ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

The Internet Archive survived major copyright losses. What’s next?
"We survived, but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive's founder says.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!

1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (raw editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura or Orca (3D printing)

#foss #opensource #linux #graphics

"As rain and snow fall on landfills, water seeps through waste, including dumped electronics, and picks up pollutants, forming what’s known as landfill leachate. This can contain heavy metals used in old computers and other gadgets and impact everything they come into contact with, from soil, our groundwater, oceans and rivers, and wildlife. Heavy metal exposure can affect some animals’ growth, body condition, and immune system, making them more susceptible to disease."
https://www.earthday.org/gadgets-and-gizmos-and-the-internets-trash-problem/

#electronics #repair

#WritersCoffeeClub 30Oct—Do you tend to include epilogues?

A piece of fiction needs to deliver *closure* at the end—to answer the questions it raises, emotional as well as plot-related ("did they live happily ever after" vs. "did the good guys win"). Needing an epilogue often implies poor planning by the author, because the natural end of the story failed to deliver this pay-off. (Rarely: the epilogue is there to settle a question that wasn't explicit in the story but implied, adding depth.)

I would really like to expand my mastodon connections, but i don't know how, it's not as easy as elsewhere :/

Uploaded another Roddenberry Archive interior to my website, the USS Enterprise-D bridge from ST: Generations.

I'm particularly proud of this one as a ton of research went into it. Plus I got to design some of the LCARS that were never seen on screen, with the approval of Mike Okuda.

You can see many more renders at https://tadeodoria.com/projects/AZeR3W?album_id=8654111

And you can walk around this set on The Roddenberry Archive website: https://roddenberry.x.io/2371-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-GEN/?view=Main

#StarTrek #RoddenberryArchive #Blender #Inkscape

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

https://mymodernmet.com/daniel-kordan-kazakhstan-photography/

#Art #Photography #Nature

ACARS Message From: N445YX / YX4517

Message: HAHA. WE TRIED. BUT FL800 WAS UNAVAILABLE.

Track Aircraft

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N445YX #YX4517

VDLM2 Message From: G-NEOR / BA0928

Message: HELLO ENG. JUST HAD AN OVERSPEED IN TURBULENCE PLS CAN YOU ADVISE THE MAX SPEED REACHED DURING EVENT IN CASE ENG REQ IN TIRANA THANKS

Track Aircraft

Area: Zurich, Switzerland

#acars #vdlm2 #GNEOR #BA0928

It takes only 250 documents to poison a 13-billion parameter LLM.

"The asymmetry problem is fundamental: training is easy, untraining is impossible," he says. "We can't identify which 250 documents caused poisoning or remove their influence without complete retraining."

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/only-250-documents-poison-any-ai-model

Hebden Bridge station looking rather photogenic this morning.

#goldenhour #HebdenBridge

VDLM2 Message From: PH-BXA / KL031Y

Message: WINDOW R1 CRACKED DURING CLIMB OUT ELECTRICAL ARCING IN WINDOW R1 STARTED FOLLOWED BY CRACKS IN THE WINDOW AND ILLUMINATION OF

Track Aircraft

Area: Stockholm, Sweden

#acars #vdlm2 #PHBXA #KL031Y

VDLM2 Message From: PH-BXA / KL031Y

Message: DURING CLIMB OUT ELECTRICAL ARCING IN WINDOW R1 STARTED FOLLOWED BY CRACKS IN THE WINDOW AND ILLUMINATION OF THE FORWARD R WINDOW HEAT OVERHEAT LIGHT.

Track Aircraft

Area: Stockholm, Sweden

#acars #vdlm2 #PHBXA #KL031Y

Trying to explain networking details and the conversation has become:

"So HTTP/3.... no, wait. Backup.
So, QUIC. No...
UDP is....
The thing about IP...
So you've got an 802.3 frame, right?
Alright, so the voltage potential alternates for 56 cycles to establish synchronization and exclusivity on the wire..."

BASIC Code is a new retrocomputing blog that posts refactored and adapted "40-year-old type-in listings from 80s books and microcomputing magazines".

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev

#basic #retrocomputing #blogs

My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.

#WebDevelopment #UrbanForaging #ImpendingEconomicCollapse