Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

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Koontz: submitted for the approval of the midnight society
Koontz: i
Koontz: phew
Poe: what's the matter dean
Koontz: i don't know, telling stories is such hard work
Koontz: there's got to be a better way

Get Battle.net, EA, Epic Games and more on Steam Deck the easy way

Video: https://youtu.be/esD_Rk3JZP4

Article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/get-battlenet-ea-epic-games-and-more-on-steam-deck-the-easy-way/

#SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming

To co-sign, boost.

There's yet another "AI will kill us all! It poses a risk of extinction!" letter going around, and I just… Y'all i am just so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction (climate change, right the fuck now).

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction (nuclear FUCKING WAR).

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.

Even if you stopped every "AI" project running, RIGHT THIS SECOND, those values would still kill us. And no matter how long you "pause" your "AI" projects, if you don't address those values? Then when you start your "AI" back up? You'll KEEP BUILDING THOSE SAME VALUES IN.

This is not hard. At this point, as much as it pains me to say it, it's not even novel. And yet you're still not fucking getting it.

I'm so goddam tired.

two quality of life improvement apps for using #macOS. These are both in beta, but in my testing, work flawlessly.

FinderFix: windows will open in the exact position and size you want it to.

AutoFocus: an excellent focus-follows-mouse implementation.

Links to both: https://synappser.github.io/apps/

Will we see such implementations for #macOS at #WWDC? Probably not. But hope springs eternal.

Setris - play Tetris with sand!

https://www.freegameplanet.com/setris-downloadable-game/

by #gamedev mslivo #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/lawyer-chatgpt/

anything that requires me to sign up presents a barrier high enough that casual interest alone will not overcome it.

Maciej was on target with AI: "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People"

In 2016.

https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Sigh.

h/t @epilepticrabbit

A new #terminal to love! I've been using iterm2 on my macbooks forever.

New job handed me a #Linux box. So I found WezTerm https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html (by @wez).

Today I switched to using it also on my Mac. It's so much faster than iterm, just as pretty, and uses a fun #lua config :D The best feature is that my setup now is identical on both machines.

Two minor inconveniences: I can't do opt+n for tilde on mac de keyboard without deadkey hiccups, and it doesn't have the shiny (but unnecessary) status bar of iterm2.

Causal evidence that herpes zoster vaccination prevents a proportion of dementia cases

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v1

Huge. And shingles vaccination expected to be covered on PBS this year...

@kdawson when interpreting the results, just remember that there is a sizable group of people who can't state that they got it anymore...

@kdawson Quite a few people can't vote in this poll.

Screw NATO

This guy knows.
#HDMI

Ron DeSantis planning to announce that he's running for president on Twitter during a discussion with Elon Musk is hilarious because it sounds like someone just went on ChatGPT and typed "Write a headline that will make everyone on Mastodon angry".

Just got my F256K in the mail today, a 65C02 based 2023 made retro computer from Foenix Retro System (@StefanyAllaire), mine chosen with blue keyboard switches.
Will post more later.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/google-bans-downloader-app-after-tv-firms-complain-it-can-load-a-pirate-website/
Google bans Downloader app after TV firms complain it can load a pirate website