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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tedyapo@fosstodon.org ("teddy") wrote:

the main drawback of FPGAs is having to go outside to program them

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

Although it seems to be missing a couple of tracks, if you're curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNe%5FmtjIwec&list=PL6C783356E3A0AAAD

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

Just remembered that "Six-String Samurai" ranks pretty high in the soundtrack-to-movie ratio.

(Idea of soundtrack-to-movie ratio brought to me by the following toot:

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/114962510636179280)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"When I was leaving the community, I thought that my answer in the future to that question would be yes — but it’s not. I thought that I would think it’s a tragedy that I no longer have the same sense of purpose in life, the sense of meaning, the hope for the longer term future of humanity. Also the promise of immortality, the possibility I could live forever. But I really don’t.

I feel like having left the transhumanist and longtermist communities, I have been able to develop and foster a new appreciation and connectedness with life on this planet. I mean, Mars is a toxic wasteland. It is a horrific place. There is no planet B. You go to Mars, you step outside and open your mouth, your saliva will boil off your tongue. Earth is incredible.

What transhumanists are really all about is how shitty being human is. You know, ‘It sucks to have this meat sack. We’re so dumb. We can only move so fast. We can only process information so quickly. We only live so long. It’s just an awful situation. We need to transcend that through technology and then we’ll get to something that’s really worthwhile.’ I just reject that. I like the way things are. I want to preserve this. I care about this."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/the-curious-sci-fi-beliefs-of-the-ai-tech-elite

#SiliconValley #AI #LongTermism #Transhumanism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

New data on disabilities in the workforce has been released by the Federal Reserve, and we're at a record level of disabilities that are still rising. Disabilities in the US started rapidly rising right about the time we got tired of masks and decided repeated reinfections with #COVID19 was no big deal. Despite thousands of studies that find COVID can affect chronic health, we continue to pretend that this abrupt and continuing 40% increase in disabilities is a mystery.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

XML watching everyone hate on it for 15 years, then suddenly becoming the main character in every AI prompt:

'well well well how the turntables'

*aggressively angle brackets at you*

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

In this video, you can see just a part of the massive damage in my neighbourhood.

In Gaza, you can only see death, damage and displacement.

Please help my family buy food

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

Please donate and share ♥️🇵🇸

#gaza #palestine

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• video: 946484aac0692961.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
fabio@manganiello.social ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

Remember the faces of the people in this video, because these are easily among the worst human beings alive today.

Waiting outside #Gaza's borders while a Holocaust is consuming.

Reacting joyfully to each bomb and to each explosion.

Waiting for everyone to be dead so they can also steal the last piece of land that Palestinians have, and that international laws forbade them from re-occupying.

When the Zionist propaganda tells you about "defeating Hamas and their religious terrorism", remind them who's the real religious terrorist out there.

Who has folks like Ben-Gvir serving in the current cabinet, an individual blacklisted by most of the civilized world, someone who invited people to throw darts at pictures of children murdered in the West Bank evictions, who rules over a party founded by Kahane, a man arrested at least 60 times in his lifetime, listed as a terrorist by the US, the USSR and Israel itself, and author of the bestseller "They must go", which has often been compared to Mein Kampf.

And who's the one who justifies murder in the name of the most repugnant and murderous god:

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you. And when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy". (Deuteronomy 7:1,2)

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Boosted by jwz:
bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game

Boosted by jwz:
eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

As Luthen said in _Andor_: "I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!”

This is what it looks like to fight an existential threat.

Boosted by jwz:
zanchey@aus.social ("David Adam") wrote:

It's very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can't access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you.

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Grave of the Fireflies - Hotaru no Haka is a movie that, I'm fairly sure, if you have even an ounce of empathy, by the end of it, will have you super sad.

It's on Netflix now https://www.netflix.com/title/557010.

I watched it a LONG time ago when I was a kid, and only now realised it is set in #Kobe, where my wife is from, with many setings in the movie actually _in_ her neighbourhood.

Also, the dialect used is exactly what my in-laws have, making the experience even more profound.

