One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
hey does anyone have a copy of Windows 11 http.sys before and after build 26100.6899, or (since you probably don't want to roll back or install the update just for this purpose) can you run ApplyDeltaB* to materialize the file from WinSxS?
* https://github.com/whitequark/ApplyDeltaB…
It's fantastic how we technology people have managed to turn a network that's supposed to be resilient to a nuclear war into something so brittle it goes down when someone misconfigures like one file at Cloudflare
at the moment, everyone having a phone camera is good evidence for reality. you can have multiple angles of the same moment and check them for consistency. it's hard to synthesize that, because gen-AI is bad at continuity.
I expect this to change within 5y. it's expensive to get continuity in high-res video of a 3d scene, but it's achievable.
people will keep trying prompt-to-video, but that will never work as well as prompt-to-scene-file-to-renderer.
#LazyWeb question regarding the dreaded NPM #GlassWorm or similar malware to harvest auth tokens:
To avoid a potential infection leading to harvesting the token usually stored in `~/.npmrc`, I changed that file's content to:
`//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}`
...…
us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…
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#ICE #charlotte #CharlottesWeb
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
VILA: I got confused.
DAINER: [To the prisoners there] Hands on your heads. Now move. Single file.
LEYLAN: [To Raiker] They're still in there?
RAIKER: Yes, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/353 B7B4
Padilla, Peters File Amicus Brief Opposing Trump Administration’s Illegal Ploy to Purge Voter Rolls -
https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/2025/10/16/ploy-to-purge-voting-rolls/72816
Ok the second time worked - and the file has been verified. Thank heavens I have my own linux machine. Would be a nightmare to do this on Windows I suspect...
Now to make the bootable drive.
It's at least 6 years since I did this last time. Crumbs.
9/n
I keep saying that understanding an individual’s relationship with abuse and abusers is the key to understanding their relationship with Trump.
Add this from @… to the file of evidence for that claim: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/115730378983568715
“She also appears to have made another astonishing error, Judge Fitzpatrick said. In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely “on the record before them” to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead “could be assured the government had more evidence — perhaps better evidence — that would be presented at trial.”
Wow. I’ve served as a grand juror. That’s misconduct.
Búzios Scientific Statement, summary in 5 posts.
100 climate researchers, coordinated by @… &
IIASA, , released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit da…
ooh, a wild instance of the word “mode” being used to mean “type” outside the context of Algol 68!
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/include/varargs.h
The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ftc-21-states-file-…
@borkdude, in your 'scittle with additional libraries' files, you have, for each file in the library, a line
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad( <filename>, <boolean>, <???>);
where ??? is a string of JS source code with some punctuation replaced by hex codes.
The second last line appears to invoke the file itself (recursively!?!), and the last is always
SHADOW_ENV.evalLoad("shadow.module.<filename>.append.js", false, <???>);
Wha…
Das könnte in #Deutschland nicht passieren, so viele Daten hat die @Bundesregierung@social.bund.de gar nicht.
858 Terabyte Daten verloren und kein Backup (Bilder im Artikel sind gegrokt, aber die Meldung ist echt)
@…
Das könnte in #Deutschland nicht passieren, so viele Daten hat die @Bundesregierung@social.bund.de gar nicht.
858 Terabyte Daten verloren und kein Backup (Bilder im Artikel sind gegrokt, aber die Meldung ist echt)
@…
Direct File is a service from the United States Government that provides taxpayers the option to electronically file their federal tax return for free, directly with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Direct File is an interview-based service that is intended to work as well on a mobile phone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer.
It is available in English and Spanish and is designed to be accessible to taxpayers who have a variety of attitudes, aptitudes, abili…
And skills are remarkably simple: just a markdown file with instructions, some (Python) scripts, and optional resources.
Can’t wait for all LLM providers to adapt their new pattern!
https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills (2/2)
world's greatest speakers (this was preloaded on the phone BTW) #tech #shanzhai
football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://
Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦♂️
I’ve built quectoCMS, a very small content management system in Python using Flask and SQLite.
It stores pages, blocks, and comments in a single database file and uses plain HTML forms without JavaScript.
Everything fits into a few Python files and templates — easy to read, easy to modify.
Code: https://github.com/mabalew/quectocm…
When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?
I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.
But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!
So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).
»A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one:
For most developers, the only time they touch colour values is when they copy them from a design file and paste them into their editor. We are developers and not designers, after all.«
— by @… on @…
I just used Regedit to clean Microsoft's mess and delete 2 unwanted out of 4 input methods from the language applet menu o.O (This is a clean Win11 install from July. The problem seems to be reported as far back as 2022.)
A week ago, I had to uninstall and re-install OneDrive with the \allusers command line argument to make it stop duplicating itself in the sidebar and get back the share option in the context menu per file or folder. (Also a longstanding bug.)
