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“The future isn't here, it's just not evenly distributed. Prisoners are the ultimate early adopters of the technology that the richest, most powerful, most sadistic people in the country's corporate board-rooms would like to force us all to use.”
- @… on the horror that is prison-tech companies gouging the people who can afford it the least. 🙁<…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheFolkShowWithMarkRadcliffe
Richard Thompson:
🎵 Singapore Sadie
#RichardThompson
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uJWvweeyPUoNLfrUgzXdp
https://richardthompsonnwr.bandcamp.com/track/singapore-sadie

The good folks I liked from twitter are pretty evenly split between blue sky and mastodon. A tiny handful are on threads and I never see them anymore. Some are still on twitter and that is just sad.

wondered this morning about asymmetry of "puppy" and "kitten" in mastodon, but not sure how to get good data. search on mastodon.social as first approximation:
- accounts matching "puppy" seem mostly humans with some puppy identity
- accounts matching "kitten" are more evenly split, less than half are humans with some kitten identity
- posts matching "puppy" are dominated by Kristi Noem right now, need to search some other time…

Went to pick up something from a farmer in my state. I got there and there was a big German Shepherd, who was an absolute doll, and a herd of cats and chickens that the shepherd *would not approach*. It was adorable. Many scruffs were given :-)
#FarmAnimals
#Caturday

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Richard Thompson:
🎵 Singapore Sadie
#NowPlaying #RichardThompson #newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uJWvweeyPUoNLfrUgzXdp
https://richardthompsonnwr.bandcamp.com/track/singapore-sadie

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Ibibio Sound Machine:
🎵 Mama Say
#IbibioSoundMachine #newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eysEvoeefNW6HlV46SPE3
https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/mama-say

That #Casio light spreader mod is insanely cool.
Sadly however it is really hard to capture how it looks to the naked eye with the camera on my phone since that is overly sensitive to light. Here is a photo in a fairly light room that gives you some idea. The main thing is that the light is spread surprisingly evenly.
Financially it might not be worth it when you could buy another …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09783 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

MementoHash: A Stateful, Minimal Memory, Best Performing Consistent Hash Algorithm
Consistent hashing is used in distributed systems and networking applications to spread data evenly and efficiently across a cluster of nodes. In this paper, we present MementoHash, a novel consistent hashing algorithm that eliminates known limitations of state-of-the-art algorithms while keeping optimal performance and minimal memory usage. We describe the algorithm in detail, provide a pseudo-code implementation, and formally establish its solid theoretical guarantees. To measure the efficacy…