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ICE must be destroyed.

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18+ @bigtuffal@dice.camp avatar bigtuffal , to random


oh so this is where the doctor got the floor capes that he uses to kill the dalek in season 9

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@alicedotjpog the monsterdon movie tonight was an ancient dr who absolutely STOKED with critical lore elements

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I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/

A graphic from a WaPo story says The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different US Economy. The graphic shows stock market performance since January 2019 with two lines: A red, lower line for the S&P, which grew 132 percent in value over that time; and a much higher, steeply climbing blue line representing the "Magnificant Seven" tech companies that enjoyed growth of 1,057 percent. The ‘S&P 493’ reveals a Very Stock market performance since January 2019 different U.S. economy — Excluding the Magnificent Seven — Magnificent Seven Seven trillion-dollar companies are powering 1,057% the market's gains. Here's what is happening to most other businesses in the United States. 2% By Aaron Gregg and Federica Cocco
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@briankrebs i hate this graph

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@tomiant@piefed.social avatar tomiant its not there for you, silly goat, it was so i could reblog this where i know blind fraggle hangs out

silly goat

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Name ONE distro you’d never use, no matter how much other recommended it

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Omarchy obvi

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

Steam Deck update: I found an old SteamDeck running OS 3.6 and installed Death by Scrolling. It ran fine and was butter smooth. I then updated the OS to 3.7 and now it's choppy and stutters. The plot thickens.

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@grumpygamer @DKesserich you can force any installed version of proton through the properties menu

@Gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe avatar Gwendolyn , to random

Huh. Nice.
I haven't played it yet because I still wanna play through BG1&2 first. But hearing little things like this make me wanna get on that so I can join in on BG3... Well after everyone else is over it :P

https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-actors-brought-back-to-record-they-them-pronoun-lines/

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@Gwendolyn theres def some appeal to a completionist approach from this angle

BG 1 & 2 are great and have gotten a ton of high quality polish and representation thanks to Amber Scott and other cool people at Beamdog (mostly)

@bigtuffal@dice.camp avatar bigtuffal , to random

the FBI busting up a poker hustle when there's gestapo on the streets

yeah i'm not feeling very governed

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

I don't think that "give beginners LLMs to get them started so they can actually learn to do it later" checks out.

(Original title: But will they?)

https://tante.cc/2025/07/21/but-will-they/

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great essay

very strong argument that is completely agnostic to whether LLMs are actually capable of what they advertise, very difficult to hand-wave this sort of rhetoric

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

me: yay i finally have a dedicated system for playing dos games!

also me: unable to think of any dos games to put on it

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@eniko

X-Com: Terror from the Deep

Jurassic Park

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@eniko
there's a DOS game similar to the two Nintendo Ocean titles but massively better graphics

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okay that's weird. i installed bazzite and ran vulkaninfo | grep 'Instance Version' and apparently my gpu supports vulkan 1.4? which is weird because by all available info online GT 650M should cap out at 1.1 O_o

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@eniko i run Baz on a 5700g system and that seems to be about the minimum requirement for the fancy big picture mode and stuff

650M + i'm imagining a 4 core CPU might have some struggles

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@eniko
oooooooooo, it's try'n!

that thing's got enough juice to be useful for sure just prolly not fancy steam frontends

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"I felt the slow loss of competence over time when I relied on [AI], and I recommend everyone to be cautious with making AI a key part of their workflow.[...]When you are using AI, you are sacrificing knowledge for speed."

(Original title: Why I stopped using AI code editors)

https://lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-stopped-using-ai-code-editors/

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"From 2019 to 2021 I drove a Tesla. Though I would never make the same purchase again, not for political reasons, just because the cars are quite low quality, very overpriced and a hell to repair or maintain."

lmfao

what a mark

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

“I, a writer, asked the plagiarism machine to copy guides for me.”

This is how we ruin the internet. People will stop writing guides.

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take heart fair pengin

100% promise people will not stop writing guides, there was an entire period in the 90s where only Jeff Rovin got paid to write guides and tons of people still wrote better guides anyway

it's going to come down to outlets like the one you run to help people discover where they actually get published, though

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THE PRIDE OF CHANUR (1981)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 24" x 17"

The book that introduced the Hani to the world. In C.J. Cherryh's first novel in this series, the cat-like aliens find the human stowaway on their ship. 1/4

A group of buff aliens with cat heads and tawny fur stand guard around a single human, whose face can only be seen from the nose up but resembles the artist. One of the Hani carries a shiny chrome blaster and another is talking into a handheld communication device. Many have rings adorning the underside of their pointed ears. Looming in the background, arranged in a descending arch, an array of alien species is rendered in cool blue tones against a light blue field.
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@MichaelWhelan accurate depiction of my masto feed

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

The outgoing Sherrod Brown addressing the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:

"This committee must ready itself for the fights and challenges ahead:

Rising housing costs, private equity infiltrating more and more of our economy, insurance costs going up, risks building up in the private credit market, new technology that’s increasingly being used in our financial system – from algorithmic prices to AI to crypto. ..."

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so rich coming from that tool

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

it is very scary that we are a week away from the US election and the @internetarchive ’s webpage archiving is still down

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@molly0xfff @internetarchive

oh no, what if there's no record of the slave empire imploding while it does a bunch of genocides

the last time slave empires imploded while doing genocides, it was keeping records of it that mattered and kept it from happening again

the dominant cultures currently on earth really deserve to be remembered so this is upsetting

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

If anyone replies to me with something like:

"how is this news?"

  • Instant Mute.

Seriously. Some of your attitudes are so so tiring to read.

Let me take you to school for a moment:

  • Did something happen? Might some people be interested to know about it?
  • Congratulations. That's news.
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@gamingonlinux
i'm bound by a blood pact to keep hitting the "Delay by 3 months" button on an Infernal Doomsday Machine only on the condition that I can verify Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is playable & feature complete on Fedora Linux so I find your website very useful

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Is it just me, or has Microsoft gone completely crazy? They are implementing spyware that takes screenshots every second and forcing AI integration. Why would anyone willingly purchase this? Anyone with experience in computer or information security knows that it is a bad idea, even if it is locally done. Just don't do it. Yet, here we are, and they are doubling down on this idea. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

Literal definition of spyware: New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC. Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
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@nixCraft i just can't see a real sell for it, what service is it even supposed to provide? who asked for this?

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

a pox on whoever came up with the fucking byte order mark

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@eniko
google docs is unsuitable for most real work and its ubiquity is obnoxious