This definitely looks like an instant buy for me, look at all that #ChronoTrigger inspiration!
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states? Call your reps and demand change, like they did in New Hampshire! Recently, it was brought to my attention that Illinois has aβ¦
resiliencymentalhealth.com/202β¦
Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states?β¦Resiliency Mental Health
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Dear CLI utility writers (*cough* nmcli *cough*) that assume a terminal width larger than 80 columns,
Could you just... NOT, please?
Use two lines per entry if you have to, pad it out, abbreviate something, I don't care. Just don't put important details after the 80th column, please! π’
(I standardize on 80 columns because that's what old terminals used, and I'm doing more than one thing at a time, always. Thank you =)
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I use $(tput cols) in my scripts because $COLUMNS is only populated if running directly on a tty (i.e. not piped)
tput is very useful for resetting the terminal, querying terminal settings, and setting terminal colors.
Unfortunately, the manpage is *awful*
You can also get terminal status from stty, which is a bit more common than tput
hollywood package/binary you can get on Debian? It makes a hollywood-style hacker screen by running tons of utilities tiled, but on a laptop screen most of them just say "please make your terminal screen wider". π
Of course! π
IIRC, cmatrix also has a "nomoresecrets" mode Γ la Sneakers (1992)
(If you haven't seen that film, you *must* go watch it. Its basically Hackers (1995), but less of an underworld vibe. But its got Robert Redford!)
And if either of you haven't seen Hackers (1995), WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!???
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I actually don't think the commands should care about or respect your terminal width any more than it does your terminal height. `less` and similar can provide horizontal scrolling if necessary. And, it quite annoys me when I tool builds in a pager rather than using $PAGER from my environment.
That said, for reasons completely unrelated to terminal width, line/field lengths do need to be controlled. Otherwise human eye tracking stops working well.
So it looks like I'm tied to Android for the time being (unless I want to go to iOS). Otherwise, I can't fully access my bank accounts.
Time to go yell at my bank.
The lispy gopher climate will be live in fifty minutes, though you could tune in now to hear @northernlights show (with a more conventional realization of 'music')! anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
#music for the lispy gopher climate will be some of @fstateaudio's Skin Contact imprint.
#lisp ~ that conversation around KMP's port of #zmacs, TRES lost to the sands of time.
This isn't the show toot I'm just making noise that I'm alive, and at least I'm listening to NL right now.
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I'm alive
Well of course we're all glad of that; thanks for the toot.
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Glad to hear you're still alive, and thanks again for the continued support!
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Without fail, every time I boost a post about discrimination on the fedi, I end up seeing a bunch of white guys trying trying to minimize it and telling the original poster why they're wrong and/or being unreasonable.
I'm getting the impression that just maybe the people complaining about this aren't making it up or something.
Weird, right?
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Aw, Downtown Elvis has died. You were always a delight to see (especially if I was upwind of that terrible pipe smoke). Rest in peace.
henrywalser.com/memorials/ron-β¦
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Ron "KW's Elvis" Koch Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information
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Friends, I have a strange ask. Search engines are useless now so I'm hoping someone will know what I'm talking about.
When I was in undergrad, we read a study about drug use in rats. The researchers found that rats can get addicted to drugs, and when you stick a rat in a cage with no community, they almost always get addicted. But when you give them a little rat society with friends and fun stuff to do, some use recreationally but almost none become dependent.
What study was this??
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Was this the Rat Park experiment? ππ€·ββοΈ
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What can the Rat Park experiment teach us about addiction? - UK Addiction Treatment Centres
Ever heard of the Rat Park experiment? In the late β70s, psychologist Bruce Alexander set up a fascinating study. Rats in a fun, social βRat Parkβ were way less likely to self-administer drugs than those in dull, isolated cages.UK Addiction Treatment Centres
@jwcph I'm no brain tech, I diagnose software and machines. But do you mean "Rat Park" ?
is it this one?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/729126β¦
This one seems to be the most widely referenced in popular articles. I'm not familiar with the psychology literature.
Effect of early and later colony housing on oral ingestion of morphine in rats - PubMed
Male and female rats were raised from weaning either in isolation or in a large colony. At 65 days of age, half the rats in each environment were moved to the other.PubMed
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is it this one?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/729126β¦This one seems to be the most widely referenced in popular articles. I'm not familiar with the psychology literature.
