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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"During testing […] system began unexpectedly modifying its own code to extend the time it had to work on a problem."
WAT???
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Hello from #ArcTanGent! Connectivity is very intermittent here, but imagine a picture of the stuffed Mastodon toy in front of the #ATG sign.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alex@cybervillains.com ("Alex Stamos") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Incredible to think Liz Truss might never go to a Tesco again for fear of being photographed next to her betters.
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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
snipe@hackers.town ("snipe ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ :antiverified:") wrote:
In the Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" painting (1480-1490 circa) there is music written on the butt of one of the characters in hell. Here's what the 600-year-old butt music from hell sounds: https://youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:
Nobody should have to agree to a commercial entity's terms of service to access state services or participate in democracy
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starwall@wizzzard.online ("ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ") wrote:
thank you China for developing a viable sodium-ion battery as opposed to lithium because we were absolutely going to run out of that shit
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tdverstynen@neuromatch.social ("Tim Verstynen") wrote:
It looks like House Republicans want to:
- reduce the number of NIH institutes from 27 to 15.
- reduce billions of dollars in funding for things like biomedical engineering, aging research, and addiction research (almost entirely).
- increase congressional influence over what gets funded.This is a truly atrocious proposal that will significantly imperil our country's research infrastructure. If you are in the US call your member of congress and tell them to reject the House Committee on Energy and Policy proposal.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That ain't Minnesota.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/some-scenery/
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You know that AI "roast my GitHub profile" thing that was going around a week or so ago?
A lot of people posted theirs, because they thought the AI roast was funny.
So I tried it. And honestly, mine was just *mean.*
It wasn't funny; it was *cruel.* My feelings were legitimately hurt. I felt genuinely awful after reading it—even though literally nobody else saw it, and I *knew* it was just AI barf.
And all I can think about since then is: *this tool is going to help bullies do so much harm.*
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadness
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
As immigration angers a Alabama town, residents seek solutions ‘without all the racial slurs’ - https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/as-immigration-angers-a-north-alabama-town-residents-seek-solutions-without-all-the-racial-slurs.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Giuseppe Stromboli Tarr") wrote:
I'm going to be honest, they had me in the first half.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
A person, K, who supported our Ops team in Purchasing confided in one of us that K was undergoing chemo and was at a point where K needed to shave their head. K didn't know what to do about this because we were all onsite workers, and K didn't need the whole building to know that K was going through chemo. And the usual worries that even though Management knew about K's problem, what may happen if that became office gossip.
Ops member said, "Don't worry, just be yourself tomorrow, and if anyone asks, just say 'talk to Ops'."
Our Ops team decided to collectively shave their heads. Ops then came up with a story about Ops & K going out bowling, getting really drunk, and losing a collective bet where we had to shave our heads.
K didn't know this. People kept going into K's office asking what happened, and K just looked mildly embarrassed and said, "Talk to Ops."
Everyone in Ops made up a wilder story than the last. It became a competition. Every anecdote had some kind of praise or regard for K. K eventually walked over to Ops, and found out what we did.
By the end of the day, the following was accomplished:
- K didn't have to tell anyone anything.* Ops developed a reputation for mild insanity and a lack of regard for social consequences.* Nobody was going to cross Ops to gossip about K.* Management had a private aside with an Ops member, who made it really clear where the entire Ops team stood.* K had no issues with any private requests to management, aside from the occasional question about how Ops was doing.
K is doing just fine.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:
Mitch McConnell issued this "dire warning" to republican state legislators...
"Let's assume our worst nightmare: The Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they'll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster."
Weird how he didn't have any problem eliminating the filibuster on SC nominations in 2017.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, that’s why he retired from the Guard to run for Congress. good.
‘… in 2006, Mr. Walz ran for Congress.
By now the parents of 3-year-old Hope … both Walzes were upset with the course of the war in Iraq.
“We just asked ourselves, like, What can we do?” Ms. Walz said on the podcast. The rational thing, she said, was for her husband to run for Congress. “We felt the way you stop the war is stop the money, and the way you stop the money is the United States Congress.”’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is good to see
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Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Exciting news for all cryptography enthusiasts and engineers! The new Hax Playground by @cryspen is a game-changer, making formal methods in cryptography more accessible than ever.
