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I've played with a toy fluid sim implementation (eulerian) to see if I can make cool fiery explosions with it and ...nope. It seems that the assumption of incompressibility, subsonic velocities, unavoidable viscosity doom it to be just a fluid sim forever. The best I can do is a splotch of ink.

RE: https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/117519639436399061
It occurs to me now that many might read this as you can just avoid software if they only offer in a format you do not like.
That wasn't what I meant but feel free to take it that way in…

Just had a classic issues on a site - all looked fine for me on Desktop but was getting a Lighthouse issue for the fonts. Turned out the font files had been empty since 2023. Of course it looks fine on my Mac but not on my phone! How the files became empty I just don't have a clue! Had an old back up so now all sorted.
Still a few things to do on the site for performance.

A great deal of useful material is not presented well. Try to learn no matter how well material is presented.
"You can blame whoever was communicating the ideas to you for failing to present it as well as they should but that won’t help you learn more."
"You can train yourself to learn more than most people when the material is presented in a less than perfect manner by learning how we commonly fail to learn and making efforts to do better yourself."

People are always saying the genie isn't going to go back into the bottle, but famously all you have to do is ask the genie how it managed to fit in the bottle, and it will then happily demonstrate that to you. You can then just put the cap back on the bottle. We've literally known this for ages.

Building a robot that looks like a human is like building a car that looks like a horse.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the

#ScribesAndMakers 10/23: Our next featured creator enjoys hiking. Do you enjoy being outdoors, and if so, does it have an impact on your creativity?
Everything I do have an impact, in one way or the other. For good or bad remains to be seen, but I enjoy hiking. I just have too little time to actually do it.

It's kind of crazy that both GPT and Claude really love to manipulate files by writing Python scripts that do text search-and-replace. First of all, why isn't this a dedicated tool? Second, the generated scripts usually don't check that the search-and-replace was successful. Are they just good enough at regurgitating text that they never make mistakes? What if the file was modified in the mean time?

I just walked past a bus stop.
There is a guy strutting around in front of it in a sea captain's hat ⚓ with all his worldly belongings in a bag on the bench.
He has a lot to say (singing, in a nasal falsetto):
What do you mean 🎵
The brains of a pigeon 🎵
Highly intelligent 🎵
The brains of 🎵
Highly intelligent people 🎵
The brains of a 🎵 piiigeoon🎵
I have fallen into a gritty live-action remake of DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS

Sigh..
(Thankfully I don't run a GitLab anymore... but I know some who do)
#cybersecurity #gitlab
https://

Yes, you can run Jellyfin from your Steam Machine. It's right there in the Discovery software center.
Only quirk, other than all the quirks and fussiness Jellyfin has on it's folder structure, is that it's installed with flatpak so you gotta explicitly grant it permission to read your data directory if it isn't the default one.
Mine, for instance, is at ~/data/media so I have to:
And have to do that after install, but before setup-wizard.
Jellyfin is just nightmarish for copying to a new machine in general. Don't try and copy the config. Just be sure to always store your thumbnail images etc. alongside the files and accept it's going to be a rescan a loss of all your watched-already data I guess.
#steamMachine #steamOS #jellyfin

Shopware won't tell you when a product-export feed quietly stops updating — it'll just sit there, stale, until a marketplace notices before you do. We built an n8n workflow to catch that ourselves. Writing it up for this post, I actually found a bug in it.
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It's inexplicable to me why apps for #Immich and #Paperless do not have a *button* to upload files from the filesystem. You must use the share-to mechanism from *another* app 🤪 So instead, I just use the webinterfaces (which do have such a button!), those also have much more features anyway...

Also (yes I am subtweeting here); it is absolutely your right to ask that people NOT add AltText to your posts.
It just means I (and MANY other people) won’t repost them, in that case
If I’m adding AltText to your content, it means that I liked it enough to go ahead and do that.
You say no? Fine.

