my hot take that the nerds don't like is that the idea of two files being "the same" is socially constructed. even on the strictest technical level, having the same bits in the same order is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for identity. but also any digital artifact comes to us with important context that shapes our interpretation of it, of which only a small part is digitally encoded (where did i get this file, who made it, how was it made, how is it stored, etc.)

My smile is worth 10K UGX 😂, but whenever I get to our garden, it automatically puts itself on without any cost, I don’t know why🤔

Just look at what is in the background… 👀 And what do you think is behind the cameraman? 👉https://mas.to/@sustainable_schools/117167892392960300

(Let’s just say there’s a lot more interesting stuff growing there. Proud of our garden)

@sustainable_schools @econetwork

#gardening #sustainability #regenerativefarming #permaculture

The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/

But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083

I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.

it's deeply funny that the q = 2^m - 1 criterion was not one well known to science because number theorists were more obsessed with being bigger they named 2^m + 1 and even 2^(2^m) + 1 but this construction for discrete log eluded them. i think that's funny

@cwebber "People should be able to communicate without first surrendering themselves to corporations or governments."

Anyone who defies the fascist machinery of surveillance and oppression is an enemy of the Turd Reich.

It's a badge of honor, of sorts.

Everyone who values privacy and civil liberties/freedom should perk their ears and heed this case.

We are all Autistici/Inventati.

Tante grazie, @cavallette

#AutisticiInventati

Before I get too deeply embedded in my own Computer Bullshit, I'd really love to hear from you.

What are interesting hardware and software projects happening right now?

Who's doing weird stuff with computers?

What are projects that haven't gotten enough attention.

I was, when I was paying attention, really into LoRa mesh stuff, project gemini/smallweb stuff, retrocomputing, and anything that positioned a microcontroller as a PC replacement or companion.

I was carrying a palm, or a HP200LX, and I was doing a bulk of my daily work on an HP Omnibook 430 (or 425?) running MS-DOS and Win31 from ROM on AA batteries (It's the best computer that ever existed.)

Get ready for ICFP 2027 in Nijmegen!!

@arstechnica
"Color me intrigued..."
/Swiss mole with a panty fetish

@tfb not a clue! But it’s giving, “I hate when people care about me. I only use products that overtly hate me. I need to suffer.”

youre telling me a "game engine" is this thing that updates a bunch of subsystems in a tight loop for I/O, graphics, sound etc, provides a way of loading/streaming data from disk with caching and background streaming, manages the execution state of units of code which run on specific conditions and themselves may trigger other code, offers features like a GUI framework and multimedia codecs, and provides a platform layer so that all this can run on a variety of hardware? mate. thats called an OS

congratulations to John Hughes, this year’s recipient of the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award!!

@farah lumber tariffs just got real @DavidZinn

My review on GNU/Linux of the drawing tablet XPpen Artist 12 3rd is now published! It's a clever little display drawing tablet and relatively cheap, I’m truly loving it! I've already used it to finish a comic on the train, and it'll be my my go-to device for travelling from now on. 🩷 Taking the pink one was the best decision!

- On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deVfSmdSdc
- On Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/hRxT1Vnp2vQvbwxqHPBd4W
- Companion blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1169/xppen-artist-12-3rd-review-on-gnulinux

#linux #hardware #xppen #review

My review on GNU/Linux of the drawing tablet XPpen Artist 12 3rd is now published! It's a clever little display drawing tablet and relatively cheap, I’m truly loving it! I've already used it to finish a comic on the train, and it'll be my my go-to device for travelling from now on. 🩷 Taking the pink one was the best decision!

- On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deVfSmdSdc
- On Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/hRxT1Vnp2vQvbwxqHPBd4W
- Companion blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1169/xppen-artist-12-3rd-review-on-gnulinux

#linux #hardware #xppen #review

Hey you know how your grandparents could buy physical things that would sometimes last years or even decades before needing to be replaced but now every physical object you buy has planned obsolescence baked into it from the very beginning requiring you to buy that same object over and over and over as the old ones break and wear out?

They want to do that with knowing things. That's what AI is. It's planned obsolescence applied to information. They're feeding terabytes of data to the AIs and immediately destroying it afterwards. The plan is you don't get to know things anymore. They want to make you pay repeatedly for access to basic information.

@9to5Mac I just switched from Apple to Pixel ;)

@eloquence @alda FYI

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