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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jmechner@mastodon.art ("Jordan Mechner") wrote:

Hi, I'm Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia. I've written and drawn a nonfiction graphic novel, "Replay."

It's a memoir of my four decades making games, interwoven with three generations of my family's back story.
(And yes, it has the bit where I videotape my brother in our NY high school parking lot in 1985.)

Check it out (links, reviews, and excerpts) at https://jordanmechner.com/en/books/replay

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• 4bdc5ffbe8102bc1.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

Approached a person in my office who I thought knew who I was and asked for their advice on something. Part of their answer included the suggestion that I get in touch with me. Didn't know how to react so just advised I would do that and walked away.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Niccolo Paganini dies in Nice, Italy, 1840

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Louis Durey is born in Paris, France, 1888

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: pop-up toaster patented by Charles Strite, 1919

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 (and keyboards have not felt safe since)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911

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

Two unidentifiable orbweaver babies that selected two different backgrounds for their webs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/27/red-and-blue/

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• orbweaver spiders living in a red world & a blue world (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

scientists & engineers are very different creatures

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• d0e144f777f1a9e0.png (remote)

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

Oh, I guess... Uh... I guess after all this work we'll have to reconfigure our economic systems to *prevent* things like MS and MS Windows from happening again... Okay. This is harder than I thought. :blobhyperthink:

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

Oh... Shoot... We'll need to figure out what to do with MS itself... Uh... Ummm.... Errrr... :thonking:

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

At that point, I assume we'll treat any existing computers with Windows on them as malware and react accordingly. So simple...

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

Then invent that "Men in Black" flashy thing tech and wipe the knowledge of MS Windows from all our memories...

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

Also, sneak into all Sys admin offices, and remove all Windows installer USB sticks they have, replace them with OSOSes installers and change their DNS settings so any attempts to download the Windows installers again will fail...

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

ashenwave@mastodon.art ("Ashenwave 🌱") wrote:

I wanted to draw something related to the Aurora Borealis but it got away from me and this is what came out👀
I don’t even know how to call this one😅

#MastoArt #FediArt #AshenwaveArt #Surrealism #DigitalArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Fantasy #Psychedelic #Illustration #Art #Space

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• Surreal illustration in psychedelic colors (pink, purple, yellow and green) of a kind of goddess or entity of the sun and space. She looks peaceful and powerful, made of stars surrounded by the vibrant colors. (remote)

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

Look, we all know defaults matter. Almost all computers come with Windows installed, so if we really want to promote the use of open source OSes (OSOSes), all we need to do is intercept all new computers during shipping, wipe them completely, and install OSOSes on them. And maybe destroy the Windows license tag and probably also the service tags and maybe remove any service tags embedded in the flash memory, and probably some other details I'm missing. It's that simple folks.

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

clintruin ("Kid Mania") wrote:

Another World Is Possible
Banksy
2023

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• Another World Is Possible Banksy 2023

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

wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

(1/2)
Copilot+ PCs require a 40 TOPS NPU. NPU chipsets are entirely new, so no existing laptop or desktop has them.
There is no evidence that the AI features actually need that capability, and I doubt it.
Also, many laptop GPUs can already deliver around 40 TOPS or more but only NPUs will be supported. So this will lead to forced obsolescence of perfectly good hardware on a huge scale.

#FrugalComputing

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

thomas@metalhead.club ("Tom :damnified:") wrote:

I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

#mastodon

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• Screenshot shows profile page context menu next to the subscription bell. Click "Change subscribed languages". A dialog opens. (remote)
• In the pop up dialog, select all languages that you want to subscribe to. (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

SandraDeHaan@mastodon.nl ("Sandra de Haan in Heeze") wrote:

#fakenews 😀

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

PSA: Ritual zero-proof whiskey is godawful. Pour some liquid smoke into some apple cider vinegar, and save yourself the $35.

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

Definitely spiderish. Olde Spiderish.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/27/a-carboniferous-arachnid/

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• Douglassarachne, a Carboniferous arachnid (remote)

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

fbuontempo ("Fran") wrote:

Last day of @ManningPublications
Memorial Day sale! Half off everything! You can get my #Cpp book here if you want:
http://mng.bz/2KXw

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• "Memorial day sale" HALF OFF SITEWIDE Ends Monday

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

micha ("Michael Klöpzig") wrote:

Great post by @jenniferplusplus about the limitations and problems of using AI in software development.

“The hard part of programming is building and maintaining a useful mental model of a complex system. The easy part is writing code. They're positioning this tool as a universal solution, but it's only capable of doing the easy part. And even then, it's not able to do that part reliably.” –

https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

#ai #webdev #webdevelopment #coding #softwaredevelopment

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:

1. https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/13418

Sharp screen-space reflections! Another pcwalton PR, another modern 3D rendering feature. This is a fast, approximate solution for generating reflections of objects in the scene. Like always, the PR description holds a wealth of information and links to further reading.

Well-reviewed, low risk to merge even this late in the cycle. If this is broken, the damage should be quite isolated. A nice example, reasonable code quality. Merging!

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

The great-great-great-etc.-uncle of my spiders looked like a shrimp.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/27/an-ordovician-ancestor-to-spiders/

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• Setapedites, an Ordovician euchelicerate (remote)

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

whatkatedoes@mastodon.scot ("Kate "K8-bit" Lorimer") wrote:

Sunday afternoon jam on the Wavestate. I seriously underestimated this thing, it's like a suped-up #Amiga with 96 channels 24-bit and effects DSP.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: 1892 - White Mob Destroys Memphis Office of Ida B. Wells’s Newspaper

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/27

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

jacqueline@chaos.social wrote:

check this out

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• it's a tangara music player! it's standing up on its end, you can see it has a transparent looking case, a touchwheel, and is playing some kind of song! (remote)
• it's the same device, but now it's lying on a table. it's off. you can see some of the buttons and the sd card slot on the side. (remote)