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Just profiled my code and I need to find a replacement for qsort()

What's good AND not a total pain to implement?

#gamedev #cprogramming #indiedev

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A tough race for the rookies as F1 starts 2025 in Australia
F1 teams show us who's fast and who's not at the start of the 2025 season.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/a…

in reply to Frankie ✅

The image is a two-panel comic strip featuring a character labeled "THE PARTY." In the top panel, the character, wearing a green cap and a red plaid shirt, is seen from the back, extending his arm as if to ward off something. The text above him reads, "A DEMON THAT'S THREATENING TO PULL THE ENTIRE DUNGEON IF WE DON'T ACCEPT HIS DEAL." The background is a clear blue sky with a few clouds.

In the bottom panel, the character is now facing forward, holding a gun in his right hand and firing it. The text "BANG" is displayed above the gun, with sparks and debris flying from the muzzle. The character's expression is neutral, and the background remains the same. The bottom panel is signed "THE END" and credits "NEIL + MARISSA KOHENY."

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Putin's agent in the White House is shutting down Voice of America to ensure that Russia's global propaganda network, Sputnik, which operates radio services in more than 30 languages, will not get any pushback from the likes of us. dair-community.social/@ZekuZel…


🇷🇺 / 🇪🇹
Today, Russian state media outlet Sputnik expanded its broadcast presence in Ethiopia, opening an "Africa Hub" in Addis Ababa.

Some of this footage is from the launch ceremony, where Ethiopian parliamentary speaker Agegnehu Teshager, and Valentina Matvienko, Russia's Federation Council speaker were both present.

Sputnik, which already had a presence in Ethiopia, expands at a time when Ethiopian media outlets and civil society orgs face shutdowns, and the arrests of their members.



in reply to E-Komik

🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari Martial Peak (Chapter 3836) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari Martial Peak (Chapter 3835) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/55388
⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhua #Action #Adventure #Fantasy #Historical #MartialArts



Today we (@fesix and I) released the .stp file of the @mntmn backplate and the .dxf of the laser engraved logo that we used to order at JLCPCB / JLCCNC.

github.com/FesixGermany/mnt_po…

Happy reproducing!



Sometimes church ceilings are quite astonishing, aren't they? I came across this one last week - in a country church in Cornwall.

#Photography #Architecture #Church #Cornwall #Decoration



Voice of America: Here's the first broadcast ("from New York to Germany").
"The news may be good or bad. We shall tell you the truth".
insidevoa.com/a/2365229.html
#VoiceOfAmerica


The physics of brewing the perfect espresso
"Channeling" during brewing process can lead to non-uniform filtration and lower extraction yield.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

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in reply to Ars Technica

It’s the phrase “lower extraction yield” that shows this was written by someone who did some googling but doesn’t understand the process.

There are experts on this, right on this website. Ars isn't one of them.

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in reply to Tinker ☀️

does listserv still exist? That used to be standard for mailing lists back in the day...
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Build Your Own Air Mouse, Okay?

hackaday.com/2025/03/17/build-…



Absolute bullshit from DOGE. @RepJayapal pubeurope.com/@byteseu/1141759…


Musk’s DOGE Declares a Living Person in Seattle Dead, Cancels His Social Security and Empties His Bank Account byteseu.com/836450/ #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews



Musk’s DOGE Declares a Living Person in Seattle Dead, Cancels His Social Security and Empties His Bank Account byteseu.com/836450/ #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews


In the 90s, MS's "Where do you want to go today?" ad earned derisive snorts from professionals. A concurrent coffee klatch opined, "It ought to be 'Here's where you're going today'", at which a bystander interjected, "Yeah, but Apple's is 'You're not going anywhere!'"

pcmag.com/news/apple-reportedl…

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Sometimes, the most amazing photos from space are of objects close to home.

Or even *of* our home.

This is a lunar eclipse as seen from the Moon. That black disk? That's Earth. And the ring around it? Why, that's the magic.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/inc…

in reply to Phil Plait

One thing I've tried to figure out is what the daily eclipse would be like for someone living on a vaguely Earth-like gas giant moon.

I figure the gas giant, being in a roughly Earth-like habitable zone of insolation, would be blue with white H2O clouds. And I'm pretty sure the gas giant would appear as a ring during the eclipse. But how thick of a ring? How bright? How "lumpy"? I can't figure those details out.

in reply to Phil Plait

i can hear the flatearth idiots shouting this is fake...

But its as real as can be, and by god is it amazing....



It's #TransMusicMonday !

Here's some raw gothic antifascist black metal made by a trans guy from the US south.

Saahrg - City of the Dead / Lestat
saahrg.bandcamp.com/album/city…


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mastodon - Link to source
Frankie ✅
@markwoll
There are several accounts that boost some of the tags I use. News, Tech, Probably someothers


Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:

404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute…

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the future of mastodon depends of the absence of algorithm.
The tiktok or other platform problem is only there Algorithm. People need an algorithm transparency law. And people don't move faster out from platform than the AI-devil move for making elected faschsite.


My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:

404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute…

in reply to Jason Koebler

If I had a repost function, I'd say:
That sounds bad. That actually - is - very bad.

