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There's no better time for a DYNAMIC ACTION POSE than #FursuitFriday!
...but apparently there's also no better time to be an absolute gremlin and sneak into shot to give your partner bunny ears...
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I like finding errors in articles.
e.g. this article from BBC Weather: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c0jj4pd0pg5o
"The solstice always occurs between 20 and 22 June, and during a leap year (such as 2024) it always falls on 20 June."
This isn't exactly true.
It is true for leap years since 2008 as that was 20th 23:08 GMT, however it ends after 2096 as 2100 is not a leap year & the cycle resets.
The 19th century only had 1892 & 1896 and no year in the 20th century fell on June 20th
#solstice 1/2
What is the summer solstice, when is it this year - and does it mean good weather?Darren Bett (BBC Weather)
Although the quote mentioned Leap years, the two years in the 19th century also happened to be leap years.
However, as the 21st century progresses, other years will start falling on the 20th.
The reason why is down to the year 2000 being a leap year, so it's shifted the times back an extra day.
1800, 1900 and 2100 are NOT leap years, hence they start later.
I used https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html as a reference for the times, converting to GMT as needed.
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Exact time and date of the June solstice and other seasons. When is the first day of Summer and when does each season start?www.timeanddate.com
The 30th anniversary edition of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.BBC
The question of mass surveillance shouldn't be about the fact you're being watched - if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right? The question of mass surveillance should be what the watchers are going to do with the information they've gathered from you. Sale? Blackmail? Law enforcement? But wait, who makes the laws? Surely no laws would be designed to hurt, marginalize, or outright oppress, right?
Wrong.
Surveillance is control.
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#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting
I enjoy that explaining why the pigeonhole principle has that name needs two levels of indirection.
It's because it references a physical proof where you put sheets of paper in an array of small boxes that office desks used to have, which were called pigeonholes.
The boxes were called pigeonholes because they look a bit like the nesting boxes of pigeon coops.
Will future generations have more layers? "paper was an old kind of information storage", "offices were a separate place for work", ...
Crazy temperatures? Don't worry, the weekend is almost here.
(Seriously though, please stay safe and hydrated!)
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My concern is growing over repeated and regular observations of technical illiteracy in generation Z and younger.
Schools aren't teaching what a file system is. Or how to think about organizing information. It's like the concept of a library was omitted from their entire awareness. Why go to a place with books when a Google search away gives the answer?
Without the tools to organize thought into reference-able ways, and how to search existing information and recognizing whether it is important, how will they invent? How will they solve critical problems?
Adobe has opened a survey to get responses in regards to adding Generative Machine Learning (AI) to Substance Painter. Artists, avatar makers, you know what to do. Give 'em hell. https://t.co/NADQGSC6eP #VRChatmeow.social - the mastodon instance for creatures fluffy, scaly and otherwise
It is 2038: Year of the Linux Desktop.
The Grub project has been abandoned after the maintainers disappeared. This isn't a problem for most users because systemd now contains it's own bootloader.
Linux has deprecated process ID numbers because everything is now in PID 1. PostgreSQL begrudgeingly drops support for Linux after the removal of POSIX semaphores. Developers say systemd-dbms-postgrescompat should be enough despite the fact it lacks core features like prepared statements.
Perl and Shell scripts have ceased to function, users were encouraged to move to the Python-compatible systemd internal interpreter years ago.
Linux no longer supports AMD GPUs because no one has written a suitable device driver to enable systemd to recognize them.
Microsoft announces an end-of-life date for Windows. The future OS for their users will be a Microsoft Enhanced Linux distribution, enabled by the fact systemd has a fully backwards compatible WIN32 API now.
All modern Linux computers abruptly crash without warning at the same time on January 19th. Because the systemd registry that replaced /etc is fully WIN32 compatible, dates were still stored in 32 bit integers. Lennart Poettering insists users are simply doing things incorrectly and need to read the documentation.
The project to remove "unix philosophy" from Linux is now complete. Linux is now Windows.
A capacitive sensor input device which includes a movable stud having a top portion for manipulation by a user and a conductive bottom portion is connected to a planar surface, such as a circuit board by means of an elastomeric, adhesive connector.patents.google.com
โAn Oreo cream you can use in the style of kintsugi [Japanese pottery repair] for those sad times when you open a pack of Oreos and find them broken.โ
โThis is a huge win in the fight for a livable climate,โ said Tessa Khan, a climate lawyer and executive director at Uplift, one of the groups challenging Rosebank. โGovernment can no longer keep repeating that the emissions from burning oil reserves donโt count.โ
Landmark judgment says planning bodies must account for burning of extracted fuel when considering site proposalsIsabella Kaminski (The Guardian)
Oh to be a mudwing under a waterfall... so refreshing!!
Illustration for Slate 
#wof #wingsoffire #mudwing #wofmudwing #dragon #dragonart #MastoArt #illustration #digitalart
Vandaag bij de @internet_nl platformbijeenkomst veel interessante presentaties en sprekers over uiteenlopende onderwerpen.
Wij sloten af met Mox (https://github.com/mjl-/mox) een mailserver die iedereen met een beetje kennis zelf kan hosten en gebruiken. De internet mail controle is met heel weinig moeite 100%!
Weer een weekendproject erbij :)
modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email - mjl-/moxGitHub
Nothing will ever top this video The Onion made.
https://youtu.be/fJwHZVl5Buk?si=Igvis4bXa8dOfS7L
An impending blackout gives the city's working class its chance to rise up against their wealthy oppressors. From the onion.YouTube
Happy belated (15 June) 37th birthday to the GIF image file format. Maybe someday we'll know for certain how your name is pronounced. (But I doubt it.)
It's kinda amazing we're still using you (or at least using you to misname files in more recent formats).
You know what I want? Smart glasses.
But not, like, glasses with cameras and speakers in the frames. I mean glasses that can change focus and prescription on demand so that I don't have to juggle multiple pairs of glasses because I'm apparently old.
Time awake.
My eyes change focus predictably throughout the day. (EDIT: so do y'all's, from previous posts - mine actually get better the later in the day)
Real-time election leaflet monitoringelectionleaflets.org
Seriously. I'd be happy to use Captain Kirk's flip-open communicator that's so big you have to clip it to your belt as long as it works reliably.
@tstrike78
That reinds me of the Nimoy/Spock story.
Leonard Nimoy got tired of being seen as Spock everywhere all the time. He wanted to be known as the skilled director he was. His first autobiography was titled "I'm Not Spock."
Years later, when flip phones were new, he was walking down the street when his phone rang. He picked it up, and in an easy, reflexive movement, flipped it open and put the fingers of his other hand where the knob on the Star Trek communicator would be. It was a motion he had made hundreds of times while in character. At that moment, he realized just how deep an impression that character had made in his life.
His second autobiography was titled "I Am Spock."
I heard this story in an interview with Nimoy years ago, back in the flip phone era.
LB: This is the establishment version of the button that says "No right now" when a software company is trying to push a new feature onto you without your consent.
Until the EU and the wider body politik around the world give us a "no" button; we will have to remain vigilant.
