ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

You know the "Configuration Register" on #cisco systems? "config-register 0x2102" and all? This is what it looked like on Cisco's first routers - that set of jumpers to the left on the top board is confreg:

BREAKING: The European Union has reportedly warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be BANNED in Europe unless the platform abides by the EU’s strict rules on content moderation.

That sounds significant. #Twitter

what was your first social network?

(plz boost for sample size)

“ Continuous-time neural networks are a class of machine learning systems that can tackle representation learning on spatiotemporal decision-making tasks [...] Here, we show that it is possible to closely approximate the interaction between neurons and synapses—the building blocks of natural and artificial neural networks—constructed by liquid time-constant networks efficiently in closed form”

#ArtificialIntelligence #Neuroscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00556-7

“It may be possible for a
malicious host to trigger remote code execution in [checks notes] ping.”— #CVE-2022-23093 — Update your FreeBSDs.

So, new #Introduction, such that I have something to pin to my #Profile.

I’ve always loved #Technology. First our #Commodore64 and #Atari2600. Later, #MUDs and #Gopher on a remote #VAX / #VMS.

I was a #Webmaster for a mom-and-pop #ISP in #Ohio in the mid-#90s. We ran it out of our garage. Because you could do that then.

I learned nearly every relevant tech skill I have when I was 14 at that #ISP. #Linux, #Mac, #PC. #Networking, #Telecom. #Bash, #Perl, #HTML. #SysAdmin, #TechSupport. And on.

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This, from an article by @algowatching, is an important thing to take notice of:

"... the cost of running an instance leaves most internet users excluded from the fediverse. Social media costs a few euros per year and per user to run. The amount might be relatively benign for middle-class Europeans, but represents a not-insignificant sum for others."

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/mastodon-public-sphere/

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…