@yaxu@post.lurk.orgI'm going back to that London for a party "algorave decelerate" on 16th Sept 2026, it's going to be really good
https://gel.now/events/849
Top lineup of live coders! Too many in fact so we decided to make some software to switch between them automatically so we stay EXACTLY on time, 20 …
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toSo I just started re-reading a #novel series that I first read over a decade ago and re-read every few years. We all have our comfort reads.
When I quit #smoking 7? years ago I discovered something fascinating - as my sense of taste and smell came back, my culinary tastes changed. Turns out I'm not a fan of …
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialAnother jolly 10-hour train ride, returning back - Vienna -> Munich -> Essen, I'm at ⇔.
Choo choo! 🥳✨🚂✨
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldCountry Roads Taking Me Home
I'm back in West Virginia for the annual family reunion. Short post this week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/country-roads-taking-me-home/
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"What's your favourite emoticon or emoji and why?" - How can you ask me to choose amongst my babies??! 😭😭😭
There are some emojis I actively avoid for visceral reasons (couldn't explain why) and I'm partial to 😅 , 💪 , and 🤷♀️ , because they're just so useful. But I'd probably pick the otter floating on its back, because I think that's just design genius 🦦 :aawwww: #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgProject I've been dreading for the past couple of weeks… One of the ⅛" jacks was damaged, so I emailed Morningstar, after trying to solder it back on, just in case they had any suggestions. Well, they very helpfully offered to just send me the main logic board since it "took no skill to replace" 😅
After remembering to make a backup of everything, I launched into it, and I'm very happy to say that a couple of hours later everything is working as intended!
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comI'm watching Abbott Elementary 2x01 "Development Day" #AbbottElementary
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaGot tired of having to disassemble my entire-ass computer to get to the second SSD (it's a Streacom DB4 passive cube; everything is an ordeal), so I implemented an external PCIe disk attachment point around the open rear of the case. Now any SSD on a standard PCIe carrier can be swapped out easily!
Many years ago, I discovered that one of my ASUS 2nd-gen Core i motherboards would let me hotswap PCIe devices, under Linux anyway. I don't think I'm brave/dumb enough to try tha…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaTest fitting the first ammo can saddle bag on the Super Meteor. They'll be painted either black or gray, haven't made up my mind yet. And I'm going to add some "Made Like a Gun" badges since that was the company slogan way back in the day.
Rear seat is also off, and I think I'll be putting a small luggage rack there instead. Have to decide if I'll be buying that or fabricating it. There's a few different solo seat "finishers" that are just a…
@hex@kolektiva.socialHonestly, I really like writing code. As I'm writing, I think about ways to put things together, ways things could change. I run across awkwardness that reveals internal design problems. Just sitting and writing code puts my mind in a really calm and creative place.
An LLM just slams out code. A lot of the time it's garbage, but it's never creative. It's never making something beautiful or challenging. And if you're using an LLM to generate code you're missing that.
Now, there's plenty of boiler-plate code that can be automated effectively. But even automating that that is suppressing a signal.
Code doesn't exist to make computers go. It exists to communicate what the computer is doing. If you just want to make a computer go, you write assembly (or perl, I guess). But if you want to communicate ideas then you use a language that facilitates that.
Programming is a creative process, and statistics aren't creative.
I've been on medical leave for a while and I'm finally getting back to getting my feet under me (which is also why I haven't written human language stuff in a while). Last week I spent a bunch of time coding and I didn't realize how much I missed it, or how much I got out of it.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI remember back before I biked to work but I wanted to bike to work.
Today would have been one of those days where I was like "I'm too tired, didn't sleep well, my body is sore, there's no *way* I could bike to work today" and yet...
I biked to work today.
In a way, that's the exact kind of day I *should* bike to work.
#BikeTooter
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI have another fun project idea that I'm not going to realize.
What I'd love to have is a heat map of "how soon can I get there". One where I select my train station, and get a map of all train stations I can reach within N hours, each marked with the earliest arrival time and colored by how late I'll get there. Including all the reasonable transfers.
Say, the first train from here goes to Konin, so I get its arrival times marked on all stations towards Konin. Then, I can transfer to a few trains in Poznań, so I get their arrival times on their respective stations. And then all the transfers there, and so on.
So what I'd get is a pretty colorful map, with arrival time getting later with distance, except for major stations where IC trains get earlier than suburban trains, and then backwards from major stations where I can get via IC and then change into suburban going back. It would be such a cool experiment!
And honestly, I could start playing with it even with a partially automated tool: one that lets me select a given train and updated the map if it arrived somewhere earlier than I had before.
