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in reply to lifewithtrees

I'm still waiting for the common-sense precautions to be put in place like indoor air quality regulations and requirements for sufficient filtration and ventilation in new construction.




in reply to Steve Woods

The EU should block Xitter already. They have the means to do so. So should any other country that has concerns about his unhinged support for dangerous politics and far-right endorsement. Other social media platforms are available and they are moderated at least to some extent.



From a chronically moisturized baby hippo to Trump’s bloody ear and the glorification of Luigi Mangione, nothing was off limits this year.
#BestMemes2024
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in reply to GeriAQuin

all I learned from Trump's bloody ear is that Americans need to learn the difference between sniping and firing a gun into a crowd of idiots - an AK47 is not a sniper rifle, use a 223 varmint gun instead. Mangione was a desperate man, not a hero. Heroes are motivated by social injustice, not personal grievance..and I'm ambivalent toward hippo sunscreen




Of course he does...

Elon Musk backs German far right party.

Musk is backing the AfD in the upcoming German election after Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed.

Musk has already expressed support for other far-right, anti-immigration parties across Europe.

He will join Trump’s administration as an advisor.

aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/20/…

#Musk #GermanElections #AfDParty #FarRight #USPol #Plutocracy .

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in reply to DrALJONES

He is in fact already advising the incoming government.
in reply to Konosocio

Yes. I can imagine the typically subtle, measured Musk-style of advice: "Do what Thiel, Rupert & I tell you to do, or we'll cut off the flow as well as your ..."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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in reply to DrALJONES

Non one else would!!

US landing craft on D Day 6 June 1944



Report: Netanyahu won't attend Auschwitz anniversary for fear of arrest for war crimes

Netanyahu faces arrest & extradition under warrants issued by the International Criminal Court.

Poland's Dep Min of Foreign Affairs said the Polish government was “obliged to respect the provisions of the International Criminal Court in The Hague”.

aje.io/odp7h3?update=3398865

If only more leaders would stand with the ICC

#ICC #NetanyahuWarrant #GazaGenocide #BDS #Poland #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity .

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And we're done! I need to do some light sanding to tidy up the edges, but I'm pretty pleased with how these turned out. I'm going to leave it up to the recipient to decide how to decorate them. 3D model available here, including the #FreeCad source: printables.com/model/1115339-t… #Christmas #Tagalog #Welsh #3Dmodelling #3dprinting #cnc #hobbycnc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇭
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On this #FreeCADFriday, I’m using the #Gridfinity and Part Design workbenches to make some screwdriver trays for my toolbox. The cool thing about these is that the cutout shape is the same between trays, but I only have to tweak the dimensions for each specific screwdriver. (All of mine are different)

I also made one to hold a hex bit holder that I designed and printed a few years ago. That one is a half-width tray because I have a half row at one end of my toolbox drawer.





WhatsApp prevailed against #NSOGroup over NSO’s abuse of the messaging app to enable the infiltration of phones of journalists, activists and dissidents with its #Pegasus hacking tool ft.com/content/e5b770d7-07af-4…




Having Your Tonsils Out as a Child May Have a Drastic Impact on Your Life

sciencealert.com/having-your-t…

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Here is part of a CIA map of Libya - I'm using it because it's public domain. It comes from here:

loc.getarchive.net/media/libya

(A Library of Congress site with public domain maps. Can be a handy resource! The Schiaparelli map was from Wikimedia Commons.)

Surt, Sidra - they are forms of the latin name Syrtis, a marsh, and Syrtis Major was a large marshy area along the coast here. So it is a place on Earth like the others. Are all those names from Earth? #maps #Mars

in reply to Phil Stooke

We need a bit of a mind-flip to understand how Schiaparelli developed his naming scheme. We start with a map of Mars - let's use a modern one from the Hubble Space Telescope. But Schiaparelli didn't see Mars like this... #maps #Mars #Hubble
in reply to Phil Stooke

No - Schiaparelli saw Mars like this - with south at the top. Until the dawn of the space age most planetary maps were drawn with south at the top as seen in an inverting astronomical telescope. Only when maps might be used for direct physical exploration did the convention change to avoid potential confusion. Rather than turn our screens upside down, let's do a 'rotate 180 degrees' in Photoshop. Simples! #maps #Mars #Hubble


How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect.
rakhim.exotext.com/web-develop…

<- programmers increasingly don't know how programs work, or that there is a web that doesn't involve Javascript frameworks.

Apparently.

in reply to lproven

My two favorite interview answers I got a while ago:

- What is the complexity of this algorithm?
- Um, I see no complexity, it's quite straightforward.

And:
- On what protocol level ports are implemented? [asked in the middle of a talk about HTTP]
- Not sure, I think USB?

Those people were not joking, and I'm sure they also weren't dumb, but I still can't get used to the context gap that I have with many people with web development background.

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in reply to lproven

the worst part of all of this has to be electron apps. I can live with all this, cause even they are just figuring it out. What is a sin though, is electron, I cannot stand it. Esp when there are cross platform UI frameworks and many languages u can write it in. Also the sheer ignorance of optimisation also drives me nuts.