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2:30 AM: Lying in bed, staring into darkness, sigh
6:30 AM: Three different alarms and I slept through them all :P
F U summer
Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.
I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.
Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.
[cave johnson voice]
Oh, in case you got a swapfile on an encrypted
btrfs partition, here's some advice the lab boys gave me: DO NOT make a swapfile on an encrypted btrfs partition.
We haven't entirely nailed down what it is yet, but I'll tell you this: it's a lively one, and it does NOT like the desktop environment.
Can a ghost and a zombie come from the same person?
I'm so amused by the image of a ghost looking on in horror as its zombified body staggers around...
Zombie: BRAINSSSSS
Ghost: This is so embarrassing. Please, Phil, pull yourself together. We were a lawyer, for Christ's sake.
Brief blog article: “Symbiosisware”.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/symbiosisware/
that is interesting because it is the direct opposite of software that I often run into: Software written be developers who clearly do not use it themselves.
This is software characterised by having both flaws and just weird behaviour that no developer would accept in their daily use if they had any way of using an alternative or fixing the software.
I see this a lot in e.g. vendor supplied toolchains.
I like open source tools a lot for various reasons, but I can't think of a single example which has flaws or behaviour which drives you up the wall in the same way that a lot of commercial software does.
maybe I phrased things a bit too loosely. One specific example is a commercial compiler which comes with a kind of IDE which is just *terrible*.
For instance, it has rudimentary support for looking up symbols but sometimes this just ceases to work, and there appears no way to fix it outside of deleting your project and starting over, waiting for it to happen again. Sometimes it crashes etc.
A coworker routinely imports 3D models of PCBs and enclosures into FreeCAD and re-export them because otherwise our expensive suite for 3D work grinds to a halt working on them.
I don't recall ever running into something like this in OSS -- okay, perhaps in a few cases were it could be described as symbiosisware -- but in commercial software I'd be inclined to call it prevalent.
Edit: spello
@mk aaah, IDEs. That makes more sense.
In my day job I maintain toolchains myself, it so happens. We do have IDEs to wrap around those toolchains, but I never use them – I run the compiler directly from the command line. So indeed I wouldn't notice if the IDE had misfeatures, only the underlying compiler and linker etc.
(In fact I'm not an IDE user in any context, being long-term committed to emacs.)
#SelfHosting / #CommunityHosting / #ManagedHosting picks of the day:
➡️ @fedihost - PeerTube & Mastodon managed hosting
➡️ @mastohost - Mastodon managed hosting
➡️ @snikket_im - XMPP/Jabber managed hosting
➡️ @Cloud68 - Managed hosting for very wide range of FOSS services
➡️ @homegrown - Advising non-techy people on hosting their own online services
➡️ @adminforge - German-language site advising on self-hosting
➡️ @jellyfin - Host your own Netflix/Spotify-style streaming service
🧵 1/7
#SelfHosting picks of the day (continued):
➡️ @Mastodon - Microblogging anyone can host
➡️ @news - Flexible social networking, works with many protocols including Fediverse, RSS etc.
➡️ @synoforum - Unofficial forum for Synology NAS users
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#SelfHosting picks of the day (continued):
The account below is a discussion group. Follow it to see its discussions in your timeline, mention the group to post to it. (More info about how to use Fediverse groups: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/)
➡️ @selfhosting - Discussion group about self-hosting & community hosting & managed hosting
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PART OF THE THREAD, IT MIGHT SPAM THE GROUP.
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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
*flashback to climbing over the waste fields from the local sewage plant, picking green tomatoes for my mum's chutney, while trying not to think about what I'm standing on or stand on the really soft bits or how the tomato seeds got there in the first place*
Me: no thanks I don't like chutney
Do you love hyenas? I hope you do! Because those cuties will be available on many new merch soon!
@Skiriki Exactly. Most of my -applicable- sex ed until I was in my 30s came from shoplifting a copy of "The Joy of Gay Sex", which probably became increasingly archaic, and (sigh) gay porn.
Do you know why I value guys who aren't all 'Let's meet up and fuck!' Because they -aren't- all 'Let's meet up and fuck!'
Me... Internet.
Once I met some people who could enlighten me about the endless choices there are, figuring out what I am, who I am became easier.
