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cratermoon

@cratermoon@zirk.us

I'm a programmer, photographer, and cat person. I practice Zen Buddhism. I like to write about both tech topics and zen.

I live in the Pacific NW, United States.

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cs, to journalism
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Site called lapost dot com advertising on social media. Site says it is Los Angeles Post. Cannot find any information about it or its history. “Local” tab is filled with international news, not Los Angeles local news. Most (all?) stories are from Reuters. Not sure what is up, but I’d be cautious about sites just spun up out of nowhere.

cratermoon,
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@cs The address given on https://www.lapost.com/contact is a UPS Store in San Diego. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2023/pink-slime-journalism-local-news-deserts/

jchyip, to random
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Some corrections about the early days of https://jchyip.medium.com/some-corrections-about-the-early-days-of-continuous-integration-36dc5bab5a06

cratermoon,
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@jchyip Greg's article is laughably wrong. I was using CruiseControl to build our small Java applications at a humble insurance company as early as 2002. When did Mozilla start using Tinderbox, 1998, 1999? @jwz do you recall?

65dBnoise, to space
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Interesting marking on a SUPERCAM calibration target bolt.

Animated

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SSW (211°) from RMC 51.0410
Sol 1098, LMST: 11:25:57

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01098/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1098_0764410915_121EBY_N0510410SCAM05098_0180I6J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

video/mp4

cratermoon,
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@65dBnoise clearly marking a half rotation

JamesGleick, to random
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A Singapore-flagged cargo ship had a power failure for reasons still unknown and destroyed Baltimore’s bridge.

If you’re a Republican in 2024 America, your mission is clear: find a Black woman to blame.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/03/26/baltimore-bridge-collapse-caused/

cratermoon,
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@JamesGleick there’s a vocal peanut gallery blaming DEI for problems at Boeing.

cratermoon, to generativeAI
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Synthetic text extruding machines are doing just great.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

cratermoon, to random
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Airlines that continue to buy and fly the 737 Max are part of the problem as well. The 737 Max is essentially a bunch of corners cut to make one big cut. Why could any responsible airline fly it?

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/boeing-malfunction-ceo-pay-stock-buybacks

remixtures, to journalism Portuguese
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: "With both mistrust in media and AI-generated news on the rise, The New York Times has rolled out new byline pages that emphasize the ethical guidelines and real-life humans behind its reporting.

We’ve covered the expanded bylines and datelines that’ve previously come from the news org’s cross-functional trust team. Now, the Times has rolled out hundreds of freshly expanded byline pages. These byline pages — what others might call profile pages or author bios — now include sections titled “What I Cover,” “My Background,” “Journalistic Ethics,” and “Contact Me.”

Edmund Lee, an editor for the trust team, said more than 80% of reporters “across the major news desks (Politics, National, Washington, Business, Metro, Investigations, and International)” have updated their bios with the new format. A little under 500 bios have been expanded and updated so far. Eventually, the Times hopes to have all journalists — the company has more than 1,700 — update their pages."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/the-new-york-times-rolls-out-new-byline-pages/

cratermoon,
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@remixtures no mention of catering to Google’s algorithm that favors sources with author bios? https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results

cstross, to random
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Why Charlie can't work (contd.):

cratermoon,
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@cstross This happens every day. She's good at helping me remember to take breaks.

siderea, to random

Hey, people. I installed and set it as an account's shell, and now when I log in to that account, I can log in fine, but I get an error "Illegal variable name." after the MOTD. I can't figure out where the problem is.

I don't have any tcsh or csh dot files in there. (There's bash dot files, but I don't think tcsh reads those.)

I figured it might be in /etc/csh.cshrc (which the tcsh man page says it reads), but zeroing that out didn't fix it.

Where else do I look?

cratermoon,
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@siderea @nuncio tcsh will also read your $HOME/.login, if any. AFAIK

cratermoon, to random
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"the robot and the human dance together as a well-coordinated team, and the value of their cooperation emerges when each member meets its role obligations."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571721

b0rk, to random
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this guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html

(they seem to think everyone should use info pages instead, which I personally have never used despite having used GNU tools for 20 years)

cratermoon,
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@b0rk @zwol GNU info pages reflect the conventions of documentation and writing in the culture where they were born. These conventions include: 1. Hierarchies are informative, and everyone has a sense of the overall taxonomy and categories. 2. Documenting the usage, answering "how do I do X task with tool Y", is sufficient. Documenting how to solve problem P, using what tool and how, is the job for the FAQ, if any.

ernie, to random
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I wrote about one of my least favorite people doing something that have no choice but to absolutely get behind.

On Ted Cruz, electric cars, and AM radios:

https://tedium.co/2023/12/08/am-radio-electric-cars-interference-ted-cruz-rand-paul/

new @tedium

cratermoon,
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@ernie "Paul, as a libertarian, is a man who has never seen a subsidy he didn’t like"

Did you mean "a subsidy liked", or was this a snark on Paul shedding his libertarian skin to support subsidies when it is politically advantageous?

