@pre@boing.world2025-06-22 21:57:45
Watched Severance, both seasons over the course of a week or so. Late to the party there I'm sure.
Wiping your memory when you walk into another room and wondering why you are in there is just a part of getting old I'm afraid 😆
You'd think the innie work personas would object and rebel more really, more like Hellany than the rest. Innies don't get paid, don't get to spend the wages. Pretty easy to get fired from a job really, just don't do the work.
Interesting that nobody was a different sexuality inside vs out, guess that's just fixed by biology huh? No transgender innies either. Maybe that's for season three.
Don't really get Helen's motivation for getting severed at all. Can't go under cover if you wipe your own memory. Can surely do a better job of it all from the outside.
Anyway. Gripping and stylish show, good fun. Nearly as good as everyone says it is.
#watching #tv #severance
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-06-23 07:33:43
Everybody is wondering if some ICE agents are actually just bounty hunters, and that's possible but not super likely. What's much more likely is that a good chunk of the agents deployed today are the American equivalent of Wagner, which is currently named "Tripple Canopy" but you probably know as "Blackwater."
It's reasonably likely that the mercenaries who were grabbing people off the streets in Portland in 2020 are back at it for round 2. After all, this is just another opportunity for Trump to dump money in Erik Prince's pocket and wouldn't it be good for Trump to have a man on his side who happens to own a private army?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/inside-federal-protective-service-homeland-securitys-domestic-police
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2025-07-22 14:40:17
I doubt these are the last 3 Tandon Data PACs in captivity but they may be.
I'm considering dismantling them and driving a spike through the drives.
For anyone wondering, they were removable drives that had 30Mb and 40Mb capacities. There was no controller electronics that was a separate board on the PC. And we had dual bay small tower PCs as well.
The original customer was Xerox.
Essentially they ate up remanufactured drives which otherwise had become difficult…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-08-23 00:06:08
I wonder if the people yapping about Bluesky today realize that many entire Mastodon instances have disappeared overnight with absolutely no way for people to port their data.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-06-20 12:24:15
A rose drying out naturally in a pot inside.
#wildlife #photography
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-06-19 09:38:44
I’m starting to wonder if my shoulder problems might in the end be related to my use of a trackpad, specifically hovering over it. So I’ll try using a mouse (with the other hand) instead for a while and see if this helps.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-06-19 09:38:44
I’m starting to wonder if my shoulder problems might in the end be related to my use of a trackpad, specifically hovering over it. So I’ll try using a mouse (with the other hand) instead for a while and see if this helps.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-07-19 18:38:07
The Argentine president and his ilk of the right are organizing a "Derecha Fest", makes me wonder why they didn't go with the much catchier "Nazipalooza" instead. 🤦♂️
@lukem@hachyderm.io2025-06-20 23:39:18
I was wondering why my SMTP configuration wouldn't work. DNS zone looked fine, SSL/TLS settings correct, authentication enabled, yet it wouldn't budge.
Then I had a moment of enlightenment about the mail subdomain having one lone A record instead of two NS records as it should have been.
It's. ALWAYS. DNS. Dammit.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-08-12 18:12:44
I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release