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30 trillion cells in a trench coat

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pyinfra-docker does not support secrets? is anyone actually using this software???

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is there a UUID-like standard for "ID with integrated checksum" (cf. IBAN)? I'm thinking this could be pretty useful in error-prone scenarios like OCR or "ID gets typed in by hand" (because it was on a paper letter, etc...)

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ok so I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1 which one the one hand is annoying because it's closely tied to barcodes/2D codes, but on the other hand that's maybe a blessing: 2D codes are a useful and kinda standardized way of getting data from paper back to digital reliably.

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange avatar azonenberg , to random

OK so this is multiple levels of cursed.

But I have the I-side L1$ enabled on the M33 now.

(record scratch) You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation... Time for a bit of an explainer.

Serial console log printing bus width and size of the I-side L1 cache

Serial console log printing bus width and size of the I-side L1 cache
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@cliffle Now That's What I Call Architecture™️

Curious: where does Rust currently stand here? The topic of special purpose memory regions and ramfuncs has come up a few times in the embedded Rust matrix room and from my understanding the answer is "cursed linker stuff and inline assembly required" - I wonder if there's a way forward to increase ergonomics (my thinking is a language aware linker and accompanying rustlang attributes; maybe research area for @davidlattimore ?)

@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to random

I'm seeing this Anil Dash post boosted into my feed by some academics and I'm not convinced by the inevitabilist logic. This logic applies to things like smoking and gambling too — people want to do it, it's popular, it's all around us, we should get used to it if not use it, we don't want to miss the boat.

Academics of all people should also be building spaces where it is possible to resist, where we can deliberate, look under the hood, tinker, critique, and help people make mindful choices.

Anil Dash post "I know you don't want them to want AI, but..."
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@haui @dingemansemark you can't and shouldn't use "AI" for automation, it also is not a tool. At least if we're talking LLMs. And their hit/miss mechanic is exactly the same as a slot machine's.

@larsmb@mastodon.online avatar larsmb , to random

Being offered only the two choices of "Now" or "Later" in any sort of "opt-in" setting will never cease to make me very, very mad.

And yes, I do see this dark pattern as reflecting a fundamentally broken understanding of consent.

And I think only predators and abusers use them.

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@larsmb I've been wondering if maybe the penny would drop for some folks when presented with "have sex with me? [yes] [maybe later]"

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

A lot of companies in tech are non-profit if we're honest. But the issue really is that by being a "non-profit tech company" you kinda align yourself the the idea of the tech company itself and all the baggage that brings. It's where a lot of the issues (for example with Mozilla) come from

https://mastodon.ie/@davey_cakes/115502453482870764

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@tante I was already skeptical of Wikipedia-the-institution... well TIL. bleh, suckers.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

Question for you wizards and wizettes: I'm setting SDL_HINT_MOUSE_TOUCH_EVENTS, SDL_HINT_TOUCH_MOUSE_EVENTS, SDL_HINT_PEN_MOUSE_EVENTS, and SDL_HINT_PEN_TOUCH_EVENTS all to zero, but my program occasionally receives SDL mouse button and mouse moves events for some but not all touch events in addition to the expected correct behavior of actually receiving touch events. Is this, too, a linux, or did I screw up something somewhere?

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@aeva given how ridiculously buggy the steam deck UI is (and definitely not because of layers below it) and them allocating zero budget to fix these issues I'm not holding my breath

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@aeva I'll join you if that's any comfort

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@aeva fair enough, we can stake out individual perimeters

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

tossing assorted images into tiled to use as a tile set and paint with is pretty silly and fun

a high res scan of a pokemon card (lapras) mangled into a glitchy mosaic
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@aeva for some reason I'm reminded of tree map disk usage visualizations

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

is doing this real cool thing where if I hover the mouse over scribus or krita, the cursor shrinks. idk where to even begin with that one

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@aeva a shocking amount of deranged online behavior can be explained by people not having their humiliation kink under control

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

seasonal affective disorder is basically just really simple astrology

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@aeva what a pisces thing to say

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tonight in "cursed things": pulling in a cool 1.8GB git submodule (1.5GB of which is dead weight aka .git/) for ... providing license information.

https://github.com/evenorog/license/issues/7

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@alice_i_cecile understandable, sadly! I always welcomed the merge train threads but I do recognize they can be overwhelming. I maintain a (threaded ^^) list of mastodon gripes, are you ok with me putting a link to your post there?

https://chaos.social/@dngrs/113198547800515556

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

the word "toggle" has a good mouth feel

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@aeva a toggler is a small child that loves to push buttons (it me, I was toggler)

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broke: rails is omakase
woke: rails is fukushima

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

web programmers, the lost generation 😏

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@GyrosGeier @rygorous @lritter besides being orthogonal to ryg's complaint (AIUI), what else should one store it as? I mean, there is something to be said about text also being the wrong disk format for proglangs (merging syntax trees: much smoother), but in practice there's just very little else out there

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@GyrosGeier @rygorous @lritter this all seems like a very tangential issue, at least to me*; anyway, trying to untangle it:

  • XML-anglebracket-text as a wire format: eh, kinda wasteful, but you can e.g. gzip it I guess; any other kind of representation works only as well as the receiving side understands it
  • XML-anglebracket-text at rest is human readable/editable, and has lots of tooling around it, which I would consider pretty relevant when evaluating alternative XML representations
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@GyrosGeier @rygorous @lritter personally I don't mind angle brackets, or IDs/namespaces even; for me the cracks begin to show when one has to escape operators, like > in XSLT. But I'm an XSLT hater in general, so...

