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Dudes. 24 short hours from now my PhD defense will be all over, one way or another. I’m spending the time between now and then in deep review. Wish me luck!
Acquitted self honorably. I am a doctor! Alltime superthanks to Oli, Kurt, David, Suzi, Fran, Olivia, Carrie and always always Nurri – there is *no* way I would have made it through without you all. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Also I’m seeing Messthetics at OTO tomorrow night regardless of outcome, which will be awesome. I haven’t seen Brendan and Joe since the sidewalk outside the 9:30 Club in, like, 1990 or something stupid.
hope you enjoy it- you get to talk about what you’ve spent the last few years deeply immersed in & they will have read about and ask hopefully insightful questions.
It seems to me that the ability to read source code will become more and more important over time. This skill is rarely taught, as far as I can tell. The learning situation resembles that for natural language: knowing how to produce/generate text does not immediately translate into the ability to read it, let alone read it well.
I have some Godot framework codebase to understand (godotforums.org/d/29497-mock-u… ) and with some work I can understand what one methods do (most of the work consisting in understanding what other methods from other classes it calls and how they relate to each other) but when I start trying to understand the next method I happen to have forgotten the first...
I wouldn't be able to teach you how to read source code on Mastodon any more than I could teach you how to read Greek. It's a skill that takes sustained effort and practice.
From what you've said it sounds like it'd help to diagram the code. Sequence diagrams can be helpful in understanding the logic; I like to start with those. Start with some simple flow and build up from there. I don't know how long you've been working with that codebase but I wouldn't rely on memory alone till you're quite familiar with it.
More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.
ok attempt #2 at buying a lower engine splash guard for the RSX. first one was never delivered.
missing these plastic things can definitely have a negative effect on your engine when driving in wet conditions. they're there for a reason. this car was missing many little things like this when i got it
temptation is really high to do all the remaining body work on the RSX but ugh. i really need to be moved out of this shop by fall. getting extremely nervous
the RSX body is ok now, in that it's not going to rust apart, and the door closes and everything seals properly. i just don't like all the dents and crap making it look trashy.
body work takes forever. i would probably regret starting that. i can do this stuff later after some of the pressure is off and i'm moved onto the property
I used it with pleasure for a while. It was the only RPM based distribution I used. My heart is always on the Debian side. FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems have also won my heart in the meantime.
I used Mandrake 8.0 for a while, but the next release I tried, 8.2 was the buggiest Linux distribution release I've ever encountered. So I started looking for alternatives, and switched to Slackware.
I used Mandrake/Mandriva as the first Linux distribution beyond pure experimentation starting from 2004. The producer's problems led me to install Ubuntu on the desktop I bought in 2010, but I have some nice memories of Mandrake/Mandriva.
Mandrake: I really REALLY wanted to use this distro but I never got it to work on my old Siemens Amilo A notebook. So frustrating. My redemption came unexpectedly in a brown form in 2004, when Ubuntu finally enabled me to switch for good.
I have worked for 6 years (2000-2006) at MandrakeSoft/Mandriva in Paris, and my very first task was switching from LPD (Line Printer Daemon, line printers are kind of high-speed electric typewriters) to #CUPS and so Mandrake was the first distro with CUPS and easy printing.
So whatever Mandrake version was released in fall of 2000 was the first ever Linux distro on the world which used CUPS.
Chinese defense industry manufactures equipment comparable or superior in quality, but always much more affordable than #NATO. Moreover, the West is already facing problems as they lose #Russia's and #China's rare earths. #Iran is in talks to buy an entirely new air force with J-10C and AWACS aircraft from China. If China were to arm Iran, it would reshape the military and diplomatic landscape of the entire Asia. Checkmate
This is a good deal for both sides; it will enhance China’s weapons export market and give Iran considerably new capabilities, as its air force was in shambles even before the war.
Offset 'air superiortity' of F35s? 🤣 Theyre junk. Built junk and remain junk. Deathtraps actually. They fall out of the sky for no apparent reason as a recent vid showed. A flaming scrap pile BEFORE it hit the ground @IAmSpartacus
#Israel has perfected the art of snuffing-out #Palestinian lives. Their speciality is babies, infants, toddlers, and children. #Hitler would be proud. He taught them well. #PalestinianHolocaust
In North Korea, dictator Kim Jong Un has been making more public appearances with the person many believe will succeed him as supreme leader, his daughter...