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

Introducing my kids to Highlander (strong candidate for best soundtrack-to-movie ratio), now and then I think about this scene. Our guy on the right here has just been sent by Roxanne Hart's character, Brenda Wyatt, to figure out who our main character is. In this scene - about 1:25 into the movie - he's found and proved that whoever he is, he's been kicking around New York for longer than New York has been New York.

Then the story... just lets him go.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
thedarktangent@defcon.social ("Jeff Moss") wrote:

The flight attendant said our flight to Vegas is 80% full. I asked if they fly this route frequently and they said three days ago the flight was empty.
#RoadToDefCon #DefCon

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@thedarktangent Hmm. Must be some sort of convention in town. Maybe COMDEX?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

Update: I am ordering more stickers, to meet the demand.

I got some fun laptop stickers printed recently.

I opened a little shop to sell these: https://ko-fi.com/nsmsn/shop

You can order 2 for $6 USD or 4 for $10 USD.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jack_daniel ("Jack Daniel (often offline)") wrote:

Not trying to sell anything, but I just found that North American Rescue is having a sale, August 1-5. If you were going to purchase CAT tourniquets or other first aid stuff, might be worth a look.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
michi@wetdry.world ("Michi") wrote:

UK App Store charts be like

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

“Physics is like sex. Of course it can give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”

—Richard Feynman

from “Hammered” by Elizabeth Bear

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@Professor_Stevens Is this a perfect solution. No; see above. Might reasonable people make other choices about how to deal with this sort of thing? Absolutely.

But our diversity and differences are ultimately a thing to celebrate. In the end, it's what makes the world go round.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@Professor_Stevens I posted about it because people have been asking about a nonsensical conspiracy post that's been gaining a bit of traction. I don't want to give it more attention, but I do want to help people recognize BS when they see it.

So I stake out a position in an imperfect tradeoff space with no clear Nash equilibrium, which is to explain some useful facts that people should know and might help them if they come across the aforementioned nonsense, but without linking to it directly.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@Professor_Stevens I am sorry you find my tradeoff frustrating, but it's a tradeoff. No perfect answer.

I don't link to bullshit.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

We can make our elections trustworthy in spite of the inevitable security weaknesses in equipment!

How? By using an architecture that *tolerates* security flaws instead of requiring you to eliminate them. This is called "Software Independence", formalized by Ron Rivest (the R in RSA) about 15 years ago.

Ron is giving a talk at the Voting Village this year.

Software Independence is achieved with something called "Risk Limiting Audits", invented by Philip Stark.

Philip is also giving a talk.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
brie@social.lol ("🐈‍⬛ brie") wrote:

✨ I love #OMGLOL so much that I had to get an account for my cutie @plop

📸 Here's a photo of us together!

#catsofmastodon

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
purplerabbit@social.lol ("Omega :prami_pride_trans:") wrote:

did you know you can tap/click on many elements of the omg.lol illustration to animate them? you can make the wind turbines turn, the windows glow, the flag wave and more... :prami:

#omglol

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Anyway, if you're interested in actually learning about this this stuff - which is interesting and important - and you're coming to DEFCON, come join us at the Voting Village!

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV2025-schedule.pdf

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

You should also know that:

- There really are security vulnerabilities in election equipment. Because there are security vulnerabilities in just about every large, complex software-based thing.

- The mere existence of a security vulnerability, in an election system or anything else, is not evidence that it has been exploited

- We should absolutely improve our election infrastructure. But fortunately, there is thus far no evidence that any election outcome has been maliciously altered.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Once again, I'm not going to link to this BS, which deserves no oxygen. However, in case you come across it, you should know that:

- The NSA, a branch of the US Department of Defense, isn't involved in any way in US elections, which are run by states.
- The NSA doesn't audit elections, or "authorize" election audits.
- Even if they did audit elections - and they do not - a "former CIA operative" wouldn't be involved. The CIA is a completely different agency.
- Come on, use your brain.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

We are pleased to announce the final* schedule of talks for the 2025 Symposium on Election Security at the DEF CON Voting Village, August 8-10, in quiet, sleepy Las Vegas.

Hope to see you there!

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV2025-schedule.pdf

* -subject to change

#VotingVillage #DEFCON33 #Elections