Copilot is neat…
Found a way to use @… 's emojis as sticker on messaging apps.
1. Download any emoji zip file from https://volpeon.ink/emojis/ and extract it on a folder of choice.
2. Ins…
Anyone know what the format of this "dotnet.config" file is?
It's mentioned in the #dotnet release notes, but it's the first time I see mention of it and my googling seems to be failing me.
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Heliozoans are a group of amoeboid protists found commonly in both fresh and saltwater. They were termed sun-animalcules due to their spherical shape and distinctive radiating microtubules, which support axiopods used to capture food and facilitate movement. Some will also capture symbiotic algal cells which provide energy through photosynthesis. Heliozoa is &quo…
com.apple.audio.Core-Audio-Driver-Service is still an Intel binary running under Rosetta 2 on the current version of macOS 26.1 "Tahoe" running on an M1. `file` confirms that it is a "Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64"
What the fuck
Something broke (changed) in Inkscape where I can no longer export a DXF file at the correct size for our laser cutter software. The DXF Export also seems to mangle the file a bit.
Time to try the "export every combo of options until I find what works" thing again. (Which I last did maybe 8 years ago, so I had a good run.)
#inkscape
Any experienced Perl folks out there using XML::LibXML vs XML::Simple?
I'm trying to move to LibXML like a good modern xml munger.
I'm using the XML weather data file here: #help #askMastodon #perl #XML #XMLLib #XMLSimple
Cats know how to file and pay taxes, but choose not to. :neocat_evil:
We and our 26 submodules are requesting permission to ...
<post link to news article on Facebook group>
:deadpixel_red: `In response to Canadian government legislation, news content can’t be shared.`
<saves page with SingleFile: https://www.getsinglefile.com>
<uploads to static web server
Repository-Aware File Path Retrieval via Fine-Tuned LLMs
Vasudha Yanuganti, Ishaan Puri, Swapnil Chhatre, Mantinder Singh, Ashok Jallepalli, Hritvik Shrivastava, Pradeep Kumar Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08850
“The fact that copyrighted works aren’t eligible unless they’ve formally registered feels like a lawyerly dodge: a legal maneuver to help Anthropic reduce the size of its payout pool, and thereby keeping the company from getting rendered down into its component parts during bankruptcy proceedings.”
— @…
Updating some proc file drivers that work perfectly well under Linux 2.6. Many, many changes since then and the code is messy to boot, having its origins in 1.8
Dear Infosec people who have looked at XML and XXE before: I am trying to get an understanding of Blind XXE.
Many of the descriptions I find are lacking an important detail which makes the attack much less practical. Blind XXE works by building an URL which contains content of a file, allowing to exfiltrate content. However, in all my tests, that *only* works if the file contains no newlines, as those are not allowed in URLs. Am I missing something?
🧵
⚙️ Print mode runs by default for non-interactive execution, interactive mode enabled via .i. filename marker (task.i.claude .md), _interactive frontmatter key, or -_i CLI flag
🌐 Remote URL imports cached at ~/.mdflow/cache/ with 1-hour TTL, use --no-cache to force fresh fetch, automatic .env file loading from markdown file directory with support for .env.local, .env.development, .env.production
gnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 10879 nodes and 39994 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://
In Android XR, there's an APK for that, and no need for a phone or PC https://www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-apk-for-that-no-need-for-pc-phone/
@… Best bet is if you have access to Linux or macOS, run "zipinfo" and/or "file" on your $target.zip to find out what it actually is you are creating:
$ zipinfo $target.zip
$ file $target.zip
Alternatively libarchive, even the one on Windows, might be able to tell you. in cmd.exe run this and look at the very last …
I’ve built quectoCMS, a very small content management system in Python using Flask and SQLite.
It stores pages, blocks, and comments in a single database file and uses plain HTML forms without JavaScript.
Everything fits into a few Python files and templates — easy to read, easy to modify.
Code: https://github.com/mabalew/quectocm…
Had to debug a weird #Houdini color issue yesterday. Turns out that if you're using a custom #OCIO config file without file rules, Houdini will apply its own set. And as of Houdini 21 those are no longer "OpenEXR is scene linear". It seems to apply the file rules from its default ocio file …
Ugh. I just finished moving 1.7TB of data from Google to Filen using Filen’s rclone fork. Some of it went fine, but a few files I tried to open failed to do so. Now I doubt the integrity of every file.
Here’s a link if anyone wants to take a look: https://github.com/LuNeder/nixos-config/tree/strawberry/Yoke/services/yt-dlp
(the .py file there is the only thing that’s LLM-generated, but that’s a quite significant portion of this downloader)
To anybody who tries to find out an mp3 file's bitrate with the command line tool file*: the bitrate file determines might be completely wrong.
