Really enjoying continuing to not use AI for anything
@JulianOliver Same!
spent all day looking at various types of computers to go inside my bag (max height 190mm) that are not an iPad:
* Small (sub-12") laptops
* Android Tablets
* Android Smartphone & External Display
* Single Board Computer & External Display
I have come to the conclusion that I should just suck it up and have two bags, ugh. All the little computers suck in one way or another (either they're priced way too high thanks to the RAM apocalypse) or are computationally gimped either by the manufacturer, or sub-par specs due to software bloat.
@decryption what about the new and moderately cheap gateway drug Apple is flogging?
Konstantin :coffefied:
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We used to be a society.
#ipod
Grégory Gutierez 🌻🎸🐧
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Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters.
Oi you fackin cunts now wheres me drugs knees up muvver brown you slags
Meghan in talks for role in Netflix series The Gentlemen, BBC understands
@TheBreadmonkey
I, for one, don't give a tinker's damn.
There, I said it.
Ukraine's spirit is the founding spirit of Europe.
In the days leading up to its 35th Independence Day, we stand resolutely with Ukraine.
Today and for as long as it takes.
@EUCommission Re-independence day #1918 #Ukraine
Grégory Gutierez 🌻🎸🐧
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Winged musician riding a leopard. Anjou Bible, Naples ca. 1340. Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven, Cod. 1, fol. 307v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Rechenzentren verbrauchen viel Strom und Wasser. Wie viel genau, soll im Einzelnen jetzt erstmals im Nationalen Rechenzentrumsregister nachvollziehbar sein. Doch Julian Bothe von AlgorithmWatch warnt: Die Daten sind grob unvollständig und die Transparenz soll auf Druck von Big Tech wieder eingeschränkt werden.
GeofCox
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1619 - 19 years after the founding of the British East India Company in 1600 - a seminal moment in the development of capitalism, and colonialism; 3 years after the death of Shakespeare, in 1616 - Shakespeare, whose explorations of individual characters sharply distinguish him from medieval literary characters with names like 'Everyman' and 'Pride', and who dwelt constantly on approaching confusion and social breakdown - "nothing is, but what is not" - marking the cultural transition from feudalism to capitalism.
LORD OF THE PIGEONS
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@TheBreadmonkey
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
With Markle and Princess Di.
Having endured Barcelona Satan station at a frankly ridiculously early time in the middle of the night, I'm now on my way north.
"Flipping the kill switch: I survived 72 hours without US tech"
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-experiment-living-without-us-tech-for-72-hours/ #EU #digitalSovereignty #techSovereignty
also it's always seemed strange that the NSA would show its hand so publicly and it seems more likely to be a setup for something else https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221354983 this is the crypto 1997 paper that supposedly first described "kleptograms" hidden inside diffie-hellman
ok so it seems that the basic issue here is having someone else select your random powers for modular exponentation
In this attack we assume that the device is free to choose the exponents used.
it's a cool trick but it's being obfuscated lol
This week, I've been scolded by strangers here for being disrespectful to both staircases and eclipses.
@mattblaze misread as “ellipses” and that’s believable although being upset about correct use of punctuation feels like more of a bluesky thing
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Zwischen dem 22. und 26. August 1992 attackierte ein deutscher Mob ein überwiegend von Vietnamesen*innen bewohntes Haus in Rostock-Lichtenhagen.
Vorausgegangen waren monatelange rassistische Äußerungen aus der Politik, offene Ablehnung durch die Stadtgesellschaft und stereotype Berichterstattung in den Medien sowie alltägliche Gewalt insbesondere auch gegen Sinti*zze und Rom*nja.
Das mehrtägige Pogrom wurde von einer applaudierenden Menge in Volksfeststimmung begleitet.
"Das habe ich nicht vergessen. Das stand für mich lange sinnbildlich für dieses Mainstream-Deutschland: Menschen, die zwar selber nicht mit dem Baseballschläger losgehen, aber wenn‘s drauf ankommt – ja, so schlecht finden sie’s dann doch nicht." - Frank Joung
Es waren die gewalttätigsten rassistischen Ausschreitungen in der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte und zugleich Ausdruck der Stimmung in Deutschland nach der Wiedervereinigung.
"Die Videoproduktion "The Truth lies in Rostock" entstand 1993 unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung von Personen, die sich zum Zeitpunkt der Ereignisse in dem angegriffenen Wohnheim aufhielten.
Daher zeichnet sich die Produktion nicht nur durch ihren authentischen Charakter aus, sondern versteht sich auch Jahre später als schonungslose Kritik an einer gesellschaftlichen Grundstimmung in der Bundesrepublik, die Pogrome gegen Migrant*innen oder einfach nur „anders Aussehende" erst möglich macht.
Eine Montage von Videomaterial, gedreht aus den angegriffenen Häusern heraus, Interviews mit Antifaschist*innen, den vietnamesischen Vertragsarbeiter*innen, der Polizei, mit Bürokraten, Neonazis und Anwohner*innen.
Eine Dokumentation über das heimliche Einverständnis der Politik und über die verbreitete Angst."
"The Truth Lies In Rostock" (78 Minuten, 1993)
alcinnz
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As I am missing a few followers in my instance move, it is with an actual purpose that I say:
It's my birthday, give me boosts.
A man left his 7-year-old son behind for hours on Japan's Mount Fuji while continuing the climb, resulting in a stern warning from authorities, police and local media reported. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/22/japan/crime-legal/japan-dad-child-mount-fuji/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mountfuji #children #japanesechildren #abuse
Trump is elected by American farmers, then undercuts their meat price by 25 percent.
@randahl I'm guessing a good 97% of his post is absolute horseshit.
First, blame Biden for everything bad that has ever happened.
Once you get your stupid fucking base all emotionally riled up, start spitting out bullshit facts and numbers.
Lather rinse repeat etc.
I wonder, what will the Cook era be remembered for? (Regarding products & innovation.)
The strides in processor power and efficiency are nothing short of amazing, but essentially no actually innovative* products shipped.
(The Apple Watch was Ive’s baby.)
*tbf there’s some innovative tech in the Vision Pro but that sort of doesn’t count if it’s not useful and no one is buying it
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/21/apple-lays-off-vision-products-employees/
@thomasfuchs Also: The watch doesn’t count because it was “ive’s baby”? he’s the CEO! finally: Airpods line is a Fortune 500 company on its own.
