ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Wat Mahathat, a temple in Ayutthaya, Thailand with a tree grown over a Buddha statue

Shot on my Xiaomi Mi4i phone camera, circa 2016

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Thailand #Buddha #Ayutthaya #blackandwhitephotograhy #photograhy

ANYWAY, this YouTube video is a 3D video; the source of the content was a competition entry for the Internet Ray Tracing Competition circa 1999, which I adjusted to render in a 3d frame and then rendered ~1000 frames of; you can pan around in the YouTube player to look in different directions. This dates back to when YouTube had just added spherical video processing to the website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z78yFyfKPiE

@nova even GIFs!

Every time I look at my POVRay page on my website, I'm reminded that:
- POVRay was really fun to play with
- I did some other things with it that I should put there.

Sadly, I think that POVRay as a tool has mostly died out now, because I've never found anything else that feels like it creates the same kind of outputs.

https://crschmidt.net/povray/

12 tone Pong.
Schoenberg, meet Bushnell

notes=({A..G} {C,D,F,G,A}#);row=($(seq 1 12 | shuf));n=0;boop(){ (play -q -V0 -n synth sin ${notes[${row[$n]}]} trim 0 0.18 vol 0.74 &); n=$(( (n+1)%12 )); };clear;cols=$(tput cols);lines=$(tput lines);x=1;y=1;xd=1;yd=1;while true;do if [[ $x == $lines || $x == 0 ]]; then boop; xd=$(( $xd *-1 )) ; fi ; if [[ $y == $cols || $y == 0 ]]; then boop; yd=$(( $yd * -1 )) ; fi ; x=$(( $x + $xd )); y=$(( $y + $yd )); printf "\33[%s;%sH" $x $y; sleep 0.043 ;done

I love it in here. There's currently a hashtag named #thicktrunktuesday that is basically pics of massive, beautiful trees.
I humbly submit El Tule, an incredible ahuehuete from the state I was born, Oaxaca. It's over 2000 years old. "Tule" means "Tree of Enlightment" #Oaxaca #Mexico #ElTule It has the thickest trunk in the world.

"MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds"

https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000

Carl Sagan's 1990 talk on climate change is just as relevant today as it was 32 years ago.

@drvolts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nno1gkceiKQ

create things that don’t require you to be there to explain them.

Update on the growth of #mastodon in the last months. After the big wave of new accounts on Nov 17th, the growth seems steady for the last week at around 50k new accounts/users per day. Only in the last couple of weeks, 1M new accounts were added. At this rhythm, #mastodon will get 1.5M accounts/users per month.

Researchers set up a sting operation by sending a new computer in for a "repair" & only disabling the audio driver so there should be no need for repair techs to access personal data.

After the computers were returned, logging was analyzed to see if the techs tried to snoop...& found snooping at least 50% of the time, especially on women's computers.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/half-of-computer-repairs-result-in-snooping-of-sensitive-data-study-finds

I’m not an infosec expert or anything but I don’t think that’s right

Jupiter photographed by NASA's Juno probe this Tuesday…

Today it's Lance Leventhal's birthday. These books kick-started a whole lot of careers in computing.

OMG!! 800 #Fedizens following me now ... 😮​

Thank you all for following me here in the #Fediverse, you're just too kind!! 💙​

And things get even better, as I noticed today that there are now 101 messages in the "General" message base of the "RC-BOX" #BBS #rc2014bbs (see my profile on info how to connect) - thank you all for that as well! 💻​

So here's a little video showing off the current message list of "RC-BOX" BBS, while I was logged in a few minutes ago using my #Modular64 #Commodore64 and a #SwiftLink #WifiModem and the #StrikeTerm terminal software.

Been doing @pikuma's 6502 course and its great. Despite being a programmer for over 20 years hobby+work, I've never touched assembly outside of the TIS-100 game.
Got to the episode about displaying a color on the screen and such a fun feeling to see something happening outside the debugger.

Excited to finish more now that I'm home and not just a car passenger.

🔖 Statistical code in a high-impact medical journal

A journal started asking authors to submit code with their manuscripts. They then analysed the next 314 papers accepted

87% denied using code, even when publishing substantial statistical analysis

10% used code but refused to share it with the journal

For the few that provided code, none scored even moderately on basic quality criteria

Assel & Vickers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705117/

#MedMastodon
#OpenScience
#ResearchWaste
#doi:10.7326/M17-2863

I’m super excited to be speaking at #Enigma2023, where I’ll be airing the dirty laundry of the web PKI, but even more excited to hear the rest of the talks in this amazing program: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2023/program
Hope to see some of you there!

The nurse asks the rabbit "What's your blood type?"

The rabbit replies "I'm probably a type-O"

#Humour #Joke #Barely

I was thinking about something when I realised I was thinking about *this* and only this.