bonfire.cafe · bonfire.cafe

Dug out the source code of the program I'd written to generate my TNFS main menu (loaded as an scr), totally forgotten I'd written a sort of gradient generator for it

FOR x = 0 TO 199
FOR y = 0 TO 56
LET r=RND
IF r < (CAST(FLOAT, x) / 180) THEN
PLOT x, 192-y
END IF
NEXT y
NEXT x — FOR x = 0 TO 199 FOR y = 0 TO 56 LET r=RND IF r < (CAST(FLOAT, x) / 180) THEN PLOT x, 192-y END IF NEXT y NEXT x

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Curtis

@curt_mitch@hachyderm.io 3 days ago

Cool tool by @protonprivacy, the AI Paper Trail that reveals what ChatGPT and Claude know and can infer about you: https://proton.me/lumo/ai/ai-paper-trail
#privacy #ai

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Farhad A.

@faab64@todon.eu 7 days ago

Why the fuck is the world silent about these open calls for war crimes and ethnic cleansing?

I hate to repeat it, but how would they react if a Russian minister said something like that about civilians in Ukraine?

#Israel #BenGvir #Genocide #WarCrime #Gaza #Inhumanity

"We need to be eliminating
30-40 people in Gaza every
day. They shouldn't live.
They're not even people."
Ben Gvir
Israeli National Security Minister — "We need to be eliminating 30-40 people in Gaza every day. They shouldn't live. They're not even people." Ben Gvir Israeli National Security Minister

xeniax ⏚

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml 39 sec. ago

З днем Незалежності / Happy Independence Day to my Ukrainian friends 🇺🇦🖤🏴

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Adam Greenfield

@adamgreenfield@social.coop 50 sec. ago

Yesterday, many of you helped fund the purchase of a solar generator for a #mutualaid hub in Gary, Indiana, a postindustrial city in the American midwest now in its thirteenth day without electricity. It’s already en route to them.

I’m not going to blow smoke up your ass, and suggest that one tiny generator is in any way sufficient to the scale of the crisis – or even to the needs of a single relief hub. But importantly, it’s not nothing, either. It will be used, it will make a difference and it will be appreciated.

So today, especially if you contributed, I’d like you to ask yourself two questions:

- How hard did it turn out to be to take (small but) meaningful action to intervene in a distressing situation you might otherwise only have read about passively?

and

- How did it feel to participate, and have those feelings changed since you first became aware of the crisis?

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: boosted

Allie

@als@alico.nexus 13 hr. ago

How to live in the age of AI - Gautami Reddy

A collection of drawings with suggestions of how to live in the age of AI.
- Read slowly.
- Make ugly things.
- Don't believe everything. (With a drawing of a man with a tie saying "the future is here, while a woman is holding a dog that's pooping while on a lead)
- Eat together.
- Get bored. (With a drawing of someone stargazing)
- Avoid instant replies. (With a drawing of someone playing with a fish in a fish bowl while their phone goes "ting ting ting ting!" on a nearby table
- Call your grandma/grandpa (A drawing of two people next to each other, have a phone conversation "Where are you?" "Right behind you"
- Fall in love (A drawing of two people dancing together)
- Cry every now & then (A drawing of someone lying on the floor, sobbing, while holding a flower and telling it "omg you're so pretty!"
- Memorise a poem (A drawing of someone holding a piece of paper, reading "I'm a phenomenally phenomenal woman, that's me!")
- Trust your gut (A drawing of someone who has freed three birds from a cage)
- Take your time (A drawing of someone working at a desk on a laptop. There is an angry person standing next to them wearing a shirt that says "boss". The boss says "Can you finish this in the next hour?" the person working says "Nope!" with a smile on their face.)