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@lritter @GyrosGeier @rygorous "XML* is like violence: if it doesn't help, use more!"

*replace as needed with IOT, blockchain, metaverse, AI, quantum, Frontex (wait, that one is just violence)

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@lritter @GyrosGeier @rygorous it's fun like solving puzzles is fun

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

Noch mal laut

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

You remember when everyone (including AI firms) claimed that "Hallucinations" would soon be solved and I got so much shit for arguing that they are a structural property of LLMs?

Now OpenAI releases a paper stating the same and just gets to move on (with all its sycophants).

Really fucking annoys me.

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@tante who knows, maybe next they'll tell us that LLMs actually won't ever do reasoning and pretend to be puzzled that people would assume otherwise 🙃

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , (edited ) to random

you ever think about...

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@aeva how about garlic?

@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar rygorous , to random

HOT TAKE: In German, "Beelzebub" should really be written with a New Yorker diaresis.

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@lritter @rygorous be eel, do crimes

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , (edited ) to random

The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".

The freeze apparently came after Sun transferred around ~$9M of his holdings to Binance.

The World Liberty team has been desperately trying to prevent the WLFI price from sinking, including by burning tokens to boost the price. They may be concerned that whales like Sun could further depress the token price by cashing out.

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@molly0xfff 🍿🍿🍿

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Stop taking productivity advice from people who aren't in your situation.

"Here's 10 productivity tips from Elon Musk"

Fuck off.

You'll learn more by asking your Mum how she coped when you were a kid.

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@Daojoan so I should subject myself to regular beatings? 🤔
(not an Elon defense, obviously)

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , (edited ) to random

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

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@aeva particle man for sure, at least if I get to choose what kind of particles I emit (strong contender: Higgs boson)

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

oh my god auuuugh what the wayland, pygame wont start mollytime fullscreen on my second monitor anymore >:(

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@aeva @Gabadabs unironically I think doing this and treating every issue that comes up as a proton bug (to be fixed by valve employees) is a very viable option

@jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

A photographer friend of mine had one of her sd memory cards die after a photo shoot. She’s tried Easeus and it can recover about 1300 of 1600 files, but she’s asking if there are other tools/tricks anyone knows from the forensics community that might be able to get the rest. I have a feeling there may just be some dead memory cells, but if there’s any chance to help, I’d like to. Thanks.

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@Ichinin @jerry bruh please show me the camera that has built-in redundancy for photo storage. Not the place to be smartassy about "yeah ackshually your media will die one day".

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@Ichinin cut the ableism and read the original post. The SD card died during/after a shooting. now explain how a backup would solve that.

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@jerry @Ichinin TIL, that's pretty cool! But not exactly a cheap body either.

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

got nerd sniped into quantifying the quality of a palette arrangement and performing random swaps to optimize it.

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@lritter how about a perceptual space? eg oklab

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@lritter it could help with the "what's good" metric imo but yeah the returns might not be stellar

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    @NanoRaptor everyone you meet knows something you don't

    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , (edited ) to random

    for open source programmers: do you put booby traps in your code to poison AI training sets

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    @aeva wow I'm the 3%

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    @aeva (I do have protections in place that will hopefully prevent humans from executing the booby trap)

    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

    you ever wonder what's inside onion rings

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    @aeva tiny matryoshka dolls

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    Petulantly manually converting every YouTube Shorts link into a watch?v= link just to mess up Google's stats enough that hopefully some VP gets a smaller bonus

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    @azonenberg @mcc fun fact: when YouTube introduced shorts they auto converted old videos below a certain length to shorts. Happened to me personally.

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    with every latin glyph you send, you perpetuate the rule of the roman empire and use the symbols of your oppressors

    the only ethical way to communicate is offered by unicode page U+1FB00..U+1FBFF (symbols for legacy computing)

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    @lritter @halcy with your pixel aspect ratio maybe

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    "I deleted my second brain" by Joan Westenberg is very worth reading. I am on a similar path right now, removing a lot of digital cruft and structures I had applied to my life in the belief that I could gain more control.

    https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

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    @tante very well written and a compelling perspective, even though my own experience has been wildly different: I cannot overstate the peace of mind and help with my ADHD scatterbrain that I'm getting from notion (and I suppose obsidian would be the same, but also I'd be busy for half a year getting it to work the way I want). That said, I'm much more selective with what I put in there, and an essential step for me is triage (I have a page that's literally called that), 1/

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    Occasionally you find a person who's like "I don't agree with either extreme, I want to exist somewhere in the middle" and for some reason, those are the EXACT people who get really angry when you try to say the same thing about gender

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    @mcc sounds like Jesse Singal

    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

    today's magic number is "2"

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    @GyrosGeier @rygorous @aeva @lritter
    is this Lost?

    And/or that's pretty short for an SHH key

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    @rygorous @GyrosGeier @aeva @lritter
    it's been years and the Unicode consortium still hasn't approved my "I intentionally misunderstood something" marker

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    @rygorous @GyrosGeier @aeva @lritter since the frog is already dead now - I guess doing two references at once (Lost numbers & "is this loss?") also wasn't working in my favor

    @kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar kenney , (edited ) to random

    Using my ? Enjoy total freedom thanks to the CC0 license;

    Donation: No requirement
    Permission: No requirement
    Attribution: No requirement
    Commercial use: Yes!
    Allowed to edit/remix: Yes!
    Completely free: Yes!
    Compatible game engines: All!

    https://gameassets.com

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    @halotroop2288 @kenney
    I totally support that but going masto-exclusive a hard sell when you're trying to making a living with stuff you announce on social media (which is what Kenney does)