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The Fediverse, however, has *all* of the idiots too horrible for X and Meta, but they only federate with each other, mostly. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
I'm considering blocking anyone who posts content from Meta platforms, as I already do for X content. It's always just rage-farming. People, mostly, are idiots. As a result, a big chunk of what we say is junk. Meta and X thankfully have more than their share of the worst idiots, so I avoid them.

A starter pack of questions to help think about "discovery" and "knowledge":
1. When was X discovered?
2. Once it was discovered, who knew X?
3. 1000 years later, who knew/knows/will know X?
4. Is X true?
5. Which groups of people would say it's true vs. false?
When X is "a² b² = c² in a right triangle" we think there are nice clean answers to these questions. But when X is "COVID-19 transmits via small airborne aerosols and a mask is needed to reduce the risk of infection" things get more interesting, particularly the answer to question 1. Does something count as "discovered" if many/most people would say it's false?
People love to answer this question by appeal to "scientific consensus" but the scientific consensus on aerosol transmission is still shaky if you consider certain big institutions, and even if it's mostly settled now, there was definitely a period between "experts on transmission know it" and "there's a scientific consensus." So which counts as discovery? What if knowledge is held secret, like many military technologies? What about historical facts that become censored?

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The 'thinking' from a local Gemma 4 #llm reading bad handwriting is fascinating - I told it not to interpret stuff, it mostly didn't; but look at this thinking!
'Actually, looking at the 'e' in "the", it's a loop. The 'x' in "co-ax" is a cross. The letter in "axial" is a loop and a stroke. This is a very messy 'x' or a v…

🧑‍💻 - Can't help really, dunno anything about Windows.
🧑‍🎓 - But don't you write programs that run on Windows?
🧑‍💻 - Well, yeah, I help run a website which windows users can use. But I'm just writing for the web. I think maybe the testers run some Windows machines but none of the programmer staff do. Certainly not me.
🧑‍🎓 - Oh.
🧑‍💻 - I mean technically I mostly write software that runs in a just-in-time compiler environment, in a virtual container running Linux, that's hosted on another machine running Linux, that delivers a program that compiles into web assembly that runs on a virtual machine in a browser which could be on Windows, or OS X, or Android, or iOS, or even BSD or some experimental phone or something net yet invented.
🧑‍🎓 - Please shut up.

Got the OBS overlays mostly finished up. The SuperStation One is hooked up to the PVM via a SCART switch then split out from there into a RetroTINK 5X which then gets routed into a capture card. Still need to get the audio configured and the levels set correctly.
#streaming #obs

Just wrote a fun little algorithm for iterating through all grid positions within X euclidean distance from a center, roughly in order of distance but also mostly ensuring each position yielded is at least diagonally adjacent to the previous. It's a fun problem to think about with lots of design tradeoffs and many valid solutions.
My solution requires that the origin be on the grid (I think?) and uses a bunch of caching instead of a bajillion distance checks, although I don't actually know what the memory/speed tradeoff is like or whether there are any gains at all (could be net losses, which I'm starting to wonder about more as I write this post). Thankfully I don't expect performance to be very critical here anyways, and doing the caching actually helped separate some logic in a useful way.
A fun little diversion from bigger stuff in the project and a reminder of some of the joys of programming design at a small scope. Feels kinda like mastering the local town's minigame while you're stuck on the main quest in an RPG.
#programming

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰? Foxes drop their skat 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑘-𝑑𝑎𝑏 in the middle of the road.
#photo #photography #sliceoflife #foxwork