or some accessibility problems.

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in reply to Fionnรกin

@Fionnรกin Good to do your own code. That way any bloated code will be spared, this approach is ultimately supporting green computing, too ๐Ÿ˜€
in reply to *_jayrope

@jrp yes thanks. My site was always plain HTML but often included borrowed elements and used Javascript for visual quirkiness. Reducing bloat code was the main motivation, along with removing all trackers to make it more privacy/ethically sound. I never needed these but they were built into embedded videos or other borrowed tools; I decided on a big rebuild to go back into the archive of 15 years.

As my art is all about tech and environment, I figured it made sense to have my site reflect that.



๐Ÿ”’๐ŸŒ Excited for 2024?

If 2023 companies adopted AI, 2024 they must start to use it in a responsible way!

Insights from the Forbes Tech Council:

#DataSecurity #AIResponsibility

forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouโ€ฆ

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in reply to kottke.org

Either I don't understand the rules, or I get killed randomly after clearly getting the big pill. It's like the ghost takes some time to get fear.


Entre que regresamos tras la pausa del nuevo aรฑo gregoriano y no tanto, les dejamos este Eunoia: El hogar de las palabras sin traducciรณn ๐Ÿค“

"ยซNo encuentro las palabrasยป es una expresiรณn bastante comรบn. Despuรฉs de todo, cada idioma tiene sus lรญmites, y muchas veces quedan expuestos a travรฉs del proceso de traducciรณn." ๐Ÿ‘‰ neoteo.com/eunoia/



Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM finally hits Beta gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/supeโ€ฆ

#ASYLUM #IndieGame #UnrealEngine #SteamDeck



โ€œcountless professors, when asked to perform a peer review for a journal, fob the work off to their hapless grad studentsโ€

Having been through the fact-checking process at the Times repeatedly, I canโ€™t understand how nonsense like this gets through.

I can only speculate the perhaps these days their fact-checkers fob the work off to hapless interns.

nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinionโ€ฆ

in reply to Carl T. Bergstrom

To be fair to Seife, it *is* getting harder and harder to find sufficiently qualified scholars who are willing to review scholarly papers, and as this becomes more difficult the quality of peer review is probably declining.

I'm just tired of the Times misrepresenting the peer review process.



"The Perennial Calendar - For Anniversaries". Always keep the dates that matter in your life where you can see them. ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŒฟ ๐Ÿ’œ. shop.sylvia-ritter.com/productโ€ฆ #art #mastoart #fediart


Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

As the time goes, Steam Deck gets more and more games, nice, amazing, spectacular, and no, this is not sarcasm.


"That then, is the simple reason why discovering drugs is hard; because we are dealing with a biological system that still escapes our rational understanding and because we are trying to engineer a molecule that perturbs this incompletely understood system, and that too while being forced to satisfy multiple constraints. It's like being asked to find a black cat in the dark, with the added constraint that one of your feet is bound to the top of your head, and you only get three tries."

blogs.scientificamerican.com/tโ€ฆ

in reply to Thiago Carvalho

while I agree with the general premise, I would also argue that the difficulty of drug discovery makes it even more important to have more publicly funded initiatives, rather than leaving it to corporations.


The Caribbean Sail adds Steamboat Willie as a playable character gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-โ€ฆ

#IndieGame #SteamboatWillie #LinuxGaming



Proton 8.0-5 has a Release Candidate ready for testing gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/protโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #LinuxGaming #Proton

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Thought I would but they only want things that broke from 8.0-4 to the RC - and I can't get RTX to work at all with 8.0-4 anymore (if ever - I think I've always played on experimental. ๐Ÿ˜…)


Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during #COVID, study finds

The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, "despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits," now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in 6 countries โ€” France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. โ€” may have died as a result.
politico.eu/article/hydroxychlโ€ฆ



322 chemical disasters in 2023 in the United States alone, of which only 8 were weather-related:

preventchemicaldisasters.org/cโ€ฆ

Quite the "hidden" cost of the petrochemical industry.

