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"Donald Trump has Epstein DNA smeared all over him. He tries to hide who he is with concealer pancake make-up. It doesn’t work. We know who he is. He is Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend."
#trump #epstein
From: @…

Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

A row of not-so-purple purple coneflowers (everything I posted is color graded, but this is strongly color graded)
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling

no one is home so i'm cranking it up and ... uh oh ... that sounds BAD. do i need new speakers? sob! i've had these fishers since 1986. I don't think they were anything special back then, but they have grown on me. and oh no, new speakers are expensive. 😭
oh wait the balance settings all screwed up here ⚙️ just a sec 🛠️ and 🔊 ok everything is fine. phew.
my stereo is ok — just ok — but i don't care because all i do is play scratchy old LPs anyway.

I tend to post about the downsides of AI.
Here are two articles by people I highly respect which show a very positive point of view related to #AI:
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/…

My favorite thing in politics: Money isn’t everything.
Money matters way too much, but results like these remind us that self-government is still alive.

Some of our internal builds have been building with Xcode 26 betas since WWDC, but yesterday evening I went ahead and switched over everything else that isn't on a release branch, so we now have 50 targets building with beta 4.
The most common build issue we've run into in our code is declaring the size of a C array using `const int`, which we now declare as an `enum` as a stronger compile-time guarantee of its constant value:
- const int OFXMLIDLength = 11;
enum {…

At a CPB meeting, CEO Patricia Harrison said CPB is doing "everything possible" to secure funding for FY26 while also preparing for a possible shutdown (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/07/cpb-prepares-for-closeout-while-h…

So I think the idea is to keep dropping buttons and keys from laptop keyboards until everything is just a tablet? RIP dedicated pgup/pgdn keys.
meanwhile some hardware engineer was like, "keep that dedicated 'prt sc' key, I push that 500 times per day! never touch page down, tho.."

It’s only „pixel fucking“ if your client feedback is about chromatic aberration on pixel-sized specs of fairy dust. Everything else is just client feedback.
#VFXlife

Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insigh…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

There we go. The annual vacation migraine day hit. I'm bored and everything hurts. Is it OK to go to sleep at 6pm?

EDIT: I got the file I needed by now, via the web app.
The following rant is an exercise to the reader.
I can no longer save files in Element Desktop since the last upgrade due to smth smth Flatpak / desktop portal / ... cannot access anything policy bla. I get the idea that access to everything is bad, bad access to nothing is useless.
Anyway, so I gave the web version a try...
and it is unable to decrypt many messages, takes forever to load. I've been looking at th…

I hate it that without even noticing, I've somehow managed to agree to this option being on 😡 ->
How to stop Microsoft Edge from monitoring your Chrome browser history and settings
https://www.pocnetwork.net/tips/how-to-sto

How to stop Microsoft Edge from monitoring your Chrome browser history and settings | Poc Network // Tech
It shouldn't be surprising that any company might be interested in spying on you. Analytics is one of the many ways these companies thrive by learning everything they can about their customers. Including their browsing habits within other browsers, which is exactly what Microsoft Edge browser does. You'd think a browser would be limited to

This is very good. #Israel #Palestine #antisemitism

The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from pol…

They're putting blue food coloring in everything...
#AI

They're putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.

I'm feeling severely depressed right now, like the weight of everything is crushing me.
I did the right thing by reaching out to my dad, and he’s on his way to be with me.
I’m not okay, but I hope to see you all another day.
Thank you for being here.
❤😔
#ActuallyAutistic

It's a perfect early evening for our solar-system-themed kid's activities: little painted stars glowing in the sunlight at the face painting station, swirling planets painted on busy little arms, and of course everything is in motion at the bouncy castle!
@…

Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less: For fire suppression and cooling, location is everything https://phys.org/news/2025-08-trees-tropics-cool-suppression-cooling.html

Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less: For fire suppression and cooling, location is everything
More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study.

https://davidallengreen.com/2025/08/everything-is-going-to-be-alright-conflict-balance-and-resolution-in-law-and-policy/

“…everything is going to be alright” – conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy
22nd August 2025 * In his 1992 memoir Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby describes his experience of a crush in a stadium at a 1980 match (before the tragedies later on that decade): “…there was a forty-thou…

Okay, time to continue bashing. Perhaps this one project is just that bad, but Conan sounds like a complete antithesis of what a package manager is all about.
Well, this package insists to build its dependencies via Conan. Except it insists on really old versions that don't work with my glibc. So I need to start swapping dependencies.
Except it turns out Conan doesn't care much about resolving dependencies. So I actually need to start adjust versions of the dependencies of packages that it wants to build. And then it starts rebuilding other stuff and again everything fails because of incompatible versions.
And when I finally manage to find a working set, the actual project fails over protobuf version. After a long WTF-ing, I finally realize that it's complaining, because it somehow managed to mix the version of protobuf built by Conan and the external protobuf installed by Conda.
So yeah, great job. A package manager that doesn't really resolve dependencies but instead forces a dependency hell on you, and on top of that ends up mixing system packages with its own packages.

