szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I just wanted to visualize a waveform, randomly searched for "audacity like online", not expecting much... and by god, they did it. The maniacs.

https://wavacity.com/

@androcat Talked to a lady who worked for the tax authority here in Norway once. She told me straight away that welfare fraud is such a minor phenomenon that it has zero effect on the welfare budget. She followed that up by saying, "So we need to decide what kind of society we want - one where we're so afraid that someone might get some help they didn't qualify for, at the risk of depriving many others who need that help? Or one where we help folks through tough times and help them become tax payers again?"
A year or two later, I read a study that showed a significant amount of "welfare fraud" cases are folks who genuinely believed they qualified.
The more accessible benefits are, the better for everyone, ultimately.

Gentle reminder: Whenever someone is trying to sell you a story about welfare fraud, they're actually just trying to make it harder for deserving applicants to get the help they need.

Stories about welfare fraud are 100% about making it hard for people to get help.
Measures to combat fraud all amount to making the walls higher.
There is absolutely zero effort made to check whether it reduces valid applications, and also zero effort made to check whether it reduces fraudulent applications.

So, next time someone wants to tell you about "social scrounging" or whatever fancy-ass vocab they've made up for their bullshit, just tell them to go fuck themselves, in the nicest possible way.

Ten moment, kiedy wpada #dogzilla i strąca z planszy wszystkich chciwych landlordów.
Koniec zabawy w pazerny kapitalizm i na spacer!
#planszowki

10/ Final bit of #geoweirdness: Polish 🇵🇱 postal codes consist of five digits, but there is a dash between the 2nd and 3rd digits (example: "12-345"), which is good fun for software that assumes postcodes contain only alphanumeric characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Poland

See our guide to common misconceptions about postal codes:

https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes-and-geocoding

#geoweirdness

As you get older, you have less energy for everything. In theory, you get wisdom to compensate.

In theory. This week I had surgery for a hernia I gave myself by flinging around 25kg sacks of goose food after a different surgery. Don't do that.

Goose keeping community: "oh yeah, 25kg bags are the WORST."

Swiss doctor kindly speaking English: "your ovaries look... nice? Here's a photo."

Try to arrange your life so nobody shows you photos of your ovaries.

Anyway I am fine and recovering well.

Idk man instead of constantly changing the rules in hospitals about whether or not masking is required and confusing the shit out of people why not just do the easy thing that protects patients and require them forever. Then nobody ever has to wonder or get confused. They can just be like "oh, going to the hospital, better bring a mask"

"Za zabicie dorosłego wilka podczas polowania zbiorowego myśliwemu przysługiwała nagroda 500 zł. Za pozbawienie go życia w indywidualnym podejściu premia rosła do 1000 zł. Za wybrane z gniazda szczenię należało się 200 zł. A szczeniąt w gnieździe najczęściej było kilka. To znaczyło, że nakłucie trzech czy czterech na widły można było kupić roczny zapas wieprzowiny albo skrzynkę wódki. I mimo tego #wilk w Polsce ocalał. Obok żubra to najbardziej spektakularny powrót do polskiej przyrody. A kto wie, czy nie większy"

https://zielona.interia.pl/zwierzeta/news-wilki-w-polsce-cielo-sie-kosami-szczenieta-dusilo-a-jednak-p,nId,6981159

“AI is going to take our jobs!”

AI:

W związku z odgrażaniem się niektórym krajom przez rosjan przypomniała mi się taka historyjka.

Na pewnej uczelni, szkolącej przyszły personel dyplomatyczny, w ramach egzaminu studenci mieli wystosować odpowiedź na rosyjskie ultimatum w pewnej kwestii.

Po zakończeniu egzaminu przez jednego ze studentów, profesor ocenił: Merytoryka na piątkę, forma na piątkę, jednak mam dwie uwagi:
- „na chuj” piszemy przez „CH”;
- „ty ruska onuco” należy napisać z wielkiej litery - odpowiedź adresujemy do ministra, bądź co bądź.

#rosja

"CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs"

A claimed "9.8 CRITICAL" flaw in #curl that does not exist.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

Edge browser doesn't want me to break up with it 😂

#insecure

Oh dear! The cat is low-battery again!

#CatsOfMastodon

this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early

I have seem some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

#Excel

And this is why child rights are human rights.

Wow, more sanity!

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/why-have-you-come-to-our-country/

I wrote a thing. :-)

#migration #polesinuk #britain

"There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle."
The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)

Michael Faraday died #OTD in 1867. English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism.

Books by Michaeal Faraday at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541

#books #science #physics