Professional problem solver; DevOps; buddhist, dreamer and sometimes thinker (he/him)
You cannot solve social problems with technology.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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From illusorywall.bsky.social:
My latest video is live!
How Enemies Detect You in Dark Souls: Part 1 - Sound
It's the beginning of a 3 part series on how enemy detection and aggro works in Dark Souls. It's a MUCH deeper rabbit hole than even I expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdL75pAvt8I
Part 2 will be on Smell, Part 3 will be on Sight.
Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro want to reduce their dependence on American tech companies as much as possible. They have confirmed this to the NOS. The three major Dutch banks are in talks with other European banks regarding this matter.
@daniel_collin So for my neovim setup I have completely done away with Mason and related plugins and moved to use mise-en-place (https://mise.jdx.dev/) for installing my LSPs, linters, formatters.
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Given how well-known Dijkstra's algorithm is, and how long it has been in use in networks (since the first link-state routing algorithms appeared in the 1970s), it was newsworthy when a paper appeared in the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) claiming a breakthrough in SPF calculation. We soon had people asking us for our opinion, so we set out to understand the practical impact of this research. Fittingly, the journey was as interesting as the destination:
https://systemsapproach.org/2026/02/09/faster-than-dijkstra/
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Dutch Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit) has concluded that Polymarket is an illegal gambling site and wants it blocked for Dutch citizens.
Part of the reasoning is that betting on everything can influence democratic processes, like elections.
So reading up a bit on the current hardware state seems to indicate Nvidia and AMD are focusing on 8 GB VRAM GPU models. Good luck everybody with a game in development or just (about to be) released with a higher VRAM budget.
So about that Ronald Lauder/Estee Lauder post.
That new proposed Fed person to succeed Jerome Powell, Kevin Warsh, is married to Jane Lauder, daughter of... Ronald Lauder.
Huh. So Ronald Lauder, the billionaire who owns Estee Lauder, is apparently the guy who convinced Trump that he should destroy NATO by invading Greenland.
Maybe don't buy shit from them? Here's a convenient list of their brands: https://www.elcompanies.com/en/our-brands
And sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder
http://web.archive.org/web/20251107131250/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/trump-greenland.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland
This maffioso behaviour is exactly what Carney warned about and why Canada is diversifying. And also why more European countries are now in the process of ditching US stuff.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-decertify-canadian-planes-9.7067498
The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa.
[Leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project] are seeking another meeting next month with state and Treasury officials to ask for a $500bn credit facility to help bankroll the province if an independence referendum — yet to be called — is passed.
https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7
@randahl There's another good one at https://euroalternative.co/
@aras Took me a second to realise you used a logo for it. Niiice. :)
Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
From the Christo Files (@christogrozev.bsky.social) on the topic of Montenegro:
I think there's a company and project in need of a new name. Because, oof...
From https://imgur.com/gallery/maga-anyone-who-supports-them-Jideo55