Cluster of white coneflowers in my favorite garden -- the Prairie garden in front of the Vet research tower
#flowers #photo #photography

Rayons is such a great musician. As I am reading a novel and listening to the soundtrack of the anime adaptation, I am getting murdered by feels. She nailed the soundtrack, she nailed the mood of the novels, everything is perfect. I know that wishing for more recognition for her is a bit off-tone given that she did the new era of Japan ceremony music too, but I feel like she deserves more public eye

Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/711621/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-acquisition

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Amazon is acquiring Bee, an AI startup that created a wrist-based device that listens to everything you say and creates AI-generated transcripts.

It is July and the best film of the year is still IMHO* Companion.
If you don't mind blood you should check it out. Best not to know anything else though I sort of knew too much but still really loved it.
*The H stands for "humble" (not "honest" though in this case I am) but it actually means that I am arrogant.
#Films

This is another horrifying statistic to shelve alongside the composition of global mammalian biomass:
• humans 34%
• livestock and pets 62%
• wild animals 4%
#science #biology #ecology

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image …Here are some highlights (lowlights): “If you drop all that old life into the container that we call Earth, and burn them, it turns out that what we burn in *1 year* weighs 100x more than everything alive today. Everything. All the whales, elephants, forests, insects, grass, crops, birds, fish, people, dogs and cats. Add up all the carbon in everything alive now, and still, in one year we burn a hundred times more.” #climateDiary

I made some progress on the Beat Bike!
The magnet mounted on the wheel passes a reed switch which is sensed by the control box (with a Raspberry Pi Pico) and then triggers the drum machine to step through the programmed sequence.
Still a lot of work to do, mostly mounting everything onto the bike, and some more code to write, but the proof of concept is all good.
#bikeTooter

Debian in 2025 is really relaxing. When I think back with horror to how I struggled with Debian in 1999 after switching from the well-functioning Red Hat Linux to Debian to get all my hardware to work halfway, and how easily everything works out of the box today without much fiddling, even with Debian Stable - a remarkable advance. 😎
If I had known this earlier, I would have long since returned to the quasi “mother” of all major distributions. But as we all know, man is a creature of…

This is a very good article regardless, but it makes a point widely ignored in the age of GenAI:
"While our results point to real growth in students’ intellectual abilities and dispositions, they do not capture everything philosophers mean by “intellectual virtue.” Intellectual virtue is not just a matter of possessing certain abilities but of using those abilities well: at the right times, for the right reasons, and in the right ways.
Our measures do not tell us whether phi…

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

Okay, everything is buttoned up again, only almost stripped a rack hole out. However, time to leave things alone and see if it catches fire.
#homelab #minirack

With everything else that is going on, it is always nice to see things growing, like these radishes that I planted last week!
#Radishes #HomeGarden

We learned how to search instead of memorizing everything. And it’s the same with AI today - there’s no need to know everything by heart when AI can handle that for us.
AI is here to stay, and even if it evolves or gets replaced by something better, the transformation never stops. It’s perfectly fine to not have all the answers in your head because we can focus on more important things.

It was a bit gray yesterday
#iceland

Our almost new car was delivered (from Goulburn) a couple of hours ago. Husband is sitting in it working out how everything in newfangled cars work.
Our old car, an almost 18 year old Getz, was a very basic manual. This one is a hybrid and has screens and cameras and such like. Husband has been YouTubing in preparation for its arrival.
It's been quite interesting looking for a new car for the past few months. I wanted an EV, husband definitely didn't, so we compromised o…

The phrase "LOWERING STANDARDS" along with "bypassing ethics" & "promoting injustice" are phrases that encapsulate everything Fat Nixon does.


#trump #fbi
From: @…

F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
The plan appears to be part of a broader effort to shift the agency’s focus from tracking national security threats to fighting crime. The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine …

It may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
@…
#ndwgoe

I'm so searchable, everything is searchable, why shouldn't it be like that?
This is public for crying out loud!

