ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

I am deeply unamused to see a peer-reviewed paper discussing one of my pet nightmares (the risk of a MERS/COVID19 hybrid emerging) and saying it's somewhere between possible and likely: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01396-6

Why bother banning books when you can just defund Libraries? "Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner." https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgv5/missouri-voted-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

Now this is SEO.

Bonus picture: I gave the KBC a brand new socket. Look how the 74F00 and the 74F04 are tucked away in its belly!

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

Never misses a chance to be wrong. First, the US was founded on the very rejection of the UK monarchy. Second, NO US PRESIDENT has EVER attended the coronation of a UK monarch, going all the way back to George IV in 1789. Is there any topic you aren't amazingly uninformed about?

somehow /twice/ today i've seen an article where someone proclaims the future of programming is writing english prompts to an LLM and all i can think is these people surely cannot have written any code longer than a stack overflow answer

Update time! #LibreOffice 7.5.2 is now available, with fixes and improvements. All users are recommended to upgrade: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/03/30/libreoffice-7-5-2-community-available-for-download/

Now it’s just getting weird.

Bing refers to a question I never asked, about whether it would harm me.

When I point that out, it apologizes and says that was a conversation with another user.

Inspired by Samsungs AI Enhanced Moon photos, I though Obscura should get a similar upgrade

Introducing AI Enhanced Moof Photography!

Any photos you take of bitmapped Claris the Dogcow will be automagically upscaled to the modern, vectorised Claris

Increbidle!

So Texas republicans are attempting to end democracy openly. This is definitional of fascism and autocracy. https://www.mediaite.com/politics/texas-republicans-introduce-bill-allowing-secretary-of-state-to-overturn-election-results/

Anyone who has tried to multihome IPv6 without PI space and (typically) BGP has undoubtedly run into the issue that it basically just does not work. There are a few options - none of them are really good - but at least they should be identified somewhere for posterity. A few of us decided to write a draft to start outlining the options (not solutions, per se) in this @ietf draft. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fbnvv-v6ops-site-multihoming/

@vyr Also if you use a Mac released this decade or an iPhone/iPad/Android device—basically anything except an old-school PC—you're using an ARM processor and that architecture was designed by Sophie Wilson, who is trans. It's the most widely used computer architecture. Computing this century is trans.

I'm looking forward to fifteen years from now, when Easter Sunday falls on Thursday January 1, 1970.

"What's the last programming book that will be published?"

Me: 🤔

Italy Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns https://www.securityweek.com/italy-temporarily-blocks-chatgpt-over-privacy-concerns/

Elon Musk asks a US judge to throw out the $258 Billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Musk is accused of deliberately driving up Dogecoin's price more than 36,000%, then crashing it.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

I drew this in 2020, posted it on the birdsite, and it went viral (at least by my standards!), earning me 250 new followers.

It shows how much battery various stars would have left if they had battery indicators like phones do. #MastoArt

Them: Don't worry about it, it's easy as breathing.

Me, currently hyperventilating: OH NO!