@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-03 17:45:08
The unforgettable evening light & hike on the day I resigned from my job back in 2021...
#MonochromeMonday #MountainMonday #BlackAndWhite
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-03 17:45:08
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-01-03 23:01:34
Frozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-01-02 07:30:12
[OT] Andrew Ng warns AI far from general intelligence amid overhype https://www.webpronews.com/andrew-ng-warns-ai-far-from-general-intelligence-amid-overhype/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-04 09:42:51
Exactly my own approach:
“I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.” — Muhammad Yunus
#QuoteOfTheDay #BottomUpDesign
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-11-04 20:12:18
Quick update on #Gentoo stuffs:
1. virtual/zlib and virtual/minizip are in, sys-libs/zlib-ng[compat] and sys-libs/minizip-ng[compat] are unmasked. Unfortunately, due to scale of this you have to do a --changed-deps rebuild to be able to switch. Or package.provided.
2. I've filed bugs for all the packages depending on app-crypt/gnupg. Should get us closer to app-alternatives/gpg being fully supported.
3. Started preparing to replace gentoo-mirror/ scripts with something much simpler. So I guess we're going to be removing most of the mirrors this week after all.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-04 00:26:38
Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-beginning-of-the-end…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-01 08:55:34
A look at Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth's decades-long push to add the Telegraph to his family empire, his vision for the title, and more (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/29/w…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-03 10:21:57
Deeplearning.ai is a resource i can really recommend for free (!) courses on various AI subjects, serious, no hype. For example the Agentic AI course by Andrew Ng does a good breakdown of the hype around "AI Agents" / "Agentic AI".
#AI #Deeplearning
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-04 19:25:15
MEETING IN KYIV: The peace process continues! THE FRONT NOW: AZOV is fighting back!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/meeting-in-kyiv-the-peace.html
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-03 12:42:03
from my link log —
In defense of lock poisoning in Rust.
https://sunshowers.io/posts/on-poisoning/
saved 2025-12-02 https://dotat.at/:…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-04 16:37:55
RE: https://godforsaken.website/@Shrigglepuss/115661852506660130
Wondering about practical effects of this RAM price gouging... e.g. will it lead to increased awareness of memory usage/demands and better resource usage, more people/orgs switching …
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-01-03 09:48:40
OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-paying-employees-more-than-any-major-tech-startup-in-history-23472527
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-05 01:10:52
Kansas Republicans drop push to enter nation's widening redistricting battle (John Hanna/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-kansas-midterms-trump-7847d53b34245aead8cac5bf8cd6e12f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p147#a251104p147
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-11-04 18:08:28
Fueling Endurance - Nutrition for Runners, Cyclists & Triathletes
Sports dietitian Alan McCubbin answers the most common nutrition questions that runners, cyclists and triathletes ask...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-long-mu…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-04 12:00:00
Drifting away into the mist on this cold gray day... this track communicates it pretty well! Meditative.
Sebastian Mullaert - In The Blurry Mist Of Yourself (Wa Wu We Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1xurxy2DDE
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-01 14:09:16
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #LiveOnKEXP
They Might Be Giants:
🎵 Ana Ng
#TheyMightBeGiants
https://djsawtooth.bandcamp.com/track/giant-man-they-might-be-giants-ana-ng
https://open.spotify.com/track/4BXNDZ50Y7M5tUTYyd7jVa
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-12-02 16:50:50
From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-12-02 16:50:50
From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
@seav@en.osm.town2025-10-25 23:12:53
Today, #TimorLeste 🇹🇱 becomes the #ASEAN’s 11th member when the 47th summit begins in Kuala Lumpur later. 🎉
To mark this occasion, I decided to create a mock Philippine historical marker commemorating the body owing to the
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 02:55:32
Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-03 21:48:28
❗️ Looting legalized by Russia: Ukrainians are being deprived of their homes! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/looting-legalized-by-russia-ukrainians.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-28 11:48:24
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-03 15:22:30
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-02 21:37:08
Manufacturing:
Trump official admits 7 straight months of job losses in key sector - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-manufacturing-jobs/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-01 16:11:07
Neither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…
![Syntax color highlighted TypeScript source code:
```
import {
cycle,
map,
normRange,
permutations,
str,
take,
transduce,
} from "@thi.ng/transducers";
// LUT size (number of samples per axis)
const N = 9;
// example curve of N samples in [0,1] range
// (the curve here is y = x^1.2, i.e. a basic darken effect)
const curve = [...map((x) => (x ** 1.2).toFixed(4), normRange(N - 1))];
// compute cartesian product to produce RGB tuples
const lut = permutations(curve, curve, curve);
// alt…](https://mastothing.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/645/234/959/322/403/original/b9dc6bcea2fe1257.png)
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-12-28 09:22:25
‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/28/of-course-he-abused-p…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-12-06 14:59:34
'iptraf-ng' is a TUI network monitor; it's a really easy way of watching bandwidth on each of your interfaces, and has modes to split between say IPv4/IPv6/TCP/etc, or packet size; and shows you all the IP connections currently transferrign thing, or all the ethernet devices currently doing stuff.