Better use ffprobe for this as shown here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/773526/fast-test-for-audio-…
Exploring Neural Amp Modeler
Neural Amp Modeler is based on neural net technology that analyzes a sound and produces a file to reproduce it. The technology is open source, so people can use it to capture amplifier tones and then play instruments through them. There are fancy plugins for Windows and Mac OS, but because I am running Linux Mint, I had to download the file from GitHub and compile it on my machine.
X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is
#Immich's search functionality is so dang powerful. It can search file metadata, OCR'd text, face recognition, and even by textual descriptions (”black cat on green grass”).
BUT you have to manually select the search mode. It is apparently not possible to "just search via every way". I think this should even be the default.
Our hosting provider rejected a feature request to build an antiAI scraping firewall option in at server side
So now I'll have to faff about with .htaccess file.
FMCache: File-System Metadata Caching in Programmable Switches
Qingxiu Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jiazhen Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Siyuan Sheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yuhui Chen (Xiamen University), Lu Tang (Xiamen University), Zhirong Shen (Xiamen University), Patrick P. C. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…
The Speaker of the House, mike johnson, felt compelled to have his underage son monitor mike’s porn intake on mike’s devices.
The Speaker declined to swear in a new rep from AZ who would have been the final signature needed to release epstein files.
The Speaker failed to keep the government open, further delaying file release.
What the f is going on in the Speaker’s personal life that would compel him to want these delays?
I used a speech to text program today to type “Shirley” and it entered “Surely”
#airplane
* Step through rendering code and see individual parts draw to the screen like RenderDoc or Unity's Frame Debugger.
* Run to breakpoint in reverse (or data breakpoint!!!)
* Stores a session file that tracks all of your input and code changes that's portable so you can send to coworkers.
If Affinity really cares about the creatives, they (& all other design companies, hopefully Adobe too?) should have form a group to create a file format standard. As long as the design format is proprietary, there's not much "freedom" here, even if the software is free, paid-once or subscription-based.
Sketch is actually almost there, at least for UI/vector designs (
Here's a great use of AI text-to-speech generation: preparing for a live pitch.
Instead of reading your pitch a hundred times so you can edit it for time, use ElevenLabs.
1. Create an account
2. Find a voice that matches your own cadence
3. Paste your script and have it generate the pitch
You'll immediately see how long the audio file is and can adjust your script for length.
Then you can spend your time **rehearsing** instead of editing.
Looking how to setup an #atom feed on my #hugo blog (using the bearblog theme). I've looked online and modify the config.toml file to add the ATOM output format and applies it to home, then created a feed.html file in the theme layouts folder, and two style files in the static folder (.xsl and .…
Been in-depth studying the PDF file format spec for the past few days... it's mind boggling that this format with its capacity for monstrous complexity managed to become the de-facto standard for modern documents. So many questionable decisions & undue flexibility in there (in the wrong places) making even a simple task of reliable metadata extraction (for example) incredibly hard... I understand and value flexibility, but not at this cost! Guess I will have to keep on using one of t…
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
'The defense said it expected to file 2 motions, one to dismiss because Halligan, the only prosecutor to sign the indictment, wasn’t properly appointed to office, so the indictment is fatally flawed (& can’t be fixed b/c the statute of limitations has run). This motion, which will hinge on federal vacancy appointment law, might ironically be based on a memo Justice Alito wrote when he was in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel.'
The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-facing-the-comey-prosecution
us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…
do you know whether this "may" is actually a "shall" or not? does this differ per-OS?
holy cow, painful debugging session
offspring managed to break networkmanager by editing a config file
NM died with an unhelpful error message complaining about the syntax of a [connection] line
it looked ok in vim
it looked ok from cat -v
it looked the same as the file from the source package
but diff said the [connection] lines were invisibly different!
hexdump -C revealed that the broken file started with a UTF-8 BOM
i have encouraged him to…
football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://
Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook; the streamer has shrunk its six-studio gaming operation down to three (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-sells-game-studio-spry-fox
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
Gotta hand it to Bezos and Blue Origin - they stuck the landing on the first try. And the orbiter is looking good.
#BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #NewGlenn2
Federal prosecutors reportedly gave US attorney a memo suggesting not to file charges against James Comey
ABC news has reporting that federal prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia presented the rookie US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, with a memo that detailed why NOT to file criminal charges against the former FBI director.
ABC cites sources familiar with the memo, who also noted that justice department lawyers would be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving th…
Medicare to use AI to pre-authorize certain treatments in 6 states including NJ in 2026. Why? To reduce costs.
Also known as rationing healthcare. By a computer.
#medicare #AI #rationing
November 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…
us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…
I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe
- an Epstein survivor
- just sued the Bank of New York Mellon
for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report
A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops.
Seems bribey to me.
https://bsky.app/pro…
bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
Somebody needs to tell Trump WHY Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
#uspol #venezuela #trump #wwii
us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…
@hex@kolektiva.social