#EcosystemCollapse #BigOil



Ocean adventure game Sail Forth goes fully open-world, plus an expansion is coming gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/oceaโ€ฆ

#Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming





Plans For The Australian KDE Network #Linux #YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=JL3CLRJXSjโ€ฆ



@BrodieOnLinux so what do you think of Mii beta's take on your Linux origin story? Is it true that you tried out Arch because of their advice? Also please also generate some cringy manga like they did in the video, see youtube.com/watch?v=1ITbm3Gy3yโ€ฆ

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in reply to Andrew Graves

I started using it because I was a fan of Luke Smith's content back in the day
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Yeah, Luke Smith did a lot of great "tutorial" videos over the years!


in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

He's adorable! And look at those paws. He's going to be a big boy..


On Mastodon

This is me on Mastodon, it's really me, also added to my Gravatar.

ma.tt/2024/01/on-mastodon/



A month ago I found a cute meme on the internet that I thought would look excellent on my office wall. The bottom of the image said โ€œNational Park Serviceโ€ and some quick image searches found it was originally from the nationalparkservice Instagram account, part of a promotional series to encourage park safety. But Instagram resizes things for the web. So, of course, I did what any internet weirdo would do; I filed a DOI FOIA request for the original artwork. Today the DOI found it for me!


We're finally back to streaming for the new year, as of next week everything is going to be back in it's rightful schedule, but for now we're just doing one stream #Neptunia #GamingOnLinux youtube.com/watch?v=pst9IAN5ljโ€ฆ


Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimovโ€™s โ€œThree Laws of Roboticsโ€ are being used to help Google create guardrails for its latest robot advancement.
pcmag.com/news/google-taps-asiโ€ฆ


Now introducing: #PDBrick!

1.7 kW worth of raw USB-C PD power.

24x USB-C ports.
4x 100W, 20x 65W.
(4x USB A, but we don't talk about those ๐Ÿ˜›)

I never did a post of the project that @techbeard and I did last-minute before #CCCamp23, so here you go.
Build log in the thread below.

#usbC #usbPD

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Chefโ€™s Table meets Baldurโ€™s Gate in Netflixโ€™s first anime banger of the year polygon.com/24025746/deliciousโ€ฆ



in reply to Muse

I was too young during its run to explicitly understand all the progressive themes, but given the way I am now, I have to wonder whether it had the desired effect on me. (If so, then Iโ€™m grateful.) All I really understood at the time was that (a) it was a fun show, and (b) I had a crush on the witch.

Iโ€™m very happy to learn the show was more than my young mind could grok at the time.

in reply to Muse

I'm sure you were aware that nothing bad was going to happen.

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When she was 19, Henn Kim stopped speaking for two years. โ€œGrowing up, I felt trapped because I couldnโ€™t express my emotions. Now, without words, I felt inspired.โ€ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2โ€ฆ


i had the idea for this and was compelled to make it straight away

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in reply to Lynnesbian

the fact that the fedora looks a lot like the red hat logo adds another layer to the joke, and i quite like it :neofox_uwu:



I have been waiting for Intelligent Speed Assist for cars for a long time! I don't want to speed, but in busy traffic it's easy to miss a speed sign while keeping track of other drivers. So many ways are available to alert people to the speed limit. Why has this taken so long? Well, at least it looks like it is finally coming soon!
in reply to Muse

A lot of new vehicles have cameras to identify speed signs, and some have some annoying beeps if you exceed the current speed. I drove a Mercedes Sprinter this summer with that feature. It also had camera based lane departure warnings (that were really annoying at times). All the big new transport trucks have these features too.

Tesla had been using data in Google Maps (I think) that gives speed limits on most roads (at least in North America), though apparently their newer vehicles use the camera method (as well?). Tesla only display a warning unless you turn on "Joe Mode", in which case you get a not-so-annoying warning bell, and you can adjust it so the warning only happens after some number of units over the posted limit.

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