R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

Eric Schlaepfer and @oskay 's book "Open Circuits' is a masterpiece. It makes me want to cut open every electronic device in my house to look inside. Helpfully, though, it solves the same problem it creates, because they already did this for me. My electronics are safe ... well, at least from the cutting wheel. Most of them. For now.

JOURNALIST WHO IS ON THE COMPLEX BANK FRAUD TRANSACTIONS BEAT: How masotodon work? How set up account? What instance mean?

It seems that the alleged shooter of #clubq is non binary. That would make the hypothesis of hate crime even more bizzare. Anyway I hope they will cripple in jail where they belong #coloradosprings

@freemo @radehi

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@mathlover Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see failwhales, maybe even for several days running. But remember that failwhales were common ten years ago, and Twitter kept growing. What fraction of Twitter's quarter billion users will abandon it forever if goes failwhale for a solid week in December? Surely less than half.

I think Musk's objective with Twitter is, as he declared in the TED interview, not financial. He'd previously declared an intention to start up his own press enterprise to compensate for what he saw as the bias of existing USA press outlets. (That's when the USA press started really going after him.)

Eventually he didn't have to start his own press enterprise; bought Twitter instead. Is Musk's tool for reshaping discourse in his favor. That will still work with only 100 million or 50 million users. Of course, better if doesn't lose too much money, but controlling memespace is key to controlling outer space.

Whatever I think about Trump, his politics, Jan 6 — I have opinions, everybody has opinions, I wrote a book if you want to read it — is not really the point here. It’s what the decision to me says about what the business model of Twitter is.

Twitter works as a business, if it does, by engaging you. And often, it engages you by inciting emotion. Largely negative emotions. Anxiety, anger, FOMO, outrage, contempt, glee. 2/

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"Onebit" colouring scheme.

@blakereid @mmasnick No, needs to be low enough stress for the people operating the system so they don't quit, and needs to attract or create people with the necessary technical competence to keep it running.

A communication platform like Mastodon can survive with 30 people or 300 million people, as long as one out of every 30 or so people is able to fix problems as they arise, and as long as no group of people can make the platform useless to everybody else.

Whether regular people can use it or not obviously affects the regular people, but its effect on the survivability of the platform itself is very small and possibly negative. Consider how many Commodore 64 users there are today versus how many Macintosh 512K users. Or how many IRC users (about a hundred thousand) versus how many AIM users (zero). Or how many FidoNet users (about a hundred thousand I think) versus how many Minitel users (zero).

I think you didn't think your ideas through before tooting to see if they made sense.

I've completed the implementation of Uxn, in Uxn, which allows me to spawn sandboxed processes(think uxn roms in windows). But I think while I'm here, I will make a little standalone toy which will be a step debugger with a pdp like panel that communicates each step of the evaluation with little blinking lights.

PineTime - PineWatch GNU/Linux smart watch

Impressively, random forest classifiers trained solely on expression data performed nearly as well as models trained with intolerance metrics in predicting dominant (monoallelic) genes and outperformed them for recessive (biallelic) genes

function box() { t="$1xxxx";c=${2:-=}; echo ${t//?/$c}; echo "$c $1 $c"; echo ${t//?/$c}; } # Make box around text. By bartonski
I made an explanation of how this works a while ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ85aMuf6c

3D Bowl for the #BBCMicro / #AcornElectron. 447 bytes of compressed code, 539 bytes non-compressed.

Implementing a New Memory Safety Approach, Part 1 - Evan Ovadia @ Vale Lang: https://verdagon.dev/blog/making-regions-part-1-human-factor

The Yuv4Mpeg2 format (.Y4M) is a simple video format w/ an ASCII header and no compression.

I dissected a grayscale Y4M to first show the file structure, then a YUV (4:4:4) with a tiny 3x3 YUV plane for Y=0.5 as a small introduction to the YUV color space.

@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Your analogy is wrong.

You don't need to understand PAL-M to watch TV usefully, but you do need to understand that different TV channels are operated by different companies, which are granted government monopolies on transmitting on those channels, and that they're heavily regulated and mostly ad-funded.

If you're sharing photos of mass graves in Ukraine or taking part in protests in Iran, you probably need to know if your instance is run by the Russian, Ukrainian, or Iranian government. You definitely need to understand that it's a possibility, and that the instance owner can read your DMs, trace your IP address, and take over your account.

Keeping activists, journalists, and their sources safe is more important than being appealing to the masses.