George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

This WSJ article, which should be a paywall-free "gift link", includes a quiz/checklist which tries to determine where you might like to live if you didn't have to be be near your work.
I answered the questions honestly, based on the priorities @doombunny and I had when we first talked about moving out of California, and unsurprisingly #Spokane was on the list (as was Bend, OR and Las Cruces, NM).
Where would you move if you could #RemoteWork? https://www.wsj.com/articles/remote-workers-great-place-to-live-11675881131?st=hwfek99cc1ajd1t&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

If you ever want to get beaten up by a bunch of graphic designers, try removing the serifs from Times New Roman and adding them to Comic Sans.
https://xkcd.com/2736/

Twitter is running ads next to tweets from Holocaust deniers - https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23594756/twitter-ads-toxic-content-holocaust-deniers-media-matters-report-study

It's migration day for me, so: an #Introduction

I’m Jess (🏳️‍🌈🏴♾️ ), a #poet & #writing lecturer in #Oregon. I love #reading, #gaming #knitting (esp. #amigurumi), and #birding.

Last read: #TheTerraformers

Last played: #SakunaOfRiceAndRuin

Last spotted: Sandhill crane

Currently #LowCarbonBirding (lucky to live along the #PacificFlyway).

I mostly post (amateur) #photography from my birding jaunts (mourning my lost posts), but, new instance, so who knows?

#AltText on all images.

sudo !!

Microsoft says apps using DirectX are crashing on Windows systems after installing cumulative updates released in November 2022 because of an Intel graphics driver bug.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-intel-driver-bug-crashes-apps-on-windows-pcs/

And, of course, the classic "What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic" by David Goldberg. That paper is so fundamental, the #ACM is granting free access to it. Go ahead and click on the pdf link to view it.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163

#FloatingPointFriday #floatingPoint #IEEE754

GMC Hummer EV review: bummer EV - https://www.theverge.com/23591501/gmc-hummer-ev-review-photos-specs-price

The headline was "Should professors eliminate deadlines?" and is now "‘Procrastination-Friendly’ Academe Needs More Deadlines" which is a bit less click-baity, I guess. We're really grappling in the teaching-methods/course-design sphere with the disconnect between traditional teaching practices and the practices of actual human beings, aren't we? Interesting read, but a more nuanced starting point, please.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/10/should-professors-eliminate-deadlines
#Teaching

Using the barrel of a mechanical pencil to straighten out PGA CPU pins is a brilliant trick. I’ve used the edge of a credit card before but this is way easier!

Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it - https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter-fires-engineer-declining-reach-ftc-concerns

So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>

May I ask that you help us spread the word that people can join us at https://mstdn.games ?

We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.

#VideoGames #TTRPG #Streamer #DnD #GameDev #Twitch

This is how much the tectonic plates shifted during the Turkey earthquake, the entire road moved. This photo was taken by Prof. Hasan Sozbilir leader of the ATAG research group currently mapping the surface ruptures. #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #TectonicPlates

We will announce two PhD positions in mid-Feb through the Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Both projects concern manipulating proteins using strong electric fields and will be hosted by the Biochemistry programme at my dept and the Dept of Physics.

Now, we need good candidates with a good biophysics background (loosely defined). Please get in touch if you want to know more and please make potential candidates aware of the opportunity.

You are #NewHere or not so new and still finding your way, here are some #GettingStartedTips

- please post an #introduction so people can notice you and boost you
- put some information in your bio including hashtags so people know why they should follow you
- start following people. You need about 100 to make your feed interesting. You can always unfollow people later if you don't enjoy their posts.
- post whatever is on your mind or in your heart. I am happy to read more from you!

Most of the #education people I know on here do higher ed.

That's good, but I'd like to follow more #K12 #educators.

With the last new-user-wave settling in, who are some of my fellow #teachers on here who work with K-12 students?

Heyyyy everyone. My work is looking to hire a dev-ops engineer in the west michigan area and a WFH-flexible location network team supervisor. Either of these you? Shoot me a message here. #shouldIHashtagThis #probably #butWhat🤔

Toot v19.0 has been released!

https://toot.to/

This one was a longer development period than usual! I decided to do some heavy internal rewrites (moving to Swift async/await, for those who care about technical details), and since that was likely to cause some new bugs, I did a round of public beta testing. Thank you to everyone who participated, I managed to fix at least some of those bugs!

What's new in this release is mainly notification folding, which combines similar notifications.

Today we've released a new update to our iOS app! It brings an improved sign-up flow, home screen widgets, and many accessibility improvements.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastodon-for-iphone-and-ipad/id1571998974

I keep seeing articles about Mastodon slumps, and journalists going back to Twitter. Is it fair to say, that maybe Mastodon isn't for journalists, or brands, or even people who want large accounts? Maybe Mastodon is true social media, for people who want to interact and discuss, not be influenced, sold to, or manipulated with cult style tactics and followings. There will always be groups who dislike the idea of the people controlling their own inputs, people who don't like the idea of accessible Administration, and people who don't like the idea that if we don't like a space that we can just move to another one, or even create our own. Individualism is scary to the kind of people who thrive on complacency, and not challenging the status quo.