NatureMC, to random
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    cratermoon,
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    @NatureMC I use Privacy Badger. It automatically blocks the embed widgets. It really makes those articles that are just a few words around a bunch of embed stand out. https://privacybadger.org/

    TexasObserver, to Texas
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    In the new documentary from @ProPublica and FRONTLINE, they emphasize that the doors of the Robb Elementary classroom were unlocked on that tragic day.

    Here's our investigation of the frequent problems surrounding locking the doors in schools:
    https://www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-locks-security-missing-keys?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

    cratermoon,
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    @TexasObserver @ProPublica In Texas, "keep the doors locked" is the first line of defense to prevent mass shootings in schools, and gun violence in general? Someone might want to examine that mindset.

    cratermoon,
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    @TexasObserver You've done a great job covering Uvalde and digging into whatever shenanigans are going on with the investigations, and I want to acknowledge that. Spending millions to schools into fortresses and allocating funds to keep them updated is a huge waste that doesn't address causes. Beto was right.

    mattblaze, to photography
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    US Capitol, Washington, DC, 2021.

    Note: No longer contains George Santos.

    More than 535 pixels at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51221569646

    cratermoon,
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    @mattblaze In the old days we had the Zone System and with a lot care it was possible to craft a print with 9 stops of useful detail. The other two stops, pure white and pure black, we limited to small areas for emphasis.

    cratermoon,
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    @mattblaze In my long experience, that was fairly rare, as film cameras generally lacked the ability to capture multiple frames in a fraction of a second. The last film cameras could manage 10fps, and that was mostly used for action.

    jenniferplusplus, to random
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    So, what was up last week, when all of tech suddenly decided that writing software isn't good or useful or interesting?

    Cuz, I gotta say, that sucks, and you're all wrong.

    cratermoon,
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    @ljrk @matzipan @jenniferplusplus @scottjenson I'm also a bit confused by this. If you mean you can change a variable name one place and have it change everywhere else, refactoring tools can also do that. But yeah, if you have duplicate code, the solution isn't "automatically update all the other places this code appears", it's "extract the duplicate code to its own thing", and again, refactoring tools can mostly already do that.

    b0rk, (edited ) to random
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    has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

    the idea is that you could just run cd COMMIT_ID and poke around instead of checking out the commit

    and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?

    cratermoon,
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    @b0rk Have you looked at the old https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs project? I'm not sure it quite does what you want, but a start maybe?

    mattblaze, to random
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    Musk's latest unfiltered reveal of his character (anti-semitism edition this time around) makes it all the more unfortunate that some communities still haven't moved off Twitter/X/whateveritis.

    For me, I haven't looked back since I moved away, but I miss the fact there's considerably less access here to breaking news and official goverment/emergency announcements.

    (This post is not a request for advice on how I could better use Mastodon for these things, thanks).

    cratermoon,
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    @mattblaze
    > there's considerably less access here to breaking news and official goverment/emergency announcements.

    Any ideas on how we could change that? What might make it easier for the user to access breaking news without requiring them to "use Mastodon better"

    cratermoon,
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    @mattblaze oh yes, QT would be a big help. It would reduce the friction for re-sharing.

    cratermoon,
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    @NatureMC @mattblaze Thanks for your insights. Can you recommend some tags, journalists, or news bots to follow for arts, nature, or spirituality?

    Daojoan, to random
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    Omg guys

    If we stop working from home they’ll give us Walking Meetings 👏👏

    cratermoon,
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    @Daojoan

    Walking, eh? If we can meet without having any of the usual meeting paraphernalia, we can meet remotely. I can put my phone in my pocket and use my Bluetooth earbuds while I walk someplace nice. Or at least nicer than an office park in the suburbs.

    johnshirley2024, to random

    A transgender student got a lead role. Then the district took it away.

    Max Hightower on stage during a Sherman High School production last year. Max, who is transgender, lost his role in “Oklahoma!” after an administrator announced a new policy about students playing characters that aligned with their sex assigned at birth, the Hightower family said. (Amy Hightower)

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11/10/texas-transgender-student-musical-role-policy/

    cratermoon,
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    @cstross @johnshirley2024 I'm gonna have to guess that the policy would simply forbid the production, and suggest something like Godspell instead.

    Daojoan, to random
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    When people talk about de-funding the libraries, they say it’s because Wikipedia makes them redundant. But it’s not true. Sure, Wikipedia has a lot of facts, but interpreting them, learning from them, and understanding their roots requires the deep store of knowledge inside a book.

    cratermoon,
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    @Daojoan Never mind the books and other materials, it's the LIBRARIANS that are the treasure.

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