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1. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 21:24:12 UTC NYbill

   Oh look at that, an "introverted person" who joined last year and follows 5k+ people, with 400+ bots following, followed me!

   The honor! Signing right up! New friend!

   #havetoShakeYourHeadSometimes

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   • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 23:35:01 UTC NYbill

     in reply to

     • jezra

     @jezra Stay away from that stuff, you'll get hooked!

   • jezra (jezra@pleroma.jezra.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 23:35:02 UTC jezra

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     @NYbill for me "I like pets" is as generic as "I enjoy eating food"
   • jezra (jezra@pleroma.jezra.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 23:35:02 UTC jezra

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     • jezra
     when thirsty, I enjoy imbibing dihydrogen monoxide
2. Jerome G (jgbird@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 20:45:55 UTC Jerome G

   Growing up, some of the kids made fun of me and other Asian kids, saying we ate dogs. Along with mocking the items in the lunches we brought from home. They were just kids, and I said and did plenty of dumb things as a kid too, but that stuff caused long-term trauma. There’s no excuse for any adult to say that type of racist garbage.
3. Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 20:07:46 UTC Ricardo

   Stellar bubbles captured by ALMA | ESO News - European Southern Observatory (ESO)

   https://youtu.be/jaxyu4RP9-I
   
   #astronomy #ESO #EuropeanSouthernObservatory
4. Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 18:51:33 UTC Molly White

   representation is important. thank you unicode team.
5. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 18:12:39 UTC Robert McNees

   Good morning.
6. Juan Per¢ent🍉🏞️🌊 (dacig@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:56 UTC Juan Per¢ent🍉🏞️🌊

   • HeavenlyPossum

   @HeavenlyPossum Totally agree. The special status afforded to cars is baffling if you think about it for a minute. Your own little fiefdom on wheels, with 50% of the space in every city free for you to occupy at any time.

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7. econads (econads@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:45 UTC econads

   in reply to

   • Jan Ainali
   • The Geoff

   @ainali @_thegeoff
   As you should know, if Death goes missing, terrible things occur..

   #discworld cannon..

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   • The Geoff (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:47 UTC The Geoff

     Death: "MR JAMES EARL JONES?"

     JEJ: "IS IT THAT TIME ALREADY?"

     Death: "ARE YOU DOING MY VOICE?"

     JEJ: "NO. PRATCHETT WROTE YOU WITH MY VOICE IN MIND."

     Death: "WOW. THAT'S A FIRST."

     JEJ: "AND THE ONLY TIME. IN ETERNITY. BEER?"

     Death: "I THINK I NEED ONE."

     James gently took his hand and led him into the desert.

   • Jan Ainali (ainali@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:47 UTC Jan Ainali

     in reply to

     • The Geoff

     @_thegeoff
     There is no beer in the desert, but Death was too shook to realize that and just followed along gently.

     In the deep desert, much like in space, no one can hear you scream.

     Some time later, only James returned.

     *Everyone* lived, surprised, ever after.

   • David S (pionir@toot.bike)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:52 UTC David S

     in reply to

     • The Geoff

     @_thegeoff I always thought getting Christopher Lee as the voice of Death in Soul Music was the most inspired bit of voice casting since David Jason did Dangermouse and now whenever I watch Lord of the Rings I think "ooh, it's Death"

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8. Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 10:44:51 UTC Ludovic Courtès

   I’m a big fan of malleable and extensible software packages à la Emacs; I think they’re the way to provide practical freedom to users, when licenses provide freedom “de jure” only.

   That one can gradually discover the code and fiddle with it blurs the user/developer distinction and reduces the dependency of one group on another.

   #FreeSoftware

   🧵

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   • Daniel S. Katz (danielskatz@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:24 UTC Daniel S. Katz

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     @civodul I heard an interesting talk from Matlab folks a couple of years ago where they described their depreciation process. If I remember right, they had releases every six months, and wouldn't deprecate anything (or make any changes that could break user code) with less than 4 releases (2 years) of notice.

