World Elephant Day, celebrated on August 12th, honours the gentle and nurturing giants of Asia and Africa, who are revered for their deep spiritual wisdom, gentle strength, and nurturing natures. O…
Jack Smith ENDS "Biden Conspiracy" With One Word Under Oath
In a stunning exchange during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, Special Counsel Jack Smith completely dismantled the Republican "weaponization" narrative under questioning from Rep. Dan Goldman. When asked point-blank if he ever received orders from President Biden or the White House regarding the investigation into Donald Trump, Smith delivered a definitive one-word answer that silenced the room and killed the GOP's primary conspiracy theory.
But that wasn't the only bombshell. Smith systematically laid out the "inner circle" of officials— including White House attorneys, senior campaign staff, and intelligence directors-who explicitly told Trump his election fraud claims were false, destroying his "ignorance defense" on the record. Plus, watch as Rep. Goldman exposes the massive hypocrisy of the Republican party by reading Senator Marco Rubio's own words from 2021, where he demanded the exact criminal justice response the GOP is now attacking. This is the testimony that chang
... show more
Jack Smith ENDS "Biden Conspiracy" With One Word Under Oath
In a stunning exchange during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, Special Counsel Jack Smith completely dismantled the Republican "weaponization" narrative under questioning from Rep. Dan Goldman. When asked point-blank if he ever received orders from President Biden or the White House regarding the investigation into Donald Trump, Smith delivered a definitive one-word answer that silenced the room and killed the GOP's primary conspiracy theory.
But that wasn't the only bombshell. Smith systematically laid out the "inner circle" of officials— including White House attorneys, senior campaign staff, and intelligence directors-who explicitly told Trump his election fraud claims were false, destroying his "ignorance defense" on the record. Plus, watch as Rep. Goldman exposes the massive hypocrisy of the Republican party by reading Senator Marco Rubio's own words from 2021, where he demanded the exact criminal justice response the GOP is now attacking. This is the testimony that changes everything.
Oh quirky and learned Mastodonians, I come before you with a dream. Funded by the Canada Counsel for the Arts, I’m researching Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis, both 18th century European musicians renowned in their time, and both Blind. I’m looking for info about a German translator and writer of the time, Pfeffel, who was also Blind. I’d love to find some of his fables in English. Dulon met and admired him, and Leopold Kozeluch created a secular cantata for Maria Theresia von Paradis, setting Pfeffel's German text ("Ich war ein kleines Würmchen") to music. If anyone who likes digging and is multi-lingual could uncover this piece of music or his fables in any form accessible to an English speaker, I’d love to be able to incorporate it into story writing, storytelling, or even singing. As a Blind person myself I'm really interested in bringing their work to life for a modern audience, but I'm mono-lingual, and a terrible researcher. Please boost for reach.
sometimes i wish i was born circa 30 years ago and got into programming at the peak of the home computer revolution.
me, some guy i met in uni who calls himself Gibby "The Splice" Ronnalds, and a random executive from a AAA publisher who decided to give us $15,000 based on a newspaper ad we bought as a joke. we're given twelve weeks to make the top down shooter we promised we'd been able to do. all i have is a C compiler i got on a floppy from a garage sale, and all gibby has is an amiga with a cracked copy of the ultimate soundtracker. we don't have an artist, but i notice my mum's cross stitching patterns look remarkably similar to pixel art, and i give her a stack of grid paper and a box of coloured pencils and tell her to have at it.
the game is looking to be pure unadulterated dogshit right up until nine days before release, where a bug that causes the AI planes to go hyperspeed inspires us to add a "nitrous" mechanic. we rename Flyin' High with Gibby to Aeronauts! and rework the entire game from a WWII dogfighter to a racer. the publisher is fur
... show more
sometimes i wish i was born circa 30 years ago and got into programming at the peak of the home computer revolution.
me, some guy i met in uni who calls himself Gibby "The Splice" Ronnalds, and a random executive from a AAA publisher who decided to give us $15,000 based on a newspaper ad we bought as a joke. we're given twelve weeks to make the top down shooter we promised we'd been able to do. all i have is a C compiler i got on a floppy from a garage sale, and all gibby has is an amiga with a cracked copy of the ultimate soundtracker. we don't have an artist, but i notice my mum's cross stitching patterns look remarkably similar to pixel art, and i give her a stack of grid paper and a box of coloured pencils and tell her to have at it.
the game is looking to be pure unadulterated dogshit right up until nine days before release, where a bug that causes the AI planes to go hyperspeed inspires us to add a "nitrous" mechanic. we rename Flyin' High with Gibby to Aeronauts! and rework the entire game from a WWII dogfighter to a racer. the publisher is furious, but we sneak into their office after hours to write a bunch of floppies and distribute them to Computer Gaming Madness magazine. the guerilla reviews are phenomenal, we get the green light. critics call out the sprite art as the highlight of the game.
the publisher was trying to scam us by giving us 10% royalties on a game they thought would bomb, but we become millionaires. they can't write floppies fast enough to keep up with sales.
thirty years later, in the present day, we're bought out by activision to make a battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Samsung Smart Glasses Edition with Bixby.
this post made me think of a book I read recently called "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow". It was pretty good and is all about game devs. Not the most amazing book ever but it had a lot of good moments and has parts that hearken back to a simpler time in computing
Gibby Ronnalds would later be excommunicated from the industry for stealing the underwear of young female interns. He works at Palantir as an "anti-woke" hire now.
