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jesper@agda.club ("Jesper Agdakx") wrote:

This paper titled “Methodological Irregularities in Programming-Language Research” does not mince its words.

Substantial industry and government investments in software are at risk due to changes in the underlying programming languages, despite the fact that such changes have no empirically verified benefits. One way to address this problem is to establish rigorous evidence standards like those in medicine and other sciences.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7999115

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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

A loving tribute to my all-favorite game series: Ghosts 'n' Goblins and Ghouls 'n' Ghosts.

Modeled and rendered using MagicaCSG, post-processed in Affinity Photo and Photoscape X.

See the previous posts in this thread for work-in-progress images.

#DigitalArt #illustration #CharacterDesign #design #art #artwork #artist #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #MagicaCSG #sculpture #game #gaming #games #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #FanArt #GhoulsNGhosts #capcom #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

LordGeekington@sauropods.win ("Cameron McCormick") wrote:

Cannot believe I am only learning of the #PriceMaster now

https://youtu.be/p9GBLVRPeaE?si=IkTV10Pf0yucx-n-

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markmoxon@universeodon.com ("Mark Moxon") wrote:

I am very proud to present the results of my latest project...

...the first-ever fully documented and annotated disassembly of Lander on the Acorn Archimedes.

Lander was the very first game released for the ARM platform, and is arguably the only game ever written explicitly for the original ARM1 processor (there are famously no MUL instructions in there). And, of course, it's the second bona fide classic from the genius of David Braben, as this is the game he wrote next after his astonishing work on Elite.

I will be adding a number of deep dives to the site over the coming weeks, but for now, I hope you enjoy the results, which you can see here:

https://lander.bbcelite.com

And as always there is also a GitHub repository containing fully buildable source code that you can play with:

https://github.com/markmoxon/archimedes-lander

I hope you like it!

#retrocomputing #arm #retrogaming #acorn #riscos #archimedes #disassembly

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webdev_discussions ("Webdev Weekly") wrote:

Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/

#frontend #javascript #programming #webdev

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Artificial intelligence and natural stupidity go hand in hand.

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

This cop killed the car, but missed the tree that threw an acorn at him.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/15/the-ideal-cop-paranoid-and-trigger-happy/

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

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manjusrii@mstdn.social ("Dr Belinda Barnet") wrote:

Just want to share Alan Kay’s response to being quoted by Zuck in Meta’s recent video on Vision Pro (he concludes with a quote from Kay, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.")

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bert_hubert@fosstodon.org ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺") wrote:

Regarding AI *in* Firefox, this has brought us a built-in translator that does not outsource the work to the cloud. That's amazingly good work. I'd love to see the browser do more of that kind of thing. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

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neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

Streetpass, a new favourite extension.
It glows when you browse a personal website from an author with an account on the fediverse.
https://streetpass.social/

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It doesn't matter what apple *might* intend, the here-and-now consequence of the 17.4 Beta 1-3 breakage of PWAs + radio silence is a gigantic FU to the web and to web developers.

It's not acceptable. It's anti-competitive (even if they subsequently recant). It's brazen.

@owa has a post up w/ details and a plan to help make developer voices heard:

https://mastodon.social/@owa/111934184525302106

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I go back and forth over how much I'm actually enjoying this game in the long run.

The setting is cool, but the game only runs at 2 speeds and there are a lot of common actions that take 30 seconds on the fastest speed. It puts a hard limit on how quickly you can actually get anything done, and a run of a few hours can be ended or seriously impeded with just a few unfortunate draws

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

My OTHER Heart-aligned recruit, you know, the ones who are supposedly good at smoothing over crimes? He just got perma-jailed too. It cut short his illustrious career of trying and failing to get rid of a single piece of notoriety

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Current run of Cultist Sim seems to have stabilized, but it got off to a pretty frustrating start.

I wanted to do a Heart-based cult because they're good at covering up crimes, but it took ages for me to actually find a piece of starting lore and a Heart-aligned recruit.

And then after a run of bad luck, she got sent to forever-jail before I could even promote her all the way!

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Any recommendations for open source (or at least supports exporting) multi-device (iPhone and macOS), auto-syncing #2fa alternatives to Authy?

#mfa

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

This subtoot brought to you by HR Block

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Just because it is a holiday and you are a brand does not mean you should try to alchemize those two facts into a promotion.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Neat side street. Brussels.

