Ross Grady
@rossgrady.dood.net.ap.brid.gy
I live in #DurhamNC & I spend a lot of time thinking about #synthdiy / #eurorack -- my dayjob is in tech because I'm a walking stereotype.
I'm leftist, anti-fascist […]
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I'm leftist, anti-fascist […]
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Without going down the rabbit hole myself yet, is there prior art out there about transforming one QR code into another via a minimum edit distance?
Thinking along the lines of: imagine there's a QR code out there you want to "enhance" and you're equipped with a sharpie and white-out pen […]
Thinking along the lines of: imagine there's a QR code out there you want to "enhance" and you're equipped with a sharpie and white-out pen […]
Original post on metasocial.com
metasocial.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Without going down the rabbit hole myself yet, is there prior art out there about transforming one QR code into another via a minimum edit distance?
Thinking along the lines of: imagine there's a QR code out there you want to "enhance" and you're equipped with a sharpie and white-out pen […]
Thinking along the lines of: imagine there's a QR code out there you want to "enhance" and you're equipped with a sharpie and white-out pen […]
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The CEO of The Onion set the publication's goal for 2026 to have more subscribers than The Washington Post. At the rate the latter is going, that won't take long.
"For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important."
"Look, we're an independent company, we […]
"For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important."
"Look, we're an independent company, we […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The CEO of The Onion set the publication's goal for 2026 to have more subscribers than The Washington Post. At the rate the latter is going, that won't take long.
"For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important."
"Look, we're an independent company, we […]
"For reasons we don't like or understand, our work has become increasingly important."
"Look, we're an independent company, we […]
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This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
The post Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job appeared first on MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Just spent Thanksgiving with my family & I can provide additional anecdata, via my 20-year-old niece, that “That’s AI” is shorthand for “that’s fake.” The kids, as always, are all right.
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just spent Thanksgiving with my family & I can provide additional anecdata, via my 20-year-old niece, that “That’s AI” is shorthand for “that’s fake.” The kids, as always, are all right.
Black Santa is on the roof at the Durham Hotel today, which is great except for the fact that they have the smallest slowest elevator in town, so there is a line of families out the door and stretching up the block. At least it’s like 40F and not precipitating!
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Black Santa is on the roof at the Durham Hotel today, which is great except for the fact that they have the smallest slowest elevator in town, so there is a line of families out the door and stretching up the block. At least it’s like 40F and not precipitating!
Nia DaCosta was already *awesome* but then she rolls up to the Criteron Closet wearing a Shoresy crop top? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Nia DaCosta was already *awesome* but then she rolls up to the Criteron Closet wearing a Shoresy crop top? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10
Nowhere in any of the linked content does it say that YouTube is altering videos. The linked content is about the annoying textual “AI summaries” that YouTube has started posting below videos, alongside the descriptions written by the video creators.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike this […]
There are plenty of reasons to dislike this […]
Original post on dood.net
dood.net
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Nowhere in any of the linked content does it say that YouTube is altering videos. The linked content is about the annoying textual “AI summaries” that YouTube has started posting below videos, alongside the descriptions written by the video creators.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike this […]
There are plenty of reasons to dislike this […]
Asteroid make me SLEEPY after I eat it.
RE: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/115653001232082594
RE: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/115653001232082594
deepspace.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Asteroid make me SLEEPY after I eat it.
RE: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/115653001232082594
RE: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/115653001232082594
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Cloudflare outage brings down major websites for hours https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/12/05/cloudflare-outage-snares-internet/3601764944673/
Cloudflare outage brings down major websites for hours - UPI.com
Cloudflare experienced an issue early Friday that brought down some of the world's most popular websites for a few hours before a fix was deployed.
www.upi.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Cloudflare outage brings down major websites for hours https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/12/05/cloudflare-outage-snares-internet/3601764944673/
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CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza https://therealnews.com/cnn-partners-kalshi-gambling-app-starvation-gaza?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #leftist
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza https://therealnews.com/cnn-partners-kalshi-gambling-app-starvation-gaza?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #leftist
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This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
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“Her case is an unconstitutional horror show,” said her lawyer.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/student-describes-horror-show-ice-deportation-to-honduras-at-thanksgiving
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/student-describes-horror-show-ice-deportation-to-honduras-at-thanksgiving
Student describes ‘horror show’ ICE deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving
Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston airport while on the way to see family in Austin for a surprise trip
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Her case is an unconstitutional horror show,” said her lawyer.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/student-describes-horror-show-ice-deportation-to-honduras-at-thanksgiving
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/student-describes-horror-show-ice-deportation-to-honduras-at-thanksgiving
Having read the whole indictment (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26336049-muneeb-sohaib-akhter-indictment/ ), the moral of the story is essentially this: When you fire the employees who previously did time for cybercrimes, make sure you disable all of their access *before* you tell them […]
Original post on dood.net
dood.net
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Having read the whole indictment (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26336049-muneeb-sohaib-akhter-indictment/ ), the moral of the story is essentially this: When you fire the employees who previously did time for cybercrimes, make sure you disable all of their access *before* you tell them […]
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I have so so many questions https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-end-to-end-encrypted/
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I have so so many questions https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-end-to-end-encrypted/
wowowowow I read & loved about ~20% of these titles when they came out, and the only reason I didn’t read more of them was that I couldn’t afford to buy that many comix.
