@annsev@troet.cafe2025-12-16 12:23:48
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-12-15 10:59:49
Evil stuff my mind cooks up:
Take a Rubik's cube apart and change it so that a corner piece has two adjacent stickers of the same color.
Then randomize the rest of the cube.
Give it to a solver and measure the time until they realize it's unsolvable.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-16 18:31:34
Trump’s White House chief rips Elon Musk for USAID cuts ‘no rational person’ could support | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/susie-wiles-trump-elon-musk-usaid-b2885727.html
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2025-11-15 00:53:15
You know me. I love some #Steam games - especially when it's:
- cheap
- plays on macOS
- has 𝖆𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈
Found a new one. Very few reviews but _man oh man_ is it an environmental -vibe- when you're playing
It's amusingly self-tagged "Relaxing" and I'm ... not sure about that? Like ... watch the trailer. You hear that background hum? That's the RAIN. The death from above. And it's in stereo and directional. The rain *hums*. It gets louder when you're in danger. And it kills. And it's coming down from above while you're trying to smash and accomplish goals. You get .... twitchy
For $5 tho? Totally great.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570540/RAIN_KILLS/
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-12-14 12:05:01
I have just bought my first Bluray in decades because I refuse to subscribe to another streaming service… it's less than $15 for a whole season… were they always this cheap!?
(I'll rip and stream it locally; my DiskStation/LG combo seems to support AV1 out of the box 🤩)
@roland@devdilettante.com2025-11-12 07:58:02
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
https://social.coop/@eloquence/115535529645390697
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-14 11:20:55
With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-10 22:54:38
NFL memo outlines priorities for new referee CBA https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47270473/with-referees-union-cba-set-expire-end-nfl-outlines-priorities-memo-teams
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2025-11-14 17:48:27
Bought a new black computing rectangle (a.k.a. a laptop) yesterday as the current one doesn't have enough umph...also, I might've beat it down a bit too much. Went with a Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 AMD laptop that was on sale because I wanted Linux support as a given (definitely been bitten by that before).
Went with the Ryzen 9 HX PRO 370 CPU (12c/24t) which has a very strong integrated GPU as well (890M). Told them to install [insert OS that isn't Windows on it because …
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-14 03:46:57
Given <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/ee110941e35c4354baa2e5b6fd64d3025cff4b7e> (2025-07-25), should <