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Number of #Rust users is growing exponentially. Downloads are more than doubling each year.
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
welp, it finally happened, Microsoft decided the latest Minecraft version should drop support for the kids' Thinkpad T410's graphics card.
this box is plenty fast enough to run Minecraft at a playable frame rate; they've been enjoying it for half a decade. I don't know what new OpenGL feature they just Couldn't Live Without but now this machine is destined for recycling.
luckily I had a T420 in I could dust off but ... how long till they pull this shit again and we gotta trash that one too?
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Next week, Sunday 25 July…it's another Q&A/Ask Me Anything, this time with a Stephen J. Gould theme.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/17/another-qa-next-week/
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ehashman@toot.cat ("e. hashman :heart_bi:") wrote:
I predict that in 50 years or so, the way we use plastics today—from clothing to cosmetics to packaging—will be viewed the same way we now think of DDT or freon
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gabek ("Gabe Kangas") wrote:
RT @gabek It’s @jnktn_tv time! @rarepublic is killing it right now! Tune in. https://jnktn.tv
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heyokyay wrote:
RT @heyokyay Wide awake
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Mastodon FeedPreview of an upcoming picture
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craigmaloney@octodon.social ("Craig Maloney ☕") wrote:
New release of TIC-80 out there:
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mwlucas@bsd.network (":flan_brick: Michael W Lucas¹") wrote:
"The Economy" will never "recover."
"The Economy" is not a real thing. It's a yardstick.
Worry about the health of what "The Economy" was meant to measure, not the health of the yardstick.
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chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com ("Chris Wiegman") wrote:
This is a long but interesting read. TL;DR: the group that makes the very standards on which the internet is based is being filled with people and orgs who don’t care about your privacy. https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugludjöfull") wrote:
"Can you believe that East German security service employees used to listen to citizens' phone-calls," I say, as a US tech megacorp algorithm analyses my words and incorporates the resulting threat level into my profile and determines whether I should be reported to the US government, with a level of efficiency that those DDR fools could only dream of.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugludjöfull") wrote:
I guess this is just an IoT-infested home but more immediate. Don't have to collect data with an always-listening gadget to display "relevant" ads on websites, just cut out all the stuff in the middle.
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugludjöfull") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
I'm reading this story about California unanimously passing a bill authorizing the building of an open access "middle mile" fiber network, and now I'm trying to figure out what the catch is since Republicans actually voted for it. :thonking:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Sneaky evil bastard couldn't escape cancer in the end. Good.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/17/william-regnery-ii-is-dead/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm going to watch this pandemic oscillate from crisis to crisis for the rest of my life, aren't I?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/17/cassandra-here-were-all-buggered/
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Mastodon FeedIt’s too warm
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gaige@neue.city ("vala :verifiedsabakan: ") wrote:
@10grans gib
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Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugludjöfull") wrote:
Best Linux distro?
Depends on your role; are you a tank, a healer, or a damage dealer?
Mastodon FeedMy first reaction when I saw the design of the Steam Deck: "yeah, the Sega GameGear was a weird device".
Mastodon FeedAdtech is completely defenseless against fraud. And not from click-bots, but its own middlemen. It's impossible NOT to fund fake news and conspiracy sites through ads, because everyone lies and launders ads through shady exchanges.
https://gizmodo.com/company-that-aims-to-solve-the-crisis-of-toxicity-onlin-1847292477
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugludjöfull") wrote:
wishdasher
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:
*Gets born*
[Zelda BotW shrine choral sound]
"By entering this place, you have already proven your worth"
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:
Zelda BotW physics are funny.
Put all the barrels in a shrine + myself on top of a big button, trying to push it down. It was not enough. So I take some things out of my inventory and put them on the button where I'm standing, and that works. They don't count while stowed away.
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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow's linkblog") wrote:
When we talk about the internet's problems and solutions, we tend to focus on Big Tech, the monopolizers who dominate our digital lives. That's only natural.
But there's another internet, one that deserves our attention: The Public Interest Internet.
https://www.eff.org/issues/public-interest-internet
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Mastodon FeedBites a pear grown in Argentina, packaged in Thailand in a single-use plastic from China, which will be shipped for "recycling" in Malaysia.
"Wow, look at those 3rd-world countries polluting so much!"
Mastodon Feedowl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:
Boke around the nearby lake, it was nice. Can't get the photos off my camera for some reason, but @crowlad takes better ones anyway. :-Þ
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blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:
Tears of Steel - Blender VFX Open Movie https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/8533ea43-4271-4a57-9694-e9d0b35e1aa1
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minoru@functional.cafe ("Minoru") wrote:
If you never wrote acceptance tests before, today might be a good day to start: Subplot, a new tool in that space, looks for its first brave users https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2021/07/11/subplot/
The key difference from Cucumber is that Subplot produces an HTML or PDF document which non-programmers can read and understand. You can actually show it to your users, and they might be able to give you feedback.
I tried Subplot earlier in a new small project, and even though the authors claim it's "alpha-quality software", I didn't actually run into any big problems: I just wrote some project-specific bindings (in Python, but Rust and Bash are on the horizon!), and used those bindings to write tests. It's all pretty easy to do. I also liked how it immediately made me think in terms of the interface, not implementation (as unit and integrations tests do).