ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

I worked at USC when the Tusk video was being filmed there. Could occasionally hear bits echoing. Had no idea it was Fleetwood Mac at the time.

https://youtu.be/ATMR5ettHz8

#FleetwoodMac #RIPChristineMcVie

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.