Just some of the ones I read & enjoyed at the time:
* Bitch Planet
* Paper Girls
* Saga
* Deadly Class
* East of […]
Just some of the ones I read & enjoyed at the time:
* Bitch Planet
* Paper Girls
* Saga
* Deadly Class
* East of […]
Original post on dood.net
dood.net
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
wowowowow I read & loved about ~20% of these titles when they came out, and the only reason I didn’t read more of them was that I couldn’t afford to buy that many comix.
Just some of the ones I read & enjoyed at the time:
* Bitch Planet
* Paper Girls
* Saga
* Deadly Class
* East of […]
Just some of the ones I read & enjoyed at the time:
* Bitch Planet
* Paper Girls
* Saga
* Deadly Class
* East of […]
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For most of 2025 I've freelanced for a small company helping people rebuild their homes after a disaster.
I wrote up a summary of everything I learned over the past year after a lifetime of being a busy homeowner who never had to research this stuff before […]
I wrote up a summary of everything I learned over the past year after a lifetime of being a busy homeowner who never had to research this stuff before […]
Original post on xoxo.zone
xoxo.zone
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
For most of 2025 I've freelanced for a small company helping people rebuild their homes after a disaster.
I wrote up a summary of everything I learned over the past year after a lifetime of being a busy homeowner who never had to research this stuff before […]
I wrote up a summary of everything I learned over the past year after a lifetime of being a busy homeowner who never had to research this stuff before […]
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Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of […]
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"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
C'mon, Lauren, I know you have more characters available than that on your instance :)
"Beginning Feb. 1, travelers 18 and older flying domestically without a REAL ID and who don’t have another accepted form of ID on them, such as a passport, will pay the non-refundable fee to verify their […]
"Beginning Feb. 1, travelers 18 and older flying domestically without a REAL ID and who don’t have another accepted form of ID on them, such as a passport, will pay the non-refundable fee to verify their […]
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dood.net
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
C'mon, Lauren, I know you have more characters available than that on your instance :)
"Beginning Feb. 1, travelers 18 and older flying domestically without a REAL ID and who don’t have another accepted form of ID on them, such as a passport, will pay the non-refundable fee to verify their […]
"Beginning Feb. 1, travelers 18 and older flying domestically without a REAL ID and who don’t have another accepted form of ID on them, such as a passport, will pay the non-refundable fee to verify their […]
Marc Ribot stopped by KEXP in October & did some solo acoustic singer-songwriter stuff & he also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD9TwytGn-w
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Marc Ribot stopped by KEXP in October & did some solo acoustic singer-songwriter stuff & he also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD9TwytGn-w
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Meet the Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird in the World
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/meet-woman-mission-photograph-every-species-of-hummingbird-world
In less than a decade amateur photographer & Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than […]
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/meet-woman-mission-photograph-every-species-of-hummingbird-world
In less than a decade amateur photographer & Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Meet the Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird in the World
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/meet-woman-mission-photograph-every-species-of-hummingbird-world
In less than a decade amateur photographer & Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than […]
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/meet-woman-mission-photograph-every-species-of-hummingbird-world
In less than a decade amateur photographer & Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than […]
First sentence of this master class (but written clearly for a layperson): “In the interests of clarity, I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics.”
Super fun nerdy read.
RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115632790963589610
Super fun nerdy read.
RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115632790963589610
circumstances.run
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
First sentence of this master class (but written clearly for a layperson): “In the interests of clarity, I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics.”
Super fun nerdy read.
RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115632790963589610
Super fun nerdy read.
RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115632790963589610
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Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody".
Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as homicide or as a war crime is, of course, necessary, but at the same time it seems morally […]
Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as homicide or as a war crime is, of course, necessary, but at the same time it seems morally […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody".
Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as homicide or as a war crime is, of course, necessary, but at the same time it seems morally […]
Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as homicide or as a war crime is, of course, necessary, but at the same time it seems morally […]
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/115623227677338609
Learned from the linked article that Victorian doctors used to describe menopause as ‘uterine fury’ and, that is a cool term we should reclaim
Learned from the linked article that Victorian doctors used to describe menopause as ‘uterine fury’ and, that is a cool term we should reclaim
mstdn.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/115623227677338609
Learned from the linked article that Victorian doctors used to describe menopause as ‘uterine fury’ and, that is a cool term we should reclaim
Learned from the linked article that Victorian doctors used to describe menopause as ‘uterine fury’ and, that is a cool term we should reclaim