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ugh can't stand perfect weather with perfect cool temperature sun and perfect clouds blossoms birds singing squirrels rabbits running around.

jk I can stand it.

Another naive question: how do the physics of a small mass HE FPV drone vs a massive armored tank work? Is it the proximity of the HE explosion setting off munitions in the tank? Is there a particular anti-tank munition?
The tank wreckage confuses me.
kyivpost.com/post/30428

GIMP crashed with a fatal error: fatal error: Segmentation fault :facepalm:

Starting to suspect this chatbot fell off the rails. See if you can spot the tell:

Our AI language model is continuously being trained on large datasets containing millions of words from various sources such as news articles books poems songs music audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio audio

whoooo trying to help the dog understand the concept of "shadow".
Walls will need paint before we're done.

Any corporation that wants to do business in the EU will notice

The Swiss court decision is an inflection point, not just for EU doings.
"...the first decision confirming that countries have an obligation to protect people from its effects...would open the door to more legal challenges in the countries that are members of the Council of Europe, which includes the 27 EU nations as well as many others from Britain to Turkey."

apnews.com/article/europe-eu-c

Keep wondering how a jumped-up druggy tech(?) bro got to co-opt an almost 40 year old trademark without a scuffle?
Whatever. Guess Wayland better get here sooner rather than later.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window

*spends 10 minutes entering product feedback*, presses submit.
"We're sorry, we're unable to connect to the page you requested."
*launches bots*

"German Air Force said late on April 6 that it had scrambled its fighter jets to intercept a Russian II-20 aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea without a transponder"


kyivindependent.com/german-air

46 years into its mission Voyager 1 has a corrupt memory register

NASA thinks they can make a workaround. The engineering on that probe...🤯

arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/

Brain: Probably shouldn't have another coffee.

Also Brain: Want coffee.

Brain: Probably shouldn't

Also Brain: Sigh. Beer then?

Brain: 🍻

ChatGPT tax advice: "While it may seem tempting to follow the example of wealthy individuals who engage in questionable accounting practices, there are several reasons why you should not do so. These oligarchs have access to legal resources that allow them to manipulate their financial statements and avoid taxes within the bounds of the law."

Ah, not that paying taxes is in my own and societal best interest, but to avoid legal penalty. Cool. Note to self: Get better lawyers.

On breaking the House impasse, Vindman: "the U.S. can and should transfer military material (to Ukraine) even absent the congressionally appropriated replenishment funds. By sending material without replenishment funds the U.S. would be accepting a small risk to our military in the event that our soldiers would need the equipment to fight an adversary, but that is an unlikely “what if” scenario."

kyivpost.com/opinion/30686

Not one to preach, but this being 2024 it's high time everyone used a password manager. Doesn't need to cost anything.

Little learning curve in exchange for greatly increased security and never again needing to memorize a password.

allthingssecured.com/identity-

@Museek known anyone fits this job description?
Associate Director of Storytelling and Communications
IllumiNative is a national, Native woman-led racial and social justice organization.
idealist.org/en/nonprofit-job/

Quick reminder that I'm an admin over on Discuit.net and would looooove to see y'all over there if you're looking for a alternative. Activity/New feeds are algorithm-less and easy to access. No federation. Good stuff, good peeps, a small community. Open source and working on official non-profit status.

Sometimes there is drama, same as here, but we do what we can, and I try to bring the CoSo vibe over.

(Do I regularly pimp CoSo there? Maaaaaaybe... ok, well, yes, obviously.)

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