szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Dear GOP,
We have a new emblem for you.
Enjoy!
Signed,
Women of America
💪🐍💪

In my local public library I noticed on the reservations shelf that someone had ordered volumes by Ayn Rand.

Perhaps the borrower was some general researcher, but I did enjoy the thought it was an earnest libertarian missing the irony of using the municipal library system to state-subsidise their access to Atlas Shrugged and other works.

If you've ever seen video of one of those nightmare plague hoard roach infestations how do you think that happens? Well you have a dirty chaotic place with excellent food & water sources. This alone isn't enough. Such a gross environment would attract a whole ecosystem of critters. Not just all roaches.

No, what happens next is spraying. Killing everything. But no spray lasts forever and roaches are best adapted to move back in first. They have not competition: welcome to the nightmare.

Why use an ordinary measuring tape when you can measure things with a laser? If there is ever an opportunity to incorporate lasers in everyday activities, we must take it.

Here, Hesam Moshiri shows you how to build your own laser ranger finder using our RP2040 chip.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/how-to-build-a-laser-range-finder/

#RaspberryPi

The Beaverton (a rough Canadian equivalent of The Onion) is outraged. Outraged I tell ya!
#Meta #Canada

@Poppycock "Those are some real nice ovaries you have there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to them..."

The Genentech CEO says he's considering delaying the release of a new treatment for ovarian cancer patients in order to make more money.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/10/genentech-drug-price-cancer/

Watched Alien Worlds, a four part speculative exobiology series from 2020.

It's clear the CG sequences were expensive so about 80% of the show is people talking about Earth parallels to the alien stuff. I mostly ended up skipping to the CG sequences.

The worst crime: a story about Hadza hunters who live in symbiosis with a bird, the greater honeyguide, that shows them where bee colonies are. Then they switch to the alien planet where a fungus infects these little moth rabbits and changes their behaviour so they get eaten by predators, which then also die. The narrator explains that this is a "deadly symbiosis".

This must be intended to send biologists into a frothing rage. "Deadly symbiosis" is not symbiosis! They even explain it when they talk about the honey hunters: a symbiosis is when both parties benefit! It's just parasitism! Why not use Cordiceps or any other parasitic relationship? A bizarre choice that had me gesticulating at my television.

#biology #exobiology #rant

Drogie bravo, poszukuje obecnie plecaka, czegoś w tym stylu: https://www.amazon.pl/Powi%C4%99kszany-biznesowy-przyl%C4%85czem-wodoszczelny-zabezpieczaj%C4%85cy/dp/B08PNTT976/ref=asc_df_B08PNTT976/?tag=plshogostdsp-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=504479747666&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8552897735081073669&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061067&hvtargid=pla-1185956212710&psc=1

Co to znaczy?
1) chciałbym, żeby był względnie elegancki, żebym mógł go wykorzystywać zawodowo,
2) powinien być usztywniany,
3) z profilowanymi plecami (czy jak to się tam nazywa),
4 i super, jakby był "powiększany".

Ktoś ma jakieś fajne typy?

#Transgender #lgbtqia
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

In personal news, I dropped the five-year-old off with my parents for three days while I worked from London, and now she has been fishing, ridden a horse and learned to surf in the sea near Hengistbury Head, and I'm not sure I will be able to convince her to come home with me.

Having kids when one's parents are still willing and able to be involved: recommended.

Also, it’s quite snazzy. But the TSA screeners didn’t like it at all.

At once delighted, overwhelmed, and humbled to receive, along with my colleagues Susan Landau and @SteveBellovin , the 2023 Usenix Association Lifetime Achievement Award, citing work bridging technology and public policy. Thank you!

Anyone here have experience creating ISO images from DVDs using those thin USB drives?

I'm having a lot of trouble reading certain discs. I have a stack of 6 discs where I'm consistently only getting about 85% of the data.

I'm wondering if these compact drives have more issues with such discs than the older, bulkier kinds.

#DVD #PC #Hardware

Ich verwandel mich immer mehr in meine eigenen (Ur-)Großeltern: Die Kartoffeln werden frisch aus dem Garten geerntet, die Wäsche auf dem Dachboden aufgehängt und das Gras mit der Sense gemäht. Back to the roots.

FOUND SOMEWHERE:

Outdoor spaces without any insects (especially ants) in warm weather are creepy. I legit get an uncanny feeling wondering What Was Done to make this little park, yard, or garden so barren.

Do not ask "how do I get rid of bugs?" instead consider "which bugs would I prefer?"

It's a #map from the Internet, of course it's Google Maps!

(facepalm)

#OSM #OpenStreetMap

Inseln brennen, Atolle versinken im Ozean, Berge rutschen ab und Gletscher schmelzen weg, oder wie Stumpfkartoffeln es nennen: man weiß bald nicht mehr, wohin man noch in Urlaub fliegen soll