#rail
@publicvoit@graz.socialWhy I'm Stepping Back From the #YouTube Grind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHivqiEr_NI
«I’ve made the decision to step back from the YouTube grind. Between preparing for a major health upda…
@cdarwin@c.imLinus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz'I'm coming back': How P.J. Locke got a second chance at football https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/i-m-coming-back-how-p-j-locke-got-a-second-chance-at-football
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHaving protocol decodes overlaid on your FPGA ILA traces is an absolute game changer, I'm never going back to the Vivado ILA lol.
I need to do a bit more polishing of the UI and improve some workflows and probably add a JTAG and Ethernet transport and some other things like adding proper trigger comparators instead of hard coding external trigger only.
But using ngscopeclient for FPGA debug for just a couple of days is already making me wonder what took me so long to do this…
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… I'm taking it back on the 26th. This is the double-decker shuttle, I've only taken the single-decker one. What they are not showing is the 1 hour reporting time and the interminable line for border controls, both French and UK, along with possible security cecks. On my way in, the trains were delayed over 1 hour and the wasted time at Eurotunnel was 1/3 of the total …
@raiders@darktundra.xyzIt’s been mind over matter for Jermod McCoy on the road back to playing football https://www.raiders.com/news/it-s-been-mind-over-matter-for-jermod-mccoy-on-the-road-back-to-playing-football
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotMy dad's just back from an afternoon out and checked the Scottish football results. He thumped his desk so hard at a certain 3-0 scoreline - I'm not going to say whether in joy or pain, I'm not that stupid - that he dislodged something in his computer and @… had to ride to the rescue 😄
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBo Nix feeling great, won't let ankle limit mobility: 'I'm going to be as athletic as I can be' https://www.nfl.com/news/bo-nix-feeling-great-won-t-let-ankle-limit-mobility-i-m-going-to-be-as-athletic-as-i-can-be
@jon@henshaw.socialZero complaints about my office today.
I'm on the back porch at my parents' overlooking Pikes Peak in Colorado. It's a long stay dealing with family stuff, and I still need to get work done, so I'm making the best of it.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIt's summer holiday time and we're back on the train, this time in 5 changes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via Hamburg - so far (🤞) mostly on time. I'm astonished too. So let's try not to curse it.
I had planned board games, reading books, having a picnic and photo sorting for this trip. But work is unfinished and since leaving at 6am I've managed to finish two reports, clear some emails and now it's time to look at budgets.
Annoying to work on holiday but everyone else is on a screen too and at least this way I can catch up.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsBack when I was diagnosed with #diabetes, I've found two apps to help me. Both were proprietary.
The first one came from the glucometer's manufacturer, and it featured the ability to copy its readings over Bluetooth. It also had a pretty useful bolus calculator. However, it was also annoying in a number of ways: it required an account with all the implied data sharing, was premiumware (though using their glucometer implied a free "pro" version), was quite childish in design, didn't respect disabled animations or dark theme.
The second one was an independent Polish app to compute carbs from meals. It wasn't perfect, but it had a rich database of products and quite a few convenient features (like copying meals or calculating carbs based on recipes). Unfortunately, the authors went full way into AI hype, and while I didn't use any of the "AI" features (they were premiumware anyway), the app itself was becoming increasingly crappy.
Eventually, this motivated me to look for a new app. I've settled for #Diaguard. It's just got the basics: meal composition and computing carbs, plus letting me log blood sugar and insulin doses manually. It used to have a bolus calculator before I used it, but it was removed over legal concerns. Still, it's open source, it's nice, it's got no crap and it respects the dark theme. And honestly, given that I've already reached the point of overriding bolus calculator, I've figured out it's enough for me.
In fact, it's so "enough" that I'm not even using it regularly. I mean, if my blood sugar is predictable and my meals are predictable, there's no reason to waste time logging them. The app is there to assist me when I need it, not force me to use it.
I still keep the two other apps installed. The first one in case I had doubts over insulin doses and wanted to use the bolus calculator. The second one over my database of meals; though I had already exported it, so I just need to figure out if the export is complete enough.
#Android
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukI'm told that you can get some very weird behaviour from the latest #ai model from #anthropic. Say "See the below". Then leave a blank or line of dashes, then something maybe hinting at what it shouldn't do. It responds with strange fragments of text.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI was feeling unwell this morning but was stern with myself and went out to get on with a little work in the wood, measuring up the frame for my new workshop. But I slipped and fell my length into a pile of fallen timber covered in brambles... I'm not really hurt, but I'm sore and bloody, and I'm going back to bed.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaI'm playing back to back first Outer Wilds and then the last of us part 2, and oh boy I have opinions.
The last of us is beautiful to look at, has a well crafted and tearful story, deeply developed characters, and a lot of other nice things, BUT it's just boring to play. I'm going to finish it because I want to see how it ends, but it's just a churn of the next bandit camp or infected area to pass trough. Stealth or shoot. Not particularly interesting or engaging.