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   • Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:26 UTC Mans R

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     @civodul Matlab comes to mind. I know it's not open source, but that's beside the point here.

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   • Ghislain Vaillant (ghisvail@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:35 UTC Ghislain Vaillant

     in reply to

     @civodul given the large surface area of Guix, I think we could take a page or two from either large distributions like Debian (apt and dfsg policies) or programming languages (Python, OCaml, Scala, ...)

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9. Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 16:06:15 UTC Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   • Angry Sun
   @murph @sun @clacke
   
   Ever since the original #bifurcation of the network as Pump.io split off, #Identica has been a mere shadow of itself. It doesn't have complete historical conversations or working hashtags.
   
   When I went back and found my original posts from when I joined in 2009, I couldn't even find the posts by the people who responded to welcome me to the network.
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10. Pedro León 🚀 (pedroleon@astrodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:52:33 UTC Pedro León 🚀

    Durante estos pasados días, el equipo de la sonda ha realizado un nuevo y arriesgado cambio de toberas, para que la Voyager 1 pueda seguir funcionando unos años más. En 2018, el equipo dejó de usar las toberas de orientación que se encontraban muy degradadas por el uso durante cuarenta años y pasó a usar las cuatro toberas de corrección de trayectoria, que llevaban sin usar desde 1980. (sigue)
11. Jens N (aserraric@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:38 UTC Jens N

    in reply to

    • Tim Hergert
    • John Abbe (aka Slow)
    • Dan Lyke

    @slowenough @cjust @danlyke
    For stories about wizards, may I suggest the "Young Wizards" series by Diane Duane, starting with "So you want to be a wizard"
    IMHO vastly superior to anything Rowling has every written.

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    • John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:42 UTC John Abbe (aka Slow)

      • Tim Hergert
      • Dan Lyke

      @cjust @danlyke Now I'm trying to think of other worthy series. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon comes to mind, for science fiction.

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12. Natasha Nox 💙💛 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:00:14 UTC Natasha Nox 💙💛

    • Michael Gemar
    • Tim Hergert

    @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen What did he say about human nature? Many people do have a really negative outlook in this regard, that's why I'm asking.

    • Bernd Herd (herdsoft@gruene.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:24 UTC Bernd Herd

      in reply to

      • Michael Gemar
      • Tim Hergert

      @Natanox @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen I love how Command Vimes always fights racism in these books. And races on the disc world are not like us humans with just different skin colors.

      There is so much positivity in it.

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    • Acin Fals 🏳️‍🌈 (shadowfals@mastodon.otherworldsink.com)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:35 UTC Acin Fals 🏳️‍🌈

      in reply to

      • Michael Gemar
      • Tim Hergert

      @Natanox @michaelgemar the gist of the Discworld series is that humanity is ridiculous, creative, sometimes loving, and sometimes violent.

      @cjust @hannu_ikonen

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13. Natasha Nox 💙💛 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:00:21 UTC Natasha Nox 💙💛

    • Esther Payne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
    • Michael Gemar
    • Tim Hergert

    @onepict @michaelgemar @cjust @hannu_ikonen I see, thanks. :)
    I don't agree with that assessment though. Sounds like an interesting take to write novels with though.

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    • Natasha Nox 💙💛 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:11 UTC Natasha Nox 💙💛

      in reply to

      • Wayne

      @Weanerdog Unfortunately not. I would've always loved to read more, however my ADHD and inner agitation keep stopping me from doing so. 😶 They are on my list of things to read once I've found a solution though!

      Wish you an amazing day as well. 🙂

    • Wayne (weanerdog@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:15 UTC Wayne

      in reply to

      @Natanox

      Natasha have you not read Terry Pratchett?