Pentax 6x7
Ilford Delta 400
Takumar 105mm/2.4

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

"I mean, sure if someone sent you a DM my server technically can and may actually receive and store it for a time.... but I super pinky-just-met-you-on-the-internet promise I'd NEVER actually like look at that stuff "

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:

just notified my sponsors mailing list that the first draft of #RYOMS will be finished soon, and I'll be closing sponsorships then.

I should probably tell y'all as well.

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product-category/sponsor/

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tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Whenever you create a new technology - especially in the social space - the first question you have to ask yourself is WW4D: what would 4chan do?

And if you can't answer that and then come up with solid mitigations for each of the answers, you need to go back to the drawing board.

Or to put it a different way:

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ironiridis@mspsocial.net ("Chris Harrington") wrote:

Hey, it's a gig worker strike tonight, February 14th, in the US. If you have the option:
Don't hire a rideshare
Don't order doordash or similar

Do: Take public transit.

Some news coverage, for reference: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uber-lyft-drivers-strike-across-us-demanding-fairer-pay-2024-02-14/

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are0h@h-i.social ("Optional Dictator") wrote:

The issue isn’t being able to federate with awful platforms like Threads and Bluesky. As I dev, I understand why one would want that to work.

The issue is that there are no tools that people can use that to protect themselves from the inevitable bad actors that discover them from these places.

If we had reliable means to do that, none of this would be a problem.

But we don’t. That’s why the pushback is so hard when it comes to allowing these places to interact with the fedi.

They do not care about moderating awful people.

Adding that element into an environment with developed safety tools is a profound mistake.

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are0h@h-i.social ("Optional Dictator") wrote:

For me, it’s just irresponsible to focus on growth and advocate for an open web without acknowledging that there are places that use this space for nefarious means and actively work to push Black and Brown folks from this space.

Many developers have safety models based purely on us trusting each other to do the right thing, and that does not happen.

I cannot take any developer seriously if they refuse the context of how online space operates outside of their wishful thinking.

Yes, I want the fedi to grow as well. I’m just not willing to sacrifice the well-being of people to get there.

Especially when we can do better.

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strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Strypey") wrote:

@mattj
> Google have been quietly de-listing XMPP apps from their Play store

I hope the XMPP Foundation have formally reported this to the EU regulators in charge of enforcing the DMA. Goggle compete in the messaging app market, and this of exactly the sort of abusive gatekeeper behaviour that law is meant to stop.

Arguably there ought to be hard antitrust rules against app makers running app stores.

@fdroidorg

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tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

I think that's what these "all problems have technical solutions" people are missing.

I'm here on a social contract, not a code contract. AP (or AT) is an implementation detail. It's an implementation detail that enables certain social structures and dynamics, of course, and makes others harder.

90% of issues people have on here are social, not technical. So any time your argument is "you don't really understand AP" or "nothing in the protocol prevents this" my answer is always "無".

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

What a friendly forest!

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ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:

What I'm listening to today: "Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Learnin' the Blues."

I’m going to assume y’all are at least aware of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, since they’re two of the most talented and influential jazz musicians ever. But maybe you didn’t know that they collaborated on three albums for Verve between 1956 and 1959.

This song is off the second of those, "Ella and Loius Again," from 1957, and it’s just terrific. It’s got a bit of everything and is a real showcase of their impressive and diverse talents. They’ve got great chemistry on all these albums, and seem like they really enjoyed being in the studio together. Just a lovely song, featuring two amazing Black musicians being amazing together.

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

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mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:

"Nobody can read the source code of Chrome. Not alone, not as a team. Humans don't live long enough. Any group that claims to have gone through the code and de-Googlized it is lying: all that's possible to do is some searches, and try to measure what traffic it emits. A thousand people working for a decade couldn't read the entire thing."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

The more I think about the significant surveillance potential of centralized bridges I just can't look away.

Imo... decentralized networks should not be bridged. We should just run multi-lingual nodes.

Consider where your traffic is going using this scheme?

Bruh, if we all use centralized `*.brid.gy` bridges one org now has surveillance of ALL of this cross network traffic.

Raising a lot of questions in my mind . . .

https://fed.brid.gy/docs#translate

#BlueSkyBridge #cybersecurity #Privacy

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