Should I dive down the rabbit hole of learning #Godot while I already have so many other projects on the go? Probably not.
Am I? Of course.
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I was looking into solutions to allow players on my minetest server to use the shops that have been set up without just ransacking the entire stock (as has happened multiple times in the past). In my search, I have discovered that there is a mod that allows bitcoin to be converted into in-game currency... because, of course there is.
Grifters gonna grift, I suppose.
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"What makes the Ontario government's policy direction especially puzzling and troubling is that, by Canadian standards, Ontario actually performs very well in terms of wait times for priority procedures," said Andrew Longhurst of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Is it really that puzzling, though? This feels very on-brand for Ford. I'm sure he or his friends would benefit financially from this.
Waterloo Region Health Coalition raises concerns over private healthcare bill
Advocates are hoping to bring attention to concerns around Bill 60.CTVNewsKitchener.ca (CTV News)
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fun fact: the reason why the Sun will last for billions of years still isn't because it's a fusion reactor, but because the amount of energy it emits per unit of time doesn't grow exponentially like our energy consumption does. If we could consume it with a 2% growth rate (doubling time: 35 years), even converting it to energy with 100% efficiency, we would consume the entire solar system (Sun included) in less than 3,000 years.
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Unfortunately, a great deal. One of he things needing to be overcome in lasting long enough in multiple Goldilocks Zones, (its not just solar distance) is a galaxy large enough that the potential or probable sterilizing Gamma Ray Bursts are more than 50 to 70,000 light years away.
Earth is lucky to be out on the rim of a large galaxy.
90% of galaxies are probably sterile.
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@ryan2one3 the creation of the universe is widely regarded as a bad move.
It's boring and it becomes more boring in future. It will become a cold energy soup.
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This is now the second time that Katy has tried to FaceTime her mother from the contact on her phone, which she's used a thousand times before, and gotten a random stranger.
Is there a problem with FaceTime's routing or something?
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as it SHOULD be!
now to choose a weird os to be my daily driver...
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"your computer looks weird, what is it?"
"it's trenchcoat os - it uses an amoeba microkernel and a port of qemu with GEM as a display environment. It's running on those small spider-like robots that are crawling up the wall."
"I'm calling the cops."
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#Git on #Plan9 is borken in weird ways.
Want to rebase branch A on top of branch B? No you don't. You want to change A to match B and drop all other commits.
Want to merge A into B but there's a conflict? Let's just arbitrarily take the line from A and ignore the one from B. That's what you wanted, right?
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@pixx I don't know if it's something weird about the version of git that's on SDF's Plan9 server. Perhaps it's out of date, but I've created an example repository that illustrates what I'm talking about.
You can clone from https://git.fingerprintsoftware.ca/9p/example.git and consult the README.md file for details.
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Surely, I can use this void pointer safely...
*SEGFAULT*
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Content warning: whinging about Rogers (Canadian telco)
Number of times I've had to reboot the modem so far today: 3
I'm sure it won't be the last either. This has been ongoing since at least Thursday. Rogers needs to get their shit together.
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Attention fediverse:
Curry is delicious.
That is all.
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God help me, I've started to like using #ed.
Is it the most efficient way to edit text files? No.
Is it weirdly fun to figure out how to manipulate it into doing what I want?
Kind of.
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@Jonathan Lamothe Have you read https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed ?
I have a copy
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I'm thinking about opening a Redbubble.com store with some of my drawing/designs.
Would you be interested on it?
If so, what would you like to see there from mine ( Flying cars? Batrachian figures? Spaceships? ) and what kind of product would you like to have available for it?
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I keep wondering if there’s a particular unit I can drill out to get a bit more privacy.
Twelve minutes later, this shows up in my feed...
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111376972347918610
The auto industry has even more contempt for your privacy than Big Tech, which is saying something. Now an appeals court has ruled that the car makers can intercept and sell your private information, and you can't do a damn thing about it.https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy
Well, one thing: Don't hook up your phone to these sleazy companies' "entertainment" systems.
h/t @dangoodin
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.therecord.media
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.therecord.media
Positioned with how many corps utilize a default opted-in model, and you have to know and request opt-out.... yuck.
https://www.treehugger.com/converting-your-car-to-an-electric-vehicle-4858603
Converting Your Gas-Powered Car to Electric
Did you know you can convert a gas-powered car to an electric one? Here's everything you need to know.Justin Thomas (Treehugger)
if Mozilla is to be believed, cell phones are way better
Which is, of course, terrifying
I hadn't been in the market, but now I'm pretty sure I may never buy a new car again.
