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1. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 11:21:53 EDT Brian Ó

   smol fren

   #gardening #wildlife #animals #amphibians #frogs #photo #mywork
2. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 20:50:54 EDT Brian Ó

   moar frog

   #gardening #wildlife #animals #amphibians #frogs #photo #mywork
3. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 20:53:21 EDT Brian Ó

   I sowed these beans just over three weeks ago. Almost time to chop them down and sow some more :D

   #gardening #covercrop #beans #plants
4. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 20:08:45 EDT Brian Ó

   Momentous decisions have been made. In preparation for spring I’m going to build two more 6x4 cedar raised beds like the one in the photo, which will go side by side in the foreground where that blue tote currently sits. There should be enough soil in the old rotted raised bed hiding in the back right to more or less fill them both. The cement block raised bed will then be relocated to that back corner. I’ve also propagated the two large blackberry plants against the fence into four plants, so those should take off next season as well. Behind this photo to the right, I’ve also tarped off an 8x10 area of lawn to plant wildflowers in the spring. We may get some fruit trees next year as well.

   Lots of work ahead. I owe my lower back a preemptive apology.

   #gardening
5. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 10:55:59 EDT Brian Ó

   I terminated my cover crop of beans this morning and re-sowed. This was a month's worth of growth in the July heat. I suspect it will slow down a little as the weather cools. I wonder how many more cycles I can get out of it before Fall arrives in earnest.

   #gardening #plants
6. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 11:34:50 EDT Brian Ó

   The Intrepid Museum in NYC has a 22' long replica of the original ship design in Lego, in case you didn't know @[Hypolite Petovan](http://social.gibberfish.org/people/735a20292057e0afa5e14c2885654633)

   #intrepid #museum #nyc #lego #military #history
7. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:38:18 EDT Brian Ó

   Weirdly dinky/odd shaped harvest of these white potatoes, compared to the reds. Not sure these are worth saving for seed. Might just eat them and find another variety for the spring.

   #gardening #potatoes #food
8. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 20:43:53 EDT Brian Ó

   I came home from a weekend in NYC to find my blackberries had flopped over thanks to tropical whatever Debbie. I got them righted again without catastrophic damage, but it's relying on some mechanical assistance. I may have to get some extra long stakes or rebar to hold them up more permanently.

   #gardening #blackberries #berries #fruit #plants #weather
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 07:02:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   There are 49 symbols used in standard Taiwanese Hokkien. Of these 49 symbols, 26 are from the original Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, while 23 are additional, created for Taiwanese languages.

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanes…
10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 13:57:30 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Party-pooper fact-check in the next comment, but here's the story as it was told to me when I was on Iceland:

    There is a lake some ways from Akureyri called Mývatn ("mosquito water"), and the island in the middle is a flourishing green only because mosquitoes fly out there, breed and die, their bodies fertilizing and contributing to the topsoil over the volcanic rock.

    It's in effect a vampire island.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 14:06:18 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Party pooper fact check after I have been carrying this fantastic story with me for most of my life:

      There are no mosquitoes on Iceland. None. There is no mosquito species with a lifecycle that fits the climate. That's a pretty fantastic and cool fact on its own, though.

      snopes.com/fact-check/no-mosqu…

      Mývatn means "midge lake", close enough, but according to random hiking tourists on the web, the vast vast majority of midges on Iceland are non-biting ones.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:59:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

      considered true flies

      😲

      That mosquito-carried diseases kill more people each year than hippos do

      @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} They kill more people than a *lot* of things.

      I know hippos are murder horse tanks, but are you saying humans and hippos interact so much that it's a significant statistic? I would have thought people would stay clear and vice versa.

11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:52:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I just made up the word "filionymikon", because someone said "Worf, father of Mogh". Not to be mixed up with his grandson, of course.

    It is extant in exactly one place on the Web, a Swedish genealogy wiki. I was almost first!