…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI'm seeing an odd rendering (?) glitch on mastodon at the moment - *sometimes* when I mouse over someones @example link the text in that toot 'jumps' slightly and then goes back just for a few frames; I'm not sure if it's mastodon version, firefox, or the phase of the moon.
(Firefox 152.0/Fedora/x86)
@stefan@gardenstate.socialuh.. wow... on ubuntu 24 every time my nvidia driver updates all my flatpacks stop working? I need to know to run some update?
Again, I'm not switching back to windows, but for 99% of people "my app will not open" is pure nightmare fuel that would make them hate linux forever.
TBH without the help of an LLM i probably would also give up.
#ubuntu
@padraig@mastodon.ie @azonenberg@ioc.exchangeNew look!
I'm actually surprised this turned out as well as it did considering i couldn't see the shutter button on the phone camera lol, much less the screen.
This was an expensive mistake, I spray painted some stuff a while back and forgot to put a sacrificial cover over the respirator face shield. Had to replace it and the new one came with a protective covering to keep it from being scratched during installation so I thought I'd take a pic
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThat time in 2014 when I won a chicken coop in a raffle, but there were no ziptrucks available and it didn't fit in my friend's car - so I biked it home. I just happened to be wearing a #Seattle #DisasterReliefTrials t-shirt at the time.
@cdarwin@c.imIt's Dr. Mariah Lancaster.
The other day, a 26-year-old man was shot and killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine.
He was on his way to work.
Congress is funding this
- I'm running to pull back every dollar of it.
It's time to abolish and prosecute ICE.
To change our politics,
we have to elect New Leaders
Please Donate
>>
@roland@devdilettante.com"The boy said, "Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding"
https://c.im/@msbellows/116904…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzIt’s been mind over matter for Jermod McCoy on the road back to playing football https://www.raiders.com/news/it-s-been-mind-over-matter-for-jermod-mccoy-on-the-road-back-to-playing-football
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaI just pre-ordered a THEA1200. I opened and closed the window twice before I pulled the trigger. It was hitting a certain memory I just couldn't resist. I miss when computing was fun. I don't have to go back THAT far (I had the A500 last years of HS and first years of college), but still, I have to go back a few years to the last time I really liked going into work. Lately its just a slog. I'm hoping a little trip down memory lane with a retro computer will spark some interest …
@sherold@mastodon.onlineI'm now officially followed by Charles Darwin which secretly gives me hope that I might, after all, be a legitimate member of this species in some way.
If that's what one desires.
#screenshots
@gray17@mastodon.socialMy dad, brother, mom, and me at the US bicentennial. I vaguely remember this was some celebration at Valley Forge National Park in PA. We were living in NJ at the time, so we're posed in front of the NJ wagon.
As a kid who was not allowed to have internet, I didn't know much about the world back then. but I'm quite sure the world is a better place today, despite all the fuckery going on right now.
I mean, we were breathing leaded gasoline, among other things.
@hex@kolektiva.socialSome old white dude decided to jump all over yelling "Ackchyually, no one forced you to buy a car!!", and I'm just blocking. This shit is so easy to research. Like, yeah, people were forced to buy a car by minimum parking zoning that spread out cities, mass transit being (very intentionally) destroyed, and giant cars that murder people. There are actual laws that very intentionally made things worse, and then there's the intentionally created prisoner's dilemma of ever expanding car sizes.
This shit is extremely easy to research. At this point I'm just assuming it's trolls or the type of people who would be like "but no one has *proved* smoking causes cancer" back in the 90's. Yeah, that was a thing, and they sounded *just fucking like these people today.*
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineDoes anybody have a suggestion for a nice "experience" somewhere around the Brenner/Bayern or southern BaWU/Lake Constance?
I'm driving through there with the kids and we're gonna need to stop for the night, and I'd like to do something like fossil/rock hounding, or visiting a nice place or anything that won't cause the 9yos to say "this is boring" and go back to listening to audiobooks.
@tschfflr@fediscience.orggrad school friends are on their way back after visiting and now *I* feel like I'm jetlagged 😅
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comI'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4x16 "The Thankful Death (2)" #JoJosBizarreAdventure
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers RB MarShawn Lloyd: 'I'm ready to play as much as they want me to play' https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-rb-marshawn-lloyd-i-m-ready-to-play-as-much-as-they-want-me-to-play
@ajid77@social.linux.pizzaI'm back! And right now I'm using tinycore on my 4gb ram or Intel Celeron processor #lol
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaFinally, I'm finishing a release of unreleased works from 2006 to present.
All in all, I had about 20 hours of music to sort through.
