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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
simon_brooke@mastodon.scot ("Simon Brooke") wrote:
"When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”"
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sereeena@infosec.exchange ("serena 🌙") wrote:
i got kicked out of new zealand because i was telling everyone that it was actually pronounced "jandalf"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption, which eventually causes you to lose: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=135463.
In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to move down and to the left so I couldn't stop other missiles.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:
The dangers of the situation are obvious and real, but it matters that we remember that the world’s big platforms are steered not by shadowy forces, but by teams of gold-rush-addled dorks whose sometimes-well-meaning employees are stuck frantically LARPing world government on internal forum software.
It’s equally important to remember that the patterns we’ve experienced on mega-platforms are not the only way to do networks but the result of specific combinations of under-thinking and malign commercial pressures—and that the currently ascendant systems are not inevitably annihilating forces, but legal and financial constructs that can be brought to heel, forcibly reconfigured, or just replaced. Keeping these basic facts in mind is oddly difficult, because there’s so much money involved, and money is a spell for blurring the truth.
I think our failure to remember that the mega-platforms are just intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted but very human weirdos is a failure of accountability, but our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve.
Great piece from @kissane
https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nimbledave ("NimbleDave") wrote:
Here is my process of doing a Chine-collé photogravure print. Chine-collé Is the process of using an extremely thin tissue type paper (in this case Japanese gampi) between the plate and the base paper. This adds the texture and color of the tissue as well as a subtle relief and sheen effect due to the smooth, polished finish of the gampi tissue. #art #printmaking
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
We can say no, and not just on an individual basis. We can collectively say no, and considering the power dynamics in the world, that can be a better way to go in many cases.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I admit that when I see nuanced takes on technology that rest on the defeatist assumption that technology is some sort of inevitable force of nature, I have a hard time paying attention to what is being said. Technology is built by humans for human motives. If we don't build it, it does not happen. We don't have to accept that the only thing to do is gratefully swallow whatever is being forced down our throats.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The performance panel's trace providers don't connect elements to CSS animation-driven events, either on the compositor or main threads... Same for animation and place monitor panels. And perfetto didn't help.
Which makes sort of thing impossible to debug without 3D View + squinting.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The offender was a loading spinner, hidden by other elements, above the fold but off screen.
We clearly have work to do on compositor logic re: power use, but this (high profile) site would have been impossible to fix without the 3D View panel in the interim.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Thomas Tallis (English composer) dies, 1585
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First edition of Life magazine published, 1936
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running TV series), 1963
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
helenleigh@chaos.social ("Helen Leigh") wrote:
It's official! Teardown will be returning to the mall in June 2025 and @crowdsupply is still letting me run it.
Keynotes will be Cory Doctorow (author, activist), Kate Stewart (VP of Embedded at Linux, Zephyr, RTOS) and bunnie Huang (hardware hacker, author).
We have talks, workshops, hacker art, soldering, synths, SDRs, VR, machines galore, local food, after parties & A+ dying mall vibes.
Early bird tix are on sale and calls for proposals/volunteers are open!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Surprisingly relatable content in the middle of this action packed music video from Salvatore Ganacci's "Fight Dirty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiaXEIQgkE
(CW for a minor spoiler if you haven't seen the video before.)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
good morning fediverse. :cofepats:
the Red Hot Organization has released their latest project, "Transa", a six LP collection (!!) in support of our trans family and friends who have always been part of our society.
https://redhot.org/project/transa/
(includes the first new Sade song in a long long time, "Young Lion")
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Jennifer Pahlka (from ‘Code for America’) has some interesting things to say
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000677890883
Mastodon FeedJust so you know, the next fash flood is scheduled for Jan 20
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Leonard Ritter") wrote:
How it's going:
AWS will pay devs to verify Rust standard library because of 7,500 unsafe functions and enormity of task https://devclass.com/2024/11/21/aws-will-pay-devs-to-verify-rust-standard-library-because-of-7500-unsafe-functions-and-enormity-of-task/
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I wrote a fully functioning SAT solver in Rust (been working on it on and off since March). It now works well enough to pass a few hundred tests, but probably needs more polish before I throw it on GitHub.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
maybe I do need to implement 2 factor authentication at the get-go after all
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
“Nearest Neighbor Attack” finally lets Russia’s Fancy Bear into target’s Wi-Fi network.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/11/spies-hack-wi-fi-networks-in-far-off-land-to-launch-attack-on-target-next-door/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
Yikes!
"CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the large Danish cloud provider's servers and "paralyzed CloudNordic completely," according to the IT outfit's online confession.
"The intrusion happened in the early-morning hours of August 18 during which miscreants shut down all of CloudNordic's systems, wiping both company and customers' websites and email systems. Since then, the IT team and third-party responders have been working to restore punters' data — but as of Tuesday, it's not looking great."
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/23/ransomware_wipes_cloudnordic/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“OpenAI API > Anthropic API : r/LLMDevs”
an interesting post about comparative API utilities
https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMDevs/comments/1efzikx/openai_api_anthropic_api/?rdt=36398
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
that is a lotta zeros
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/amazon-invests-4b-in-anthropic-Y3ZOPzPzTxK0Q4d_MaTssw
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
Alaska Republican senator Murkowski says she won't vote for Trump appointees if no FBI vetting.
Easy "brave" move since the Senate Republican majority doesn't need her vote.
I expect Sen. Concerned (Collins, Maine) to join this empty protest.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
I laid out a strong critique, but let me end on a call to empathy.
Bluesky is built by good people, and the fediverse is built by good people. Neither reflect the designs I presently would like to see today, but ultimately these are built by humans trying their absolute hardest.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well worth reading:
“Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing something that people desperately want and need. If you are looking for a Twitter replacement, you can find it in Bluesky today.
However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:
@mcc ignore the thing firefox calls profiles. profiles are a trap to catch wizards. "multi account containers" are where the real action is at. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
unless you've already been made aware of it by the drooling hoards and it's insufficient for some reason in which case disregard this message
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:
Your regular ONI discount heads up: Steam is doing a bundle sale on Oxygen Not Included and Rimworld, which happen to be my two most obsessively played games on their platform. Warning: ONI is ADHD programmer brain bait in a very serious way, and Rimworld isn't far behind.
(Vegans beware, while I love ONI for not centering its gameplay around violence, it's hard to play it without a degree of animal domestication. Rimworld, on the other hand, is basically The Sims with war crimes; best avoided by the squeamish.)
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46465/Terraform_Titans_Duo/
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