Alright, I'm going to request one last data export from botsin.space and when that's done I'm going to move over to my new account on @ryanfb@digipres.club! See you there! https://digipres.club/@ryanfb
Ryan Baumann
đ Papyri, Ancient Greek, Latin, computers, video games, cats, etc. Bot-making on hiatus.
https://papyri.info maintainer
Creator of https://podqueue.fm, the missing "Listen Later" for audio on the web
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Total Replay v5.0 is out. It features 484 Apple II games (182 new since v4), all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.
https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay
Code: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v5.0
Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, Andrew Roughan, Frank M., Kris Kennaway, @ladyailuros, and everyone else who contributed to this project in the past four years.
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May 17th, 339 CEâthe proceedings of a trial are recorded #OnThisDay #OTD; the sisters Herais & Taesis fled their farmlands due to overdue taxes, so their lands were seized and handed over for public cultivationâŚbut when they returned, they were handed back extra land!
if this policy were actually about security the 2-year limit would only apply to accounts without 2FA
kinda sad that even google canât figure out tiered storage well enough to not even have to think about this
guess I gotta figure out a way to make an automated google account jiggler https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/
This papyrus also preserves the only surviving text of Constantine's law "praescriptio longi temporis", in Greek translation
How do we have what appears to be a live transcription of a 4th century CE court case? The answer is that much like today, a court stenographer was transcribing everything in real-time, only they were using a system of ancient Greek shorthand: https://www.thedailybeast.com/there-are-still-codes-throughout-ancient-roman-literature
May 17th, 339 CEâthe proceedings of a trial are recorded #OnThisDay #OTD; the sisters Herais & Taesis fled their farmlands due to overdue taxes, so their lands were seized and handed over for public cultivationâŚbut when they returned, they were handed back extra land!
well y'all, it was always sort of untenable to use my bot-maintenance account as my main mastodon account, but I'll probably be moving servers sooner rather than later, post migration or not https://botsin.space/@muffinista/110378654504428500
@nkizz PyTorch has some MPS compatibility but it doesn't yet support all features and has some bugs that break things depending on what you're trying to do with it, e.g.: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/87886
Once PyTorch has a stable Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) backend that covers most functionality, you should be able to use this with GPU acceleration on Macs. It would be a huge help if Apple actually cared about or contributed to any open source machine learning projects! Instead of just killing CUDA support and saying "figure it out"!
May 16th, 243 BCEâEukles drafts a letter reprimanding the village scribe Anosis #OTD #OnThisDay, saying that Anosis made a mistake in the pay records for the official pottery accounts and that Eukles plans to take him to court to make him pay the difference.
WhisperX v3 shipped a couple days ago and itâs truly incredible the speedup theyâve delivered for accurate audio transcription. I can do CPU-only transcription on my M1 Max at 3x real-time with the largest model. With a GPU you can apparently hit 70x real-time. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
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#WozADay: World Karate Championship đĽ
the manual also advertises an #apple2 #AppleII game named âDeflexorâ that I canât find any other information about and doesnât seem to have been released? maybe they just changed the name before release? #retrogaming
#WozADay: Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics âď¸
this is a Maxx Out! title as well, for some reason
May 14th, 29 CEâ#OTD #OnThisDay Herieus, daughter of Laousis and Tapetesouchus, sells Hisarous, daughter of Onnophris, the two out of five parts of a two-storied house in Soknopaiu Nesos belonging to her, in this bilingual Demotic/Greek contract
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