Parienve @Parienve@social.cleverlibre.org

I've been playing around with using a message bus system in #love2d to loosely couple modules.

One of the weaknesses of love is that its built in message passing feature (handlers) require modules to know about each other. This makes it difficult to to reuse components between games.

"Pixelosis"
Since #genuary4 prompt is "pixels" the best way to show them is by serious upscaling of sprites. Here's a #winter Outrun-like #tweetcart

#genuary4 #genuary #pico8 #generative #codeart #sizecoding #pixelart

for i=0,999do
x=rnd(i/40)-i/90c=3if(i>799)x/=9c=1
sset(x+9,i/30,c+i%4)end::_::?"\^1\^cc\^!5f11█░⬇️3⬅️"
for i=2,63do line(0,i+64,127,i+64,(28/i+t())%2+6)end
j=t()*4for k=40,1,-1do
i=k-j%1x=(cos((k+j\1)/9)+.3)*4^6z=i*9+9s=600/z
sspr(0,0,32,40,x/z+64-2*s,64-3*s,4*s,6*s)end
goto _

We really, really don’t want to have to make a printer, but wow.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/

TikTok is adding a feature that will make every video shopping by using AI to recognize objects and allow you to shop for similar things on TikTok Shop.

This will further the current sense that every TikTok video is now trying to sell you something.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/tiktok-tests-feature-that-could-make-all-videos-shoppable

"Today we are happy to announce the first step in advancing quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol: an upgrade to the X3DH specification which we are calling PQXDH. With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of protection against the threat of a quantum computer being built in the future that is powerful enough to break current encryption standards." https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

“We obtain three decades of computer vision research papers and downstream patents (more than 20,000 documents) and present a rich qualitative and quantitative analysis. This analysis exposes the nature and extent of the Surveillance AI pipeline, its institutional roots and evolution, and ongoing patterns of obfuscation.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084

📢 Calling all creators, publishers, and content contributors on the web! 🌐

Today we are announcing an important open letter which proposes a simple specification to enable fair usage of content for search and AI. This is a threat now, not an #AISafetySummit future one.

#NoML #OpenLetter #AI

Join us by signing & sharing the open letter 👇

https://noml.info/

I once spent something like 18 months protesting GitHub every single day over the ICE thing and even I think the “requiring 2fa and supporting several different ways to do it is a very evil bridge too far” people have completely lost the plot

Your skill as a writer is inversely proportional to the number of words you have added to an article for SEO purposes.


#SEO #PaddingIsntWriting #LongerIsntBetter #enshittification

#USA #DNA #FacialRecognition #Algorihtms Privacy: "The detective’s request to run a DNA-generated estimation of a suspect’s face through facial recognition tech has not previously been reported. Found in a trove of hacked police records published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets, it appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face algorithmically generated from crime-scene DNA.

It likely won’t be the last.

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable criteria."

https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/

This is your random reminder to check that any scheduled backups that you have setup, are actually running

"Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?" (PDF):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622.pdf

Spoiler: Yep.

Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical's repackaging of the Steam client through snap.

The best way to install Steam on Debian and derivative operating systems is to follow the instructions at http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ and use the official .deb

We are not involved with the snap repackaging. It has a lot of issues.

If you don't want the .deb, please at least consider the flatpak version.

#steam #ubuntu #snap #flatpak

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/

#Pluralistic

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@mikehaynes Definitely a lot of attempts at #IndieWeb / #smallweb search engines/repos/lists. I’ve (somewhat poorly) tried to capture a lot of them here… https://shellsharks.com/indieweb.

In no particular order…

- https://ooh.directory
- https://www.marginalia.nu
- https://indieseek.xyz
- https://kagi.com/smallweb/
- https://searchmysite.net
- https://whimsical.club
- https://theuselessweb.com
- https://theforest.link
- https://personalsit.es
- https://indieweb-directory.glitch.me
- https://godteeth.com/misc/randomweb
- https://blogroll.org
- https://indieblog.page
- https://blogs.hn
- https://neocities.org/browse
- https://wiby.me
- Webrings: https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/

*Maybe someone could build a search engine that would aggregate results from all or some of these?