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Wow.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/man-finally-released-a-month-after-absurd-arrest-for-reposting-trump-meme/

Man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting Trump meme
Bodycam footage undermined sheriff’s “true threat” justification for the arrest.

Another evening of filter refactoring and optimization, a few more nice performance jumps.
I've now done a first pass (remove deprecated method signatures, add explicit input location, add NVTX trace data, do easy GPU optimization if I see an obvious low effort win) on all filters A-F alphabetically plus a few later on that were priorities for one reason or other.
90 down (of which 23 were optimized and the rest just refactored), 115 to go.
Some of the remaining ones sh…

Rust's Block Pattern
Here’s a little idiom that I haven’t really seen discussed anywhere, that I think makes Rust code much cleaner and more robust.
— by @…
🦀 https://notgull.net/block-pattern/<…

Bitbucket recently announced shutting down inactive workspaces.
I logged there, and my Ph.D stuff (mostly papers, some Python) were all there.
To preserve them, I asked #Copilot to write a script to move them to GitHub.
If you want to admire the slop, there’s now a post about it

Migrate Bitbucket repositories to GitHub · Technical inconsistencies blog
Just before Christmas, I got an email from Bitbucket saying that inactive workspaces will be deleted. Almost 20 years ago, I created a Bitbucket workspace to host my university stuff (mostly for my research thesis and various papers). And while I have the final PDFs, I did not want all that LaTeX to go to waste, so I decided to migrate everything to GitHub (which, since 20 years ago, added private repositories to their free offering).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Tiwa Savage ft. Amaarae:
🎵 Tales by Moonlight
#TiwaSavageftAmaarae
https://growziepresentsuk.bandcamp.com/track/tales-by-moonlight-revisit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XNYdSnpZvwlFr9gGWM8uX

(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115984246076039699
It's back. Sadly it's not just Fediverse which can spike load when someone reposts the @…@…

As 2025 comes to a close, I thought it might be worth revisiting a fascinating social media post from the Silicon Valley pro-extinctionist #Daniel #Faggella.
He espouses the radical view that
👉we should build a
“worthy successor”
in the form of

Preparing for the Singularity: An Ethnographic Survey of AGI Apocalypticists
The world's end has been imminent since at least the time of Jesus (himself an apocalypticist). Here's how AGI true believers are preparing for the techno-rapture.

Hab gerade Speisewagenfernweh und klicke mich durch die Post und Reposts beim @….
Das Leben ist ein gutes. ❤️🚂

Took a look at the ngscopeclient "fall time" filter since it's the next in line alphabetically for some refactoring and decided hey, the inner loop is pretty simple let's try GPUing it.
But first I wanted to get a baseline run time for 50M points (790 ms).
Aaand found numerical stability issues. So I need to fix the algorithm before I optimize it.
This is why we use int64's for time values in all new code, not float32 or even (as done here) float64.