Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Interesting comparisons for the nearly identical posts I made earlier today about the death of Kevin Mitnick:

Facebook: (4.5k followers) - 1 comment, 6 likes
Mastodon: (47k followers) - 42 boosts, 49 likes
Post.news (5.2k followers) - no engagement
Threads (<500 followers) - 2 likes
Twitter: (114.2k followers) - 7 retweets, 3 likes

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My wife has been playing Paper Mario: The Origami King, and one of the musical peices kept reminding me of something, but I finally figured it out. It's very, very similar to R2DJ's "A Beautiful Mine," which you may know as the theme from TV's Mad Men. Clips:

Scorching Sandpaper Desert Battle Theme

R2DJ - A Beautiful Mine

get a dog they said, it'll be fun they said 😆

Sometimes Elon stans call me out on Twitter when people post the "cars and rockets" post, demanding to know what stupid things Elon says about software.

Here's a primo example.

In this exchange, Elon thinks Adam Mosseri is adding rate limits to Threads just like he added them to Twitter, and that he "copied" Elon.

Anyone who understands software knows Adam is talking about WRITE rate limits to curb spam posts. Elon implemented READ rate limits in an application that relies on ad impressions.

Breakthrough in geothermal energy 👇👇

An US company managed to generate a whopping 3.5 megawatts of 100% RE electricity at a full-scale, 30-day test.

The plant will connect to the grid later this year and power Google's data centers and infrastructure throughout Nevada.

#GettingStarted, hope everyone is having a great day!

The Wikimedia Foundation, which serves as the non-profit host for #Wikipedia, @wikidata, @mediawiki, and other free knowledge projects, has joined the Fediverse as @wikimediafoundation - welcome!!

Help! Help! I am trapped
in a haiku factory!
Save me before they

We also met with the amazingly professional Predator, Apache and Blackhawk pilots that were stationed there for training and deterrence purposes. It’s astonishing to me just how squared away these soldiers were – not a question I asked phased them.

About 109 billion people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10 million.

This stunning data visualization of human life by Max Roser was published in 2022.

Today there would be 805 green grains representing 8.05 billion people living on Earth. #science #art

RIP Gianfranco Poggi. A very lucid writer. I had lunch with him as a grad student and embarrassed myself by answering his "What are you working on?" question twice. He was wearing mirrored sunglasses and I didn't realize he was looking at someone else the second time. He kindly removed them. His writing on the state is excellent. He has several smaller books built out of lectures—one on Simmel, one on Durkheim—that are very good introductions, too.

Our Berkeley Center for Data Science & Environment is hiring another Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist!

Details (including expected salary) at https://dse.berkeley.edu/jobs/research-software-engineer-data-scientist

Please boost and reach out w/ questions!

My mental reframing exercise for the day:

I’m hiring.

My team, which is overseeing the modernization of IRS IT with $10 billion+ from the Inflation Reduction Act, needs a coordinator. Someone early career who is beginning to see how much room for improvement there is with Federal IT, and is equipped for a high-profile mission.

Please boost.

https://openopps.usajobs.gov/tasks/5842

LA Times: How an untested, cash-strapped TV show about books became an American classic

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-07-11/reading-rainbow-levar-burton-40th-anniversary

(h/t to @gbhnews from another social)

#LeVarBurton #ReadingRainbow #PBS

Real Internet of Shit stuff here. Ebike firm goes belly-up, but the encryption key to unlock your bike is stored on its very-soon-to-disappear servers.

https://mastodon.notsobig.co/@phill/110701490478043590

One of the world's very strangest volcanoes, and easily one of my favorites is Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. These photos of lava are not color enhanced or photoshoped, the lava from Kawah Ijen is just that beautiful electric blue color. The lava is an incredible blue due to an extremely high sulfur content--because sulfur burns blue.

In normal volcanoes, you can sometimes catch the blue tint of volcanic gasses betraying the presence of sulfur coming into contact with oxygen, but at this volcano there is so much sulfur in the lava and air that it appears blue, and spits blue flames.

The crater during non eruptive periods is a sulfur mine, and you can find massive nearly pure sulfur crystals there. The crater lake of Ijen is enormously toxic and the sulfuric gasses in the crater can kill.

“These sh*t e-scooters are everywhere!!”

remade my whole website in Quarto and it looks much like it once did but oh man was it way easier to do. highly recommended if you want more flexibility and automation than like a Google Site but still want it to be simple and easy https://nickchk.com/

The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server, State Secretary of Digitalisation @avhuffelen announced today! The server lives on the official domain of the Dutch government, at social.overheid.nl.

The Secretary mentions in her announcement a letter to the government explaining her support for 'value-driven alternative social networks', such as Mastodon. For more information on that, check out
https://fediversereport.com/dutch-government-officially-launches-mastodon-server/