@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at keystone #berkeley, the 1st gig since the tragic death of road manager & family member rex jackson, husband of sound engineer betty cantor, the week before. also, hunter & garcia on back-to-back nights at the same venue, maybe for the 1st time. soundboard (maybe made by betty?):
@cdarwin@c.imLaunching Saturday, Aug. 1,
which would have been Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's 84th birthday,
"Dead After Death" will delve into the Dead's music and the culture built around it
through mediums such as podcasts, photography and digital articles.
The series will be hosted by NPR journalists Felix Contreras and Isabella Gomez Sarmiento.
The two longtime Deadheads plan to feature interviews with high-profile Deadheads such as Bravo TV hos…
@vform@openbiblio.socialDas Fingerprinting ist schon krass. Bzw. auf dem Handy dachte ich, naja ok - so überraschend sind die Details nicht. Aber dass es auf dem PC implizit laufendes MySQL erkennt, überrascht mich nun doch.
"Your browser can't read localhost responses, but it can *time* the connection. Port 3306 accepted a TCP connection in a way a closed port never would (296ms vs the instant refusal of a dead port)."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAMC and Netflix sign a five-year, $500M, non-exclusive global deal for all Walking Dead spin-offs; AMC will get the original series for the first time in 2027 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJohn Niland, three-time All-Pro guard who helped Cowboys win their first Super Bowl, dead at 82 https://www.nfl.com/news/john-niland-three-time-all-pro-guard-who-helped-cowboys-win-their-first-super-bowl-dead-at-82…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social“#Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.” A trite enough joke, but true. I’m reading “The Last Neanderthal” by Ludovic Slimak. He thinks he’s found small bits—some teeth and some finger bones—of what may be, if not the last, then one of the last, of the Neanderthal peoples. He has a hell of a time pinning it down. Flint stone blade techniques had discernible styles and progressions that lasted 10s of 1000s of years, because “that’s the way dear departed dad & grampa did it.”
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@fortune@social.linux.pizzaTerence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well the horned head:
We poor lads, 'tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time.
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukSuper Metroid: nearly dead
I've been waiting for this to be on special offer since I got my Wii U. The first Metroid game I played was Fusion on the GBA, which pre-dated this blog. Metroid Zero Mission was completed in 2005, after an intensive playing time. I've since wanted more of the 2D games, but there wasn't an easy way to get either the second game or Super Metroid - I have a feeling that the latter may have been on the Wii Virtual Console but I never thought…
@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago today, the grateful dead return to the studio, probably making a demo for clive davis & arista records, where they’d sign 6 weeks later. tape is labeled club front, but that wasn’t ready for studio duty just yet. more likely his master’s wheels, where garcia & the dead spent much time in that era (formerly alembic & before that pacific high, where they recorded "workingman's dead" & other projects).
@Laur12@social.linux.pizzaJust today got the Type C mod for Vita 1000, and after several hours (and some accidents) i finished it. As a recomendation all i can say is: please use good quality flux, the thing i got from Ali made me spend much more time than i should have.
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzauh! its #windowFriday already in the UK.
i been playing with Supercollider. time goes like 500 minutes an hour messing with that shit. here's some snaps.
goodnight.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThere was a dead cat in the road on the ride to work today. I took the time to stop and drag it into the grass.
Then a half mile up the road there was a dead raccoon in the road.
More victims of vehicular violence.
I sometimes forget that so many animals also die at the hands of car drivers. 😢
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI've just reserved the new Miss Marple from the library, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley. I've been disappointed by some books that take a dead author's characters, but have read a couple of crackers recently so am going to give this one a whirl. I can also recommend Longbourn by Jo Baker, P&P below stairs and really well done, and The Golden Hours by Louisa Young, EJH's niece and a continuation of their own family history, The Cazalet Chronicles
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaGonna rustle up some posset and bring it over to the neighbors! I wonder if I'll make it out of there without them mentioning Donald Trump or getting worked up about some perceived injustice to Britain perpetrated by the Americans (all Americans, individually and collectively, living and dead) over the last 180 years. Last time I got to hear about how unfair the Anglo-American Loan Agreement was. What a joy!
If not for the fact that I have to live across from these people for conce…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe already dead mini-asteroid is now called 2026 RW1: #impact. Consequently, the object is not being added to the list of past impactors at this stage. This decision may be revised if confirmation is received."
@cdarwin@c.imEvery cell in your body has the potential to get smarter.
I don’t mean this metaphorically, or in a “body keeps the score” kind of way.
I mean that if lab-coated biologists took a sample of your skin and very carefully manipulated the cells inside it, they could actually make a brain.
They do it all the time.
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world.
Soon, they could outthink neural networks.
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIn the meantime, #GitPython, the package that used to be dead (because the author is busily working on their next great thing) is now slopping out 4 "security" releases a week, as their #slop machine is busily fixing unintended variable expansion in every single URL they call. Unfortunately, they probably don't have enough tokens to fix them all at once, so instead all downstreams have to deal with the churn of endless security releases. Or the brain to figure out that maybe they could just disable variable expansion by default and solve them all at once.
It's truly a great time to be a #Python packager.
#NoAI #NoLLM
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThe crisis of software development comes from two contradictory rules:
- Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we must only learn by shipping
- There's no time for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time
Bosses thought #AI could break this contradiction. But synthetic insights and vibe code don't actually enable faster discovery & delivery. They are a (poor) alternative to doing these things AT ALL.
#tech #softwareDevelopment #UX #UXDesign #llm
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Bodines:
🎵 Long Time Dead (BBC Janice Long session)
#TheBodines
https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/track/long-time-dead-bbc-janice-long-session
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#AI is a zombie virus.
There were so many #FreeSoftware projects that were dead and buried with honors, or at least on life support. It was unfortunate. Sometimes it involved a lot of downstream scaffolding to keep everything working. But at least we had warm memories of them and respect to their authors.
And now slop virus is taking them over, one after another. It's pulling them out of their graves or hospital beds, deformed and mutilated. All the warmth is gone. They have no purpose anymore, beyond feeding.
Sometimes this is done by kids who don't understand the first thing about the project they're defiling, who just want to get credit for something important. However, more often this is done by their original maintainers, who not only don't seem to realize their prime time is over, but who are many years detached from honest software development work.
#NoAI #NoLLM
