Valve needs to make a small form factor desktop pc with a reasonable graphics card and performance, running the steam deck os, and sell it at a reasonable price, and call it "steam desk". They failed before because the software wasn't there - but it is now. Can't get Diablo 4 to run on my windows 11 mini (crashy) - but it runs on steam deck. Why? Because valve stole the idea behind the fundamental goodness apple had - tight control over hardware plus software lets you have a good user experience. Apple today is too tight. Microsoft is just sloppy. Hardware manufacturers are still using "it works" for their measure of success rather than "it works well". But valve knows. Plus - "Steam Desk". Just sayin.
Someone make that happen please.
making a QR code generator and scanner that works offline, eventually possible to save in a collection…
- no accounts ✅
- no popups ✅
- no customization ✅
- works offline ✅
- download SVG or PNG ✅
- scan via camera or files ✅
- rounded corners ✅
It always begins as a joke. Listen to me, both of you.
One sees a father or a mother of whom they do not approve --
And their brats won't shut up and the parents are so exhausted that they just let their children scream, all sticky and crying and hitting and wild.
And you say to your friends, "You should have to pass a test to breed." Do you understand? "You should have to get licensed to have kids."
It starts as a joke.
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If you're a #Discord user, make sure to email arbitration-opt-out@discord.com ASAP (at least before April 26) with your username and "I opt out of mandatory arbitration" to opt out of their attempt to force their users into mandatory arbitration and to prevent class actions. Don't let them silently take aware your consumer rights. Their new TOS with the mandatory arbitration agreement can be found here https://discord.com/terms#14
Pinball Construction Set (cracked by @a2_qkumba, PACE protection, 12 encrypted blocks with 12 unique keys, all ultimately derived from a single master key stored in the unreadable PACE protection block, which we read and hard-coded)
https://archive.org/details/PinballConstructionSetSanIncCrack
Holy shit!
"First measurements of p + 11B fusion in amagnetically confined plasma"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36655-1.pdf
Proton-Boron fusion is aneutronic and Boron is a *lot* easier to come by as reactor fuel than 3He: if true, this is the holy grail of nuclear fusion research.
... On the other hand, this is just first light on a P-B experiment. There's a LONG way to go to power break-even, much less a viable production reactor design. Like, oh, fifty years ...
@amaditalks Yes. Here you go 👇
Great selection of modern CLI utilities - both new things and improvements on the classics: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2023/02/17/modern-problems-require-modern-solutions/
TIL that macOS ships with a default CLI command called "sips", for "scriptable image processing system" - and it can convert webp images to PNG, but it can also generate entirely new images from scratch using an almost entirely undocumented canvas-based JavaScript API! https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips
If you didn't already know, the Internet Archive has been hiring artists to perform pre-meeting mini-concerts twice a week since the pandemic started. We now have over 200 archived on our site for you to enjoy too:
https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/17/the-internet-archive-musiczoom-collection-continues/
Behold "Glaze", a software tool that subtly alters the pixels in a piece of art online 🎨 ...
... in a way that isn't detectable by the human eye 👀 ...
... but renders the image useless for training a visual AI. The AI can't detect the artists' style, and thus can't mimic it and copy it. 🤖 ✖️
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Computers have been beating the best human Go players since 2016. The Go world champion retired in part because AI is “an entity that cannot be defeated.”
But a human just trounced one of the world’s best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai
I think this news story is more interesting than it might first appear (without knowing details, so grain of salt). It isn’t just a gaming curiosity; it points to a fundamental flaw with “deep learning” approaches in general.
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.