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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:
G303.3.1.21
The devil
as a great hairy man.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Only peace will bring safety
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- Only Peace Will Bring Safety “We're aching. All of us. It seems like we're not allowed to hurt for both peoples. Let's remember that the most important thing we can do in this moment is allow ourselves to grieve for all - towards a place where we can also build for all." - Sally Abed — Member of the National Leadership of Standing Together (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:
Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2023 Headline of the Year Contest! 🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JosephMenn@infosec.exchange wrote:
Today's story caps months worth of work with colleagues on a Washington Post series about critical changes in India's public governance through its domination of technology.
This piece delves into what happened before and after Apple warned journalists and politicians in India Oct. 30 that a country was attacking their phones.
What we found: The evidence suggests that India is using Pegasus again, and again going after its critics in civil society.
More surprising, and a clear sign of what the current Indian government expects from major tech companies: Ministers went on the attack against Apple, which sees India as a major market for growth.
This link is free for anyone who enters and confirms an email address.
Please read and share. Thank you.
https://wapo.st/3NEJYub
#infosec #hacking #privacy #india
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:
Be honest, can you read an analog clock?
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Truth
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- Only Peace Will Bring Safety “I ask (from the bottom of my heart) that we all say a prayer — Jews & Arabs (from all over the religions and faiths), let us sanctify the memories of the people who were murdered. Let us raise a prayer for the lives of all of us who reside in the Holy Land” Ghadir Hani — Member of the Standing Together leadership (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
What I'm listening to today: "Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #4)" LudoWic
The Trautonium is an early electronic instrument from the 1930s. Instead of a "keyboard" like a post-1965 synthesizer would use players make contact between a resistive wire and a metal plate, allowing fine control more akin to a violin than a piano. In this piece, the musician works the plate (and the pedals?) for a complex and stunning tremolo effect, like a guitar pedal under direct human control.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
xot@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:
Big day! Ian Brumby's Crossrunner v1.0 is out. This is an amazing Apple IIgs emulator I've been testing for the last few years. It has a modern interface, is extremely accurate, and features scripting and a unique source-level debugger. It is currently just for Windows, but Mac and Linux versions are coming.
https://www.crossrunner.gs/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"If schools were already in collapse because of their broken incentives, and LLMs are just accelerating it, then it’s about time we took seriously school reforms that have better incentives" — https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/more-than-calculators-why-large-language-models-threaten-public-education-480dd5300939
Exactly my thoughts. LLMs just showed how education is broken.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Randomly went back and platinumed Hexcells yesterday. I started up the sequel (Hexcells+) and it looks like it's expecting players to have done the first one. It starts requiring techniques in the first few stages that were introduced over several chapters in the original.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
programming_discussions ("Programming Weekly") wrote:
CSS is fun again
https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
LukaszOlejnik ("Lukasz Olejnik") wrote:
The Triangulation cyber espionage tool/malware turns out to be extremely advanced/fascinating. Certainly the ~most impressive piece in 2023, perhaps among the most impressive (known) cyber espionage tools in history? https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
what's the best fiction book you read this year? bonus points if it is mid-length or shorter and available in paperback (especially at the bookstore i'm about to walk to)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
This really hurts. Tom (Tommy) Smothers, who along with his brother Dick formed the Smothers Brothers, has died at 86. Despite his character being played as a dummy, in reality he was the driving force of the comedy duo, pushing them from a fairly straightforward singing comedy team into realms of free speech, anti-Vietnam war, and anti-censorship realms that incurred the wrath of President Johnson, who pushed CBS to cancel their show ("The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour") -- which ultimately happened.
When they featured (in September 1967) once blacklisted Peter Seeger singing his anti-Vietnam war "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" all hell broke loose and CBS cut the performance from the tape before the show aired. After pressure from the brothers, CBS permitted them to bring him back for another performance of the song in February the next year, which did air -- but the brothers relationship with CBS was beyond repair, especially when CBS tampered with a performance by Harry Belafonte later that year.
It's impossible for me to express here the impact of the Smothers Brothers, or reasonably point at a single representative sample of their vast work, or their many interviews about these topics, but you may find this Q&A interesting as a starting point.
Peace Tommy. You deserve it.
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
GPT-4 seems to be MUCH better at answering illumos-related questions than GPT-3, and I have to believe that the presence of authoritative documentation is helping?
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"Live as our customer" by @dglazkov is worth your time:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
He gives sweet-looking old grandpas a bad name, because behind that grin is a shriveled, rotting brain that just echoes authoritarian bullshit.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm really, really, REALLY tired of creationist a-holes like Richard Eggleston who just parrot the same ol' dead claims over and over again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/27/do-i-have-to-do-this-again/
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
It's been a very difficult and stressful year that almost broke me multiple times, but there were good bits too: I got married, visited the @yogscast office, saw The Dear Hunter live, got into analog photography, and adopted two very silly cats.
Mastodon FeedLet my kid stay up this year to watch the whole of Sasuke. It‘s an end-of-the-year thing in Japan. She‘s now too pumped to sleep 🤦♂️
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The thing about doing strategy or thinking long-term in any domain that nobody tells you is that it is the rare peer who understands. It's obvious in retrospect – nobody who has the probability map in their head needs a strategist, and most orgs are strategy-phobic because their peers are too – but gutting when the isolation hits.
The lesson is you aren't understood for the same reason you're valued, so develop a sidelight folks value more.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kernellogger@fosstodon.org ("Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)") wrote:
"'" Conveniently #git can create a single-file archive of a repository via 'git bundle create' which appears to be the perfect fit for backups. […] I noticed that a small but fixed subset of repositories are getting backed up despite having no changes made. […] Turns out that for some repositories bundling is nondeterministic. […] What caught my eye was Delta compression using up to 8 threads—parallelism is a classic source of inherent nondeterminism. […]"
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Dig into the Masimo claims [1] even the tiniest bit, and it *looks* like Apple stripped a company for parts after signing NDAs, assuming a small firm wouldn't have resources to fight after it hired away key talent.
Then it pushed *ultra* hard [2] on proceedural shenanigans to undermine their claims [3].
I can't like either side of a billionaire pissing match, but you can cut the irony with a knife.
[1]: https://www.ocbj.com/manufacturing/masimos-3-1b-trial-against-apple-opens/
[2]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-declares-mistrial-apple-masimo-smartwatch-trade-secrets-fight-2023-05-01/
[3]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-court-upholds-rulings-apple-masimo-smartwatch-patent-fight-2023-09-12/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's like conservative sex scandals: there probably isn't a problem under the sorts of rules we'd all prefer to live by, it's just that the hypocrisy deserves to eat what it kills.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Hey everyone, remember that time Apple laid a patent trap in the W3C for touch events, OSS'd code it knew competitors couldn't ship, then forced like 5+ years of nonsense to keep everyone from adopting Pointer Events until the competing patent portfolios forced a climb-down post Motorola acquisition?
Good times.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
something something rounded corners something something
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
i love when people say "hoisted by my own petard" [sic] and I don't correct them of course but mentally I am like 😏😏😏😏
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
Stop making fun of older kids who still believe in Santa Claus, there are grown men who still believe in trickle down housing and that market can solve the housing crisis.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
the film critic at the Amsterdam Times is always looking for the dutch angles