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:53:51 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      I historien är detta namnbruk känt från Mellanöstern och arabiskan, t.ex: Samira Om Ahmed "Ahmeds moder", Umm Kulthum (Zainab-e-Sughra) "Kulthums moder", Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya) "Salamas moder".

      wiki.rotter.se/index.php?title…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 00:01:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Kermode I think HK is in more urgent need of added weirdness, so I'm doing my part. 😁
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 00:05:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Kermode My long-term plan is to get more community-oriented rather than just being weird at home.

      Also, to be weirder.

12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:11:25 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Showing a low-resolution version of the map. Make sure your browser supports WebGL to see the full version."

    2D acceleration: Now in a random news article near you. At least they provided a pixel fallback.

    I'm surprised they'd go to the trouble. Is it less data for them than sending an SVG?
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:41:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Itaniums could have an L4 cache? And an L3 or L4 as big as 32 MiB? Wow.
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:20:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    LoongArch / LoongISA, looking up further details Re: social.treehouse.systems/@aria…

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson…

    The binary translation instructions have the specific benefit of speeding up Intel x86 CPU emulation at a cost of 5% of the total die area. The new instructions help a QEMU hypervisor translate instructions from x86 to MIPS with only a reported 30% performance penalty.

    
    That's very interesting in the context how our ISAs will look in 100 years, how we handle legacy, the thread about Itanium the other day, etc.

    The thing with "Programmer at Large" where our interstellar trade fleet 1000 years from now runs all these legacy systems in x86 emulators never fully leaves my mind.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:37:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      "The thread about Itanium" is this one, lamenting the lack of exotic CPUs and how we're trapped in C-driven ISAs, which traps us in C, which traps us in C-driven ISAs:

      libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8…

      If you support C in a performant way, you stay commercially viable. One way to still innovate is to glue two ISAs together, which I believe is what the #itanium did.

      LoongISA is showing another way; extending the ISA with some help instructions without fully emulating in hardware. I wonder if the C compiler for LoongISA benefits from these x86 help instructions even when compiling native C.

      It sounds like I'm equating x86 and C here, but I'm not really. I do assume though that MIPS is less C-driven than x86, which I assume is severely C-driven. Please jump in if that's all wrong.

15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 13:28:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Seen in the wild: "the amount of references to certain French EoL tooling"
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 13:25:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Postmodern Jukebox: "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (spaghetti western style)

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=TcArzldvoG…

    #Kiss #PostModernJukebox
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 09:40:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Imagine a color that you can't even imagine. Now do that nine more times. That is how a mantis shrimp do."

    (actually eight more times)

    Ze Frank: "True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp"

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJ…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 10:21:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • ghostdancer
      @ghostdancer They were released within months from each other by sheer coincidence! (11 years ago)
18. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 10:17:13 EDT Michael Vogel
    Der beste Beweis für den Zufallscharakter der Evolution (und dessen Planlosigkeit) ist, dass das Loch zur Nahrungsaufnahme auch zum Atmen verwendet wird, so dass Nahrung in die Luftröhre gelangen kann.
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 14:08:41 EDT Michael Vogel

      • VegOS
      Soweit ich in Erinnerung habe, gibt es auch ein Lebewesen, bei dem das der Fall ist.
19. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 09:33:38 EDT Michael Vogel
    Für jeden Topf gibt es einen passenden Deckel, für jeden Tisch gibt es ein passenden Stuhl - gibt es dann also zum Authentisch auch ein Authenstuhl?
20. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 05:09:54 EDT Michael Vogel
    Kleiner Tipp an alle, die mit "Noise Cancelling"-Kopfhörern im Zug telefonieren: Die andere Person wird euch bestimmt auch verstehen, wenn ihr leiser sprecht. Aber dafür weiß ich jetzt den neuesten Klatsch und Tratsch über ihn und seine Freunde ...
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 05:35:25 EDT Michael Vogel
      @Mirco Wilhelm er ist übrigens so laut, dass ich ihn durch meine eigenen Noise Cancelling-Ohrstöpsel höre.