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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

I played Final Fantasy X when it first came out on my uni roommate's console and since it was the first one I played, I didn't really have any context for evaluating it. I'm replaying it now since I got it for my kids who are now obsessed with the series, and it might be my favorite of them all.

the worldbuilding and the bit about Yevon's teachings really resonates with me personally, as does the character of Yuna who believes she has to sacrifice her own wishes for everyone else.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Have these horribly stupid pod people been living among us all this time? That's the scary thing, that we just now noticed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/15/i-cant-listen-to-these-people-anymore/

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

“How does one hate a country, or love one? … I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

Via @neil

Anathema wrote:

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

My underwear today is dark blue, just to preempt that question.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/15/qa-coming-up/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diVzsAqRRFc

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viznut@venera.social wrote:

Permacomputing Update 2021 https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-1961-1500-211e-3ab164712045

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Curator@mastodon.art ("Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto:") wrote:

What's a recent piece of art that you've seen shared on the fediverse that made you go "ooooh!"? Link it! :D :frida_y_animalitos:

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neil@social.coop wrote:

Whenever I get that stab of feeling like there’s too many ideas to explore, too many books to read, too little time to do it in, I remind myself not to turn to productivity systems, efficiency improvements and the like, but to knowledge sharing and communities of practice, and remind myself that you don’t need to know it all, knowing things is not just an individual pursuit but a collective endeavour.

Lyrilith@mastodon.art wrote:

[marked sensitive for a bit of blood]

Slightly blurry Sunday doodle with red and barbed wire.

Hope to get back into the swing of things soon. 👍

#art #mastoart #sketch #sketchbook #doodle #blood #barbedwire

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• Rough pen sketch of a woman with long hair. The bust drawing shows her turned slightly to the right, looking dead into the distance. Her long hair over her left shoulder, the right one bare, her top slide down. Her neck is wrapped with 3 layers of barbed wire, slightly cutting her, trickles of blood running down. Behind her a red rectangle for contrast, also wrapped with barbed wire. (remote)

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stman ("★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RT @stman ► Crypto-Anarchist Warning :

— Glowworm Attack —

Experts demonstrate a novel technique that uses the optical emanations from a device's power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from up to 35 meters away.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/new-glowworm-attack-recovers-devices.html

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vertigo@hackers.town ("Vertigo #$FF") wrote:

Home-made semiconductor fabrication techniques are getting more sophisticated. From the hacker who put 6 transistors on a chip in an amplifier configuration, behold, one thousand two hundred transistors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

(Admittedly, not configured as anything in particular yet, but the work is getting there. He's already half-way to an Intel 4004. I'm willing to bet that you can make a viable CPU with 1200 transistors if it used a bit-serial micro-architecture.)

Blog article is here: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/

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Nocta@eldritch.cafe ("Mar-gay") wrote:

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• Meme with a guy talking to a woman "I don't know how to say this to you... - Just say it - Worcestershire" (remote)

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cryodraws@mastodon.art ("Cryo") wrote:

We're serving some Thanksgiving dinner level of awkward conversations in this week's Drugs & Wires update
https://drugsandwires.fail
(also on Tapas and Webtoon!)
#webcomic

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antiphasis@social.tchncs.de wrote:

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• Luke + Darth Vader Szene mit der Maske - angepasst auf Corona-Leugner (remote)

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

I thought I could get thru a single 12-minute laser cut this morning before it overheated but I was wrong, it paused to cool down with 54 seconds remaining. bringing in this window fan helped save the piece.

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• laser cutter making a keyboard switch plate next to a big fan in the window reading 80 on its LED farenheit display (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I don't find de Grey persuasive, whether he's babbling about his "science" or trying to wave away his predatory sexual behavior.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/14/the-success-of-aubrey-de-grey-baffles-me/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I was asked about this the other day: yes, spiders can build a large intricate web overnight, and they do this routinely.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/14/63618/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

Scarf Ace

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

A Plea For Lean Software[1] from 1995 sounds very familiar. Only the byte sizes have changed.

The article complains about a text editor requiring as much as 800KB of RAM. 0.8MB would be impressively lean today.

• We've been making "bloated" software the whole time, so maybe it isn't that bad? 🤔

• A lot of 1995 tech still works today, so people could write leaner software if they wanted to.

[1] https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf

owl@beach.city wrote:

Wait a minute AC/DC, if that's your real name, how does one get struck by thunder?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Nanci Griffith. 😔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9lUG4gBjSE

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/13/nancy-griffith-grammy-winning-folk-artist-dies-at-68

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Given success of Stream Deck and the Steam Deck, it's inevitable there will be Seam Deck and Sam Deck.

Lyrilith@mastodon.art wrote:

Finally worked on the illustration for uni so I took some time to doodle. I tried out the Krita brushes @davidrevoy posted a few days back. I really like them so far and will have to use them in a proper future piece. For now, have a sexy Olivia for your start into the weekend. 😈

#art #mastoart #oc #OriginalCharacter #orc #FemaleOrc #shadowrun #ArtisticNudity #SlightlyNSFW #krita #ArtWithOpenSource

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• Digital sketch in black and red with a few white highlights. Bust drawing of my OC Olivia, a young female orc, slightly from below. She is topless, her nipples x-ed out with a rough brush stroke. She is leaning her head slightly on her right hand, looking down at the viewer, grinning, her hair flowing around her. She seems to be fully light by red light in a dark place. A bright light from behind and farther away gives a few highlights to her hair. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

TFW the wildfire smoke appears to be keeping the temperatures down during the heat wave.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Finlad
The netherlads
Icelad

owl@beach.city wrote:

scorn (satanic corn)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

My daughter, after tasting almond butter, indignantly, "It tastes like nuts!"

Me, with a "duh" tone, "It's almond butter, what do you think it's made of?"… and then immediately realizing that yeah, nobody has told her yet those nuts she doesn't like are called almonds :-)

There's the first time for everything!

Anathema wrote:

I made some friends https://t.co/J6Zlm1gEPY

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Watching 3D printing streams is tough for me. There are so many clueless people giving the most useless recommendations, it constantly makes me wanna scream "JUST NOOOO!" in the chat room 😅

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Patron Q&A on Sunday! Yes, it's true, I'm wishing it were Halloween.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/13/patron-qa-coming-up-on-sunday/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diVzsAqRRFc