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Should governments build more public housing?
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I didn't know Mario Artist had a LISP connection :O
@mcc Mario Artist! deep cuts there, especially as a lisp fan
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I didn't know Mario Artist had a LISP connection :O
What I'm listening to today: "Jellyfish", Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)
There is a weird pattern in video games:
- The "water level", in any game, is usually everyone's least favorite, but
- The "water level" often has the coolest, most memorable music of the game.
Upthread I linked some "ocean vibes" music from Mario Artist for N64DD. That game has *three* ocean-themed songs, all bangers; here's my other fav. Charmingly cheesy hold-music jazz transitioning into trip-hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DlaLKT3q8&list=PL-pEm4IqI6c_DfCBqt5VBvR-atgwqTlZB&index=95
I think we need an OAuth Task Force for ActivityPub:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Aug/0022.html
Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads
Link: https://libreantisocial.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997194
I've recently joined an amazing Discord server for retro computing enthusiasts, it's filled with lots of lovely people, it feels like the awesome IRC days.
You should check it out (Hopefully I'll see a few of you there!):
https://discord.gg/abAd7Z72
anynyan knyows a good site to find wallpapers? Including animated wallpapers would be great! It's hard for me to find one because I mainly use uncommon resolutions (2560x1600 and 5120x1440), and of course I don't want to use AI shit.
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#GossiAirways tonight is London City -> Munich airport, in a Vision Jet G2. Haven't flown one of these for about a year, what could go right?
What I'm listening to today: "The Mashed Up Mixes - Diplo of Hollertronix Meets RJD2"
During that 10 minutes of mainstream craze for "mashups", lo-fi hip hop virtuoso RJD2 invited a few artists to make DJ mixtapes out of his his back catalog. There's also a good one by "Haul & Mason", but this mix stuck in my head forever for a segment that strings together Cat Power, Slick Rick and Steve Reich, and later on what's still to me the definitive version of Outkast's "Roses"
What I'm listening to today: "Jellyfish", Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)
There is a weird pattern in video games:
- The "water level", in any game, is usually everyone's least favorite, but
- The "water level" often has the coolest, most memorable music of the game.
Upthread I linked some "ocean vibes" music from Mario Artist for N64DD. That game has *three* ocean-themed songs, all bangers; here's my other fav. Charmingly cheesy hold-music jazz transitioning into trip-hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DlaLKT3q8&list=PL-pEm4IqI6c_DfCBqt5VBvR-atgwqTlZB&index=95
Or how long the AI would "survive" on it's own. Just give it some capital, agency to autonomously offer services, sell and buy, and then tell it "off you go, no work for your data centers, for the electrical power and the cooling water".
I am not even going to say "bet it fails". This would not be a fair bet.
And if cannot fend for itself, I don't recognize it as intelligent.
@glitzersachen 
@glyph so there have been a few responses to this thread focusing on operational requirements of the "AI"— the data center, admining the Linux distro etc. That isn't even the part that stands out to me. I'm curious about what portion of *the work of the AI itself*, the work the AI software *takes credit for*, is the uncredited work of humans employed directly by the "AI" company— requiring an ongoing labor spend to maintain the (unimpressive) level of quality the product offers.
Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
Link: https://mfbmina.dev/en/posts/waitgroups/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996623
i also have good muscle memory for it at this point so its gonna take some getting used to to not have it that way
i mean i suppose i could make a shell script that does this
Fedi, have you ever heard the french dub of Starmie in the Pokemon anime? No?
Don't look it up.
Catio Cats lounging on their chairs.
mood
RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997435
그러고보니 평일날 언제 한번 농협에 들러서 엔화 남은걸 환전 해야 하는데..
He's mine now, Linda
레딧을 보다가 흥미로운걸 발견했어요..
“hey dad, I like those emojis that are sideways and made out of text, what are those?”
#GossiAirways tonight is London City -> Munich airport, in a Vision Jet G2. Haven't flown one of these for about a year, what could go right?
@uncoolmouse 
@checkervestwicker boyfriend let affogato post for your crimes 
@sidd_harth0_5h4hCaptain IMAX @checkervestwicker boyfriend here she is, patiently waiting for her breakfast!
Happy Caturday from Penny!
야호 잘 뭇따~~
하여간 지금 AI 버블은 버블이라기보단 부활??은 딥 뉴럴네트워크에서 발전해서 임베딩도 알려지게 되고 트랜스포머 구조가 나오고 마법의 강화학습 발전과 상대적으로 저렴해진 연산력 등등 몇가지 조합이 잘 나오면서 된것인디... 근데 이론적으로는 크게 변한것이 있나 그걸 잘 모르겠음;;;
Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year.
We’re a country with food poverty and food bank usage is high. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
Heim kommen und feststellen, das der kühlschrank/tiefkühler 6+ wochen keinen strom hatte. Hurra!
다만 그런 블랙스완 이벤트가 근데 뭐가 될지...? 그걸 알수가 없는것. 전쟁이 될수도 있고 다시 판데믹이 될수도 있고 기후문제가 될수도 있고 ... 평소에 생각 못한것이겠지 싶음.
사람들이 과거 닷컴 버블 사태에서도 배운것이 있어서... 이번엔 어떻게든 AI 버블이 안꺼지게하고 실제로 유용하게 하고 수익을 내려고 엄청 노력하긴할텐데 아마 AI와 어찌보면 딱히 관련없는 엉뚱한 나비 효과 + 사건 때문에 무너지지 않을까 예상하고 있음... 사실 트럼프도 판데믹 없었으면 아마 재선되었을수도 있는데 판데믹이 결정적으로 경제와 사회 정치 등을 박살내버린거라 그냥 다 날라가버린것;;
ok but if you don't accept the cookies how are you going to get a high score in Cookie Clicker
When taking a train from Toronto Union Station make sure to allocate an extra 15 minutes to solve the Labyrinth
ちょっと体調おかしいので熱測ってみたら37.8もあった。安静か
Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year.
We’re a country with food poverty and food bank usage is high. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
Okay, I left the working server for the night, while it was checking the newly connected HDD with Windows integrated utililty (don't know does it do something meaningful 
)
The device worked the whole night without the problems. At the end it was hot not warm, but I think this is because of some Windows processes which are doing some unknown shi^Wthings on the background 
Now, with attached 250 Gb HDD from the shelf, it is ready for #NetBSD , I hope 
Note: the photograph was captured by me using a DLSR armed with 77mm Circular polarizer, 81A warming filter, UV filter and RPRT (right place right time)
https://mastodon.social/@RadioAzureus/115078811536751037
#weather #bash #sh #current #SR #wttr #SouthAmerica #Carribean #Leonsberg
I have a strong feeling that the famous Camel Book is the worst choice when you want to learn #Perl from scratch.
I mean, I'm hundred pages in and feel like I know less Perl then before I have started the book. Wall makes Perl seem so convoluted and arbitrary, it doesn't make sense sometimes.
Maybe it's just the best book you need when you already know the language, not when you want to learn it.
450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
Link: https://readyset.io/blog/optimizing-straddled-joins-in-readyset-from-hash-joins-to-index-condition-pushdown
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952895
It’s 2025
Less than 15 minutes to install a freebsd 14.3, with wifi configured during the installation. Super reactive on old hardware, impressive.
Now you can understand my "double" cats for last week's Caturday 🙂
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Emelia 👸🏻
Stefano Marinelli
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