Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

It's that most wonderful time of the year when Wikipedia is fundraising hard.

They literally have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and enough runway to essentially run the site for decades.

If you have money to donate to good causes, consider local charities; if you want to donate to an Internet thing give to the chronically underfunded Internet Archive: https://archive.org/donate

Apparently Namecheap is now selling blockchain-based domains, and unless you hover over the illegibly low-contrast "i" icon there's no indication that you're buying something "not compatible with DNS" throughout the rest of the checkout process.

The problem with Raspberry Pi proudly hiring an ex-spy cop and seeing nothing wrong with it isn’t that they were unprofessional in their replies to criticism on the fediverse. It was the fact that they proudly hired an ex-spy cop and see nothing wrong with it.

If what you want is corporations* to be better at whitewashing what they do, be careful what you ask for because that’s all they want too.

* They’re an offshoot of Broadcom and their “foundation” has multiple for-profit companies.

@xahteiwi Moreover I suggest that the fact that we have developed a culture which is trying to test the newer system being prioritized over the older, feelings based one, and that culture is fucking failing big time presently does not bode well for choosing the cortex alone.

@MikeElgan But, was Peru's president a rich, entitled white guy whose daddy set him up in business? It makes all the difference. Apparently.

It bears repeating that humans have known for about 100 years (via model theory) that #semantic models of #syntax are usually not uniquely determined by that syntax. Now imagine what happens when a generative #nlp model is trained using only syntax. Do you feel lucky?

We’re asking readers to not engage in any
@nytimes
platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

https://twitter.com/amandahess/status/1600547516059045890

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

You can use Mastodon to add comments to your static blog engine.

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ #webdev #fediverse

Not using words such as "basically" and "essentially" or "simple" and "only" is a constant struggle.

"Pointer compression in Oilpan" https://v8.dev/blog/oilpan-pointer-compression

Love it! Great work.

I cut my professional teeth designing these sort of bit twiddling optimizations.

Whether you are running on a 16-bit, 32-bit processor, or on a 64-bit pocket super computer—sometimes every bit and ever cycle matters.

@tommorris
I will soon have witnessed both the beginning and the end of the Information Age in my adult life.

@tommorris It is perfect for firehosing.

Massively produced plausible non-truth can easily overwhelm a recipient. Kind of a DDOS for knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

@tommorris You’re brave! As soon as I discovered this AI of unknown morality wanted my phone number to register I decided not to bother. 😳

@swrogers Actually, the newest release of #Emacs has #HaikuOS support!

https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/

The might be a reason to try out this amazing OS again.