Remember when cars were some people's only refuge of privacy?
Your bicycle will never betray you.
(Unless you got a networked e-bike. In which case, what are you doing?)
“Paid software features are anticipated to become a major revenue stream for the automotive industry in years to come. Stellantis, for example, expects $22.5 billion in income from software features by 2030. However, owners themselves are pushing back, and in some cases have unlocked features for free by jailbreaking their cars.”
Jail breaks from hacks, backdoor access and bugs. Unleashing a tidal wave of problems.
<https://www.thedrive.com/news/audi-will-paywall-more-software-features-in-future-cars>
Audi Will Paywall More Software Features Starting Next Year
Car companies like Audi expect paid software to become a big part of their business in coming years, even if consumers don't want it.James Gilboy (The Drive)
I live right on a busy street with a red light close by. I can't tell you the number of open, ready-to-connect devices my Home Assistant spots every single day as cars idle out front.
I have to go 'ignore ignore ignore' and clean up every so often.
Like - 40+ year old cars often still work. But what if the new ones can't phone home in a decade?
Here is a procedure to remove the cellular modem from your Hyundai Kona.
My thought is if this exists for Hyundai, it probably exists for most other cars.
https://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/offnet.html
Kona EV: no more Bluelink
Finding and disabling the cellular modem for BlueLink in the Kona EVtechno-fandom.org
I have a complaint about #Plan9 #C.
I don't like that a literal 0
is accepted as a null pointer. I just spent an embarrassingly long time tracking down a segfault because in an attempt to zero out a buffer, I accidentally used memcpy(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf))
instead of memset(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf))
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The compiler should've been able to catch this.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.Ars Technica
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@glyn Because, in the beginning at least, I don't have a framework to write the tests with. This is for Plan9, and as far as I can tell, no such thing exists yet.
I've written a very basic framework at this point. My next step will be to write tests for that, and then go full TDD to write the convenience features.
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Apple added those "reactions" in the most recent macOS and iOS OS update _and_ had them enabled by default.
They're 100% processed locally with on-device GPUs and local models.
They're also 100% annoying and I'm not super happy abt the “enabled by default” part.
Here's how to disable on both platforms:
https://lifehacker.com/why-you-keep-triggering-fireworks-during-video-calls-a-1850924117
Why You Keep Triggering Fireworks During Video Calls (and How to Fix It)
Yes, those are balloons shooting up from your screen. You aren't imagining it.Khamosh Pathak (Lifehacker)
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So you say, but that claim--that the reactions are 100% on-device--is based on what? Hearsay? Apple PR? I wouldn't believe that till someone analyzed the behavior of the apps and determined that no data was being shared. If the last decade or so of Big Tech has taught us anything, it's that these companies will shamelessly take whatever data they feel entitled to at any time, without consent, till they're forced to stop, even as they tell us they're not doing that. There is 0 reason to trust them; they've violated that trust too many times and need to earn it back by behaving as good actors. Apple is no saint in this regard.
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We need a news wire service.
We need a distribution network.
We need to embrace the technological realities of our modern age and bring forth the promise of distributed manufacturing.
(This is not a new thought for me, or for the world. I've got pages on how it could/might work, and even a url attached. https://meansofproduction.org/ the time has come, the walrus said.)
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Spent the morning meticulously reworking the budget, and was feeling rather proud of myself.
This evening a visit to the emergency vet undid a bunch of that work. Guess I have to revisit it again tomorrow, but at least @Benny is going to be okay.
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So, I recently switched from an #AMD64 #VPS to an #ARM one, and I'm trying to gradually bring all the services I was running back up on the new server. It has generally been pretty easy since most of the actual hosting is being done on a local machine and the VPS is serving as more of a router, but I am having some trouble with my #Owncast server.
I can just reinstall it, but I don't know how to carry over the federation information (and associated keys). I have a backup copy of the owncast directory from the old server, but given that it contains AMD64 binaries, I can't just copy the whole directory and call it a day. Is ther eany way I can copy this data out of the old directory and import it into a fresh installation?
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