@sillygautamireddy — A collection of drawings with suggestions of how to live in the age of AI. - Read slowly. - Make ugly things. - Don't believe everything. (With a drawing of a man with a tie saying "the future is here, while a woman is holding a dog that's pooping while on a lead) - Eat together. - Get bored. (With a drawing of someone stargazing) - Avoid instant replies. (With a drawing of someone playing with a fish in a fish bowl while their phone goes "ting ting ting ting!" on a nearby table - Call your grandma/grandpa (A drawing of two people next to each other, have a phone conversation "Where are you?" "Right behind you" - Fall in love (A drawing of two people dancing together) - Cry every now & then (A drawing of someone lying on the floor, sobbing, while holding a flower and telling it "omg you're so pretty!" - Memorise a poem (A drawing of someone holding a piece of paper, reading "I'm a phenomenally phenomenal woman, that's me!") - Trust your gut (A drawing of someone who has freed three birds from a cage) - Take your time (A drawing of someone working at a desk on a laptop. There is an angry person standing next to them wearing a shirt that says "boss". The boss says "Can you finish this in the next hour?" the person working says "Nope!" with a smile on their face.) @sillygautamireddy

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Isabel Richards

@1sabelR@mastodon.social 49 min. ago

Two years ago, a group of older men told me that “everything on the history of women in science has already been published” 🙃🤦‍♀️

Two papers on Rosalind Franklin is “research completed”…

But there’s no problem producing the 1000th paper on Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein…

Written partly out of spite, but mostly out of passion for making women’s stories visible, this is my new paper on the early history of women in Australian #scicomm.

https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2506_2026_A04/

#historyofscience #womeninSTEM

From Lady Jane Franklin to marvellous Mrs Mac: a brief history of trailblazing women in early western science communication in Australia

Journal of Science Communication

From Lady Jane Franklin to marvellous Mrs Mac: a brief history of trailblazing women in early Western science communication in Australia

The history of women in Australian science communication has thus far received little attention. While there is a growing body of research on the history of Australian women in western science, scholarship on the early history of colonial science communication in Australia is scarce, and research on women's roles in the field even more so. Despite this research gap, several colonial women played critical roles in educating on and communicating science to Australians from the 1830s through to the 1930s, particularly their fellow women and children. They took on various science communication roles that sometimes differed from men's approaches, such as scientific administration, visual artistry, and domestic education, and have therefore been overlooked. This article makes these science communication activities visible and aims to be a starting a point for filling the gap in the literature on the history of women in Australian science communication. It also aims to broaden the understanding of what counts as science communication.

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Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social 22 hr. ago

🆕 blog! “Death to px, long live ch!”

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares.

In CSS, pixels are a double lie:

Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical device pixel. On HD displays, it may span multiple physical pixels. Similarly, 1cm in CSS often …

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social 3 min. ago

We never use AI. For anything

https://corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49417313

#HackerNews #AI #Ethics #Technology #Innovation #Discussion #AIStance

We never use AI. For anything | Hacker News

Our AI Stance - No AI, Ever: Cork

Posted in Tech News

The Verge

@theverge@flipboard.com 45 min. ago

Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record
https://www.theverge.com/tech/983688/world-humanoid-robot-games-sprint-record-2026?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Verge @the-verge-theverge

The Verge

Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record

Literally ‘smashing’ — the bots can’t stop without colliding into a crash pad.

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 11 min. ago

In 1853, Gauss asked Riemann, his student, to prepare a Habilitationsschrift on the foundations of geometry.

recall again that the foundations of geometry included euclid, who did not agree at all with this unique prime factorization shit

Over many months, Riemann developed his theory of higher dimensions and delivered his lecture at Göttingen on 10 June 1854, entitled Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen.[13][14][15] It was not published until twelve years later in 1868 by Dedekind, two years after his death.

so the only attribution of "higher dimensions" to riemann occurs after his death. very good

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 4 min. ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%27s_principle

everything this guy riemann does is just fucking wrong

This example did not disprove Dirichlet's principle per se

oh my god

Dirichlet's principle - Wikipedia

echo ✨

@echo@ishella.gay 4 min. ago

sighh. searching for flats is so demoralizing. i did find an app that helps, but it's hard to help what is fundamentally a supply issue.

#berlin #flatquest2026

occult

@occult@vox.ominous.net 21 hr. ago

If you’re missing your potato in #CambridgeMA, it’s at the Mt Auburn St & DeWolfe St bus stop.

A potato placed on the top of a black trash bin outdoors on a city street.

gijs

@gijs@post.hillenius.net 4 min. ago

This might be one of those travelling potatoes. I might have spotted this in the vicinity of Brussels two weeks ago.

@42@pouet.chapril.org 6 min. ago

@sebsauvage
C'est la gen3 maintenant par contre obligé d'avoir un compte google a moins que quelqu'un a une piste pour contourner cette version.
Sur la gen2 il n'y en avait pas besoin
@Phipe