Lemme boost that now. Thanks for your journalism guys! Greatly appreciated.

in reply to Jason Koebler

Gen AI is only good for capitalism and scammers. Gen AI is not good for workers, artists and social interaction. Plus it is very bad for the environment. We must resist these companies pushing it onto us.


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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari I Work Nine To Five In The Immortal Cultivation World (Chapter 118) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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Baca komik I Work Nine To Five In The Immortal Cultivation World Bahasa Indonesia!!!
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🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari I Work Nine To Five In The Immortal Cultivation World (Chapter 117) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya!
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhua #Action #Comedy #Drama #Fantasy


Baca komik I Work Nine To Five In The Immortal Cultivation World Bahasa Indonesia!!!
Segera baca di e-komik.org/komik/327885
#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhua #Action #Comedy #Drama #Fantasy


Whisker Squadron: Survivor blends classic Star Fox gameplay with modern rogue-lite flourishes for a short yet stylish indie rail shooter. Here's our review: pcmag.com/reviews/whisker-squa…



Coal pollution chokes #Ulaanbataar – in pictures - theguardian.com/artanddesign/g… "In the depths of winter, the city’s daily average of PM 2.5 small particulate that can enter the lungs and bloodstream, can be 27 times higher than the level considered safe by the World Health Organization." #mongolia


Oversized Leprechaun Hat Left At Home On St. Patrick’s Day To Avoid Damaging It
theonion.com/oversized-leprech…


It's easy to blame the UK government for being incompetent nitwits for writing the horrendous Online Safety Act (theregister.com/2025/01/14/onl…) that strengthens monopolies with the resources to implement it and weakens small communities without those same resources.

But this is all according to plan for Meta/Facebook et al. It's regulatory capture in action. It's way cheaper to kill your competition with regulation than to buy it, especially when it's decentralized.

in reply to blaine

I hope Europe and Canada don't go down the same path as the UK here.

I also hope that "we" (as in, folks who build and care about small, independent online communities) can step up to the plate – both in terms of ensuring regulation supports _actually_ good outcomes AND in terms of building meaningful approaches to online safety.

in reply to blaine

yeah me too. Little places have a very hard time with layers upon layers of legal.


From now on, anytime someone asks me why I put so much time and effort into this arguably dumb account, I will simply tell them that I do it for Tim.

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

i was at the louvre a year and a half ago

plenty of excellent photogenic spots i tried to take full advantage of

archways entering le louvre are great, the play of the light, but the weather has to cooperate

in reply to Eugen Rochko

I truly love the alt text you've added here to complement your post. 😀


g’morn

i know this is an opportunity to pile on Apartheid techbro, but am not even exaggerating when i say that, as a historian and “culture critic”, #Boomers embrace of the OG #Nazi car ―the VW Beetle― is one of those research things that keeps me up at night.

hand-waving it away as a feat of marketing doesn’t explain how one of Adolf Hitler’s prized cars, for the tech developed with it, became a symbol of white American youth radicalism, aka #hippies

h/t mindly.social/@DamonCrowley/11…


The swasticar can’t even squash a Bug.🤭
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in reply to Peter Bloem

@pbloem Volkswagen was a peace project designed by the allies to help for peacetime reindustrialization after the Second World War. The car design was old but the modern VW is a west German peace project. At least growing up in NY the Mercedes was viewed as the most Nazi car (Adolph's personal vehicle)
in reply to JM MD PhD

@jessetmccann @pbloem Hold up. What?? Hitler commissioned and literally had a hand in designing the original vehicle, along with Ferdinand Porsche… that well known design of German military weapons platforms. I mean for Christ’s sake, the VW logo was a Swastika. Parts for these cars and weapons were made via slave labour from concentration camps.

It was *the* Nazi car.

It wasn’t until after the war that the British took over and turned it into a reindustrialisation piece after nobody would either buy nor be gifted the production capability, because the government had to take it over.

There was no ‘design’ of a peace project. Only by accident, after the designed atrocities.




Democratic Resistance Strategies

Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.

newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption





Mbed TLS is a great library for establishing SSL/TLS connections from a #microcontroller and making HTTPS requests, but it can be a little tricky to set up and use. I got it working on the #ESP32 with ESP-IDF. Full video coming soon 😁 #IoT #security #TLS #embedded

in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

it's only a tariff if it comes from the Tariffe region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling trade protectionism.


Ofcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. Significant fines await those who fail.

computing.co.uk/news-analysis/…

#technews #uk #ofcom #onlinesafetyact #osa



Over the weekend, I received some vaguely threatening emails from someone who wanted to stop me from publishing my research into Readium's LCP DRM.

I've published both my findings *and* the emotionally manipulative messages they sent.

shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towar…

#DRM #ePub #eBooks



🦊

I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.

Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres…

#YDATUbook #books #bookstodon #blogging #labor #TechLabor #unions #TechUnions #1u

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NBC/Axios: Trump's claims that Biden's pardons are invalid are nuts

There are no provisions for a president to "undo" the pardons
or a previous president. Use of an "autopen" by a president is
legally binding, as per 2005 DOJ guidance from President George W. Bush term.

nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr…

axios.com/2025/03/17/trump-bid…