Damit der Sonntag halbwegs harmonisch ausklingt.
Digital Toolbox: Microsoft Management Studio
A software application for managing all components of Microsoft SQL Server.
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Wade Bachelder
I am a Systems Security Engineer, ColdFusion Developer, and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) Analyst & Consultant with a strong record of improving enterprise IT operations, automating security workflows, and strengthening compliance.Wade Bachelder
‘He lied to us’: CBS News staffers say new owner David Ellison ‘just can’t be trusted’
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How Lyft’s David Risher seized his ‘wet cement’ moment
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How Lyft’s David Risher seized his ‘wet cement’ moment
The CEO of the No. 2 in US ridesharing says there’s more to growth than catching ‘the other guys.’Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson (www.semafor.com)
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As children dream of sugar plums and toy trains, just beyond Earth's orbit and field of view, an enormous intergalactic armada that is poised to invade earth on Christmas Morning, so as the world wakes up to Santa's gifts, these advanced travelers of the stars will lay waste to earth and her people, for not a thing can be done, for we are mere ants on a cosmic scale, and our end will be for our folly of greed;
You can encourage my continued useless creative absurd ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
IBM już ciśnie następną bańkę – jak łatwo się domyślić, komputery kwantowe:
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Banieczka ej aj już zaczyna pękać, więc trzeba cisnąć kolejną magiczną technologię, której nikt nie rozumie, ale brzmi fajnie, więc można inwestorów (i rządy) naciągnąć! 🤡
@core15 jest różnica między promowaniem konkretnego produktu na konkretnym rynku, bo produkt jest przydatny w konkretny sposób w konkretnym kontekście, a wciskaniu bajery typu "QUANTUM ZMIENI WSZYSTKO!!1!"
W tym tekście nie ma żadnego konkretu. Zero. Nie ma też informacji o żadnym produkcie. Czysta bajera.
Więc w tym wypadku, w kontekście tego konkretnego tekstu, IBM ciśnie banieczkę.
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#Mood
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Today I tried facebook-scraper as I would like to download posts posted on Facebook by notable people I respect. But I am a rookie and I am lazy as I haven’t been able to make it works: it ke…Paolo Redaelli personal blog
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On the increasing prevalence of #DarkMode in software:
I find “dark mode” themes really unpleasant to use, especially when reading or editing text. I greatly prefer (high contrast) dark foreground/light background.
For context:
- I have pretty much perfect, uncorrected vision
- I use very high quality monitors
Surely I can't be unique? Why has everything started to use “dark mode” by default over the last few years?
Bouchkov and Debargue play Brahms, Messiaen and Beethoven in Amsterdam - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Marc Bouchkov, violin, and Lucas Debargue, piano, play: BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 1 'Rain'. MESSIAEN: Thème et variations. BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No. 9 'Kreutzer'. Live....www.worldconcerthall.com
With equinox and solstice,
Glimpses of blue sky sunshine,
Do not feel equal-
#Photography #MonochromeAndColor #AutumnPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#OregonPhotography #oregon #PNW #MakeArtEveryDay #MakeToEscape
Some of my favorites from today. The cardinals sure do stand out against the snow!
#Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Orban slams EU decision on frozen Russian assets, Sybiha responds
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has responded to a post by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in which he criticized the EU's decision on frozen Russian assets. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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If you make a character and plan to post about them, I don't recommend posting a reference sheet unless it's a followup post. Reference sheets are designed specifically to remove all the fun character parts of the character.
At the very least, add the fun character bits in at the edges...
Taking Electronics to a Different Level
One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches to level-shifting.
In the video, the specific voltage domains of 3.3 volts and 5 volts are given, but you can apply the same principles to other voltage domains, such as 1.8 volts, 2.5 volts, or nearly any two levels. Various approaches are discussed depending on whether you are interfacing 5 V to 3.3 V or 3.3 V to 5 V.
The first way to convert 5 V into 3.3 V is to use a voltage divider, made from two resistors. This is a balancing act: if the resistors are too small, the circuit wastes power; if they are too large, they inhibit fast signals.
The second approach to converting 5 V into 3.3 V is to use a bare resistor of at least 10K. This is a controversial approach, but it may work in your situation. The trick is to rely on the voltage drop across the series resistor to either drop enough voltage or limit the current flowing through input protection diodes, which will clamp the voltage but also burn out with too much current flow.
The third approach to converting 5 V into 3.3 V is to use chips from the 74AHC series or 74LVC series, such as inverting or non-inverting buffers. These chips can do the level shifting for you.
The easiest approach for going in the other direction is to simply connect them directly and hope you get lucky! Needless to say, this approach is fraught with peril.
