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

Don't care about code. Care about users enough to master code.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Being a kindergarten teacher provides an unexpected selective advantage.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/27/true-superheroes-can-resist-the-malign-influence-of-plague-rats/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

38 years ago today, July 27th 1987, a song was released that would change the world forever.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

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

It's okay to favor people over GPUs...

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

You know what would be fun? having a model of each DB Baureihe I've ever ridden. Maybe I should get that started.

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

Also I like people, and I don't care about your data centers, venture capital, or business plans.

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

I've said this before, but I think training generative "AI" on the corpus of human culture is not the same as individual people learning from their culture.

People studying their own culture is an heirloom project. It's an act of preservation and propagation as generations pass along knowledge, skills, acts, and ideas. When one person studies their culture and reproduces and regenerates it and adds to it, it enriches and refreshes the culture. Generative "AI" is not part of that.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I do repeatedly get spam trying to sell me "exquisite model ships Limited supply, global shipping. Interested?".

And like... why?

Don't they know that offering me model trains would be much more effective?

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

If you've ever enjoyed a pinball game and like learning how things are made, this video from the Tested Team about the making of the Dune pinball machine might be worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCKm3ncUXaQ

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
me_@sueden.social ("Michael Engel") wrote:

Did you know that there is not only Matt Godbolt's Compiler Explorer at https://godbolt.org, but also a Decompiler Explorer, appropriately named https://dogbolt.org, which compares the output of Ghidra, BinaryNinja, IDA and other decompilers?

#decompile #ReverseEngineering

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I wonder if the food explodes, or injects microchips into your brain, or rusts on the plate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/27/everything-he-touches-turns-to-crap/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
feorag@wandering.shop ("Feòrag") wrote:

I suspect that I will never find out about every batshit 19th century transport , because there are always more. Like this, for example, which is powered by five tonnes of caustic soda surrounded by water. Link to English-language Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda%5Flocomotive
https://ridesbik.es/@herrbett/114892929584207321

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

Anybody who talks about efficiency of a person or group of people without actually discussing how that is being measured isn't really talking about efficiency.

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

The NO$GMB emulator provided superior insight and debugging tools, and the flash carts were cheaper, faster, and easier to use.

The Nintendo dev kit was to remain on my desk in case of a visit from Nintendo, and I was told not to mention the use of the tools that actually allowed us to create games.

Everything is so silly...

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

However, I was also told they didn't use those for much of anything. What they really used was the NO$GMB (registered) emulator and flash carts we'd buy directly from somebody in Hong Kong.

https://problemkaputt.de/gmb.htm

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Die Zeit asks whether parents should send their children to the US now.
Soll mein Kind da noch hin?
https://www.zeit.de/familie/2025-07/auslandsaufenthalt-usa-kind-schule-donald-trump

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

A long time ago, I was briefly employed[1] as a game developer for GB/GBC/GBA games. When I started, they handed me an official development kit from Nintendo.

https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/nintendo-gameboy-color-is-cgb-emulator-development-kit

[1] I tried it. Realized I didn't like it. And got out. It wasn't the people. I liked everybody I had the opportunity to work with. While I like the problem solving aspect of games, I actually didn't have enough "passion" for them to put up with the industry.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Swede1952@universeodon.com ("Swede’s Photographs") wrote:

Velvet Red Rose

This close-up of a red rose is one of my favorites. I adjusted the light to evoke a soft, painterly effect—giving the petals a dreamy, almost ethereal quality.

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

“thank God nobody over-reacted”

https://loops.video/v/88ujGYToRa

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

oh yah, too sexy for your fur…

https://loops.video/v/6GLC3jRxXM

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
UP8 ("Paul Houle") wrote:

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-room-temperature-maser-technology.html

#technology #maser #sensors #electronics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Stay calm and install solar panels.

Stay calm and install heat pumps.

Stay calm and build a Homelab to keep your data at home.

Stay calm and help your neighbours.

Stay calm and read the news but understand your anger on things you cannot change is wasted energy.

Stay calm and care about your direct environment where you can change things.

You are not alone. Many people around you are doing this already.

#StoicLife

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dustcircle ("Steve Dustcircle 🌹") wrote:

#AmateurRadio Helps Locate #Missing #MotherandSon

https://www.arrl.org/news/view/amateur-radio-helps-locate-missing-mother-and-son

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"Two sexes," they say. "Any others are unnatural"

MUSHROOMS: but we have 17,000 sexes. Whoops sorry just discovered another one. Make that 17,001.

"The female of the species," they proclaim, "is the one that carries the fetus to term. Males can't get pregnant. It's unnatural."

SEAHORSES: but our males do.

"It's so simple," they declare, a little nervously, "If you were born with a penis, you're a male. Boom."

SPOTTED HYENA: but our females have penises.

"If you were born with a vaginal canal, you're a girl," they scream. "If you weren't, you aren't. End of story."

TURTLES: but our males are. and they can even breathe through them.

"Biological sex can't be changed," they shriek, self-righteously."That's just science".

CLOWNFISH: but we do it all the time

"You can pretend to be a gender you weren't born as, they gasp, assuring themselves that surely this time they will emerge victorious, "animals can't just up and change their chromosomes. That's common sense."

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: but we can. explosive chromosomal macroevolution is literally a part of our lifecycle.

"But chromosomes determine biologi-"

BEARDED DRAGONS: ours are determined by the weather

"But the Bible says male and female he made th-"

BLUEHEADED WRASSE: all of us are born female

"But you can't just wake up one day and deci-"

GROUPER (MALE): we literally do.

"But gender isn't flui-"

GROUPER (MALE): sometimes we change back

"But you can't just pick what gender you're going to be on any given day!" They shriek, "It doesn't work that way!!"

GROUPER (FEMALE): ahem

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

ANSI Escape Codes is a suite of online tools for inspecting, visualizing, and listing ANSI control codes and the way they render. Useful for BBSes, emulation, TUIs, and retrocomputing.

https://ansi.tools

#ansi #tools

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

get cat out of warp core

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Don't Look Up called it: during one of the hottest summers on record which has been beset by natural disaster after natural disaster, all with an associated death toll:

Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5302162/climate-change-trump-epa

#uspol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
solownh@mstdn.party ("sOlOw-NH") wrote:

GOP now stands for Guardians of Pedophiles

"Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump condemned questions about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as 'sort of a witch hunt'”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/nation/trump-attacks-obama-clinton-questions-epstein/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Gavin Newsom is showing everyone how it’s done.

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

holy crap, I just realized:

I ignored the metaverse and inevitably ended up completely left behind! :blobcatscared: