Red Squirrel.

BOING!

#redsquirrel #highlands #photography

Seattle is a community. Fuck ICE. Protect your neighbors.

@ju @andre123 Void Linux è una grande distribuzione Linux. E' mantenuta e ha quello spirito "minimal" senza systemd, ecc. E' ad oggi la mia prima scelta su desktop, specialmente in accoppiata con ZFS e l'encryption. Ne ho scritto (e fatto uno script) qui: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/

In merito ai BSD - sì, la compatibilità hardware può essere più problematica (es: FreeBSD non sospende sui laptop recenti, ecc) ma poi l'esperienza è simile (se non migliore, sotto certi aspetti).

Su laptop non recentissimi, consiglierei di provare FreeBSD e OpenBSD. NetBSD può essere ulteriormente più indietro come driver, ma senza dubbio ha uno sviluppo meno incentrato sull'innovazione e più sulla stabilità.

In generale, il mondo BSD è molto più conservativo e, in qualche modo, tendente all'evoluzione, non alla rivoluzione.

@jenniferplusplus "please use it so my business can prosper!!!! but not too much because using it will cost me money"

People are angry at Google (justifiably, Google sucks) for renaming Lake Ontario in maps when we know Apple did the same with the Gulf of Mexico so it's only a matter of time before it changes there too. Apple also sucks. These fucking tech bros bent the knee years ago.

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501611

#HackerNews #open #source #SM750 #GPU #HDMI #driver #technology #code #contribution

@frost Det ser ut som jumbotroner med enskilda RGB-dioder, dvs ingen LCD-film med polarisering framför ljuskällan. Den som vill slippa bli anfallen av reklamvideo i tunnelbanan gör nog tyvärr bäst i att inte åka tunnelbana. Vilket inte alltid är ett alternativ.

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@mekkaokereke I got pulled over on a Missouri freeway. Saw the cop car pull out the median just as it occurred to me I was a little too close to the Camry ahead.

I was in a rentcar, a Corolla. I pulled all the way over, put on the flashers, and sat there with my hands atop the steering wheel, not looking back or moving around or reaching for anything.

The cop stepped up to the passenger side of the car, and I couldn't roll the window down. I was pushing the correct button the correct direction, but the window stayed up. Meanwhile, the cop is repeating himself with increasing irritation: "Sir, LOWER THE WINDOW."

I said, loudly but toned not to sound aggressive, "It won't go down! I'm opening the door!", and I reached, slowly and open-handed, across the car to open the door.

I explained it was a rentcar and the window controls didn't seem to be working, and the situation de-escalated; I agreed with him I'd been following the Camry too closely and he gave me a warning and let me go.

The whole time, and even more afterward, I was keenly and uncomfortably aware that very probably the only reason it went and wound up as it did was the colour of my skin. At any of numerous points, a POC likely would have been differently and badly (mis)treated or worse.

(turns out someone had previously engaged the window lock, which was severely misdesigned by Toyota. The right way is to lock out control of the windows by all switches _except_ the driver's; this one just disabled the power windows entire, and the lock switch was hidden from easy reach or onvious use. I would bet people have been arrested for obstruction and resisting, and have suffered roadside punishment for noncompliance, as a result.)

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@chadmccullough/117181670446402505

Already during my computer science undergraduate program, I took quite a few deep learning classes, and even wrote my thesis about deep learning.

And I see both AI and "AI" for what it is.

With deep learning we could do interesting things, like deciphering the language of sperm whales. How do sperm whales communicate with each other? Do they talk about the warming oceans? Do they notice that the water is getting warmer? Are they freaking out?

Whales are interesting. Each whale has a unique whistle and they use that as their name. They can call each other by their specific whistle unique to them and they hear each other even kilometers apart.

There was even a time when marine biologists observed that many whales wear algae or shells or something like that as a hat, which seemed to be a funny weird fashion fad.

It would be cool to understand their language.

Stories like that is what got me interest in studying machine learning.

But the reliably working AI (pattern recognition, computer vision, …) is only used to build out surveillance, police states, war machinery, and tyrannies.

And the unreliably working "AI" (large language models, generative AI, …) is only used as a power grab by the capitalist class, a way to concentrate power in their hands even more, to devalue labor, and as information warfare on objective truth and a shared reality. Fascists love GenAI to build out a "parallel reality", which fits very well with what fascists like Curtis Yarvin and Balaji Srinivasan have been advocating for for decades already.

This is not something I want to contribute to, so I left the field very quickly after graduating from university and (no longer being consumed 60 hours a week by a demanding technical program) having gained some spare time to study the humanities and social aspects as opposed to the purely technical focus my studies have had until then.

Many people without a technical background (artists, painters, poets, musicians, or just random everyday people) seem to intuitively see the grift. It's the people with a technical background who claim to be atheists and rational, not religious, who are the most quasi-religious zealots who believe in an artificial intelligence as their substitute God.

#GenAI #fascism

@TheBreadmonkey can't believe he's still alive and DJing.

I mean, it's brilliant, but I remember being at a Carl Cox night in Edinburgh and it probably wasn't that long after the Vikings had stopped attacking.

@jetton my condolences on your loss 😢

Poll!

I have spent some time investigating how to turn Xfce into a layout resembling macOS and Ubuntu Unity. The pic is on Debian 13.

I have it working fairly well now: global menu bar, dock with indicators, etc.

Would many people be interested in an article on how to do this?

Google follows a predictable pattern whenever there is a legal conflict between maps: appease each country's legal claims when browsed from within each country, then show as a territory in dispute when browsed from anywhere else. They already do so with Crimea (Ukrainian for Ukraine, Russian for Russia, disputed elsewhere), the Gulf of Mexico/America (America from the US, Mexico from Mexico, both for the rest of the world), and now the Lake Ontario/America (same as above).

@parismarx Btw, while looking at all 4 interfaces, I was stunned by how clean and minimal Apple’s map looks, despite having the same information.
Apple really cares about design.

Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.
https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-is-lying-to-cops-about-404-medias-reporting-on-abortion-case/

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