@… It is a slower cadence for big changes yes but that might not mean a lot for Debian.
Chromium ESR is 8 weeks between major versions, instead of 2 for the regular Chromium stable.
However, they still do security updates 1-2 times a week, just like stable.
This is still useful for for Vivaldi as we have a lot of patches on Chromium, so we need t…

Are you ducking kidding me?
I had ONE more thing to do before I wrapped up a dozen different things and I need to read ONE ducking PDF to get the ONE figure I need. And now I'm being DOC-BLOCKED by Adobe. Typical.
(I worked around it, but my disappointment with Adobe is immeasurable and my afternoon is ruined.)
Duck this, Im going home.

I needed a push delivery of some 3rd party service events that service itself didn't provide. I could get the info with polling but it would be very inefficient. It turns out the same 3rd party publishes the notifications I needed to their discord server. So what do you do? Join their discord. Build a custom version of vencord with custom plugin that intercepts discord messages. And then pings my service that needs the info. It's so stupid but sometimes you just have to roll...

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3mwecvgmqiw2h
There comes (hopefully) a time in life when one recognizes that the law and the system called a "justice system" have nothing to do with justice.
Maybe it's when you see the system's complete disinterest in even investigating rich pedopholes. Maybe it's when you hear about a 6-year-old immigrant separated from his parents and compelled to take the stand in his own defense. Maybe it's when you see it give every benefit of the doubt to killer cops so they can get away scot-free, while doing nothing to change the cultures that continue to produce police shootings. Maybe it's when you see a woman prosecuted for having a miscarriage. Maybe it's when you read the court's opinion upholding the idea that police do NOT have a duty to protect civilians, or the opinion stating that if police choose not to uphold the law that's fine and they aren't accountable for that.
Whenever you see it, a natural question is: when did this happen? How long has this been going on?
Thankfully that question is easy to answer: just open up a history book and look for the founding date of whatever nation you live in.

If AI were a nation, the increased economic activity it promises to stimulate would become the fifth largest CO2 emitter, just behind Russia—study.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost…

I do like that #SolveSpace can load images (though only pngs...) for reference to design your model around. But I really wish it was a *little* easier to auto-scale it to its real dimensions 😅

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117519819579484167
Over and over, I tell my students things like
“stated job requirements are mostly meaningless, just box-checking HR Mad Libs”
and “companies are terrible at hiring and mostly have no idea how to do it”
and “getting hired involves somehow talking to a real human being at the company who is involved in the job you’re applying for, which involves first getting past a gauntlet of nonsense generated by people and machines that know nothing whatsoever about the work and that in fact may be in direct opposition to every need and desire of the people who’d want to work with you”
and “the job interview process is mostly not even about you •at all•, so never take it personally.”
…and they give me such blank looks, like the words coming out of my mouth aren’t even real sentences. But:

@… as I don't feel like creating yet another account on yet another service, I won't be telling you anything on community.joinmastodon.org. But I do have feedback to share.
I use advanced mode on the web. And that panel stuck on the left suddenly became extremely annoying as it gobbles up way too much space for the content it has. It needs to be collapsable. Much the same way the compose window is (and it wouldn't hurt if this one could be moved around, not just minimized).

So how's that tunnel-shooter game coming along then Pre?
I have successfully made it run as a standalone Frame VR game.
Completely failed when trying to do so by compiling it for windows/proton. I suspect because of some of the ImGUI stuff failing.
And failed for different reasons when trying to build it for ARM/linux native on the thing. But that time definitely because of the ImGUI stuff I'd lazily included because interface options menu programming is tedious.
So instead I did the tedious thing for a week to build the godot-native UI, rip out the ImGUI stuff, and build enough settings menus to reduce graphics and physics settings.
There's a steam app Steam Devkit Client or some such name. You use that to upload the project-directory over to the Steam Frame as a Steam App.
And it works!
Feels pretty nice already really, but really quite frame-droppy at the most hectic times.
I think this is mostly the Godot physics system which is nice to use but apparently quite CPU costly compared to what I need really.
I just got the two collision cases really: Proximity, and tunnel-wall.
Godot's physics can build a platformer game in 3d and model the roughness of the friction in a bouncing ball.
But it's not particularly good for a tunnel in space where almost none of that matters and only our special-case of bouncing from the tunnel-wall needs to be done, and we can take advantage of the tunnel-segmentation to reduce physics combination explosions.
So the next thing to rip out and replace already is the everything that uses Godot's physics engine and replace it with simpler faster bouncier tunnel-physics.
#godot #gamedev #vr

