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more things should have copy-on-write functionality
if not because it makes it any better, because you now get to say "my language/file system has cow"
It's one thing for traffic to be disrupted, your city stopped, and +100 deaths to be caused by a human-triggered weather event.
It's something so much more disturbing, even unbearable, to have a journey deliberately delayed by young punks.
(Very rough numbers) The deliberate acts of 9/11 killed as many USians as tobacco kills every week.
+1,000,000 innocent Iraqis were killed to avenge the insult of 9/11.
And 2000 USians have died every week since 2001 from tobacco usage.
So, maybe you already heard about it, botsin.space will shut down somewhere next year. Around December, it will go into Read-Only and probably finally shut down around March next year...
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/
At the moment I don't know any alternatives to botsin.space and since we are posting images almost every day it's probably not wanted everywhere?
So question to all of you, does anyone know alternative bot instances?
Please add @Kuraiko if you answer 🙂
My partner, the ever wonderful @Kyu , has a delightful print of a picture of a cat who is smoking a pipe with a smugly manic expression. Somehow it has become lore that this cat was a 'great innovator' in computing during the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's. Working for Groupe Vache, they were instrumental in the ill-fated Système/Chat line of mini and mainframe computers.
Amongst the many innovative features that were present in some of the Système/Chat range were things like:
The three quarter adder, which had sum, carry and ask again later outputs.
The arithmetic and illogic unit, to produce perverse results from perfectly sound and sanitised data sets. It was particularly popular with governments.
Drape storage, which ran several turns of a magnetic tape around a drum and wrote data across the resulting 'drum' in parallel. The idea was to give the convenience of parallel storage but the price of tape. Data was read by random chance.
Book fault, an exception generated by the main processor to conveniently bind several page faults into a single exception, for faster handling.
BOC, or branch on chance, 50% of the time it branches every time.
AWDATTS, a processor instruction that could be issued by anyone with system manager rights to ask what the system was doing and tell it to stop it immediately.
Spin unlocking. All resources were locked by default and threads needed to spin until the supervisor felt they really genuinely did need access and could be bothered to unlock it.
Subvisor, like the supervisor, but clandestine and hard to find and interrogate. (c.f. Windows)
Mechanical key encryption, a system where by in order to encrypt or decrypt anything, the user had to insert 4096 individual keys into 4096 lock barrels and then turn them left or right to indicate whether the binary of the encryption key had a zero or one in that position.
Reading a lot of #ScienceFiction, it's easy to be disappointed by the real world. But I've always felt that it's not the big things, like having no FTL drives or time machines. The little things are where it's at.
Fridges should be stasis chambers, so you can keep hot things in them too. Kitchen utensils should be forcefields, so you turn them off instead of washing them.
And today's thought: tables should use antigravity, so they're just a hovering tabletop, with no legs to bash your knee on!
‘Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air.’
#WealthInequality
#RichPolluters
#ClimateBreakdown
Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5CJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
You know, really thinking about it I've realized why so many people can't be bothered to do anything about reclaiming their privacy. It's because doing so means not using Chrome, ChromeOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Xitter, iOS, Macs, etc...
The apathy has existed so long, and the problem is now so endemic to all things tech, that giving it up basically means giving up the tools and services the vast majority of people use every day.
This issue is now so bad, that there's no functional way to even "vote with our wallets" to get rid of it. There's literally nowhere else to turn for most users. And every available option requires they give up things that they've been using, probably for years.
There is no way out of it, at all. And that's hard for me to say as someone that has advocated for digital privacy for a long time.
Any way out we have would have to involve laws banning data collection. I don't see that happening
This is absolutely it. Insisting on existing outside of those systems is increasingly not merely impractical, but kind of insufferable.
"Sorry, I won't click the thing you're trying to share with me because I'm boycotting that platform" really just adds fiction between a person and their own social groups, no matter how valid the grievance is.
Random fursuit photo from the archives.
8 Pretty Maids in a Row.
A femme fursuit photoshoot during ConFuzzled 2013.
...I was not expecting new Wallace and Gromit... ever.
Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqrBzJ5wIc
The world's best boss - Feathers McGraw is back with a vengeance. A brand new epic Wallace & Gromit family adventure, the first full length feature film in 1...YouTube
Furs For Life chartiy stream planning!
Schedule ✅
Incentives ✅
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Promo and video material 🔥🔥🔥AAAAAAFEKHECKSHIDHECK!!!
It'll be an awesome time packed with good vibes, fun games, and fuzzy animals!
Nov 2-3!
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#FursuitFriday comin' at you all like...
🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 Nauta Sinneau
🌍 Tails in Wales April 2023 (there's another meet this Saturday and I'll be there!)
If you're one of those people that doesn't care about privacy because “you’ve got nothing to hide, you never do anything wrong."
Just remember one thing.
Until the overturn of Roe Vs Wade, there were millions of women in this country that never did anything wrong either. But since the abortion laws changed, their smartphones and the data they collect are now being used against them in court.
You don't have to be doing something wrong to care about privacy.
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If I was going to sit in your car with you while you drove around, write down everywhere you go, how you drove while you were going there, what time it was, who was in the car with you, and then came with you into the places where you were going, would you be alright with that?
I hope you wouldn't. I hope you'd tell me to fuck all the way off.
So now is the time, to tell that to the insurance companies that want to do just that with their apps.
To save on auto insurance, some customers opt in to programs to have their driving habits tracked. In the past, customers were tracked through devices that plug…Harry Hairston, Katie Suiters, Charlie Wellock (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
and they ruin things they steal
Edit: I think that you are correct on the Norse part too. It was used millennia before they co-opted it to mean something very different from what it means today in various cultures.