https://github.com…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-04 15:45:02
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Wild Swans:
🎵 Young Manhood
#TheWildSwans
https://justsay.bandcamp.com/track/young-manhood
https://open.spotify.com/track/57hDZ29RhhKlJtBY2RAKjf
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-01 16:45:34
In a pretrial ruling, a UK judge finds a review in The Observer was defamatory for calling Andy Ngo an alt-right agitator; the outlet's parent weighs next steps (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/guardian-pre-trial-libel-…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-01-01 10:58:11
RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115815961061014546
Happy New Year, everyone! Never give up, never surrender, keep on realizing your dreams, build up resilience, be excellent to each other, focus on community, be human(ist), be creative and bring & share…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-03 21:39:32
Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge picks — Week 18 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/las-vegas-review-journal-nfl-challenge-picks-week-18-3603344/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-02 14:14:46
A 260 meter, 65 floor sky scraper in Zermatt... "a symbolically disruptive gesture that radicalizes the densification trend found in mountain resorts"
Very much hoping this proposal will be shut down before it gets traction! 🤬
https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-30 16:00:50
All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/30/all-the-presidents-millions-how-the-trumps-are-turning-the-presidency-into-riches
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p18#a251130p18
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-02 18:08:10
Breaking The Rules: A Clinician's Guide To Treating OCD
A show for mental health professionals designed to help you build confidence in treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/breaking-t…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-02 13:30:17
Close-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-02 01:28:35
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5-inch outer screen, a 10-inch 120Hz inner screen, three rear cameras, and a 3.9mm profile at its thinnest point (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/835525/samsung-z-trifold-announcement-…
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-02 21:56:05
Looking Back at 2025: A Year of Challenges and Growth: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/looking-back-at-a-year.html
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-31 20:01:59
The last light of 2025....
(...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 16:56:35
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent:
the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-03 21:24:31
NFL Week 18 betting breakdown: Predictions for every game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-week-18-betting-breakdown-predictions-for-every-game-3603340/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-30 08:15:03
No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-03 05:59:28
NFL Week 9 betting recap: Underdogs boost books, burn bettors https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-week-9-betting-recap-underdogs-boost-books-burn-bettors-3532059/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-02 19:32:57
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Glyders:
🎵 Wrong Sometimes Right
#Glyders
https://glyders.bandcamp.com/track/wrong-sometimes-right
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VIHlo98HQqkQx1dbU0vtd
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-01 13:11:29
Since it's this time of the year again, let me once more plug my Elisen Lebkuchen recipe, a delicious German cake tradition for the advent/winter time (sadly only if you're not allergic to nuts or honey):
https://gist.github.com/postspectacular/3400d3b2f5a3267d157a
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-03 22:24:24
BetMGM bettor wins $1M wager on Raiders in OT loss to Jaguars https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/betmgm-bettor-wins-1m-wager-on-raiders-in-ot-loss-to-jaguars-3532383/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-01 10:36:10
Very saddened to learn that Bill Schwab died a month ago. He was one of my favorite landscape photographers and sharers of knowledge. Heartbreaking news & such a loss!
https://randomphoto.blogspot.com/2025/10/bill-schwabs-left-us.html
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-01 10:17:56
TIL about the Perverse Incentive (aka Cobra Effect), which describes the effect when "incentives are often designed to achieve short-term goals, but in the long run, they lead to bigger problems or undermine the original objectives":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentiv…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-04 00:54:25
Sharp money moves line on lightly bet Raiders-Chiefs season finale https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/sharp-money-moves-line-on-lightly-bet-raiders-chiefs-season-finale-3603393/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-29 18:06:07
Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-29 08:00:03
Morning walk with a mood befitting the end of the year...
#MorningWalk #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-29 10:22:31
My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures:
https://art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-28 14:00:09
So close, yet still so far...