With Hax, you can write in a subset of Rust and seamlessly compile it to F*, ProVerif, and other powerful tools. This isn’t just another IDE; it’s a browser-based platform for experimenting with formally verified cryptography.
Whether you're diving into complex protocols or just starting out, Hax Playground makes high-assurance cryptography tangible and practical.
Check it out here: https://hax-playground.cryspen.com
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david@theblower.au ("David de Groot") wrote:
A sleeping Boyd's Forest Dragon, as found in the Daintree rainforest, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.
These iconic lizards sleep hugging a tree and are quire difficult to spot as their skin tone blends quite well with the bark.
#WorldLizardDay #lizards #reptiles #AustralianWildLife #WildOZ #BoydsForestDragon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
s0@cathode.church ("s0: Soldering Saboteuse") wrote:
I’ve been thinking about the “three Es” (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) of corporations to open standards & technologies, and how it’s somewhat similar to the way users are pulled in, squeezed and dropped in a cycle.
I hereby humbly propose a new “four Es” for the user-facing side:
“Entice, Entrench, Enclose, Expire.”
Step one, Entice, is grabbing users. Look how great and fun it is here on Flibber, the new social media! everything is free, your data is secure, there aren’t any ads, we’re adding features! Hype hype hype!
Step two, Entrench — make it the “place to be”. Get chummy with governments, press, influencers. Acquire competitors. Users are on Flibber without even noticing now. Heavily push Flibber integrations into all sorts of areas of people’s lives.
But you need to make money, too. Start selling user data. Introduce ads slowly like a frog in a pot. Start pushing exclusivity to your business partners so they push all their customers to you. You’ve stopped doing any R&D for users’ actual experience, now it’s about how to sell them on. And when you’re big enough, your competitors will starve.Step three, Enclose. “Snap” go the APIs. Sorry that’s deprecated. No longer available. Sorry that requires exorbitant access fees. Open this link in our app to view that page.
Users aren’t profitable anymore — selling them is. Lie harder to everyone, and charge more for the privilege. You’re judge, jury and accountant now. Jack up the integration and business license costs. What are they going to do, not use Flibber? That’s where their customers and constituents expect to get news now. Discontinue features that are expensive. Hell, strongarm your own infrastructure suppliers into exploitative contracts too — you’re too big to turn down.And the final stage: Expire. Eventually, the calculus doesn’t work anymore. Your investors want more money, but there’s nothing left to squeeze.
Dump Flibber on a private equity firm to rip out the guts, and let it crumble, scapegoating a new CEO.
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wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore :ferris:") wrote:
Some lizards from my photo library for #WorldLizardDay
I think these are:
1. Australian water dragon
2. Robust velvet gecko
3. Eastern water skink
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Disney has Satan for a lawyer.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/now-ill-never-sign-up-for-disney/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
What should I bring to the first committee meeting of the semester?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/it-begins-again-2/
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vitaut ("vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
There is a bit from Emma Goldman's autobiography "Living My Life" (1931) which is frequently paraphrased as "if I can't dance I don't want your revolution," but I think Goldman's actual words are better.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life
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- I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to became a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal. (remote)
Mastodon FeedAnd for those interested in figuring out the 2x vs 4x scaling mystery of the #RadianceCascades algorithm, https://kornel.ski/radiance
Mastodon FeedI've updated my #RadianceCascades implementation (2D GI shader). It's still a bit of a mess.
https://github.com/kornelski/bevy_flatland_radiance_cascades
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
I've wanted to cover this topic on Oxide and Friends for a looooong time. Pretty early on we knew we wanted a robust structure for roughly transactional, multi-service operations.
@dap took the lead in building Steno -- and he talked us through its evolution.
@bcantrill and I were also joined by our colleagues @mycoliza, Andrew Stone, Greg Colombo, and James MacMahon as they've encountered tricky problems, built out complex sagas, and extended the core concept.