Having fun using the "Incorrect Information" feature of Google Maps over Lake Ontario.

I want to say this explicitly: When I'm building my feature-phone... I never imagine in my wildest dreams that everyone would use it, or another loosely-similar feature-phone.

My stance is that smartphones have their place, but we shouldn't be obligated to have one. My goal is to provide choices, not to take over the world!

1/tangentially 2!

In 3D computer graphics there's 2 main algorithms used: Triangle-rasterization & ray-tracing. Triangle rasterization was more common until recently (its what OpenGL standardizes) since it can be cheaper, whereas ray-tracing is faster at rendering more complex scenery.

That said there's research into bringing some of the major benefits of raytracing to cheaper GPUs, & one technique I've learned recently (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3so7xdZHKxw ) is Radiance Cascades!

1/3?

@mariapopova The Year of Magical Thinking is such a great and full book. It's like this article on the scale of a whole novel.

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

— John Updike

#quotes

@phillip agreed. I’m open to options, but it’s less likely that I’ll be able to trust myself with that task.

I really feel like we had several prominent FOSS organizations fail us by not saying "hey hold on, don't use generative AI in FOSS projects, we're not sure what the legal, community, environmental implications of this are but there are serious problems and we have a history of taking a stand" and I worry that maybe we lost our moment to be principled, except in niche spaces, and the walls are closing in

And... I'm really sad about it. I think we're underestimating the amount of damage that's happening. :\

Gaussian Splatting is a recent technique for taking a bunch of geolocated photos of a location & converting them into a digital 3D scene! Represented as splotches of virtual paint in 3D space.
Could potentially be very useful...

It works by repeatedly repositioning & recolouring these splats until they match your photos, taking advantage of how efficient it is to render these splats. Once trained it renders in real-time, & training is reasonably fast too.

1/2!

@1password is funding known racist and all around asshole #DHH's insecure #Linux distro #Omarchy? WTF is this about? I've been a #1Password customer for many years but it's not possible to recommend after this. How about you claw this money back right now and never touch any of his projects again with a ten foot pole? 😡

https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1password-funds-ethnic-cleansing/

I feel so much better when I'm actually building things!

It gives me something to talk about other than how computing's going to shit. I have the chance about how I'm doing my small part in making it better! And all the steps I'm taking.

I am motivated by ambitious goals, but all that really matters to me is that I'm programming! That I'm engaging with my craft.

Do you want to tinker with a Redbox machine? We are imminently moving and need three of them to not be in our garage because we won't have room for all of them.

They're free.
You'll need a truck.
Please come adopt one.
Must go by September 13th. Any units not claimed will be recycled.

Located near Bellevue, WA.

wife went to the pharmacy to get me some pseudoephedrine, but the chemist remembered that she’s my wife and knows the medicine I’m taking and said not to use it - recommended something else instead and saved me a bit of grief, thanks for giving a shit local pharmacist!

The Senate votes September 15 on whether to take up the CLARITY Act, the crypto market structure bill. The motion needs 60 votes and Republicans hold 53 seats.

Reporting says Senator Gallego was one of seven Democrats who rejected the Republican-drafted version. Indivisible is asking Arizonans to tell him to hold that line and Senator Kelly to join him.

Gallego 202-224-4521. Kelly 202-224-2235.

https://act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-democrats-oppose-and-stop-trumps-crypto-corruption/

#Arizona #Congress #ArizonaPolitics

@mastodonmigration

You probably know this has already been done in Mr. Robot, in which E Corp, the largest multinational conglomerate in the world, became Evil Corp for all four seasons of the show due to the story being from Elliott's POV.

"There is no such thing as a self-made person. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

— George Shinn

#quotes

Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) define a signficantly more-efficient datamodel for processing spatial information!
I'd use this in the feature-phone I'm planning, so I don't need a fancier CPU for a rarely-used feature.

Imagine triangles, hexagons, or squares tessellated across the earth's surface with more of the same nested inside. Give each an ID based on its position in this hierarchy & represent a location as a set of these zone IDs... Then its as cheap to process as any other set!

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@frogzone
> if i had to prioritize between whether to decentralise one thing or another, i would have to say ... archive.org ... has to take precedence over wikipedia

Luckily we don't have to pick just one.

> i NEVER use wikipedia they are a political weapon

Thanks for this, I needed a laugh.

> If it were democratised then googel would simply throw them in the trach heap

Not sure what this has to do with anything.

@yoasif @davidrevoy