I think I said this when we ended up with Cheer cheese. https://mstdn.social/@alanpringle/115071998459121943

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

Looks like it is time for a new printer. The old one just won't connect. Everything I do and it says it is connected, but when I check the Linux and WIN10 boxes say it isn't there. It is an older machine (over 10 years old) so it owes us nothing.
Looking at a machine that will hook into the 5Ghz part of the network, mega tanks and decent reviews and... NOT HP!

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

Pesto goes with everything. Moin!

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.
Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like

The future of AI-driven development isn’t Agile. It’s XGH.
A lot of ink has been spilled over Large Language Models and their associated products being inserted into just about everything, often against the will of the product’s users. One of the areas where…

#EroticMusings 12: Recommend a tool (or more than one) or just tell us about your personal favourite. Could be a physical tool, a piece of software, a type of paper, a desk lamp, whatever you like.
In all honesty? MS Paint! When one or both test readers are unsure where which body part (or toy) goes and how everything is aligned, drawing stick figures and discussing matters goes a l…

There is no #ClimateCrisis and everything's fine.
That's why wherever I go, I see random water flood dam bags left over from the last sudden floods, in totally unexpected places. A few years I would be surprised to see a single one.

We have to move on... FreeBSD KDE is great, my various Slackware's as well but that laptop still needs...
So I relanded on AerynOS. Yes, awaiting new iso's, but you can already easily install, upgrade to CDN and new package sets and off you go. Follow the blogposts (and most of it is already automated if you do so).
This is very, very promising. Mirror speed is significantly up, new package-sets (I tried KDE and Cosmic minimal for now) are great and everything works. Even …

Does the fuckwit know he's contradicting himself?
"We've already been moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support across the region," he told reporters.
"Our constant message is de-escalate, and therefore everything we're doing, all discussions we're having are to do with de-escalation."
UK sends more RAF jets to Middle East as PM urges de-escalation - BBC News

UK sends more RAF jets to Middle East as PM urges de-escalation
Sir Keir Starmer said aircraft are being deployed amid intense fighting between Israel and Iran.

"Programming SCI Clusters Using Parallel CORBA Objects"
That's the title of one of the papers in the book "SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface" and pretty much everything in this title is vintage. #vintagecomputing #hpc

Quietschkäse daheim? Dies kann ich empfehlen: #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Halloumi With Corn, Cherry Tomatoes and Basil Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Seared cubes of halloumi get melty and soft on their insides and dark brown and a little crisp on the surface, making it almost impossible not to devour them all as they come out of the pan. But try to resist, because they’re even better tossed with a quick sauté of summer corn and tomatoes, seasoned with basil. Slivers of red onions, folded in raw at the end, add crunch and sweetness, while a squeeze of fresh lime makes everything tangy and fresh. Although this dish is at its most sublime m…

I think this tedious reviewer needs to see more "lush landscapes, epic struggles, pointed political allegories and delicious, disgusting monsters" in The Sandman ->
The Sandman season two review – Neil Gaiman’s emo drama is so pretentious it ruins everything | Television | The Guardian

A predictable scenario tomorrow is that Trump will repeat Putin’s “offer” which is unacceptable for Ukraine as everybody knows beforehand, but what is then the next step? Diplomats from the EU are no doubt frantically preparing next steps. The worst thing that can happen is that Trump starts distancing himself from Ukraine and Europe with regard to this war. That is simply too early, Europe is not ready for that, it will be interesting to see how everything develops…

Being on the spectrum myself, I’ve noticed just how much easier it is to be authentic around autistic females, they genuinely help me unmask and feel like myself more and more every day.
But when I’m around guys on the spectrum, it’s the opposite: I end up masking even harder, feeling embarrassed and on edge, like everything just gets more complicated.
Sometimes I’m just hit with these realizations, and it really does feel like autism is full of surprises, never really stops catc…

Survived a week long ‘holiday’ with the blended family. The chaos completely drained me. Got back late Saturday night and was wiped out yesterday so didn’t get around to unpacking. Now I’m wiped out on Monday morning with the house turned upside down with holiday stuff, sat at my desk trying to work. Except I can’t work because the house is a shit tip. I need to get everything back in order to enable my brain to function. So I’ll creep away from my desk and get it sorted.