🌍 México está en el top 10 de países que más #BasuraElectrónica generan!
De acuerdo con este monitoreo global, China es la nación que más la produce, seguida de Estados Unidos e India. Solo 22.3% de estos desechos se recicla mientras el resto termina en áreas no aptas que contaminan suelos y agua.
🔄 #Reduce la compra de dispositivos y si tienes aparatos dañados ¡llévalos al Mega Reciclatrón de la UNAM este 29 y 30 de enero! 💚
The fertile lungs of our planet, the Amazon jungle faces severe drought due to El Niño, climate change, and deforestation for agriculture like palm oil, soy and meat. This along with gold mining, a…
Excusez-moi?! I'm still on Mastodon, still working on Mastodon--I love it here. Seems like the journalist has now removed the paragraph from the article, but has not published a retraction, and the false statement is still in the audio version. Where did they get this idea from?
Vous reprendrez bien un peu de désinformation officielle ? Vous serez ravi d’apprendre sur France Culture que @Gargron a quitté « son » réseau, et que c’est à cause de vous.
Une Suédoise, ancienne d'eBay, se lance dans la création d'un réseau social européen plus vertueux. Ce projet riche en bonnes intentions peut-il être davantage qu'un effet de mode ?
I find it ironic that the article mentions a new network for fact-checking, yet they publish an article without verifying the information. I find the level of journalism lamentable, not only in my country...
You are completely wrong. It's John Mastodon who is still working on the project. You are just some random guy hanging around mastodon.social. Get your alternative facts right, please.
Here you can write him to let him know he "forgot" to change de audio. And that maybe a good idea for restoring Mastodon reputation would be to make a new audio where he talks about Mastodon (and stats of how many people have moved from other places after each Big Tech scandal ;) )
I will be opting my account out of the #Bluesky bridge next week. If you follow me from Bluesky (I think there are about 3.9K of you) and want to continue seeing my posts you will need to get an account on the fediverse. Cheers.
Tout est faux bien sûr, « l’info » vient probablement de cet « article » de Korben : https://korben.info/eugen-rochko-quitte-mastodon-toxicite.html
Recouper les sources visiblement c’est so 2010.
#RadioFrance #FranceCulture #Mastodon For once they were talking about Mastodon on Radio France, what a shame! It's all the more regrettable given that this journalist, François Saltiel, is usually well informed and advocates for open solutions. I have lodged a complaint with France Culture and hope that he will rectify this in a future column.
There are literally a million active users here. Why does everyone keep saying Fedi is a failure? I'd be thrilled if I'd built something used by a million people!
Vous reprendrez bien un peu de désinformation officielle ? Vous serez ravi d’apprendre sur France Culture que @Gargron a quitté « son » réseau, et que c’est à cause de vous.
Une Suédoise, ancienne d'eBay, se lance dans la création d'un réseau social européen plus vertueux. Ce projet riche en bonnes intentions peut-il être davantage qu'un effet de mode ?
In his guide “Getting off US tech”, tech writer and podcaster @parismarx breaks down why #DigitalSovereignty matters, and how to get there step by step.
Lion-tailed macaques hold the title of one of the smallest macaque species in the world and sport a majestic lion-esque mane of hair. They exclusively call the Western Ghats in India their home. Th…
AT Protocol, the infrastructure powering Bluesky, “represents one of the most concrete opportunities for Europe to create their own social networking infrastructure,” says Dutch data analyst @laurenshof
Here are four case-studies on European projects that give us hope:
AT Protocol, the infrastructure powering Bluesky, “represents one of the most concrete opportunities for Europe to create their own social networking infrastructure,” says Dutch data analyst @laurenshof
Here are four case-studies on European projects that give us hope:
Idk man I just think if you’re talking about adopting the pretty fucking centralised protocol by US based and owned twitter 2.0 in the context of European sovereignty you are fundamentally unserious
@neauoire Strong disagree with this take. I really like the technical foundations of ATProto, and there are already several interoperable alternatives to Bsky for the AppView. More European initiatives that use the protocol without using Bsky only strengthen that open source and open standard (being handled by the IETF) ecosystem. For more info on the current state of things:
@jack @neauoire sorry but I didn’t find this very convincing or reassuring. And I’m not trying to be annoying or start a fight or whatever, I want to give my genuine reaction, because I did learn stuff from the post, and I’d just love to be convinced that it might be a good time.
To a certain extent I think we probably do just disagree on reasonable scale, like…”a dozen or two terabytes” being reasonable for a hobbyist…? I’m a pretty enthusiastic computer toucher and self host a fair amount of shit, and I’ve never had nearly that many terabytes. Albeit I’m not a plex guy, but again I’m surrounded by computing enthusiasts, many self hosters, and probably know just a handful of serious plex people and I don’t think even they command that much storage.
