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regarding binary vs decimal prefixes and the former's daft similar naming to the (already well established) latter.
A short story with Demerzel and Empire.
http://www.danamania.com/tmp/BinaryStar.html
Expanding on this post: https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/116204293922468758
I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.
Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000 grams.
I swear ten thousand years in the future some fucker will 'oops, black hole!' 'cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo = 1024 first and NOBODY WILL CATCH IT. Humanity will be WIPED OUT because YOU LOT KEPT THIS SHIT UP.
Two years today I came out to everyone as #trans right here on Mastodon. The reaction was incredible and I continue to receive so much affirmation and support here. I'm not sure that would have happened anywhere else.
I don't write original posts here or on my own website very often, but today I thought I would let you know what I've been struggling with since November:
https://lisamelton.net/2025/06/22/no-im-not-okay/
Thank you, again, awesome people. 😊🥰💖🏳️⚧️
But thanks for asking. My post here should be a celebration of my coming out publicly. On Mastodon, no less. Two years ago today. Yay! I'm still so surprised at and so grateful for the positive reaction I received there. Those are good people. But this is more than an anniversary party. It's a vulgar [...]
The Man in #Seat61 seems like a relic from a forgotten age of the #Internet.
Seat61.com is a genuinely useful website created by just one guy, a train travel enthusiast who has curated a vast array of information that will help anyone who would like to travel in #Europe by #train
He is not trying to sell you anything and there are no adverts (apart from a few affiliate ids).
His website has won various "best travel website" awards. Notably the last one was in 2012.
Could we maybe stop talking about LLMs like they are becoming sentient? Amongst other stolen data, they have been trained on a whole bunch of text from science fiction stories about computers becoming sentient, and statistically know how to write that kind of thing.
You're not creating Skynet here, it's just seen The Terminator a hundred times and is quoting your favourite lines at you.
Malware attack and counterattack
This is the story of a phishing, of a hacking, of what I learned, and how I counterattacked The phishing It all started with an email from a journalist who wanted to interview me about my artistic work. The email was from a certain Eirik Halvorsen, coming on the behalf of an online art magazine, Artscope. This happens to me regularly, but this time, the email was so cleanly and formally written that I told my friends that it looked like it had been written by an AI. But it was […]https://www.antoineschmitt.com/malware-attack-and-counterattack/
A Canadian friend's perspective on US behavior since the Trump regime was installed:
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One thing I've learned over the past few weeks, and it's been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don't actually know what's going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here's a timeline to explain why we're here, and why we're angry.
Nov 30th, 2018 - The United States, Canada and Mexico finalize a trade agreement. Trump personally negotiates the terms and signs the document, celebrating it as 'the greatest trade agreement in history". (This is important.)
Nov 29th, 2024 - In a face to face meeting, Trump threatens the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that he will be imposing 25% tariffs and that if Canada wants to avoid that, it should join the US as a state.
Nov 30th, 2024 - Trump publicly calls our Prime Minister 'Governor Trudeau' and instructs his staff to only address him as Governor going forward. He again suggests Canada should join the USA.
Dec 3rd, 2024 - Trump remarks that he would split Canada into two states once annexed.
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