#askfedi is there any way to block everything from Google with ublock origin? I know about no Google blocklist that only work with tools like pinhole.
#degoogle #ublockorigin

There’s a fascinating phone scam wave going on that I’ve seen it so far with Apple and now PayPal.
You get an 100% legit looking mail even with valid BIMI headers and everything, telling you about some expensive thing or subscription with a number to call to dispute it.
The main giveaway is that the recipient is always an address in zantigoo.com and not you. 1/2

Talking to Dragons
#teaching #ai I was talking with Jennifer Fletcher about the perils of AI for education and one of the points she made was that we should be careful not to anthropomorphize AI. I think that is true, but difficult. Humans anthropomorphize EVERYTHING, from pets, to cars, to …

This is a reference to the way sections are titled in Dawn of Everything, not a nod to LRRR, in case it was confusing.

Adobe Acrobat on MacOS just had an update that silently turns-on AI clips.
You need to go into Preferences and turn off "Show AI video cards" (and it is good to turn off everything else as well.)
This is especially important (to turn off the Acrobat AI gunk for people with fiduciary and professional secrecy and privacy obligations - like doctors, attorneys, accountants, etc.)

"Administrators don’t have the guts to ban cellphones but expect teachers to spend every day swinging wildly at the slithering AI tech we’re supposed to embrace"
https://sunny.garden/@himantra/115039571729383600

Goth attire is dark & has spiderwebs because it goes with everything & we haven't had the energy to go out in years and the spiders made a mess

The new SwissMicros DM42n came in and this thing is awesome and also built like a mini tank. Got the `db50x` firmware installed as well and it's gonna take some time to figure out where everything is at. However, absolutely loving this thing.
#calculator #hp

Digital Minimalism: Using One Device for Everything
https://theprivacydad.com/digital-minimalism-using-a-single-device-for-everything/
Using a smartphone for everything is technically a form of digital minimalism, but its constant physical …

Everything about K-POP Demon Hunters is awesome!
Probably going to watch it again this afternoon...

#BikiniBeauty
Season 6 Episode 5 "To Everything There Is A Season"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Foxy

Eyesight is so weird. My watch is 45mmx38mm. When I look at it, my brain filters out all the info that I am not looking for.
If I’m on a walk, I can instantly know how many miles I’ve gone, but everything else on the watch face isn’t noticed. I have to look again if I want to see the time!

So the plan for tomorrow is just stop being depressed about everything and somehow do it while not being in denial.

This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
🛰️🧪

Using Nix as a package manager made me move to NixOS full time. Got Hyprland set up, and everything is working amazingly.

I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

If the US starts participating in striking Iran the danger for further escalation is great. Because why would Iran in that case not attack oil fields, US bases in the Gulf states? Close the strait of Hormuz? It could then also try to unite everything that is extreme/radical in the muslim world against the US. What is missing is a scenario for de-escalation, also because Netanyahu is not interested in that is my impression.

everything is just religion again

I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter

Everything is more expensive in America & it's not even close.
Thanks Fat Nixon.

#Trump #Inflation
Original post:

#EroticMusings 7: Do you have a distinct style? Did you develop it intentionally? Do you want to change it?
I think that my choice of vocabulary, especially in the erotic passages, is quite unique. Also my tendency to start German sentences with "but" and my very own brand of gender neutral language, because German is everything but (unless you costumise it).
Some of …

I feel like computers are getting more like cars, or... how I view cars.
I do not need/want to spend a ton of money to get everything computerized car with ever sensor and camera and screen there is because I just don't think I need it or it's worth it for how much I drive.
I get that some people want that, and should probably have it, but I've got like 35 years of driving experience and I think I do okay.

No complaints...no complaints...complaining makes you lose followers so no complaints, everything is fine...

We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament

Hiroshi Mori's Saikawa&Moe series is so funny because both characters somewhat know what the other feels but the older guy is like "nope, I will play ignorant until the day I die, and I'll smoke as much as possible so that cannot be in a long time" and the younger girl is all "welp, I will be spiteful and jealous and I will definitely do everything in my power to tease you because I know of your weakness against watermelons"

All three nodes are installed. The "server room" is an absolute mess, but figured I'd snap a picture of the back of the minirack. I'll be cleaning up tomorrow, but for now: we are 100% back online here. Migrations work, iSCSI works...well, everything works. Very happy with how this has turned out thus far.
#minirack

This does say a lot about how easy it is to trick our brains into thinking that something is a person, just because they produce words.. I am quite surprised that the friends and family don't push back more though..
"‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots"

Crazy!
https://lemmy.wtf/post/25119238

keeping up with the discourse on x dot com

Do everything you can to protest tomorrow.
If you can't, flood the socials with NOKINGS because the media, petrified of angering Emperor Trump, is going to downplay & minimize the protests to "tell both sides".
#Protests #NoKings

Trump about Israel's attack on Iran. This man is sick/not well. Besides everything you can say about his opinions and strategy.
#Trump #Iran #Israel