For many of us, material we really like gets left off of albums because it doesn't fit their flow or feel. Given life's unpredictability, it seemed better to share this work than not to. And there's other reasons, which I'll post once it's done. But writing this now so I'll commit and not back out. :)
(Don't …
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgTwo observations:
- WiFi is notably slower over the German border
- Cloud storage and working in the cloud is a pain.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJoe Milton Didn't Hold Back About 'Shocking' Cowboys Cut: 'I'm Still the Best QB' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/joe-milton-didnt-hold-back-shocking-dallas-cowboys-cut
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaNew PSU in and it's smol. The case should be in here soon and I can get this build back online. Also not pictured, I installed a 2TB NVMe drive in the M.2 slot on the back of the motherboard.
#steamMachine #diy
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizzaI keep coming back to ART, it is just so much easier to get a good starting point compared to Darktable.
The controls in Darktable feel more intuitive and it is cool that you can customize the keybindings.
But for the edits themselves I often feel totally lost in Darktable and like I'm making things worse with each edit while with ART I seem to get results that are at least consistent and predictable.
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialMaybe the right move now is to watch Empire Strikes Back. I'm sure if I watch that movie I'll get into the zone and I'll be able to do all the things I need to do.
Empire and then a shower, of course, *then* I'll start. After I have dinner, because I'll be hungry by then. Oh! I forgot about this open tab!
...and this is my Flawless Productivity System.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI'm gonna be honest. Back when the Milwaukee DSA had a vote as to whether we should endorse Hong (Jan? Feb?) I was all-in, but was not convinced she'd make it this far.
But I was operating under the belief that even if she could not win, it was important to back her, and have her in the race to help push other candidates to the left.
We're a week out from the primary election and things are looking damn good right now for Hong.
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaI'll be getting my main laptop back soon, on which—for reasons that aren't relevant here—I've had to temporarily install Windows.
Now I'm faced with the dilemma of choosing a distro. Since my ThinkPad runs Arch Linux, I'm wondering if it's time to reinstall Fedora.
What I do know for sure is that it's time to give Wayland and Hyprland a try, after years of using i3wm.
@scott@carfree.cityI once had a doctor who insisted my ailment was because I'm vegan. So I took blood tests to check my B12 and other nutrients vegans can be deficient in. Everything was in a normal range. Went back to the doc to move onto the next hypothesis. She said "Well, it may be normal but it's on the low side of normal" and reiterated as we sat in her office on the 14th floor of a downtown highrise that vegan diets were not part of the "evolutionary environment." I found a d…
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaAfter finishing the very good Firered - Rocket Edition (better story than any of the main games) I'm diving right into the next ROM-Hack: "Heart & Soul" which is basically an enhanced take on the the Second Gen based on GBA.
And I really think I can't go back to the official versions, H&S just had so many quality of life improvements:
- autorun
- shortcut for catching
- exp. share for whole team
- trade evolutions evolve by level
-…
@cdarwin@c.imMy mother brought me to this country from Peru as a young boy.
She always told me that we need to work hard, give back, and help our community,
because that is what it means to be an American.
When she died of COVID-19,
I promised I would fight like hell for every family like ours.
In 2022 my community sent me to Congress - the first openly LGBTQ immigrant ever elected - to do just that.
I’m Robert Garcia – now the top Democrat on the House Ov…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
@hikingdude@mastodon.social#footpathFriday , I'm back! here with a beautiful path that we walked last year in the #schwarzwald .
#eineSpurWilder
@yetiinabox@todon.nlI have now installed #FreeBSD on
-- a Dell Latitude 5320
-- a T430
-- a Poweredge R540
and it's remarkably easy. I've got Wayland and LibreOfficeworking cheerfully on the laptops. The server took a little more fiddling because of its own weird hardware issues, but I'm setting up jails for all sorts of things. Refreshingly easy. I really missed BSD. Glad to be back.
@danyork@mastodon.socialNew audio: TDYR 421 - A brief episode about some upcoming changes to the show where I'm planning some interviews. I also listed events where I'll be and invited people to reach out. (I'll also be changing the icon as that photo is about 10 years old and my hair is NOT that brown any more! 🤣 Plus I am back to glasses.)
https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-421-a-show-update-about
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk1000 Heroz: nearly there
Up to day 926 now, and I'm all-but-out of the RLLMUK leaderboard, as Donny Rosco is 40,000 points ahead and while I beat him on most days, that's only gaining me 100 points a day on average. My period of not playing has come back to haunt me. Most days see me getting a global rank of around 200, which is pleasing. I think at the moment I'm 50th in the world, but there's a fair bit of time still to go.
@nohillside@smnn.chWollen wir wieder mal über Kipppunkte reden?
https://fediscience.org/@hausfath/117027561335494751
@manawyrm@chaos.socialI'm rich, haha! 😹
Just kidding of course, that's DDR2-800 memory.
