l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

Been fever-dreamin' some DIY material layering and light sources (before I get to the chapter 7 of the second book).

The amount of noise from emissive materials is.. ugh. Apparently this is why we bother with "light sources" instead of just dropping some light bulbs here and there.

Now I wonder what artifacts should be there for this to count as a successful kata/exercise.
Should I be able to reproduce it from scratch now? Teach how to do it?
Publish some packages?
Blog about how silly it is to use C++ for teaching stuff?
Take some jabs at course material (some quirks survived into v4.0 of it)?
So many options, so little time... What should have best return on time invested?

Been tracing some rays this weekend

https://gitlab.com/dpwiz/rtow

#Haskell

Wow. Did someone just voted from the rooftops?.. Does that mean that everything else failed?

> How unexpected was the internal combustion engine! How surprising! What a creative act, to violate the rule that you shouldn't start a fire inside your vehicle!

Kessler-Kaspersky Syndrome: It is impossible to access orbit as the newly-launched object will get instantly pwned by swarms of previously infected satellites, now orbital malware platforms.

Now that every PC ~and their dog~ has had USB-C/USB3 ports for a while It is strange that we can't use it for direct connection easily and still have to bounce link off some noisy channel first.

Like, come on, the devices are sitting next to each other. With a single symmetric cable we could be having secure 5Gb+ connections right away!

Meanwhile, estradiol-powered von-neuman ~~catgirls~~ probes

https://x.com/anderssandberg/status/1754613931312603406

send purr requests on mewhub

My, the times are fast now. It's been only a year, and we already have the art style of *vintage* neural images.

https://nitter.cz/WeJe3396/status/1740442739034988768

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-in-the-middle_attack

Is this a "not all men" redirect?

https://nitter.cz/AISafetyMemes/status/1722611431470752059

Okay Google, who art in cloud,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen 🙏

Something is really, thoroughly, horribly broken with this world.