BBC | #Israel 's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan for a crime against humanity".
"It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the #Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,"
Central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital to run out of fuel within hours
It is one of the barely functional hospitals left in the central area, and this chronic shortage will have severe repercussions on the lives of many patients who are receiving treatment inside, and will lead to the potential suspension of a number of medical services, including kidney dialysis treatment.
Anti-genocide campaigners receive warm welcome from delegates furious with Graham and cronies Some of the protesters outside Unite’s conference yesterday. Unite members lobbying the unionR…
ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN
( No Deals! )
====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)
According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thing—as long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.
Yeah… no. That’s never going to happen.
You can’t make deals with devils.
Now, I’m not even saying I believe that claim—but IF there’s any truth to it—NO DEALS CAN BE MADE! Personally, I think what's happening is something else, but I don't think anyone knows for sure except for those on the inside.
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse. One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only “a drop in the oc…
El Gobierno 🏛️🇪🇸 autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnología a Israel 🇮🇱 para su plan de rearme
Alegan “la carencia de capacidad industrial” para abordar “avances urgentes” en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrónica y sensores de última generación”.
El Ejecutivo ha decidido permitir al Ministerio de Defensa adquirir tecnología militar israelí en el marco del plan de rearme, justificado por la carencia de…
Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.
#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.
Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity- both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear. And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.
Today on the popular FOX News panel show, The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov suggested that people being held in ICE detention centers are reporting sexual abuse by the workers at these facilities.
🇸🇾 "New Syria" is burning. Charred bodies are being found on the coast. This is what the UK,US, Israel and Turkey with help from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the whole satanic alliance did to this beautiful country with 10,000 + of civilisation
I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.
Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.
(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. 😀 )
One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
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Brazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.
“He really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,” he says, adding that “from now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoples”
@RichardJMurphy hits the nail on the head (as so often):
'if any political party wishes to truly succeed — not just scrape by, but build lasting loyalty and transform this country — it must make the promise that it will put people first, meet their needs from cradle to grave, and offer them freedom from fear'!
However, our political class seems quite some way from that agenda....
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or so. This is now published, but only for subscribers.
It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the first place.
As things stand, the system of aid distribution in the Gaza Strip is intended to cause suffering and destruction to recipients.
On Tuesday, The Guardian published an opinion piece by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in which he accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of orchestrating a "campaign of devastation" in Gaza and called on the international community to move beyond symbolic outrage toward concrete action in defense of international law.
Petro has emerged as one of the most outspoken world leaders condemning "Israel’s" war on Gaza.
If you're just tuning in, it turns out Al Qaeda in Syria are not terrorists but the peace activists in the UK are, the guy committing genocide in Gaza says the guy backing his genocide deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeffrey Epstein was an misunderstood angel who killed himself.
I keep meaning to write up an analysis of LLM use based on systems-thinking—the core issue is that their volatility is bad for organisations and leads to gambler behaviour in individuals—but then I come across some fresh bullshit and realise there's nothing I can say to change people's minds. The people who are against it are already against it and the people who are for it, or even on the fence, aren't likely to listen to my style of argument.
I do tech consulting, and more than once since 2022 I've advised small-to-medium-sized businesses about LLMs. It's extremely valuable to have analysis like this in hand and be able to link to it. Throwing an analysis into the wind may not change minds, but those of us in the trenches can make excellent use of it.
Ca s'appelle un camp de concentration, et nous ne devons pas laisser cela arriver.
- haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Defense Minister Says Israel Plans to Concentrate All Gaza's Population in 'Humanitarian' Zone Built on Rafah's Ruins)
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It’s called a concentration camp, and we must not let it happen.
Ils et elles n'ont pas de papiers mais veulent se sentir utiles en lançant une ferme maraîchère près de Rennes. Reportage 👉 basta.media/quand-un-collectif…
Ce groupe de demandeurs d’asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle d'un hectare prêtée par un agriculteur. Leur récolte est destinée aux Restos du Coeur et à leur propre consommation.
Pour se sentir utile et recouvrer un peu d'autonomie, un groupe de demandeur·es d'asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle prêtée par un agriculteur. Les récoltes sont en partie données aux Restos du cœur. Reportage.