Still a whopping 16 GiB of it, though, as an upgrade for my beautiful PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.0GHz).
Only problem: The Mac would only ever run the memory at PC2-3200U (aka 400 MHz), not the full 533MHz.
Someone else had luckily dumped the OpenFirmware ROM and I could determine that it doesn't handle such fast memory properly, it'll just fall back to 400 MHz.
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialjust chmod 777'd /var/www, i'm sure this won't come back to bite me later
@jon@henshaw.socialAdding files to notes in @… is now live! Now I'm adding bulk editing. So many new features. I can't wait to write about them.
@brian_gettler@mas.toBack in the country for less than 24 hours and we've already voted. Now if only we could imagine a world in which a non-Liberal could one day win our riding in a regular election. This time, of course, it's a by-election on the last day in August, so I'm not holding my breath.
#cdnpoli
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialSome passengers were missing on board. So they had to find and remove their luggage from the plane. As everyone knows unaccompanied luggage gets really sad and nobody wants that. Now we might be able to depart Schiphol in about 15 min with a little more than 1hr delay.
I'm not complaining. Happy that I might make it back to Berlin today
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza#Mapquest is back! Saw that it has Android Auto integration. Happily used it today on my drive. It definitely needs some work but I'm happy to have a google maps alternative.
@pre@boing.worldBurnham removing Mahmood from Home Secretary is great. Being an authoritarian monster, she belongs on the back benches not anywhere near the seat of government.
👂️👈
Wait, I'm hearing that she's to be the chancellor instead?
Well, um. Oh. Okay.
Promoting Shabana Mehmood to chancellor seems to be the most weak dumb move Burnham could possibly make.
She's authoritarian and fiscally inexperienced having shown no sign she understands what money is or how investment works or what a fiscal multiplier is. She'll likely treat the budget like a household or business accounts.
Good luck everyone.
#ukpol #ShabanaMahmood
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz @callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI'm wondering if September is real New Year. I don't think I'll ever lose that back-to-school start of something feeling at this time of year.
@smashtie@mas.to#totp I'm just imagining Bob round the back trying to get Dana to smoke a joint.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialomg there is an actual emeritus office now!
![It’s me! In the emeritus office! In a brand new Herman Miller chair!
A close-up selfie of an older man [hmph] sitting in a black mesh-back office chair (Herman Miller style) in the same emeritus office as the previous photo. He's balding [ok ok enough] with white hair [oh ok so I am old already!] on the sides, wears rectangular black-framed glasses, and has a white mustache and soul patch. He's wearing a lavender-and-white striped button-down shirt, open at the collar, with a small beaded neck…](https://files.a2mi.social/media_attachments/files/117/202/112/156/539/781/original/7b333e549c866069.jpeg)
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaThe repo troubles aside (latest is not fully back for me), hyprland on FreeBSD turned out to be the Turd show I expected it to be. A quick glance at the forums showed me I'm not the only one. With excellent alternatives like mango available it's time to move on. One final go at it tomorrow.morning.
Btw, the first time I had to weed through large numbers of completely useless AI slop guides. Speaking of a pile of shiite 💩
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThe 14yo came back sick from camp a few weeks ago.I dutifully spent a week in a mask, and managed to avoid getting his cold.
The 9yo came back w/ a slight cough after a trip w/ her mom a few days ago. Thinking it was the tail end of something, I hung out w/ her and put her to bed. Now she's full-on sick and I'm kicking myself for not having just put on a stupid mask.
@hex@kolektiva.socialDistinct legal existence:
This is a distinct legal entity, such as an LLC. Your "church" will need a governing body to run the legal entity it's formed under. However you decide to do this, it must be spelled out clearly in filing forms. There are a lot of ways to "govern" a community, and, since diversity allows evolution, I'm not going to describe any of them.
Basically, all you need is *some* legal incorporation. This is important for the legal aspect (if you are trying to subvert the legal framework within the legal framework). You will need this in order to own bank accounts and property collectively, and you may need this to remove or reduce the influence of the dominant system on your collective governance of finances and property.
If you, on the other hand, just have a communal squat that operates economically entirely in black markets then I don't know why you're reading this.
(Fun fact, which I'm skipping to because I don't want to forget it: As I understand it, The Church of the Subgenious skipped a lot of this by including "paying taxes" in their definition of their church. They pay their taxes every year, and the IRS rejects their payment, which proves they're a church. OK, back to what I was talking about...)
Edit: One thing I forgot about this. There must be *at least 3 /unrelated/ people* named on the legal documents. That is the minimum number to be a legal church.
@luana@wetdry.worldAnd in my houses A/C controller there's a button with a weird and seemingly completely unrelated nams (I don't rember what it's called) that just resets the controller and makes me need to set the temperature, speed and operation mode again as if I had removed the controllers batteries. I have no idea if this is its intended purpose or if it's broken or something. I'll need to check its name once I'm back and post it here, but it's not a name that you'd think would do this.
And in my parents home the timer feature, a feature that works fine in both atonementioned A/Cs and that I use often, makes no sense at all and does not actually turn off the A/C after the amount of time you set. The controller has a clock, but it doesn't turn off in the time you set based on its clock either so I have no idea what it actually does. Maybe it's just random.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMarvin Mims knows 2026 might be his last year with Broncos: 'I'm just going to enjoy it to the fullest' https://www.nfl.com/news/marvin-mims-knows-2026-might-be-his-last-year-with-broncos-i-m-just-going-to-en…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThe smoke just keeps getting worse. Last reading was 54.8 ug/m^3 PM2.5 which is an AQI of 149 (I had to go back and edit this post several times as I was writing it because the number kept climbing).
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWish inspiration hadn't struck right at 1 a.m. when I have to teach tomorrow, but we'll see if I can get back to sleep now that I'm done with a draft of this story. Glad to have my first entry in my "incredulous young historians of the future" series actually written instead of just imagined. There are surely some typos ahead...
#SciFi #Writing #Technology #ShortStory
"The Age of Progress", a short story by Tiota Sram.
"Your assignment", said the teacher, "is to describe why the progressive vision of technology that gives us the name 'Age of Progress' today failed, and why it was actually a pessimistic view of technology. Your study guides have links to a few sources, but as usual you should synthesize information from at least two knowledge systems, and one of those shouldn't be family-based."
"Ugh", said Ye'xik, "this is gonna be tricky. Wasn't the whole problem with the Age of Progress that they were too optimistic about technology?"
"Well, they did talk a lot about the end of the world and extinction, and I did almost happen, right?" said Finan.
"Yeah, that's gotta count as pessimism, doesn't it?" Gedi chimed in.
"Well..." said Hallavia, with their usual deliberate tone, "I think it's not that simple, or at least it doesn't have to be."
The four of them were walking outside to have lunch, pondering the new assignment from this cycle's history and culture teacher. A brief silence fell as they pondered the Age of Progress.
"Maybe we should look at it through another history system?" offered Finan. "I mean, we've been learning about knowledge systems and lenses, and the 'Ages' lens of just one perspective with its own distortions, right?"
"My mab is working with my omeh on an oral history right now", said Gedi, "maybe I can use that as my second knowledge system? I'll see what they have to say about it!"
"We shouldn't all use the same knowledge systems though", said Ye'xik. "I think there's a bit of a thesis/antithesis thing going on here too? Like we were learning in ideas class?"
"Wait, I missed ideas last week", said Gedi, what's an antithesis?"
"It's just an opposite, really", said Ye'xik. "You take the thesis statement and construct any statement that contradicts it. The two form a pair, and then you can try to find a synthesis that combines both ideas."
"I didn't really get that part", Finan interrupted, "like, if they're contradictory, how could they be expressed together? Wouldn't you need to pick one that's true?... wait I guess maybe if you mixed different knowledge systems? But then would they really be contradictory?"
The group fell silent for a moment in thought.
Hallavi spoke up: "Incommensurate isn't the same as contradictory, I think. That's what it would be if you had two truths from different knowledge systems that didn't fit. Plus... not all knowledge systems have a concept of truth, or of contradiction?"
The group pondered this for a bit more.
"I think maybe there's lots of ways to be contradictory, even in a very logic-hungry knowledge system", said Gedi. "Then if your thesis and antithesis contradict in one way, you could find another sort out 'axis' in which they don't, and state your synthesis from there?"
"Oh, that makes sense", said Ye'xik.
"Anyways what were you saying about the Age of Progress, Ye'xik?" said Gedi.
"Wait", interrupted Hallavi, "Did that mashes sense to you, Finan?"
Finan had been silent, looking down at their feet, but replied "Oh yeah, thanks for checking Hallavi! I think I got the part about synthesis now, thanks Gedi. I was just thinking about optimism and pessimism more. Is that where you were going with this, Ye'xik?"
"Haha, yeah Finan, you got it", said Ye'xik. "Since optimism and pessimism can be opposites, does the teacher actually want us to form a synthesis of them?"
"Oh..." muttered Gedi, "that's a good idea."
"I think..." began Hallavi, pausing to collect their thoughts, "I think the teacher would have told us that, though. Obviously it's not a wrong way to approach this assignment because it incorporates pessimism, but teachers usually aren't too tricky. I think it's okay to be literal about the pessimism thing. And I think I have an idea..."
