1 AM. I cannot sleep. Went looking for cursed content on the internet. Succeeded harder than I intended to. Now I still can't sleep, but for a different reason.
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1 AM. I cannot sleep. Went looking for cursed content on the internet. Succeeded harder than I intended to. Now I still can't sleep, but for a different reason.
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Sukima (Wiket)
@mcc @Sonic_Little Since there is an excess of the same hardware would it be possible to start a volunteer effort to support a Linux distro dedicated to security updates and drivers for that specific hardware? A community effort that allows older systems to have a new life while still getting security updates? We have charitable organizations why not open sourced projects to do the same?
mcc
Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana
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mcc
It's official: The new Big Thing in tech is services that "plan to turn on federation in three months"
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"Federation will be enabled in six months": The new "Ethereum will be moving to proof-of-stake in six months"
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I also, incidentally, run with my own very small userstyle. This removes the "ALT" badge on images with alt text, which I find distracting. (I think the *ideal* would be to put a "NO ALT" penalty badge on images that DON'T have alt text, but this is harder to do in pure CSS.) https://userstyles.world/style/9811/mastodon-remove-alt-penalty
mcc
Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one
mcc
[Sarcastically] I guess now we know what "data pillagers" means https://mastodon.social/@sysop408@sfba.social/110639475000913188
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Incidentally, here is a article from this week I thought had some interesting detail. "Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000" https://mashable.com/article/twitter-api-elon-musk-developer-issues-apps
mcc
Entire Internet is dying at once https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-confirm-three-strikes-policy-ad-blocking-test-3340826/
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2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms 2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so
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So I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to tell if a particular app is running in Wayland or XWayland. This is the answer I get off Stack Overflow. I'm thinking… No. No, that's too silly. It can't be the best way. I keep researching. It's the best way. You run xeyes. Wayland has security that keeps windows from knowing about mouse events in other windows. XWayland doesn't. Xeyes will track your cursor whenever you're over an XWayland window, then stop if you pass over anything else.
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When the computer suddenly says some fantasy novel shit
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I was in the Rust help discord last night, and someone was having problems with async, and somebody said this. I don't think they realized how incredibly evocative this is. …looking at this again, the avatar really sells it
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SOLARPUNK FUTURE STARTS NOW https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/110549783109490434
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(Caveats: Although the research is peer-reviewed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37148757/ many experimental medical technologies do not work out. The hard part with insulin is not making it but making it in a form that takes effect quickly and stably, and it's those modern "stable" forms of Insulin that are expensive, because they're patented. The plant… also appears to be patented, by the University of Pennslyvania, although growing an illegal plant to treat diabetes is also very Solarpunk.)
mcc
A thing that I do not like about the world we live in is that you're given two options, Windows where any application at any time can and usually will just demand you give it 100% permission to install stuff in the kernel and you really have no choice but to proceed because that's the only way to run the software, and Apple where you're not allowed to do anything with your devices ever at all.
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The thing that I *really* want— every application is running inside of a sandbox I fully control, such that all attempted OS-level changes are accepted from the app's perspective but actually logged and tracked, and then I'm allowed pijul-style to decide which "patchsets" of sandboxes are simultaneously active for any one piece of software— might be kinda hard to implement and implement efficiently. But it seems *some* third option must be possible
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"What's that?" Y'all this is four features covering three and a half hours of seminal 80s-90s experimental dance, plus special features. I bought this JUST for a single 15 minute piece which is the best film representation of a Steve Reich piece I've ever seen ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110386487906550331 ) and there's so much other stuff in the box. It's oversize actually so either there's multiple DVDs in here or it comes with a nice meaty paper book
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Galaxy brain: generate a nostr public key, register a domain name consisting of that public key in base58, sign up using that domain name to bluesky. Everyone in the extended fediverse groans at your shit https://ravenation.club/@AlgoCompSynth/110476815177690820
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I use Reddit to obtain YouTube links of people playing synthesizers and I am interested in using Lemmy to obtain YouTube links of people playing synthesizers. Also what is "Piped". Is that a thing at all
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I'm generally enjoying Rust but I really feel like I would be *completely* unable to write software in this if I didn''t have 24/7 access to discord channels that can patiently explain to me why that baffling type error is occurring when I make code changes that seem like they ought to be no-ops. Every day writing Rust is like my worst day writing ocaml. I think haskell, had I ever really learned it, would have been easier to fit to an intuition.
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The rust-analyzer language server is pretty nice but a thing that drives me nuts is I type "let x = 5;" and IMMEDIATELY it underlines in irritated green and announces that the variable x is not used. Yes I just this second typed it how could it possibly be used. Mom I'm WORKING on it |
@mcc I am so glad that I just started learning enough about working with Cmake just enough to understand this isn’t just compiling C code for raytracing using Cmake, but is indeed actually delightfully cursed
@mcc I've sent this to a friend and got this in return:
@mcc hey @ca1ne I've found your new favorite side project https://64.github.io/cmake-raytracer