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

StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

They have you fools talking about Biden INSTEAD OF Trump. DON’T YOU GET IT? DON’T YOU SEE WHAT THEY’RE DOING???

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

xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:

You enter a sweet-smelling, light orange room. There is a CLOSET in the corner. You see a BLADE here, in the corner. There is a GARFIALD here, reading a trade magazine and holding a CAPPUCCINO.

Exits: EAST SOUTH SOUTHEAST
#bot

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

now that growing a few plants for personal use is legal in New York State, I am trying a couple of starts on the back slope

Attachments:

• one of three little pot plants in our yard (remote)

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

praxeology@post.lurk.org ("Hart of the Wud") wrote:

The next #permacomputing Berlin Meet-Up will be on:

Tuesday 9. July at 19:00.

at @offline

@mntmn Will tell us the story of building up hard- and software stacks from scratch with the goal of making a computer designed for longevity, flexibility and openness. There will be hands-on demonstrations and a super-sweet keyboard.

We want to expand our community. Non-nerd-identified, newbies and perma-curious are especially welcome!

https://offline.place/

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

Some people invent hills just to die on them.

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

simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:

Here's a thing I'd never thought of before about #bash aliases: you don't actually have to put a command in one! I've just found it useful to do this:

alias otherenv=SOME_ENV_VARIABLE=non-default-value

so that the command
otherenv program arg1 arg2...
expands to
SOME_ENV_VARIABLE=non-default-value program arg1 arg2...
and runs the program with the environment variable changed.

(The alias is easier to remember than the actual environment setting, and better still, can be tab-completed.)

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

selzero@syzito.xyz ("Deniz Opal") wrote:

Screw this, you wanna get high?

Attachments:

• The "I'm just a bill" cartoon (remote)

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

soop@wetdry.world ("HyperSoop :spinny_cat_aroace: :spinny_fox_agender:") wrote:

@mos_8502 may i introduce you to https://oql.avris.it/license/v1.1

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

georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

In "How Men Like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, And Brock Turner Are Made," writer Amelia Mavis Christnot explores the roots of toxic masculinity and privilege. From Ivy League halls to positions of power, see how entitlement shapes behavior and fuels impunity. A powerful read—dive in now by visiting The Big Picture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/culture-made-trump-kavanaugh-turner

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Thrilled to announce that Wario has made it to Mt. Teapot

Attachments:

• 2ef24bfd742f42f3.mp4 (remote)

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

I look forward to the AI hype dying down and being replaced with AI realism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/03/dehyping-ai/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ByoAt5gCA

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

koronkebitch@types.pl ("paulette d. koronkevich") wrote:

amazing sigbovik paper this year

Attachments:

• The Anything Prover: How to prove Anything Reader^1, Christoph W. Senn^2, Carmen Mei Ling Frischknecht-Gruber^3, Kiba^4, and Yukiko^4 1 TBA 2 Tokyo Institute of Technology 3 Zurich University of Applied Sciences 4 University of Applied Barks chrigi.senn@gmail.com Given any statement Q we can prove it using the process used to prove Theorem 0.1. Theorem 0.1. Statement Q Proof. The proof is left as an exercise to the reader. Author Contributions Reader created all theorems and proofs. Christoph Walter Senn typed every 2n+0 word. Carmen Mei Ling Frischknecht-Gruber typed every 2n + 1 word. Kiba played with his squeaky toy. Yukiko oversaw the whole project and barked in approval. References Finding the references is left as an exercise to the reader. (remote)

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

Should I post a list of JS thinkfluencers to actively ignore until they recant?

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

RoofSlapping@botsin.space ("Roof Slapping Bot") wrote:

*slaps roof of millisecond* this bad boy can fit so many microseconds in it

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

Working on a blog post and reflecting on the way JS influencers have existed in an accountability-free zone for nearly a decade.

If someone is "just trying to educate", and "filling a market niche" but aren't providing fundamentals like semantic HTML, markup-first development, and progressive enhancement, they are actively harmful.

This covers a huge swath of today's JS thinkfluencers. Mute/ignore them.

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

Faux intellectualism in service to flat earth bullshit is so cringey, Candace.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/03/ive-read-a-few-romance-novels-some-fantasy-and-a-lot-of-bad-science-fiction/

Attachments:

• Candace Owens (remote)

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

Everything sucks right now, but you don't need to hear about it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/03/good-news-bad-news-3/

Attachments:

• BAD NEWS! (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

andybaio@xoxo.zone ("Andy Baio") wrote:

Cloudflare launched a one-click option to block known AI bots, crawlers, and scrapers. https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click

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

The far right have been so successful at shifting the Overton window that they've managed to transform "Biden isn't up for the job" from an obvious far-right propaganda attack to a mainstream talking point, even among Democrats.

