Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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@lavaeolus @realn2s this part deeply confuses me
ISCC is a pure object identifier that is not intended for resolving, i.e. accessing, the object in question.
it is absolutely not widely understood, but a cryptographic signature is generally the same thing as a checksum, and generally it just computes a checksum then does something else to the result. so it's just very strange that they're asserting that the identifier for integrity cannot be used to resolve. i don't understand why
@lavaeolus @realn2s cynically, i would say it's because anyone can create an integrity identifier, whereas DOI registration is highly centralized. wonder what @jonny thinks about the above, goodness knows i'm not even an expert on cryptography
i do absolutely think it would be possible to develop non-slop ontologies of major data formats so that we could get really meaningful diff calculations. that's something a bunch of motivated people could totally do (i was thinking of making it a feature in my version control tool that could be implemented oni a per-repo basis). so i am 100% about the idea of hashing that conforms to document structure, and i think it's totally never been done before afaict
@CCirco ooh! Reminds me, to properly claim that title I’ll have to submit IDs for the titles that weren’t in MusicBrainz 😇
@meljoann just reading up on Picard now, sorry I don't have any quick tips to help out, but I have been doing similar work using Yate (not connected to a database like MusicBrainz though).
It is tedious, but sometimes the work needs to get done. 🙏
Em :official_verified:
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...The transition also doesn't mean that every government body has been ordered to abandon Microsoft software. The directive's scope remains undisclosed. Still, the writing is on the wall: China's future government desktop will be Linux...
Surprised they didn't do it before.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
David Gerard
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@DerivativeThoughts @davidgerard
Members of the LessWrong apocalyptic AI cult also tend to get angry when you point out that they do their math wrong.
(e.g. the time I tried to explain to one of them that "Bayesian prior" is not the same thing as "make up a number".)
That was Ali's ball and he uncharateristically didn't catch it. The two goals are also uncharacteristic.
Bonfire
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Alle #Jacobin Leser:innen finden mich nun auch auf dem sozialen Netzwerk des Magazins!
https://jacobin.social/@ErikUden
Kommt gerne auch her — nicht lange ist es hin, dann wird es aber dem Fediverse geöffnet sein!
Bonfire
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Alle #Jacobin Leser:innen finden mich nun auch auf dem sozialen Netzwerk des Magazins!
https://jacobin.social/@ErikUden
Kommt gerne auch her — nicht lange ist es hin, dann wird es aber dem Fediverse geöffnet sein!
David Gerard
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@davidgerard Man, I was a big fan of HPMOR when I was a teenager.
It really was quite a popular fanfic, and I think lots of people in the HP fandom of the time read it, without going into any of Yudkowsky's rationality brainrot on LessWrong.
I'm real glad I didn't get very sucked into it myself, and that I had a large amount of IRL people around me to keep me grounded.
For anybody who wants to learn more, the Behind The Bastards episode on the Ziz cult is well done.
@brianb Honestly, DDEV is great for this as you can specify php / MySQL versions in a config file. And have different ones for different projects.
@mattwilcox Thanks. I'll take a look at it today.
Russ Sharek
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Saw this and thought of @RussSharek immediately!
@cstross Yes.
I came of age in the Reagan years. We had scammers then, but they knew it was a scam.
The people who believed those scammers are now in charge, served by a generation raised to believe the scams.
I can only hope that the reality check isn't too brutal for the rest of us.
@mwl Alas, it's the same in the UK. For the period 1989-2010 we were ruled by Thatcher's imitators and subalterns; since 2010 we've been ruled by deeply stupid Thatcher cosplayers who believed all the lies her Friedmanite minions fed the public.
But at least we're not in a position to fuck up the whole global trade system.
Saw this and thought of @RussSharek immediately!
I love that. :)
hypebot
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"How beavers are quietly tackling Europe’s raging wildfires and helping burnt landscapes recover"
https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/29/how-beavers-are-quietly-tackling-europes-raging-wildfires-and-helping-burnt-landscapes-rec
#SolarPunkSunday #ReWilding #Beavers #WetLands #LandScapes #WildLife #Nature #BioDiversity #WildFires #Drought #FloodPlains
Linux hackers are safe, Windows and macOS hackers will steal your data... and you'd better call police if you meet a GPU hacker?!?!
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@lina
And they said it's not sentient...
@meljoann you are now a music archivist 💪
@CCirco ooh! Reminds me, to properly claim that title I’ll have to submit IDs for the titles that weren’t in MusicBrainz 😇
soloojos (Mastodon)
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Stop blowing on your games!
W T-D
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My wake-up call in regard to https://thebiggestlie.wedonthavetime.org/ was when I realized that the children in my family and peer group that just start school will live in that fabled "by the end of the century" world that's often used to describe the impact of climate change.
"By the end of the century" sounds so far away. "When my niece will enter retirement" is surprisingly tangible.
