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I've had six different door-to-door pest control salesmen come to my house in the last month and I've told each of them the same thing: "I've already got a guy."

In all seriousness, I usually end up gently explaining how some bugs actually eat other bugs and I don't need to do much more than ensure I'm keeping my yard wild and diverse. They always look at me like I'm crazy.

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#nature #WeAreAPartOfNature

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As the core of a massive star is compressed during a Type II supernova or a Type Ib or Type Ic supernova, and collapses into a neutron star, it retains most of its angular momentum. Because it has only a tiny fraction of its parent's radius (sharply reducing its moment of inertia), a neutron star is formed with very high rotation speed and then, over a very long period, it slows. Neutron stars are known that have rotation periods from about 1.4 ms to 30 s. The neutron star's density also gives it very high surface gravity, with typical values ranging from 1012 to 1013 m/s2 (more than 1011 times that of Earth).[12] One measure of such immense gravity is the fact that neutron stars have an escape velocity of over half the speed of light.[13] The neutron star's gravity accelerates infalling matter to tremendous speed, and tidal forces near the surface can cause spaghettification.

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I've taken almost this exact same photo every year since I moved here in 2020, albeit it somewhat unintentionally. There's just always one perfect, quiet sunset that just begs to be captured through the trees each year.

It's fun looking back through the photos and seeing just how much has changed.

#sunset #sunset #backyard

#Sunset #backyard

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RSS is a secret trick to making the internet more usable. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate…

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it.
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Both the level of #COVID19 in US wastewater and the positive rate of testing have almost doubled in the past 3 weeks. We're still WELL below the levels in past lulls, but we might not be within two or three weeks at this rate.

Starting this late, we can expect this surge to peak in late August.

Starting this low, it's still likely to continue our trend toward consecutively lower surges—but time will tell. 1/2

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I mean it's a logical conclusion, if you have a custom program wrapper or something it would eventually end up just lead to doing the exact same thing as a a curlbash, and a lot of the time the freedom that terminal apps aren't as secure is a benefit since it allows you to do far more invasive things with your system without triggering security mechanisms, it's just as much a downside as it is an upside
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at least on the mac side, most people completely ignore bypassing gatekeeper because every other app requires it. the alert fatigue just completely numbs people to having to bypass security mechanisms, that and the amount of times you need to just allow an app through, you don't even second guess needing to poke through as many permissions as is required
you have to allow it through gatekeeper every time you update times every app not downloaded from the app store and you end up not caring by the time you actually allow a threat through.
linux is becoming the same way as well. having to click allow every other time you open an app isn't good behavior it's just annoying.
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When returning your work laptop, don't forget to leave IT a little stroopwafel... as a treat!

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"For the love of god, wipe down your work laptop before returning it to the IT team" - a memoir.

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