They've managed to make millions of people forget *their* fascist, aging, obviously demented, lying criminal of a candidate, over one bad debate performance.

We're letting the opponent call our plays for us.

That can't possibly help anyone but them.

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):

0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:

The new byline feature from #mastodon is cool, but once again the mastodon team is only interested in a mastodon-compatible fediverse and steamrolls over criticism.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30398

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

I didn't know JK Rowling's cult practiced glossolalia!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/03/translation-please-2/

Attachments:

• I’ve heard straight men talk about trans women as though they’re fallen men to whom sympathy ought to be automatically extended, but there’s deeper stuff going on, too. I asked a lefty straight man I know (this is irl) whether he was aware how many penised ‘lesbians’ are involved in the push to access female spaces. The subject made him incredibly uncomfortable. He simply didn’t want to hear it. I then asked him whether he knew what his straight male friends wanted from women in the bedroom, kink/sex wise. Horrified look: ‘no, of course I bloody don’t’ I said to him that if you put 100 straight and bi women of our age and average sexual experience in a room together, they could write an authoritative compendium on straight male kink in an afternoon, from their own direct experience or that of women they know. I said I presumed he knew that a cross-dressing fetish is one of the most common paraphilias in heterosexual men and that this has been in the psychological literature since Freud. I cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this, let alone acknowledge that any of it was real and happening. I don’t know whether it was the idea that women actually talk about what they meet in the bedroom that touched a nerve, or whether he found the whole subject ick, or didn’t like the suggestion that he was naive or poorly informed, but the impression given was that I was depraved to say such things aloud, and that he’d much prefer a seemly silence. (remote)

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

This is a classic villain monologue, declaring victory…prematurely, I hope?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/03/weve-been-winning/

Attachments:

• Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation (remote)

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

“The increasing likelihood of a second Trump administration has helped spark a steep selloff in U.S. government bonds, with investors betting policies including tax cuts could drive up deficits and inflation.”

WSJ newsletter

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

June was a good month for first time watches

Attachments:

• letterboxd screencap. My diary for June. June 7: Vivacious Lady (1938) June 8: Dragonwyck (1942) June 13: The Divorcee (1930) June 14: Mr. Wrong (1996) June 19: Baltazar da Lomba (1982) June 21: Filibus (1915) June 24: Little Caesar (1931) June 26: Singin' in the Rain (1952) June 28: The Public Enemy (1931) June 29 Scarface (1932) June 29: The Wild One (1953)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I’ve been working in my spare time on Color Cart Critic, a new review website dedicating to writing about indie Game Boy Color games! Check it out: https://colorcartcritic.com

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I wish the slicer preview was synchronized with the actual print progress, similar to how OctoPrint can visualize it.

#3dprinting

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

el0j@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eddy Jansson") wrote:

"... we look through the recent Radiance Cascades paper from the devs of Path of Exile 2, explore the ideas behind their approach ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3so7xdZHKxw

"Radiance Cascades: New Approach to Calculating Global Illumination"
Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L6v1_7HY2X-LV3Ofb6oyTIxgEaP4LOI6/view

Older article /w video: https://80.lv/articles/radiance-cascades-new-approach-to-calculating-global-illumination/

#GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #GlobalIllumination #RadianceCascades #Sannikov

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

After a bunch of bugfixes #RadianceCascades start to look like something.
It was necessary to correctly center the probes, and interpolate accurately.

The parameters must really meet the penumbra hypothesis, otherwise it breaks down with light leaks, moire patterns, and gaps between cascades.
I'll probably have to add mipmaps for density and light sources to make them thicker.

Attachments:

• Couple of lights soft-ish shadows, but visible transitions between cascades, uneven resolution, and faint moire patterns

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'm Batman!

Attachments:

• 3D printed Batman bust

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

I cancelled my New York Times subscription today.

I already knew it was bad. But I didn't realize how much the entire paper simply regurgitates Trump's own talking points until last week's debate.

For a time, I thought the NYT was simply asleep at the wheel and underestimating the threat at the door. It's now clear to me the paper is, in fact, a willing and deliberate accomplice.

I'd like to support actual journalism. The NYT is not that. I'm open to better options if you have them.