The second approach for converting 3.3 V into 5 V is to make your own inverting or non-inverting buffer using, in this case, an N-channel Enhancement-mode MOSFET. Use one MOSFET for an inverting buffer and two MOSFETs for a non-inverting buffer. Just make sure you pick N-MOSFETs with 3.3 V or 5 V gate drive voltage VGS. Alternatively, you can use a buffer from the 74HCT series.
The video provides a myriad of approaches to level shifting, but you still have to decide. Do you have a favorite approach that wasn’t listed? Have you had good or bad luck with any of the approaches? Let us know in the comments! For more info on level shifting, including things to watch out for, check out When Your Level Shifter Is Too Smart To Function.
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#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
Hanukkah menorah lit on Kyiv's Independence Square
In Kyiv, the first candle of the Hanukkah menorah was lit on Independence Square. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again — this time on the Lock Screen | TechCrunch
Your iPhone clock doesn't have to be so "glassy" anymore, thanks to a new Apple software update.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
This is a post about LLMs.
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"But one of the starkest findings of the report is that the ultra-rich 0.001% control three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Not only that, their wealth is growing at a faster rate – close to 5%, compared with 3.4%. (...)
But to give an idea of the disparity, the image below shows how big the bottom half is. Each dot represents one stadium of 56,000 people."
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‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate thatOliver Holmes (The Guardian)
The image is a solid field of small, repeating squares. The squares are primarily green, with a slightly darker shade interspersed throughout, creating a textured, grid-like pattern. The squares are arranged in a uniform manner, covering the entire image area with no visible borders or empty space. There are no other elements or text present in the image. It appears to be a digital pattern or texture fill.
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Ma no, che attacco. È solo un'operazione militare speciale (cit.)
Attacco USA Venezuela, la temperatura sale: gli scenari futuroprossimo.it/2025/12/atta…
Attacco USA Venezuela, la temperatura sale: gli scenari
Il Center for Strategic Studies calcola "molto probabile" un attacco missilistico USA al Venezuela. Proviamo a capire insieme.Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
#WritersCoffeeClub 14th of December: Share how you tackle a first round of revisions.
The first round usually occurs when I'm copying a disjointed draft from a notebook onto my computer, and then I adjust as I go.
One sick motherfucker.
Trump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
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#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
The Trump administration nixed commemorative coins meant to honor abolitionists and women in favor of honoring more old white men.The New Republic
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Living conditions are better in the country regions near Montbrison than they are in Saint Etienne from which this family was transferred
#Montbrison #SaintEtienne #Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor
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Collettivo studentesco CRAVOS contro il ritorno della leva obbligatoria l Osservatorio contro la militarizzazione delle scuole e delle università
D'un roig encès
#photography
#fotografia
#landscape
#landscapephotography
#catalonia
#catalunya
#mountains
#fujifilm
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Sta tornando Pinochet? Il Cile decide oggi
Il Paese che sognava una nuova Costituzione ora rischia di consegnarsi alla destra più dura e guardare al passato più nero.AndreaCegna (Il Finestrino - lo sguardo sul mondo di e con Andrea Cegna)
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
Dnipropetrovsk region governor shows damage from Russian attacks Shown in
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, drone and artillery strikes by Russian forces damaged homes, a business, and vehicles. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
Una storia di ejecta in Arabia Terra settentrionale
L'obiettivo è esaminare l'ejecta proveniente da un cratere ben conservato. Si tratta di un luogo ideale per l'acquisizione di immagini perché è poco coperto da polvere, quindi sono visibili molti dettagli.
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Una storia di ejecta in Arabia Terra settentrionale
L’obiettivo di questa osservazione è esaminare l’ejecta proveniente da un cratere ben conservato.umberto gaetani (La macchina del tempo)
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Dec-13: Calibri Too Woke
Ik blijf nog een beetje bij het wappie-regiem, dat in de USA de lakens uitdeelt. Een discipel van Mr T, Marco Rubio, heeft bedacht dat het lettertype calibri te woke is en dus vervangen moet worden…ximaar
I was trying to hide the description, what with it being Silent Sunday. It's also the only photo of me I'm likely to post on here (as it shows my fabulous knees).
Le metropolitane non possono più dipendere da norme speciali e deroghe.
A Mobilitiamo Roma, l’assessore Eugenio Patané chiede un sistema di finanziamenti strutturali e continuativi, indispensabili per programmare e completare la rete.
Un tema centrale per il futuro della mobilità romana.
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#Roma #Metropolitane #TrasportoPubblico @roma
Metropolitane: “Basta norme speciali, servono finanziamenti strutturali”
L'appello all’assessore Patané durante l’evento Mobilitiamo Roma. Ascolta "Metro C a rischio: Roma tra tagli, cantieri e tes...Andrea (Blogger)
I'm not quite sure how I'm feeling about my current mastodon instance. It's on v4.1.13 which is ancient, unsupported, and missing nice QoL features.
