@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-15 13:32:52
Making the Case For – and Against – Raiders Seeking Another First-Rounder https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-making-case-for-against-seeking-another-first-rounder
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-15 13:32:52
@joe@toot.works2026-03-12 17:54:51
I wrote https://jws.news/2024/hp-z4-g4-workstation/ two years ago about buying an old workstation off eBay to try running local LLM models. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but between tariffs, hardware shortages, and my own lack of cash, I think that it is going to be another two years before I get to try again.
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-04-15 19:25:55
I have long since learned, when playing games like wordle, that my brain will suggest candidate words that we frequently use but that aren't standard English, like _quine_, _crore_ or _migra_ (Scots, Nepali/Hindi, Mexican respectively). So I filter them out, or try to. This evening I saw an obvious solution but filtered it out as it was the name, in Hindi, of a vegetable.
After another five rather frustrating minutes of seeking solutions, I wrote it down anyway and then realised i…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-03-14 22:01:39
Apparently we approved another bunch of tidal stream energy projects last month; it's only 20MW capacity, to be installed over a few years; but it's a pretty high price to try and get it going;
https://www.marineenergycouncil.co.uk/news
@timjan@social.linux.pizza2026-02-14 08:05:47
At this rate I might have to give up my bike commute because of lack of permissible bike parking in/near my office. :( I'm gonna try another week or two before I give up, but...
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-11 20:31:25
With brash Kyler Murray plan, Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell is doubling down on himself https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108529/2026/03/11/kyler-murray-vikings-kevin-oconnell/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-02 09:56:11
Content warning: Madness
As I emerge uncertainly from another sustained period of #madness, I realise (again) that I largely use the #PostScarcitySoftware project as self-prescribed anti-suicide therapy. It's sufficiently hard that it has my foggy brain working at full stretch, and sufficiently huge that there&…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-31 06:36:48
The Trump administration has moved to acquire industrial buildings in at least eight states.
DHS bought two this month:
one in Maryland for $102 million
and another in Arizona for $70 million.
This month ICE officials toured this 920,000-square-foot warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri.
The city council passed a resolution to try to block new detention centers in the city. (Port KC)
One industrial building the federal government plans to overhaul into an immigrant d…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-28 21:21:06
Along those lines, I'm gonna take my own advice and work on some writing. Just finished sewing my pants, gonna switch to writing after kids are in bed tomorrow.
I've been in a writing group and I got some great feedback on a couple of things I wrote. I'll probably re-publish with updates soon. Also gonna try to finish another project I've had in my head for a bit, we'll see how it goes.
Good luck to everyone, see you all when I'm done.
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-01-26 03:32:37
Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)
@unixviking@social.linux.pizza2026-03-25 13:41:09
@pre@boing.world2026-03-13 22:35:16
One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-03-26 09:02:27
Just tried out the GrapheneOS duress PIN function. It briefly says "incorrect PIN," then continues running for a second (you can input another digit in that time), and suddenly powers off. When it is powered on again, it looks normal until the GrapheneOS logo is displayed, and then shows the below screen. Once you choose the "Factory data reset" option and confirm, the phone boots into the normal firstboot user enrollment flow.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-04-10 00:45:00
it gets worse: I download the official MS WinZip and it isn't until I try to use it that it demands a credit card. So I try another, fills my screen with ads. A third opens with a fanfare of Praise Me Send Me Money and ALSO does not compress apostrophe. Who the fuck ARE these programmers???
I will use sneakernet instead. Would have been so nice to just use this spare drive, very nearly fits, but there's a ton of little apostrophe'd files uncompressed.
@pre@boing.world2026-04-06 22:04:30
Content warning: Watching newly discovered old Doctor Who
Daleks, in the future, are teaming up with the heads of the other galaxies to overtake the Solar system and destruct time, and the Doctor's only got Steven (a pilot from the 24th Century) , Katerina (a slave girl from ancient Troy), and a local soldier to help.
The guardian of our Solar system has betrayed us to the Daleks! He's mined 50 years worth of Terrainium secretly from Uranus to power the core of the Dalek Time Destructor.
The Daleks say "Execute" when they have found someone guilty of negligence, vs just when they are a pest to be exterminated.
The doctor nips in, under disguise, to investigate the council, steals the Terranium and the president's ship, then gets the team stranded on the Solar system's prison planet.
The prisoners try and raid the ship but the Doctor has set a trap and electrocutes the invaders, just in time for them to fix the ship and escape.
Only one prisoner has stowed away on board.
[Then there's a episode still missing, in which apparently Katerina wrestles the prisoner into the air-lock and they are both spaced. The Doctor and Peter return to Earth to warn about the Daleks.]
They arrive on Earth (future earth remember, but all the computers have giant tape drives and knobs) as an experiment on mice is in progress.
I guess the experiment was to try and make mice turn into negative images screaming in slow-motion and then bounce up and down as they are transmitted through space many light years away. And the Doctor, Steven, and some security guard chasing them get sent along too. With the Daleks following on in their ships.
The Daleks exterminate the mice 😔
There's 8 ft tall invisible creatures on this planet so the mice were gonna be in trouble anyway. The Doctor beats them off with sticks before being apprehended by Daleks.
[Then there's four still-missing episodes in which the Doctor and Steven steal a Dalek ship, trick the Daleks with a fake Terrainium core, meet the Monk who attempts revenge, and celebrate Xmas on a silent film set. All with Daleks giving chase]
The security guard and the Monk are still with them in the next archived episode, when they are in a Egyptian tomb for some reason and the companions including the monk are captured.
The doctor faces the Daleks to negotiate his companions' return.
At the hostage exchange the Doctor hands over the core as the ancient Egyptians attack the Daleks. It's a slaughter of course. All the Egyptians die, but they made a good distraction and the Doctor skips off.
He's knicked the Monk's Tardis' directional compass so the Monk goes to who knows what random place now.
The Doctor aims to try and materialize the Tardis at the point the Daleks are likely to use that Terranium, to take over the galaxy and destruct time, but seems like the Tarids fails.
[And then there's another two still-missing ones in which the security guard ages to death in a time-mishap, and an entire planet is wiped of all life to thwart the Daleks. The Doctor and Steven lament the senseless deaths of the three of them that they cared about.]
Crikey. I guess they used to bounce around in time and space more during a story when it was twelve 20 minute episodes. That Prison Planet was there only to be landed upon, have the Doctor electrocute some people, and then leave with a stowaway. The 8ft tall invisible creatures are in like 2 scenes.
Incredible body counts. Just absolute carnage compared to most New Who.
The background of mega-death while the protagonists lament the death of only their own reminds me of the way the contemporary news will focus on one marooned soldier over the deaths of hundreds. Humanize only their own.
The Monk is a good candidate for a return. He's got this great Frankie Howerd like mischievous campness. Exited this story with a randomizer on his tardis vowing revenge.
#watching #tv #doctorWho #TheDaleksMasterPlan