Desert Camel

@desertcamel
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Testing the waters.

Use technology like it's 00s.

Yes, I like desert, how do you know?
#physicist

Fuck it, you can respect science, and still think things are magical, knowing how things work doesn't make it less magical, it makes it more so. Embrace the whimsy, you dark soul, it's okay.
We left UNIX philosophy when as a society we moved away from recursive acronyms.

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

Secret Panel HERE 🔒 https://tapas.io/episode/2553125

Why can't I open a toot in new tab? What is this a twitter clone? A BSKY clone? DO BETTER.

@Mastodon
#mastodon

It’s a famous result in Newtonian gravity that if you drop an object down a borehole in a ball of uniform density it will oscillate at the same rate as an orbiting body grazing the surface.

But what happens in General Relativity?

The answer lies in the 2nd Schwarzschild metric!

In 1916, shortly before his death, Schwarzschild published *two* exact solutions to Einstein’s equations for gravity.

The first was for a point mass, and it’s now famous for describing a black hole.

The second was for a solid ball of uniform density.

You can find these two metrics by first writing down what an unchanging, spherically symmetric metric must look like, with two unknown functions.

You then compute the corresponding Einstein tensor, which describes aspects of the space-time curvature that need to be matched by the density and the pressure (in the radial direction, and the directions perpendicular to it) of the matter responsible for that curvature.

Setting density and pressure to zero gives the first Schwarzschild metric.

Constant non-zero density, and equal pressures in the radial and non-radial directions, give the second.

My code is shitty, But I don't want to touch it, It is held together by duck tapes.
A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/27/the-artificial-complexity-of-ooxml-files-the-xlsx-case/ @opendocument @libreoffice
The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the XLSX case) - The Document Foundation Blog

The post, published on 18 July 2025, which explained why an artificially complex XML schema, such as that used by Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) files, is in fact a subtle tool for locking in users because it is invisible and impossible to detect without in-depth study, was picked up by various IT media outlets. […]

The Document Foundation Blog
Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.

The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

POLITICO

Wikipedia:

FORTRAN
See also: Spaghetti code

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