Periodic reminder: 404 Media is the same Vice bros who broke their confidentiality agreement with Naomi Wu and outed her without her consent, putting her in danger to satisfy the prurient interests of the Gamergate crowd.
Don't be surprised when they run slopaganda pieces. These people are not our friends, even if they are doing some useful reporting too.
It turns out that @freecad is the latest project to fall victim to slop. To their partial credit, they are acknowledging it's controversial and are retooting a sample of pro and anti responses they've had.
The difference in the responses is stark.
The anti-slop responses relate disappointment, betrayal, and concern for the future of the project. These are mostly people who have at least some investment in the project even if "just" users and not contributors.
The pro-slop responses are purely pushback and not constructive: Fork the project. Write your own replacement. Use something else. Ad hominem attacks. These people are not invested in the project at all, they're just interested in pushing their agenda. Come back in a week and they'll be vociferously defending slop on another project, having forgotten that FreeCAD ever existed.
PARADE STRUGGLES TO VICTORY DESPITE DISGRACEFUL SCENES
#content_review #netbsd @netbsd #art #comic #runbsd #unix_surrealism
the product was good by mistake. it wasn't intended to be good. the people with money hired the people who knew how to make the product, and sometimes those people made the product good, even though they were never told to do that, and there was no real reason to do it. the only reason they got away with unnecessarily making the product good, is that the people with money couldn't tell they were doing it
RE: https://furry.engineer/@Plan_A_to_Y/117414450272523760
this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns
Anyone with open commissions who wants to do some #art for NetBSD?
We've got a budget for paying for some concept art and can later talk about working with you on some merch. DM us!
Naturally, we cannot accept contributions using generative AI.
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
GOOSE IS NOT VALUED
@ErinRose A person I know curiously asked a friend why there were so many transfem people in tech, as compared to cisfem people. They said:
"caus when they were young, nobody told them to leave"
(Edit: I come to think of it, the last part was probably "nobody told them they do not belong")
vistapro, 3d scenery generator, magazine screenshot, amiga (1991) https://archive.org/details/cu-amiga-1991-07/page/30/mode/2up
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum,
so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '
This is a problem that could be solved by DJs who could properly curate this explosion of amazing electronic music into sets that can explore its ever expanding space, but unfortunately the same algorithms also optimize everything including DJ sets into the most commercializable samey bullshit, leaving any true explorations into its space to adventurers willing to listen to the amazing sets of no-name DJs
The state of electronic music is millions producers making some of the most badass tracks you've never heard but nobody's listening to them because the market is structured to favor boring samey commercial festival "when will the bass drop" bullshit that is best described as EDM-with-scare-quotes.
Slick Orange - Wagmedia
I have for the most part organized my professional life to make the following thing possible:
If there is a question I am interested in, I am happy rather than sad if someone solves it satisfactorily before me.
This means I do not work on high-value “leaves” in the tree of knowledge, where a solution would bring great prestige but little transferable knowledge. I would be very happy if the “leaves” become devalued in the coming years, and just get blown away and raked up.
My style of work is to have something I want to be able to *do* but can’t yet, and then work on fundamental problems a few layers below in the stack. Over time I get closer to the surface, and if someone resolves one of those fundamental problems before me, it just accelerates my progress toward the goal.
This is a low-stress high-reward style of doing science, and I encourage anyone who feels anxiety over being “scooped” to try it out.
want to give a shout out to my favourite notification daemon on wayland: fnott
they added this to their README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md three weeks ago, and I completely missed it. Sincere respect to dnkl.
With the announcement of the new Apple watch a few weeks back, and the feature that it'll be recording constantly to give ai summaries of conversations, been pondering what to do about confessions. It is technically a recording device, even if the recording is only accessible as a summary, so the automatic excommunication thing applies as far as I can tell. Ran it by my bishop, and he's having some people at the chancery look into potential courses of action.
In the mean time, came up with a simple solution: one of those storage cases with a foam insert, and a white noise machine. Tested it with a few different phones, and you can be shouting right outside the box, and the recording is just static from inside the box.
That's going to be my solution for now, but interested to hear what @rqm and other #catholic people have to say
The Curse of Monkey Island
f(x,y) = (~(((~y) % (y ^ x)) + ((y / x) + (y | x)))) % 2
Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)
"Onebit" colouring scheme.