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jwz wrote:

Four and a half hours so far.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("beka valentine") wrote:

new video!

Recreating the VPL DataGlove, Part 3: Tube+Fiber Flex Sensor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U971dbM8m20

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:

How do we stop destroying people, ideas, tools, and ecosystems by misdiagnosing dormancy as failure?

Can we build tools, spaces, interfaces, systems, and experiments that revive latent capacity?

First create the conditions where life can move. Then train, test, refine, build, and strengthen.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

also whatever changed here really highlights that I don't understand how the Blender Foundation is structured, given that people are okay with CoreWeave (?!) and Meta being in this club, but Anthropic is a bridge too far, but they're still keeping the _money_ from Anthropic? Or maybe it has something to do with the "Corporate Patron" level specifically? Anyway… general point still somewhat valid, but yelling at Blender was apparently a good idea and did achieve something

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

you know that feeling when you're talking with someone in a language you don't know all the words in and you're using translate and you realise you've no idea if it's given you something correct or not?

that must be what vibe coding is like for people who can't code.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116484128621840238

okay so I stand by what I said about harassment and *in general* engaging with foundations and nonprofits, but I gotta publicly take an L here on the *implication* that the community's feedback was too intense, because apparently they received that feedback and acted upon it https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mkljczk@fediverse.pl ("nicole mikołajczyk 🔜 linux app summit ➡️ piwo ➡️ gpn") wrote:

some of you want to have industry-grade FOSS but without industry-grade funding, yet instead of fighting capitalism you decided to fight FOSS foundations. i’m so fucking tired of reading all of this

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/Blender/statuses/116500204687984724

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
GamingNews@meta.masto.host ("Gaming News") wrote:

PC Gamer just posted:

The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories

Only roles "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be eligible for awards.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories/

#gamingNews #PCGamer

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Soblow@eldritch.cafe ("Soblow Xaselgio :dragn_heart:") wrote:

Re: https://derg.social/notes/alqzxmo225

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga") wrote:

When the boop is so long that you need widescreen format :neofox_boop_cute:

🦊 @Polarie_Fox, 📷 @karb

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
blainsmith@fosstodon.org ("B") wrote:

TIL https://nlnet.nl/project/QBE-32-bit-ARM-support/

#HareLang #QBE #ARM #ARM32 #NLNet

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

What’s https://rad.dad? For the ridiculous price of just $10/year, you get email for yourname@rad.dad, web forwarding for rad.dad/yourname, and DNS control over yourname.rad.dad. “Dads” of all types are welcome.🤘

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
Bioalchemy13@mastodon.sdf.org ("Bioalchemy13 🇺🇸🇺🇦") wrote:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

I've *finally* added an address renewal process for https://rad.dad! If you signed up more than a year ago and your address expired, you should have just received an email with renewal instructions. (And an explanation of how the critical combination of ADHD and laziness can cause a service to run for a few years without ever collecting any renew income, lol.😆)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116500344542861927

they listened to the community and dropped anthropic <3

EDIT: I am aware that they still accepted a one-time donation from anthropic. If this is a problem for you go tell the blender folks about it.

EDIT2: I am not your abuse receptacle, and I will block you and forget you ever existed if we're strangers and you try to unload your frustration about this onto me.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
cybeardjm@masto.ai ("DJM (freelance for hire)") wrote:

On this day in 1980, the South African government banned Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” after Black students embraced it as an anthem against apartheid’s unequal education system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxX9TBj2zY

More info:
- https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-banned-south-africa/
- https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-album-banned-south-africa/

#SouthAfrica #PinkFloyd #80sMusic #Apartheid

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
mjd@mathstodon.xyz ("Mark Dominus") wrote:

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

If you're self-employed, celebrate May Day by feeling deeply conflicted! Rise up against your oppressor, who is you! Steal from yourself, who is also stealing from you!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
janbeta@chaos.social ("Jan Beta") wrote:

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Reminder that my old band‘s recordings are available for free there (or you can donate a few coins if you like). It’s kind of 80s-influenced indie pop with modern twists. I played the bass, wrote most lyrics and some music. We split up in late 2008. https://theseathesea.bandcamp.com

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ghalfacree ("Gareth Halfacree") wrote:

8086YES! is back, and this time it's a no to 8086: the BOOK II is a TTL-based Apple II clone with a whole bunch of upgrades including a Z80 SoftCard for CP/M goodness... in a netbook-like (chunky) laptop chassis.

Not going to lie, I'm kinda tempted.

https://www.hackster.io/news/8086yes-s-book-ii-is-a-compact-feature-packed-portable-apple-ii-built-with-ttl-logic-3e4993693215

#Technology #News #Hackster #VintageComputing

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
urbandinosaurs@urbanists.social ("Urban Dinosaurs") wrote:

At Riverbend Park along the Potomac: an adult and a juvenile bald eagle at a nest, a great blue heron (with its tongue showing), and a red-shouldered hawk. 1/2
#birds #wildlifePhotography #birdsforbecsnan

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

some of y'all did not have fun OR wang chung on that night, and it shows

jwz wrote:

Once again Monkeybrains looks at Github's uptime and says "hold my beer"

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

resist corporate hegemony by talking about goblins and/or gremlins

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
moon@m.g3l.org ("Moon") wrote:

Full Moon (100%)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Top 10 followed tags on #tagspub:

1. @palestine
2. @gaza
3. @fediforum
4. @mutualaid
5. @fediverse
6. @activitypub
7. @photography
8. @freepalestine
9. @mastodon
10. @iran

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

when things are so bad that the even the status page has fully given up

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

When devs spend $200 on a Claude plan, they consume about $5,000 in compute. That is right. It is heavy subsidization by Anthropic. Remember Google/Amazon/Nvidia/ Microsoft & others are funding Anthropic and they are buying back cloud services and GPUs from the same vendors. On the books, it seems Google, Amazon and Nvidia are all making profits via AI, but the reality is this is just circulating money with heavy subsidization hoping to trap retail, pension funds, Govt funds via IPO route.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"Bandcamp Day" on May Day is ... certainly a choice.