Erica WatsonIn light of recent & ongoing news, here are some dogs who have been in my dog’s head-level PO box:
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Portland, OR. 1312. Exiled from Twitter before it was cool. I was there at the dawning of the Third Age of Free Software.
Futzle FictionFirst contact has been going well. It’s their turn to ask questions. The biped’s face moves and my translator squawks, “Are you <unintelligible>-based life forms too?”
The human and translator converse for a bit. “Element 6,” the translator clarifies.
I laugh, startling the human. “Do you name all the elements? Adorable! Next you’ll be telling me you name the stars.”
The human shifts uncomfortably.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)
@carbontwelve@notacult.social I used machine learning in my PhD. The use case there was data prefetching. This was an ideal task for ML, because the benefits of a correct answer were high and the cost of an incorrect answer were low. In the worst case, your prefetching evicts something from cache that you need later, but a 60% accuracy in predictions is a big overall improvement. Programming is the opposite. The benefits of being able to generate correct code faster 80% of the time are small but the costs of generating incorrect code even 1% of the time are high. The entire shift-left movement is about finding and preventing bugs earlier.
Kistaro WindriderRGB displays are designed around average human rods and cones. Audio compression is designed around psychoacoustics — what the brain notices vs. filters out in sound, so compression can selectively damage the part your brain throws away anyway.
I have never seen science fiction acknowledge how fucking weird our MP3s must sound and how bizarre the color gamut of photographs on a luminous RGB or reflective CMY(K) display surface (including printed paper) must be to space aliens.
the entire history of paint mixing is like that to some extent. and we don’t necessarily need space aliens for this, human tetrachromats and birds with wider color gamut sensitivity exist
GDL ExposedGiving the GDL a taste of their own medicine 🔥 
500 flyers were sent to GDL leader Dominic DiGiorgio's closest neighbors.
Dominic DiGiorgio runs the GDL's neo-Nazi merchandise shop out of his Port St. Lucie home. Many of the Nazi flyers that litter the country are shipped out of his home.
Read more about Dominic DiGiorgio here: https://goyimdefenseleague.noblogs.org/dominic-di-diorgio/
#antifa #antifascism #GDL #Florida #PortStLucie #TreasureCoast
Elia Ayoub (he/him)If you want a good 6 min overview of the Syrian revolution that finally toppled Assad, the Lebanese leftwing outlet Megaphone got you - narrated by one of their Syrian journalists.
Megaphone | ميغافون on Instagram: "مسار #الثورة_السورية التي أسقطت #الأسد خلال 13 عاماً من المجازر والتعذيب ومقاومة الاستبداد. #سوريا The journey of the #Syrianrevolution, culminating in #alAssad’s fall after 13 years of massacres, torture and defiance against tyranny. #Syria"
1,361 likes, 38 comments - megaphonenews on December 21, 2024: "مسار #الثورة_السورية التي أسقطت #الأسد خلال 13 عاماً من المجازر والتعذيب ومقاومة الاستبداد. #سوريا The journey of the #Syrianrevolution, culminating in #alAssad’s fall after 13 years of massacres, torture and defiance against tyranny. #Syria".
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Neil BrownInside you are two wolves.
You can use update-alternatives --config wolf to set your default wolf.
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