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Official Pronouncement
By the power vested in us, the internet users of the world, we hereby declare the name Google has officially been changed to Evil in each and every occurance of the word.
It is no longer allowed to refer to products like Evil Maps, Evil Mail, Evil Docs and Evil Photos using their former names.
Thank you very much for you attention to this matter.
@JulianOliver how far away that decision, to stay sober, from being the best one in last 5 years?
@alex27 tbh It's right up there. Everything got better. Mood, focus, memory, cognition / problem solving, endurance & fitness, sleep & dreamlife. More present for the important people in my life. I look forward to never drinking again!
What’s REALLY driving up America’s debt? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whats-really-driving-up-americas?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Chains are pretty hard for a #physicsengine , right? Today, I've been cleaning up issues to make this work. #WorldFabric
Covid vax info for US:
https://shouldntneedtobealawyer.com/posts/fda-approves-but-167884235?pr=true
Please get the vaccination. No, you’re not “taking it away” from anyone by getting it.
@cwebber not at this time but I am teachable
@dragon all of these work by moving around references to pages in kernel memory and if they were ever a valid optimization it was predicated upon performance considerations from back in the 90s that made copies really slow. i found this page to be very helpful regarding the concept of the page cache https://blog.pr4tt.com/2016/02/02/BSD-virtual-memory/ and particularly this dissertation on the uvm virtual memory system describes it thusly http://chuck.cranor.org/p/diss.pdf
One major problem with traditional operating systems is that they require unnecessary data copies. Data copies are expensive for a number of reasons. First, the bandwidth of main memory is limited. Each copy made of the data is effected by this. Second, to copy data, the CPU must move it word-by-word from the source buffer to the destination. While the CPU is busy moving data it is unavailable to the user application. Finally, data copying often flushes useful information out of the cache. since the CPU accesses main memory through the cache, the process of copying data fills the cache with the data being copied — displacing potentially useful data that was resident in the cache before the copy.
@dragon i think this absolutely should not be done anymore and that modern CPUs have completely upended the optimal scenarios for high-performance dataflow
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay by @sjvn
https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/08/17/be-a-hater-all-you-want-ais-here-to-stay/5288275
This came in the mail today, what a joy! Thanks to @Steve and others at @geosocialcoop . If you want to read what I sound like, unedited, there's an interview with me about unions and worker cooperatives, making the case for radical democratic worker self-organization in both...
You can subscribe on https://geo.coop.
Brey, it took two days.
Two days after the good people on Minny did a general strike, 120 CEOs wrote Trump to tell him "I will bury you in the backyard if this doesn't stop." Two days after that Trump ordered the withdrawal of the occupying Gestapo army, and in essence fired both of its commanders. A couple days after that, dragging his feet like a disciplined child, Tom Homan left.
Now did that end ICE in Minny? No. But the army went home when it said it was gonna stay forever. It worked.
Imagine what we could do if we all just didn't buy anything or go to work for a week?
They might be begging us to accept Trump's head on a pike.
This ain't 1890. This version of capitalism dies if the money stops moving. We can kill it.
Work to consolidate Japan's centrist opposition political parties has effectively collapsed, with Komeito-affiliated lawmakers in the Centrist Reform Alliance deciding not to merge with the party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/31/japan/politics/cra-komeito/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #cdp #cra #komeito
Gleichzeitig gibt es noch reichlich andere Arbeit: gar nicht erschlossene Bestände, Verzeichnungsinformationen zwar vorhanden, aber noch nicht online zugänglich - muss alles gemacht werden. Nur wann?
Und ich glaube ja nicht, dass Archive noch mal mehr Personal bekommen werden. Die Zeiten sind nicht so.
Und um jüngste Bemerkungen von @Lambo aufzugreifen: Die Arbeit wird ja auch nicht gesehen.
Also: Freuen oder verzweifeln?
Dimmi a che ora mangi e ti dirò di che Paese sei: la mappa europea della cena
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/09/01/news/dimmi_a_che_ora_mangi_e_ti_diro_di_che_paese_sei_la_mappa_europea_della_cena-425557620/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica
Cried in frustration over my emails at 7:30 am on a Monday morning about stupid shit that's going to happen in orbit and my inability to do anything about it, and my apparent inability to even organize others to do anything about it. It's going to be great week, I can tell.
I due fidanzati calabresi che sfidano le tradizioni dei Castelli Romani
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/09/01/news/cantina_agros_romani_storia_fidanzati_calabresi_grazie_versace_michele_colao-425557628/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica
Brey, brass tacks - SCOTUS is in on the plot, which means the courts won't save you. The only thing that has worked to slow down Trump this entire time was a multi-day general strike in Minneapolis and the surrounding area. That stopped Trump cold. And for whatever reason the American people decided to take the media's word for it that the only thing they did that worked so far, will never work.
Brey, it took two days.
Two days after the good people on Minny did a general strike, 120 CEOs wrote Trump to tell him "I will bury you in the backyard if this doesn't stop." Two days after that Trump ordered the withdrawal of the occupying Gestapo army, and in essence fired both of its commanders. A couple days after that, dragging his feet like a disciplined child, Tom Homan left.
Now did that end ICE in Minny? No. But the army went home when it said it was gonna stay forever. It worked.
file_copy_range is also a spicy splice. how does it differ from sendfile?
@dragon all of these work by moving around references to pages in kernel memory and if they were ever a valid optimization it was predicated upon performance considerations from back in the 90s that made copies really slow. i found this page to be very helpful regarding the concept of the page cache https://blog.pr4tt.com/2016/02/02/BSD-virtual-memory/ and particularly this dissertation on the uvm virtual memory system describes it thusly http://chuck.cranor.org/p/diss.pdf
One major problem with traditional operating systems is that they require unnecessary data copies. Data copies are expensive for a number of reasons. First, the bandwidth of main memory is limited. Each copy made of the data is effected by this. Second, to copy data, the CPU must move it word-by-word from the source buffer to the destination. While the CPU is busy moving data it is unavailable to the user application. Finally, data copying often flushes useful information out of the cache. since the CPU accesses main memory through the cache, the process of copying data fills the cache with the data being copied — displacing potentially useful data that was resident in the cache before the copy.
The correct answers to the Trolley Problem is not playing it.
“But you have to!!” Nope, I’m outta here.
Give me a real life problem; I’ll even live with the consequences all my life.
Thinking for the sake of only thinking is stupid. And I say that as someone who already live in their head way too much
Also why do we accept challenges like these without compensation as if cognitive labor is nothing? That’s how we ended up with LLMs !
You want me to solve the trolley problem? Pay me
Heard this for the first time today, thanks to a news report on BBC 4 that a friend sent me.
Dolly Parton's song, I Will Always Love You, in Arabic, by Mayada Bseliss, a Syrian singer, known as The Lady of Syrian Song:
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