@dalias google apparently modified the go language's DEFLATE algorithm recently, which will modify checksums (???) and while zip files can be made to retain per-file checksums, by default they only store CRCs. i don't think compression should ever be nondeterministic but it's given me pause about incorporating it elsewhere

@farah We’re headed in that direction, TBH :-(

I donated blood last week and just received this extremely cursed image in a follow-up email.

I've just released Taskmon 0.3.1. For those who don't know, this is a small, super light-weight task manager replacement built for keyboard and screen reader users. Changelog:

• Added 29 new columns: Peak Virtual Memory, Peak Private Bytes, Peak Paged Pool, Peak Non-paged Pool, Peak Threads, Hard Faults, CPU Cycles, Kernel Time, User Time, Total Page Faults, I/O Read Ops, I/O Write Ops, I/O Other Ops, Total I/O, Elapsed Time, Shared Working Set, Parent Name, Private Bytes Delta, Working Set Delta, Handle Delta, Thread Delta, Virtualization, AppContainer, Domain, User SID, Efficiency Mode, I/O Priority, Memory Priority, and Protection.
• Fixed observable lag when switching the sorting method with the keyboard.
• Fixed preferences being rewritten to disk on every sort-order change instead of only when needed.
• Fixed the process tree incorrectly nesting processes under recycled parent PIDs.
• Rewrote Taskmon from C to Zig.
• Switched the Windows installer from Inno Setup to NSIS, shrinking it by around 95%.

ARM64 installer: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-setup-arm64.exe
ARM64 portable: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-arm64.zip
X64 installer: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-setup-x64.exe
X64 portable: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-x64.zip

Enjoy!

@csolisr also why they don’t care about Macs as gaming platform, it’s just not worth it for them

cc @dalias i'm also recalling your patient feedback a few weeks ago about compression and this is absolutely validating your assertion that compression is often inappropriate particularly on something like a filesystem. i think it's a fun problem but i absolutely hesitate to involve it in a system where integrity is a concern

@mattblaze Are you offering lessons? I have no idea how to be disrespectful to either of those objects.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@latte/117136704584835234

I have to stop and think about this when it comes up, but I almost always land on the former.

#Linux

@dlatchx like, non-constant block sizes. stream ciphers can incorporate information from earlier plaintext to modify how later chunks are processed, but not the other way around. this is something BLAKE3 could do better to increase its parallelism, but i hadn't considered actually encrypting anything differently before

N7628 Landed in Jackson, Wyoming, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 33 min.

~ 977 gallons (3,698 liters).
~ 6,548 lbs (2,970 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $6,936 cost of fuel.
~ 10 tons of CO2 emissions.

He put his name on an airport even though he’s still alive? I thought that only happened in third world countries

OpenAI, Gemini and others have gotten together and agreed on a standard way to embed metadata in images so platforms can tell if an image was made with AI or not. It’s called c2pa.

PieFed now uses c2pa to label image posts as AI, where possible. This will not be 100% reliable because often as images are passed around the embedded metadata gets wiped out but it will help reduce the moderation burden involved with labeling AI images.

Also another change in this release is emoji reactions are more prominent and can be made from the teaser view, without going into the post itself. I hope this leads to more reactions being made and we all get a more interesting a vibrant feed as a result.

fun fact, iOS is the world’s largest gaming platform, with roughly about the same revenue (just from games) as all gaming consoles combined

The Promises We Make

....

We promised you both, so many things. Walking in the park, hiking in the hills. Strolls along the beach. And scritches. Lots and lots of scritches.

Were you so sorry, when we fell short? Visiting dog parks, and sometimes the vet. Patrolling the yard. And car rides. Many, many car rides.

There were good times though, fun surprises. Sleeping on the bed, treats at coffee shops. Rabbits in the yard. And the toys. Lots and lots of squeakers.

But as you're aging, do you miss it? We could've done more, given you more time? Gone on adventures. And scritches. Did you expect much, much more?

But maybe it's true, you needed less. You just wanted love, there at the shelter. Just people who cared. And got them. The promises were for us.

--kee

#DogsOfMastodon #poetry

Periodic Reminder: Follow more Black people and be excellent to them. (And shoot down and report racist shitheads).