Which brings me to…I just don’t actually find
... show more
@jack @neauoire sorry but I didn’t find this very convincing or reassuring. And I’m not trying to be annoying or start a fight or whatever, I want to give my genuine reaction, because I did learn stuff from the post, and I’d just love to be convinced that it might be a good time.
To a certain extent I think we probably do just disagree on reasonable scale, like…”a dozen or two terabytes” being reasonable for a hobbyist…? I’m a pretty enthusiastic computer toucher and self host a fair amount of shit, and I’ve never had nearly that many terabytes. Albeit I’m not a plex guy, but again I’m surrounded by computing enthusiasts, many self hosters, and probably know just a handful of serious plex people and I don’t think even they command that much storage.
Which brings me to…I just don’t actually find it very technically interesting. Albeit that’s more from a philosophy perspective than a technical one, I’m not exactly a distributed protocol person. I don’t think I have anything interesting to say on that you’ve probably not heard before, it’s just not the flavour of “decentralised” I want to see succeed. I think it intrinsically favours business operators, rather than communities and individuals. In a tech industry (and world) that is increasingly concentrating power in the hands of the few, I’m just not interested. There’s space in the world for more than one protocol though. And I’d love to be wrong, maybe I will be.
And on that point, I come back to your toot rather than the post: “more European initiatives that use it without using Bsky only strengthen that open source and open standard” just leaves me asking why? Why do we want to strengthen it? Why do we want to shore up this cryptobro VC vehicle? Why is this the best use of our institutions and our energy? I’m not saying it’s *not*, but I haven’t seen a genuine answer for why it is, other than people preferring the experience of Bluesky the App to Mastodon. Finally on this I just think “we have to buy into this thing to make sure it’s not shit” is just not very compelling, maybe it’s just that it’s a tactic beloved by a kind of crypto and LLM pusher. The messaging needs work.
(sorry I didn't want to put you two against each others, and yes, Jack and I are friends from way back)
But it's a good question, so until now my expectation for decentralization for something like bluesky, was merely, can you basically just spin a server, generate your DID and hop on. Which I thought was just around the corner. But I hadn't realized that not only can you not join in without asking bluesky, the solution is more bureacratic than that, it involves something akin to a domain name authority.
So, that infrastructure will NEVER be open, as the network grows, the initial payload will explode in size and get rid of smaller replication services until only amazon scale services are even capable to "mine", and so you've got 3 new arbiters that tells us who gets to participate and who doesn't, and you can be sure that Bezos and Elon are going to be on that board. It sounds to me like an awful deal, it feels more like picking a Battle Net server than a federation, to use Joe's metaphore.
I heard someone this week call Bluesky a honeypot for leftist, and I think I see it now.
Haunted Chocolatier will eventually be the next game from Stardew Valley creator "ConcernedApe" (Eric Barone), and the good news is that it's still coming.
NVIDIA have today released the Beta for their new Native Linux app for GeForce NOW, available as a Flatpak so it should run across most x86-64 systems.
you mention in the article that it's a flatpak but the nvidia download page just has a binary. perhaps my reading comprehension is poor but where's the flatpak? flathub?
EDIT: disregard. i am, indeed, dense. the flatpak is nabbed with their installer.
That’s awesome. I’ve been wanting to play FF XII … since I was a kid who couldn’t afford it 😂 But it’s often kept separate from other FF games when it comes to news. I wonder if there’s a reason behind that?
Brilliantly coloured and full of energy, the Blue-streaked Lory (Eos reticulata) is a striking and unique #parrot living in the forests of the Banda Sea Islands, #Indonesia. Their scarlet plumage i…
I feel like something got lost in translation here. I was talking about the phenomenon wherein racists try and mask their own opinions behind a mask of their victims. The question was entirely rhetorical
I was more trying to point out that exact turn of phrase (and how racists try and use it mask their bigotry) not the general idea of personal testimony.
![Extrait d’un podcast France Cul sur W Social qui se termine par : « […] concernant le réseau décentralisé Mastodon, développé par un informaticien allemand, Eugen Rochko, ce dernier a déclaré quitter son propre réseau, fatigué entre autres par le comportement de certains utilisateurs. »](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1403436 "Extrait d’un podcast France Cul sur W Social qui se termine par : « […] concernant le réseau décentralisé Mastodon, développé par un informaticien allemand, Eugen Rochko, ce dernier a déclaré quitter son propre réseau, fatigué entre autres par le comportement de certains utilisateurs. »")
![The sun shines in at a red flower amidst greenery. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1403418 "The sun shines in at a red flower amidst greenery. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![A red flower amidst greenery. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1403420 "A red flower amidst greenery. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![Purple flowers with neat spikes. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1403422 "Purple flowers with neat spikes. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![A plant with a neat red and pink spotted "bucket". [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1403424 "A plant with a neat red and pink spotted \"bucket\". [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to winduptoy • • •inscript
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • • •