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fractal_timescales
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Mathematician working in epidemiology, love to go down the rabbit hole on technical stuff. Computers, chess, general relativity, they're all past and […]

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Has anyone realized that you could post your videos to your Peertube and have YouTube pull them in via the Podcast RSS Feed? Or am I the only one that didn't realize this?

Which means you don't have to upload to YouTube AND Peertube. You can upload to Peertube and YouTube will grab it for you […]
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btfree.social
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Hey everyone, I haven't posted much on here since making my account, mostly just boosted things. But I'm currently looking to get #fedihired for hybrid or in-person work in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Looking through job boards has been pretty frustrating for reasons I get into […]
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mathstodon.xyz
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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LB: wanted to bring folks' attention to #postmarketos, because it really is a very interesting and promising project. Lightweight Proper Computer operating system but for phones. Installed it on my PinePhone and it's... honestly very chill and nice?

Like, if your phone that's a computer was […]
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retro.social
October 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Just under 1 week till #nokings protest. Here’s the plan:
1. Share / boost this post to grow account - help us grow to largest social reach by 18th ✅ 2. Amp and boost all Nokings posts leading up to 18th. We will, too. ✅ 3. On protest day take pics and share […]

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October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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also a lot of the businesses nearby have signs like this now
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"The ability of z to freely roam the plane unleashed in us a degree of visual imagination that had to remain dormant so long as we could only watch the real number x forlornly pacing its one-dimensional prison."
—Tristan Needham, Visual Complex Analysis

via r/math
October 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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due to rising costs the hilbert hotel had to sell half of their rooms
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Don't threaten me with a good time.
October 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Apple Meshtastic client issue about it sending telemetry home without consent has been deleted. This is highly suspicious and I wouldn't trust the app anymore. Maybe it's time to fork it and clean out all the tracking.

https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple/issues/1449

#meshtastic […]
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fosstodon.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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@ai6yr I'm going to have to set up one of the EFF's Rayhunter devices, aren't I....
October 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Side point on #chatcontrol: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper […]
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eupolicy.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Many furloughed Dept of #education employees were surprised to see the following in their out-of-office replies: "Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking […]
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masto.ai
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Meshtastic iOS app breaks EU law with sending lots of telemetry (logs, usage) to DataDog in US wthout user consent and without any kind of notification of the app doing so.

I reported this as issue and it got immediately closed without any explanation […]
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mastodon.radio
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done it. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together effectively."

Me: :Downloads the stupid app:

Notification: "You have a message!"

Notification: "Here's […]
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gts.sadauskas.id.au
October 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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> First, the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining.

- Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

This has been my experience as well. I recently built a solar-powered server using a 30W […]
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hoagie.cloud
October 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I was reading the #signal blog post about their new #postquantum ratchet, which they nicknamed SPQR. They kept talking about a user "speaking SPQR", and my Percy-Jackson-trained brain knows that SPQR was a Roman motto, so I just kept picturing Alice and Bob speaking Latin […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
October 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM