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  • it reflects the balance of my bodily needs, no objection on my part

  • Praying Mantis in my garden
  • haha no, I'm sieving a pile of dirt to remove the weeds and the gloves have gotten really crusty ^^

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
  • you're fine Brian, nobody will know you live in Punxsutawney PA

    if i'm uninspired i'd rather stick to a simple "hey happy birthday!", sending generated slop is just like buying a birthday card and not writing anything in it

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
  • User A: write 1500 words around this idea i summed up in 1 sentence

    User B: sum me up this 1500 word post into 1 sentence

  • Praying Mantis in my garden
  • five eights of a foot

  • Praying Mantis in my garden
  • They come in all sizes and colors yes! It might be that the variety living in my area (Southwestern Germany) - mantis religiosa - is slightly bigger than average.

    I love them so much, it's always a wonderful moment when I spot one, and it was the first time I could hold one.

  • Praying Mantis in my garden

    i found this little guy hanging around and brought it to a safe place as i was digging around

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    Trump fans forced to pee in bottles while in line for NYC rally
  • a true fan would be wearing a nappy like their idol do

  • ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’
  • for sure, when your survival is on the line if you or someone in you family ever becomes sick, gotta hustle that 3rd part time job

  • Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life - 9to5Mac
  • I don't get what those companies try to achieve by automating writing (by spewing statistically probable prose), reading (by badly summarizing text cobbled from excerpts without the ability to make any sense of it), art, photography, music, all standardized to the lowest common denominator.

    I'm not buying a new device that will try to impose any of this hype. For now, Apple has decided to "punish" the users in the European Union by holding the Apple Intelligence features hostage. FINE BY ME!

    edit: typo/phrasing

  • A Novice Trek Fan
  • yeah between financial gain incentive and cookie consent popups, it's getting difficult out there! in any case thank you for your feedback, fellow Star Trek meme enjoyer!

  • A Novice Trek Fan
  • yes mobile, no adblocker, so that's the quickest solution for me to avoid auto playing video ads all over the place

  • A Novice Trek Fan
  • and if you want a browsing experience that doesn't s*ck @ss, try adding "anti" in front of the fandom domain:

    https://memory-alpha.antifandom.com/

  • It's Wesday already?!
  • made with Crushed canola seed, extra virgin

  • NO BLUEBERRIES ALLOWED
  • big (h)oof

  • Missing cat, found!
  • that's very sweet, really glad you got your companion back, he looks beautiful and i wish you many years to enjoy at his side <3

  • reddit cat subs be like:
  • that's what my photo library thinks too ;_;

  • Fediverse enshittification
  • if an admin becomes tempted with letting sponsored content to filter into the network, they will face defederation and an diaspora of their users.

    that's why it's also important to support your server admin financially so they don't have an incentive of looking for third party financing in the first place.

  • Novyi Svit, Crimea, Ukraine
  • yeah, maybe rename it in "Somewhere possibly in Crimea, Ukraine"

    EDIT: it's a place called Novyi Svit, in Crimea

  • We frankenstein'd something this morning

    The switch that turns the concrete mixer broke and only stays on if you keep it pressed, but we already put cement and water into it so we had to keep going. So I got a couple of clamps :)

    A new switch has been ordered, but it's gonna take 2 weeks to come from China.

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    Zadig has arrived in his forever home đŸ„°

    So far he's confined to the living room to get slowly used to the new place

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    In Sweden anyone can become prime minister

    Except for IKEA executives, they would spend 4 years assembling the cabinet.

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    Behold, Shana has evolved to a supreme being

    I took a picture of my baby Siamese cat the other day and the sun rays made her look really angelic! My friend surprised me with this drawing early this morning and I'm absolutely in awe đŸ„°đŸ˜‡

    Artist's page: https://meow.social/@LumiaP2L/112941916531829510

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    Shogi - Japanese chess @discuss.tchncs.de morgunkorn @discuss.tchncs.de
    Tsume 1 (problem) - Level beginner

    This is the first problem in a small book I have, check-mate in 1 move.

    The opponent's King is in the back right corner of the board. You have a Pawn on the third row in front of it.

    In your drop zone, you have a Rook, a Gold General and a Silver General available.

    Please use the spoiler tag to post your answer :)

    Solution

    Drop Gold General in front of the King at 1äșŒ, protected by the Pawn at 1侉.

    Wrong moves:

    • dropping the Rook at 1äșŒ, at 3侀 or at 4侀 lets the King escape to 2侀,
    • dropping the Silver General at 1äșŒ lets the King escape to 2äșŒ
    • dropping a Gold or Silver General at 2äșŒ lets the King take General back at 2äșŒ, since it isn't protected by the Pawn.

    Reminder of the movements of the pieces:

    !

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    Meet Zadig, little Maine Coon

    He's coming to my friends's family in 8 weeks, still spending some time with his momma until he's ready

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    Update 4: vaulted Root Cellar build

    Hi everyone!

    A slow week went by, with daily heavy rains it's not always easy to find the motivation to work outside.

    We installed a 50 square meter fleece and pond liner on top of the build, and started backfilling with dirt.

    !

    It's a lot of work because we have to dig the overgrown pile of dirt that's been sitting for 5 years on our lot, first getting rid of the roots in the top soil. But we have to do this manually as the back is only reachable through a narrow path in our neighbor's garden.

    My partner also installed the electrical panel with 24V circuits for RGBW LED strips, a PoE WiFi access point and connected the wall outlets to the 230V main. It was temporarily connected to test how bright the strips will be. They will later be mounted in metal railings across the whole length of the lower brick line, with a wood cladding.

    !

    !

    We will then have to dig a 20 meter trench from the house main electric supply, lay a PVC pipe and pull a 3-phase copper line to the cellar. This will be the garden hub to provide electricity to the future outdoor kitchen.

    !

    The next few days we will work on the mortar joints, using the multitool diamond blades that arrived in the mail to finish the cleanup before grouting all the joints cleanly.

    Have a great week and keep on doing it yourself!

    !

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    Friendly encounter

    This beauty was cuddling with a car when I went past her on my bike. I stopped and she came to me and purred immediately, very sweet â˜ș

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    Update 3: root cellar with vaulted ceiling

    Hi everyone

    It's been a while, I skipped a couple of weeks to get things going on our project!

    Last time I wrote we had finished 3 slices of the roof. In the meantime, we finished the 4 next ones and completed the roof.

    !

    Eventually we were able to do a complete layer in one day, the second one on top the following day, and move the wooden structure the third day.

    We held off laying the last slice to finish the front wall (and be eventually able to attach the ceiling to it), making a door lintel out of cinderblocks and reinforced concrete.

    !

    The suspense was high whether we would have enough bricks to finish the project and it turned out we had just 3 extra at the end!

    !

    One of the bricks revealed a handwritten signature which turns out to mean "Ludwig Herman". We are still investigating who and when :)

    !

    Next, we will spend many hours cleaning the grout from the inside to free the bricks and make nice regular joints. Then we will insulate the outside with a pond liner and cover the root cellar under a thick layer of dirt.

    !

    See you soon!

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    Linus Torvalds to Rewrite the Linux Kernel in PHP
    web.archive.org Linus Torvalds to Rewrite the Linux Kernel in PHP

    Linus Torvalds reveals plans to rewrite the Linux kernel using the web dev langue: PHP. The news has cause controversy among the tech community

    Finally i'm gonna be able to contribute!

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    morgunkorn morgunkorn @discuss.tchncs.de
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