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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
garyodernichts@treehouse.systems ("Gary") wrote:
After my last post, it was pretty clear what everyone wanted to see on the Alarmo. So, here it is - Doom running on the Nintendo Alarmo!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Spending all day thinking about what I'm going to do once I get that hour back tonight. :thonking:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
tobestewart@mastodonapp.uk ("Toby") wrote:
What sort of idiot reposts questions?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jaeger@sfba.social ("Ted") wrote:
Teen Vogue tells the truth, again.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-but-a-donald-trump-win-would-be-catastrophic
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
So we susbscribed to #Netflix to watch Queen's Gambit. I know, it might seem a shock that someone hadn't got it already, but we've only been subscribed to Prime until now.
What I want to say is... what a toxic pile of dark patterns! Playing spoilers with audio all the time, anywhere in the app. Automatically starting next episode as soon as you get to the credits. And it costs how much? 25 bucks a month??
Why do people put up with this crap?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
Dhmspector ("Dave Spector") wrote:
Speaks for itself…
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You better not try eating beaver in Minnesota!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Time to look back on the family history of spiders.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/02/a-quick-summary-of-spider-evolution/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EdS@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ed S") wrote:
Bit of recent #computerhistory : Matt Pharr tells
The story of ispc
in 12 parts. Very interesting - single person not in the compiler team brings up a new tool, gets great results, is allowed to take it open source. Lots of insight into vector processing and Intel culturehttps://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all
Inside, a bonus link to a history of Larrabee aka Knights chips. By Tom Forsyth
Why Didn't Larrabee Fail?
https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20didn%27t%20Larrabee%20fail%3F%5D%5D
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Just had my first encounter with one of this year's crop of fresh Christmas music. Suddenly the year feels over, and I just want to hibernate for a while.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ne7@icosahedron.website wrote:
Fell asleep at 9pm, just woke up :D starting the day right vibing with Kamasi Washington + Band's superb Tiny Desk Concert <3
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stina_marie@horrorhub.club ("Mother Suspiria :autism:") wrote:
The Cure streamed a free 3 hour concert in celebration of their new release, SONGS OF A LOST WORLD for anyone who's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo
#TheCure #concert #Streaming #YouTube #SongsOfALostWorld #goth
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You will address him as SIR Sam Alito.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/02/its-just-a-tiny-violation-of-the-constitution/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Line is significantly shorter at then second location, but still long.
What a privilege it is to spend my day voting. A privilege that not everyone has.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Last day of early voting 8AM, Deland, Florida— longest voting line I have ever seen, and I voted in Atlanta last time.
Driving across town in hopes that the line is shorter.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Step by step they're enclosing computing. Pick your preferred monopolist gatekeeper.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I like how Apple's "Gatekeeper" name says exactly what it is. It's cool how we sleep walk into a computing world where you are only allowed to trust somebody as long as Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. also trust them.
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/
(Note I had dalliance with Apple products a long time ago. I don't currently use Android. And I only use Windows at work because its a requirement there. But dealing with one or more of these corps are largely unavoidable to most of us.)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lenaschimmel@chaos.social ("Lena Schimmel") wrote:
@uint8_t In March 2024, the was a ruling by the European Court of Justice, which basically said that all standards that are mandatory for products must be free of charge.
I just looked up what's the current state of this:
There is now an official web site where you can request free access to european standards, and access those that were sucessfully requested by others: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request/home
It explicitly says that everyone may use it, not just people in the EU.
(See caveats in replies!)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
psychologist’s warning: beware sailing with a man who is insecure about their [redacted] and has an excess of cash.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Kind of insane that the regular Apple M4, which Apple is now bundling into entry-level consumer-grade computers, is faster than my M1 Max for hardcore professionals that I got three years ago.
Mastodon FeedHow now you secret brown and midnight cow?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
wow, the latency goes *way* down... but then, so does the quality of the story produced. seriously down.
both go seriously down, and these are bad tradeoffs, Bwana John, bad tradeoffs indeed...
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
should take response time down significantly... now to beat the pesky threading issue
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Time to throw out that aging, mushy, orange thing. Oh, and your pumpkin, too.
#VoteBlue
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
latency kills. switching models to see if I can find flatter latency as an okay tradeoff for capability
from gpt-4o to gpt-4o-mini last month, and to gpt-3.5-turbo now. hope to flatten the latency curve
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tarah@infosec.exchange ("Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️") wrote:
In a world where enough women are searching “can my husband find out who I voted for” to make it trend in search engines and social media, there should never be a question again about the value of and right to end-to-end encrypted and private personal communication.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RobertDaleParker@mstdn.social ("Robert Dale Parker") wrote:
From this afternoon’s walk.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:
1.5-3°C of #GlobalWarming may not sound like a big deal. But for perspective: the difference between recent temperatures & last glacial period (when there were glaciers thousands of feet thick in areas now home to Chicago & New York) is only around ~6°C. [Full link below.]
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Sometimes I come across people that really make me feel like a slacker[1]. Mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, performing with the Boston Pops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxAby8anJ0
[1] I mean, I *am* a slacker, but some people make me *feel* it more, you know?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:
It is not #BandcampFriday but it is #FairtradeMusicFriday so here is a LONG compilation (136 songs!) by some amazing musicians with 100% of proceeds going to Helene relief and recovery in Western NC.
#Music https://cardinalsatthewindow.bandcamp.com/album/cardinals-at-the-window-2
