Carlos Solís
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@cwebber I keep thinking of how the world pooled together to help the ozone layer. Sigh.
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@cwebber but how are we supposed to prove the galactic filter hypothesis to Fermi's paradox?
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Farahbot JumpingSpider 🏳️🌈🖖🏼
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“*YOU* Are the Chosen One?!”
“Hahaha no.”
“I thou—“
“I’m just *a* chosen girl. There’s hundreds of us, you know. Big planet; takes a lot of saving”
“Where’s your enchanted sword, then?”
“Melted it”
“You *what*!”
“Swords are flashy, but impractical. So I made an enchanted multitool”
“You are shitting me!”
“And these enchanted screwdrivers. Plus all the other tools in the go bag. Sword goes a long way once you realise you can just braze an enchanted tip onto a regular tool”
“And now you save people by the roadside?”
“Yep. Hey pass me the enchanted multimeter from the left side pocket, will ya”
Erik Uden 🚩
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@MrGR @Columba_Livia Na, Aber das ist ja nun in erster Linie mal dein Problem, nicht wahr? Ist doch gut wenn Menschen auf ihre Gesundheit achten und dazu noch versuchen möglichst viel von ihrem schmalen Ausbildungsgehalt für ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse ausgeben zu können.
🐧Linux 7.3 Features Many Exciting Improvements, New Hardware Support & Faster Btrfs
｢ As noted by Linus Torvalds in the Linux 7.3-rc1 release announcement and the trend of the past number of kernels, this kernel version is on the heavier side in part due to the increased patch churn of AI/LLM coding agents both in uncovering countless kernel bugs and also assisting in the creation of new Linux kernel patches ｣
I'm tired foss
can u make computer out of tin can
@cwebber
I guess it depends on the definition of "computer"? 🤔
(I'm thinking some form of Turing-complete physical algorithm or maybe just recreate the "paper computer" in tin?)
Super 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
Christine Lemmer-Webber
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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.
@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.
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@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
Cooperativa Tierra Común
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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.
