@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-01-08 13:45:54
@comex@mas.to2025-12-08 07:11:22
Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-08 21:29:01
As the Red Army was pushing into Berlin, Hitler tried to order the destruction of German Industry. It was not simply to prevent the allies from continuing, but also to punish the German people for failing him. The film Downfall portrays him believing that the German people had shown themselves to be weak and that they deserved to die.
Trump has always had some Hitler energy. It's been reported multiple times that he keeps a collection of Hitler speeches by his bed. As he threatens Greenland, everyone wants to jump to compare that to Poland. The thing is, he doesn't have Hitler 1939 energy. He has Hitler 1945 energy.
Everyone knows he's a pedophile and a rapist. He's a loser and he'll do anything to distract from that. He would literally start WWIII if he thought it would give him a few more days. He's a coward who's afraid to face what he's done. But he's a coward with nuclear weapons.
I just hope the people around him value their life more than they are loyal to him.
@robpike@hachyderm.io2026-01-07 11:38:52
Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-01-08 19:21:51
The Greenland sea cables are probably being closely monitored, but redundancy seems minimal likely limited to OneWeb satellite connectivity and some VSAT links.
Looking at the routing side, AS8818 announces just two /19s and one /22 (and two /32s in IPv6) with a single upstream provider, Level 3 Inc. This suggests that Layer 3 redundancy is even more constrained.
I would have expected at least one EU-based provider as an additional upstream...
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 05:57:24
Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-01-07 17:29:15
On the occasion of ice’s latest killing: Local police MUST engage, detain and arrest ice. There is no better option.
Here’s why in detail: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-01-08 11:25:58
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡
"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þryms…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-08 14:30:03
ngscopeclient is pretty fast, but it's never fast enough.
NVTX instrumentation has been super handy for helping to understand what's going on and which shaders are bogging things down.
I really need to make the CDR PLL both faster and not have artifacts at block boundaries. That's my single biggest pain point at the moment.
I'd love to find more people to help out with this side of things eventually. But where the heck do I find an AAA game shader developer …
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-08 23:20:05
"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)