(Standing roughly where the Hintereisferner glacier reached to in 1850. From here it's another 20 mins to the Hochjoch Hospiz at 2413m... where I was the only soul there that day, enjoying true edge of the world vibes. Wonderful!)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-30 13:26:28
Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-31 20:49:39
And just before the year is over... I'm finally a supporting member of @… - yay & thank you for all you do! 😍
Donate:
https://donate.codeberg.org/
Join a…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-30 16:23:43
Hierarchies 😩... One of the biggest recurring time-consuming issues I sometimes encounter is making decisions about _where_ to put some (new or exisiting) code/feature, i.e. in which package, new or existing, considering: functional fit (topic), structural fit (pre-existing data format conventions with the rest of a package), and if possible, not introducing new dependencies as a result of new feature... Sometimes these three aspects are mutually blocking each other and it's so time cons…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-31 20:40:59
Completely taken by the 2025 Local Deprivation maps on gov.uk:
https://deprivation.communities.gov.uk/maps
These maps are painting such a sad & harsh picture of the country (well, at least of England)! Been spending the past hour or so checking out various places I've be…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-25 09:42:15
Another track/demo made with Forth and https://thi.ng/synstack (see previous toot), at least partially, i.e. everything but the drums... Improvised live via MIDI (Korg Nanocontrol), then sampled and arranged in Ableton...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-28 08:00:01
Giants shrouded in mystery, just like the year ahead...
(Also, it's the last #SilentSunday of this year, hope you enjoyed my selection of 52 images... Analog & digital prints will be available soon!)
#LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-25 16:34:46
#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-25 09:31:01
Just discovering #looptober and wanted to share this old Forth experiment (from already 9-10 years ago 😱) with my https://thi.ng/synstack VM and its DSP/Synth vocab, all running on STM32 dev boards. This Forth-based sta…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-25 14:36:09
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-30 16:18:56
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115808306629909320
New 19,000 word piece by Ed Zitron about how "modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory m…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-29 22:10:47
Good night with one of my all-time fave tracks by Boris Bunnik aka Conforce... Closer is an absolute masterpiece, perfect for late rainy nights, with a calm but haunting atmosphere and warm ambience...
Conforce - Closer (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oi4aUdQ94k
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-26 19:13:13
Natural particle system, frozen in time (1/1000s exposure time).
(Close-up side view of the 160 meter tall Stuibenfall in the early morning light...)
#WaterfallWednesday #NaturePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-26 17:06:40
Looks like blockchains have finally found a serious use case, just maybe not the one predicted/hoped for...
This article is about #Glassworm, the latest major exploit in JavaScript-land, targetting VSCode and using #Solana as command infrastructure and Google Calendar events as backup. It'…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-26 14:45:17
Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017)
(Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...)
#FootpathFriday #ForestFriday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-23 08:45:02
#WinterWonderland arrived early this year...
(From our #EveningWalk in the Ammergau Alps last night... 25-30cm fresh powder everywhere, -7℃, no people, but lots of animal tracks)
#SilentSunday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-26 08:30:03
One of our fave local places to go to for a walk in autumn. This year the colors were especially exquisite...
(Beech forests like these covered two thirds of Germany, but by now they've been dramatically reduced, not just due to logging. Also rising temperatures have been increasing their mortality and general vulnerability...)
#SilentSunday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-24 15:49:55
Just beam me back there again... Right now, exactly two weeks ago. Alone in the valley, on my way back to civilization. Alpenglow forming at the peaks opposite...😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-29 12:44:27
Wow, ARTE produced a beautiful concert with the inimitable Kruder & Dorfmeister. And it's not just some deck magic of their best tracks/remixes, but actual live versions including a full band for support...
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Konzerthaus de Vienne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXz1UqAuRg
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-29 11:23:07
RE: https://mastodon.social/@borkdude/115799677210560924
Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people i…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-21 07:01:05
Recursively subdividing/tessellating a hexagon with Catmull-Clark (made with unreleased thi.ng/geom-mesh pkg, anim is from March 2017)...
#TilingTuesday #Geometry #Subdivision
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-21 07:00:00
Four ways (of many) recursively subdividing/tessellating a pentagon (made with #TilingTuesday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-19 15:05:19
#ReleaseWednesday — Thanks to a user suggestion, I've added support for declarative canvas pixel density adjustments in the following packages:
- https://thi.ng/hiccup-canvas
-
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-01 12:17:22
Winter sunset extraordinaire...
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #WinterWonderland #Alps
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-20 09:44:59
Wow, just noticed #ThingUmbrella reached 3700 stars on GitHub — I'm celebrating... 🤩🫠
Heartfelt thanks to all of you who've been helping along the way (in any shape & form) and been supporting this work for all these years and across different programming languages/camps! Merci beaucoup!!! Esp. big Thank You's to fellow fediverse people/supporters from various stages…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-21 13:49:37
As I said previously, I do, do ❤️ ridges... This was six days ago, on almost the last day of autumn (meanwhile it's all white)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-28 13:13:16
The ability to schedule posts is really one my favorite https://phanpy.social features which I've been using a lot this year. 🙏 Other than lack of dev bandwidth/resources, not sure why the default Mastodon UI doesn't support it if it's actually part of the official API. There's an open issue about it sin…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-27 14:55:08
One of the most biting & memorable film monologues, inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado, and delivered by "Jefe" near the end of Ridley Scott's The Counselor:
"Actions create consequences, which create new worlds, and they're all different [...] and hitherto unknown to us. They must have always been there. [...] I urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-20 08:00:02
Early morning view from the supermarket carpark...
