⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Another great piece by @rvawonk demonstrating how “rage farming” triggers social media user engagement, which in turn maximizes the spread of mis/disinformation and profits for propagandists. To combat rage farming, stop engaging with rage-inducing content online.

#disinformation #misinformation #SocialMedia

https://substack.com/inbox/post/135742233

Some ideas just clicked together in the right way in my head and I realized something: Eventually on Mastodon I'm going to get told I should try out Linux by someone who was born after the first time I installed Linux

@hedders @drandrewv2 the Secret Barrister has written a very good blog on why forcing the convicted to attend their sentencing is not easy or perhaps realistic https://thesecretbarrister.com/2023/04/04/how-do-we-force-cowardly-murderers-to-face-up-to-what-they-have-done/ - of course that won't stop populist politicians from posturing about it

SUSE has gone through more than its fair share of corporate restructuring, and here comes another one. https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/suse-go-private by @sjvn

Well, I didn't see this coming—shame on me. SUSE, one of the oldest #Linux companies, is being taken private by its majority stockholder.

To explain, what's happening here is I'm taking apart an integer-based ray tracing program implementation, with the intent of rewriting it to run on an FPGA. The FPGA doesn't have enough RAM to hold a framebuffer, so conventional tri rendering would be hard, but it *might* be fast enough to raytrace every single pixel just in time to shove that pixel out the door to the HDMI port just as the HDMI display expects it. Beam-chaser ray tracing. Raychasing

To all my colleagues from #research, #science, and #humanities: Taking into account the new #nature article on #twitter's demise, please help to get a clearer picture on what this means for us scientists who are (within my reach) on #Mastodon:

15 min into #Babylon5 The Road Home and I’m loving it. Voice acting is top notch. The actress playing Delenn, Rebecca Riedy, sounds just like Mira Furlan. Also Phil LaMarr as Franklin… wow. Swear it was him. Great job! On with the show!

#babylon5 #babylon5theroadhome

Some quick non-spoilery thoughts about #babylon5theroadhome -
It’s definitely a love letter to/for long-time fans. Unexpectedly, there’s an emphasis on the humor and, expectedly, on the humanistic themes of the show. Plot, not so much.
It is NOT a place to introduce the uninitiated.
But it’s also clearly a pivot point if the the reboot gets the green light.
#babylon5 #sciencefiction