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csk@mathstodon.xyz ("Craig S. Kaplan") wrote:
In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:
In my 21 1/2 years of military service I don’t recall ever running into anything like this. This is fucked up beyond all recognition.
#FUBAR“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,’ according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.” - Jonathan Larsen
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQTONJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeJG3E3YqM8ukVozZseDDcDk7CWLgH6C2-l29rGcDD7SgEoT5gVduTtcaS4ak%5Faem%5FTITttkhQhu5b%5FC9u3tX4mA
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
The Baochip that Bunnie has been talking about is live on Crowd Supply in the form of a dev board:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao
The talk at 39c3:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wolfcoder@lagopine.lgbt ("Sayuri 💛⬜️💜🖤 ΘΔ") wrote:
@soatok because who checks for buffer lengths in c anyways it just wastes cycles
wat
also pretty sure "user error" is exactly how exploits are born
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
I've been itching to do a thread on the concept of the "social graph" sooo bad.
Specifically the frenzy of APIs and ecosystems launched 2007 onward, when these companies realized that our social graphs were valuable.
But there's so many entry points, I don't know where to start and I kinda get stuck. ADHD brain/ executive dysfunction and all that 🫠🫠
Anyway, I find all this to be fascinating. Hopefully I can organize my thoughts enough to take a shot at it.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I did a cover of Fountains of Wayne because Fountains of Wayne are awesome, so there
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
temporary@corteximplant.com (".tmp") wrote:
Found this FOSS Android app to detect smart glasses in use near you, and there is a lot to love here, even just based on the README:
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj%5Fnearbyglasses
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Hacker News discusses the merits of slapping recording devices off the faces of Meta glasses wearers:
"Slapping a pair of glasses that are recording you, processing your face, sending biometrics and images back to one of the worst privacy offenders on the planet off of the face of someone who is willingly doing all that without asking your permission is a perfectly appropriate reaction. Put your shoulder into it." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226198
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
SearingTruth@infosec.exchange wrote:
"Truth is defined by the weakest of us who must suffer through it."
SearingTruth
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-by-295-after-dod-deal/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
This AI Agent Is Ready to Serve, Mid-Phone Call:
"The audible AI assistant will be baked into the phone call, offering services like live language translation to anyone who chooses to opt in."
Aka, telecommunications companies found a new way to spy on our phone calls, so they can then sell to governments and ad-tech firms. I’m so tired, yall. https://www.wired.com/story/deutsche-telekom-elevenlabs-ai-phone-calls-mwc-2026/
Mastodon Feeddoing a bunch of unsafe
*mut *mutin Rust right now and feeling very "damn, y'all live like this?" about C/C++ folks.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
"OpenAI says one basis for its willingness to work with the Pentagon is simply an assumption that the government won’t break the law."
lol, lmao. Sam Altman has broken every promise he's made to the public in breakneck speed. There is no bottom. He will do anything to gain power.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io ("Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬") wrote:
#OpenAI’s “compromise” with the #Pentagon is what #Anthropic feared
Anthropic pushed for #moral boundaries. OpenAI settled for softer legal ones, and now it stands to benefit as the Pentagon rushes out politicized #AI strategy
Not clear OpenAI can build in safety precautions it promises as military rushes out a politicized AI strategy during strikes on Iran, or if deal will be seen as good enough by employees who wanted company to take harder line.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/02/1133850/openais-compromise-with-the-pentagon-is-what-anthropic-feared/
https://archive.ph/IMwlR
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
(although given the state of the news right now...)
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Deleted a post which referenced an old news story which somehow resurfaced in my news feed. Damn it, algorithm, keep my news fresh!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Why We Struck Iran:
"Trump gets away with all of this by pretending we’re not really at war—a falsehood with which Congress is happy to play along. Asked if the U.S. is at war with Iran, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Meet the Press: “I don’t know if this is technically a war.” Absurd as that sounds, Democratic leaders are adopting the same framing. Sen. Chuck Schumer says the strikes are “risking wider conflict” as if this ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/02/why-we-struck-iran-trump.html
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rowlandm@disabled.social ("RM") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116154825042728437
Many DEI plans fail because they don’t understand:
1. that most DEI frameworks should talk in concrete terms, not in abstract terms,
2. what is systemic discrimination,
3. that systemic and subtle discrimination accumulates over time,
4. what Intersectionality really means and how it adds more nuances that need to be addressed, and
5. that providing opportunities, creating safe spaces, and sharing power are the antidotes to discrimination.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
All things considered, I wouldn't mind adding a share to mastodon button to my blog, maybe.
Mastodon FeedSo uh
does this mean that there is now precedent that at least "agentic" dev systems, potentially any genAI dev system, now leaves companies open to their code no longer being considered copyrightable if they use these systems?
Mastodon FeedOne of the things about growing up Latin American, especially in the 90s, is that you get a very different perspective of LatAm artists that became big in the English-speaking world much later. Like, Ricky Martin was the cute little kid from Menudo long before he was the hot totally-straight-I-swear heartthrob doing world cup music, and Shakira was basically a Colombian Alanis Morrisette before she was the blonde bombshell reggaeton artist she is now.
Anyway all this to say listening to old Shakira stuff is great.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Surely the assassination of one guy won't cause an entire world war.
*Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand starts playing*
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nlupo@amikejo.xyz ("nLupo :anarchist_flag: :antrans_flag:") wrote:
@soatok And that's how devs caring about privacy should do.
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Here's something not so secret about most people (absent the incentives of attention economies): being mean takes way too much energy and attention.
I reserve the occasional rhetorical evisceration for cryptography projects that demonstrate arrogance while putting users at risk, but otherwise I'd rather spend my time on building things. That's significantly more useful to other people.
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Most of the time, vulnerability disclosure is a boring process. To wit: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zz4yh
I told the developer about some issues found in Conversations.
I had looked at it in 2024 when I wrote Against XMPP+OMEMO but was too busy to verify them until recently. A lot of code had changed since then, and most of the probable bugs from then have since evaporated or were false positives.
Daniel fixed them all in like, 24 hours of me telling him.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:
it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very big day
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Consequences also have consequences.
There are currently a handful of people openly hating on me because they see me, pissed off, and interpret my actions and tone as "arrogant" or "smug".
Which is a fair interpretation if you ignore the behavior that provoked my response. That is why I try to be transparent about my motivations for publishing my opinions whenever I'm using inflammatory word choice. But that can only help so much.
This is all to say: Don't be surprised if loose ties or strangers curse my name in your travels. Some of them may think they have good reason for it.
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
One of the more painful (heh) lessons in life is that actions have consequences. Maybe social consequences. Maybe financial or legal ones.
Sure, you can't slap someone's face over the Internet (though IRC's /commands and trout were a common experience in my age group), the way you can in movie theater parking lots.
And the easiest way to avoid provoking a response you don't like is to avoid being a dick.
Matrix got proverbially smacked twice because its evangelists were rude and spoke over me.
Other messaging apps provoked this response through arrogance or trying to spread baseless fear in apps that actually implemented their encryption better than theirs.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
I really want to start using the story feature on Signal. I used to write thread-like stories on Instagram and I missed that format.
I guess I'd just have to start publishing stories without anyone looking at them at first.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
S-Config@core.s-config.com wrote:
Microslop....
I'm doing my part.