Kathmandu Post - More than two dozen people are dead or missing after a flood caused widespread destruction, sweeping away the Miteri Bridge — a key piece of infrastructure linking Nepal and China. kathmandupost.com/nepali-diasp…
📢 The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Brussels-based legal advocacy group pursuing Israeli officials for alleged #warcrimes - announced this week that the ISR government has imposed sanctions on 50 individuals associated with the organization
🔹 Among those targeted are the foundation’s chairman, Diab Abu Jahjah, two of its co-founders, and three lawyers involved in its international legal campaigns
Deadly floods could be new normal as #Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… "Cuts and chaos instigated by Trump come as threat from extreme weather grows due to human-caused #climatecrisis"
"The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice Source: Olmstead v. United States, 1928
In a whiplash reversal that has infuriated America-First conservatives, President Donald Trump now says the United States “has to” ship still more arms, missiles, and ammo to Ukraine — just days after the Pentagon froze deliveries because …
that's kinda like saying OSI should write software.
IMO FSF's role is to be a steward and promoter of Free Software values and definition. For example, by giving well argumented opinions on which licenses satisfy the Free Software Definition, but also which software and hardware best fulfills the spirit of Free Software and which doesn't.
I agree it does a poor job at that, but that doesn't mean it should be doing something else.
Israeli occupation forces detained Nasser al-Lahham, Al Mayadeen’s bureau chief in occupied Palestine, in a pre-dawn incursion into his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.
The Israeli security service, Shin Bet, was directly responsible for the detention, which specifically targeted al-Lahham’s personal broadcasting studio in search of electronic equipment and media devices linked to his journalistic work.
Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders.
Roughly a month after the displacement of the “Mughayyir al-Deir” community east of Ramallah, and less than a week after the expulsion of “Arab al-Malihyat” the wave of expulsions has now reached occupied Jerusalem.
Watan-Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders. Roughl
A BBC journalist was left fuming as the corporation was found to have ignored the scandal of British spy planes being deployed over Gaza.
The National, in conjunction with the investigative website Declassified UK, this week published an expose of the failure of the mainstream media to look into RAF planes being deployed over the besieged territory.
CIA agent is the head of BBC middle east coverage. https://mastodon.world/@Captain_Jack_Sparrow/113789695471420229
"Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should…
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution,
are worth defending at all hazards;
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
This is a war crime. Israel just bombed a prison ward where trans people were kept locked up. Hundreds of trans people exterminated. There is no rational explanation for this.
The nation state system, Western conceptions of property rights, and the theater we call "rule of law" are all reaching their logical ends.
They were all just Colonialism 2.0 and the whole inane system is slowly being crushed under its own weight.
We need a detailed proposal for what a post-nation state could look like.
Particular attention must be paid to how systems that sustain civilization can be picked up & transformed with as little damage as possible as the systems of yesterday perish.
This might sound unhinged to many; after all, imagination around other systems, other ways of being, and other types of civilizations, other ways of doing trade and sustaining life, those are all things we are taught not to think about or take seriously, and communities who practice alternatives are have always been ignored when possible, or met with violence.
The most unhinged systems are the ones we exist in today, normalized because we are just fish in the waters of our suicidal system.
I only recently came across a very interesting critique of the straightforward communist "seize the means". Because that production is extractive and colonist by it's very nature! So how to we dismantle the means of production for its most efficient and ethical use is our generation's question.
Olivier #Marleix, membre du parti Les Républicains (LR), est décédé tragiquement le 7 juillet #2025 à l’âge de 54 ans. En 2017, il a présidé une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la vente de la branche énergie d’ #Alstom à #GeneralElectric, dénonçant une possible perte de souveraineté industrielle. Il a saisi le parquet de Paris en 2019 et a reçu le «prix éthique» d’ #Anticor en 2020 pour ce travail. Gaulliste convaincu, il critiquait régulièrement la #politique d’Emmanuel #Macron, notamment sur la faillite du pays et la désindustrialisation. Olivier Marleix est mort aujourd’hui à son domicile d’Anet. Selon plusieurs sources, il se serait suicidé, une information confirmée par le procureur de Chartres. Juste après la mort d'Eric #Denecé qui avait lancé un rapport d'alerte sur la vente d’Alstom, maintenant c'est celle du Député Olivier #Marleix qui avait fait saisir le Parquet national financier sur la même affaire.
Le député LR de la deuxième circonscription d'Eure-et-Loir, Olivier Marleix a été retrouvé mort, pendu ce lundi 7 juillet dans sa maison à Anet, commune dont il a été le maire de 2008 à 2017. C'est son ancienne première adjointe...
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