Notices by Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)

Found this article thanks to a Reddit comment. Every day or so there's someone asking in math reddits what "dy/dx" means or why there's a "dx" in the integral notation, and then an army of people come out of the woodwork to push the orthodoxy of limits like some stockholm syndrome prisoners... And a small number of people point out that nonstandard analysis is actually a real thing and works... Anyway, back before I was born Sullivan did an actual experiment on teaching https://web.archive.org/web/20210506151356/http://academic.brcc.edu/crow/Projects/Calculus%20with%20Infinitesimals/Files/Sullivan%20(1976).pdf

@futurebird
My wife is incredibly much more productive if she starts with something on the page and can edit it. Almost all her scientific papers started out with me writing some bullshit about the topic and her then writing an entire paper about how wrong I was 😅 anyway now she outsources that to AI! AI took my job!
@ngaylinn

So today is the 40th birthday of my younger son's Sax teacher. They live a half mile away down the hill towards the elementary school. Anyway, we're supposed to show up at 2 and we've been instructed to bring instruments if we want. I'm bringing my bass, and my son will bring his sax. As a rank amateur I'm hoping the seasoned pros will be generous.

@whitequark
You plan to get some presence by running a VPN to somewhere? And you did this in what RIR? I kinda want to do this myself but I assume in US you need to be willing to fellate a senator since thats how everything works in the US.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

I really hate that image. If you click through to the article then hover over it, it will say "artists impression of the initial shape of a supernova explosion"

That is 100% fanciful artistic and fun, but needs to be labeled PROMINENTLY as artists conception, right IN the image, because it's gonna get reshared everywhere separated from the text.

@WarnerCrocker
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges

Working link, yours has an extra space

Last week I was sick on our meeting day, so I had a video meeting this morning with my German collaborator and we had a lot to discuss. 2.5 hours of looking at plots and wondering what the heck they meant... and we finally had to call it off for me to get lunch and him it's late. Anyway we're gonna do a 20 min meeting tomorrow morning to follow up on a couple things, but I gotta say, I love this collaboration on research via the internet. The internet has SOOO much potential to make things good

The fact that these big companies like Meta and Google and Microsoft and things are all enshittifying the world doesn't say anything about how good the internet could be, just about what those people are doing to pollute our social environment. Mastodon and blogs and things are all great. Do more of connecting with people and collaborating with them.

@whitequark
And the lord said "eBGP multihop for I am the lord your god and my flowspec metrics meet RPKI Peer Groups"

I received an email this morning requesting donations to the #guix foundation. Ive only been using it a couple months but its already very important because it makes my router work. Once I'm up and about I'll be adding a $10/mo donation through OpenCollective. The software is more niche than Debian but its absolutely the same kind of important infrastructure of an open computing future. They want 125 people at this $10 level. Let's blow that out of the water.

https://archive.org/details/max-headroom-complete/Max+Headroom+S1E1+-+Blipverts.mp4

Here it is on Archive.org

I was pretty young at the time, and I didn't actually have a TV in my house, but I kinda remember the Max Headroom TV show of the 1980's was about a rag-tag bunch of technologists who would use their van to launch counter-propaganda attacks on a fascist police state??? And I'm thinking... hmmm.... 🤔

@mcnado
Do you know how long Ebola is viable on surfaces? I dont, and I know in small scale you'd decontaminate with bleach or similar, but wonder how long it would take to simply seal a facility and wait.

@artemis
Thanks to 200 years of suppression but especially the COINTELPRO era and the 1980s, almost noone in the US knows a leftist unless they basically are one already.

The fascists in this country call Harris, and actual Cop basically, a left wing radical. Shes closer to Eisenhower than to you or me.

Basically keep up the good work people. Harassing ICE by resistance and face recognition and filming them and yelling at them in big crowds, it all is absolutely making their job hard, and making people quit. Doing fascism is fun for these people until they're surrounded by 900 people all angry and yelling at them.

Kevin Carson details how much resistance the Trump administration is receiving, and just how badly they are screwing up. Sure they're gonna hurt a lot of people in the next year but they aren't consolidating power and purging the military and so forth in a effective way. And even if they did... Just CA alone is as big as Iraq, the whole US? Cops and military are outnumbered 100 to 1
https://c4ss.org/content/60723

@ikonha
And they weren't even using Signal itself, but some third party client right?

@hellomiakoda

cron normally captures output and mails it to root. but maybe there's no mail delivery infrastructure on the machine and cron doesn't like it?

@hellomiakoda
Theres a command line tool for mqtt messages, mqtt-cli. It can subscribe to a topic and will block until the message is received then print the message. So your shell script can loop on reading a message from a pipe and doing a thing. Basically a little shell script server. Does that help?

@hellomiakoda
Send a message via MQTT and have the other machine listen for that message and fire off the script when received?