Mastodawn

HerrHerrmann 1d ago

J. L. Westover 1d ago

Secret Panel HERE 🌳 https://tapas.io/episode/2013477

HerrHerrmann Jul 30

SnoopJ Feb 24, 2023

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

UTC 149 Draft Minutes

HerrHerrmann Jul 29

Sarah Dal Jul 28

Saving an image to a bird

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/yes-you-can-store-data-on-a-bird-enthusiast-converts-png-to-bird-shaped-waveform-teaches-young-starling-to-recall-file-at-up-to-2mb-s

They converted an image to a waveform, played it to a young starling who imitated it well enough that it could be recorded and the waveform converted back to an image.

The linked video is full of info about bioacoustic monitoring too

Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

Who needs Starlink when you've got an actual starling

Tom's Hardware

HerrHerrmann Jul 28

Petrikas Jul 28

Imagine the size of the fuckup that your 50-star GitHub project gets 1600 reactions on an issue.

#EU

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10

Do not add Google Play Integrity integration · Issue #10 · eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui

In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...

GitHub

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Jul 4

Someone submitted a LEGO Idea of the “this is fine” meme and I’m here for it.

Don’t know LEGO Ideas? People can submit ideas for kits and anyone can vote for them. If they reach a target number of votes they can make it into production.

They got the votes. 👀

https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/68f53992-92b0-4701-984a-a25f867ee17f

#LEGO #LEGOIdeas #ThisIsFine #Meme #Toys

This Is Fine | LEGO® Ideas

This LEGO build is a 1061 piece brick-built recreation of the iconic "This is Fine" meme, featuring the well-known dog character, also known as "question hound"…

HerrHerrmann Jul 15

David Gerard Jul 11

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/ - text
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250711-ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96j1cIMYV1U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…

Pivot to AI

HerrHerrmann Jul 14

In case it wasn’t obvious yet: Spotify sucks, and you should move away (e.g. to Tidal or Apple Music, or anything else really). Don’t support war, don’t support people who only care for profit at any cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Spotify
#Spotify #DanielEk