@randahl it feels like those are just ablative flunkies; as long as he can keep burning them, he stays untouched. Would be great if the burn rate increased enough that the flames actually licked him a bit.
For anyone within striking distance of Liverpool on October 23rd, there is a free talk on recreational maths.
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Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/liv-math-soc
LIVERPOOL MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
POPULAR LECTURE SERIES 2024-25
BRAIN TEASERS AND PUZZLES, FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO MODERN SCIENCE
Wed 23rd October
Tiago Hirth (University of Lisbon)
Large Lecture Theatre, Redmonds Building, LIMU, Brownlow Hill 5pm
Can you match the wits of the Carolingian court? What about the Wasan teasers that puzzled Samurai?
In this interactive presentation the audience is taken to travel through time and space.
We'll skip the textbooks and focus on the recreations that entertained the people of the past and provide play for those of the present.
Don’t miss our other popular lectures in this series:
11/12/24 Dr Katie Steckles
Fractals: Journey to the 2.7th Dimension
05/02/25 Dr Eleanor D’Arey
Assessing England’s Water Environment: A Statistical Story
WWW.TICKETSOURCE.CO.UK/LIV-MATH-SOC
WWW.LIVMATHSSOC.ORG.UK
@girlonthenet fab! Don't suppose there's a map to help non-London dwealers like me visualize?
Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules
Europe’s most famous privacy activist, Max Schrems, landed another blow against Meta today after the EU’s top court ruled the tech giant cannot exploit users’ public statements about their sexual orientation for online advertising.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-cant-use-sexual-orientation-to-target-ads-in-the-eu-court-rules/
@tschak HAME was basically the same idea of racing the beam right?
Here we go, @SDF comrades.
Got the background done, although I'm not 100% sold on what's on the screens. Also, thanks to @peron for a couple of those bits of line art.
Next on the to-do: character/terminal art for a few more characters. And yes, I think I need to get Milia in there, even though she's not a bridge operator.
Coding is being positioned as place where generative AI is going to have a huge impact.
But a new study of 800 developers found GitHub Copilot did little to improve productivity, while introducing 41% more bugs into the code.
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html
@bohwaz @random_musings Talk is cheap. Vivaldi is "participating in the open web" by distributing a Chromium browser - how does that help the open web?
Mozilla gives you a fully open source browser for free, actively builds the open web with one of the only viable web engines not run by monopolists - but we focus on donations to AI.
Did people flock to them when they funded Tor?
Think about translating what Vivaldi vs. Mozilla give to the open web in terms of value - it's not even close.
@futurebird if there was an #theExpanse UK con...
With OggCamp one week away, we thought we'd share some useful information you should know before next weekend!
A random floppy disk I just found...
Anyone knows what this is, or what system that disk is for? I don't have my USB floppy drive ready at the moment to check the disk's content, unfortunately.
I have an #amiga Cartoon Classics box with, I think, everything except the computer itself, which was Varta’d. Don’t know what to do with it. It’s too good to just dump, but probably not good enough to sell and kind of a dick to post anywhere. So it’s lived in garage limbo for months.
China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.
This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...
Time for #octoberFest at #redwillow #macclesfield
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