Some thoughts:
- While the "mini" part of minirack might be debatable for this build, the footprint of my Proxmox cluster has become miniscule when compared to the size of three full-sized ATX builds.
- The Minisforum MS-A2s are very warm bois. Keeping the cables clear from behind the server nodes will pay off tons later as the hot air is unobstructed.
- Putting those massive power bricks into the bottom of the minirack is not going to work. I'm not sure exactl…

Coinbase rolls out DEX trading in its app for US users, excluding New York state, starting with assets on the Base network, with Solana support "coming soon" (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/334308/coinbase-roll…

Coinbase Rolls Out DEX Trading on Its App Starting With Base—And Solana 'Coming Soon'
The company is moving to become an "everything exchange," its CEO said.

Turns out North Korea doesn’t lie about everything, at least not the weather. Kim Jong Un upgraded their forecasting system, added real meteorologists to state TV, and pushed for accurate alerts to protect crops and people from floods and droughts.
Meanwhile, during Trump’s second presidency, Texas is underwater and the National Weather Service was struggling with staff cuts and balloon shortages. North Koreans got valid forecasts about their own country while Americans were stuck with…

I feel like people have forgotten what "analog" means. They're living in an analog — digital dichotomy, where everything that's electrical is "digital", and everything else is "analog", entirely ignoring the whole lot of analog electronic devices, or rather dumping them all in the category of "digital".
Perhaps we're lacking a good term for all the non-electrical devices.
#English

With regard to Ukraine the next step is very simple. Russia must stop attacking and advancing in Ukraine.
After that talks can start and other things are possible. The fact that Russia doesn't want to start with a cease-fire tells you everything you need to know. Putin can't live with a strong, prosperous and succesful Ukraine.
#russia

Did a quick test fit of one of the Minisforum MS-A2s and ran some of the cabling. I think this should turn out pretty clean and everything fits better than expected which is a good thing. The PSUs will go in the bottom 2U "compartment" without issue which I didn't run.
#minisforum #homelab

As Merz said it is all very simple, everything starts with a cease-fire for some time along current frontlines, Ukraine would support that. For Putin it is not attractive, if the war stops, problems at home for him will begin and Ukraine will quickly improve economically, with support of the EU.
#merz #ukraine

AV1 might take a ton of time to encode, but the results are awesome. I do need to take a look at the VMs though as I'm seeing a ~33% increase in encode times when compared to the previous nodes I was using. Either way, the minirack is still quiet and taking everything that's been thrown its way.
#homelab

Let's conclude the "checks&balances" of US democracy are truly gone, nobody can or will stop Trump in militarizing Washington DC. The rest of the world is watching the fascist dictator Trump in action.
Apparently city government is no longer relevant or in charge...Democrats in Congress don't lift a finger, they should walk out and obstruct everything in government they can....
#trump

Someday, I want to erase everything and vanish offline, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I’m sick of being trapped in this endless cycle of digital puppetry and mental sludge, where every click feeds some shallow algorithm designed to keep you hooked and dumbed down, turning people into another batch of screen-zombies chasing cheap hits and empty dopamine hits.
I want out of this rat race of constant noise and manufactured crises, where reality is warped into a carnival…

Trump literally fails in everything.
#trump

How Iran Strikes Put Trump’s Impotence on Full Embarrassing Display
All the reasons Trump is the opposite of a 4-D chess player are on brutal display in the Tehran rubble.

Looks like today should be the last day of NES work as the NESRGB mod is coming in today. Even better, the EuroSCART cable is coming in so I can test out the composite, S-Video, and RGB output from the console as well. I'm genuinely curious to see how different the PPU's composite output compares to the NESRGB's version. After everything is done, I'll get the blog post updated and published. Should be a fun day.

In a certain cultural segment of IT it is custom to call everything related to AI "garbage", "bullshit", just as stupid as calling AI truly intelligent and reasoning. More people need to be in the middle ground instead of in those extremes.
#AI #GenAI

#NES progress update: the NESessity v1.4 power/AV board with NESRGB support is finished, got everything soldered and it's ready to go. Still waiting some other parts to come in including the actual NESRGB. The ports from left to right: S-Video, RGB, 12V DC, stereo audio, and composite video. The long 8-pin header is where the some of the outputs of the NESRGB connect to the video outputs o…

The difference between Ukraine and Russia attacks is clear. Ukraine hits primarily military targets, Russia primarily civilian targets.
We should keep doing everything we can to help Ukraine defend it's civilian centers.
#ukraine #russia