Effect of early and later colony housing on oral ingestion of morphine in rats - PubMed
Male and female rats were raised from weaning either in isolation or in a large colony. At 65 days of age, half the rats in each environment were moved to the other.PubMed
Start here! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
There's lots of discussion and criticism, but the references at the bottom of the wikipedia page will point you in the right direction.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/β¦
Using this model, we showed that rewarding social interaction suppresses drug self-administration, relapse to drug seeking, and brain responses to drug-associated cues.
An operant social self-administration and choice model in rats
It is difficult to translate results from animal research on addiction to understanding the behavior of human drug addicts. Despite decades of basic research on neurobiological mechanisms of drug addiction, treatment options remain largely unchanged.PubMed Central (PMC)
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Ooh, I can become an "AWS Certified AI Practitioner", because maybe if we throw enough meaningless words together people won't realize it's all bullshit.
I mean, why not? It works for the AI models themselves, right?
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Every now and then I get startled and wonder when the fuck I became a grown up. I haven't even figured out what I want to be yet and now I'll be lucky if I have 20 years left.
Once in a lifetime....
Been trying to stock up on healthy snacks because my blood sugar situation is slowly degrading.
I forgot how much I love hummus.
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Hi, I was forced to quit my job about a month ago now due to being forced to move by my partners anti-lgbt parents.
We moved to a much more rural area out of necessity unfortunyately job prospects are not looking so great out here.
They effectively kicked us out because they did not approve of what their church teaches them about "homosexual relationships" like the one i have with my transfem partner....
Both my partner and myself have cut down on a lot of our expenses and we desperately need assistance to help pay for a 3+ hour trip to the specialty clinic my partner goes to for her medical needs. Gas is expensive and I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide even if it's only boosting this post.
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"Oh. You need revenue? You'll get revenue."
I say that, as I pull out a singular quarter coin out of my back pocket, and load it into a device, similar to a handgun in its shape. I aim the device in the general direction of their ship and shoot. The coin, almost instantly being accelerated to near-light speeds, pierces their ship and severely damages their oxygen systems, one of the engines and the fuel tank, leaving them effectively stranded in space on a ship that will lose its air soon. Hey, at least they got their revenue, am i right?
"Im not disabling my ad blocker, you idiots. Never."
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Much of that going round these days.
I run with uBlock origin and privacy badger.
And I have no intention of stop running them.
Me in 1991, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation:
"Oh boy, I can't wait until the 21st century. Touchscreens EVERYWHERE!!!!"
Me in 2024:
"Oh dear heavens, not another stupid touchscreen!!! AAAAAAAAAH!"
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@jerkface
My first thought: that photo looks familiar.
Then I read the caption.
Then I noticed the Oracle building.
Advantages of right to repair. You can take your device apart to check what has been added along the supply chain.
Right to repair is now a security issue.
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This is an excellent point,
though I doubt that anyone has ever derived much happiness from suing the Mossad.
What I meant was:
Technically speaking, you can always take apart and inspect a device in your possession. But e.g. sharing information about it publicly might get you sued by the OEM.
This is something that private individuals and companies worry about, but not intelligence agencies.
"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)
#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus
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A while ago on a whim, I did a somewhat deep dive into the abacus. I thought it would be interesting to learn about a device that is sometimes credited as an ancestor of the modern computer.
I've come to be of the opinion that it's not really a fair comparison though. An abacus is not a computer... at least not a full-fledged computer. It doesn't compute anything. Your brain does that. I think it is fair however to compare it to memory, though.
An abacus is essentially an array of memory cells. Instead of storing bytes, it stores digits, but that's a trivial distinction. You even have to allocate those memory cells to accommodate the structure of the data you are operating on, just like you would with the memory in a computer.
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@publius I did not know that. I did know that an earlier incarnation was basically a sandbox though (the so-called dust abacus). It was a box with a thin layer of sand that could be drawn on with your finger or a stick (like a chalk board).
Later iterations involved carving grooves into a hard material and placing stones in them. I imagine the tablecloth spawned from this idea perhaps? (Or maybe the other way around?)
It wasn't 'till later that someone had the idea to put a hole through the stones and thread a rod through them so you wouldn't lose them.
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I hate that modern ICs aren't hand-solderable. I mean, I get why that is, but I still hate it.
Edit: typo
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@RicoElectrico I'll second the recommendation on ESP32. I probably have 10 of them now and they are quite capable.
