HannahI watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."
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David August ❌👑Call your Reps (edited since it is now in the House’s hands) now. @5calls can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.
ProPublicaRFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women.
Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.
#News #Covid #Vaccines #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Health #Pregnancy #Women
The Medley Interlisp ProjectOn May 28, 2025 Eleanor Young will give the talk "The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System" at the 2025 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industry Summit (CCECE). She will discuss what other historical software recovery groups can learn from the Medley Interlisp Project.
Technical Program - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2025
IEEE CCECE 2025 – Technical Sessions ML1 Tuesday, May 27 | 08:30 – 09:45 | Room: MCLD 3018 | Chair: Hamed Aly 08:33 — Genetic Algorithm-Driven Feature Selection for Total Harmonic Distortion Prediction Using Hybrid Machine LearningMahmoud Kiasari, Hamed Aly 08:51 — Adaptive Security for IoT: Lightweight Device ...
David GerardNote to hachyderm.io users, who can't see this on their server (which I'm mentioning because another one just asked me about it):
the hachyderm admins blocked me personally - if you try to follow me from hachyderm, it lies and tells you this account is "suspended" - and i still have no idea why
coincidentally Nivenly, the company running hachyderm, got into an AI grift and I loudly called it an AI grift. This suggests the reasons are simple and commercial.
they have apparently denied that their AI grift was the reason but haven't said what the reason was
and they haven't contacted me at all and certainly nobody is paying me enough to bother to contact these weirdos
it's a mastodon feature: forum admins with poster's madness
so basically find a non-shitty server or spin up an akkoma yourself
feel free to copy and forward this as appropriate
edit: there was apparently a bug raised, and i'm definitely not wasting my time attempting communication with these circumlocutious scammy sounding weirdos. Perhaps you will wish to. https://github.com/hachyderm/community/issues/579
edit 2: it's their feudal pissheap and they're allowed not to like me! that they lie that my account is "suspended" and go into sub-GPT blathering when asked why is, I submit, a good reason to reevaluate hitching your wagon to their hungover seaside donkey
@[email protected] shows "account suspended" from hachyderm.io · Issue #579 · hachyderm/community
What would you like to discuss with us or let us know? I have been following David Gerard's written work regarding cryptocurrency and AI hype in addition to other rot-economu issues for some time. ...
Judd Legum1. BREAKING
Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.
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Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.
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✧✦Catherine✦✧to those who tell me it's not AGPLv3's fault:
- i claim this is the primary way in which the AGPLv3 license is utilized, in terms of number of deployments
- FSF encourages "selling exceptions"
- FSF encourages copyright assignment
therefore, FSF and AGPLv3 explicitly encourage this behavior. even if you try to claim it is not the "intended" one, it is the one that happens in practice
- i claim this is the primary way in which the AGPLv3 license is utilized, in terms of number of deployments
- FSF encourages "selling exceptions"
- FSF encourages copyright assignment
therefore, FSF and AGPLv3 explicitly encourage this behavior. even if you try to claim it is not the "intended" one, it is the one that happens in practice
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tef"what do we want" meaningful political change
"how do we want it" without any inconvenience to those in power, or any interruption to the status-quo
same as it ever was
Micky*newest addition to the #zenodo #digipres community*
"A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats" by @makethecatwise @Thorsted @archivist_Liz and Chris Knowles. While originally created for an #ipres2024 workshop, the guide is "written for people getting started with imaging floppy disks (...), particularly
smaller institutions or those with tight budgetary constraints".
Check it out here:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13828372
A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats
Memory institutions are grappling with the challenges posed by digital carriers in their collections. While solutions for more recent carriers like hard drives, optical discs, and flash storage are readily available, the landscape becomes trickier when dealing with older formats such as floppy disks. It is becoming increasingly difficult to source the hardware, such as 5.25”floppy drives. There are many boards that can read flux streams, including the KryoFlux, and the Award-winning Archivist’s Guide to KryoFlux can help to get started. But KryoFlux is somewhat limited in the disk formats it can interpret and might be too expensive for smaller institutions. We came together as practitioners because we encountered disk formats that required additional efforts to read and extract files. We explored hardware such as Greaseweazle and using FluxEngine software to read less common disk formats. Sharing the knowledge we have gained, this tutorial and workshop present an opportunity for participants to delve into these formats, examining them from both hardware and formatting perspectives. The session will start with a tutorial designed to showcase various options and tools (FluxEngine, GreaseWeazle), demonstrating how to make aging equipment compatible with contemporary machines. At the end of the tutorial, participants should have the knowledge to build their own forensic workstation for 5.25”and 3.5”floppy disks. Commencing with case studies, the workshop in the second half of the session will unravel the complexities of dealing with obscure formats and share valuable lessons learned. Participants will be equipped with practical tips and tricks for identification and handling, including utilizing Hex Editors and using tools for specific obscure disk formats (such as WANG). The aim is to empower participants with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the challenges associated with older formats.