It only takes a very rudimentary understanding of economics to see that, in the long run, the market price of running "agentic AI" (or whatever the latest buzz becomes) and the salary of any kind of knowledge worker can only be separated by a gap that's dependent on *management's* ability to tell their output apart.
There is a cosmic-scale gap between the long-term value to a company in paying a salary to a human vs. getting an LLM to "do" the "same" work, but it's a gap that many people are investing heavily in hiding right now, and CEOs and managers become incredibly gullible when you promise them they won't have to deal with humans who might ask for raises, even though it should be obvious you plan to jack up prices once they're locked in. They also aren't well-known for a deep understanding of how their workers actually generate value, and tend to be easily distracted by shiny but shallow demos, which is exactly what LLMs can produce well.
Even in the most optimistic scenario I can imagine for these developments, the myth of upward mobility that's been a lynchpin for defusing class solidarity among wage laborers is going to take a significant beating. There's a completely obvious game plan underway to try to use fascism to shore up the power of the wealthy against any kind of mass movement, and to play the ancient divide-and-conquer game along race and gender lines just as usual, so the range of outcomes is huge, but every time you use an LLM you're pushing this closer to a sharper conflict.
#AI #LLMs

I am tired of aggressively pixel art ugly games. It's 2026, I do not want to play a game that looks like this. Screenshot is just an example: half the interesting games coming out seem to be picking this aesthetic.

My preordered copy just shipped. To the other coast. Do I do it here anyway?
(3 of each format in Seekonk.)

today: covid and flu shots, and also dragged B to do them. only took half an hour of being stubborn. told him either now or monday, let's get it over with. maybe next time I'll just use chloroform

Reading 'The Compatriots' by Soldatov & Borogan. I'm near the beginning, around the 1920s and 30s:
Why do all the Soviet spies have so many wives? Was it usual to re-marry & re-partner in that time period, or is it just a spy thing??
#AmReading #Bookstodon

I’m seeing some really _hot_ hot takes so let me make one thing clear:
I’m 100% sure that someoneS both KNEW and EXPLOITED the eMudhra fuckup and the PHP RCEs.
“AI” finding it for the rest of us is one of the rare instances of them doing actual public good. Every exploit they find someone else with nation-state resources already knew about – or soon would.
Do y’all really think Russia, North Korea, and China are just banging rocks against each other!?

My favorite one:
“A.I. realizes that humans were eventually gonna bring this on themselves, and just sits back and watches.””
Some Ways A.I. Might Do It | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/some-ways-ai-might-do-it

There's plenty of software shipping its own root certificate store, often outdated. I just ran an experiment: look for *.crt in /usr, check what package it belongs to. Turns out: nmap/ncat and texlive-core/texlive-infra both contain cert collections with the "Comodo AAA Services root", which has cross-signed the compromised eMudhra certs. (I have not checked what these cert stores do.) Please: also check your systems and report where appropriate.

(I am not aware of any fedi client that renders graph TD. I literally only just discovered it's a thing when I used a markdown editor to test the features. Doubt most fedi clients do tables either. This post was as much as anything a test to see if Glitch would try)

I just donated $50 to #PizzaAtThePolls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - You can too! #DemocracyIsDelicious
Some friends have taken their #accordion out to entertain at polling lines to create the full Italian ambiance 🪗
Make Democracy Safe for Squeezeboxes! If voting wasn't worth fighting for, they wouldn't work so hard to take your right to do it away
The longer the line at the polls, the more voting's opponents want you to stay home 🍕
https://polls.pizza/donate

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117455465011243638
Just do it! I even cleaned up some apps that were authorized on my last mobile phone and were unnecessary as I had separate authorizations on my new phone.