When Hallavi remained silent for a moment, Ye'xik opened their mouth to speak, but then looked at Hallavi and closed it again. Finan and Gedi were looking at Hallavi too. They pushed through the doors out to the meadow, and settled in their usual place to sit, pulling lunches out of their bags. Hallavi finally spoke up while the others were chewing: "The Age of Progress lasted from the Enlightenment to the Dim Times, and they believed that technology would always get better, no matter what. That's the progressive vision of technology our teacher was talking about. They thought it could solve any problem, and they wouldn't have to worry about weapons or extinctions or the climate or pollution or any of that stuff, because technology would eventually come up with a solution. They looked at the technology that solved problems like diseases or overcame engineering challenges and extrapolated too broadly, basically. That's the idea they had?"
The other three were all nodding their heads, knowing Hallavi needed room to think and put words together.
Hallavi continued: "So it seems like it's optimistic, because they thought it could do anything. But they were thinking about technology like I just talked about it: like an 'it' that could 'do'. That's not what we've been learning in our technology class. Invention is a social phenomenon, and technologies have both material and social bases, not to mention communities of practice and knowledge maintenance. So I think the idea of technological progress divorced from social participation is pessimistic, because it mythologizes technology in a way that makes it seem uncontrollable."
"Huh" said Gedi and Finan while at the same time Ye'xik said "mhmm".
Hallavi looked up shyly at the rest of them, but they were all looking back with admiration.
"I think you're right, Hallavi", said Ye'xik. "Or at least, that's probably what the teacher wanted us to puzzle out. Good thing they asked us to include two knowledge systems so we can each have our own perspectives to contribute, otherwise you'd go first and our presentations would all just be 'What Hallavi said'".
Hallavi blushed but Finan laughed "Hah! You're right and that Ye'xik."
Gedi was looking at their sandwich with some intensity. They looked at Hallavi then back at their sandwich. "It's like they thought they were strapped to an out-of-control rocket, when you put it that way", they said. "It must have been scary, really, to believe that technology was almost an entity, changing in an inevitable way. That word 'inevitable' really takes all the human agency out of it, doesn't it. And even though they kept saying that technology would inevitably solve problems, look at what the technologies they invented actually did!"
Finan shuddered. He added, "Really, it was their dominators who were saying it was inevitable wasn't it? Back then it wasn't like today where historians travel and sample all kinds of ideas, so the primary sources we're reading are almost all from dominators, right?"
Ye'xik responded "Yeah, I keep forgetting to account for that. It was such a weird and horrible time, it's kinda hard to believe everything we read and hear sometimes."
Gedi picked up the thread again "That makes it worse, right? All those dominators saying the stuff they're doing is inevitable, and lying to everyone's faces about it being progress and wonderful stuff, meanwhile two thirds of it is the most awful stuff there's ever been, I mean they could have literally killed everyone and ruined the whole planet, and they almost did."
"They did actually crush a lot of cultures beyond recognition so the survivors had to rebuild with only weak ties to their old traditions", said Hallavi with a quiet intensity.
They all were silent for a moment, pondering the horrors of a bygone age.
Finan broke the silence: "That's a terrible kind of pessimism, to believe that technologcal 'progress' is inevitable, at a time when most people are dominators somewhere in a hierarchy and the ones on top constantly talk about how technologies like medicines will 'save' the world while mostly inventing new technologies of violence. Everyone must have understood what they really meant based on the technologies they were actually developing and investing into. I think I still don't understand how the Age of Progress and the Dim Times could even happen".
"Yeah, and the pessimism is only part of our assignment", signed Ye'xik. "We still have to describe why the progressive vision failed, although I think maybe you just did a lot of that, Finan".
A gloom descended briefly, until Gedi said "Well, this assignment is supposed to take a week or two, right? Thanks to Hallavi we've already cracked the crux, I think, so we don't need to ruminate too much right this moment about ancient history, and we know things turned out okay in the end. Let's finish lunch and go climb a tree!"
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comI'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 3x33 "July 15th (Thurs) (3)" #JoJosBizarreAdventure
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaDialling back the weirdness a wee bit compared to the previous book, but looses nothing of the magnificent world building:
I'm halfway through the fourth part of the Children of Time Series that has, as usual, a new planet, a new species and also covers many topics skimmed over by the previous books, like the other sentient species on Kerns World. Eerie and wonderful it sits right at the centre between space horror, hard sci-fi and space opera
Also I really can recommend the…
@yetiinabox@todon.nl...and since I'm thinking about virtual copresent communities...does anyone remember #Sloodle ? I actually built a Buddhist monastery in Second Life, together with students, back in 2009. Slodle was a cool integration that linked a Moodle platform to virtual objects in SL.
