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kboyd

@kboyd@phpc.social

Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast.

I talk about #photography, #sailing, #ebikes, reading, writing, watching TV, cooking, politics, climate, EVs, more sailing, programming, the open and sustainable web, php, sailing again, and more. Ask me about sailing co-operatives. (he/him)

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mcc, to random
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Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

mastodonmigration, (edited )
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Starlink is killing Hubble

Something about this plan to move Hubble, didn't make sense. If the space telescope still has 10 years of useful life, why this risky SpaceX mission to boost it's orbit now?

Well it turns out the main thing threatening the utility of Hubble is... wait for it... SpaceX Starlink satellites, which orbit just above Hubble constantly "photo-bombing" the images. Within a few years there will be so many Starlinks that Hubble will be useless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/hubble-spacex-starlink.html

elazar, to random
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Design Docs at Google
https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-google/

signalstation, to random
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Scientist (standing between armed marines and a plainly homicidal alien): Wait! Don't shoot! This is humanity's first contact with an alien species! Doesn't it deserve a chance to use our affiliate code for 15% off a GetFresh subscription with the code 1STCONTACT, plus free shipping for the first three months?

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elliots, to random
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Equality and equity
https://sketchplanations.com/equality-and-equity

niconiconi, to random

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use Design Patterns.” Now they have an Abstract Problem Factory.

peterbrown, to random
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“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/solar-and-crop-production-research-shows-multi-solving-climate-benefits/

JoeSiegler, to random
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New Red Dwarf to film this fall for airing in 2025. Some details in this Radio Times story.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/red-dwarf-three-new-episodes-newsupdate/

repeattofade, to random
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I think about this tweet so much when I see these kind of news stories
https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112437987286290009

carlysagan, to random
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“Starlink precipitation” should not be allowable as a term - I’m sorry, what?!

mcc, to random
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This is a pretty basic, "and what's the deal with airline food??" kinda observation, but

It's just been brought to my attention that a Chrome tab takes up a minimum of 24 to 28 MB of RAM*, even if it's looking at about:blank or an empty HTML page. There are good engineering reasons it might work this way but I am also thinking about how my first computer-shaped computer** had 4 MB of RAM and that was like, an OS plus sophisticated full apps. Later we upgraded to 8 MB RAM and that was a big deal

danhon, to random
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First reaction to reading on the Verge about a new vertically integrated and attractively designed heat pump system with closed, non-Google/Apple smarts from some xooglers is: "well I'm not buying that, it'll probably be shut down or unsupported within 5 years"

mwyman,
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@danhon any system that requires connection to an external server has no business being a critical part of the home.

tveskov, to random Danish
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Protip

ingram,
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@tveskov In a vaguely related vein, you should always carry a small piece of fibre optic cable when hiking. If you get lost dog a hole and bury the fibre. Before long an excavator will be along and will accidentally dig it up. Hitch a ride out on the excavator.

sarah, to php
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Looking for a new job? Make sure you check out my latest project, PHP For Hire (https://phpforhire.com). It's a directory of PHP talent available for hire!

danderson, to random
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Hi. Quick break from the posting for a serious PSA.

Please have a bottle of aspirin in your home. Make sure the tablets can be chewed as well as just swallowed. Make sure you remove any fiddly foil seal and such. Don't use this aspirin for regular pain relief, just keep it around and know where it is.

Hopefully, you'll never need it and will just feel silly for having it. But if a bad time comes for you someday, being able to chew aspirin when emergency services tells you may save your life.

18+ danderson,
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Aspirin is an anticoagulant, meaning it reduces your blood's ability to clot. Normally this is an undesirable side effect, because if you're bleeding you want your blood to clot and stop the bleeding.

But heart attacks and other cardiovascular events can be caused by blood clots obstructing blood vessels. Your body's not supposed to let that happen, but for various reasons sometimes it does. When it does, minutes count and you need to tip the odds in your favor.

mhoye, to random
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Absolutely incredible to me how much faster and more effective it is for me to rip an entire site down with wget --mirror and search it with grep to find anything than it is for me to use Google for any goddamn thing now. Datacenters full of hardware running thousands of PhD-theses worth of high performing hardware versus me sitting here banging rocks together and my way works.

thomholwerda, to random
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@osnews, where Apple is just another company and not the hand that feeds me, where I treat Linux and BSD without the constant ignorant ridicule straight out of 2002 like the rest of the tech media, where I put quotation marks around "AI", and where I cover a wide variety of topics you won't find anywhere else, all with honesty and openness about my own limitations in understanding. Also sometimes with my weirdness on full display, but not too often.

To keep @osnews alive, consider supporting it through Patreon, Ko-Fi, Liberapay, or our merch store.

futurebird, to random
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Why is this sign so ominous to me? ?

w7voa, to random
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Writer Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, has died at the age of 92. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alice-munro-death-author

tess, to random
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manic pixie torment nexus

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155652/chatgpt-voice-mode-gpt4o-upgrades

trochee,
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@tess

I feel obligated to contribute this

dan, to random
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currently attempting to use an ethernet interface called "enp8s0f0npf0vf1" and cannot help but think

STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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There’s a mourning period between books. You need to make peace with the words before you can move to the next.

mhoye, to random
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I'm idly waiting for the iPad Mini refresh that's probably not coming, the same way I was waiting for the iPod Touch refresh that never came and the iPod refresh that never came, as is my habit.

The iPad Mini, neglected black sheep of the lineup, is the purest and most honest expression of what an iPad is and what it's for: a small, incredibly portable computer for doing one thing at a time, where rough edges of computation are polished smooth and the interface falls away and disappears.

mhoye,
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Bret Victor used these diagrams to describe the "tools of the future".

https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

Victor's disdain for the iPad is crystalline; Apple's recent ad is a distillate. I can't say how much Victor has shaped what I want from computing, but I'm certain he sees a human using an iPad the same way he sees a lizard in a pet store, a creature of untold potential pawing at a sheet of glass, baffled by arbitrary and cruel restrictions that it - that you - can see past, but can't reach past.

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dunglas, (edited ) to random
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FrankenPHP 1.1.5 is now available! Many new extensions such as parallel, imagick, gmp, ssh2, protobuf, and many others are now included in the static binary. And, as usual, a few bugs have been fixed! https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp/releases/tag/v1.1.5

firefly, to music
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In honor of Stevie Wonder’s 74th birthday today, enjoy this absolutely jamming rendition of Superstition he performed on Sesame Street in 1973. And don’t miss the little boy in red rocking out up on the staircase 😁

https://youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE?feature=shared

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