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Programming / Life.
This is my only active account for now. Kinda tired of all the noise.
From Colombia. I work as a programmer. Mostly low level stuff.
In my spare time I play with electronics, CNCs, 3D printers, speakers...
This is not a serious account. It's just me.
So far the only weirdness on fedora is just kinda adorably weird: every flatpak app seems to crash on first launch. After that, they're fine.
Sadly, being weird proprietary things they don't plug into the crash reporting infrastructure, so who knows what their malfunction is. I don't get any option to report a crash 🤷 coredumpctl has crash dumps for both, discord did a SIGABRT and slack a SIGTRAP (lol)
Cloudflare lets customers block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
It seems the dislike for machine learning runs deep. In a blog post, Cloudflare has announced that blocking machine learning scrapers is so popular, they decided to just add a feature to the Cloudflare dashboard that will block all machine learning scrapers with a single c
Mozilla integrating AI chatbots into Firefox
Mozilla has announced it's adding easy access to tool like ChatGPT, Gemini, and so to Firefox.
Whether it’s a local or a cloud-based model, if you want to use AI, we think you should have the freedom to use (or not use) the tools that best suit your needs. With that in mind, this week, we will launch an opt-in experiment offering access t
https://www.osnews.com/story/140074/mozilla-integrating-ai-chatbots-into-firefox/
🌸007: "The ultimate ideal is when the sword disappears altogether. The warrior embraces all around him. The desire to kill is gone. Only peace remains."
🗡️ Hero (2002). Zhang Yimou.
#HeroMovie #cinema #filmquotes #martialarts #chinesemovies #cinematicquotes #Peace #memories #movies #cinemamastodon #photography #asiancinema
This happened exactly 40 years ago.
Ready for a bit more #TechBro #Dystopia?
Satellite internet will probably severely damage the ozone layer.
The worst about it?
The damage is not now, but it will take decades before it starts.
But: First things first!
What is the ozone layer?
The ozone layer is located in the lower stratosphere (15-35km above ground), where the concentration of ozone (O₃) is highest. This layer shields us from most of, otherwise deadly, UV radiation from the sun.
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I haven't seen anybody mentioning it or even noticing it, like it's just the water we swim in now, but this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of what would become a seminal, and is arguably the single most important, piece of social software ever created.
Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the 5th Edition of Unix this month in 1974: diff.
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/diff1.c
After 14yrs, the RickRoll is no more. It's finally been taken down.
Another internet meme bites the dust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ just shows an error msg now. 😞
My gender
What is PID 0?
The very short version: Unix PIDs do start at 0! PID 0 just isn’t shown to userspace through traditional APIs. PID 0 starts the kernel, then retires to a quiet life of helping a bit with process scheduling and power management. Also the entire web is mostly wrong about PID 0, because of one sentence on Wikipedia from 16 years ago.
There’s a slightly longer short version right at the end, or you can stick wi
🌍 002: "I understand now. This world doesn’t belong to them; it belongs to us."
🌟 Westworld Season 1. Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy.
#Westworld #ScienceFiction #anthonyhopkins #photography #moviesandtv #cinemastodon #TVSeries #Quotes #Dolores #CinematicTV #Inspiration #NewEra #dailycinema #memories #TelevisionQuotes #SciFiDrama 🔮✨
I don't know if dependency avoidance is the name of a design pattern, but it sounds like it could be.
How a Dose of #MDMA Transformed a #WhiteSupremacist
Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took MDMA in a scientific study, it radically changed his beliefs – to the surprise of everyone involved.
Rachel Nuwer
June 15, 2023
"In February 2020, Harriet de Wit, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural science at the University of Chicago, was running an experiment on whether the drug MDMA increased the pleasantness of social touch in healthy volunteers. The day was proceeding like any other Tuesday when Mike Bremmer, de Wit's research assistant, appeared at her office door with a concerned look on his face.
"The latest participant in the double-blind trial, a man named Brendan, had filled out a standard questionnaire at the end. Strangely, at the very bottom of the form, Brendan had written in bold letters: 'This experience has helped me sort out a debilitating personal issue. Google my name. I now know what I need to do.'
"Seeing this cryptic message, both Bremmer and de Wit were worried. 'We really have to look into this,' de Wit said. They googled Brendan's name, and up popped a disturbing revelation: until just a couple of months before, Brendan had been the leader of the US Midwest faction of #IdentityEvropa, a notorious white nationalist group rebranded in 2019 as the American Identity Movement. Two months earlier, activists at Chicago Antifascist Action had exposed Brendan's identity, and he had lost his job.
"De Wit was now very worried. She'd just given a drug to a disgraced white supremacist, she realised, and had apparently inspired him to do who knows what out in the world. 'Go ask him what he means by 'I now know what I need to do,'" she instructed Bremmer. 'If it's a matter of him picking up an automatic rifle or something, we have to intervene.'
"A murderous spree turned out to be the opposite of what Brendan had in mind. As he clarified to Bremmer, love is what he had just realised he had to do. '#Love is the most important thing," he told the baffled research assistant. 'Nothing matters without love.'"
EU data protection board says ChatGPT still not meeting data accuracy standards
OpenAI's efforts to produce less factually false output from its ChatGPT chatbot are not enough to ensure full compliance with European Union data rules, a task force at the EU's privacy watchdog said.
"Although the measures taken in order to comply with the transparency princi
Google is killing off the messaging service inside Google Maps
Google is killing off a messaging service! This one is the odd "Google Business Messaging" service—basically an instant messaging client that is built into Google Maps. If you looked up a participating business in Google Maps or Google Search on a phone, the main row of buttons in the place card would read som
https://www.osnews.com/story/139828/google-is-killing-off-the-messaging-service-inside-google-maps/
A programmer can say “I’m mocking time” and be making perfect sense.
The BASIC programming language turns 60
Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's Genera
https://www.osnews.com/story/139534/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/