We only had 10-vow sangha, but my goodness, SL was a hungry ghost realm! I did find going for alms provoked griefing....…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI'm fighting a TTL based double stepper from a Cumana floppy drive; having replaced it's 74LS123 (dual monostable) and 74LS38 (quad OC NAND), it's now continually oscillating and just throws the head to the end of the travels; hmm - from my reverse eng it looks like it loops both the Q and !Q outputs of one back to the !A,B inputs of the other and relies on relative timing to stop the oscillation - which doesn't work on the replacement chips I used.
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… wow! I'm glad I migrated back to Linux from macOS last year
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaLast weekend before going back to work. It has been a great vacation away from technology, but I'm already looking forward to tinkering with my gadgets again. For now, tomorrow I need to update the server and the Docker containers.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialI'm not big on the whole Christian "natural/artificial" binary, or the settler-colonialist concept of "wilderness" which erases indigenous stewardship in a bid to claim mid territory (see, e.g., tribes forced out of what are now national parks in the US). But I do enjoy getting out of urban/suburban environments and into places where the human impact on the land is minimal and/or synergistic with non-human flourishing.
I was thinking about why I enjoy this so much today while out on a stroller hike with my younger child, and came to the conclusion that it may be less about being in a "natural" space and more about being in a space whose flourishing is not tied to the capitalist necropolitical "growth" spiral.
Like, there's the baseline intrinsic beauty of flowers, trees, flowing water, etc. Then there's the pleasure of considering how these things fit together into an ecosystem and mutually support each other (and also compete/predate, etc.). But on top of all that, there's the sense that these things are part of a self-sustaining pattern that's capable of continuing without outside inputs and without creating external waste over vast, geologic timescales. The things I see when I look around in a city aren't like that. 100 or 1000 or 10000 years from now they'll be ruins, not necessarily because of human extinction or anything like that, but because the resource flows that create them are inseparable from a fundamentally unsustainable economy built around a paradoxical assumption of infinite exponential growth.
There *are* of course some human-built or -stewarded things in the world that are sustainably maintained, and ruins can have their own kind of beauty. But to me part of the joy of being on a hiking trail is to look around and see beautiful systems that will persist regardless of (most) human political outcomes that I spend a lot of energy worrying about.
Even in the extreme cases of climate change these things will eventually come back, albeit in an altered form. I don't want to ignore the incredibly destructive impact of humans on the environment, of course, but still, it's comforting to me to think about how the problems and brokenness of currently-dominant human cultures might change and scar but will not actually destroy the many systems on this planet that just don't depend on humans for their propagation.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @hex@kolektiva.social- Distinct religious history
Where does your religion come from? Maybe you're pulling from other traditions that go back thousands, or tens of thousands, of years? Or perhaps not. If you're reading this I'm going to assume you might be anarchist, so I'll just leave this right here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/erica-lagalisse-occult-features-of-anarchism
You may also have your own text and history. Great ;)
@cdarwin@c.imThere's a ton of evidence to back this up.
It's not even close.
And I'm baffled by why Dems don't run on this, repeating the data endlessly the way the right repeats their lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/ourshallowstate.bsky.social/post/3m…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSwitch project continues to make progress, although at a slow pace.
Spent a couple hours at my friend's shop tooling up the PnP for populating the back side of the remaining line cards, but didn't have time to actually run the job.
25G SI tuning is going well, I'm carefully rerouting all four of the 25G pairs and doing a ton of simulations to make sure I absolutely nail it.
The rest of the transceiver lines are going to get a once-over but they're 5 Gbps so …
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept.
When a powerful group of people takes the writing, the art, the music, various parts of a culture and then make some bland reproduction that lacks all the meaning and essence in the original, then those powerful people profit off that mess while the people who made the original stuff are erased, marginalized, and made to suffer, there is a different term for that.
The term everyone is looking for is "appropriation."
I'm not saying this is the same as other forms of cultural appropriation, but there are definitely enough shared elements that we should revisit that conversation. Perhaps some folks who thought the idea was silly when the idea first came up may feel differently now.
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @NFL@darktundra.xyzGiants' Cam Skattebo on viral backflip fail, wild reputation: 'They wanna say I'm brain-dead ... who cares?'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-skattebo-backflip-b…
@hex@kolektiva.socialAnd that's basically it. You only need like 9 of these, and there are 11, so you have some flexibility. Wow, that was a lot to type.
Go find 3 other weirdos, put everything together, and see what happens. It's probably worth it to compare what you come up with to an existing legal church:
https://www.ulcseminary.org/irsqualifications.php
You could also just start a ULC church if you're so inclined. They have templates you can use already. It's up to you.
I'll drop more things here if anything comes to mind. Otherwise I'm gonna loop back with all the folks who reached out and make sure they're tagged.
