timorl @timorl@qoto.org

There is a nice example for weaponized language in contracts and politicians:

best-effort

What native speakers familiar with contract terms understand: you make no guarantees or commitments in the fulfillment of something

What non-native speakers or unfamiliar with this term understand: wow, they committed to maximum effort

So the EU official complaining about AstraZeneca deliveries not being “best effort”: they were exactly that! Bottom-barrel, no guarantees service.

Pat #animation done! Took a while! Lots of #Blender #3D and #lowpoly related learning on the way. Also my first hand painted textures! I'm kinda proud of the fennec one.

cc @amaral @polychrome @MadestMadness @codepuppy

The hand crafted pats I promised like a month ago 😅

Hello everyone, my name is Tamara (she/her), I am a PhD student in cultural anthropology and my research focusses on the development of artificial intelligence in the context of humanoid robotics. To really get a grasp of what is going on, I also study computer science and program parts of the robots’ software myself.

I am new here and would love to connect with people working on similar or related topics!

#introductions

In the last couple of years the biggest mistakes I’ve made was to assume things are working.

When something is important, don’t assume it is working, or that the people in charge of said thing know what they are doing. Verify it.

Australian News Sites Shocked & Upset To Learn They Don't Need To Rely On Facebook For Traffic! - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210220/23410646285/australian-news-sites-shocked-upset-to-learn-they-dont-need-to-rely-facebook-traffic.shtml "It seems the truth is pretty self-evident: this was all a greed play." #linktax

Heavy metal legends and outspoken copyright maximalists Metallica played a concert on Twitch, only to find their audio replaced with royalty-free chiptune library music by an automated copyright filter:

https://www.stereogum.com/2116933/metallica-twitch-concert-audio-swapped-with-twinkly-8-bit-music-because-of-copyright-fears/news/

😘👌

Curve25519 implementation is both the most blessed and cursed code in the world.

On one hand, it has the cleanest math and attracted the best minds to work on it. Now the code deployed in most projects have been fully optimized, and formally verified to be mathematically correct and secure. One of the biggest accomplishment in crypto applications in recent years.

On the other hand, the monstrous, machine-generated assembly or C code will give any unsuspected programmer a heart attack.

Seriously, "you are not expected to understand this."

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/crypto/curve25519-fiat32.c

A niech Was wszystkich szlag! Przez Was instaluję wciąż jakieś aplikacje i czytam o nowych projektach. Najpierw #Mastodon, #Friendica i całe to #fediversum. Potem #OSM, #Element, a wczoraj #DeltaChat. Kiedy ja mam pracować? A na dokładkę stałem się ewangelizatorem otwartych technologii! Jakbym nie miał co robić... Dzień dobry.

I recommend this reading list. There are a lot of great topics in here for a budding analytic philosopher.

https://fuckyeahlogical.tumblr.com/post/128964910533/analytic-philosophy-reading-list-for-the-self

Republican North Dakota legislators have introduced SB2333, a bill that prohibits large tech companies from locking their users into a single app store or payment processor.

https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-2021/documents/21-1044-01000.pdf

While his has implications for Android and other large tech platforms, its most immediate and far-reaching effects with be on Apple, whose Ios platform uses lock-in to monopolize both apps and payments (and another domain, not mentioned in the bill: repairs).

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Wrzucam dzisiaj taki mój tekst sprzed ponad 3 lat, który wydaje mi się całkiem niezły. Analizuję w nim rolę tekstu w naszej cywilizacji i konsekwencje odchodzenia od niego. Może znajdziecie go ciekawym lub użytecznym. https://informaton.blog/2017/09/05/nastepny-skok-cywilizacyjny-moze-wypchnac-osoby-niewidome-za-burte/

Czy wiesz że w Polsce jest darmowy dostęp do internetu poprzez sieć komórkowa?

Prośba o podbicie :)

/tak wiem że jest beznadziejny bo korzystałem, tylko jestem ciekaw ile osób sobie w ogóle zdaje sprawę z jego istnienia.

Hey fediverse folk! Is there somewhere a map of federation/defederation of fediverse? I mean which instances see/listen to which other instances (since the relationship is asymmetrical). Does not have to be graphical, but ideally searchable (text files?).

Point is, I suspect my home instance might be blocked by some other instances I am interested in and I have no way to know whether people out there will even see my toots if I speak to them first.

Any explanations and pointers appreciated. Thanks.

[podkradzione z fb Ośrodek Dystrybucji Prestiżu i Pogardy]

Wpadł mi do głowy mem o kwantowym kotku, więc zrobiłem😅