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

Also on the list:
- The Talos Principle
- The Last Campfire
- Arkham City
- Resident Evil 4 HD (I actually might have finished this one on Xbox360 ages ago but stopped halfway through it on Switch)
- New Super Mario Bros. U (actually I had finished that one, but never 100%, so I checked that off the list)
- Animal Well (had finished before, but got the "good ending" for the first time)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

In building Omicron, the control plane at Oxide, we took inspiration from Caitie McCaffrey's resurrection of an old database idea, sagas, as long-lived distributed transactions. On Monday, @ahl and I we will be joined by Oxide engineers @dap and @mycoliza to retell our own saga with sagas in Omicron: why we used it as an abstraction, some of the limitations we encountered, how we addressed those limitations, and where we find use for it today. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1272298772638072853

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Nicholas Carlini joined me and @bcantrill to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great advice about when to use them (often!) and what kinds of problems they handle well. LLMs aren't great at many things, but used well they can be an amazing tool.

https://youtu.be/UPTAX30ttMQ

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

2024 has been the year of circling back to old games I stopped playing and finally finishing them.

Currently working on Undertale, which I'd never gotten more than an hour or two into before, but which I'm now finding to be charming and delightful.

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

Nice day in the midwest…and then this guy parks next to you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/11/sighted-in-morris/

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• Damn, but they only have one joke. "Don't worry…[picture of assault rifle]…it identifies as a crossbow TRUMP 2024. Yeehaw. (remote)

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

Apple seriously treats its users like irresponsible toddlers.

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Warrior: I swear I will have my revenge for the death of my brother!

Elf: You have my bow.

Dwarf: And my axe.

Necromancer: And your brother.

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BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange ("Brad Rubenstein “:verified:”") wrote:

Good Bones, by Maggie Smith (2016)

#poetry

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• Good Bones Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. (remote)

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galdor@emacs.ch ("Nicolas Martyanoff") wrote:

One of the many infortunate consequences of the success of GitHub is that lots of developers are now convinced that development has to be a public, social activity.

You do not have to release everything you build. You do not have to accept patches. You do not have to answer to emails or to issues. You do not have to fix bugs or implement features. You do not even have to continue working on your projects.

If any aspect of your public work stresses you, remember that.

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terrybot@frikiverse.zone ("Terrybot :pratchett:") wrote:

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

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democratsabroad ("Democrats Abroad") wrote:

A real father always takes care of his daughter.

Vote for the dad who cares.

#HarrisWalz #VoteBlue #Democrats #Election2024 #DemocratsAbroad

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• (A book…page one) EROTIC LITERATURE FOR PREMATURE EJACULATORS Chapter 1 She looked at him. The end. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I don't know how we resist the Trojan horse that is #threads, like I don't have all the answers. Digging deeper into what Zuck was doing really just came from a general distrust with every move that company makes (like most people).

But back in December it felt like the best thing we could do is be loud about it. Don't let them dominate the discourse.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When this post made the rounds eight months ago, it was not well received. "Alarmist, conspiratorial" blah blah blah. 😅

Today, it's a bit more obvious what #Meta is doing. So now it's, "of course Meta is pivoting. It's not a big deal."

In eight months from now, when they're migrating the #fediverse to Meta infrastructure, then it will be, "well, nothing we can do about it now."

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/copy-acquire-kill-how-meta-could-pull-off-the-most-extraordinary-pivot-in-tech-history/

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

Our podish-sortacast is firing up shortly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/10/podish-sortacast-reminder/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oIkmJWlQNc

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

Well I guess his running mate looks like an Oompah Loompah, so...there's that.

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

Why does JD Vance always look like he just ate some of Willy Wonka's forbidden candy and it's just starting to kick in

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Molly.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Manchester #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A tuxedo cat with green eyes, short white socks, a pink nose and long white whiskers is being held in arms with an expression of bewilderment.

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

sweeeeeeet

https://xkcd.com/2970/

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

ugh

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/07/mac-os-15-sequoia-gatekeeper

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antdude ("🐜") wrote:

"HACK THE PLANET!"

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

Tim Walz's church believes in "the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural". Heresy!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/10/the-first-crack-in-tim-walzs-perfection-appears/

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• Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St Paul (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Mark Zuckerberg's objection to the #KOSA bill is pure political theatre. Once that bill passes, compliance with the new law becomes complicated and pricey. Independent servers will be desperate for help.

And there's only one company positioned to snatch them all up— #Meta.

For all intense and purposes, the #Fediverse will be under Zuck's thumb.

Regulatory capture.

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Just in case

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• The pulsar map to Sol and a diagram of the solar system with an arrow pointing to Earth with the caption "If lost, please return to" as a temporary tattoo on my bicep (remote)

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*

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• -v, --verbose Sets (with a numeric value) or increments the verbosity level of output. Without the verbose option, no output is produced upon success, in the classic UNIX style. If no other options request a different action, the first -v encountered will be interpreted as --verify instead (and does not increase verbosity). -v, --verify Requests verification of code signatures. If other actions (sign, display, etc.) are also requested, -v is interpreted to mean --verbose. (remote)

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mhhhkathi@corteximplant.com ("Kathi") wrote:

A quick reminder that this weekend is the peak of the Perseids. So if you have a wish that urgently needs to be fulfilled: this weekend there is a good chance of seeing lots of shooting stars ✨💫

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DoctorDeathray@retro.social ("Doctor Deathray") wrote:

Hey @radiofreefedi !

I've got a new EP for y'all before the new album is ready

https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-nowhere-vol-2-medically-necessary

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

We live in Japan so she made a mistake and selected “outside Canada”. What a noob.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Got a RingFit so the kid can stay active in this crazy hot summer. This is actually part of the setup lol.

#OhCanada

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LukeBornheimer@sfba.social ("Luke Bornheimer") wrote:

“Economic activity increased—with up to 200,000 visitors per hour—and even the most fiercely opposed merchants have changed their tune.”

When will San Francisco transform merchant corridors (e.g. Valencia, Hayes, Grant, Chestnut, etc.) into economically vibrant ones like this?

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