⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990. Recovering the text, diagrams, and formatting was not impossible but it was hard. A great example of the use of #emulation for historical research and digital preservation.

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-original-www-proposal-is-word-for.html

Sigh. "The layoffs will affect roughly 60 employees ... Going forward, the company said in an internal memo, Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/?guccounter=1

Firefox has a feature where if a tab is playing audio, the favicon transforms into a sound icon. Yes, good, helpful.

However if you *click* on the sound icon, that mutes the tab. I ONLY ever do this by accident. The tabs aren't very wide and have* no clear dividing lines between each other, so it's hard to precisely hit the bit of tab that isn't a mute button, and also sometimes it doesn't turn into a sound icon/mute button until I've started clicking.

Is there a way to disable this "feature"?

We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial

We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.

#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia

@RIDDLES

Lazyweb, I have a video game history question that I haven't found a compiled list of answers for anywhere, but let me ask for your participation in creating it.

What games _introduced_ the various video game mechanics of the world, and where did that mechanic best shine?

As an example, I'm thinking "dune 2 introduced RTS unit management that was eventually refined into Warcraft/Starcraft" or "Narbacular Drop introduced the portal gun system that was eventually the backbone of Portal 1 & 2."

According to today's Tory press (not linked), the major concerns of the current Minister of Defence are not the persistent recruitment problems for the UK armed forces, nor the lack of any functioning aircraft carriers, but (checks notes) allowing too many foreigners in, EDI policies and, er, gender-neutral latrines. Yeah, it's definitely the woke crowd who have their priorities wrong.

✂️ 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 '𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐔𝐩 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛'✂️

My name's Alex, I design papercrafts and £5+ members of my Patreon get a new papercraft to print and build every month.

📅 February's toy is this Lunar Lander, complete with a little lunar rover.

Link : https://www.patreon.com/folduptoys

Heroic Games Launcher v2.13 brings GOG support improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/heroic-games-launcher-v213-brings-gog-support-improvements/

#GOG #Linux #SteamDeck #HeroicGames

The invention of the blue LED, one of the most difficult and important inventions ever – which allowed the white LED – is some of the craziest Chad shit I have ever heard about anything. This guy is pinnacle determination holy crap.

https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M

there's been almost twenty years of work on optimizing javascript engines with JIT and complex heuristic-based GC and a wealth of feature-rich profiling and analysis tools and validation and testing frameworks for deployment and integration and syntax improvements and functional and higher-order primitives and serverside transpiled code. and it's all enabled some amazing new stuff, for example github now takes 10 seconds to display a plain text file, and you cant search properly anymore

The delay ⏳ of the #European 🇪🇺 launchers and the technical problems are only the tip of the iceberg. For every euro 💶 invested, #SpaceX is ten times more efficient, and the only way to increase #efficiency is to introduce #competition https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/10/19/the-european-space-industry-needs-to-get-its-act-together-before-it-s-too-late_6187587_23.html

I love this new piece from the Glasgow Penguins on the Kelvin Walkway on the West End of Glasgow. It's just pure whimsey!

#glasgow #streetart #penguin #glasgowpenguins #glasgowstreetart #kelvinwalkway

#Germany is testing a four day workweek in an effort to address its labor shortage problem. People might be more willing to work if they are able to conduct personal business and spend less on childcare. #1u https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-four-day-workweek-amid-labor-shortage/a-68125506?ref=futurecrunch.com

daily demotivator

Today I got a LLM running locally.

With #vulkan acceleration and a four gigabyte modal, the response time is as good or better as I'd get from #chatgpt stealing all my data - around ten tokens / sec on a @frameworkcomputer AMD 13"

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#vulkan

#geek #ai #linux

@neil @ianbetteridge yeah, it kind of feels like the real story here was something like "grammarly hires hundreds of people for no particular reason to make investors think it's growing" and none of us noticed

companies always say "see, we need to do these layoffs because it's been a hard year and whatever" but they never explain why they put themselves in a position where one hard year means mass layoffs in the first place

Another week has passed, and you are wasting your life over frivolous things like "work" and "education". These things won't enrich you.

What's stopping you from striving to really achieve? How many hours have you put into the life affirming skill of:

Standing across the road mysteriously staring at a random person, only to completely disappear as a bus passes.

Perhaps there is a market for electric toothbrush shaped flipper zeros in Canada