valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

The top post on r/space is "Nasa to make major announcement about the moon"
This could not be a funnier headline.

Youtube's ability to transmit video over low bandwidth is really impressive. I don't know if it's their compression or cdn or both.

Hey! We landed a ship on an asteroid that's going to return in a few years with samples. That's pretty great.

In the section "Imagine a non-C processor"

"Caches are large, but their size isn't the only reason for their complexity. The cache coherency protocol is one of the hardest parts of a modern CPU to make both fast and correct. Most of the complexity involved comes from supporting a language in which data is expected to be both shared and mutable as a matter of course. Consider in contrast an Erlang-style abstract machine, where every object is either thread-local or immutable (Erlang has a simplification of even this, where there is only one mutable object per thread). A cache coherency protocol for such a system would have two cases: mutable or shared."

C is Not Low-Level Language
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

Someone who watches no news is better informed than someone who watches cable news

https://babylonbee.com/news/texas-passes-law-banning-californians-from-voting-for-first-20-years-after-they-move-there/

Also this but unironically

"According to sources, emergency legislation was drafted after it was discovered that 97% of Californians favor destroying every small business on the planet and salting the earth where the businesses once stood. They also favor mandatory gay marriage and banning all country music to avoid hurting the ears of sea turtles."

lol

https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-longs-for-more-civilized-age-when-politicians-settled-disputes-with-pistols

this but unironically

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/15/this-new-technology-may-restore-trust-in-photos-and-videos-against-the-rise-of-deepfakes/
This company is claiming to be able to use hardware verification to verify the authenticity of images and videos against deepfakery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY
Apparently the bird site is saying Biden had no role in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired. Here's a video of him bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

Why on earth is sharing a screenshot of text an acceptable way to share a document

It's becoming more and more obvious that major media will label anything critical of Biden or the Democrats as misinformation and attempt to suppress it.

Exactly how much will it cost them to reshape our culture to their rank temporal benefit?

Amazon's attempt to create its own Amazon themed holiday is pretty disgusting

Do you think push notifications on phones have actually had a positive benefit in general?

I think that the Amish have the correct approach to technology

The country is once again reminded, "hey, Mike Pence exists"