@jby@ecoevo.socialBefore we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…
@gwire@mastodon.socialEnjoying the footnote speculation that LLMs recognise Neal Stephenson novels based on random paragraphs appended to spam to fool content classifiers.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialPVS-Studio blog writer Georgii Tormozov summarizes a long list of improvements made to Microsoft's next LTS (and anniversary release) .NET 10. This overview highlights support for C# 14, performance enhancements, new libraries (including post-quantum crypto.), runtime and SDK. A good read to keep up with the latest and greatest in .NET.
"What's new in .NET 10"
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaBefore systemd:
Read the wiki and make sure to list the services in the right order so that you can successfully start them all, from networking to a graphical interface to log into.
High chace of messing up.
After:
Enable sddm
Enable network manager
The system will figure out order and dependencies and will parallelize as much as possible automatically.
#systemd
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzMy favorite Organum record! David Jackman got his start in Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and continued down his own improvising path. In the 1990’s he collaborated with a variety of artists, but that fizzled out by the end of the century. His newer records are available from Die Stadt or a distributor in your country.
https://…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuNext on my list to read, after I finish Tom Holt "In Your Dreams".
What are you reading? #reading
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