Data manipulation is at the heart of computation, and a system is said to be Turing-complete if it can be configured to manipulate data in a way that makes implementing arbitrary computation possib…Hackaday
Horror story, but apparently it's true.
I'm sitting in an AWS meetup, and a dude is telling a story about how 50 people physically showed up on a Tuesday at his wife's Fortune 500 company.
All 50 people said that they start their new job today. She works in HR, she has 0 new employees starting today.
Apparently scammers had completely mirrored the company's career website, conducted interviews with these candidates, sent them written offer letters, had them fill out I-9 forms to start their new jobs... An insane phishing attack where the scammers have gathered everything there is to know about these 50 people, including banking information "for credit checks," social security numbers, everything you hand over to a new employer to accept a job offer.
Obviously, devastating for these 50 people. Not only has their TOTAL identity been stolen, they're still unemployed.
I saw these photos on mastodon a few days ago about of the huge melt over 15 years of the Rhone Glacier…good to see it’s gained media attention, even if it is the result of climate deniers on X.
The speed of the glacier’s disappearance really should leave everyone in no doubt that #ClimateChange is real and human made.
#ClimateBreakdown
#Glacier
#ClimateDenialism
Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show ‘staggering’ changes in the AlpsAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
@ActNowOnClimate@newsie.social >they took a camper van trip across Europe and set out to recreate the picture.Mastodon Australia
TIL that Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day. Both songs are now over 50 years old.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dolly-parton-2-songs-one-day/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1elcd2z/til_that_dolly_parton_wrote_jolene_and_i_will/
Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" in one day.Bethania Palma (Snopes.com)
- tech firms lay off thousands to boost stock price
- jobs report shows rising unemployment
- stock market panics and nasdaq crashes
- tech firms' stock prices go down
brilliant strategy. the best.
I was just told this funny design fail story by train driver Stefan on Youtube.
The newly renovated train station in Delft is built in a tunnel, with four tracks each in their own separate tube. Going fast in a single-track tunnel creates a lot of overpressure, and trains have now been ordered to slow down to 120 km/h before entering the tunnel to reduce it.
It turns out that immediately after opening the tunnel, the sudden gust of wind was pushing on the revolving doors at the entrance to the station upstairs. This made them spin faster, and people were struggling to get through the doors.
Study in hamsters indicates vaccines targeting nose, mouth may be key to controlling spread of respiratory infectionsTamara Schneider (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)
Content warning: Mini-Fiction, ~1000 Words, Shapeshifting, Very Mild Non-Permanent Comic Body Horror
Content warning: Mini-Fiction, ~1000 Words, Shapeshifting, Very Mild Non-Permanent Comic Body Horror
Fascinating report from 404 Media's Samantha Cole on a trove of leaked NVIDIA Slack messages and emails about how they're scraping millions of YouTube videos to train their own new foundation video generation model: https://www.404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping-foundational-model-cosmos-project/
Posted a few of my own notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/5/nvidia-scraping-videos/
It's not surprising to learn that they're doing this - that's practically the industry standard right now - but is still really interesting to see internal details of what they're collecting and why
Internal emails, Slack conversations and documents obtained by 404 Media show how Nvidia created a yet-to-be-released video foundational model.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Scientists show high concern and engagement on climate change.
A global survey of over 9,000 scientists reveals that 83% are highly concerned about climate change, with 91% advocating for fundamental social and economic changes. Many have altered their lifestyles, with 69% driving less and 39% adopting plant-based diets.
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-scientists-climate-extreme-high-engagement.html
#scientist #scientists #science #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #environment #earth #nature #GlobalWarming
Scientists from across academic disciplines are extremely concerned about climate change. Many of them have already changed their own lifestyles or engaged in advocacy and protest, with even more being willing to do so in future.Science X (Phys.org)
Classic claims from the right of 'two-tier policing' which won't cut much ice after the sentencing of the Just Stop Oil protesters...
I'm all for the end of two tier policing - lets prosecute the far-right thugs on the same basis as those who've been victimised by the Police for years....
Bring it on, Nigel.
pwetty pwease🥺
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits
I have no idea if I could do this — I don't feel I know anyone well enough! But then, maybe that's the point of these things. So, let's give it a go. I might not reply soon (Real Life™), but I will try to reply eventually. :)
ahahaha yes sickos
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k44x6mge3o
The decision could reshape how technology giants do business in the future.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
We made this joke CONSTANTLY