My wife complained her iPhone 17 display was "turning pink". Fishing through settings menus revealed Accessibility > Display > Color Filters set to pink. I turned it off, phone normal.
But the phone kept turning pink. Online searches revealed the default "Accessibility action" for hitting the side button 3x was to turn *on* the color filter (easy to do by accident just handling the phone).
Who at Apple thought this was a useful default??
#iphone17

I would like coverage.py results in the gutters in VSCode without anything in VSCode trying to do test discovery or execution.
And I would like it without an untrusted extension.
Just read the coverage report occasionally.
Is there something good?
Edit: #devx #coveragepy #vscode #askfedi

I just gave a presentation in my team about "What is a PhD and how to do it?" (4 current and 4 prospective PhD students) Could also have been called "Advice from an aging academic" 👵🏻

It’s like, are these main characters or are they just assholes who the camera just happens to be following because that’s what it’s being paid to do? Jesus fuck.
I’m not rooting for any of them. They’re annoying to spend time with. I’ve had it.
2/2

Hello friends - I wish myself back on this trail ...
It's been a rainy office day today - just some walks in the rain, but far from this day.
And ... I still have to get used to the darkness in the evening.
Anyways .. looking forward to hopefuly do some hiking on the weekend.
More about that photo: #photography #mountains #bayerischerwald #bayern #landscapephotography

I just watched the #BlackHat #OpenAI #HuggingFace talk (#OpenAI understands it themselves. However, emergence is still no indication of actual intelligence, and the talk is again ripe with anthropomorphism.
3. Yes, it is surprising and somewhat terrifying how good these LLM agent loops have become in finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. We are seeing a much stronger version of the earlier next-generation fuzzing leap in tool capabilities.
4. The comparison with fuzzing and other tools is important for another reason: #OpenAI conducted their experiments on the live Internet. No, forcing internal test runs to go through a proxy server is *not the same as running in an isolated environment*. If there is a connection to a live production system, it is by definition not an effective sandbox. What happened to people letting their cool new fuzzers run live on non-consenting production targets on the Internet back then? They were criminally liable. Why should #OpenAI not be held liable for any damages caused by their systems?
Just because you don't understand the complexity that you built doesn't mean you aren't responsible for what it does!
5. The agent loops first successfully started exploited their proxy server on May 26th, discovered July 4th-6th as active exploitation and takeover. Credentials were revoked and the proxy server patched. "At this point, AI training and evaluations resume."
WHAT THE ACTUAL F...? You discovered emergent behavior in your overly complex system that you didn't understand, saw active exploitation of your internal systems to an extent that they were owned with admin privileges, and your response was to patch the uppermost surface holes, and then continue letting the out-of-control complex system run and continue on the same course? You didn't think to, let's see, maybe stop or at least pause the highly irresponsible experiment while figuring out - in detail - what went wrong, why, and how to avoid the same thing happening again on a systematic level?
6. On July 8th, completely unsurprisingly, the LLM agent loops continue to do the same thing and find another surface hole that hasn't been patched yet to take over again. Why should this have stopped? You haven't done any root cause analysis on the system level. Why do you expect that the problem should have stopped?
7. It takes another 11 days to discover that this is happening again. So you turned the system that had broken something back on again without a detailed root cause analysis and then didn't even watch carefully? I can't even...
8. And no, the response is not to fight fire with fire. Complexity on the attacker side (#OpenAI is the attacker, not the defender - they are the guilty perpetrator, not the innocent victim of circumstance) should be fought with *reduced* attack surface on the defender systems. Adding LLM agent loops that the "frontier" companies themselves quite obviously have no control over to already brittle systems with the hope of auto-patching your way out of vulnerabilities does not seem like a wise course of action. You don't mitigate complexity with even more complexity. The next 2 years will be ... exciting - and your best bet is going to be to disable all dependencies and complex interactions that your production systems don't absolutely require.

RE: #AFSP #suicide #SuicidePrevention #charity
https://app.candid.org/profile/6918656/american-foundation-for-suicide-prevention-13-3393329