Fortino is a tractor driver at Chateau @SteMichelle winery in WA. It's November and temps are very low which creates frost on the vines. His job is to cut the grass between rows as grass still grows in the winter. This work must be done for a good springtime harvest. #WeFeedYou

Über die Jahre hat Weihnachten, wie es heutzutage gelebt wird, an Bedeutung verloren. Ja, die Kiddies erfreuen sich an den Geschenken und man könnte in die Kirche gehn, wenn man wie meinereiner daran glaubt.

Aber unabhängig vom ganzen Gedöns, wie würde ein ideales Weihnachtsfest denn ausschauen, wenn man/frau es sich selber basteln könnte - also im ursprünglichen Sinne von Weihnachten? Was wären so eure Schlüsselelemente?

Ich selbst tu mir da gerade etwas schwer damit.

If you need last-minute practical gifts (or just more #climate #resiliency in the future) I wrote up a guide for everything from tiny powerbanks up to whole house backup systems. (Having backup power supports #community in a crisis, even to just power phones)

https://susankayequinn.com/2024/11/backup-power-battery-options-for-the-climate-crisis.html

#ClimateCrisis #energy #climatechange #power #solar #battery

Un Clásico 😂😂😂

Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley pre-dates a lot of things. The center existed before NASA – the very space and aeronautics agency it’s a critical part of today. And of all the marvelous advancements in science and technology that have fundamentally changed our lives over the last 85 years since its founding, one aspect […]

The plane {pulling at your shirt}

Hugz & xXx

Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitgeber haben sich im Streit um die Zukunft bei VW geeinigt. IG Metall und Betriebsrat konnten die schlimmsten Pläne abwehren. https://taz.de/!6058101

#Pic #pictures #picture #pics

#photos #photo #cat #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

#animal #animals #cute #cuteanimal

@Melissabeartrix

Off to shops now.
See you in an hour?
Illmessage when I'm.meaving Marion.

Bonne Soirée mes Mastochoux, demain je prends un train pour rejoindre la Belgique (non je ne fuis pas, quoique ...) On envoie pleins de force à ma Bisounours. 🍀 Des bisous, des calinoux, et des chaudoudoux. A demain dans une gare ou une autre.

@pasqualeberesti Viens que je te serre fort dans mes bras, mon Amour, la vie est trop courte. 💋 💋 💋 💋

#RIP Willamette Week #comics page 🤬😵🤢 #indie #weekly #fuckcapitalism #portland

It is a beaut day outside
I just took a quick peek
and it seems really nice to me

so go outside and play

#Wordle 1,281 5/6

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No sé si habéis visto ya la actuación de Amaia ayer en La Revuelta porque si no, ya estáis tardando.

No solo por el pedazo de cierre si no porque tienen razón y solo por un tuit de un random, tiene una pasada de reproducciones y compartidos

Thanks to some significant help from @qbit, I've got a working port of termsonic for OpenBSD!

https://git.sixfoisneuf.fr/termsonic

Here's the results of our #TechnicalJiggeryPokery over the last couple of days:

https://git.disroot.org/bsdclown/mystuff/src/branch/main/audio/termsonic

If anyone spots any issues, I'd love to fix them before submitting to ports.

After working on getting gonic running, I'm excited to get this one submitted. It means there'll be everything you need to set up your own streaming jukebox on #OpenBSD.

#RunBSD

This often overlooked but update your Router Firmware regularly. This will keep your network and your home devices more secure.

Also toss those TP-link devices. They are not secure and have massive security holes.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-considers-banning-tp-link-routers-over-cybersecurity-risks/

#security #tech

2024 Foundation Sponsored Development highlights:
• 1360+ code commits
• Key projects: CIS Benchmark, VPP Framework
• Wi-Fi, RISC-V & accessibility advancements
• 9 successful GSoC projects
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Read our blog for more 👉 https://buff.ly/49MVmhi

I cannot stress this enough:

Betting on doom and gloom is generally a bad idea. Most of the time, if you bet on the economy to fail, it is you who will fail.

https://www.europesays.com/1703788/ Trump tells Europe his administration will continue military support for Ukraine – FT #Ukraine

»Aufgrund der unklaren und unzureichenden Informationslage sowie der rechtlichen Verstöße im Zusammenhang mit der ungefragten Übermittlung von Telemetriedaten ist vom Einsatz von Microsoft Teams an Schulen klar abzuraten.«

Diese Aussage lässt sich vermutlich auf Institutionen/Unternehmen ausweiten, die Teams nutzen. 👇

#microsoft #teams #datenschutz #teamdatenschutz #FediLZ

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/microsoft-teams-unzulaessige-datenuebertragungen-und-mangelnde-transparenz-schul-apps-teil-4/

watt?
https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-nahost-freitag-214.html#Nordsyrien

https://www.europesays.com/1703800/ Trump campaign co-manager calls Lord Peter Mandelson an ‘absolute moron’ as peer is confirmed as Starmer’s new US ambassador | Politics News #UnitedKingdom

¿Todavía existe Gran Hermano?
¿Todavía?

I'm going to say this again. I think that the vast majority of Googlers are great. I've only very rarely met a Googler I didn't like. This has been true for my dealings with Google from the outside over the many years since Google began, and notably during those periods I worked inside Google. And yes, this includes engineers, many managers, and numerous others, and yeah, even some VPs and other executives with whom I have or had contact.

I have never had direct contact with CEO Pichai. I assume if we chatted he'd tell me something along the lines of that he was fulfilling his fiduciary obligations to the firm and its stockholders, in a highly fluid and competitive environment.

Those would be logical words. But they do not capture the inevitable sense that he has steered Google away from its traditional core values, and many observers inside and outside of Google (including me, of course) would argue that his chosen route was while perhaps expedient, only one of numerous potential paths available, many others of which would be far less damaging to employees and users, while being far more ethical across the board, and yes, still maintaining his fiduciary responsibilities.

Life is full of choices, and that applies to businesses too, even to very large and powerful ones. And the manners in which the CEOs of powerful firms choose to deploy their power has vast ramifications not only to the firms, but in cases such as Google also broadly across society. This is why regulatory concerns so often focus on firms like Google -- their power is vast and their potential to do damage with that power is also enormous. And unfortunately, once regulators home in on a firm like Google, it's not uncommon for proposed remedies to be technologically "ignorant" and in some cases even more damaging to users and society than the status quo.

Google under Pichai is on the wrong course and there seem to be no indications that Pichai plans to do otherwise than double, triple, and quadruple down on this path.

To say that this is discouraging for Google and the world at large, is a vast understatement indeed. -L

HTML and CSS are awesome programming languages. I love programming in them so much. The programs I've programmed in HTML and CSS are some of the best programs I've seen a computer run.

Good afternoon, Mastodon friends! Today is chilly with an unpleasant north wind. Donny and I were wimps (again!) and walked just over 1-1/2 miles instead of our usual 2 miles. (Joule did her normal mile.) I'm not too concerned -- Donny, Joule, and I already met this year's goal of 1000 miles walked.
I made paneer again, as it's fun and easy (and tasty). This time I'm dehydrating part of it to make Himalayan dog chews, which I won't make quite as hard as the commercial ones.
Have a good day!