Wow, this is actually insanely cool I've loved the prospect of a totally open, patent unencumbered chipset that Intel or ARM don't have dictatorial powers over. RISC-V seems like it's early days in the consumer sphere, but it's awesome to see it coming to laptops from more established brands.
Modular computer company Framework is working with DeepComputing on a new mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13 that uses a RISC-V processor instead of Intel, AMD, or Arm.
Fuck me sideways my mate just shared a fursuit head photoset that made me realize what kinds of seams I actually love to see, and the kinds of seams I always want Calyo to have: sewn fabric seams. 🤩
And I'm now imagining Calyo sometimes mimicking the soft, svelte texture of having neoprene skin. 🥰
QotD: I think, though I can't speak for the universality of it, that one of the fundaments of friendship is being actively invested in how your friends are feeling.
Should I start replying with moans when people post links to "articles" which are actually links to giant computer programs to download to my computer and run; programs which may or may not eventually display an article on my screen and/or try to hack my computer and/or track my behaviour?
Ie, should I start complaining about toots with links that don't work without JavaScript turned on?
If you're in London, I encourage you to visit the national covid memorial wall on the south bank of the Thames. It is about 500m long, between Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Palace, facing Westiminster Palace.
I found it by accident this morning and I really wasn't prepared for the scale of it or the notes written by the bereaved. It stands as a memorial to the 240,000 people who died from COVID in the UK, and a monument to the incompetence of the Johnson government.
It will make you sad, and it should also make you angry.
So messed up right now. Only an hour or two ago I was getting stressed out about never being able to get on with anything and having such a huge backlog of stuff to do that I was feeling utterly overwhelmed by it all, and now I'm sitting here at a loose end, unable to think what to do with myself.
I can only think I need a break. (In both senses, maybe.)
Anyone in south-west London TOMORROW who'd want to come to Mitcham Carnival with me?
I'm going to do the same as last year, and could do with someone to take a few pics (I don't get the chance myself, really) and maybe help a bit with "managing" the people wanting to get photos with Spidey!
I probably won't stay all day, more likely just a couple of hours or so, and it's mainly when I first arrive that help would be most welcome, so it could just be for a short time.
A long shot, I know, and a bit late to ask, but… I have to ask, just in case.
Okay, that was a rather nice time! From the moment I got there I was swamped with people wanting photos. Walked around the showground once or twice, had a lot of nice encounters and a small number where I wasn't sure what was going on but none that were actually bad, which is good. 🙂
No time for pictures while I was there, but I did get a few on the way home.
stop using optifine(a guide, and psa!) if you're already using prism launcher or are ok with switching to it, get additive from modrinth: modrinth.com/modpack/additive(fabulously optimised is another option but i dont like how it changes so many default settings and comes with experimental mods that can cause unrecoverable issues with your worlds) if you're using the minecraft launcher and don't want to switch or organise mods manually, just download additive installer. it takes the same amount of effort as installing optifine: github.com/skywardmc/additive-installer additive is a free and open source modpack that boasts feature parity with optifine (including capes, zoom, shaders, etc) while running significantly better, having much better implementations of optifines own features, and having almost flawless support with other fabric/quilt mods (unlike optifine which is infamous for breaking everything)
Wow, truly the end of an era. I was beta tester 324 for ICQ when it came out. #110324. I got the dev's attention because I was hosting the largest and most popular Powwow servers at the time.
There are some truths that when you think about them, they can inform your actions. The biggest one is that there is enough food that no human should go hungry. There are enough resources so that everyone can have shelter. The fact that we have hunger and homelessness is a direct result of billionaires and the lack of will to fix distribution of the food and houses. It is a direct result of greed. -> more #NoBillionaires #hunger #homelessness #taxbillionaires
I wish that we could feed and shelter everyone, but that's setting yourself up to be sealioned into oblivion. They'll try to say it's impossible to keep everyone fed, because of disease, and calamity, and supply chain failures, and they will be right. But we have to remember that the rent extraction makes things even worse on top of the already necessary suffering. More people, vastly more people, orders of magnitude more people are suffering than necessary.
Those swine will try to equivocate accidents to their needless, entitled, elitist murder of their fellow man. We must not let them frame the goal as impossible, so I don't really like to talk about it in terms of feeding everyone, or ending suffering. Minimizing suffering, strengthening community, empowering people to live their best lives.
that was one of my grandfather's favourite comments. Another was to point at any car that overtook us at speed and say "we'll be home before them" Because we were going to our home, and they weren't.
We were at Llyn Tegid a couple of weeks ago, a lovely sunny day and I was paddling in the lake, and I heard a siren behind me up on the road, so I turned to look, and the only thing I could see was an ice cream van turning into the car park! So I thought instantly of Eric Morecambe.
I've loved the prospect of a totally open, patent unencumbered chipset that Intel or ARM don't have dictatorial powers over. RISC-V seems like it's early days in the consumer sphere, but it's awesome to see it coming to laptops from more established brands.