(Imst, October 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-22 20:55:25
Belated #MonochromeMonday / #MountainMonday: A moody winter day in the Ammergau Alps. A view down the snowed-in river bed of the Linder with the Notkarspitze summit catching the last light in the distance...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-19 16:03:09
Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-27 11:24:12
Came across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more generally the kind of mindfulness talked about in the post (here meaning thinking through & solving a problem yourself[1]) is now being openly discouraged by industry and forcefully delegate…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-26 21:08:15
Already shared this track/EP some time ago, but it just needs another round: 13 minutes of beautiful minimal, meditative slow-motion dub with an absolutely remarkable (and unforgettable) bass line to glue it all together...
Blamstrain - 4AM (2013)
https://soundcloud.com/juho/blamstrain
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-20 11:15:15
Taking The Red Carpet Path.
(Not often that I find myself in a place exuding such intense natural positive/friendly energy [and beautiful scents]...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-21 08:00:00
A Golden Morning At Piz Beverin.
(Luckily, the dense fog was just starting to lift when we arrived, revealing the silent spectacle beyond and the majestic peak...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-20 09:32:10
So am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-22 20:13:43
#EveningWalk, two hours ago...
(Photo credit: @…)
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-14 08:24:00
Published another couple of new versions of https://thi.ng/genart-api, mainly involving updates to the Layer (layer.com) platform adapter, adding config options and minor quality of life improvements (e.g. handling of private [aka artist-only] params)
I also updated the readme, clarifying the current versionin…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-20 20:20:17
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-18 13:18:43
#LazyWeb question regarding the dreaded NPM #GlassWorm or similar malware to harvest auth tokens:
To avoid a potential infection leading to harvesting the token usually stored in `~/.npmrc`, I changed that file's content to:
`//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}`
...…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-22 22:29:57
Prepping a digital negative of one of my old generative art projects (from 2008) for #Kallitype printing tomorrow. The form is actually _not_ 3D, but merely the time trace of a 2D physics sim of a single line (over hundreds of frames) and using spatial velocity deltas as metric for creating faux shading...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-25 20:03:57
The new Zygote issue 39 is featuring stunning art by Kate MccGwire[1] and articles about:
Forward Motion: Robert J. Full’s Career of Discovery
Science of Seeing: Plant It and They Will Come
Cutting Without Cutting: Lessons from the Sawfly
Interview with Arindam Phani and Seonghwan (Sam) Kim
Building with Biology
Turning Bio-Inspired Ideas Into Patents
Biomimicry in Architecture
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-19 08:17:14
First/last light, same day. Golden larches.
(From a hike on the last day of our recent roadtrip. The view in the second image is looking back at Hanauer Hütte, in front of Schneekarlespitze and (clipped) Dremelspitze)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-05 09:33:26
Been updating my personal Mastodon tooling to download and convert my bookmarked toots. Here's how little code is needed to download a single message and convert its HTML content into Markdown, all using these #ThingUmbrella packages:
- https://thi.…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-24 13:23:58
RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/115773722160154268
Easy! What's the worst that could happen here... 🫣 Just casually converting a 40 year legacy codebase to Rust (using "AI" of course): "Our North Star is ‘1 engine…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-23 12:48:31
Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-24 13:59:16
Okay, it seems classic NPM tokens already stopped working and so it's IMPOSSIBLE for me to release any new versions of my 210 projects/packages until they have implemented a solution which:
1) Doesn't require to manually setup a Trusted Publishing config for *every single package* or
2) They're lifting the arbitrary 50 packages per token limit for their new "granular" tokens (in addition to them already being severely time limited)
The current combined …
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-13 12:59:48
Maybe a good opportunity to illustrate the purpose of one of the more uncommon packages in #ThingUmbrella: The https://thi.ng/hex package provides hexadecimal formatters for a variety of word sizes (4-64 bits) and also a…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-09 16:55:09
Just pushed a new version of https://thi.ng/genart-api (v0.31.0) with these updates:
- (Art) platform adapters can now have an optional `.configure({...})` method to customize platform-specific behaviors. To ensure future portability of your artwork (between different art platforms), calls to this method shoul…