(What about security?)
I'm not complaining though, I know well enough how cumbersome and time-consuming it can be to keep self-hosted stuff moderately up-to-date. That's the main reason why I haven't tried (yet?) running my own instance.
So.... I don't know. Maybe I'll consider yet another migration. Which is one of the nicer features of Mastodon!
I'll probably slim it down by removing cache and messages older than 2 years as it seems most don't really care about keeping very old messages.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll be patient then. It's interesting to hear about the disk space required by a moderately small instance.
RIP my bookmarks. (No, I'm joking, they're not that important, and for my own posts I have even configured an auto-delete...)
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Certains de nos ami.e.s de la bande de Gaza rencontrent des problèmes avec le site Gofundme qui s'amuse à bloquer l'argent de leurs cagnottes... Certain.e.s préfèrent donc changer de site par sécurité, c'est le cas de mon amie @eslamradwan1_D_5 qui vient de migrer vers chuffed; son nouveau lien=>chuffed.org/project/161617-abdo
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I wasn't aware there was a problem with my
campaign link, and all donations got stuck.
I haven't received donations for the last week.
#SoSadAboutThat😔😭
I created a new link until the problem is fixed.
#Be_the_first_donor_here🙏🙏
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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #israel #genocide #famine #mutualAid
@D1
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
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@neutrinoceros
@ravensrod
@kathimmel
@simon_brooke
@tekul
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@appassionato
@ravensrodHelp my family live out of Gaza
I'm Islam Radwan from Gaza, I'm married to three children. In the 34 years of my life, I have witnessed 5 brutal wars and many escalations.Chuffed
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in reply to Expertenkommision Cyberunfall • • •Ein dunkler Innenraum zeigt eine große Menschenmenge vor einer Bühne. Vier leuchtende, weiße, stilisierte Figuren sind auf der Bühne sichtbar, die sich in ihrer Form an Menschenfiguren mit ausgestreckten Armen orientieren. Die Menschenmenge füllt den Großteil des Bildes und erstreckt sich bis zum Bühnenbereich. Über der Bühne und der Menge befindet sich eine Anordnung von hellen Lichtern. Der Hintergrund ist vollständig schwarz, wodurch die Figuren und die Menge hervorgehoben werden.
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in reply to Expertenkommision Cyberunfall • • •Eine dunkle Aufnahme zeigt eine Bühnenaufstellung vor einem Publikum. In der Mitte überragt eine große, helle Bühnenkonstruktion die Aufstellung. Die Konstruktion besteht aus einem Winkel aus Lichtstrahlen, die von einer schräg verlaufenden Basis ausgehen. Am unteren Ende dieser Basis steht eine Reihe von sechs Ständern mit violetten und weißen Lichtern, die in der Dunkelheit leuchten. Eine Menschenmenge ist vor der Bühne zu sehen, und das Bild ist dunkel, wobei der Fokus auf der beleuchteten Bühnenkonstruktion liegt.
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Ein Bühnenbild mit einer Menge von silhouettierten Personen im Hintergrund. Vier weiße, stilistische Figuren stehen nebeneinander auf der Bühne. Unterhalb jeder Figur befindet sich ein leuchtendes rotes Objekt, das wie ein Podest aussieht. Unter den Figuren befindet sich ein weiteres rotes horizontales Leuchtobjekt, das die Breite der vier Figuren erstreckt. Die Menge ist dicht gedrängt und ihre Umrisse sind kaum zu erkennen.
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Ein horizontales, rechteckiges Lichtsignal ist in einem dunklen Raum zu sehen. Das Licht ist rot. Das Lichtsignal besteht aus vier vertikalen Linien, die nebeneinander angeordnet sind, sowie einer horizontalen Linie, die sich unter ihnen erstreckt. Die vertikalen Linien sind alle gleich hoch und gleichmäßig voneinander entfernt. Die horizontale Linie ist etwas kürzer als die Breite der vertikalen Linien.
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Das Bild zeigt eine Bühne in der Dunkelheit, beleuchtet von violettem Licht. In der Mitte der Bühne befindet sich eine Weltkugel mit dem Text "KLING KLANG" darüber und "MUSIFILM" darunter. Vor der Kugel stehen mehrere Personen, die in gleicher Höhe zu sehen sind, vermutlich Musiker, die während einer Aufführung beleuchtet werden. Der Hintergrund ist ein dunkler Raum mit einer großen Menschenmenge, die mit ihren Lichtern die Szene umgeben. Der Gesamteindruck ist eine Bühnenaufführung mit einem Weltkugel-Design und einer Menschenmenge im Hintergrund.
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