RIGHT?
Of course not.
If it's not good at language inference, what is it FOR?!
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Holy shit this dude just successfully argued that misgendering is a GDPR violation
not.an.evilcyberhacker.net/not…
EDIT: If you are having trouble accessing evil cyber hacker dot net here is the underlying news article, it concerns an Iranian man seeking asylum in Hungary wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refug…
wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refug…That's an... interesting approach to it but I'll absolutely take itA trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.Jamie Wareham (QueerAF)
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Been a long loop to close, but playing The Bard's Tale on an Apple 2c has somehow prepared me for raising a kid who's getting into online gaming.
That game had _one_ save point, an inn in an alley in the middle of the city, and it didn't matter at all how much adventuring you'd done, if you didn't make it back to that bar at the end of the day you lost all of it. Poof.
So I make sure the kid gets a healthy advance notice before he has to shut it down.
I had completely forgotten about that mechanic! I remember loving that aspect of it.
Now I wonder how many of my favorite modern games I can improve by adopting it voluntarily.
and then there were those games whose save points were volatile because they weren’t provided for do-overs. We had copy the whole disk to have redundancy, which meant having to defeat the copy protection first and enduring such a long process that we typically got lazy and didn’t have enough backup points.
I still have my childhood computer. When I fire it up, I’m oddly sanguine about how much I have to wait for it to finish loading things. It feels almost meditative. It’s a genuine part of the experience and I’m not sure if I want it to load any faster.
Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
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59th Street Bridge
28 July 2019. From 58th Street and Sutton Place Park, Manhattan. Officially the "Queensborough Bridge" and, more recently, the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge", but immortalized as the 59th Street Bridge by the eponymous Simon and Garfunkel song (AKA …Flickr
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Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
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"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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Legitimately among the finest American novels ever written. When I read it as a teenager, I found its giddy prose exhilarating, but with every subsequent re-read - as I gained the maturity to appreciate its deeper meanings - it became more horrifying.
Such careless people...
Maïder, Soul Raider by Magali Villeneuve
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[Preview] The Soul Raiders | Soul Raiders
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Took down some of these horrid plastic boxes that the old man had used as nesting boxes.
One actually had a nest inside from some time ago. The others just wet compost. Not that popular I guess.
They seem to be made from electric connection boxes, perhaps they came with all those concrete pylons from the garden?
I'll make some wooden ones instead. I don't want a plastic bird slum. You'll end up with square birds in these!
#NestingBox #Birdhouse #Homestead #Plastic #Cleanup
Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
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Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Tesla’s] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses invol…Hackaday
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People Are Seasoning Packing Peanuts—and Eating Them
Hey, so…Not sure if anyone told you, but you’re absolutely not supposed to eat those packing peanuts. So don't do that.Sammi Caramela (VICE)
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean perfect precision – nor does it necessarily create a better fan experience.The Conversation
“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know."
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Recording Reveals SSA Head Dudek’s Thoughts on DOGE, Trump
In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”ProPublica
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"The president wanted it" will not age well when it comes to face the music.
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Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Okay but what is the new way to query hash tables then lol
It’s got to be more than putting a linked list in a slot, which makes x the amount of time to find the slot + an average find time for the depth of the list.
This is the part I am also curious about, something @gvwilson (correctly) gets wound up about regularly. Cutting-edge anything interesting that shows up SIGGRAPH becomes an AfterEffects plugin in weeks.
We've got an incredible new hashtable implementation? Great, but where my libraries at?
I beg your pardon?
Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
This bedazzled arachnid woos its mate with a sexy thrusting dance.Melissa Hobson (Live Science)
DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with many game improvementsMarius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Audacity 3.7.2 Improves the Linux AppImage Bundle for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - 9to5Linux
Audacity 3.7.2 open-source digital audio editor and recording app is now available for download with improvements for Linux and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Gesehen auf dem Gelände der #PHTG Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau in Kreuzlingen
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
✅ Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
✅ The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP ⬇️
#SaveOurSites 🌐
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Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
⚫️ Check if they have UK users
⚫️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
⚫️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives
#SaveOurSites 🌐
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.
This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.
We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.
Read our explainer for more detail ➡️ openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-…
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.Open Rights Group
A historian talks about the state of things. Which appear to be retrograde.... Not the "r" word he's talking about.
"NEW: I guess we have to argue, once again, that the Holocaust was real and Nazis are bad. But flip this around; there’s also good news. Right now, those of us who hate Nazis, but love equal rights and not catching measles, are losing. But we won before. We can win again."
Tim Walz is touring Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327412/tim-walz-is-touring-republican-held-congressional-districts-in-iowa-and-nebraska?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump is getting pushback from an unlikely place — the conservative media
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An animation breakthrough makes it possible to more accurately illustrates Black hair
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Early tractors were wild. This here is a "road locomotive" plowing an entire field at once.
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#Tractor #Locomotive #Steam #Engineering
2021 RECORD! 150 CASE Road Locomotive pulling 44 bottom John Deere plow
Watch the 150 Case pull 44 bottom John Deere plows at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover, South Dakota! This is a new record for this engine with 36 ...YouTube
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@mcSlibinas It's been generally found that sun-following solar panels aren't worth the cost and effort.
Especially since the event of double-sided panels 😀
A Tesla protester targeted by Elon Musk speaks out: 'I have to protect myself.'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328626/a-tesla-protester-targeted-by-elon-musk-speaks-out-i-have-to-protect-myself?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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People in the path of destruction of Oklahoma's wildfires survey the damage
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