artifex

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He could try hooking up with Snoop Dogg. That would probably change my opinion somewhat (not that I’d expect Snoop to be into Nazis)

[–] artifex@piefed.social 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Still be really nice. It’s usually not too much effort, but is always appreciated, especially by those who need that niceness the most.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 24 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Billions in fines (massively exceeding profits from the operation) and jail time for those knowingly involved or this means zilch.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ah but if they did use screen then they could fork multiple shells, detach, log out, log in again and everything would be as they left it.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 5 points 21 hours ago

They’re the same picture.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I would have picked one of the many garbage US cars from the "heydey" of the 60s/70s, maybe a Chevette or a Vega. There's no shortage of US lemons to choose from.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Better a little polyethylene than a pork tapeworm larva lodged in my brain, I always say.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There will be a follow up bill called Act to Mandate Aggressive Zero-Exception Bans on Anonymous Login & Secure Networks that makes VPNs, TOR, etc illegal. I think they’re working on it in the UK already.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (of SMBC, Soonish and other fame) wrote about this topic in their recent book A City On Mars (and have we really thought this through?). There’s a non-zero chance that there will hot wars on earth over utterly useless land and resources in space that we either have no chance of using or no need to monopolize.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Duh. The bears live in bear land (arctic as in arctus as in bear). Penguins thus literally live in no bear land (ant-arctic).

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

oh excellent, thanks! And thanks for reviving a dead thread :)

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The term "artifex" itself is from a book called Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson (it's set in the same universe as his Snow Crash, which is where the word metaverse is from). In the story it's a kind of honorific/title used to denote someone who has honed their craft and created something really exceptional. I, sadly, have not done that yet, but I am a compulsive maker of things (some of which are kinda ok). I'm currently a manager of people who make things at a software company. As for the logo, I just thought it looked cool, it was a 2-min photoshop job :) (my first few jobs was as an artist/graphic artist).

 

Spoiler alert: it makes them more relatable. Maybe Marvin knew what he was doing the whole time, and diodes down his left side were perfectly fine.

 

Supergiant Betelgeuse was recently discovered to have a companion star - it's bright blue, not yet fusing hydrogen, and actually orbiting so close that it's inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere! I wonder what it'll be named.

 

A lemmy server's /instance page shows lists of federated and blocked instances, but piefed's version doesn't seem to have this (you see Online | Dormant | Gone forever | Trusted - and I'm not 100% clear on what some of those mean). Is it possible to see a list of servers that my piefed server has defederated/blocked?

 

While the thought of lawyers lawyering with AI gives me the icks, I also understand that at a certain point it may play out like the self-driving car argument: once the AI is good enough, it will be better than the average human -- since I think it's obvious to everyone that human lawyers make plenty of mistakes. So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it's still a net gain. On the other hand tho, this could lead to complacency that drives even more injustice.

 

There are several old avocado trees on my corner, including the one that makes these small (tho not usually this small) green avocados that turn purple and shiny like an eggplant when fully ripe. The taste is pretty typical for a green avocado -- so much less fatty than a Haas -- but with a nice floral note that I haven't come across in other varieties.

 

When Reaction Engines went bankrupt a few years ago there was much speculation about when -- not if -- their technology for a supercooled hybrid ramjet/rocket engine would be picked up by another entity. It seems we now have our answer as the ESA hopes to revive and complete the ambitious project for a single-stage-to-orbit, air-breathing spaceplane.

 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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