      The diskworld novels are superb. The first couple can be a little trying but once you meet the watch and the witches. They are superb. Monstrous regiment is a stand alone and superb. Some of the 41 books are okay. But the ones that are great are fantastic. Pyramids is another stand alone. But you could read the Watch series by itself or the witches by themselves.

      Anyway. Sorry just went full fanboi there.

      I hope you have a fantastic day.

    • Natasha Nox 💙💛 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:49:18 UTC Natasha Nox 💙💛

      in reply to

      • LeRoiMiracle

      @leroimiracle Cool if it works for you. 🙂 Unfortunately I couldn't concentrate at all as I can either listen and build the imaginary world the book describes (or the logical connections if it ain't a novel) or work an whatever I want. 😅 Only music works for me that way.

      Listening to audio books generally sounds like an idea, however I despise big companies and their streaming services. Can't afford to buy everything physically either though so I'm just avoiding the whole concept. 😐

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14. myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:00:03 UTC myrmepropagandist

    I checked on the trending topics a few times on X over the evening including after the Taylor Swift endorsement and "Taylor Swift" was not trending. Even after an hour or so the only Taylor related tag was "Tay Tay" and it wasn't in the top five.

    It could be that there are simply no women on X anymore.

    But, I can't shake the feeling a billionaire messed with his algorithm.

    Of course I can't prove this. But it's reasonable, right?

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15. Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 10:16:50 UTC Madeleine Morris

    So it's Harris' fault that Trump can't muster a coherent sentence or a single true statement?

    She 'baited' him?

    Misogyny is fucking endemic in the media.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdnl9pg1wo
16. Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾 (kevie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 07:20:24 UTC Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾

    Good morning all #tzag As a new day dawns may we go out with a mind and heart that are focused on the good of others. Let us build up those who feel low, may we be there for those going through difficult times. Sometimes the best thing we can do to support others is simply spending time with them. Have a great day everyone #BeExcellentToEachOther

    • Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻 (thelovebug@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 07:20:52 UTC Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻

      in reply to

      @kevie A very merry #tzag to you too, my friend.

17. Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻 (thelovebug@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 07:18:06 UTC Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻

    • Moosical

    Exactly 10 years ago today, @Moosical and I touched down 🛬 at Heathrow Airport after a lovely few days in Malaysia 🇲🇾.

    Today, I'm at Manchester Airport 🐝 waiting for a flight 🛫 to Vienna 🇦🇹 for business. This is the first flight I've been on since 2014, and the first flight I've ever taken on my own.

    The fact that I'm airside 🛂 is a good start 😊
18. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 06:17:45 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

    While we were not watching, the Voyager 1 spacecraft underwent another surgery.

    In August, V1 switched thrusters used for orientation control, because the fuel tubes in the thrusters had clogged up with residue.

    To perform the switch, the thrusters had to be warmed by turning on its heaters while turning off another set for an hour.

    All very tricky and risky operations, performed from 22.8 light-hours away on 1970’s era hardware.

    Kudos again to the Voyager team.

    https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/09/10/voyager-1-team-accomplishes-tricky-thruster-swap/
    1/n
19. Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 20:16:21 UTC Prof. Sam Lawler

    Updating my astro 101 lecture on satellites and holy crap... there are 1738 more active satellites in orbit today than 1 year ago, and 1690 of those are Starlinks.

    62% of all active satellites are now Starlinks, up from 55% 1 year ago.

    As long as Starlink doesn't make a single mistake in orbit, it's all fine, I guess. Which is cool, because SpaceX never makes engineering mistakes, like dumping hundreds of pounds of "fully demisable" space debris on other countries... whoopsie.
20. Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 20:14:08 UTC Ricardo

    Una extensión para decir no a las cookies | El Pingüino Tolkiano
    
    https://elpinguinotolkiano.wordpress.com/2024/09/10/una-extension-para-decir-no-a-las-cookies/
    
    #Firefox #cookies #privacidad