Diego Barros

@dbarros
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Code wrangler, and sometime pizzaiolo.

Interview with Mick Herron (Slough House and Slow Horses) at The Wheeler Centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLZrQ_QtEhM

Mick Herron: Slough House and Slow Horses

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The source code for the iconic #Commodore #Amiga Juggler demo has been recovered and made available for download.

https://alphapixeldev.com/recovering-eric-grahams-1987-amiga-juggler-raytracer-source-code/

#demoscene #retrocomputing #retrocomputer

Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code - AlphaPixel Software Development

Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source code AlphaPixel often gets involved with modernizing and updating old performance and graphics code. Sometimes that means client work under NDA. But sometimes it means a fun side quest in the mystical realms of curiosity, preservation, and the practical problem of getting old data into a form that can be read and used on a current machine. Today let's talk about Amiga Juggler ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpt_3D ). The Juggler animation was ground-breaking and Earth-shattering. Even the Amiga's creaators (Commodore) didn't believe it had been made on an Amiga. They thought the actual computation work[…]

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Here’s an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of yourwill REALLY appreciate.

It’s so good, I had to make a video.

i use arch btw

Even prisoners in solitary confinement get an hour a day out of their cells.

https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-will-let-employees-stop-being-tracked-for-30-minutes-at-a-time

#meta #facebook

Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of technology Andrew Bosworth was blunt: “There is no option to opt out of this on your work provided laptop.” Two months and more than 1,500 petition signatures […]

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"US announces new tariffs over forced labour concerns", BBC

What I love about the article is the complete lack of recognition that the US, in almost every state, has forced labor in their prisons

And proportionally the largest prison population in the world

If forced unpaid labor was abolished tomorrow, Texas economy would collapse

But of course it, and other articles like it are written as if the US and Trump are acting in good faith

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