That said, the Pi Pico is decent too, especially if you have unusual high speed signaling requirements.
my current project is doing just that and with #esp32
[edit]This setup uses a handful of #esp8266 with sensors, all in a mesh with network, plus one esp32-c3 as the bridge to the normal home WiFi network, and a #RaspberryPi Zero for data storage
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Attached: 2 images Since this one works, I ordered a few more sensors and microcontrollers from the same manufacturers and I soldered them I now have a bunch of these little devices around the house, and I am very happy with how they extend the ranβ¦Infosec Exchange
I buy from AdaFruit. Their boards are more powerful than the Arduino, and not as powerful as a Raspberry Pi.
If I need an operating system, I plug an AdaFruit board into a Raspberry Pi.
My most popular project in that area is: github.com/shapr/bloohm
GitHub - shapr/bloohm: visual bloom filter to display process status as neotrellis m4 output
visual bloom filter to display process status as neotrellis m4 output - shapr/bloohmGitHub
Arduino produces a range of boards, including ones that are far more powerful than the Uno.
I would recommend the Pi Pico though if you're looking for something faster than the Uno and still cheap. There's Arduino IDE support for them as well.
@xorbit I just started using one, a C6 (thatβs what they had in stock in the shop where I was ordering the other stuff.)
I program it with the Arduino CLI, because thatβs what Iβm used to and I donβt want to learn another toolchain before I know if I need to. Iβm impressed so far. The dev board is cheaper than an Arduino Nano, it has many features, WiFi, Bluetooth, Flash memory is very flexible.
depends on your use case. Pi and Arduino are extremely different beasts.
Do you need lots of GPIO? Network? Wi-Fi? Memory? Flash? Camera/LCD connections? Floating point or integer only? A multitasking OS (with X! and a GPU!), an RTOS, or bare metal? Interoperability with some ecosystem? With good community support or something raw that you can slog through in god-mode and never need to update?
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That Mozilla thing makes me think of an effect I keep seeing that I tend to call inversion of expertise. I'm sure there's a better name that's already established, but that thing where a priority is set that's manifestly absurd, such that only people *without* the expertise to realize the absurdity get promoted into decision-making positions.
That then further erodes institutional capabilities, and makes it even harder to incorporate expertise.
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I think that's because it's a confluence of factors? The market reacts to the hype, big companies react to the hype to increase their stock price and then look at each other like "oh crap, we have to keep going or our *competitors will win*", lather rinse repeat. I think there are decision makers that know it won't pan out at some places, but feel obligated to get in on the hype before the bubble pops.
Was the same way with Blockchain and dotcom (in bigger ways).
Oooohhhh great question. Ed Zitron encapsulates the end result in "rot economy" but I don't think I've seen a term for it. Like, Ed talked a lot about the impacts of this in this piece: wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-kiβ¦
Let's make one!
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
I'm sure it happens for other reasons, too, but in #uspol we see it because the person appointing / hiring has a position (political view) that does not reflect observed reality, such that people with sufficient expertise can't support that position and don't get hired / appointed.
I'm sure it happens all the time for more bureaucratic reasons to.. institutions are almost always incapable of winding down and ceasing operations, even when that would benefit the persons they serve.
@BoydStephenSmithJr @ShadSterling Kind of... that's the idea that someone is promoted because they are competent, but fail to be promoted once they reach the ceiling of their competence, ensuring that they eventually end up in a job for which they are definitionally unsuited.
What I'm pointing out differs in two ways: the promotions in this case are *because* they're incompetent, and I'm looking for the systemic consequences of that selection rather than the individual consequences.
My mother-in-law overestimates my command of the Spanish language (though knowing French is admittedly helpful).
She claims that I understand 80% of what I hear. It's closer to 30%, but I can piece a lot together through context.
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@FenAesirs I think they believe that "ethical" or "privacy preserving" or "insert trait here" forms of LLMs are possible
"It's not the tech, it's the capitalism!"
... then they can get the money or the marketing hype or whatever, and keep their users too!
Not realizing that for many running it in the cloud at all is the problem
And for many more, it actually *is* the tech
Since I am not a dumbass, I know that it doesn't actually take $400,000,000 a year to develop a web browser. So since Mozilla gets at least that much EVERY FUCKING YEAR from one source out of the many they have available, why are they now asking for donations from me?
Perhaps it is time to get back to developing a web browser, rather than other things that aren't web browsers that you wish to stuff in my web browser in order to monetize me?
@.vad//hakaraπ§ It turns out, making a web browser is more complicated than you would think.*
I doubt it costs $400,000,000, as you point out, but there's a reason there's so little competition in the market.
* Looking at the HTML5 spec, I can't escape the conclusion that this is by design.
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