Bryce3d, Rhino and POV. Good old days.

@jbz I remember Bryce3d. I loved that. Don’t know the others

Because of climate change, “Spain is no longer that paradise where you could spend a very mild winter and a very nice summer.”

https://www.vox.com/climate/392311/2024-record-warm-spain-climate-flood-disaster-valencia

The accounting tool Bench shut down with no warning 3 days before the end of the year. They had raised $110m in venture capital.

The app is no longer accessible. There will be a way to export your data, but it's not available yet.

File over app is not just for individuals.

If you want to go old school (and save on fees!) when you donate to EFF, break out your quill, chequebook, and this mail-in membership form. https://eff.org/paper

In Nashville there's a place called Taylor Swift bench. It's a bench you can sit on dedicated to Taylor Swift. It has 259 reviews.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Taylor+Swift+Bench,+Nashville,+TN+37203/@36.1508051,-86.8146219,16z/

Prices of 1,380 food items set to rise in Japan in January https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/12/26/economy/food-price-up-january/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #food #alcohol #japaneseeconomy

Big wins for Amazon communities
In Brazil, the Munduruku reclaimed land rights to their Sawré Muybu territory, four Indigenous reserves were expanded. Next year, the Siekopai people of Ecuador will return to their ancestral home for the first time in 80 years, after a legal victory that will permanently protect over 20,000 km2 of rainforest in Ecuador and dismantle legal and political barriers to gaining title for ancestral Indigenous territory in Peru. https://buff.ly/4gJLwyS
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Why can't we raise little boys to aspire to support and aid their wives' careers? Girls are raised from a young age to "marry up." But what happens when it's her turn to shine? Will he BSOD and bail? Studies even show men don't like being in a room with a woman who earns more than they do.

Y'all need to teach your boys how to be proper gold diggers

She is obsessed with her new snacc

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties

@pluralistic The fact that artists MUST make art, which makes them terribly exploitable, is also true of scientists. We MUST explore and investigate our particular niche of science. This also makes us terribly exploitable, especially when what we learn about our niche is not easily exploited for profit.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/#vocational-awe

Cute, running the iPad version of Godot on the Mac works surprisingly well.

Discovered by accident today, I made a mistake and it ran in my Mac instead of the simulator.

China’s plan to dominate legacy chips globally sparks US probe
Half of US companies don't know the origins of chips they buy, official said.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/chinas-plan-to-dominate-legacy-chips-globally-sparks-us-probe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Philippine military said Monday it plans to acquire the U.S. Typhon missile system to protect its maritime interests, some of which overlap with regional power China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/23/asia-pacific/philippines-typhon-missile-acquire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #china #us #usmilitary #southchinasea

Oh! I'm THUNDERSTRUCK! Yes, this was recorded 8 months ago but I just now found out. My grandchildren's Uncle William is an outstanding concert pianist & composer. He composed this cover to collaborate with Tommee Profitt for this utterly fire performance. Uncle Preston wired up these two grand pianos to connect to a Tesla coil unit. I'm telling you, it's remarkable and fun! Sound up, way up.
https://youtu.be/NeH9RFPW97A?si=04dkRpuh1-xJl4Lw

Thunderstruck
William Joseph & Tommee Profitt
#ACDC #Thunderstruck

The standard criteria for “ultra-processed foods” leads to some absurd inclusions (tofu, tempeh, bouillon). I imagine it’s difficult or impossible to create a simple standard that wouldn’t have this problem. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/391795/ultra-processed-foods-science-vegan-meat-rfk-maha

I really want to get a Mac Pro to play this but then it’d be very hard to justify the purchase for “productivity”

From: @codeweavers
https://mas.to/@codeweavers/113691366173095030

Attention Mac users! You can play Cyberpunk 2077 on Mac NOW before the "official" native Mac version is released in 2025! Simply download CrossOver Mac, play, and defy the mainstream. No tinkering, no tedious setups. Just pure, unfiltered cyber adventure at your fingertips.

https://rebrand.ly/xg9wkf1

Good news, everybody: the JRuby team now has a presence on Bluesky! Follow us at https://buff.ly/41LPwL3 for all things related to JRuby!

We recently released an for the jar-dependencies gem, used to fetch jar dependencies from Maven Central. Unfortunately due to a bug (fixed in JRuby 9.4.10.0) we are considering pulling it temporarily. If anyone's got jar-dependencies 0.5.0 in their Gemfile.lock, we need to know!